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Sy Fernandez
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atrupar.com
Mayor Jacob Frey: "They are already trying to spin this as an action of self defense. Having seen the video myself, I want to tell everybody directly that is bullshit."
January 7, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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loudpenitent.bsky.social
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Nov 27
It didn’t even take 6 hours.
USCIS @USCIS X.com Effective immediately, processing of all immigration requests relating to Afghan nationals is stopped indefinitely pending further review of security and vetting protocols. The protections and safety of our homeland and of the American people remains our singular focus and mission. 10:04 PM • 11/26/25 • 2.1K Views
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
sy-fern.bsky.social
I ♥️ Brasil (and pão de queijo)
September 18, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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aaronparnas.bsky.social
Lisa Phillips was assaulted by Jeffrey Epstein on his island when she was in her early 20s.

She is a survivor and she is speaking out.

This is her story. Repost it everywhere. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
Important Sunday Night Update: Lisa Phillips is a Survivor of Epstein's Crimes. This is her Story.
Please watch her story, share her story, and continue uplifting the survivors.
open.substack.com
September 7, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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ghostpanther.bsky.social
Not in any way fun fact: Both Mexico and Venezuela have nationalized oil.
kenklippenstein.bsky.social Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · Aug 21
The military is preparing target sets for lethal strikes against cartel targets in Mexico.

The strikes were discussed at a July meeting at NORTHCOM HQ in Colorado Springs led by Colby Jenkins, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/military-p...
Military Preparing Attacks on Mexican Cartels
Secret orders target cartels as the new terrorists
www.kenklippenstein.com
August 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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ericumansky.bsky.social
Congrats to TurboTax, which has worked for two decades to stop Americans from being able to file taxes for free.

www.propublica.org/article/insi...
Internal presentations lay out company tactics for fighting “encroachment,” Intuit’s catchall term for any government initiative to make filing taxes easier — such as creating a free government filing system or pre-filling people’s returns with payroll or other data the IRS already has. “For a decade proposals have sought to create IRS tax software or a ReturnFree Tax System; All were stopped,” r
April 16, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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kleinman.bsky.social
Every trans person warned us that this would happen
April 17, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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carnage4life.bsky.social
At this rate MAGA will only be able to afford to rent the libs.
April 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
sy-fern.bsky.social
VA-District 2 covers such a large area of Hampton Roads and the people should not be ignored! If you're our representative you need to show up, not hide because the people you serve are unhappy. Veterans live here, families live here. If she cared she would be here, not sending out excuses.
March 23, 2025 at 2:27 AM
sy-fern.bsky.social
Cubans with I-220As are being detained at their required check in appointments, whether or not they have a criminal record. A community that has largely voted Republican and supported Trump are realizing they are not going to be protected, that they are not white in the eyes of the administration.
geauxgabrielle.bsky.social Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.bsky.social · Mar 22
Cuban Americans have had special privileges under immigration granted to them since the REAGAN administration that have secured their loyalty to the Republican party for generations. Trump is true to his word to his white nationalist base.

Everybody non-white is out of here.
'Deport every person under the sun': ICE detains Cubans during immigration appointments
March 22, 2025 at 12:38 PM
sy-fern.bsky.social
There is something sinister about seeing the “Ever Second Counts” from the Bear placed in the kitchen of a fast food restaurant with underpaid workers running around
March 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Yes.
No matter the cause, the problem for Democrats is existential. The Republican Party and its vast media apparatus are engaged in a campaign to reframe the most fundamental debates about American society: the role of women and minorities in public life, the continued existence of the New Deal state, the contours of the right to vote. If all Democrats do is attempt to match public opinion, they’ll be forever operating within a Republican frame, stuck watching the polls while Republicans move them. What has happened with trans rights will happen over and over; an endless cycle of perpetual retreat. I don’t mean to reduce the issue to a cold political calculus. The best justification for supporting trans rights is that trans people are real and deserve civil protections. If supporting them was deeply unpopular, it would still be the right thing to do. Politics isn’t a series of McKinsey presentations, it weighs on human life and dignity.
March 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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berkeleyjr.bsky.social
An FDA vaccine advisory committee meeting scheduled for March to select the strains to be included in next season's flu shot has been canceled, according to a panel member. Officials did not offer an explanation for the scrapped meeting.

