Rita Melinda Red

Rita Melinda Red

@ritamelindared.bsky.social

non-fascist genx (i was adhd when adhd wasn't cool), geek-chic science freak, 45wpm but touchtyping imposs 4 me😩, deep south escapee, pro-democracy, pro-lgbtq, pro-teacher, pro-all the beautiful shades of skin, pro-ukraine, pro-freedom 4 all she/her

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Rita Melinda Red reposted

Watch the video as a recklessly driven cheap car careens around and a gang of armed thugs spring out to menace an innocent civilian, like a kidnapping or robbery or murder-for-hire. It looks like organized crime taking place in a third-world country, because it is.

Jon Collins@jcollins.bsky.social

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Rita Melinda Red reposted

Unmarked car, no lights or police insignia. Masked armed men leap out. Victim not in the act of committing any crime. This is not how a serious federal law enforcement agency acts in a free society. How is this not supposed to be a “right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime”?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here. (clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)

Rita Melinda Red reposted

Goldman: They’re still covering up, because only half of the documents have been released. I don’t understand why they get to decide—without explanation—why half of the material should be held back. Trump’s name is all over it. So now we know why there was such a cover-up…

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They’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.

Minnesota Star Tribune@startribune.com

Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis on Friday, Jan. 30. 📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad

Rita Melinda Red reposted

Redacted to Epstein: I give you permission to kill him.' He is apparently with Olga. He lied to you and he lied to me. Epstein: whoops Redacted: No one will lie to you and get away with it from me. No one. Whoops is correct.

Rita Melinda Red reposted

Classic authoritarian logic: corrupt people by giving them an incentive to do the wrong thing. In 1933 and 1938, years of major assaults on targeted groups, the Nazis forgave the debt of other Germans to bind them to the regime.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

straight up Gestapo shit

Rita Melinda Red reposted

Remember, the full Epstein Files are well over 6 million pages long. What you have seen so far is the *least offensive* 3 million pages. Trump and his lawyers are hiding the other 3 million pages—and have made clear that they will never ever release them, federal law be damned.

Rita Melinda Red reposted

ICE has more funding than all the other federal law enforcement agencies combined. They're not going to stop at Minneapolis. They're going to continue unleashing evil and cruelty on the streets of American cities until Congress puts a stop to this.

Rita Melinda Red reposted

Academia, Science, Media, Politics, Tech and Finance all revolve around one thing: Money That’s why so many high profile people surrounded the billionaire Epstein like moths to a flame.

Huey Li@hueyli.bsky.social

lol lol lol Epstein invited Thiel to have dinner with Chomsky. You got to hand it to old Noam, buddying up with two billionaires while playing a tankie revolutionary in public.

Rita Melinda Red reposted

I don't like to talk about stories before they are fully reported, but I am writing on ICE in a Minnesota town that isn't Minneapolis. However bad you think it is, it is worse. It is a campaign of pure terror whose only strategic goal is more terror. There is no strategy other than to break people.

Rita Melinda Red reposted

Trump's lawyer says he chose to withhold "images of death" from a tranche of docs his client's name is all over, as well as other current and former members of Trump's administration. How are millions not in the street protesting the Epstein Files? We're paying taxes to these people.

Rita Melinda Red reposted

Written about this before but the administration's housing policy is centered around abducting people with the theory that it will lower demand and also that people will just move into homes and apartments presumably still full the victims' belongings. Which is nuts

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

straight up Gestapo shit

Rita Melinda Red reposted

DHS doesn’t even bother trying to lie well. The man whose skull was shattered told the hospital he’d been struck by ICE officers, an ICE officer told hospital staff the guy “got his sh*t rocked,” then when it became clear how badly he was injured, they claimed he deliberately ran into a wall.

Rita Melinda Red reposted

Leave it to McArdle to portray the abductions, murders, and predations of ICE and the Border Patrol as a lesson in how "the civil service... is simply not built for excellence"! The problem isn't bureaucracy, it's fascism.

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Rita Melinda Red reposted

I don’t know maybe it’s me, maybe I’m old-fashioned, but doesn’t it seem like a bad idea for the president, a bunch of his cabinet members, the guy he let decimate our federal workforce and his future Fed Chair, to be implicated in the criminal files of a notorious child sex trafficker?

Rita Melinda Red reposted

Liam, a 5-year-old boy, should be home with his family and going to school to see his friends. Instead, he’s hungry and depressed at Dilley detention center.    He and his father must be released immediately.

Joaquin Castro@joaquincastrotx.bsky.social

Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.

Rita Melinda Red reposted

BREAKING: A federal judge just ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father from immigration custody — condemning their removal from Minneapolis as unconstitutional. Judge Fred Biery condemned "the perfidious lust for unbridled power" and "the imposition of cruelty."

Rita Melinda Red reposted

Full rights and citizenship actually means they’re not a “foreign labor class.” And that’s what he’s angry about. He’s mad citizenship is universal rather than restricted to white people like before the civil war bsky.app/profile/gbbr...

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social

Translated "it's fine if they're slaves or indentured servants"

Rita Melinda Red reposted

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

Ben Mullin@benmullin.bsky.social

Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.” This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker