@acreed.bsky.social
Is this considered a donation-in-kind to Peltola’s Senate campaign?
NEW: The Trump admin. has denied Alaska's request for full reimbursement for disaster relief efforts for the first 3 months following the devastating Western Alaska storms, though Gov. Dunleavy claimed it was promised last fall.
The state has filed an appeal.
alaskabeacon.com/2026/01/30/t...
The state has filed an appeal.
alaskabeacon.com/2026/01/30/t...
Trump administration denies full disaster funding for Western Alaska storms, state files appeal | Alaska Beacon
The Trump administration has denied Alaska’s request for full reimbursement for disaster relief efforts for the Western Alaska storms.
alaskabeacon.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Is this considered a donation-in-kind to Peltola’s Senate campaign?
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A reader (who wished to remain anonymous for reasons of naturalization status) passed along to me their version of a Battle Hymn of Minneapolis, which I now share with you.
'Tis, as they say, a banger.
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'Tis, as they say, a banger.
justpaste.it/battle-hymn-...
January 31, 2026 at 4:10 PM
A reader (who wished to remain anonymous for reasons of naturalization status) passed along to me their version of a Battle Hymn of Minneapolis, which I now share with you.
'Tis, as they say, a banger.
justpaste.it/battle-hymn-...
'Tis, as they say, a banger.
justpaste.it/battle-hymn-...
No matter how much contempt you think you have for the mainstream US press, you don’t have enough.
You could imagine similar situations in which members of the media coordinated in solidarity around Lemon to direct sustained negative attention to Trump over this story. Instead the political press spent the earlier part of the week making up a fake story ("new tone") to help Trump.
This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.
January 30, 2026 at 3:33 PM
No matter how much contempt you think you have for the mainstream US press, you don’t have enough.
The thread is about defense, but this is an important point: to the US government, contracts are temporary and can be yanked or zeroed out at any time. It’s insane - in private sector you’d wind up with a judgment worth 3x the broken contract but for the federal govt good luck. Huge disincentive.
Politics on the Hill being what they are means even contracts have to be regarded as fickle things. Changing that culture/behavior will be key.
The other option is expensive up front but should pay off by driving down lead ship costs and integration issues: let the Navy experiment.
The other option is expensive up front but should pay off by driving down lead ship costs and integration issues: let the Navy experiment.
January 29, 2026 at 6:40 PM
The thread is about defense, but this is an important point: to the US government, contracts are temporary and can be yanked or zeroed out at any time. It’s insane - in private sector you’d wind up with a judgment worth 3x the broken contract but for the federal govt good luck. Huge disincentive.
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I honestly think half the e-bike backlash is just people hate seeing teenagers having fun.
January 27, 2026 at 8:29 PM
I honestly think half the e-bike backlash is just people hate seeing teenagers having fun.
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
Jfc the guy ICE executed in cold blood was an ICU nurse at the VA.
When we say Trump and MAGA are un-American, this is what we mean: fascist thugs executing patriots serving those who gave their all to our nation.
When we say Trump and MAGA are un-American, this is what we mean: fascist thugs executing patriots serving those who gave their all to our nation.
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Jfc the guy ICE executed in cold blood was an ICU nurse at the VA.
When we say Trump and MAGA are un-American, this is what we mean: fascist thugs executing patriots serving those who gave their all to our nation.
When we say Trump and MAGA are un-American, this is what we mean: fascist thugs executing patriots serving those who gave their all to our nation.
Bovino should become so afraid of prosecution he flees to Argentina to be with his kindred spirits
Bovino shamelessly lies: "This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement"
January 24, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Bovino should become so afraid of prosecution he flees to Argentina to be with his kindred spirits
The GOP is the party of tax cheats and grifters. Work hard, pay your taxes? Screw you! Move your money offshore, lie on your taxes, claim dependents and deductions you aren’t entitled to? You’ve got a friend in the GOP!
Not often (or at all) mentioned regrading the funding package that just passed the House: 11.7 billion dollars cut to IRS budget. Because really, who needs taxes anyway.
January 23, 2026 at 8:45 PM
The GOP is the party of tax cheats and grifters. Work hard, pay your taxes? Screw you! Move your money offshore, lie on your taxes, claim dependents and deductions you aren’t entitled to? You’ve got a friend in the GOP!
Just to be clear, this is textbook “violating 4th Amendment rights”.
BREAKING: Immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to enter homes without a judge’s warrant, a memo obtained by AP says.
Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
bit.ly
January 22, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Just to be clear, this is textbook “violating 4th Amendment rights”.
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This is insane not just the explicit "go break the 4A" substance but how they knew how bad it was, acting in guilty paranoia to cover it up and suppress the written evidence.
This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional!
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.
January 21, 2026 at 11:03 PM
This is insane not just the explicit "go break the 4A" substance but how they knew how bad it was, acting in guilty paranoia to cover it up and suppress the written evidence.
This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
This isn't how running a government agency works. This is what a criminal conspiracy looks like, because that's what it is.
