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St. Louis Metro East —LFC and StL Cards/Blues/CitySC fan —History nerd *Fight Fascism Forever* Money out. Voters in. Being a billionaire should be illegal.

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The unions have mistreated the billionaires?!?

Someone was stupid enough to say that out loud?

During an election in a city where they are trying to garner support?

04.03.2026 02:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Don’t. Privatize. Space.

24.02.2026 06:26 👍 2416 🔁 725 💬 93 📌 17
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US women's hockey team declines Trump's State of the Union invite The White House invited the U.S. women’s hockey team to the State of the Union, but players said scheduling conflicts prevent them from attending.

The U.S. men's hockey team could learn something from the woman—instead of partying with corrupt pedophile protectors like Kash Patel.

www.newsweek.com/state-union-...

23.02.2026 20:19 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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One of the first things we were taught at Quantico was that there is never a moment in which you are not representing the Bureau; but, then again, we earned our place there, and weren’t granted its directorship as a sinecure for partisan malfeasance and a willingness to disregard the constitution.

22.02.2026 23:54 👍 4078 🔁 1059 💬 56 📌 225
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Trump Ripped After Attacking Olympian For Saying He Has 'Mixed Emotions' About Representing U.S. Amid ICE Brutality

Freedom of speech is for all Americans, Donald.

16.02.2026 05:03 👍 2012 🔁 262 💬 53 📌 5
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Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

14.02.2026 02:37 👍 23643 🔁 8258 💬 602 📌 1355

For more on how conditions at Dilley are affecting children, read my latest for @nbcnews.com

13.02.2026 19:42 👍 1787 🔁 572 💬 19 📌 12

The shit is over-flowing again.

someone call the plumber.

13.02.2026 15:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Like seriously, rewatch the Ring ad. It's worth outlawing and then breaking up Amazon. This is surveillance state technology the worst authoritarian dictatorships of the past always dreamed of.

09.02.2026 02:27 👍 934 🔁 243 💬 15 📌 7

The nice commercial about helping kids find their lost pets was the scariest thing I've seen in my life

09.02.2026 02:11 👍 1612 🔁 281 💬 34 📌 24

‪Adam Gurri‬
 ‪@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com‬
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So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh






‪Kam‬
 ‪@tamikawith2ks.bsky.social‬
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The ring search party feature ain’t nothing but surveillance under the guise of being used for pets. it will be used for people


‪Tressie McMillan Cottom‬
 ‪@tressiemcphd.bsky.social‬
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I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people’s empathy in service to a corporately controlled surveillance state. 

Tell them it will find your dog.

‪Joshua Erlich‬
 ‪@joshuaerlich.bsky.social‬
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fuck this Ring commercial hiding fascism behind dogs

‪Adam Gurri‬ ‪@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com‬ · 12m So uh Ring just up and said they've got a huge centralized private surveillance network they can leverage all at once huh ‪Kam‬ ‪@tamikawith2ks.bsky.social‬ 12m The ring search party feature ain’t nothing but surveillance under the guise of being used for pets. it will be used for people ‪Tressie McMillan Cottom‬ ‪@tressiemcphd.bsky.social‬ · 14m I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people’s empathy in service to a corporately controlled surveillance state. Tell them it will find your dog. ‪Joshua Erlich‬ ‪@joshuaerlich.bsky.social‬ · 14m fuck this Ring commercial hiding fascism behind dogs

I must have missed quite a Ring ad, huh?

09.02.2026 02:24 👍 653 🔁 87 💬 29 📌 11

The nominees attend the ceremony?

Aha - so that's how it works!

06.02.2026 13:44 👍 38 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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‘A militia that kills’: uproar in Italy over ICE security role at Winter Olympics Milan’s mayor says agents ‘clearly not welcome’ in co-host city and that Italy can take care of security itself

America is bringing its ugliest stain to the Games.


Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala:
“This is a militia that kills, a militia that enters into the homes of people, signing their own permission slips. It is clear they are not welcome in Milan, without a doubt.”

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

27.01.2026 15:52 👍 82 🔁 20 💬 9 📌 0
Following the killing of AFGE Member Alex Pretti and the subsequent slanderous rhetoric that followed from top Trump administration officials, AFGE National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement:

“Yesterday, AFGE brought together labor and faith leaders from Minneapolis and across the nation to mourn our fallen brother from Local 3669, Alex Pretti. We honored his life and legacy and lifted up his family, his friends, his union, Minneapolis, and our nation in prayer.

“Today, we demand accountability.

“In the immediate aftermath of Alex’s killing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem betrayed the public trust by slandering the good name of our union brother and calling him a “domestic terrorist.” Alex Pretti was a patriotic ICU nurse at a VA hospital who devoted his life to serving America’s veterans. That claim was reckless, defamatory, and unsupported by the facts. Noem was preceded in this false statement by Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, who is also the architect of the chaotic and failed immigration policy in Minnesota.

“Our demand is clear: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex’s needless killing, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them.

Following the killing of AFGE Member Alex Pretti and the subsequent slanderous rhetoric that followed from top Trump administration officials, AFGE National President Everett Kelley issued the following statement: “Yesterday, AFGE brought together labor and faith leaders from Minneapolis and across the nation to mourn our fallen brother from Local 3669, Alex Pretti. We honored his life and legacy and lifted up his family, his friends, his union, Minneapolis, and our nation in prayer. “Today, we demand accountability. “In the immediate aftermath of Alex’s killing, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem betrayed the public trust by slandering the good name of our union brother and calling him a “domestic terrorist.” Alex Pretti was a patriotic ICU nurse at a VA hospital who devoted his life to serving America’s veterans. That claim was reckless, defamatory, and unsupported by the facts. Noem was preceded in this false statement by Stephen Miller, Deputy White House Chief of Staff, who is also the architect of the chaotic and failed immigration policy in Minnesota. “Our demand is clear: Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who was responsible for carrying out the policy that led to Alex’s needless killing, and Deputy White House Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, the architect of that policy, must resign immediately. If they refuse, President Trump must dismiss them.

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

27.01.2026 02:07 👍 12551 🔁 4171 💬 143 📌 332

Lots of scrambling today by the terrible regime.

I want to argue that our goal should be to get Miller removed, that has to be the focus. Noem, Bovino, etc are all just middle managers. The architect of the terror regime is Miller.

A thread:

bsky.app/profile/simo...

27.01.2026 00:44 👍 3167 🔁 887 💬 85 📌 50
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Chris Madel: "The president posted something on Truth Social saying it was a time of reckoning and retribution on the citizens of my state, and I've seen that happen and I cannot be a part of it, and I can't be a part of a party that's a part of that"

27.01.2026 00:36 👍 3812 🔁 880 💬 137 📌 74

Trump has imposed tariffs using emergency measures—designed for things like an oil embargo amidst a war—despite the undeniable fact that no emergency exists.

As @stevebenen.com and @gregsargent.bsky.social explain, Trump using them for non-economic, non-emergency goals is evident in his statements.

26.01.2026 16:02 👍 229 🔁 64 💬 9 📌 0
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ICE killing #AlexPretti should remind you of police killing #PhilandoCastille. Both men had concealed weapon permits, did not draw their guns, & were killed in Minn. These homicides are the price of unaccountable policing. These deaths are variations on the same fatal theme.

25.01.2026 04:35 👍 11127 🔁 3220 💬 85 📌 73
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Kyle Rittenhouse did so, killed 2 people, wounded 1 person, & is ALIVE.

The fact that #AlexPretti is a dead villainized victim and Kyle Rittenhouse is an alive vigilante hero makes clear the 2nd Amendment is often treated as a right only for those on the right.

25.01.2026 17:20 👍 599 🔁 154 💬 7 📌 5
25.01.2026 14:01 👍 3011 🔁 1178 💬 180 📌 47
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CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle | ICNC You may also be interested in: A Guide to Nonviolent Activism (Ekta Parishad)Ekta Parishad is a mass-based peoples’ movement for land rights with an active membership of 250,000 landless poor and is r...

We are not the first people, or the first country, to suffer under a tyrannical government that does not respect our lives, or our rights.

There is a method for how to effectively resist, and eventually topple, such a regime. We can learn from others who came before us.

This is my favorite guide.

24.01.2026 19:54 👍 15438 🔁 6227 💬 368 📌 224

I wish Democrats would start just speaking the truth:

“ICE is killing American citizens in public for exercising their freedom of speech because Donald Trump wants to be a king.

This isn’t about immigration—Trump wants to make it illegal to oppose him, and to stay in power until he dies.”

24.01.2026 18:08 👍 17640 🔁 4947 💬 658 📌 226
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Filming federal agents is only domestic terrorism to fascists.

24.01.2026 19:19 👍 1455 🔁 355 💬 177 📌 30
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F.B.I. Agent Who Tried to Investigate ICE Officer in Shooting Resigns

Breaking NYT:

The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.

23.01.2026 23:15 👍 17634 🔁 7663 💬 529 📌 415

It’s not completely clear to me what cognitive condition Trump is suffering from…but whatever it is, it’s getting much worse.

22.01.2026 01:46 👍 380 🔁 41 💬 38 📌 0
Liam Ramos abducted by ICE

Liam Ramos abducted by ICE

There are thousands of images of the ICE assault on America. This is one of many that should haunt every person who did anything along the way to get the country to this nightmarish point. We are killing moms, grabbing grandfathers, pepper spraying clergy & kidnapping children. Shame. Shame. Shame.

22.01.2026 00:54 👍 510 🔁 194 💬 5 📌 16
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This morning Donald Trump announced breaking news about prosecutions related to the 2020 election. The legacy media ignored it, but I did not.

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21.01.2026 18:03 👍 1407 🔁 515 💬 30 📌 21
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Meet the Minneapolis neighbors standing up to ICE by the thousands Local resistance is "growing exponentially," says Defend the 612's Andrew Fahlstrom.

Neighborhood watch is taking on a new form in Minneapolis and other cities under occupation by federal immigration agents: ICE Watch.

These folks, who're tailing federal agents as they make arrests, are passionate, determined, and just about everywhere—and ICE is getting frustrated.

21.01.2026 21:05 👍 1776 🔁 575 💬 38 📌 66
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Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star

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