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Musician, Writer, Homo, He/They, NYC

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Oh look, exactly what we said was going to happen when Schumer caved on the shutdown

05.02.2026 04:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1895    ๐Ÿ” 502    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 50    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

My actual job description is activist and hereโ€™s what I tell people in despair all the time: do not underestimate how much harm you can prevent by being just a little bit annoying.

05.02.2026 04:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1472    ๐Ÿ” 401    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 22    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

Jeff Bezosโ€™s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Postโ€™s losses with what heโ€™s made since Monday.

05.02.2026 02:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10388    ๐Ÿ” 3321    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 318    ๐Ÿ“Œ 179

Unf

04.02.2026 21:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The fact that a trans woman was the first person to try and sue Jeffrey Epstein for sex, trafficking her, and how the media treated her like trash and the case was thrown out only for it to be proven with the files release?

Unsurprising. Horrifying but unsurprising.

Youโ€™ve never listened to us.

04.02.2026 19:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 528    ๐Ÿ” 120    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The example I use: if you had a *mere* $1b โ€” a fraction of what Bezos and Musk and Zuckerberg have โ€” you could spend $25,000 every single day of your life and you would never run out of money. Your children would still be extremely rich. It would take over a hundred years to deplete your wealth.

04.02.2026 19:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 69    ๐Ÿ” 22    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

The rich need to be painfully reminded that our own lives, communities, and livelihoods are in fact, ours.

04.02.2026 19:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Please don't report this as a straightforward business story; it's a story about coercive social transformation being imposed by people so rich they've ceased to see the rest of us as legitimate stakeholders in our own lives

04.02.2026 14:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1617    ๐Ÿ” 408    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 17

Thank God they announced it when the funding bill is still under negotiations

04.02.2026 17:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Update: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA.

Facts that bear repeating.

04.02.2026 17:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3778    ๐Ÿ” 1845    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 123    ๐Ÿ“Œ 100

New gym motivation for those who need it: be more in shape than the average ICE agent

04.02.2026 18:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

04.02.2026 16:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18081    ๐Ÿ” 5463    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20    ๐Ÿ“Œ 82

There is no reforming ICE or Chuck Schumer, both need to be defunded for the safety of the American people.

04.02.2026 00:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 366    ๐Ÿ” 69    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Someone said Republicans are school shooters and Democrats are the Uvalde cops and manโ€ฆ

03.02.2026 23:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2233    ๐Ÿ” 569    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 30    ๐Ÿ“Œ 15

Literally, the polls say we want ICE to be dismantled.

04.02.2026 00:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A reminder that jd vance (not his real name) and his mentor/master Peter Thiel helped start a speculation tool called AcreTrader, which allows investors to scoop up distressed or underwater farmland for pennies on the dollar.

In case you thought this nightmare wasn't entirely intentional.

03.02.2026 21:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 67    ๐Ÿ” 43    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Republicans: We believe in free market capitalism
The Market: Cool. We can make money selling gender affirming shapewear.
Republicans: NO. NOT LIKE THAT!

03.02.2026 18:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 849    ๐Ÿ” 234    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 32    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

03.02.2026 00:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 19860    ๐Ÿ” 6076    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 680    ๐Ÿ“Œ 163
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After ICE release St. Paul woman, she says agents keep returning to her home Thi Dua Vang legally came to the U.S. two years ago. So when ICE showed up, she thought it must have been a mistake.

Woman with legal status taken from her family home in St Paul by ICE, flown to Texas, held for two weeks before being ordered released by a judge. She lost her job. She's afraid to go outside because agents keep coming to her home.
www.kare11.com/article/news...

03.02.2026 01:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1484    ๐Ÿ” 797    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 49
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โ€˜ICE conveyor beltโ€™ illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respond ICE is pulling Minnesota immigrant families with legal status out of their driveways, homes and school commutes and send

ICE is running a โ€œconveyor beltโ€ of illegally detained Minnesota families.

Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota.

The cruelty is endless.

