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Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 35m

Slightly diminish a game

Letterle

jennifer uncoolidge @histoftech.bsky.social · 41m

Slightly diminish a game:

Duopoly

Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 49m

Slightly diminish a game:

Mortal Wombat

Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 40m

The problem isn’t the heavily armed masked thugs in the streets kidnapping and murdering people; the problem is using language to draw attention to those people by accurately describing them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 42m

Homan: "There will be more bloodshed unless we decrease the hateful rhetoric"

jennifer uncoolidge @histoftech.bsky.social · 41m

Slightly diminish a game:

Duopoly

Barry Norton 🌈 ♾ 📚 @barrynorton.bsky.social · 49m

Slightly diminish a game:

Mortal Wombat

Arturo Serrano 🇨🇴🤖👽🧙🦄 @carturo222.bsky.social · 54m

Slightly diminish a game:

Petty Theft Auto

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 42m

Homan: "There will be more bloodshed unless we decrease the hateful rhetoric"

Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 46m

This happened to me too

Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 1h

I wake up most mornings with a song in my head (would that it were in my heart) and have fancied considering it a kind of horoscope for the day.

This morning it was “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.”

“He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.”

I’d really rather not.

Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 56m

Hard to avoid the conclusion that telling despicable lies over and over about Mexicans, Haitians, Somalis, Venezuelans, etc is fine with the US media. But getting angry at armed governments agents who are shooting your residents dead in the streets is beyond the pale for them.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1h

I can’t believe we’re doing this tone & curse policing again for Democrats. Trump calls people vermin & Vance dehumanizes minorities & immigrants all the time. What is wrong with the national media?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

WELKER: Do you bear any responsibility to bring down the temperature?

FREY: Of course. But I dropped an F bomb and they killed somebody. I think the killing somebody is the inflammatory element here and not the F bomb.

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1h

I can’t believe we’re doing this tone & curse policing again for Democrats. Trump calls people vermin & Vance dehumanizes minorities & immigrants all the time. What is wrong with the national media?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

WELKER: Do you bear any responsibility to bring down the temperature?

FREY: Of course. But I dropped an F bomb and they killed somebody. I think the killing somebody is the inflammatory element here and not the F bomb.

Michael DeMoor @michaeldemoor.bsky.social · 1h

I wake up most mornings with a song in my head (would that it were in my heart) and have fancied considering it a kind of horoscope for the day.

This morning it was “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.”

“He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored.”

I’d really rather not.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 10h

A new analysis of the UC’s financials, records, policies, acquisitions and investment assets shows it's likely in the strongest financial position in its 150-year history, and calls into question the claims of financial distress made last year to justify hiring freeze, layoffs, and tuition hikes.

Airship Chronos says TRANS RIGHTS @airshipchronos.bsky.social · 11h

All art about Trump will end up being pro-Trump propaganda simply by virtue of writers and directors giving him more depth than he has. There really is nothing else there. He's just a mobster. He has *no* depth. Zero. None. He likes steak and blondes and gold. That's all there is to him.

southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 19h

US Embassy Bogota hasnt gotten the White House memo that, post abduction, the United States is running Venezuela and the Venezuelan people actually love us now and are very eager to give us their wallets. ve.usembassy.gov/security-ale...

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January 10, 2026: Do Not Travel to Venezuela;
Depart Immediately
The security situation in Venezuela remains fluid. The U.S. Embassy in Bogota, Colombia, warns U.S. citizens not to travel to Venezuela, reiterating warnings against travel to Venezuela dating to 2019. As international flights have resumed, U.S. citizens in Venezuela should leave the country immediately. Enroll in the Smart Traveler Enrollment Program L to receive security updates.
Before departure, U.S. citizens should take precautions and be aware of their surroundings. There are reports of groups of armed militias, known as colectivos, setting up roadblocks and searching vehicles for evidence of U.S. citizenship or support for the United States. U.S. citizens in Venezuela should remain vigilant and exercise caution when traveling by road.

