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democrats REALLY gotta stop neville chamberlaining this shit
January 22, 2026 at 12:01 AM
democrats REALLY gotta stop neville chamberlaining this shit
Regime change in #Cuba would be good! But what's happened in #Venezuela isn't regime change; the head of the gov't was removed, but the regime is the same, and while they seem to now be doing some things the US wants, they're still controlling they populace. So ... idk.
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
Exclusive | The U.S. Is Actively Seeking Regime Change in Cuba by the End of the Year
After ousting Venezuela’s leader, the Trump administration is hunting for Havana insiders who could cut a deal to end Communist rule.
www.wsj.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Regime change in #Cuba would be good! But what's happened in #Venezuela isn't regime change; the head of the gov't was removed, but the regime is the same, and while they seem to now be doing some things the US wants, they're still controlling they populace. So ... idk.
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
www.wsj.com/world/americ...
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This picture broke me, but the description of this kidnapping by a witness who says ICE referred to this precious child as “it” as they took him away fills me with an unspeakable, murderous rage.
Sharing this report of ICE depravity from Facebook at the request of community member. This is from a suburb north of ICE-occupied Minneapolis.
The text is from her post on Facebook.
The text is from her post on Facebook.
January 21, 2026 at 11:59 PM
This picture broke me, but the description of this kidnapping by a witness who says ICE referred to this precious child as “it” as they took him away fills me with an unspeakable, murderous rage.
F--k thugs, these ICE agents.
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 1:05 AM
F--k thugs, these ICE agents.
Okay this is a serious indictment of the DOJ brief. But one thing I've discovered in 30 years of practice is sometimes you just have to give the Judge a "hook," no matter how weak a hook it is. Maybe it's different at the SCOTUS level. It probably is! Still, I can't help shaking the feeling ...
The DOJ cited thirteen treatises that carved out an exception for citizenship for temporary visitors. Of those:
3 were white supremacists
3 were British citing no evidence
2 were authored by the same person
1 was authored by an unknown high school teacher
1 was not signed
13-9 = 4
Seriously?
3 were white supremacists
3 were British citing no evidence
2 were authored by the same person
1 was authored by an unknown high school teacher
1 was not signed
13-9 = 4
Seriously?
January 22, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Okay this is a serious indictment of the DOJ brief. But one thing I've discovered in 30 years of practice is sometimes you just have to give the Judge a "hook," no matter how weak a hook it is. Maybe it's different at the SCOTUS level. It probably is! Still, I can't help shaking the feeling ...
Horrific.
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 21, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Horrific.
Yikes
Day by day increasing the odds the world’s longest peaceful border won’t stay that way, and for no apparent reason.
“Remember that, Mark, the next time you make your statements.”
January 21, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Yikes
I hear people defend it all the time (here in Miami)! They say it generates a lot of revenue for the United States and it hasn't jacked up prices the way left-leaning economists and commentators claimed it would. I think they're wrong but the latter point is sometimes hard to debate.
I'm still surprised by anyone who defends Trump's tariff policy.
January 21, 2026 at 3:48 PM
I hear people defend it all the time (here in Miami)! They say it generates a lot of revenue for the United States and it hasn't jacked up prices the way left-leaning economists and commentators claimed it would. I think they're wrong but the latter point is sometimes hard to debate.
#Trump: USA won't use military force to acquire Greenland. He "blinked" Good Crisis over, maybe?
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
Greenland Live Updates: Trump Tells Davos U.S. Won’t Use Force to Acquire Greenland
President Trump lands in Switzerland after being delayed briefly by a "minor electrical issue" on his plane
www.wsj.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:58 PM
#Trump: USA won't use military force to acquire Greenland. He "blinked" Good Crisis over, maybe?
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
This is consistent with a theory I've seen about Trump's worldview: there are three "great powers," who are entitled to divide up the world by region, Russia, China, and the US. In this worldview, the Western Hemisphere is "ours."
Trump: Greenland “is the northern frontier of the Western hemisphere. It’s our territory.”
January 21, 2026 at 2:16 PM
This is consistent with a theory I've seen about Trump's worldview: there are three "great powers," who are entitled to divide up the world by region, Russia, China, and the US. In this worldview, the Western Hemisphere is "ours."
"We can still stop these abuses of power, but we need to be clear about what we’re facing. This is no longer a conversation about law enforcement or immigration policy. This is about authoritarianism." Correct.
