Chamaco Vaquero
@vaquerovaquero.bsky.social
Diligent reader, occasional responder.
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lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
February 14, 2026 at 11:47 PM
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
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Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
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Rebel before it's too late. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Rebel before it's too late. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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I’m just going to leave this here
February 13, 2026 at 5:54 PM
I’m just going to leave this here
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They still got it
was Pam Bondi trying to un-hibernate Auto-Tune the News?
February 13, 2026 at 6:53 PM
They still got it
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When Trump was looking for replacements for Steve Mnuchin as treasury secretary, he turned to... Jeffrey Epstein
February 13, 2026 at 6:06 PM
When Trump was looking for replacements for Steve Mnuchin as treasury secretary, he turned to... Jeffrey Epstein
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AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."
February 13, 2026 at 5:50 PM
AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."
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Most of the roses for sale in the US are raised in hideous labor and environmental conditions in Colombia and Ecuador before they're loaded onto 747s to fly here. I know because I visited one of the rose plantations/sweatshops for my book Orwell's Roses. Give your love a book or something.
‘Workers get the thorns’: the moral ugliness of rose factories | Rebecca Solnit
A rose is beautiful but a greenhouse with thousands upon thousands of roses, a place producing millions a year, is not
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Most of the roses for sale in the US are raised in hideous labor and environmental conditions in Colombia and Ecuador before they're loaded onto 747s to fly here. I know because I visited one of the rose plantations/sweatshops for my book Orwell's Roses. Give your love a book or something.
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It's true! Right-wingers really do start to believe their own bullshit about big cities.
I remember when my parents first visited me in NYC. They were legit terrified of the subway.
When they got on and saw how normal it was, they were genuinely shocked.
www.salon.com/2026/02/10/s...
I remember when my parents first visited me in NYC. They were legit terrified of the subway.
When they got on and saw how normal it was, they were genuinely shocked.
www.salon.com/2026/02/10/s...
Super Bowl bursts popular right-wing media myth
Conservative commentators and podcast bros backtrack on what they've said about San Francisco
www.salon.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:43 PM
It's true! Right-wingers really do start to believe their own bullshit about big cities.
I remember when my parents first visited me in NYC. They were legit terrified of the subway.
When they got on and saw how normal it was, they were genuinely shocked.
www.salon.com/2026/02/10/s...
I remember when my parents first visited me in NYC. They were legit terrified of the subway.
When they got on and saw how normal it was, they were genuinely shocked.
www.salon.com/2026/02/10/s...
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The utter BS fictions from DHS about every ICE shooting. Howard Lutnick's preposterous Epstein fib, and much more
Government lying isn't just bad. It's unconstitutional, and much of it is felony perjury. The next admin needs to send the liars to jail
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/gove...
Government lying isn't just bad. It's unconstitutional, and much of it is felony perjury. The next admin needs to send the liars to jail
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/gove...
The lying is out of control. People need to go to prison. | Will Bunch
The outrageous lies of Trump regime, from ICE shootings to a Commerce Secretary's Epstein falsehoods, must be punished.
www.inquirer.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:37 PM
The utter BS fictions from DHS about every ICE shooting. Howard Lutnick's preposterous Epstein fib, and much more
Government lying isn't just bad. It's unconstitutional, and much of it is felony perjury. The next admin needs to send the liars to jail
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/gove...
Government lying isn't just bad. It's unconstitutional, and much of it is felony perjury. The next admin needs to send the liars to jail
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/gove...
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The Trump administration is incarcerating migrant girls in, essentially, a forced pregnancy camp.
Trump administration is sending pregnant migrant girls to South Texas shelter flagged as medically inadequate
Government sources and advocates for the children worry the goal is to concentrate them in Texas, where abortion is banned.
www.kut.org
February 12, 2026 at 4:30 PM
The Trump administration is incarcerating migrant girls in, essentially, a forced pregnancy camp.
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Really powerful, really illuminating thread. Clear, precise, devastating.
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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February 12, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Really powerful, really illuminating thread. Clear, precise, devastating.
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ICE in my neighborhood in East St Paul this morning. They have not drawn down. They are outside of a school.
February 11, 2026 at 1:44 PM
ICE in my neighborhood in East St Paul this morning. They have not drawn down. They are outside of a school.
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“Dark, dark stuff.” She sounds shaken.
I spent the morning at the DOJ looking at the unredacted Epstein files. Here are my initial thoughts and what I’ve found, so far.
Rep. Stansbury: I viewed the unredacted Esptein files earlier today
YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury
youtu.be
February 11, 2026 at 12:31 AM
“Dark, dark stuff.” She sounds shaken.
