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Tracy Rigdon
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This is the hub for The Contrast Project Lounge Podcast as well as my Wisecrackers' Desk on Substack: https://tracyrigdon.substack.com/ . Proud liberal and Florida Man!
Ten days in January:
• Minneapolis shootings, one ruled homicide
• 3.5M Epstein files released
• Partial shutdown
• 59% say ICE too aggressive
Not chaos. Compression.
Read it. View it. Save it. Share before the next funding vote hits.
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Ten Days That Broke the Illusion: News Recap
ICE Killings, Epstein Files, Shutdown Politics, and the Strain on Institutions
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February 6, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Ten days in January:

• ICE shootings ruled homicide
• 3.5M Epstein files released
• Shutdown politics over enforcement
• 59% say ICE too aggressive

That’s not turbulence. That’s structural strain. Read the full breakdown:
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News Recap: ICE Killings, Epstein Files, and a Government in Freefall
American citizens dead. 3.5 million Epstein documents. A shutdown. A poll collapse. This wasn’t chaos, it was structural failure under pressure
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February 5, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Part III: The documented record.
Convictions and indictments involving ICE and CBP personnel. DOJ Civil Rights investigating the Minneapolis shootings. Supremacy doctrine looming over state authority.
Administrative leave is not accountability. tinyurl.com/Lethal-Force #FederalOversight
Lethal Force and the Federal Shield
Supremacy doctrine, civil rights probes, and a roster of documented misconduct. Part Three in "ICE List" series.
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February 4, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Palacios. Ochoa. Gutierrez. Ross.
Supremacy doctrine may shape whether state charges are possible. Naming names now.
Administrative leave is not justice.
Documentation is everything.
Full breakdown live. tinyurl.com/Name-Names
#TransparencyNow #FederalOversight #PublicRecords #DOJCivilRights
Naming Names: The ICE Agent Kill Squads
Jesus Ochoa. Raymundo Gutierrez. Jonathan Ross. Brian Palacios. DOJ investigations and the fight for evidence access. Part 2 in the "ICE List" series.
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February 3, 2026 at 9:31 PM
Meta blocked ICE List links across FB, IG, and Threads.
Apple removed ICEBlock after DOJ outreach.
Meanwhile federal court records show immigration agents convicted and sentenced for serious crimes.
tinyurl.com/Blocked-Wiki... #PublicRecords #FederalAccountability #TechCensorship #CivilLiberties
Transparency vs. Enforcement: Who Controls the Record?
Platform suppression meets documented federal misconduct.
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February 2, 2026 at 4:52 PM
Federal conspiracy charges against journalists for covering a protest.
Don Lemon and Georgia Fort now face §241 and FACE Act counts tied to a St. Paul church disruption. Full breakdown live: tinyurl.com/Lemon-Fort-A...