03.02.2026 01:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12701    ๐Ÿ” 6840    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 572    ๐Ÿ“Œ 371
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Accountability for ICE and CBP However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is โ€” the reality is far far worse.

"Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005."

"it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

02.02.2026 19:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 963    ๐Ÿ” 388    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 33

$3,000 billion dollars. the whole earth is being turned into paperclips right now for this trash people don't even want being shoved into every product that's consistently failing businesses that are trying to use it, deeply screws up and even undoes learning in ways that seem borderline irreparable

02.02.2026 14:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 885    ๐Ÿ” 289    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

"The bill, HB246 ... instructs the director of vehicles of Kansas to identify every license issued to a trans person and send written notice that the license must be surrendered and reissued. Driving with a license that has been canceled, suspended, or revoked is a misdemeanor in Kansas."

02.02.2026 13:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 132    ๐Ÿ” 118    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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At the end of this week, this song feels like the perfect mood:

#protest

31.01.2026 02:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The only information I want from any elected official right now, from federal office down to local sewer commission, is "what do you see as your role in the prosecution of everyone involved with ICE," and if they can't give a clear answer I will interpret that to mean "defendant"

31.01.2026 01:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 138    ๐Ÿ” 32    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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ICE agents laugh at teen bringing life-saving medicine to dad in detention A young man's desperate attempt to deliver life-saving medication to his detained father was met with laughter by ICE agents, sparking outrage.

A teenager named Anthony was trying to get needed, live saving heart medication to his detained 58-year-old father and was cruelly laughed at by ICE goons.

"I gave an ICE agent my dad's medicine, but I'm not sure if he got it because the ice agent just smirked at me. He laughed in my face."

30.01.2026 17:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 132    ๐Ÿ” 99    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
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Colorado advocacy group says ICE agents left 'death cards' in vehicles after people detained A spokesperson from the Department of Homeland Security said the agency โ€œunequivocally condemns this type of action.โ€

www.9news.com/article/news...

30.01.2026 23:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2439    ๐Ÿ” 1347    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 176    ๐Ÿ“Œ 107
โ€œScreenshot of a promoted Reddit post by u/AYAGDOS. The post reads: โ€˜Navigating gender dysphoria? Join our confidential, cross-country study of 18โ€“25 year olds to tell your story, challenge preconceptions, and have YOUR experience reflected in the science.โ€™ Below is a banner graphic with the Northwestern University logo and the text โ€˜TRANS OR GENDERQUEER? SHARE YOUR STORY.โ€™ The image shows a close-up of a hand with light pink nail polish, partially painted blue, held up against a blurred background. A link to ayagdos.org and a โ€˜Learn Moreโ€™ button appear at the bottom, along with Reddit vote and share icons.โ€

โ€œScreenshot of a promoted Reddit post by u/AYAGDOS. The post reads: โ€˜Navigating gender dysphoria? Join our confidential, cross-country study of 18โ€“25 year olds to tell your story, challenge preconceptions, and have YOUR experience reflected in the science.โ€™ Below is a banner graphic with the Northwestern University logo and the text โ€˜TRANS OR GENDERQUEER? SHARE YOUR STORY.โ€™ The image shows a close-up of a hand with light pink nail polish, partially painted blue, held up against a blurred background. A link to ayagdos.org and a โ€˜Learn Moreโ€™ button appear at the bottom, along with Reddit vote and share icons.โ€

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

30.01.2026 17:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8934    ๐Ÿ” 7369    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 61    ๐Ÿ“Œ 109

It's clear the increased ICE/CBP funding under Trump is being used primarily as a tool of repression, not as a means of law enforcement, and that's all the more reason why Democrats should use this opportunityโ€”while the public hates ICE and the GOP is on the defensiveโ€”to eviscerate both agencies.

30.01.2026 20:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 593    ๐Ÿ” 201    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6
Moira Rose Schitts Creek these are dark times John but not that dark
YouTube video by NDR Moira Rose Schitts Creek these are dark times John but not that dark

I MEAN:

www.youtube.com/shorts/OnVxn...

30.01.2026 18:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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