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"This is the stupidest day in American history, a record that will be broken by every subsequent day in American history." -Matt Christman
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donmoyn.bsky.social
*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen
*Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record
*In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release
*He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation
February 9, 2026 at 12:29 PM
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ddayen.bsky.social
Honestly throw out the entire election playbook if abolish ICE dem socialists are winning in the northern NJ suburbs
February 6, 2026 at 4:31 AM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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injusticewatch.org
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February 4, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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ayoub.bsky.social
Israel bombed tents in Gaza today, killed at least 30 people including children, and the death toll is likely to rise

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Children and police officers among at least 30 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza
Deadly attacks launched day before border crossing due to open as part of ceasefire deal
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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abc-soflo.bsky.social
ICE killed 9 people (that we know of) in january alone - let's look at who we lost last month (1/2) #fuckice #untileverycageisempty
Deep red memorial graphic with white serif text reading, “ICE has killed 9 people in the past month.” Below is a list of names and dates: Keith Porter Jr. (Dec. 31); Geraldo Lunas Campos (Jan. 3); Luis Gustavo Núñez Cáceres (Jan. 5); Luis Beltrán Yáñez-Cruz (Jan. 6); Renée Nicole Good (Jan. 7); Parady La (Jan. 9); Victor Manuel Díaz (Jan. 14); Heber Sánchez Domínguez (Jan. 16); Alex Pretti (Jan. 24). Decorative floral branches frame the text. Maroon graphic with white text describing three deaths connected to ICE actions or custody. Top section: “Keith Porter Jr.” — a 43-year-old father of two daughters, shot and killed by an off-duty ICE agent outside his home in Los Angeles. Middle section: “Geraldo Lunas Campos” — age 55, death ruled a homicide caused by asphyxia from neck and torso compression during restraint by guards at the Camp East Montana detention facility in El Paso, Texas; ICE initially described it as a suicide attempt, and a witness reported guards choking him. Bottom section: “Luis Gustavo Núñez Caceres” — age 42, died in the hospital after experiencing multiple medical emergencies following his arrest by ICE in November; few details about his death are known. Maroon graphic with white text listing three deaths linked to ICE custody or enforcement.
Top section: “Luis Beltrán Yáñez-Cruz” — died at age 68 after weeks of ignored complaints of pain and shortness of breath while in custody; his daughter also reported his symptoms before he died at a California hospital.
Middle section: “Renée Nicole Good” — age 37, a mother of three, shot three times by an ICE agent while attempting to drive away; her killing sparked nationwide protests.
Bottom section: “Parady La” — age 46, suffered anoxic brain injury and organ failure attributed to severe fentanyl withdrawal; he and his family alleged inadequate medical care. Maroon graphic with white text listing three deaths connected to ICE custody or federal agents. Top section: “Victor Manuel Diaz” — died at age 36 of what officials called a “presumed suicide,” which his family disputes. He died at the Camp East Montana facility in El Paso, Texas, a site criticized for inhumane conditions including physical and sexual abuse and medical neglect. Middle section: “Heber Sánchez Domínguez” — age 34, allegedly found hanging in his cell six days after being arrested by ICE for a minor traffic offense. Bottom section: “Alex Pretti” — age 37, shot and killed by federal agents after intervening to defend a woman he believed was being assaulted; he was an intensive care unit nurse with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
February 1, 2026 at 9:28 AM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.

Biden himself said they were fabricated!

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war
Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...
www.haaretz.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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fack.bsky.social
There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:
21 minutes ago Jazmine Ulloa Hundreds of immigrant mothers and children detained at a South Texas facility on Saturday protested the killing of a 37-year-old man in Minneapolis, chanting "Let me out" and "Libertad," or "Liberty," according to an immigration lawyer who witnessed the demonstration. Eric Lee, the lawyer, said he had been waiting for his client in the visitation area of the family detention center in Dilley, Tex., when detention officials abruptly asked him to leave. Once outside, he peered through a chain-link fence and saw hundreds of women and children walking out of the facility and chanting in protest. Lee said his client later told him on the phone that he and other detainees were outraged over the latest killing in Minneapolis and the detention of Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old boy from Ecuador detained with his father in Minneapolis and sent to Texas.
January 24, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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alexip718.com
UPDATE: @dropsitenews.com has obtained the very graphic video from the lady in the pink coat, which shows ICE executing yet another person in broad daylight:
January 24, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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giancarlofiorella.bsky.social
This is the video.

