Elyse Baggen

@alpacabagn.bsky.social

Slava Ukraine 🇺🇦 💙💛 Disgusted by the convicted felon and his sycophants; outraged by the 6 SCOTUS injustices; 💯 Pro-choice; LGBTQ ally; 🚫DM, crypto, or sales, please

This blockbuster story about DHS's and DOJ's joint investigation of individuals and orgs who committed no crimes should be getting ALL the attention. With a functional legislative branch, it would be kicking off a major Congressional investigation as well. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/u...

U.S. Investigated Left-Leaning Groups During Minnesota Immigration Crackdown (Gift Article)

The government conducted expansive surveillance, infiltrated group chats and obtained financial records of organizations never accused of crimes.

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We are projected to spend $268 BILLION on deportations — costing the average American taxpayer about $2,358 (according to @epi.org). But somehow we “can’t afford” to make sure hungry children can eat or ensure everyone, no matter their income, can access healthcare. Priorities.

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Republicans spent years promising they were coming after those of us on the January 6th Committee. They're on their SECOND investigation of the committee. Well… you control Congress. You control the White House. It’s August. So, guys: what happened?

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Military families and service members are now describing horrific conditions across MULTIPLE ships: human waste flooding bathrooms, virtually no food, water or soap, months without port calls, exhausted crews, and no end in sight. This crisis is far bigger than just the Lincoln.

Not Just the Lincoln: Families Describe Human Waste, No Food, No End in Sight Across Multiple Ships

Since MeidasTouch began reporting on conditions aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, messages have poured in to MeidasTouch from military families and service

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Trump Gutted the Law Designed to Expose Who’s Behind the Money By Tony Pentimalli Donald Trump’s government has found a kind of privacy it is suddenly willing to fight for: the privacy of the people hiding behind American companies.

to ask: whether a sitting president's family can own a piece of the machinery that regulates American finance. The answer, for now, is yes. The charter belongs to World Liberty Trust Company, the banking arm of World Liberty Financial, the cryptocurrency venture co-founded by Trump's sons.

On August 14, 2026, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency handed that same family enterprise a preliminary conditional national trust bank charter. According to a report from Pluang, in doing so, it answered a question the country should never have had

Four days before Donald Trump raised his right hand and swore to defend the Constitution, his son Eric signed away 49 percent of the family's crypto venture to an investment vehicle controlled by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan.