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Three people kneeling by a memorial in the snow in front of a brick house, with lines and lines of colorful flowers, as well as signs and candles
BREAKING: A “credible whistleblower” has revealed FBI forensic experts were ordered to “stand down” from processing the scene of Renee Good’s murder — because Kash Patel did not want Good “referenced as a ‘victim.’”
Source: Senate Judiciary Democrats
“I was framed to cover up and misdirect from the real reason for Scott Macklem’s death — that he was killed as part of his drug dealing at the college.” Temujin Kensu
Making Another Murderer: The Captivating Case of Temujin Kensu: unicornriot.ninja/2026/making-...
Making Another Murderer: The Captivating Case of Temujin Kensu
NEW: Making Another Murderer: The Captivating Case of Temujin Kensu
Nearly a dozen witnesses have placed Temujin Kensu 450 miles away from a 1980s murder in Michigan. Yet, 40 years later, his conviction stands.
Read the full article at our website - link in next post.
Making Another Murderer: The Captivating Case of Temujin Kensu
Nearly a dozen witnesses have placed Temujin Kensu 450 miles away from a 1980s murder in Michigan. Yet, 40 years later, his conviction stands.
NEW from UR contributor @philmandelbaum.bsky.social
NEW:
No murder weapon was ever produced, and no gunshot residue was found on his clothing.
An ammunition box found at the murder scene contained a fingerprint that did not belong to him.
Yet Temujin Kensu remains behind bars in Michigan.
It’s been 40 years.
NEW:
No murder weapon was ever produced, and no gunshot residue was found on his clothing.
An ammunition box found at the murder scene contained a fingerprint that did not belong to him.
Yet Temujin Kensu remains behind bars in Michigan.
It’s been 40 years.
Seven-year-old Mathias Bermeo, a detainee at Dilley wrote: “I’m writing this letter so that you can hear my story. I need you to help us I have been detained for 23 days with my mom and my 3-year-old sister. I cry a lot I want to get out of here go back to my school they don’t treat us Well here there are many children we are kidnapped help!”
“I’m writing this letter so that you can hear my story. I need you to help us... I cry a lot I want to get out of here go back to my school they don’t treat us Well here there are many children we are kidnapped help!”
- Mathias Bermeo, Dilley detainee, 7yo
www.propublica.org/article/dill...
Important interview from Vincent Lloyd with Dwight Hopkins: how did a Black liberation theologian go MAGA?
This should be read carefully if people are seriously interested in learning and not just talking shit
What we saw Tuesday night from the Republican Party was the legislative counterpart to what ICE is doing in the streets. Bullying. Menacing. Illiberal.
The party is just a fascist gang.
www.liberalcurrents.com/trumps-state...
Trump’s billionaire allies will now own CNN, Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ and NY Post — plus 185+ local tv stations and news in 100 markets.
They also control X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp, TikTok, Truth and Twitch.
This is all by design to manipulate and surveil us.
Pay attention.
Tweet from Ana Kasparian: "Hey, bitch, the goyim are waking the fuck up. Deal with it."
This is the Executive Producer of the (at least nominally) left-wing news program The Young Turks, with almost a million followers.
Really does feel like we're headed down a bad road with this growing Red-Brown alliance.
I used this tool, which the Trump administration is killing, to find and help write this story:
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There’s no general strike or mass movement without mutual aid…
And there’s already a group in your area.
@dylanrodriguez.bsky.social explains
youtu.be/wyU5YQJyOOk
"Scream 7" is out this Friday, so our writer Steve King, a huge "Scream" fan, did a deep dive into the horror franchise, including the behind-the-scenes drama/controversies surrounding the new film.
www.undertheradarmag.com/blog/save_yo...
New for @thebarbedwire.com's Big & Bright 🌈⭐👏: Meet Waco's transgender BBQ pitmaster, who's going viral for his outspoken, antifascist TikTok videos.
Kaleb told us he lost his job at Terry Black's after being doxed after Charlie Kirk's death, but that hasn't stopped his big smoked meat dreams ...
NEW: Felony disenfranchisement is one of the most widespread forms of voter suppression.
Virginia, a state known for being one of the harshest examples of this discriminatory practice, is close to abolishing it — and voters will have the final say this fall, @anjalienjeti.bsky.social writes.
