Ted Brassfield
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@algreen.house.gov has the energy the Dems needed to show tonight
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NATO did not "stay a little back, off the front lines."
Danish, British and Estonian troops served in Helmand, and Canadian forces in Kandahar - the two most dangerous Afghan provinces.
Denmark, UK, Estonia & Canada suffered amongst the highest per‑capita soldier death rates when defending the US.
Danish, British and Estonian troops served in Helmand, and Canadian forces in Kandahar - the two most dangerous Afghan provinces.
Denmark, UK, Estonia & Canada suffered amongst the highest per‑capita soldier death rates when defending the US.
Trump on NATO: "I've always said, will they be there if we ever needed them? That's really the ultimate test. I'm not sure of that. We've never needed them. They'll say they sent some troops to Afghanistan and this or that. And they did. They stayed a little back, off the front lines."
January 22, 2026 at 2:02 PM
NATO did not "stay a little back, off the front lines."
Danish, British and Estonian troops served in Helmand, and Canadian forces in Kandahar - the two most dangerous Afghan provinces.
Denmark, UK, Estonia & Canada suffered amongst the highest per‑capita soldier death rates when defending the US.
Danish, British and Estonian troops served in Helmand, and Canadian forces in Kandahar - the two most dangerous Afghan provinces.
Denmark, UK, Estonia & Canada suffered amongst the highest per‑capita soldier death rates when defending the US.
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So the House is going to vote TOMORROW on the DHS funding bill that includes funding for ICE.
There's a real chance we can get Dems to vote NO on any bill with ICE funding to sink it.
Once it goes to the Senate we likely lose this chance.
24 hours. Go.
www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-f...
There's a real chance we can get Dems to vote NO on any bill with ICE funding to sink it.
Once it goes to the Senate we likely lose this chance.
24 hours. Go.
www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-f...
No Funding for ICE Surveillance Tech!
www.fightforthefuture.org
January 21, 2026 at 11:35 PM
So the House is going to vote TOMORROW on the DHS funding bill that includes funding for ICE.
There's a real chance we can get Dems to vote NO on any bill with ICE funding to sink it.
Once it goes to the Senate we likely lose this chance.
24 hours. Go.
www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-f...
There's a real chance we can get Dems to vote NO on any bill with ICE funding to sink it.
Once it goes to the Senate we likely lose this chance.
24 hours. Go.
www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/no-f...
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Our constituents are being surveilled, threatened, tear gassed, shot, subjected to warrantless arrest, kidnapped, and disappeared. 35 people have died in detention in ICE’s deadliest year yet.
ICE’s terror and violence need to end.
ICE’s terror and violence need to end.
January 21, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Our constituents are being surveilled, threatened, tear gassed, shot, subjected to warrantless arrest, kidnapped, and disappeared. 35 people have died in detention in ICE’s deadliest year yet.
ICE’s terror and violence need to end.
ICE’s terror and violence need to end.
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Every Stephen Miller tantrum and DHS recruitment ad speaks in these existential terms about "defending your culture" to elide the fact that they need people with the courage to wear a mask while interrogating a sixth grader
January 21, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Every Stephen Miller tantrum and DHS recruitment ad speaks in these existential terms about "defending your culture" to elide the fact that they need people with the courage to wear a mask while interrogating a sixth grader
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Is it @startribune.com policy to refer to anyone confronting ICE as a protester? This obscures the nature of what people are doing. We're not protesting ICE. We're constitutional observers documenting human rights abuses by agents of the state.
January 21, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Is it @startribune.com policy to refer to anyone confronting ICE as a protester? This obscures the nature of what people are doing. We're not protesting ICE. We're constitutional observers documenting human rights abuses by agents of the state.
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This was literally one of the reasons the founding fathers went to war
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 21, 2026 at 10:13 PM
This was literally one of the reasons the founding fathers went to war
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Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.
January 21, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Hung a guy at Nuremburg for doing this, FYI. Not "a thing like this" but literally this, exactly.
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Our city has been over-run by Nazi ghouls kidnapping people to traffic them to concentration camps and other countries.
Did you ever think you'd see the day when masked gunmen jump out of moving vehicles and chase families down the street in your own neighborhood?
FUCK ICE forever and ever.
Did you ever think you'd see the day when masked gunmen jump out of moving vehicles and chase families down the street in your own neighborhood?
FUCK ICE forever and ever.
January 21, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Our city has been over-run by Nazi ghouls kidnapping people to traffic them to concentration camps and other countries.
Did you ever think you'd see the day when masked gunmen jump out of moving vehicles and chase families down the street in your own neighborhood?
FUCK ICE forever and ever.
Did you ever think you'd see the day when masked gunmen jump out of moving vehicles and chase families down the street in your own neighborhood?
FUCK ICE forever and ever.
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103 days into the "ceasefire." Hours after Netanyahu joined Trump's "Board of Peace."
