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Identity & humanity are non-negotiable values--don't be manipulated.
President Biden said we're fighting for the soul of the nation. We are. We cannot lose that fight.
"We come in the age's most uncertain hour" Paul Simon
Identity & humanity are non-negotiable values--don't be manipulated.
President Biden said we're fighting for the soul of the nation. We are. We cannot lose that fight.
"We come in the age's most uncertain hour" Paul Simon
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Two family members got got this text today. I didn't, and can't find anything about it. I cut most of the content. Authoritarian style disinfo is obviously going to be rampant this election but I find it interesting they're already dumping so much money spreading slime in this race.
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They're constitutionally incapable of looking at a new creation, development, or invention as a new useful tool. For them it always has to be the next big thing, like they did with VR, and they're not going to get people onboard. People, as always, will use it when and where it applies for them.
It's inevitable, you simply must adapt to it and use it, you have no choice, but also please use it more or it's going to die
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
January 20, 2026 at 7:28 PM
They're constitutionally incapable of looking at a new creation, development, or invention as a new useful tool. For them it always has to be the next big thing, like they did with VR, and they're not going to get people onboard. People, as always, will use it when and where it applies for them.
Biden did not go senile in office. Idiots.
“.. After one president who went senile in office and another who is nuttier than a Payday candy bar, we can only conclude that the 25th Amendment of the Constitution is just there for decoration.”
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January 20, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Biden did not go senile in office. Idiots.
This was their intent all along, and now they have it--on every one of us.
ICE is using Medicaid data to find out where immigrants live | via @acvollers.bsky.social #ksleg
ICE is using Medicaid data to find out where immigrants live • Kansas Reflector
In a win for President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, a recent court ruling has cleared the way for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to resume using states’ Medicaid data to find people...
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January 20, 2026 at 6:33 PM
This was their intent all along, and now they have it--on every one of us.
They don't need to be the leaders if they can't step up to meet the crisis, but it does need to be amplified that Gallego said straight up today that Trump is insane and unreachable. Others are saying similar, but they're not the ones being heard. That's the fault of the media and the party.
man I'm sorry, but "all of our elites are failing EXCEPT DEMOCRATS, WHO CANNOT BE BLAMED" is simply absurd when the leaders of the party are chuck schumer and hakeem jeffries
There is a partially good point in this thread but it ignores how the mainstream media relentlessly marginalizes innovative communications from Democrats who recognize the scale of our problem. Stancil, like Oliver Willis, often assumes that the messages he wants to hear will spread frictionlessly.
January 20, 2026 at 6:06 PM
They don't need to be the leaders if they can't step up to meet the crisis, but it does need to be amplified that Gallego said straight up today that Trump is insane and unreachable. Others are saying similar, but they're not the ones being heard. That's the fault of the media and the party.
The sole value and mantra of political, corporate, and institutional leadership in this country became "greed is good."
KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?”
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January 20, 2026 at 5:56 PM
The sole value and mantra of political, corporate, and institutional leadership in this country became "greed is good."
They're going to make history one way or another. How they choose right now will determine their permanent place in it.
A great profile of Sen. Tillis — the deciding vote on all four of his committees — who has become a proxy for the Senate finding some backbone.
“It just requires people to come out of the shadows,” he said.
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“It just requires people to come out of the shadows,” he said.
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January 20, 2026 at 5:53 PM
They're going to make history one way or another. How they choose right now will determine their permanent place in it.
This is right, but we're kind of all doing that right now.
Bill Cassidy destroyed America's vaccine system by confirming RFK Jr and his reward is a primary challenge backed by the President. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes dumbass.
January 20, 2026 at 5:48 PM
This is right, but we're kind of all doing that right now.
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As Homeland Security’s siege on Minneapolis enters its third week, locals are volunteering for patrol shifts, protesting in the streets, and keeping one another up to date in group texts.
Read more from @scottmeslow.bsky.social in Minneapolis:
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It’s worse than it looks in Minneapolis
But locals are organizing to keep each other safe from ICE agents.
www.theverge.com
January 20, 2026 at 2:01 PM
As Homeland Security’s siege on Minneapolis enters its third week, locals are volunteering for patrol shifts, protesting in the streets, and keeping one another up to date in group texts.
Read more from @scottmeslow.bsky.social in Minneapolis:
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As Homeland Security’s siege on Minneapolis enters its third week, locals are volunteering for patrol shifts, protesting in the streets, and keeping one another up to date in group texts.
Read more from @scottmeslow.bsky.social in Minneapolis:
Read more from @scottmeslow.bsky.social in Minneapolis:
It’s worse than it looks in Minneapolis
But locals are organizing to keep each other safe from ICE agents.
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January 20, 2026 at 2:56 PM
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Single issue voters are easily exploited. Republicans have been playing that game for years and it's what's kept them from going under.
"Polls suggest that most Cuban American registered voters, who tend to be Republican, continue to support Mr. Trump"
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To Their Shock, Cubans in Florida Are Being Deported in Record Numbers
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January 20, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Single issue voters are easily exploited. Republicans have been playing that game for years and it's what's kept them from going under.
That's unacceptable in 2026. Filing deadlines are too early, primaries are too early, and that's by design. @democrats.org @dscc.bsky.social @electdemocrats.bsky.social need to make major changes local to natonal by 2028 to prepare for what's coming. I hope and pray they are. @kenmartin.bsky.social
NEWS: No one filed to challenge two conservative/Republican justices on the Nevada supreme court who are up for reelection this year. The deadline was a few days ago.
They will run for new terms unopposed.
They will run for new terms unopposed.
January 20, 2026 at 5:32 PM
That's unacceptable in 2026. Filing deadlines are too early, primaries are too early, and that's by design. @democrats.org @dscc.bsky.social @electdemocrats.bsky.social need to make major changes local to natonal by 2028 to prepare for what's coming. I hope and pray they are. @kenmartin.bsky.social
All that plus Schumer ain't Mamdami and Mamdami is not the face of the entire democratic party right now. Schumer isn't either, but that's how too many see it.
Only if you ignore that the former is the mayor of one city and is getting things done, the other is the ranking Democrat in the United States Senate and can barely be bothered to talk about anything other than egg prices as Trump declares war on his fellow citizens and our European allies.
The pivot from "Mamdani is a political genius for focusing his message almost entirely on affordability" to "Schumer is a political moron for focusing his message almost entirely on affordability" is odd.
January 20, 2026 at 5:24 PM
All that plus Schumer ain't Mamdami and Mamdami is not the face of the entire democratic party right now. Schumer isn't either, but that's how too many see it.
The billionaire bros love LotR. Hobbits are about to get them again.
"We know the old order is not coming back. We shouldn't mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy. But we believe that from the fracture we can build something bigger, better, stronger, more just. This is the task of the middle powers," says PM Mark Carney in Davos speech.
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January 20, 2026 at 5:19 PM
The billionaire bros love LotR. Hobbits are about to get them again.
Dark Brandon
can someone explain to me why Macron wore full-blown aviators during his Davos speech today?
January 20, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Dark Brandon
I don't know what's getting told him in his ear, but if he hasn't snapped he's on the verge of it. Someone who has Susie Wiles' phone number needs to find out if anyone has a plan in there before he takes us all down with him. @therickwilson.bsky.social
Trump is in Davos crazy posting. He is delusional and that's a fact, not an opinion.
January 20, 2026 at 5:09 PM
I don't know what's getting told him in his ear, but if he hasn't snapped he's on the verge of it. Someone who has Susie Wiles' phone number needs to find out if anyone has a plan in there before he takes us all down with him. @therickwilson.bsky.social
It's happening or will soon happen in every state, apparently. #Arkansas be ready.