Text: “According to a new survey by the Movement Advancement Project, approximately 401,000 transgender people have relocated from one U.S. state to another since the 2024 presidential election. The mass relocations in 2025 are due to the safety concerns, political conditions, and anti-trans laws and policies that have largely impacted conservative states across the country.” | Graphic: messy room with moving boxes and clothes, conveying relocation
NEW: 400,000+ transgender people have relocated from one US state to another since Trump’s second term
Mass relocations in 2025 have been caused by the spread of anti-trans laws and policies impacting conservative — and so-called blue — states across the country
www.mapresearch.org/policy-and-i...
I was on Survivor twice, and I’ll never be on Survivor again. And I don’t care. I’m going on the record.
youtu.be/JF8yn95-B-8
We are honored to be joined tonight by a woman who’s been through hell, Anya Zarutska. In 2022, she and her beautiful daughter. So beautiful. What a beautiful young woman Iryna fled war-torn, war-torn Ukraine to live with relatives near Charlotte, North Carolina. And by the way, what’s going on with Charlotte? Last summer, 23-year-old Irina was riding home on the train when a deranged monster who had been arrested over a dozen times and was released through no cash bail, stood up and viciously slashed a knife through her neck and body. No one will ever forget. There were people on that train. No one will ever forget the expression of terror on Irene, his face as she looked up at her attacker in the last seconds of her life. She died instantly. She had escaped a brutal war, only to be slain by a hardened criminal set free to kill in America came in through open borders. Mrs. Zarutska, tonight, I promise you, we will ensure justice for your magnificent daughter, Iryna.
Trump said in last night's SOTU/rally that the man who killed Ukrainian immigrant Irina Zarutska on a train in NC during what appears to have been a psychotic break was here because of "open borders."
He was born in Charlotte but his name was DeCarlos DeJuan Brown so I guess that's all it takes now
~NEW EPISODE~
Trump’s aggression against Iran continues. w/ Prof. Eskander Sadeghi
🎙️: bit.ly/4tW5he0
If there’s one thing the ICE invasion has taught us, it’s that police don’t protect us.
In city after city, and town after town, local law enforcement has *supported* ICE operations.
So, what do you do when you’re in crisis?
Do not call the cops.
youtu.be/iJiTtE6P3VU?...
been seeing a lot of misconceptions (and not just here tbc) around what the Supreme Court decision means for Trump's tariffs powers, what "refunds" might result, and what this all means for your grocery bills. so I put together a tariff-ic lil explainer for everyone: slate.com/business/202...
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I raised my voice at a ranking officer for being a dick about telling me to hurry up w/ a chronically VERY suicidal patient who FINALLY opened up about [literally anything] after MONTHS of NOTHING
"You will NOT bark at me" & more
other officer in the room was shocked
barking officer looked scolded
The tariffs decision shows that the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence remains flexible enough to stop Trump’s financial fuckery, or anything else that enough conservatives don’t like
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...
"Rayhunter: Detecing Cell-Site Simulators (aka Stingrays) with Cooper Quintin | The Final Straw Radio – TFSR 2-22-26" featuring the logo for Rayhunter, an orca leaping and taking a bite out of a graph showing available cellular connectivity
This week, @cooperq.com of the @eff.org talks about cellular site simulators and counter-surveillance
+ a Radio Ausbruch segment on the deBanking in Germany at US behest disrupting the work of Rote Hilfe, @abcdresden.bsky.social and others
thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/02...
“Social murder” is a term created by Friedrich Engels to describe the premature death of marginalized people due to political, social, or economic oppression.
What is happening right now in America is the premeditated, calculated, & planned extermination of children who are trans. This is genocide.
“The second Trump administration launched the most vicious attack on public sector union workers since the Reagan era…”
And watched US union membership soar to a 16-year high
imo we are living through a billionaire backlash to the great worker awakening under covid in an ongoing attempt to beat labor back into submission and, failing that, to reduce us all to serfs and slaves
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Because of ICE, I’ve Been in Hiding for Months. It Has Transformed Me. Days of anxiety, of frustration, and of feeling that everything is on hold while the world keeps moving forward outside. By SM 12:02 PM CST on February 20, 2026
If there’s an Anne Frank, there’s fascism.
racketmn.com/because-of-i...