Laura G Mitchell @lauragmitchell.com · 21h

This is Minneapolis:

-drop the kids off for a day with their grandparents
-go to brunch with your wife
-get a text from neighbors who don’t have enough food & can’t leave home or they might be abducted by fed govt
-get groceries as helicopters roar overhead
-deliver food & this vehicle passes you

Photo through the windshield of a car showing an armored police vehicle driving on Nicollet

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 21h

This is the second time in three months a DHS agent called a US citizen a "bitch" as he shot her. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-threa...

The video also allegedly shows the CBP agent saying “Do something, bitch” before shots were fired. In private Signal chats, the CBP agent boasted to other officers: “I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.” If he felt comfortable enough communicating that to fellow employees, it speaks to an irredeemable organizational culture.

Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 22h

Smashing Pumpkin Spice Lattes

Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 22h

Slightly diminish a band

e Dog Night

Janet D. Stemwedel @docfreeride.bsky.social · 22h

Slightly diminish a band

Concerning Straits

Pádraic Ó Súilleabháin @eastbaygeek.bsky.social · 23h

Slightly diminish a band.

Led Blimp

Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 22h

You are stopping at creatine? I am now interesting massive quantities of creosote! My balls drag on the frigging ground!!! Rowwwwwwrrr!!

Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 22h

Look, if it will help, I think I got a third place prize in elementary school for a “flower show” cucumber lizard I made at my parents’ insistence. I can give it to Trump to make him feel better.

Janet D. Stemwedel @docfreeride.bsky.social · 22h

Slightly diminish a band

Concerning Straits

Pádraic Ó Súilleabháin @eastbaygeek.bsky.social · 23h

Slightly diminish a band.

Led Blimp

Janet D. Stemwedel @docfreeride.bsky.social · 1d

Slightly diminish a band

Tankini Kill

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 22h

The dishonesty of “conservatives” about the killing of Renee Good makes me want to quote Lincoln: “When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”

Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 23h

This is how you deny the people of MN representation

Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 1d

I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building.

Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained.

The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents.

@zeteo.com

Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 23h

Philly Strong!!

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 1d

Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal warns ICE:

"No law enforcement professional wears a mask... Those that come into our communities wearing a mask to commit crime... You getting arrested".

"Fake wannabe law enforcement... The criminal in the WH will not be able to keep you from going to jail".

Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 1d

I was just denied access to the ICE processing center at the Whipple Building.

Members of Congress have a legal right and constitutional responsibility to conduct oversight where people are being detained.

The public deserves to know what is taking place in ICE facilities.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents.

@zeteo.com

Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

Taxation without Distribution

The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 1d

It is deeply counter to the whole very basic concept of this nation that its citizens can be taxed and then have funding withheld punitively because the person exercising the power of the presidency decides on a whim to do so.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us

Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

Excited to see the increased daily allowance for horse testicles in the MAHA Food Pyramid.

Still from The Simpsons of a school lunch worker digging into a barrel marked “assorted horse parts now with more testicles.”

Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, crap, that is right.Putting a one year cap on the 10% makes this yet another grift and disaster

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

This probably won't happen because the credit card companies are going to sue but if it did happen, it just means debt crisis in a year because people will spend money they don't have thinking it's only 10% and then not pay it off before the year is out and then the rates will be astronomical

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "AFFORDABILITY! Effective January 20, 2026, I, as President of the United States, am calling for a one year cap on Credit Card Interest Rates of 10%."

Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

All you have to do is submit to arbitrary power and you will be free!

Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 1d

new block for you

Nov ‘24 never beating the allegations

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Have I ? Both the women in this video could have had a completely different outcome if they respected the ICE agent..if you are filming him then you are antagonising him, end of.
2:54 AM • Jan 10, 2026

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

This probably won't happen because the credit card companies are going to sue but if it did happen, it just means debt crisis in a year because people will spend money they don't have thinking it's only 10% and then not pay it off before the year is out and then the rates will be astronomical

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "AFFORDABILITY! Effective January 20, 2026, I, as President of the United States, am calling for a one year cap on Credit Card Interest Rates of 10%."