"The lies this administration is telling about Ms. Good aren’t those you deploy as part of a cover-up. They’re those you use when you want to show you can get away with anything. They’re a projection of power." - @radleybalko.bsky.social
Opinion | I’ve Covered Police Abuse for 20 Years. What ICE Is Doing Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:13 PM
"We can still stop these abuses of power, but we need to be clear about what we’re facing. This is no longer a conversation about law enforcement or immigration policy. This is about authoritarianism." Correct.
That mustache-d thug is like the textbook ICE agent.
Out of town ICE thugs physically intimidate an immigration attorney protecting her clients.
ATTORNEY: "Don't push me! Why are you trying to pick them up?"
ICE GOON: "It's none of your business!"
ATTORNEY: "It is my business—I'm their attorney. It's EXACTLY my business!"
They give up and leave 😭
ATTORNEY: "Don't push me! Why are you trying to pick them up?"
ICE GOON: "It's none of your business!"
ATTORNEY: "It is my business—I'm their attorney. It's EXACTLY my business!"
They give up and leave 😭
January 21, 2026 at 12:57 PM
That mustache-d thug is like the textbook ICE agent.
¿Wait, waht?
Last year a whistleblower said DOGE had illegally accessed a Social Security database. SSA now acknowledges it's true—& that DOGE employees had secret agreement w/ unidentified political advocacy group to use SocSec data to help overturn election results. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
January 21, 2026 at 7:32 AM
¿Wait, waht?
Crazy times.
Canada starts preparing for guerilla warfare, just in case
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
Military models Canadian response to hypothetical American invasion
Armed Forces envision insurgency tactics like those used by Afghan mujahedeen, sources say. But officials and experts stress a U.S. operation is unlikely, and the scenarios are conceptual
www.theglobeandmail.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:30 AM
Crazy times.
This attorney is awesome.
Time and again, successful resistance to Trump’s authoritarianism comes from ordinary Americans putting their actual bodies on the line, when institutional leaders can’t even deign to use strong language.
Watch that. And then tell me how we replace Schumer with her
January 21, 2026 at 2:25 AM
This attorney is awesome.
Trump's remarks are unbe-damn-lievable. I cannot imagine history will be the least bit kind to him.
It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.
Trump: "They're paid agitators and insurrectionists. Nobody talks about the fact that $19 billion at a minimum is missing in Minnesota, given to a large degree by Somalians. They've taken it. Somalians. A lot of very low IQ people."
January 21, 2026 at 2:21 AM
Trump's remarks are unbe-damn-lievable. I cannot imagine history will be the least bit kind to him.
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Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
January 20, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
Yeah, this is remarkably bold and sobering, because Carney calls out the gap between rhetoric and reality, and says "we were willing to overlook that for the benefits the US-led int'l order provided, but no longer." That's smart, and true, but also means it's hard to walk-back. This is consequential
1/Carney laying out in plan language the logical conclusion of US weaponization of interdependence. As US turns to coercion for parochial political goals rather than global public goods, it will spur growing backlash.
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
January 20, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Yeah, this is remarkably bold and sobering, because Carney calls out the gap between rhetoric and reality, and says "we were willing to overlook that for the benefits the US-led int'l order provided, but no longer." That's smart, and true, but also means it's hard to walk-back. This is consequential
I get that Trump and MAGA sees this kind of bloviating as "strength," and the silence of the other panelists as evidence that our bullying works, but folks inside the Admin *have* to see this makes us look like fools. Idiots. Clowns. Unserious.
Right? They have to see how others certainly see it.
Right? They have to see how others certainly see it.
January 20, 2026 at 4:42 PM
I get that Trump and MAGA sees this kind of bloviating as "strength," and the silence of the other panelists as evidence that our bullying works, but folks inside the Admin *have* to see this makes us look like fools. Idiots. Clowns. Unserious.
Right? They have to see how others certainly see it.
Right? They have to see how others certainly see it.
I wonder how history—which often whitewash even awful political actors—will view the Trump era of US politics. MAGA folks think Trump is restoring American prosperity and pride. Liberals, like me, think he's killing American institutions and democracy and hurting the economy. What will history say?
It's hard to even explain what a disaster this is for the US economy in the short-term — as well as US innovation and industry in decades to come. Immigrants and foreign students at our universities are—as always have been—the wellspring of American invention and innovation.