Please be warned: the video is graphic. It shows ICE agents wrestling a man to the ground, beating him, and then shooting him several times.
January 24, 2026 at 3:45 PM
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markarms.bsky.social
"Liam’s teacher, Ella Sullivan, teared up when thinking about Liam. 'He’s a bright young student,' she said, 'and he’s so kind and loving. His classmates miss him.'"

www.startribune.com/preschooler-...
Preschooler and three other students detained by ICE, school district leader says
The detentions of Columbia Heights students come after weeks of heightened concern and enforcement presence near and on Twin Cities school property.
www.startribune.com
January 22, 2026 at 1:23 AM
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jvp.bsky.social
The Trump administration announced that it will be moving to “phase 2” of the ceasefire plan. And yet, during the past three months that the so-called ceasefire has been in effect, the Israeli military has killed over 400 Palestinians...
January 16, 2026 at 11:34 PM
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davebrady72.bsky.social
Terrific essay about the need for and value of public administration. @resnikoff.bsky.social refutes critiques of bureaucracy by both Right AND LEFT. We need more and better bureaucracy not less. Here’s to public admin education and training!

dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...
The Left Needs Bureaucrats - Dissent Magazine
After MAGA, the left will need to be ready with a theory of how to rebuild the federal administrative state—not as it was before Trump, but as something better.
dissentmagazine.org
January 14, 2026 at 6:57 PM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
good piece with an incidental insanely brutal takedown of klein
The media has spent the last few months trying to make sense out of nonsense, attempting to conjure motive, manifesto, and meaning out of the dumbest shit scrawled onto bullets. These were sad attempts to impose meaning on an increasingly incoherent world by a literati that has not yet accepted its irrelevance in a postliterate society. But the most humiliating display of literate obliviousness in the face of the total collapse of meaning, however, was Ezra Klein's bizarre eulogy to Charlie Kirk. The now-infamous column ("Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way") can best be understood as an expression of class solidarity. Klein, I would argue, sees both himself and Kirk as being Debate Guys, wordcels who engage in the marketplace of ideas and let speech sort itself out into political action. Kirk did not commit violence, not because he abhorred it, but because committing violence was someone else's job. Last year, he called for using whips against migrants, saying, "Of course you should be able to use whips against foreigners that are coming into your country. Why is that controversial?" In early June of this year, as the president deployed troops to Los Angeles, Kirk publicly advocated for invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 to crush the immigration protests. And in August, he called for "federalizing" the district of Columbia, saying, "Roll in the tanks, bring in the military." With his close relationship to the commander in chief of the United States of America, Charlie Kirk was no mere talker, idea-peddler, or purveyor of discourse. He built an empire on legitimizing violence and harvesting the enthusiasm and glee around it. Even before his death became a pretext to enact violence on American cities, he had already substantively shaped history. Charlie Kirk was a part of the real world in a way that Ezra Klein will never be.
December 31, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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boltsmag.org
Chicago police are required by law to document every time they pull someone over. But an investigation by Bolts and Injustice Watch last year revealed the department failed to report hundreds of thousands of stops.
Chicago Police Made Nearly 200,000 Secret Traffic Stops Last Year
Chicago police are required to document every time they pull someone over. But a new investigation reveals the department is releasing vastly incomplete data to oversight agencies, even as the superintendent pledges reforms.
boltsmag.org
December 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
“I’ll be surprised if the copper pipes are still in the walls when Trump leaves.”

With Shawn Ryan Hunter Biden rips “openly corrupt” Trump for Kushner getting Saudi BILLIONS + negotiating peace deals, and fact-checks the “10% for the big guy” line Republicans attack him with
December 23, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
The maga divide summarized: does the gutter racism that is the mortar of our coalition apply to Jews or not? And if it doesn’t do we mean that or are we just pretending for the moment?
December 22, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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annabower.bsky.social
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones. We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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mjsdc.bsky.social
Trump appointed Harmeet Dhillon to the Justice Department so she could own the libs and sue DEI out of existence. But she is a bad lawyer! And her utter incompetence is the main reason why a conservative Trump judge just struck down the racist Texas gerrymander. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Trump’s Scheme to Gift the GOP Extra House Seats Just Blew Up in His Face
The opinion, written by a Trump appointee, cites Chief Justice John Roberts right up top.
slate.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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dropsitenews.com
⚡️New from Drop Site:
Palestinians in Gaza Struggle to Retrieve Their Dead With Little More Than Hammers

As the world focuses on the bodies of Israeli captives, thousands of Palestinians are missing and buried under the rubble.

By Abd Sabbah in Gaza

www.dropsitenews.com/p/palestinia...
Palestinians in Gaza Struggle to Retrieve Their Dead With Little More Than Hammers
As the world focuses on the bodies of Israeli captives, thousands of Palestinians are missing and buried under the rubble.
www.dropsitenews.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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dropsitenews.com
⭕️ Report | Israel launches 20+ airstrikes across Gaza claiming Hamas breached ceasefire

Israeli warplanes carried out more than 20 strikes across multiple areas of Gaza on Sunday, including regions far from the “yellow line” marking Israeli control, after the army claimed Hamas fighters emerged…
⭕️ Report | Israel launches 20+ airstrikes across Gaza claiming Hamas breached ceasefire Israeli warplanes carried out more than 20 strikes across multiple areas of Gaza on Sunday, including regions far from the “yellow line” marking Israeli control, after the army claimed Hamas fighters emerged from a tunnel in Rafah and fired an anti-tank missile at an Israeli vehicle. The IDF called it a “blatant violation of the ceasefire,” saying it had begun “a series of strikes to eliminate the threat.” But Hamas and its armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, denied any role, stressing they remain fully committed to the ceasefire and have “no knowledge of any incidents or clashes in Rafah,” which they described as a “red zone under full Israeli control.” Contact with any remaining fighters there, they said, has been severed since the return of Israel’s genocidal war in March. In a detailed statement, Hamas also accused Israel of systematically violating the Sharm el-Sheikh ceasefire agreement signed on October 9. The group said Israel has killed at least 46 civilians and wounded 132 since the deal took effect, fired on returning residents near the “yellow line,” blocked aid and reconstruction materials, and withheld detainees and the bodies of prisoners who died in custody. It called these violations “deliberate attempts to sabotage the agreement” and “crimes against humanity.” Axios reported that U.S. officials were alerted to Israel’s planned strikes through the American command center overseeing the deal. A senior Trump administration official told Axios that “we knew this was brewing,” adding that the U.S. urged Israel to “respond proportionately but show restraint.” Envoy Steve Witkoff and advisor Jared Kushner are expected in Israel this week to prevent further escalation and advance Trump’s “New Rafah” reconstruction plan. The Trump administration have not publicly commented, while Palestinians on the ground say Israel has used minor security incidents as pretexts to resume attacks and block all aid deliveries. As of Sunday night, Gaza’s Health Ministry and Civil Defense were still assessing casualties from the new Israeli airstrikes, with at least 15 people killed and dozens injured, according to hospital sources. Video: Strike on a cafe in Al-Zawayda (central Gaza)
October 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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pedsortho.bsky.social
Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.
But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death. The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed. After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died. While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants. Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....
October 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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ryangrim.bsky.social
Incredible journalism here, documenting a scorched earth withdrawal by the Israeli military after the ceasefire announcement.

A last effort to render Gaza uninhabitable—including torching a key sewage treatment plant
October 12, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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dropsitenews.com
🔴 In the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported an additional 151 killed (116 of whom were recovered from the rubble) and 72 injured arriving at hospitals.

This brings the recorded death toll from the Israeli genocide in Gaza to 67,682 and 170,033 injuries (likely 3-5x higher).
October 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM