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An emptiness that can never be filled, a hunger that can never be sated, a self-loathing that can never be assuaged. Scary, appalling, but on another level quite sad.
In case the algorithm hasn’t delivered this to you yet, Donald Trump wrote a truly insane message to the Norwegian, Prime Minister, and here it is. The entire Republican Party is still lockstep with this guy.
January 19, 2026 at 2:31 PM
An emptiness that can never be filled, a hunger that can never be sated, a self-loathing that can never be assuaged. Scary, appalling, but on another level quite sad.
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ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
January 19, 2026 at 5:41 AM
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
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Average Sunday show interview:
OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats
HOST: how will you pay for it?
OFFICIAL: tariffs
HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money
OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed
HOST: thank u for ur time
OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats
HOST: how will you pay for it?
OFFICIAL: tariffs
HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money
OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed
HOST: thank u for ur time
January 18, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Average Sunday show interview:
OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats
HOST: how will you pay for it?
OFFICIAL: tariffs
HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money
OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed
HOST: thank u for ur time
OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats
HOST: how will you pay for it?
OFFICIAL: tariffs
HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money
OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed
HOST: thank u for ur time
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This is a very good point. The November 2025 US National Security Strategy never mentions the Arctic at all. The idea that it's a genuine security priority for the Trump administration is not credible.
January 18, 2026 at 6:07 PM
This is a very good point. The November 2025 US National Security Strategy never mentions the Arctic at all. The idea that it's a genuine security priority for the Trump administration is not credible.
My latest, on the prospects for another government shutdown later this month.
Balkinization: Homage to the Once and Future Government Shutdown share.google/Dnw7Y2dHqC3X...
Balkinization: Homage to the Once and Future Government Shutdown share.google/Dnw7Y2dHqC3X...
Homage to the Once and Future Government Shutdown
At the insistence of vocal elements of their base, Democrats shut down the federal government October I, demanding action on health ca...
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January 17, 2026 at 7:35 PM
My latest, on the prospects for another government shutdown later this month.
Balkinization: Homage to the Once and Future Government Shutdown share.google/Dnw7Y2dHqC3X...
Balkinization: Homage to the Once and Future Government Shutdown share.google/Dnw7Y2dHqC3X...
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Investigate and prosecute political opponents, sell pardons to your rich friends so they can commit crimes with impunity. Authoritarianism isn’t coming, it’s here, whether people realize it or not.
January 16, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Investigate and prosecute political opponents, sell pardons to your rich friends so they can commit crimes with impunity. Authoritarianism isn’t coming, it’s here, whether people realize it or not.
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I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
January 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
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This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.
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Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT
The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars
ictnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 10:31 PM
This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
This is how civilian airliners get shot down. Appallingly reckless.
Perfidy. Of course.
Breaking NYT:
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
January 13, 2026 at 5:14 AM
This is how civilian airliners get shot down. Appallingly reckless.
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To the surprise of nobody, Heritage really is scraping bottom here. GWBush spent huge sums testing several of these ideas. They flopped completely. The alleged "marriage tax" has been replaced by a mix of taxes and penalties such that the tax code has no clear skew. Leaning heavily on debunked ideas
January 10, 2026 at 8:44 PM
To the surprise of nobody, Heritage really is scraping bottom here. GWBush spent huge sums testing several of these ideas. They flopped completely. The alleged "marriage tax" has been replaced by a mix of taxes and penalties such that the tax code has no clear skew. Leaning heavily on debunked ideas
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𝗦𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘆!
Journalist Claire Hollingworth called the British Embassy in Warsaw on Sept 1, 1939, to report Germany's invasion of Poland, marking the start of WWII. To convince officials she held the phone out a window so they could hear the German tanks.
She died #OTD in 2017 at age 105.
Journalist Claire Hollingworth called the British Embassy in Warsaw on Sept 1, 1939, to report Germany's invasion of Poland, marking the start of WWII. To convince officials she held the phone out a window so they could hear the German tanks.
She died #OTD in 2017 at age 105.
January 10, 2026 at 6:08 PM
𝗦𝗰𝗼𝗼𝗽 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝘆!
