Verity Busly
@veritybusly.bsky.social
PLEASE STOP CENTERING WHOLE PARAGRAPHS OF TEXT
Kristi Noem Gives the Entire DHS Asbestos Poisoning newrepublic.com/post/206698/... via @newrepublic.com
Kristi Noem Gives the Entire DHS Asbestos Poisoning
The demolition of historic buildings at the Department of Homeland Security headquarters has released asbestos into the air.
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February 18, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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So many people leaving MAGA…there is a new country song about it. Let’s make it #1.
February 18, 2026 at 1:15 PM
So many people leaving MAGA…there is a new country song about it. Let’s make it #1.
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Wait, did the SAVE Act already pass and they forgot to tell voters? No!
I’m going to need an update on this. I hope she was able to cast her ballot in the primary.
Texans, if this is happening to you, post your story with the polling location. Put it on blast. And report it.
I’m going to need an update on this. I hope she was able to cast her ballot in the primary.
Texans, if this is happening to you, post your story with the polling location. Put it on blast. And report it.
February 18, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Wait, did the SAVE Act already pass and they forgot to tell voters? No!
I’m going to need an update on this. I hope she was able to cast her ballot in the primary.
Texans, if this is happening to you, post your story with the polling location. Put it on blast. And report it.
I’m going to need an update on this. I hope she was able to cast her ballot in the primary.
Texans, if this is happening to you, post your story with the polling location. Put it on blast. And report it.
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the money part is so gross. people are super easy to manipulate with money.
“This is a for-profit ethnic cleansing … Pam Bondi, US Attorney General was a lobbyist for GEO group for years before she joined this administration. GEO group’s stocks doubled in the first week of Trump’s administration.
“This is a for-profit ethnic cleansing … Pam Bondi, US Attorney General was a lobbyist for GEO group for years before she joined this administration. GEO group’s stocks doubled in the first week of Trump’s administration.
ICYMI @hebagowayed.bsky.social wrote about the companies profiting from ICE’s ethnic cleansing campaign and why a bipartisan consensus keeps the out-of-control agency funded for our newsletter Group Threat (please subscribe).
Tracking ICE's Profits
ICE is extraordinarily costly to working people & grotesquely profitable for the worst among us
groupthreat.com
February 1, 2026 at 3:05 PM
the money part is so gross. people are super easy to manipulate with money.
“This is a for-profit ethnic cleansing … Pam Bondi, US Attorney General was a lobbyist for GEO group for years before she joined this administration. GEO group’s stocks doubled in the first week of Trump’s administration.
“This is a for-profit ethnic cleansing … Pam Bondi, US Attorney General was a lobbyist for GEO group for years before she joined this administration. GEO group’s stocks doubled in the first week of Trump’s administration.
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“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 7:31 PM
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
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James Talarico: Jesus gave us two commandments: love God and love neighbor.
There was no exception to that second commandment regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, immigration status, or religious affiliation.
There was no exception to that second commandment regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, immigration status, or religious affiliation.
February 17, 2026 at 5:45 PM
James Talarico: Jesus gave us two commandments: love God and love neighbor.
There was no exception to that second commandment regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, immigration status, or religious affiliation.
There was no exception to that second commandment regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, immigration status, or religious affiliation.
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Florida: we deported all your hard working employees, but have no fear, we're bringing back child labor to fix it.
Seems like Democrats have all sorts of messaging opportunities here
Seems like Democrats have all sorts of messaging opportunities here
Florida AG James Uthmeier: "We need to focus on getting people into the workforce even earlier. We passed legislation last year to help high school students get their hands dirty and get on job sites more quickly."
February 17, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Florida: we deported all your hard working employees, but have no fear, we're bringing back child labor to fix it.
Seems like Democrats have all sorts of messaging opportunities here
Seems like Democrats have all sorts of messaging opportunities here
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We are living through dark, disturbing and dangerous times, but do not despair — the cavalry is coming! Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will be taking the stage this spring from Minneapolis to California to Texas to Washington, D.C. for the Land of Hope And Dreams American Tour.
February 17, 2026 at 5:11 PM
We are living through dark, disturbing and dangerous times, but do not despair — the cavalry is coming! Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will be taking the stage this spring from Minneapolis to California to Texas to Washington, D.C. for the Land of Hope And Dreams American Tour.
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gotta do investigations into DHS “waste, fraud and abuse” as pretext for killing the agency
The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
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open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...
