ariake76.bsky.social

Well, I guess we can switch acronyms for remembering the names of the lakes. HOMES is out. SHAME is in.

From personal experience: anyone can make such a claim in bad faith, and it will turn your life into a living nightmare, separate you from your child, cost you thousands of dollars — and they will face no consequence. None.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.

The “don’t these protesters have jobs?” snarking is the funniest because those morons can’t even imagine that some people have flexibility or self-employment that doesn’t require them to be at the beck and call of a corporate overlord every day.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Epic 🤌

So proud of our senator. This is real leadership.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

Grateful that my state has a principled senator.

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.

Federal workers are being asked to report on colleagues who are involved in after-work groups for LGBTQ employees: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

@juliusgoat.bsky.social

One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

Instead of Canada becoming the 51st state, I’d like to nominate Maryland as the 11th province.