Remember when the GOP (falsely) claimed Obama weaponized the IRS against conservatives? Pepperidge farm remembers.
Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol
January 21, 2026 at 2:34 PM
Remember when the GOP (falsely) claimed Obama weaponized the IRS against conservatives? Pepperidge farm remembers.
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Im sorry but everyone shitting on The Sphere needs to touch grass. The Sphere is one of the coolest f**king things America has built in the past decade. Sure it’s frivolous and consumerists and what have you but it’s cool and neat and unique. Let people enjoy fun things!
The state of Maryland announces plans to build a new Sphere venue in National Harbor, near Washington, DC investor.sphereentertainmentco.com/press-releas...
January 19, 2026 at 4:10 AM
Im sorry but everyone shitting on The Sphere needs to touch grass. The Sphere is one of the coolest f**king things America has built in the past decade. Sure it’s frivolous and consumerists and what have you but it’s cool and neat and unique. Let people enjoy fun things!
Also it’s a feedback loop. Gallego is a well known moderate - him taking the “Abolish ICE” associates it with the moderate faction!
even moderate members of congress are finally realizing that the BS they've been sold about centrism from the democratic consultant industrial complex fails to account for uncertainty or shifting public opinion, and thus has zero external validity here in the real world. let me just say: welcome!
January 18, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Also it’s a feedback loop. Gallego is a well known moderate - him taking the “Abolish ICE” associates it with the moderate faction!
You know, there was 10+ GW of offshore wind power under active development with PPAs before Trump f**ked it up. But please Mr. President tell me how we need more electricity.
The initiative will be announced Friday, Bloomberg reported.
Trump Will Urge Tech Giants To Pay For More Power Plants As AI Boosts Electricity Usage
The initiative will be announced Friday, Bloomberg reported.
www.forbes.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:37 PM
You know, there was 10+ GW of offshore wind power under active development with PPAs before Trump f**ked it up. But please Mr. President tell me how we need more electricity.
No, this is actually a good (if modest) step in the right direction. It gets rid of the secret part of secret police. That’s good!
It’s genuinely a pleasure as an academic looking at the problem of incipient authoritarianism and the many no-win dilemmas of liberal democracies trying to defend themselves to see something like this and be able to confidently say: no, this is just dumb.
January 14, 2026 at 5:48 PM
No, this is actually a good (if modest) step in the right direction. It gets rid of the secret part of secret police. That’s good!
Customs back to Treasury, Immigration back to State, Border Patrol gets turned into an uniformed branch put under Coast Guard and moved also under State.
It's a very easy Q to ask Dems. Yes or no, do you want to abolish? Strong pols like AOC can take the Q and explain what they actually want.
(I still think not having a response to the Q is a political risk, as is saying "yes" without explaining how you'd enforce law, but duh.)
(I still think not having a response to the Q is a political risk, as is saying "yes" without explaining how you'd enforce law, but duh.)
ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms
January 14, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Customs back to Treasury, Immigration back to State, Border Patrol gets turned into an uniformed branch put under Coast Guard and moved also under State.
I think if @mcuban.bsky.social ran for the Dems in TX he’d be the favorite. And his entire campaign is easy - he knows business, he knows the business of healthcare, and he knows where to legislate to bring prices down for healthcare and prescription drugs.
Big, big get for Democrats, who now have an honest-to-God, no-squinting path to the Senate majority (NC, ME, OH, AK).
Former Rep. Mary Peltola jumps into Alaska Senate race
January 12, 2026 at 2:35 PM
I think if @mcuban.bsky.social ran for the Dems in TX he’d be the favorite. And his entire campaign is easy - he knows business, he knows the business of healthcare, and he knows where to legislate to bring prices down for healthcare and prescription drugs.
Trump really wants a replay of 2020 Floyd protests where he gets to shoot people in the street.
They’re leaking the video because the end goal of all of this has been triggering riots, I genuinely believe
January 9, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Trump really wants a replay of 2020 Floyd protests where he gets to shoot people in the street.
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america: fuck yeah.
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 3:08 AM
america: fuck yeah.
Quite famously the cartels do NOT run Mexico. Otherwise, you know, their gang leaders wouldn’t be getting constantly caught and extradited.
Trump, in a sit down interview on Fox News aired just now, said the US will be conducting land strikes against the cartels.
"We are gonna start now hitting land, with regard to the cartels. The cartels are running Mexico."
"We are gonna start now hitting land, with regard to the cartels. The cartels are running Mexico."
January 9, 2026 at 3:24 AM
Quite famously the cartels do NOT run Mexico. Otherwise, you know, their gang leaders wouldn’t be getting constantly caught and extradited.
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Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
January 8, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
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This is bullshit. They absolutely have jurisdiction.
Noem on Minnesota officials: "They have not been cut out. They don't have any jurisdiction in this investigation."
January 8, 2026 at 5:39 PM
This is bullshit. They absolutely have jurisdiction.
Also, BPD needs to become an uniformed service that is the land version of the Coast Guard.
January 8, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Also, BPD needs to become an uniformed service that is the land version of the Coast Guard.