@gthale.bsky.social
Dog mom, married, knitter and cross stitcher. Democrat in a red state.
Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
15.02.2026 03:15 — 👍 83 🔁 35 💬 1 📌 2
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14.02.2026 17:34 — 👍 4502 🔁 2143 💬 202 📌 118Yesterday 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 — 👍 22003 🔁 7700 💬 549 📌 1281
DHS is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency.
14.02.2026 13:52 — 👍 352 🔁 336 💬 49 📌 0
Care to guess which of these people Trump takes *spiritual guidance* from?
14.02.2026 14:51 — 👍 993 🔁 326 💬 62 📌 20
Trump/GOP’s awful “SAVE Act” makes life more unaffordable!!! We’re expected to pay hundreds to thousands of dollars to obtain passports, legal documents & name changes. This is GROSS disenfranchisement of the sacred right to vote! Tell your SENATOR to VOTE NO on the corrupt, scam Trump/GOP SAVE Act!
13.02.2026 16:09 — 👍 118 🔁 68 💬 6 📌 2
Trump's CDC is canceling $600M in HIV and STD funds to four Democrat-led states The Centers for Disease Control plans to suspend grants to local public health agencies, hospitals, NGOs and universities in California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota. AP / GILEAD DEVELOPING STORY TRUMP ADMIN CUTS $600 MILLION IN HIV, STD PREVENTION FUNDS WILL BE AFFECTED IN CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, ILLINOIS AND MINN ITDOWN FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY APPEARS CERTAIN The Trump administration this week began cuts to $600 million in funding used to track and prevent HIV and STDs in four Democrat-led states. (Scripps News) SCRIPPS NEWS THE SCRIPPS NEWS 2:30 PM MT On The Scene
Another day another Trump-brand atrocity meant to kill Americans enmasse
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#StopRussianGenocide
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WTF?! The GOP’s “Save America Act” (previously just “SAVE”) requires that states implement voter purge programs using programs such as the “SAVE” system, which consistently marks citizens as noncitizens, per this report by ProPublica & Texas Tribune. The Act imposes *no penalty* 4 faulty purges. 1/
13.02.2026 17:10 — 👍 500 🔁 321 💬 22 📌 29
“.. using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought ..”
@reuters.com
www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
Reminder: “The SAVE America Act” is not saving us from anything real — and was born out of the lies of a malignant narcissist who incited an insurrection. 🇺🇸
Thank you for coming to our TED Talk.
www.brennancenter.org/topics/votin...
Anyone else sensing a pattern here?
13.02.2026 03:55 — 👍 4130 🔁 1686 💬 172 📌 85
🚨In December 2016, Epstein invited Bill Gates to his island and informed him that “new administration people” were visiting.
This was sent exactly one month before Trump was inaugurated for his first term.
"Flint Development is involved in another property deal with ICE, in El Paso... Flint Development recently stripped information about its executive team from its website; those details were available as recently as December, before its dealings with DHS became public..."
jacobin.com/2026/02/ware...
"In Hutchins Texas, ICE reportedly bought a former Amazon property for $80 million. The broker’s contact on the listing was Majestic Realty, a Los Angeles–based firm owned by Ed Roski Jr, a Trump campaign contributor who is a partial owner of the L.A. Lakers..."
jacobin.com/2026/02/ware...
11.02.2026 22:32 — 👍 5971 🔁 2752 💬 158 📌 109
A reminder...they do flock together.
12.02.2026 16:23 — 👍 183 🔁 66 💬 10 📌 2
It's already ILLEGAL for non-citizens to vote. This voter suppression bill—the "Save America Act"—solves a non-existent problem while disenfranchising millions of actual citizens. It's a lie from start to finish.
#HandsOffHerVote social.demcast.com/s/unhPqEFe
AG Keith Ellison: "The surge is contributing to violent crime. Two of the three homicides committed in Minneapolis in 2026 have come at the hands of federal immigration agents."
12.02.2026 14:46 — 👍 11136 🔁 3404 💬 137 📌 87
It’s the Epstein Administration.
No wonder Bondi spent the entire hearing screeching and deflecting.
H/T: @aaronparnas.bsky.social
In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...
Please send this jaw-dropping exchange to every MAGA who still thinks the DOJ isn’t blatantly protecting Trump and his cabal of wealthy pedophiles.
11.02.2026 19:50 — 👍 2740 🔁 916 💬 98 📌 17
Most Real IDs do *not* prove citizenship. (EDLs, which are available in only 5 states are an exception) The GOP’s “SAVE” Act thus misleads when it says voters can prove citizenship w/ “a form of ID issued consistent with the reqmts of…REAL ID…that indicates the applicant is a citizen of the US…” 1/
11.02.2026 19:44 — 👍 614 🔁 316 💬 34 📌 39
My god… this makes me feel super safe.
11.02.2026 20:18 — 👍 395 🔁 89 💬 39 📌 11
The numbers were bad.
Now they’re worse. Trump’s 2025 job growth just got revised way down from 584,000 jobs to a pathetic 181,000. Barely 15,000 jobs a month. The weakest year outside a recession in decades.
#JobsReport #Trump’sEconomicFailure
#USDemocracy
#Pinks
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👀 CATO INSTITUTE: “Biden didn’t cause the border crisis… Many believe Biden caused this increase in migration by reducing border enforcement. However, data challenges this narrative — the crisis began before Biden took office and ended before he left.” www.cato.org/blog/biden-d...
11.02.2026 14:31 — 👍 899 🔁 393 💬 47 📌 21
Supporting Trump = supporting child predators. Any Republican who stands by Trump after this is complicit in child trafficking. Full stop.
www.axios.com/2026/02/10/t...
