Jan Van Pelt
@janvp.bsky.social
Mediator. Retired progressive clergy. Resister.“They tried to bury us. They didn’t know we were seeds.”
Fabulous
When ICE Tried to Deploy 600 Goons, New Yorkers said absolutely NOT ✊
November 30, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Fabulous
Exactly
“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
November 30, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Exactly
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
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🚨Chicago Judge Sarah Ellis releases a 233 page opinion in response to a review of Use of Force cams worn by agents. She concludes ICE lies to justify UOF.
🔥Truth we all know outed on ABC🔥 ~ TY Judge Ellis
🔥Truth we all know outed on ABC🔥 ~ TY Judge Ellis
November 29, 2025 at 2:57 PM
🚨Chicago Judge Sarah Ellis releases a 233 page opinion in response to a review of Use of Force cams worn by agents. She concludes ICE lies to justify UOF.
🔥Truth we all know outed on ABC🔥 ~ TY Judge Ellis
🔥Truth we all know outed on ABC🔥 ~ TY Judge Ellis
You’ve got to be kidding!
The deranged madman now threatens to blow up commercial airliners flying in and out of Venezuela.
November 29, 2025 at 3:54 PM
You’ve got to be kidding!
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distill_social
ICE agents stormed a Detroit home yesterday at dawn and hauled off two 16-year-old asylum-seeking cousins — kids with work permits and court dates — then shipped them to a detention center in Texas away from their entire support system.
ICE agents stormed a Detroit home yesterday at dawn and hauled off two 16-year-old asylum-seeking cousins — kids with work permits and court dates — then shipped them to a detention center in Texas away from their entire support system.
November 29, 2025 at 7:09 AM
distill_social
ICE agents stormed a Detroit home yesterday at dawn and hauled off two 16-year-old asylum-seeking cousins — kids with work permits and court dates — then shipped them to a detention center in Texas away from their entire support system.
ICE agents stormed a Detroit home yesterday at dawn and hauled off two 16-year-old asylum-seeking cousins — kids with work permits and court dates — then shipped them to a detention center in Texas away from their entire support system.
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ICE is using Uber stickers in order to disguise themselves and kidnap people. Spread this for awareness!
November 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
ICE is using Uber stickers in order to disguise themselves and kidnap people. Spread this for awareness!
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So if all the people from “third world countries” should be banned from migrating to America because of a deadly shooting, what are we going to do about all the armed and alienated young white men?
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
So if all the people from “third world countries” should be banned from migrating to America because of a deadly shooting, what are we going to do about all the armed and alienated young white men?
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Says the guy who auto-penned nearly 1600 pardons for January 6
November 28, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Says the guy who auto-penned nearly 1600 pardons for January 6
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It has taken this country almost 250 years to be $37 trillion in debt! One man alone responsible for 1/3 of 250 years worth of debt! At the same time making the majority of the country poorer, and him and his family raking in billions!
November 28, 2025 at 7:33 AM
It has taken this country almost 250 years to be $37 trillion in debt! One man alone responsible for 1/3 of 250 years worth of debt! At the same time making the majority of the country poorer, and him and his family raking in billions!
Trump’s Thanksgiving message obviously penned by Stephen Miller
November 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Trump’s Thanksgiving message obviously penned by Stephen Miller
What an ignorant, hateful man!
The Criminal tries to explain what he sees as a "Crime"
November 27, 2025 at 6:34 AM
What an ignorant, hateful man!
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Today it was cold in Portland, but still went out to do a short march. Also got to see a member of the Portland Frog Brigade talk.
November 22, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Today it was cold in Portland, but still went out to do a short march. Also got to see a member of the Portland Frog Brigade talk.
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Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts n.pr/3M48mr2
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. Military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formally known as the Boy Scouts
n.pr
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts n.pr/3M48mr2
Wag the dog!
The "peace president."
Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
November 25, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Wag the dog!
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“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
- Stephen Jay Gould, 1979
- Stephen Jay Gould, 1979
November 21, 2025 at 7:23 PM
“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.”
- Stephen Jay Gould, 1979
- Stephen Jay Gould, 1979
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November 20, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
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“If you’re quiet now, you would’ve been quiet in 1940.”
November 20, 2025 at 4:44 AM
“If you’re quiet now, you would’ve been quiet in 1940.”
I like presidents who don’t shout “Quiet, Piggy“ at women reporters.
November 19, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I like presidents who don’t shout “Quiet, Piggy“ at women reporters.
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"TACO BELLE" Can Go To Hell.....
November 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"TACO BELLE" Can Go To Hell.....