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Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 10, 2026 at 10:54 PM
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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Featured story: Propelled by an army of 100,000 volunteers who took on the city’s political machine from below, the question now is not whether someone like Zohran Mamdani can win but whether his victory can carry beyond the borders of the Big Apple.
In Texas Cities, Let a Hundred Mamdanis Bloom
Our state has long-term lessons to learn from the New York socialist’s rise.
www.texasobserver.org
February 6, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Featured story: Propelled by an army of 100,000 volunteers who took on the city’s political machine from below, the question now is not whether someone like Zohran Mamdani can win but whether his victory can carry beyond the borders of the Big Apple.
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1. Another morning here in Minneapolis. 2 people just got abducted, about 6 blocks away. Ice is prowling in the early hours of the morning, grabbing who they can.
February 10, 2026 at 3:26 PM
1. Another morning here in Minneapolis. 2 people just got abducted, about 6 blocks away. Ice is prowling in the early hours of the morning, grabbing who they can.
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Donald Trump approved the sale of 500,000 AI chips to the UAE just a few months after an UAE royal bought a 49% stake in Trump's crypto company.
Is this sh*t legal? No, no, and HELL no.
Is this sh*t legal? No, no, and HELL no.
February 9, 2026 at 8:37 PM
Donald Trump approved the sale of 500,000 AI chips to the UAE just a few months after an UAE royal bought a 49% stake in Trump's crypto company.
Is this sh*t legal? No, no, and HELL no.
Is this sh*t legal? No, no, and HELL no.
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Keep him!
“Information continuing to emerge from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) claims that the M23 armed group has detained Erik Prince, the American national known as the founder and former head of the private military company Blackwater.“
“Information continuing to emerge from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) claims that the M23 armed group has detained Erik Prince, the American national known as the founder and former head of the private military company Blackwater.“
Reports Emerge Claiming M23 Detained Blackwater Founder Erik Prince in Eastern DRC
kigalidailynews.rw
February 9, 2026 at 1:19 PM
Keep him!
“Information continuing to emerge from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) claims that the M23 armed group has detained Erik Prince, the American national known as the founder and former head of the private military company Blackwater.“
“Information continuing to emerge from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) claims that the M23 armed group has detained Erik Prince, the American national known as the founder and former head of the private military company Blackwater.“
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Secretary Howard Lutnick lied to the country about his ties to Epstein.
Now we learned that they were in business together.
He has no business being our Commerce Secretary.
He should resign.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
Now we learned that they were in business together.
He has no business being our Commerce Secretary.
He should resign.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
Howard Lutnick faces bipartisan calls to resign over latest Epstein revelations
Recently disclosed records suggest a closer relationship than the Commerce secretary previously indicated.
www.politico.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:19 PM
Secretary Howard Lutnick lied to the country about his ties to Epstein.
Now we learned that they were in business together.
He has no business being our Commerce Secretary.
He should resign.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
Now we learned that they were in business together.
He has no business being our Commerce Secretary.
He should resign.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
February 9, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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Crucially, many local governments are furious with ICE over these purchases, because they were not consulted or even told. Because they are federal property now, it's taking a commercial property off the tax rolls while likely imposing dramatic additional infrastructure costs.
February 9, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Crucially, many local governments are furious with ICE over these purchases, because they were not consulted or even told. Because they are federal property now, it's taking a commercial property off the tax rolls while likely imposing dramatic additional infrastructure costs.
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La presidenta de México, Claudia Sheinbaum, aseguró este lunes que su gobierno seguirá enviando ayuda humanitaria a Cuba, al considerar “muy injusto” que Estados Unidos imponga aranceles a los países que exportan petróleo a la isla, ya que afectan directamente a la población.
México anuncia ‘más apoyo’ a Cuba ante las 'injustas’ sanciones de Estados Unidos
La presidenta de México, Claudia Sheinbaum, aseguró este lunes que su gobierno seguirá enviando ayuda humanitaria a Cuba, al considerar “muy injusto” que Estados Unidos imponga aranceles a los países que exportan petróleo a la isla, ya que afectan directamente a la población.
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February 9, 2026 at 4:20 PM
La presidenta de México, Claudia Sheinbaum, aseguró este lunes que su gobierno seguirá enviando ayuda humanitaria a Cuba, al considerar “muy injusto” que Estados Unidos imponga aranceles a los países que exportan petróleo a la isla, ya que afectan directamente a la población.
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Everyone complicit in this moral horror needs to be prosecuted.
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
February 9, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Everyone complicit in this moral horror needs to be prosecuted.
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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
February 8, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.