New research concludes the Trump administration’s policies will reduce **legal** immigration to the United States by 33% to 50% over four years.
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
January 20, 2026 at 3:35 PM
I wonder how history—which often whitewash even awful political actors—will view the Trump era of US politics. MAGA folks think Trump is restoring American prosperity and pride. Liberals, like me, think he's killing American institutions and democracy and hurting the economy. What will history say?
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"Battalions of armed federal agents are moving thru neighborhoods, transit hubs, malls & parking lots & staging near churches, mosques & schools. Strangers w/guns have metastasized in spaces where daily life should be routine & safe... like a military occupation."
www.startribune.com/editorial-mi...
www.startribune.com/editorial-mi...
January 20, 2026 at 10:54 AM
"Battalions of armed federal agents are moving thru neighborhoods, transit hubs, malls & parking lots & staging near churches, mosques & schools. Strangers w/guns have metastasized in spaces where daily life should be routine & safe... like a military occupation."
www.startribune.com/editorial-mi...
www.startribune.com/editorial-mi...
I don't know if he's mad or just a narcissist, but in hindsight, none of us should've been surprised. I always wondered what, exactly, Trump meant when he said "our leaders are so stupid." This is what he meant, i.e., they were unwilling to bully allies and look at every relationship transactionally
Just as "Trump is mad but we agree with him on x" is bad politics, so is "Trump is mad so something something UK-EU relations".
Deal with the pressing question, Trump is mad / dangerous etc, and be happy that the UK, EU, Norway, Canada in particular are clearly coordinating closely.
Deal with the pressing question, Trump is mad / dangerous etc, and be happy that the UK, EU, Norway, Canada in particular are clearly coordinating closely.
January 20, 2026 at 11:52 AM
I don't know if he's mad or just a narcissist, but in hindsight, none of us should've been surprised. I always wondered what, exactly, Trump meant when he said "our leaders are so stupid." This is what he meant, i.e., they were unwilling to bully allies and look at every relationship transactionally
I've seen a few folks reading Bessent's comments this way, but isn't an equally plausible reading, "FAFO"? That's how I read it, at least.
January 20, 2026 at 11:48 AM
I've seen a few folks reading Bessent's comments this way, but isn't an equally plausible reading, "FAFO"? That's how I read it, at least.
Why couldn't Europe just
● Buy time, and hope Democrats win the midterms, which would likely bog Trump down in other matters (investigations; impeachment; etc.) or
● Give Trump Greenland, and hope the next Admin reestablishes the US's strong commitment to NATO?
● Buy time, and hope Democrats win the midterms, which would likely bog Trump down in other matters (investigations; impeachment; etc.) or
● Give Trump Greenland, and hope the next Admin reestablishes the US's strong commitment to NATO?
Trump is making it impossible for Europe to do anything but respond forcefully. If no EU consensus can be found to do so, the bloc is demonstrating that Trump’s criticisms are valid
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/w...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/w...
‘No Going Back’: Trump Doubles Down on Greenland Threats
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 11:39 AM
Why couldn't Europe just
● Buy time, and hope Democrats win the midterms, which would likely bog Trump down in other matters (investigations; impeachment; etc.) or
● Give Trump Greenland, and hope the next Admin reestablishes the US's strong commitment to NATO?
● Buy time, and hope Democrats win the midterms, which would likely bog Trump down in other matters (investigations; impeachment; etc.) or
● Give Trump Greenland, and hope the next Admin reestablishes the US's strong commitment to NATO?
One of the many downsides of a narcissistic, emotionally immature president is the lack of concern for long term consequences. If #Trump "gets" #Greenland, he'll claim "victory," but at the cost of weakening Europe and risking WW3 down the line. He won't care, tho. He'd deny a link / deflect blame.
“There can be no going back.” President Trump repeated his desire to take over Greenland and posted private messages from France’s president in an overnight social media storm.
Trump Doubles Down on Greenland Threats in Flurry of Truth Social Posts
President Trump posted private messages from France’s president and repeated his desire to take over Greenland in an overnight social media storm.
nyti.ms
January 20, 2026 at 11:24 AM
One of the many downsides of a narcissistic, emotionally immature president is the lack of concern for long term consequences. If #Trump "gets" #Greenland, he'll claim "victory," but at the cost of weakening Europe and risking WW3 down the line. He won't care, tho. He'd deny a link / deflect blame.