Israeli forces just killed 3 more journalists.
They were on assignment to film a camp in Gaza, to document the plight of Palestinians displaced by Israeli bombs.
Instead, Israel killed them.
Israeli forces just killed 3 more journalists.
They were on assignment to film a camp in Gaza, to document the plight of Palestinians displaced by Israeli bombs.
Instead, Israel killed them.
January 21, 2026 at 5:28 PM
103 days into the "ceasefire." Hours after Netanyahu joined Trump's "Board of Peace."
Israeli forces just killed 3 more journalists.
They were on assignment to film a camp in Gaza, to document the plight of Palestinians displaced by Israeli bombs.
Instead, Israel killed them.
Israeli forces just killed 3 more journalists.
They were on assignment to film a camp in Gaza, to document the plight of Palestinians displaced by Israeli bombs.
Instead, Israel killed them.
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Parents, students, and faculty of the Thomas MacLaren School held a press conference in Colorado Springs yesterday asking for the release of the Soliman family from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention.
coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/01/co-s...
coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/01/co-s...
CO Springs Community Asks for Family's Release from ICE Detention
Parents, students, and faculty of the Thomas MacLaren School held a press conference in Colorado Springs yesterday asking for the release of the Soliman family — Hayam El-Gamal and her...
coloradotimesrecorder.com
January 21, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Parents, students, and faculty of the Thomas MacLaren School held a press conference in Colorado Springs yesterday asking for the release of the Soliman family from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention.
coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/01/co-s...
coloradotimesrecorder.com/2026/01/co-s...
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Hey cuties. You need a valentine set right now, I can tell. It's only $20. You get 20 of them, 4 designs, & each one has a little fact inside.
I need a little more cashflow into Skype a Scientist to do the amount of shit I want to do this year. These valentines are a good start!
SquidFacts.net
I need a little more cashflow into Skype a Scientist to do the amount of shit I want to do this year. These valentines are a good start!
SquidFacts.net
January 20, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Hey cuties. You need a valentine set right now, I can tell. It's only $20. You get 20 of them, 4 designs, & each one has a little fact inside.
I need a little more cashflow into Skype a Scientist to do the amount of shit I want to do this year. These valentines are a good start!
SquidFacts.net
I need a little more cashflow into Skype a Scientist to do the amount of shit I want to do this year. These valentines are a good start!
SquidFacts.net
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January 21, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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This is a good start and I'm happy my state is doing it before things get as bad here. We need to remember though that it is a privilege for us to have the time to prep for this and a disgrace that we even have to.
Colorado launches new system for reporting alleged misconduct by federal agents
Colorado launches new system for reporting alleged misconduct by federal agents
Each report will be reviewed and may be shared with the Colorado congressional delegation and local district attorney offices
coloradosun.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:15 PM
This is a good start and I'm happy my state is doing it before things get as bad here. We need to remember though that it is a privilege for us to have the time to prep for this and a disgrace that we even have to.
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Is It Happening?
January 21, 2026 at 4:40 AM
Is It Happening?
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Anti Muslim hate remains a celebrated form of bigotry in America. Had he said this about Jews he’d be rightly condemned. But this will not only go unpunished, it’ll be embraced by MAGAs.
My Islam Today newsletter debunks this hate. Welcome your partnership here: islamtoday.substack.com/subscribe
My Islam Today newsletter debunks this hate. Welcome your partnership here: islamtoday.substack.com/subscribe
January 21, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Anti Muslim hate remains a celebrated form of bigotry in America. Had he said this about Jews he’d be rightly condemned. But this will not only go unpunished, it’ll be embraced by MAGAs.
My Islam Today newsletter debunks this hate. Welcome your partnership here: islamtoday.substack.com/subscribe
My Islam Today newsletter debunks this hate. Welcome your partnership here: islamtoday.substack.com/subscribe
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Okay, so I am in the minority here, because people are blaming the judges for not noticing this, but the State did not make this argument.
The State of Colorado is at fault for not making this argument.
The State of Colorado is at fault for not making this argument.
Colorado's Court of Appeals suggested last week that Tina Peters was incorrectly sentenced for a felony rather than a misdemeanor, adding 15 months to her sentence. A closer look reveals that misdemeanor charge didn't exist at the time of her crime. @marshallglasses.bsky.social reports:
January 20, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Okay, so I am in the minority here, because people are blaming the judges for not noticing this, but the State did not make this argument.
The State of Colorado is at fault for not making this argument.
The State of Colorado is at fault for not making this argument.
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We’ve been speaking out against KOSA since it was introduced in 2022 by Marsha Blackburn, a bigot and outspoken advocate for censoring trans people off the internet in effort to “protect children from the transgender in this culture.” KOSA has ALWAYS been about censorship and suppression.
This bill has 67 senators supporting by Democrats like Bluementhal amd Schumer.
www.them.us/story/kosa-s...
www.them.us/story/kosa-s...
Lawmaker Says the “Kids Online Safety Act” Aims to Protect Kids from “The Transgender”
KOSA has bipartisan support but LGBTQ+ advocates say it would be harmful.
www.them.us
January 21, 2026 at 12:35 AM
We’ve been speaking out against KOSA since it was introduced in 2022 by Marsha Blackburn, a bigot and outspoken advocate for censoring trans people off the internet in effort to “protect children from the transgender in this culture.” KOSA has ALWAYS been about censorship and suppression.
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Folks I must again insist
There should be a rule that if you are a Known Sports Poster you can say things like “holy fucking shit” with zero context but if you are primarily a Known Politics Poster that gets you like a two day ban
January 20, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Folks I must again insist
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People are saying you have to accept repentance and changed minds, but what does that mean, for someone like this? Do we need to accept someone who says “I realized I’m against his anti-Somali policy and looking for someone who likes Somalis but hates all the other people I hate”?
Incredible quote here from a Somali small business owner in Minneapolis who voted for Trump. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...
January 20, 2026 at 11:16 PM
People are saying you have to accept repentance and changed minds, but what does that mean, for someone like this? Do we need to accept someone who says “I realized I’m against his anti-Somali policy and looking for someone who likes Somalis but hates all the other people I hate”?
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Oh, look. The white president who thinks that asylum seekers come from insane asylums, that the Norwegian government gives out the Nobel Peace Prize, that stealth bombers are invisible to the naked eye, and that windmills cause cancer is talking about which black people have a "low IQ" again.
January 20, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Oh, look. The white president who thinks that asylum seekers come from insane asylums, that the Norwegian government gives out the Nobel Peace Prize, that stealth bombers are invisible to the naked eye, and that windmills cause cancer is talking about which black people have a "low IQ" again.
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Wait... so you're telling me that the morally-bankrupt tech bros that Elon Musk put in charge of our most sensitive data took advantage of that position and did morally-bankrupt things with that data in order to enrich themselves?
...
Shocked... I'm SHOCKED I tell you! 🤯
(I'm not) 🙄
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Shocked... I'm SHOCKED I tell you! 🤯
(I'm not) 🙄
In a remarkable court filing, DOJ also revealed that DOGE employees traded Social Security data on an unapproved third party server — Cloudflare — and may have sent private SSA info to a top DOGE adviser. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 20, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Wait... so you're telling me that the morally-bankrupt tech bros that Elon Musk put in charge of our most sensitive data took advantage of that position and did morally-bankrupt things with that data in order to enrich themselves?
...
Shocked... I'm SHOCKED I tell you! 🤯
(I'm not) 🙄
...
Shocked... I'm SHOCKED I tell you! 🤯
(I'm not) 🙄
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Colorado Springs folks, please take a moment and offer public comments of support for the new mosque being built. There are several hateful comments, very few supportive comments.
Email: MirandaBenson2@elpasoco.com
Email: MirandaBenson2@elpasoco.com
January 16, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Colorado Springs folks, please take a moment and offer public comments of support for the new mosque being built. There are several hateful comments, very few supportive comments.
Email: MirandaBenson2@elpasoco.com
Email: MirandaBenson2@elpasoco.com
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The visionary game from Lucas Pope imagines a highly unrealistic, wildly fanciful world where immigration officers are held accountable.
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January 20, 2026 at 4:30 PM
The visionary game from Lucas Pope imagines a highly unrealistic, wildly fanciful world where immigration officers are held accountable.
paletteswap.site/dif...
paletteswap.site/dif...
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minnesotans are prepping for a massive statewide protest on friday, a day where it will be -10.
that’s how much we hate ICE.
that’s how much we hate ICE.
January 20, 2026 at 4:32 PM
minnesotans are prepping for a massive statewide protest on friday, a day where it will be -10.
that’s how much we hate ICE.
that’s how much we hate ICE.
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*Another* new YouGov / Economist poll shows continuing mounting support for abolishing ICE:
45% support abolishing ICE
45% oppose abolishing ICE
Black voters in favor 60-20
Moderates in favor 45-41
Independents in favor 44-34
12% of Trump voters support abolishing ICE as well
45% support abolishing ICE
45% oppose abolishing ICE
Black voters in favor 60-20
Moderates in favor 45-41
Independents in favor 44-34
12% of Trump voters support abolishing ICE as well
January 20, 2026 at 4:09 PM
*Another* new YouGov / Economist poll shows continuing mounting support for abolishing ICE:
45% support abolishing ICE
45% oppose abolishing ICE
Black voters in favor 60-20
Moderates in favor 45-41
Independents in favor 44-34
12% of Trump voters support abolishing ICE as well
45% support abolishing ICE
45% oppose abolishing ICE
Black voters in favor 60-20
Moderates in favor 45-41
Independents in favor 44-34
12% of Trump voters support abolishing ICE as well