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Fond of dogs, coffee, and democracy. @steerpike18 at the old place

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Veterans slam new VA rule for determining disability ratings The new rule states that a disability level must be based on how well a veteran functions while on medication and not on the underlying impairment.

I told you they’d come after Veterans’ benefits. www.stripes.com/veterans/202...

18.02.2026 02:40 β€” πŸ‘ 10108    πŸ” 4759    πŸ’¬ 652    πŸ“Œ 364

🧊✈️ Wrapped & Hooded β›“οΈπŸ˜²

In Seattle, ICE goons escort a shackled & hooded man on to this GlobalX jet for transport south to Texas πŸ‘€

18.02.2026 03:31 β€” πŸ‘ 546    πŸ” 264    πŸ’¬ 37    πŸ“Œ 17
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Wait, did the SAVE Act already pass and they forgot to tell voters? No!

I’m going to need an update on this. I hope she was able to cast her ballot in the primary.

Texans, if this is happening to you, post your story with the polling location. Put it on blast. And report it.

18.02.2026 03:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4564    πŸ” 2193    πŸ’¬ 231    πŸ“Œ 166
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Ted Lieu: β€œDonald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times. In those files, there are highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump raping children … of Donald Trump threatening to kill children. So I encourage the press to go look at these allegations.”

18.02.2026 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 7468    πŸ” 3168    πŸ’¬ 309    πŸ“Œ 297
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Holy shit.

A lot of people have suggested this, but I don’t think Lieu would make the allegation unless he had seen some evidence.

18.02.2026 19:34 β€” πŸ‘ 13116    πŸ” 5201    πŸ’¬ 1081    πŸ“Œ 457
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I spoke to over 250 people in Overland Park, KS last night. They are organizing for voting rights and public schools and against a regime set on harming their neighbors.

They know what’s at stake in November.

18.02.2026 12:25 β€” πŸ‘ 629    πŸ” 133    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 3
Buncha dumb shit about AOC like she's a FP waif when she's not

Buncha dumb shit about AOC like she's a FP waif when she's not

I see they settled on a framing in the donor group chat

18.02.2026 12:36 β€” πŸ‘ 2839    πŸ” 482    πŸ’¬ 100    πŸ“Œ 143
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Allegations in Epstein files may amount to 'crimes against humanity,' UN experts say Millions of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a "global criminal enterprise" that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity,...

Millions of files related to Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a 'global criminal enterprise' that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council says reut.rs/4rpxDfl

17.02.2026 23:03 β€” πŸ‘ 2207    πŸ” 897    πŸ’¬ 77    πŸ“Œ 127
🚨 Breaking News in Epstein Case 🚨
YouTube video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury 🚨 Breaking News in Epstein Case 🚨

Please watch and repost this video by Rep. Melanie Stansbury re Epstein's crimes and cover-ups which took place in New Mexico

17.02.2026 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 263    πŸ” 185    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 9

Summary of current events:

The US had an Iran strike package teed up and ready to launch in mid-late January.

Bibi told Trump his plans weren’t big enough.

Now we’re sending everything with wings to the Middle East.

17.02.2026 13:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1483    πŸ” 495    πŸ’¬ 113    πŸ“Œ 33
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What a humongous piece of shit

16.02.2026 13:06 β€” πŸ‘ 6311    πŸ” 1253    πŸ’¬ 665    πŸ“Œ 155
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Massie not backing down.

16.02.2026 20:26 β€” πŸ‘ 21560    πŸ” 5638    πŸ’¬ 556    πŸ“Œ 234

One of my black pill moments was that Biden actually focused on lifting the lowest quartiles up at the expense of the rich and the online left screamed at him about student loan forgiveness.

15.02.2026 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1019    πŸ” 234    πŸ’¬ 45    πŸ“Œ 17

So the United States will only use empty warehouses to house people it wants to terrorize, not people it wants to shelter from the cold.

We really are not a very good-natured country.

15.02.2026 19:24 β€” πŸ‘ 13893    πŸ” 4081    πŸ’¬ 642    πŸ“Œ 196
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Bloody-handed dictator
Putin murdered again.
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15.02.2026 11:35 β€” πŸ‘ 5164    πŸ” 1907    πŸ’¬ 264    πŸ“Œ 92
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Ghislaine Maxwell Appears to Have Lied on Her Citizenship Application β€” The New Republic The revelation could put her citizenship status at risk.

Ghislaine Maxwell lied on her US citizenship application. She checked the no box when asked if she had ever procured anyone for prostitution.

She had been trafficking since 1994. This could get another 25 years added to her sentence.

14.02.2026 20:31 β€” πŸ‘ 7778    πŸ” 2825    πŸ’¬ 466    πŸ“Œ 159
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Musk advocates white monoculturalism

Musk advocates white monoculturalism

We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism.

There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision.

Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.

15.02.2026 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 5259    πŸ” 1483    πŸ’¬ 544    πŸ“Œ 392

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

15.02.2026 01:10 β€” πŸ‘ 13995    πŸ” 4654    πŸ’¬ 274    πŸ“Œ 115
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Judge Orders ICE to Let Clergy Give Communion to Detained Migrants on Ash Wednesday

Enraging that this took a court order:

"Catholic nuns and clergy had visited the facility for years, offering prayer services and holy communion to detainees during visitor hours.

Trump Administration immigration authorities rolled back that access in September..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

15.02.2026 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 5037    πŸ” 1704    πŸ’¬ 143    πŸ“Œ 61
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Exclusive: Detention Center Captives Are Throwing Lotion Bottles Wrapped With Notes to Organizers Outside Otay Mesa Facility ~ L.A. TACO β€œFor 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors...

β€œFor 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh," an Otay Mesa captive communicated through handwritten note. "We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

08.02.2026 10:06 β€” πŸ‘ 77    πŸ” 61    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 5
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Two tuberculosis cases detected at Camp East Montana ICE facility Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many "chronic issues."

Two active cases of tuberculosis and 18 cases of COVID-19 have been identified at a massive immigration detention center in El Paso.

08.02.2026 02:39 β€” πŸ‘ 119    πŸ” 99    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 7
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ICE plans to build mega warehouses for immigration detention spark growing concern Sources at two government contractors told NBC News they were worried that new warehouses β€” and the large numbers of immigrants who would be housed in them β€” would present safety problems.

The proposed centers are so large that some could house as many as 8,000 detainees at once, according to a DHS spreadsheet of more than 20 potential locations that was verified by NBC News. The largest federal prison in the U.S., for example, has roughly 4,000 inmates.

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On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being β€œserved food that contained worms.”

A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees.

The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being β€œserved food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees β€” it was for the staff.

13.02.2026 19:40 β€” πŸ‘ 10866    πŸ” 5549    πŸ’¬ 876    πŸ“Œ 2412
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Jeffrey Epstein's December 20, 2016 email to Bill Gates: "come to visit the island. new administration people visiting."

What was the upcoming administration in December2016? Oh!

13.02.2026 20:37 β€” πŸ‘ 11592    πŸ” 4489    πŸ’¬ 307    πŸ“Œ 200
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Sanders: The American people do not want this country to be an authoritarian society or an oligarchy. We have our differences, that’s what democracy is aboutβ€”we argue it out. We don’t throw people who disagree in jail. We don’t intimidate the media. We don’t send ICE agents to shoot people.

13.02.2026 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 18368    πŸ” 5805    πŸ’¬ 496    πŸ“Œ 243

icymi

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In the context of Trump doing everything he can to provoke a civil war and moving at full speed toward martial law, it should unsettle everyone in America that the U.S. Armed Forces is considerably more focused on threats at home than abroad and particularly the sort of equipment civilians might use

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β€˜Helping ICE effectuate mass deportations’: Ayotte releases info on Trump administration’s plans for detainment facility - The Boston Globe A facility in Merrimack, N.H., would house 400 to 600 detainees and serve as a staging location for transfers or removals, according to newly obtained documents.

New details about the federal government’s plan to convert an industrial warehouse in Merrimack, N.H., into a regional processing center for immigration detainees were released by Governor Kelly Ayotte’s office Thursday afternoon.

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This ad should concern Susan Collins.

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