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cynicism delenda est
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I tRiED tO WaRN U
February 9, 2026 at 8:10 PM
I tRiED tO WaRN U
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Every time I re-read Trump v. United States, it feels like getting hit in the head with a mallet.
February 6, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Every time I re-read Trump v. United States, it feels like getting hit in the head with a mallet.
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When I wrote Section 230 I did so knowing it would be critical for protecting free speech online. 30 years later and it’s one of the last things standing in the way of Republican censorship of the internet. Here’s to many more years of defending this vital safeguard of free speech.
February 8, 2026 at 6:28 PM
When I wrote Section 230 I did so knowing it would be critical for protecting free speech online. 30 years later and it’s one of the last things standing in the way of Republican censorship of the internet. Here’s to many more years of defending this vital safeguard of free speech.
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ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
February 7, 2026 at 5:54 PM
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
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60% disapprove of how ICE is handling deportations, 62% say Good shooting was unjustified, Republicans more trusted on immigration, Democrats more trusted on health care.
open.substack.com/pub/charlesa...
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February 6, 2026 at 11:36 PM
60% disapprove of how ICE is handling deportations, 62% say Good shooting was unjustified, Republicans more trusted on immigration, Democrats more trusted on health care.
open.substack.com/pub/charlesa...
open.substack.com/pub/charlesa...
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One thing that struck me is that I think a lot of them were writing to him not for advice but for sympathy. The greatest desire is always for someone who understands us - for these men, who understands that any guy would have behaved this way, it’s just locker talk, it’s all liars, …
I wrote about all the men who flocked to Jeffrey Epstein's inbox to talk about sexual abuse allegations with an expert. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
When Jeffrey Epstein was the world’s leading expert on getting away with it
The convicted sex-criminal was obsessed with other high profile abuse cases, offering commentary, advice, and even financial help.
www.motherjones.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:25 PM
One thing that struck me is that I think a lot of them were writing to him not for advice but for sympathy. The greatest desire is always for someone who understands us - for these men, who understands that any guy would have behaved this way, it’s just locker talk, it’s all liars, …
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Not that it would be okay to do this to an undocumented immigrant either but THIS GUY IS A LEGAL IMMIGRANT and also his lawyer hand delivered his medication and they REFUSED TO GIVE IT TO HIM.
Enraging! How do ANY of these people live with themselves?
Enraging! How do ANY of these people live with themselves?
A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.
Transplant recipient arrested by federal agents in Rochester needs medicine, state representative says
State Rep. Kim Hicks told MPR News she drove to the Whipple Federal Building near Ft. Snelling Thursday night to give the man his medication but authorities wouldn't take it without a doctor's note. S...
www.mprnews.org
February 6, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Not that it would be okay to do this to an undocumented immigrant either but THIS GUY IS A LEGAL IMMIGRANT and also his lawyer hand delivered his medication and they REFUSED TO GIVE IT TO HIM.
Enraging! How do ANY of these people live with themselves?
Enraging! How do ANY of these people live with themselves?
The sample message seems designed to fail.
"Instead of relentlessly focusing on identity politics that divide Americans, we're focusing on policies that will benefit all American citizens" - this is also antiwoke, but at least tries the sale.
"Instead of relentlessly focusing on identity politics that divide Americans, we're focusing on policies that will benefit all American citizens" - this is also antiwoke, but at least tries the sale.
February 6, 2026 at 12:39 AM
The sample message seems designed to fail.
"Instead of relentlessly focusing on identity politics that divide Americans, we're focusing on policies that will benefit all American citizens" - this is also antiwoke, but at least tries the sale.
"Instead of relentlessly focusing on identity politics that divide Americans, we're focusing on policies that will benefit all American citizens" - this is also antiwoke, but at least tries the sale.
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Counterpoint: Democrats want ICE razed more thoroughly than Carthage in 146 BC, the ideological territory in which it operates salted so thoroughly it never grows again, and every single one of these goons in front of a judge to face justice for their crimes.
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 3, 2026 at 11:17 PM
Counterpoint: Democrats want ICE razed more thoroughly than Carthage in 146 BC, the ideological territory in which it operates salted so thoroughly it never grows again, and every single one of these goons in front of a judge to face justice for their crimes.
People who can get you to believe absurdities can get you to commit acts of extreme stupidity.
February 3, 2026 at 5:49 PM
People who can get you to believe absurdities can get you to commit acts of extreme stupidity.
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I think about strategic nonviolence like this: you are trying to defeat the greatest chess grandmaster in world history. The good news is you get to pick the game.
Don’t pick chess.
