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Old lady on a bad dirt road in Cochise County AZ. Hoping for the old Twitter vibes. Politics |human interactions |social structures |climate |permaculture Tattered fabrics /lace /paper /landscapes I support good journalism/writers/podcasters/youtubers

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Judge: IRS broke law ‘approximately 42,695 times’ in giving DHS data A court on Thursday issued an opinion on a data-sharing agreement between the taxpayer agency and federal immigration authorities.

A federal judge has found that the IRS violated federal law "approximately 42,695 times" when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials last summer.

27.02.2026 14:00 👍 2049 🔁 918 💬 97 📌 46

#TheDeathOfRealJournalism happening right in front of us 😢

27.02.2026 23:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Touche! 🤺

11.02.2026 03:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#PedophileTrump

10.02.2026 22:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Failing the "don't give a wannabe dictator a secret police" test is so bad because it often leads to "don't let an archipelago of concentration camps dot your empire."

10.02.2026 21:34 👍 91 🔁 17 💬 2 📌 0

I subscribed to @wired.com to get access to this story but apparently they don't have a gift-article feature..

10.02.2026 21:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Look at all the Hispanics sitting here in judgment at the #BadBunny performance! 😅 lol none

10.02.2026 21:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

omg 🤢 #StopICE #StopICEpedophiles

10.02.2026 21:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@azagmayes.bsky.social @azsecretary.bsky.social

06.02.2026 17:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#PhilipGlass boycotts the Kennedy Center!

27.01.2026 21:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

in Hungary do they have masked agents of the state gunning down civilians in the street? I feel like we need to dial up our authoritarian regime comparisons quite a bit from where they were a year ago

27.01.2026 21:08 👍 1964 🔁 359 💬 68 📌 10
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Greg Bovino Loses His Job The Border Patrol chief has been ousted from his role as “commander at large,” and will return to El Centro.

Bovino was forced out of Minnesota because the American people stood firm. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in below-freezing temps to peacefully defend their neighbors & freedoms.

We’ll keep fighting. No more deaths at the hands of rogue DHS agents.

27.01.2026 14:42 👍 25361 🔁 5004 💬 2284 📌 519
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is under fire for issuing misleading and incendiary information that claimed immigration agents killed an armed Minnesota protestor Saturday because he wanted to "massacre" them.

But that language was dictated to Noem and her department by the man most responsible for the controversial operation: Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff and top Trump adviser, four sources tell Axios.
Why it matters: The episode illustrates the sheer power of Miller, Trump's close and longest-serving political adviser whose dominion in the White House far exceeds his title.

His influence extends to de facto oversight of Noem, though she's a Cabinet secretary who technically outranks him.
"Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen," Noem told a person who relayed her remarks to Axios.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is under fire for issuing misleading and incendiary information that claimed immigration agents killed an armed Minnesota protestor Saturday because he wanted to "massacre" them. But that language was dictated to Noem and her department by the man most responsible for the controversial operation: Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff and top Trump adviser, four sources tell Axios. Why it matters: The episode illustrates the sheer power of Miller, Trump's close and longest-serving political adviser whose dominion in the White House far exceeds his title. His influence extends to de facto oversight of Noem, though she's a Cabinet secretary who technically outranks him. "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen," Noem told a person who relayed her remarks to Axios.

Genuinely interesting. Kristi Noem is snitching that Stephen Miller is the one who made up the bullshit about Alex Pretti.

It would be genuinely useful if Congress can get her to admit that he has been dictating ALL OF THIS just like he dictated the murderboats.

www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...

27.01.2026 21:08 👍 5624 🔁 1764 💬 290 📌 286
12News Exclusive: AZ AG Kris Mayes one-on-one with Brahm Resnik
12News Exclusive: AZ AG Kris Mayes one-on-one with Brahm Resnik YouTube video by 12 News

#Arizona has the best #AttorneyGeneral! See what @AZAGMayes is doing to #ProtectAZCitizens from #ICE! She *wants* ppl to film & report misdeeds to a new tip line. Also a dire warning on why masked, unmarked agents are putting themselves in danger in AZ!

youtu.be/l7vXF_VNftY?...

21.01.2026 06:12 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Private #techbros #cryptocity on an island in #Venezuela

21.01.2026 04:37 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

"...amid the long holiday weekend, to stand by as a so-called quick reaction force, a rapid-deployment force, according to an internal notice to the unit's leadership, reviewed by ABC News."

#11thAirborneDivision #StayStrongGreenland #IsThisWar

18.01.2026 17:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"...one of the Army's premier infantry formations and a frontline force in the U.S. military presence in the Pacific, positioned to help deter China. The division is also the military's leading formation for Arctic warfare... The 11th Airborne troops were recalled to base on Friday..."

18.01.2026 17:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Hundreds of active-duty soldiers on standby, 2 defense officials say

"Some 1,500 active duty Army PARATROOPERS have been put on alert for a potential deployment to Minnesota, according to two defense officials. The soldiers are from the 11th Airborne Division, based at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska..." (EMPHASIS mine)

abcnews.go.com/US/live-upda...

18.01.2026 17:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

"11th Airborne Division executes expeditionary operations worldwide... Multi-Domain Operations in the Indo-Pacific theater & the Arctic... defeats any adversary in extreme cold weather, mountainous and high-latitude environments through large scale combat operations."
11thairbornedivision.army.mil

18.01.2026 17:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

omg people 😱

#GreenlandStrong #11thAirborneDivision

18.01.2026 16:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Pentagon readies 1,500 troops for potential Minnesota deployment, US officials say The army placed the units on prepare-to-deploy orders in case violence in the midwestern state escalates, officials said, though it is not clear whether any of them will be sent.

deployment to MN or... Greenland?
"The soldiers subject to deployment specialize in cold-weather operations" The #11thAirborneDivision is BASED IN ALASKA, dub themselves the 'Arctic Angels' on their homepage. My globe says it's not far from #Greenland 😱

www.reuters.com/world/us/pen...

18.01.2026 16:54 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

😱 he's right!

18.01.2026 16:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

#GreenlandStrong

18.01.2026 15:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
18.01.2026 15:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

😍 #KeyFobsForDemocracy #StopIce

18.01.2026 15:52 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Dayumm she's rocking it! #StopICE

18.01.2026 15:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I copy/search the headlines and find free sources. Just posted one from USA Today
bsky.app/profile/az-d...

18.01.2026 15:36 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
FAA issues warning to airlines flying over Central America amid military activity The FAA issued a warning to airlines flying over parts of Mexico, Central and South America as tensions rise between the U.S. and the region's leaders.

Holy crap sounds like more trouble ahead 😬

www.usatoday.com/story/travel...

18.01.2026 15:34 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
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Make no mistake, he is justifying violence if he objects to the outcome of an election. Keep that in mind as we prepare for 2026.

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