Please be informed that we will no longer let the American Public be “ripped off” by Credit Card Companies that are charging Interest Rates of 20 to 30%, and even more, which festered unimpeded during the Sleepy Joe Biden Administration. AFFORDABILITY! Effective January 20, 2026, I, as President of the United States, am calling for a one year cap on Credit Card Interest Rates of 10%. Coincidentally, the January 20th date will coincide with the one year anniversary of the historic and very successful Trump Administration. Thank you for your attention to this matter. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 1d

new block for you

Nov ‘24 never beating the allegations

Alan Richardson @alanrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

The USA as a functional federation of states that are allowed in a democratic fashion to disagree no longer exists. Goodbye, USA; you are now simply the SA.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.

January 9, 2026
THE HONORABLE TIM WALZ
Governor of Minesota
130 State Capitol
75 Rev Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Bivd.
St. Paul, MN 55155
THE HONORABLE JACOB FREY
Mayor of the City of Minneapolis
City Hail
350S. Fifth St., Room 330
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Dear Governor Walz and Mayor Frey,
It is my responsibility as Secretary of Agriculture to ensure sound stewardship of taxpayer dollars by climinating fraud, waste and abuse in all programs funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The widespread and systemic fraud associated with federal benefit programs in the State of Minnesota and the City of Minneapolis demonstrate an inability to handle federal resources without additional oversight and accountability measures in place.
During your tenures as Governor of Minnesota and Mayor of Minneapolis, numerous non-profits and businesses have defrauded the federal government in what a federal prosecutor in Minnesota called "a staggering, industrial-scale fraud".! Most notably, a Minneapolis-based nonprofit— Feeding Our Future defrauded U.S. taxpayers of nearly $250 million in federal funds given to them by the Minnesota Department of Education.? This fraud scheme involved USDA funding provided to the State of Minnesota to feed hungry children under the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) and the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). As of late November, 78 defendants had been charged in what the Department of Justice characterized as the largest COVID-19 fraud scheme in the country?
Other recent examples of'alleged fraud in Minnesota include exploitation of the Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program", a scheme to defraud the Housing Stabilization
1-Whut te know about Minnesoca' "industrial-scale fraad" scandal, as more charges are fled and Trump weighs in, "CES Nows (Dic. 19, 3025) available at ht:/www.cbsnews.com/news/atas-do-know-alonesota-frawf-candal
were-changes-fled-
tump-water.
/Federal Jury Finds Feeding Our Future Masternind and Co-D…

Services Program", and alleged fraud in daycare centers*, Your Administrations have refused additional accountability and oversight, claiming that criticism of rampant fraud and abuse is
"racist."
While the full extent of fraud in Minnesota is not yet known, it is clear that, under your leadership-
or lack thereof fraudsters can take advantage of federal funds and the American
taxpayer with impunity. This necessitates federal action to protect taxpayer dollars until adequate safeguards can be established.
Despite a staggering, wide-reaching fraud scandal, your Administrations refuse to provide basic information or take common sense mcasures to stop fraud. In fact, rather than conlin your SNAP rolls are accurate to prevent continuing fraud, you asked the courts to block USDA's directive to recertify the State's SNAP recipients. Recent news reports also emerged that the Minnesota Department of Human Services repeatedly reported incorrect information about SNAP to the federal government.? The Trump administration refuses to allow such fraud to continuc.
Therefore, because of your failed Icadership and abysmal financial management oversight, 1 am notifying you that, effective immediately, I am suspending payments on all active awards and any future awards from USDA to the State of Minnesota and the City of Minneapolis, currently totaling over $129.18 million. Within 30 days, you shall provide USDA with payment justifications for all federal dollar expenditures from January 20, 2025, to the present. Going forward, all transactions on awards to the State of Minnesota or the City of Minneapolis will require such payment justification. If those payment justifications are not received, awards will remain suspended.
While your Administrations have turned a blind eye to documented fraud, the Trump Administration has made clear that fraud, waste, and abuse are unacceptable. The American people deserve to know that their taxpayer dollars are helping those in need-not criminals. …

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