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In one of the shoeboxes of old family photos, this one with the caption "Mary and I in front of her house — the man is John Bosich — an Austrian".

No other information. Who's Mary? Where is her house? Who's "I"? I had no idea. So I got onto Ancestry with what I did know — the man is John Bosich.
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I've shared this quote before but I'll share it again, as it's one I've been thinking about a lot as I've watched how our oligarchs have been behaving over the past few months.
December 27, 2024 at 11:07 PM
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NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...
www.wired.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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Democracy dies in Jeff Bezos' bank account.
February 4, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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Opposition to the “doxxing” of law enforcement is advocacy for having secret police.
January 28, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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10 thousand Hatians "will be subject to arrest & deportation…" One day, able to work, & the next day will not be able to work”

The end of TPS means that people who try to work will be seized [at work] & if not seized in their home."

We will be ready.

snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
Ethnic Cleansing in Ohio?
Nazi Lies in Vance's America
snyder.substack.com
February 1, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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Me and @kieraevebutler.bsky.social have even MORE good news and it concerns exotic varieties of pseudoscience you may not have even known exist www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
RFK’s overhauled autism committee is even worse than it looks
Kennedy has stacked another HHS panel with his fellow travelers in the anti-vaccine and pseudoscience world.
www.motherjones.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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If there is any justice left in America, today will be the beginning of the end of ICE as we know it.
January 25, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
January 24, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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love this sign
January 23, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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January 23, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation.

Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.
January 22, 2026 at 8:25 PM
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14 Ways The Trump Administration is Trying to Kill Us
Deadly policy shifts from Trump’s first year back in office
contrarian.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:11 PM
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“Trump’s megalomania is transforming the United States from international leader into international pariah, and the American people will suffer the consequences for years to come.”

{gift link} www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
America vs. the World
President Trump wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the whole world less secure.
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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Trump’s entire life has been people giving him what he wants because he’s so fucking unpleasant it seems easier. All it does is make him worse and demand more. Appeasement of Trump has a 100% failure rate.
EXACTLY. Wake the fuck up already.
January 19, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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Call to abolish ICE don't go far enough. It is an out of control agency that puts all our rights at risk.
January 18, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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”Many millions of Americans love Trump because he routinely humiliates people. It validates their own actions. They live vicariously though him, imagining the humiliation they could inflict if they were given greater power. He also normalizes the behaviour.”

www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politi/
The Politics of Humiliation
The politics of humiliation has moved to the center of the reactionary project under Trump II.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 17, 2026 at 8:24 PM
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The administration needs to be asked directly how many J6ers, and anyone convicted of seditious conspiracy, are now ICE agents with a badge and a gun.
January 15, 2026 at 8:50 PM
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Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
January 15, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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the year is 2026

the american economy is balanced on the four pillars of plagiarism machines, CSAM generators, gambling apps, and crime sudokus

we still don't make anything anymore, aside from violent drama
January 11, 2026 at 7:01 PM
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Welcome to Trump's America, where if you're a soccer mom trying to drive away from an illegal traffic stop and get shot in the head, you're a domestic terrorist; but if you're part of an insurrection and beat a cop with a flagpole within inches of his life, you're a patriot.
January 10, 2026 at 9:16 PM
I'd really like a podcast that consists of a Scottish person reading through the names of all the places in Scotland. Or more than one person, if there are pronunciations that vary and warrant discussion.

That's it. I could listen to that for DAYS.
January 11, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact.

When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end
January 8, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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A friendly reminder that no ICE officer has ever been killed in the line of duty in a hostile incident.

Being an elementary schoolchild in America is far more deadly and dangerous than being an ICE officer.
If you’re scared of a Honda Pilot driving less than 5 miles an hour, with its wheels pointing away from you, you should not be working in law-enforcement…

You shouldn’t have a gun. You shouldn’t have a badge. You should find a new line of work.
January 8, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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The Trump Administration's Abdication of Moral Responsibility in Responding to the Killing of Renee Nicole Good

austinkocher.substack.com/p/the-trump-...
The Trump Administration's Abdication of Moral Responsibility in Responding to the Killing of Renee Nicole Good
Prior to an investigation into ICE's use of lethal force in Minneapolis, the Trump admin branded a dead U.S. citizen as a "violent rioter," "professional agitator", and terrorist. It has to stop.
austinkocher.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 4:27 PM