#ResistanceIndex #PressFreedomUnderSiege #FirstAmendmentCrisis
Arresting the Witness: DOJ Slaps Felonies on Don Lemon and Georgia Fort
Conspiracy and FACE Act charges turn protest coverage into a federal case
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February 2, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Keith Porter Jr. was shot and killed by an off-duty ICE agent.
DHS says “active shooter.” No full public ballistics. No detailed timeline reconstruction.
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#FederalAccountability #ShowTheEvidence #ICEOversight #CivilRights #FederalOversight #UseOfForce
Keith Porter Jr. and the Self-Defense Claim That Demands Proof
A Federal Shooting. An Evidentiary Void. And the Receipts We Still Haven’t Seen.
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February 1, 2026 at 6:30 PM
$75 million rollout.
Single-digit critic score.
Nearly 1,700 theaters. GOP groups publicly promoted block attendance events. The seat maps are public.
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#ResistanceIndex #PoliticalMedia #ManufacturedLegitimacy #MelaniaDocumentary #MediaManipulation #BoxOfficeReality
Blockbusters Don’t Need Block Buys
Critic collapse, bulk buys, and the limits of manufactured legitimacy
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January 31, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Amazon spent $75M on the Melania doc rollout.
$40M rights.
$35M promo.
~1,700 theaters.
Cabinet-level premiere. Craigslist ad $50 per seat to stay put.
This isn’t about film. It’s about proximity and optics.
Entry #1: Corporate Capitulation Index.
Read it. Share it: tinyurl.com/Melania-Doc-...
Melania: The $75 Million Smoke Machine
Amazon’s rights check, a $35M promo blitz, paid seats on Craigslist, and a political premiere that smells like insulation, not art.
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January 30, 2026 at 6:23 PM
They typed it and hit send.
“Spit on them.”
“They deserved it.”
“Hunt them like animals.”
Named adults cheering death after Alex Pretti and Renee Good were killed. Receipts. Law. No bullshit.
Read it. Share it: tinyurl.com/Said-Out-Loud
#ResistanceIndex #ReadTheReplies #PoliceAccountability
They Said It Out Loud
The anatomy of cruelty in America’s comment sections.
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January 29, 2026 at 3:22 PM
ICE OUT NOW. Nationwide protests are rejecting masked federal raids in American cities. This report explains why legitimacy collapsed and why resistance is spreading. Read it.
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#ResistanceIndex #ICEOutNow
ICE OUT NOW
Why the streets are rejecting a masked federal force in American cities
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January 28, 2026 at 3:52 PM
Two citizens dead after a federal immigration surge. Video disputes official claims. Courts demand answers. This investigation names the incentives and failures that turned enforcement lethal. Read it.
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#ResistanceIndex #StandYourGround
When the Surge Turns Lethal
How a quota-driven federal operation crossed the line from enforcement to bloodshed.
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January 27, 2026 at 10:04 PM
If DHS is telling the truth, release the full video, timeline, and agent identities under independent oversight. Stop narrating. Start disclosing. Share this before they bury it:
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Phone in Hand. Bullets in His Body. DHS Is Lying Again.
Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino pushed a “gunman” narrative that video evidence refuses to obey and MAGA loyalists are cheering the lie.
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January 27, 2026 at 1:16 AM
Cable news isn’t research.
Documents don’t blink.
If your argument came from a FOX News chyron, this article already beat it.
Read it: tinyurl.com/Vibes-V-Facts
Bookmark it.
Cable News Is Not Research
Inside the evidence pipeline MAGA media can’t rebut
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January 26, 2026 at 1:41 PM
DHS said “gunman.” Describing video reviews says Alex Pretti had a phone in his hand before he was tackled.Kristi Noem and Greg Bovino pushed certainty anyway. That contradiction is the spine. tinyurl.com/Alex-Pretti-... #ResistanceIndex #Minneapolis #DHS #Noem #Bovino #AlexPretti #AccountabilityNow
Alex Pretti Is Dead. DHS’s Story is Bullshit
Bystander footage reviewed by major outlets contradicts “gunman” claims and raises brutal questions about what happened after he was restrained.
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January 26, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Trump’s Board of Peace isn’t diplomacy.
It’s a loyalty racket.
Republicans stayed silent. Billionaires circled. Canada got punished for dissent. Gaza became a test case.
Watch the full breakdown:
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Watch the contracts.
#ResistanceIndex #PeaceForSale #BoardOfPeace
Board of Peace and the Bootlickers
How Trump Replaced Multilateral Governance With Cash, Loyalty, and Fear
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January 25, 2026 at 12:01 AM
Trump’s Board of Peace centralizes authority, sidelines democratic consent, and reportedly ties permanence to massive cash contributions. Allies walked. Dissent got punished. Peace became a product.
Full breakdown: tinyurl.com/Board-Peace-...
#ResistanceIndex #PeaceForSale #BoardOfPeace
The Board of Peace Is a Grift
A legitimacy-laundering machine built to obey one man.
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January 24, 2026 at 5:06 PM
Michael Fanone’s anger didn’t come out of nowhere. It came from years of denial, threats, and lawmakers rewriting January 6 in front of the people who bled stopping it. That context matters.
Watch and share: tinyurl.com/Fanone-Rage
Michael Fanones Righteous Rage
Michael Fanone’s Anger Terrifies the Republicans Who Fled the Mob
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January 23, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Jack Smith brought facts. House Republicans brought grievance laundering and intimidation. When “Trump caused January 6” hit the record, the room panicked. This is what institutional stress looks like. Read it. Share it: tinyurl.com/Smith-Testim... #Authoritarianism #DOJIndependence #January6
Jack Smith Didn’t Blink. Republicans Lost Their Minds.
Five hours of bad-faith theater exposed the GOP’s retribution agenda.
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January 23, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Trump’s Davos speech wasn’t a misfire. It was a message. Tariffs as punishment. NATO treated like a protection racket. Sovereignty framed as negotiable. Allies didn’t argue. They recalculated. This is how credibility collapses in public.
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#TrumpDavos #ForeignPolicyFailure
Trump’s Davos Meltdown
Trump threatens allies, trashes NATO, and torches U.S. credibility
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January 22, 2026 at 6:04 PM
I’m with Angie Nixon for U.S. Senate.
Not a career climber. Not a donor darling.
A real one who’s been organizing, legislating, and standing her ground when it mattered.
Change Can’t Wait.
#ImWithAngie #ChangeCantWait
January 22, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Update: Trump is imposing a 10% tariff on NATO members who won’t back his agenda. NATO leaders are rebuking him publicly. That’s coercion inside an alliance. The letter showed intent. The tariffs prove execution. Watch the Dispatch. tinyurl.com/Fractured-Al...#ResistanceIndex #ImpeachmentNow
Fractured Alliances: A Geopolitical Crisis
The Erosion of Trust in International Relations
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January 21, 2026 at 8:17 AM
Blocked orders still caused harm. Oversight was gutted. Data disappeared. People paid. The first year fused chaos and incompetence into a governing strategy. This is the record.
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We Fucking Told You So
How Trump’s first year fused chaos and incompetence into a demolition of democratic guardrails
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January 20, 2026 at 6:20 PM
A sitting president put “peace is optional if I’m pissed” in writing and paired it with coercive threats against allies. Verified. Documented. This is what unfitness looks like when it drops the mask. Read the receipts. Share them.
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Peace Is Optional Now
Trump’s Nobel grievance mutates into coercive foreign policy and alliance sabotage
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January 19, 2026 at 10:12 PM
A civilian is dead. The shooter went home. Bail didn’t disappear by accident — it vanished because power intervened. Pretrial detention is the baseline after a killing. Federal status shouldn’t erase it. Here’s the case that draws the line. tinyurl.com/Ross-Murderer
#EqualJustice #NoBail
No Bail, No Badge, No Bullshit
Why a federal agent who killed a civilian should be jailed pending trial
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January 18, 2026 at 11:53 AM