Ohio voters should prepare to face higher levels of intimidation & disinformation during 2026 election cycle according to Jen Miller, @lwvohio.bsky.social
“The good news is that our boards of elections are bipartisan-run & our poll workers are community servants”
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“The good news is that our boards of elections are bipartisan-run & our poll workers are community servants”
www.toledoblade.com/local/politi...
Expect increased intimidation tactics in 2026, voting rights leader says
COLUMBUS — Ohio voters should prepare to face higher levels of intimidation and disinformation during the 2026 election cycle, according to League of Women ...
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January 20, 2026 at 5:02 PM
It's happening or will soon happen in every state, apparently. #Arkansas be ready.
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The web site Umme Hoque was talking about on tonight's show is defendandrecruit.org
We Protect Us - Defend and Recruit
Build skills, access trainings and resources, and connect with others who are defending communities and building power across the country.
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January 20, 2026 at 3:00 AM
The web site Umme Hoque was talking about on tonight's show is defendandrecruit.org
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Alcatraz is a prison. Greenland is Danish. Foreign movies still exist. Biden’s pardons are in effect. Ukraine and Russia are still at war. No one serious calls it “Gulf of America.” For all his bluster, there are a lot of things Trump said he was going to do that he didn’t.
Opinion | Trump brags about his “promises kept“ — but there’s a whole lot he didn’t deliver
Philip Bump: The president has made a lot of promises and pledges that never came to fruition in year one of his second term — and many never will.
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January 19, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Alcatraz is a prison. Greenland is Danish. Foreign movies still exist. Biden’s pardons are in effect. Ukraine and Russia are still at war. No one serious calls it “Gulf of America.” For all his bluster, there are a lot of things Trump said he was going to do that he didn’t.
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I don't know about twitter, but this is the most I've laughed on the internet in a long time, I imagine since the old days before facebook. I was trying to read it to my husband and couldn't for laugh/crying. I keep telling him he has to just get on here so I'll quit reading him stuff.
I like that the same day a guy was like “this place will never be Twitter” this thread gave us the most 2015 Twitter experience (complimentary) imaginable.
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 6:42 AM
I don't know about twitter, but this is the most I've laughed on the internet in a long time, I imagine since the old days before facebook. I was trying to read it to my husband and couldn't for laugh/crying. I keep telling him he has to just get on here so I'll quit reading him stuff.
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New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.
My story:
My story:
Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home
DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.
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January 20, 2026 at 2:25 AM
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A federal gov that would implement #clientelism as a leveraging tool is a regime classified as Electoral #Authoritarianism with Patronal–Militarized Control.
It uses fear instead of consent, favors instead of rights, and service instead of citizenship.
In other words, #transactional #extortion.
It uses fear instead of consent, favors instead of rights, and service instead of citizenship.
In other words, #transactional #extortion.
January 20, 2026 at 4:42 AM
A federal gov that would implement #clientelism as a leveraging tool is a regime classified as Electoral #Authoritarianism with Patronal–Militarized Control.
It uses fear instead of consent, favors instead of rights, and service instead of citizenship.
In other words, #transactional #extortion.
It uses fear instead of consent, favors instead of rights, and service instead of citizenship.
In other words, #transactional #extortion.
But what will happen to their mergers, and inside scoops on markets, and financial deals, and pardons?
True.
All it would take is for a bunch of these CEOs to confront Trump in front of the world and tell him he's unfit to run a hot-dog stand, and his presidency would be over. Seriously.
But none of them has the balls to do it.
But none of them has the balls to do it.
January 20, 2026 at 5:45 AM
But what will happen to their mergers, and inside scoops on markets, and financial deals, and pardons?
But he said Denmark's not using it.
Just to be clear: the President is single-handedly dragging America to economic crisis and war with our closest allies.
And why? To conquer an overseas territory that we have no claim to, have never had a claim to, and already have military bases on.
Oh, and because he didn’t get a prize.
And why? To conquer an overseas territory that we have no claim to, have never had a claim to, and already have military bases on.
Oh, and because he didn’t get a prize.
January 20, 2026 at 5:43 AM
But he said Denmark's not using it.