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DC Local | Gemini Zoomer | GU Alum + JD in Progress | I can't be a pessimist, because I'm alive [...] So, I'm forced to be an optimist. I'm forced to believe that we can survive whatever we must - James Baldwin

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A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS Secretary faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations.

Corey Lewandowski "fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot after [Kristi] Noem's blanket was left behind on a plane" β€” a decision that was reversed when they realized they needed someone to take them home.

People said Noem and Lewandowski "do little to hide their relationship inside the department."

13.02.2026 14:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1687    πŸ” 711    πŸ’¬ 202    πŸ“Œ 76
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Trump Ending Minneapolis Immigration Enforcement Surge, Homan Says A β€œsignificant draw down” of federal immigration enforcement agents β€œhas already been underway this week and will continue to next week,” Homan said.

A β€œsignificant draw down” of federal immigration enforcement agents β€œhas already been underway this week and will continue to next week,” Homan said.

12.02.2026 14:50 β€” πŸ‘ 130    πŸ” 39    πŸ’¬ 94    πŸ“Œ 15

Meanwhile

www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/w...

13.02.2026 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1000    πŸ” 285    πŸ’¬ 50    πŸ“Œ 13
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Disgusting!!!! Shame each and every one of these Pedophiles!!!

#Resist

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

13.02.2026 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 298    πŸ” 140    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 7

Chadwick Boseman and James van der Beek both died in their 40s of an illness that's treatable if a colonoscopy catches it but almost no insurer covers them for people under 45, this is what Engels meant by "social murder"

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Brand new polling from Data for Progress, shared first with Strength In Numbers, shows voters back Dems in the DHS shutdown over ICE β€” and overwhelmingly favor key reforms such as preventing mask-wearing (+23) and requiring judicial warrants for arrests (+34): www.gelliottmorris.com/p/democrats-...

13.02.2026 12:05 β€” πŸ‘ 793    πŸ” 246    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 21
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under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime

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EPA reverses long-standing climate change finding, stripping its own ability to regulate emissions The agency announced it is repealing its 2009 conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the Earth and endanger human health and well-being.

There are so many fucked up things with the current administration that it's hard to focus on one but this recent move is basically a death sentence for the planet. I've been involved with more boots on the ground actions over the years than I can count and this really bums me out.

13.02.2026 06:06 β€” πŸ‘ 9037    πŸ” 3630    πŸ’¬ 735    πŸ“Œ 299
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Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here.

Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

12.02.2026 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 19449    πŸ” 7780    πŸ’¬ 215    πŸ“Œ 293

Rand Paul knows better than most politicians what happens when you go too far

12.02.2026 15:43 β€” πŸ‘ 688    πŸ” 66    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 4
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House Dems are attempting to stop Bondi filibustering questions on the Epstein files.

Raskin: "Not on our watch. Not on our time... I told you about that Attorney General before it started."

Bondi: "You don't tell me anything!"

Raskin: "I did tell you because we saw what you did in the Senate!"

11.02.2026 16:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2885    πŸ” 933    πŸ’¬ 380    πŸ“Œ 95

What if McCarthyism but even dumber

bsky.app/profile/atru...

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β€œmy β€˜we’re not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process’ shirt is raising a lot of questions that are answered by the shirt”

12.02.2026 14:44 β€” πŸ‘ 6233    πŸ” 1065    πŸ’¬ 135    πŸ“Œ 16
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NEW: β€œCBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:

Stories are β€œevaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

12.02.2026 03:22 β€” πŸ‘ 11742    πŸ” 4155    πŸ’¬ 271    πŸ“Œ 257

Was "washed up loser lawyer" one of the insults they pre-loaded in her little "burn book"?

Because I'm not sure it nails a Harvard law graduate who taught con law for 25 years before becoming a congressman who's now the ranking member of the Judiciary Committee -- and, um, likely its next chair?

12.02.2026 02:00 β€” πŸ‘ 4282    πŸ” 898    πŸ’¬ 250    πŸ“Œ 44
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Welfare - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

We need to reclaim the term "welfare." It's one of many words that the US right has poisoned, but truly, it's necessary.

simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare

12.02.2026 01:20 β€” πŸ‘ 123    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

DC statehood yesterday

11.02.2026 23:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1314    πŸ” 254    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 2
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Google recovers "deleted" Nest video in high-profile abduction case Users only get three hours of free Nest video storage, but Google can retrieve videos much later.

β€œβ€¦this is something to keep in mind if you’re using a Google camera. Even if you aren’t paying for storage, every event recorded by the camera is going to Google’s servers, and it’s probably recoverable long past the deletion timeline stipulated in the company’s policy.”

11.02.2026 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 487    πŸ” 228    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 13
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Shot, and one-hell-of-a-chaser.

11.02.2026 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 6639    πŸ” 2030    πŸ’¬ 238    πŸ“Œ 292
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Trump's Epstein confession revealed in newly surfaced FBI files: 'Everyone knows' An explosive new report has yet again undercut President Donald Trump's repeated denials that he knew of the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's crimes against teen girls. According to an October 2019...

www.rawstory.com/trump-epstei...

10.02.2026 22:50 β€” πŸ‘ 524    πŸ” 215    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 13

CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.

11.02.2026 21:36 β€” πŸ‘ 6886    πŸ” 2865    πŸ’¬ 178    πŸ“Œ 112

this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me

11.02.2026 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 6926    πŸ” 1671    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 37
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House GOP passes sweeping anti-voting bill that could disenfranchise millions, sends measure to Senate The GOP’s push for the measure was driven by blatantly false claims.

BREAKING: House Republicans just passed the SAVE America Act β€” a sweeping federal bill that could disenfranchise millions.

The bill now heads to the Senate, where it faces long odds amid unified Democratic resistance.

11.02.2026 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 378    πŸ” 179    πŸ’¬ 36    πŸ“Œ 29
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β€˜No Reason He Should Have Died’: Alex Pretti’s Parents Open Up

Alex Pretti's parents keep a box crammed with 200 letters and cards that have poured into their Denver home since their son was shot and killed by immigration agents.

"He's my first born," Susan Pretti said. "He's the one that made me a mother. There was no reason he should have died that day."

11.02.2026 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 10651    πŸ” 2375    πŸ’¬ 130    πŸ“Œ 92

what is with these people and dogs?

11.02.2026 21:07 β€” πŸ‘ 10435    πŸ” 1928    πŸ’¬ 346    πŸ“Œ 100
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Goldman: "Will the survivors and victims who are here please stand up one more time. By show of hands, how many of you or your loved ones actually have met with the DOJ? None ... How many of you were ignored by the DOJ? All of them." (Bondi responds by smearing Goldman.)

11.02.2026 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 11756    πŸ” 3935    πŸ’¬ 1042    πŸ“Œ 358
photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

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After arrest, teen refugee held overnight in hotel room by ICE agents A girl who entered the United States as a refugee alleges that immigration authorities separated her from her family and detained her overnight in a hotel, where she was forced to share a room with fe...

Sickening.
#ICEOUT #MN
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

11.02.2026 17:55 β€” πŸ‘ 5830    πŸ” 2751    πŸ’¬ 277    πŸ“Œ 187
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MS NOW: "A congressional official with knowledge of the matter is telling MS NOW the cause of the shutdown of El Paso airspace is a lack of communication between the Pentagon and FAA. The official told us the FAA and DOD are 'not in clear communications with each other.'"

11.02.2026 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 5464    πŸ” 2141    πŸ’¬ 733    πŸ“Œ 719

Dear God.

11.02.2026 05:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1471    πŸ” 598    πŸ’¬ 79    πŸ“Œ 39

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