Don’t pick chess.
what do you make of the theory i’ve seen in various places that nonviolence really only works when it has a violent wing to back it up? “how to blow up a pipeline” argues that many successful nonviolent movements had such an arrangement
February 2, 2026 at 1:02 PM
I think about strategic nonviolence like this: you are trying to defeat the greatest chess grandmaster in world history. The good news is you get to pick the game.
Don’t pick chess.
Don’t pick chess.
Been thinking about the whole concept of "reading theory" and I've decided that the advice is stupid. A lot of theory is written by idiots and will only make you dumber.
Read theory by people who have accomplishments that you can read about in the history books.
Read theory by people who have accomplishments that you can read about in the history books.
February 2, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Been thinking about the whole concept of "reading theory" and I've decided that the advice is stupid. A lot of theory is written by idiots and will only make you dumber.
Read theory by people who have accomplishments that you can read about in the history books.
Read theory by people who have accomplishments that you can read about in the history books.
I'm starting to believe that the left is just as conspiratorial as the right is. Everything that makes America bad must be true.
Guys the government didn’t kill MLK. Plenty of elements in the government wanted him dead but they couldn’t risk it.
February 2, 2026 at 1:44 PM
I'm starting to believe that the left is just as conspiratorial as the right is. Everything that makes America bad must be true.
The MeToo movement lumped in annoying men with rapists and when we do MeToo #2 we'd better write a nice big bright line in that separates this from that.
the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability
February 2, 2026 at 2:41 AM
The MeToo movement lumped in annoying men with rapists and when we do MeToo #2 we'd better write a nice big bright line in that separates this from that.
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I was extremely naive in my twenties and early thirties, took people very much at their word when it came to values, and absolutely destroyed my mental health (and my career) thinking I could publicly demand accountability and survive it whole.
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the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability
February 2, 2026 at 1:06 AM
I was extremely naive in my twenties and early thirties, took people very much at their word when it came to values, and absolutely destroyed my mental health (and my career) thinking I could publicly demand accountability and survive it whole.
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I think he geniunely believed that it would have been inappropriate and believed in preserving norm. This was in some sense noble. In a most greater and more meaningful sense, he was stupid and wrong.
February 1, 2026 at 6:16 AM
I think he geniunely believed that it would have been inappropriate and believed in preserving norm. This was in some sense noble. In a most greater and more meaningful sense, he was stupid and wrong.
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DHS doesn’t even bother trying to lie well. The man whose skull was shattered told the hospital he’d been struck by ICE officers, an ICE officer told hospital staff the guy “got his sh*t rocked,” then when it became clear how badly he was injured, they claimed he deliberately ran into a wall.
January 31, 2026 at 4:59 PM
DHS doesn’t even bother trying to lie well. The man whose skull was shattered told the hospital he’d been struck by ICE officers, an ICE officer told hospital staff the guy “got his sh*t rocked,” then when it became clear how badly he was injured, they claimed he deliberately ran into a wall.
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lol, a theory of social change in which the work is circulating gofundmes.
January 30, 2026 at 1:09 AM
lol, a theory of social change in which the work is circulating gofundmes.
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Many of you have truly impressive, Cal Ripken-like streaks of never clicking through a link
January 30, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Many of you have truly impressive, Cal Ripken-like streaks of never clicking through a link
where it started: "why didn't the democrats simply ask to abolish ICE, the republicans would have caved soon"
where it ended: nuclear block
where it ended: nuclear block
I do not like Senate Democrats very much but they have far more experience with "Negotiating in the Public Sphere 701" than you do so I'm not sure why I or they should be taking lessons from you.
January 29, 2026 at 11:58 PM
where it started: "why didn't the democrats simply ask to abolish ICE, the republicans would have caved soon"
where it ended: nuclear block
where it ended: nuclear block
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MPD might have mopped up protesters but they did get a shot in at DHS (and the protest seems to have been successful)
January 26, 2026 at 8:00 AM
MPD might have mopped up protesters but they did get a shot in at DHS (and the protest seems to have been successful)
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"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
January 25, 2026 at 2:03 AM
"I am a children's entertainer who specializes in face painting," writes a woman now in hiding from the federal government for witnessing a state-sanctioned street execution
A fucking children's entertainer had to watch an ICU nurse be shot, repeatedly, in front of her, for the crime of trying to defend a woman from assault.
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
January 25, 2026 at 3:19 AM
A fucking children's entertainer had to watch an ICU nurse be shot, repeatedly, in front of her, for the crime of trying to defend a woman from assault.
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You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
January 25, 2026 at 1:15 AM
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.