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's shots
The canceled meeting comes just days after a CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting was abruptly postponed.
www.nbcnews.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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cingraham.bsky.social
Incredible stuff in here: They ID'ed him, in part, by going to court hearings and watching him post
February 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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muellershewrote.com
Hegseth just revoked all gender affirming hormone therapy for trans active duty service members - effectively trapping them because you can't just quit the military. All while stating our trans service members will be treated with "dignity and respect."
kyledcheney.bsky.social Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Feb 10
ON THE DOCKET: The Pentagon reveals a new memo from Secretary Hegseth pausing all accessions for transgender recruits and pausing all related medical procedures. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Not exaggerating when I say I would like a personal, handwritten apology from every pundit who barfed out a dozen "the left wants to change the way you talk!" op-eds based on non-mandatory guidelines in obscure PDFs.
juddlegum.bsky.social Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · Feb 10
2. A memo distributed by NSA leadership to its staff says that on February 10, all NSA websites and internal network pages that contain banned words will be deleted.

This is the list of 27 banned words distributed to NSA staff:
Anti-Racism Racism Allyship Bias DEI Diversity Diverse Confirmation Bias Equity Equitableness Feminism Gender Gender Identity Inclusion Inclusive All-Inclusive Inclusivity Injustice Intersectionality Prejudice Privilege Racial Identity Sexuality Stereotypes Pronouns Transgender Equality
February 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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niedermeyer.online
Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.
carlbergstrom.com Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · Feb 3
What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.
X post: Elon Musk @elonmusk We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper. Could gone to some great parties. Did that instead. U.S. policy was to help bring an end to apartheid and establish a nonracial, democratic government. In response to this policy and the Act, USAID/South Africa was responsible for financing projects that apartheid victims viewed as critical in promoting social, political, and economic change through peaceful means. The mission enabled community consultation and ensured that the United States did not impose foreign-defined solutions to local problems. USAID created projects and activities to respond to the priorities of the black community and its leaders, maximized black participation and leadership, and ensured activities had a linkage to the general objectives of U.S. policy. First-year funding for the program was $25 million, which was raised to $50 million the second year. The main project areas were community outreach and leadership development to redress the repression of black-led institutions; educational support and training to address the educational crisis in South Africa; black private enterprise development to combat the inhibiting effects of apartheid–induced discrimination in private enterprise; university grants to help create a new generation of economic and political leaders; human rights; legal assistance; labor union training; and health and nutrition
February 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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mcopelov.bsky.social
Presidency-ending scandals for everyone from Truman to Obama, happening on an hourly basis now
radleybalko.bsky.social Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · Jan 29
Open-air corruption. They’re just flaunting it.
January 29, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Paul Krugman confirming what has been increasingly obvious to readers for years: New York Times editors are becoming increasingly indifferent to facts and obsessed with mollycoddling the right.
contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-...
January 29, 2025 at 9:48 PM
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rincewind.run
cool how Project 2025 went viral during the election, we were told Trump disavowed it and wouldn't do it, he got elected and started implementing it immediately and now we're being told "well this is what people voted for"

they very explicitly did not
molly.wiki Molly White @molly.wiki · Jan 27
The people now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two, Noah Peters and James Sherk, have links to the Heritage Foundation and Project 2025.
January 27, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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ryanlcooper.com
president of California Citrus Mutual: “We’re in the middle of our citrus harvesting ... Yesterday about 25% of the workforce, today 75% didn’t show up.” calmatters.org/economy/2025...
'People aren't going to work': A surprising immigration raid set off fears in California farm country
‘If this is the new normal, this is absolute economic devastation,’ says local economist.
calmatters.org
January 25, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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eladn.bsky.social
Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."

She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it. Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.
January 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM