KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.social
Husband, Dad, Teacher & Researcher. Trying to be a decent Citizen in an Uncivil World. The flag of my native land says “Sic Semper Tyrannis”
- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialWait! The public face of nationwide immigration enforcement, Gregory Bovino, said in a newly discovered email that his boss wasn’t the head of CBP. He reported to Corey Lewandowski instead. He’s a political operative with zero law-enforcement background calling the shots on immigration enforcement.
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- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialYou really need to read this to appreciate how deranged it sounds. The standard view that judicial warrants are necessary to forcibly enter residences is blamed on “subversion” by “deep state actors.”
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- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialThis is gonna end with a new agency called NICE under the CBP umbrella
- The “wake-up call” for Senate Republicans was actually 1/6/21—they ignored it then and have repeatedly just kept hitting the Snooze/Sleaze button for the last 5 years. Some of them now are gonna finally feel the karma thehill.com/homenews/sen...
- This may be the first thing Bessent has said that I agree with finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin...
- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialAbsolutely fucking repulsive.
- Yale prof David Gelernter defends his letter urging Epstein to hire "v small goodlooking blonde" student by saying that he was "keep[ing] the potential boss's habits in mind." This creep shouldn't be allowed anywhere near students. yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialwow -- with Trump standing behind him, a man (not sure who he is) offers this prayer: "We pray that he would be mindful of the poor and that he would be invested in the alleviation of suffering happening in the families preparing to bury their loved ones in Minneapolis."
- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialI’m on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota… Bullshit.
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- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.social“U.S. employers announced 108,435 layoffs for the month, up 118% from the same period a year ago. The total marked the highest for any January since 2009, while the economy was in the final months of its steepest downturn since the Great Depression.”
- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialI grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just a year and a half is devastating.
- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialTwo days ago, we discovered Trump has engaged in the most corrupt behavior of any president in history—giving secret technology to China's ally in exchange for the Trump family getting half a billion dollars. And nobody is still talking about it. #Corruption www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialShe was asking a question about whether the Epstein survivors have received justice. But Vance wants her to “smile and have some fun” while asking the president a question about trafficking victims. bsky.app/profile/fact...
- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialThese vast new prison camps would allow for the detention of 80,000 more migrants, more than doubling Trump/Miller's capacity for deportations. Yet resistance is breaking out in red Virginia, reddish parts of New Jersey, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, Utah, and more. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2060...
- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialIn less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires. I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.
- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialIt feels worth saying that the thing that unifies men as disparate as Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra and Trump is patriarchy. Patriarchy, hatred of women, and the need to dominate them, persists across race and class status. Left movements refuse a robust analysis of persisting gender violence.
- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialJacob Frey: "The continued presence of 2,000 federal agents in a city that only has 600 police officers is still not deescalation"
- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialI've never seen a party and president more terrified of American voters. Let's make them right to be afraid.
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- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.social"For much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialEverything Trump touches dies. #USDemocracy
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- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialA publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
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- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialAs Tom Homan moves in to clean up the optics of Minneapolis by "sending home 700 federal immigration and border patrol agents in Minneapolis," remember that nothing will change with the scheme that ICE uses and that they are just going to get smarter about the public finding out. WATCH THIS:
- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialThe big tech founder whose 417-foot, $500 million superyacht needs a 256-foot, $75 million superyacht to "shadow" it -- because the bigger yacht lacks a helipad -- had to cut his paper's newsroom almost in half, for reasons
- NEWS: The cuts were so severe that at least one department head asked to leave The Post rather than be included in the planning. Peter Finn, The Post's international editor, requested that he be laid off once he learned about the scope of the cuts to his section. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...
- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialWaPo laid off one of the journalists who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the January 6th attack on the Capitol.
- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialThis isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.
- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialWhistleblower puts Tulsi on notice that he will go to Congress himself if her office doesn’t respond by Friday.
- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialThe hallmark (the “brand”) of the Washington Post has been accountability journalism. Thus, today’s staff decimation is Bezos’s greatest gift to Trump, so much more valuable than the Melania movie, inauguration money, etc. This disaster began, for real, with the Harris endorsement he killed.
- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.social“Does a great global city deserve a great global newspaper? I’ve decided … ‘no.’” – Bezos, like Soon-Shiong before him
- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialUnbelievable
- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialIn the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD. Just some facts I think bear repeating.
- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialRetiring Walmart CEO Doug McMillon made $27M last year, over 930 times the median Walmart worker's salary of just $29,469. Walmart's wages are so low that its workers are among the most likely to rely on SNAP and Medicaid to get by. Hello?
- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialone thing you have to understand about helen andrews is she is genuinely stupid
- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialBut Bezos had $75 million to spend on Melania’s vanity project.
- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.social“.. Michigan has lost 6,300 manufacturing jobs since Trump took office .. Canada was Michigan’s primary export market. Now its wheat exports are down 89 percent ..” @washingtonpost.com @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialThe next question should’ve been: Why don’t you answer her question? It’s outrageous that White House reporters let Trump get away with this and act as if it’s normal.
- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialFederal Judges have a very real and well-established reason to fear doxing and violence and yet I doubt anyone thinks it would be acceptable for them to preside from the bench in a hood.
- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialGood time to reup this post from last month.
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- Reposted by KeepingTheRepublic@bsky.socialWell, my fellow Maine voters. Here is Susan Collins today paying tribute to her boss while holding her MAGA hat.
