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Peter Holmes

@holmes.bsky.social

My goal is to fix our broken systems. For work I design apps. In my spare time I write: https://peterholmes.medium.com/

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Latest posts by holmes.bsky.social on Bluesky

β€œOklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.” Good on Sitt for this. It’s not nearly enough, but we need Republicans who still have a sense of shame and lawfulness

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Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

08.10.2025 17:37 β€” πŸ‘ 32244    πŸ” 10707    πŸ’¬ 896    πŸ“Œ 405
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This Reuters headline. Oof.

Fascism isn't 'coming.' It's HERE.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

08.10.2025 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 6961    πŸ” 2382    πŸ’¬ 247    πŸ“Œ 89
Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

08.10.2025 13:44 β€” πŸ‘ 26401    πŸ” 7590    πŸ’¬ 1037    πŸ“Œ 523
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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said β€œno one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

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This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

07.10.2025 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 17811    πŸ” 5480    πŸ’¬ 821    πŸ“Œ 224
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Thanks, New Yorker

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Update on Boomertifa from the war zone.

06.10.2025 23:35 β€” πŸ‘ 15877    πŸ” 4798    πŸ’¬ 845    πŸ“Œ 472
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Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

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Miller’s apparent elevation to shadow president and his seeming intent to declare an end to the constitutional order would, in any other administration, be treated as a executive branch meltdown that was immensely embarrassing for the president and requiring Miller’s immediate removal

05.10.2025 04:03 β€” πŸ‘ 6971    πŸ” 2103    πŸ’¬ 354    πŸ“Œ 170
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A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

05.10.2025 01:35 β€” πŸ‘ 22503    πŸ” 8386    πŸ’¬ 561    πŸ“Œ 491
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Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

04.10.2025 22:12 β€” πŸ‘ 23696    πŸ” 7938    πŸ’¬ 450    πŸ“Œ 231

You.
Are.
Allowed.
To.
Insult.
The.
Police.

It’s a core First Amendment principle. This is utterly lawless behavior, for which there will be no (short-term) consequences.

That he does it so casually, as they are walking away, in front of cameras.

Rightly confident in his impunity.

04.10.2025 15:55 β€” πŸ‘ 9507    πŸ” 4104    πŸ’¬ 327    πŸ“Œ 139
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No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

look at the map here -- more than 2000 protests planned already...

www.nokings.org

03.10.2025 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 5037    πŸ” 1694    πŸ’¬ 229    πŸ“Œ 111
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BREAKING: A federal judge finds that there is evidence Kilmar Abrego was VINDICTIVELY PROSECUTED. The judge GRANTS Abrego's motion for discovery and a hearing, and the government must now PROVE it did not vindictively prosecute Mr. Abrego. 1/

03.10.2025 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 32230    πŸ” 9288    πŸ’¬ 770    πŸ“Œ 474

The end of due process for immigrants is the end of due process for citizens.

Few understand this.

03.10.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 9453    πŸ” 2947    πŸ’¬ 217    πŸ“Œ 116

How embarrassing for CBS News and journalism as a profession

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Blatant gaslighting to show a clip of β€œproposed” plans from years ago during a debate on an actual plan that doesn’t include that. Utter disgrace and bad faith arguments yet again from the radical right

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South Shore Residents Return To Ransacked Apartments After ICE Raid: 'It Looks Like Hell' A "now renting" sign outside touts granite countertops. Inside, residents are trying to make sense of the raid that made their already neglected building even worse.

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white.

Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace.

That’s not making America great again.

02.10.2025 23:58 β€” πŸ‘ 28593    πŸ” 10142    πŸ’¬ 1370    πŸ“Œ 500
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Disney lost 1.7 million paid subscribers during its Jimmy Kimmel fiasco.

30.09.2025 00:18 β€” πŸ‘ 4129    πŸ” 828    πŸ’¬ 290    πŸ“Œ 100

This is who Chuck Schumer thought he was going to negotiate with

I am sick of Democratic leaders who have no idea the level of danger this country is in and how far we have fallen from the democracy we had just 12 years ago

30.09.2025 02:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2523    πŸ” 698    πŸ’¬ 295    πŸ“Œ 65

Leave Twitter

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the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

30.09.2025 14:43 β€” πŸ‘ 50024    πŸ” 15667    πŸ’¬ 678    πŸ“Œ 723
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Trump Makes It Very Clear They’re Going To Turn TikTok Into A Right Wing Propaganda Machine After years of hyperventilation about TikTok’s impact on privacy, propaganda, and national security, TikTok is likely being sold to a bunch of Trump’s billionaire technofascist buddies …

TikTok already started feeling different a few months back, but I’m 100% gone soon. Crazy that anyone would still be on Twitter now too. Everyone needs to leave these propaganda platforms

30.09.2025 15:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

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Trump and Vance murdered a fisherman and his sons, called them drug traffickers, and then joked about it. Nobody who watches FOX News will know this

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www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

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