Let Them Fly First Class: Kristi Noem’s DHS Luxury Jet Scandal
Inside Noem's flying palace. Plus: Pentagon demands obedient, deadly AI. The race to deploy untested nuclear reactors. Lawmakers move to rein in presidential pardons. And remembering Robert Duvall.
open.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:53 AM
gotta do investigations into DHS “waste, fraud and abuse” as pretext for killing the agency
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DHS sent hundreds of subpoenas to Google, Meta, and Reddit demanding the names of Americans who criticize ICE. No judge. No warrant. Google handed over data the same day. Bondi brags about silencing.The FBI investigates Signal chats. This isn't law enforcement. It's a enemies list. Put my name on it
February 16, 2026 at 5:57 PM
DHS sent hundreds of subpoenas to Google, Meta, and Reddit demanding the names of Americans who criticize ICE. No judge. No warrant. Google handed over data the same day. Bondi brags about silencing.The FBI investigates Signal chats. This isn't law enforcement. It's a enemies list. Put my name on it
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
—FDR, 1937
—FDR, 1937
February 16, 2026 at 7:01 PM
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
—FDR, 1937
—FDR, 1937
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"Official ICE policy says 'ICE should not detain, arrest, or take into custody for an administrative violation of the immigration laws individuals known to be pregnant, postpartum, or nursing” except in exceptional circumstances.
reproductiverights.org/news/pregnan...
reproductiverights.org/news/pregnan...
February 16, 2026 at 6:04 PM
"Official ICE policy says 'ICE should not detain, arrest, or take into custody for an administrative violation of the immigration laws individuals known to be pregnant, postpartum, or nursing” except in exceptional circumstances.
reproductiverights.org/news/pregnan...
reproductiverights.org/news/pregnan...
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Louisiana has refused to reconsider the convictions of 1,000+ mostly Black men sentenced by split juries, despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2020 that such convictions are unconstitutional and based on an inherently racist law.
By @richardawebster.bsky.social
By @richardawebster.bsky.social
What One Man’s 45-Year-Old Case Tells Us About the “Jim Crow Juries” Haunting Louisiana
Today, a split verdict would mean a mistrial. But in 1980s Louisiana, when nonunanimous juries were still legal, 19-year-old Lloyd Gray, a Black man, was sentenced to prison for life — even though the...
www.propublica.org
February 16, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Louisiana has refused to reconsider the convictions of 1,000+ mostly Black men sentenced by split juries, despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in 2020 that such convictions are unconstitutional and based on an inherently racist law.
By @richardawebster.bsky.social
By @richardawebster.bsky.social
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You aren't going to believe what's coming out about this ICE warehouse in Georgia!
February 15, 2026 at 6:34 PM
You aren't going to believe what's coming out about this ICE warehouse in Georgia!
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Saluting the scores of County professionals on the job keeping Arlington's water, sewers, streets, transit, refuse and much more flowing this long George Washington Day weekend.
February 14, 2026 at 11:02 PM
Saluting the scores of County professionals on the job keeping Arlington's water, sewers, streets, transit, refuse and much more flowing this long George Washington Day weekend.
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JFC, cut that shit in half and you’ve eradicated hunger, provided healthcare for all and made education free for all Americans. What the fuck are we doing?
February 15, 2026 at 12:52 PM
JFC, cut that shit in half and you’ve eradicated hunger, provided healthcare for all and made education free for all Americans. What the fuck are we doing?
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Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans
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interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
www.state.gov/releases/off...
February 15, 2026 at 1:17 AM
interesting to think that revolutionary era americans understood themselves as making a break with the “old world” and establishing a new civilization. and crucially, this new civilization rested on republican self-government, not “sovereignty.”
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A benefit of free buses I hadn’t heard enough about until this piece from @galvinalmanza.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 11:59 PM
A benefit of free buses I hadn’t heard enough about until this piece from @galvinalmanza.bsky.social
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ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 1:51 AM
ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.
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On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 7:41 PM
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
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"Javier" harvest lemons in the Springville CA area. As he works through the dense leaves picking and sorting lemons, he protects his arms with gloves and leather sleeves to be safe of the two inch thorns that can prick him. He earns $35 per 900 lb bin #WeFeedYou
February 13, 2026 at 3:05 PM
"Javier" harvest lemons in the Springville CA area. As he works through the dense leaves picking and sorting lemons, he protects his arms with gloves and leather sleeves to be safe of the two inch thorns that can prick him. He earns $35 per 900 lb bin #WeFeedYou
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We. Are. The. Shithole. Nation.
CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.
“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody
The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.
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February 13, 2026 at 4:19 PM
We. Are. The. Shithole. Nation.
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Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 12, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
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Trump is suing for privacy violations about his tax returns while his administration shares taxpayers’ data with ICE. The height of hypocrisy has a price tag: $10 billion. Maybe it’s time for a class-action lawsuit from the taxpayers too. 🔄
February 12, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Trump is suing for privacy violations about his tax returns while his administration shares taxpayers’ data with ICE. The height of hypocrisy has a price tag: $10 billion. Maybe it’s time for a class-action lawsuit from the taxpayers too. 🔄