Richard Badger (@merrick42) 's Twitter Profile
Richard Badger

@merrick42

Dover resident, phone monkey and researcher. (he/him, also down with gender neutral)

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Jesus Freakin Congress (@thejfreakinc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨BREAKING: Border Patrol agents are caught on camera unlawfully stopping and threatening a U.S. citizen at a gas station, with zero legal basis. In the video, a Border Patrol agent approaches a man who is simply pumping gas into an unmarked vehicle and immediately demands, ā€œLet

Jesus Freakin Congress (@thejfreakinc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨Last night, in Minneapolis, federal agents fired green chemical gas into a residential neighborhood after community members showed up to document what was happening on their own block. Let’s be very clear about what that means… This wasn’t a federal courthouse. This wasn’t

🚨Last night, in Minneapolis, federal agents fired green chemical gas into a residential neighborhood after community members showed up to document what was happening on their own block.

Let’s be very clear about what that means…

This wasn’t a federal courthouse.
This wasn’t
Jesus Freakin Congress (@thejfreakinc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨BREAKING: A new video out of Minneapolis shows the truth ICE doesn’t want you to see… compliance does not protect you. In this video, ICE agents pull up to a vehicle and immediately demand the driver’s ID. The man calmly asks the most basic, legally protected question: ā€œWhy

Damin Toell (@damintoell) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Micah The entire end of the chart is Biden. People removed the label showing the endpoint is September 2024. It’s from an article published by the NY Times in March 2025. archive.ph/IDE0h

<a href="/micah_erfan/">Micah</a> The entire end of the chart is Biden. People removed the label showing the endpoint is September 2024. It’s from an article published by the NY Times in March 2025. archive.ph/IDE0h
Boze the Library Owl šŸ˜“šŸ§™ā€ā™€ļø (@sketchesbyboze) 's Twitter Profile Photo

You need to understand that this is by design. Working-class people used to be shockingly literate. The rich and powerful have built a society where most folks are addicted to screens because mass literacy threatens them. They want you to be stupid. We resist them by reading.

Alec Karakatsanis (@equalityalec) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Having just written a book about this and talked to a LOT of Democratic officials, consultants, and pundits, I can assure you that neither Cory Booker nor the police training and surveillance industry he’s advertising think that more money for ICE ā€œtrainingā€ and tech would

Krystal Ball (@krystalball) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Minnesota cops are pissed because the black and brown ones are getting routinely racially profiled and harassed by ICE. This is WILD.

COMBATE |šŸ‡µšŸ‡· (@upholdreality) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Mexico President Sheinbaum: "They talk about 'market freedom'. But market freedom, with wages that don't even allow you to buy the basics - what kind of freedom is that? That is not freedom."

Justin Amash (@justinamash) 's Twitter Profile Photo

JD Vance isn’t this stupid, so what he’s doing here is deliberate and evil. You don’t just need ā€œsome kind of warrantā€ to enter a home. You need a warrant from the judiciary. He knows this. He knows they’re breaking the law when they enter a home with an administrative warrant.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux (@bretdevereaux) 's Twitter Profile Photo

JD Vance's claim, that we can identify ancient brothels by mass infant remains is another example of his contempt for the truth. He's repeating a baseless, long debunked internet myth that floated around online, because he doesn't care what is true, only what is useful to him.

Tim Wise (@timjacobwise) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Attention all spineless colleges and K-12 districts that eliminated DEI programs bc you'd rather bend to fascism than fight for the Constitution: you can restore them now. And if you don't, we'll know it's bc you never cared about racial equity (or free speech) to begin with

Attention all spineless colleges and K-12 districts that eliminated DEI programs bc you'd rather bend to fascism than fight for the Constitution: you can restore them now. And if you don't, we'll know it's bc you never cared about racial equity (or free speech) to begin with
Jeet Heer (@heerjeet) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is quite interesting as a window into Conservative Inc. and the grifter/hustler mindset, which mixes the evangelical imperative to proselytize with MLM hard sell business predation. Q

James Brandt (@j_e_brandt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

P a u l ā—‰ (@skylinereport) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Fun Fact: There’s a federal website that exists only because courts forced the White House to put it back online. Twice. Yes, really. The site is apportionment-public.max.gov. Congress passed a law requiring the Office of Management and Budget to publicly show how it controls

Freedom of the Press (@freedomofpress) 's Twitter Profile Photo

All the facts in this case, this included, point to vindictiveness and a desire to chill press freedom. It has nothing to do with the rule of law.

Brad (@braddroflit) 's Twitter Profile Photo

JD Vance says there are 30M undocumented folks in the U.S., In 2025 they were responsible for 29 murders, meaning 1 in a million is a murderer. On the other hand 22,000 ICE agents killed 34 people in 2025. That means 1 in 674 ICE agents is a murderer. I know who I'd rather

Jeet Heer (@heerjeet) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Yep. Esptein is best understood as an American oligarch. Like most oligarchs, he had international ties, which in his case included Israeli political/security elite, Arab autocrats, USA academic/financial elite, UK oligarchs and pols, and (to a lesser extent) fellow oligarchs in

Dr. Allison Wiltz (@queenie4rmnola) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The history of sugar slavery runs deep throughout the Southern states, the Caribbean, and parts of South America. His performance was brilliant, thought provoking, well executed