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Charlie Thomsen

@thomsec.bsky.social

Geographer. Happiness, climate change, human rights. “What appears to be coming at you is really coming from you.”

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ICE agent wearing skull mask that is usually associated with the neo Nazi  atomwaffen group

ICE agent wearing skull mask that is usually associated with the neo Nazi atomwaffen group

Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets

03.02.2026 23:35 — 👍 2641    🔁 814    💬 160    📌 235

“In my profession, I have seen many people break down in grief, but that image of Elizabeth’s father will stay with me forever,” she said. “I watched him sit in his car, bury his head in his hands, and cry uncontrollably. Those are images you do not forget.”

04.02.2026 00:31 — 👍 439    🔁 221    💬 6    📌 4
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I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

03.02.2026 15:45 — 👍 4879    🔁 1197    💬 117    📌 2

Chomsky’s casual misogyny with Epstein says a lot about what counts as left wing. This is a guy who co-wrote an entire book about the press manufacturing consent without once mentioning patriarchy (or white supremacy). We need a definition of ‘left’ that doesn’t center the concerns of white men.

04.02.2026 00:31 — 👍 160    🔁 52    💬 6    📌 3

This is a great example of what Marx called "the vampire thirst for the living blood of labour."

03.02.2026 17:46 — 👍 2011    🔁 503    💬 69    📌 10
French Response *
@FrenchResponse
X.com
Investigating child sexual abuse material isn't controversial.
Turning it into political theater is manipulation.
Maybe that logic flies on some island. Doesn't fl in France.
Elon Musk & X @elonmusk • 3h
This is a political attack

French Response * @FrenchResponse X.com Investigating child sexual abuse material isn't controversial. Turning it into political theater is manipulation. Maybe that logic flies on some island. Doesn't fl in France. Elon Musk & X @elonmusk • 3h This is a political attack

My apologies to France, I was not familiar with your game.

04.02.2026 00:02 — 👍 4760    🔁 1044    💬 59    📌 79
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Lorde donates merchandise proceeds from Minneapolis shows to immigrant rights groups Pop singer Lorde will donate money she made on merchandise sales from her sold-out Minneapolis shows last fall to two Minnesota immigrant rights groups, she shared in a post on Instagram on Tuesday.

Pop singer Lorde will donate the $204,000 she made on merchandise sales from her sold-out Minneapolis shows last fall to two Minnesota immigrant rights groups.

03.02.2026 20:32 — 👍 3526    🔁 764    💬 19    📌 44
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The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.

https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

03.02.2026 17:27 — 👍 932    🔁 493    💬 14    📌 63

All you need to know.

03.02.2026 23:20 — 👍 286    🔁 85    💬 11    📌 1
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Arizona GOP Lawmaker Pushes Felony Ban On Kids At Drag Shows New Arizona bill would criminalize exposing minors to drag shows.

A new Arizona bill gives cops the power to arrest parents who let their children watch a drag show.

A violation of HB2589 could result in a felony charge with up to three years in prison.

03.02.2026 23:23 — 👍 127    🔁 93    💬 14    📌 9
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Florida court tosses GOP suit attempting to influence elections by challenging U.S. census The case was part of a broader Republican effort to increase the power of GOP-controlled states by changing how the U.S. population is counted.

NEW: A Florida court dismissed a Republican lawsuit seeking to block statistical methodologies used in the 2020 Census for alleged inaccuracies.

The case is part of a nationwide GOP effort to increase the party’s power in red states by changing how the U.S. population is counted.

03.02.2026 20:07 — 👍 284    🔁 107    💬 6    📌 3

Ah, good old Peter "Everyone Who Disagrees With Me Is The Antichrist" Thiel. Choosing his friends carefully, as is his custom.

03.02.2026 22:15 — 👍 22    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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The next witness is Aliya Rahman, a U.S. citizen and resident of Minneapolis with autism and a traumatic brain injury, who in January was dragged from her car by immigration agents— four blocks away from where George Floyd was killed—then detained without access to medical care or lawyer.

03.02.2026 21:08 — 👍 1157    🔁 266    💬 6    📌 8

The testimony was harrowing; you can watch it all here
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UagE...

03.02.2026 21:58 — 👍 440    🔁 240    💬 1    📌 0

Pathetic. Remember when the RNC bought 400K copies of Don Jr's book? Or when they bought a bunch of copies of Dan Crenshaw's book? Or when the bought a bunch of tickets to Dinesh D'Souza's movie? Or Melania? What a bunch of weirdo losers.

03.02.2026 22:16 — 👍 1641    🔁 537    💬 211    📌 30

libertarian calipers enthusiast says what now?

03.02.2026 21:14 — 👍 102    🔁 14    💬 7    📌 0

Congress should immediately hold hearings because a special government employee (SGE) should have no decision-making authority, can only work 130 days per year, must have an extraordinary capability not available in house, and I believe cannot have any direct reports. bsky.app/profile/cost...

03.02.2026 19:50 — 👍 125    🔁 44    💬 2    📌 0
Paul Blume
@PaulBlume_FOX9
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SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, "The system sucks, this job sucks" to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep.
@FOX9
3:34 PM • 2/3/26

Paul Blume @PaulBlume_FOX9 x.com SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, "The system sucks, this job sucks" to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep. @FOX9 3:34 PM • 2/3/26

Apparently morale at DOJ is so low that line attorneys are asking to be held in contempt so they can get some sleep yikes

03.02.2026 21:15 — 👍 3935    🔁 949    💬 107    📌 105
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When you begin to realize how nonchalantly he buried his own ex-wife on his golf course - you begin to wonder who else could be buried there.

Let’s just say that I no longer see golf courses but rather - cemeteries after reading that his security guard made a reference to it.
⛳️🪦

03.02.2026 17:16 — 👍 653    🔁 225    💬 52    📌 13

One day there will be people dragging ground penetrating radar sleds all over the back nine.

03.02.2026 18:58 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Or, „What the fuck is this. . .?“

An entirely correct, freely available response.

bsky.app/profile/kati...

03.02.2026 13:46 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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We need a "Solar Panel-chan" to counter this

03.02.2026 18:48 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

It's once again my fav teaching day, the day I explain why the best statistics podcast out there is one about a failed boy band from the early 1990s.

03.02.2026 18:19 — 👍 19    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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It’s a really bad sign if they are calling up Roger Stone who ran the Brooks Brothers riot in 2000 (to stop the Florida recount), cavorted with the Proud Boys & Oath Keepers before Jan 6, & was a primary architect of so-called “Stop the Steal” campaigns in 2016, 2018, and 2020, 1/

03.02.2026 17:38 — 👍 1296    🔁 561    💬 168    📌 105

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes."

After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

03.02.2026 03:58 — 👍 24607    🔁 5627    💬 33    📌 44

www.irishstar.com/news/politic...

03.02.2026 18:25 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Horrifying and unnerving. DHS sent an administrative subpoena to Google for this retiree's records and even sent armed agents out to his house for the "offense" of writing the following completely anodyne email to a federal prosecutor using an email address he found via Google.

03.02.2026 17:48 — 👍 1156    🔁 619    💬 18    📌 24

The amount of observers that have been detained today in the city already that I’ve seen videos of is really spooky.It’s very clear that ice is now just straight up targeting observers in an effort to quash people watching them. It’s also clear that they are absolutely keeping databases of observers

03.02.2026 16:30 — 👍 390    🔁 184    💬 6    📌 8

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