Journalist Claire Hollingworth called the British Embassy in Warsaw on Sept 1, 1939, to report Germany's invasion of Poland, marking the start of WWII. To convince officials she held the phone out a window so they could hear the German tanks.
She died #OTD in 2017 at age 105.
Journalist Claire Hollingworth called the British Embassy in Warsaw on Sept 1, 1939, to report Germany's invasion of Poland, marking the start of WWII. To convince officials she held the phone out a window so they could hear the German tanks.
She died #OTD in 2017 at age 105.
Completely illegal. They lack authority to do this, and they obviously know that so they keep the details of this action vague. Recycling scandals from years earlier that Biden and Walz addressed and relying on unsubstantiated news reports suggests they lack credible evidence for this action.
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 10, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Completely illegal. They lack authority to do this, and they obviously know that so they keep the details of this action vague. Recycling scandals from years earlier that Biden and Walz addressed and relying on unsubstantiated news reports suggests they lack credible evidence for this action.
We should take seriously the well-developed sociological research about institutional culture. People see how others in their agency act and form strong instincts that that is what is appropriate. Once a toxic institutional culture has become rooted, it's almost impossible to reverse. That's ICE.
There's no "training" to "reform" this culture of violence and impunity, the only solution is to eliminate the agency and fire everyone associated.
Before someone whines "but but you need immigration enforcement" okay explain to me exactly how this is "immigration enforcement." It's just thuggery.
Before someone whines "but but you need immigration enforcement" okay explain to me exactly how this is "immigration enforcement." It's just thuggery.
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you."
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?"
"Learned what?" she asks
Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
January 10, 2026 at 4:10 PM
We should take seriously the well-developed sociological research about institutional culture. People see how others in their agency act and form strong instincts that that is what is appropriate. Once a toxic institutional culture has become rooted, it's almost impossible to reverse. That's ICE.
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The thing about the Boston Massacre— the fruits of arbitrary power— was not that the colonists were universally in the right. Things were thrown at the soldiers. But, the presence of a standing army escalated conditions. The use of force that night was not proportional. Citizens died needlessly.
January 10, 2026 at 3:42 PM
The thing about the Boston Massacre— the fruits of arbitrary power— was not that the colonists were universally in the right. Things were thrown at the soldiers. But, the presence of a standing army escalated conditions. The use of force that night was not proportional. Citizens died needlessly.
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DOJ is still violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
January 10, 2026 at 3:53 PM
DOJ is still violating the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
Valuable explanation 🧵
I have a new article out, which unfortunately isn't open-access, but the publisher is offering 50 free eprints!
The article dispels the common myth that Ukraine is too corrupt to join the EU. It shows that Ukrainian corruption is average...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
The article dispels the common myth that Ukraine is too corrupt to join the EU. It shows that Ukrainian corruption is average...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
(Anti)corruption and conditionality in the geopolitical enlargement: Ukraine’s EU accession in comparative perspective
Since Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, geostrategic urgency has revived EU enlargement, raising fears that speed may erode conditionality. This article argues instead that Ukraine's accession pat...
www.tandfonline.com
January 10, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Valuable explanation 🧵
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It isn’t difficult to hold 2 thoughts, side by side, at the same time:
The people of Iran deserve freedom, dignity, & protection from state violence.
The US & Israeli governments have caused great harm to Iranians and don’t have the best interests of the Iranian people in mind.
The people of Iran deserve freedom, dignity, & protection from state violence.
The US & Israeli governments have caused great harm to Iranians and don’t have the best interests of the Iranian people in mind.
January 10, 2026 at 2:48 PM
It isn’t difficult to hold 2 thoughts, side by side, at the same time:
The people of Iran deserve freedom, dignity, & protection from state violence.
The US & Israeli governments have caused great harm to Iranians and don’t have the best interests of the Iranian people in mind.
The people of Iran deserve freedom, dignity, & protection from state violence.
The US & Israeli governments have caused great harm to Iranians and don’t have the best interests of the Iranian people in mind.
Another clear pattern by the Trump Administration in Venezuela, Iran, and elsewhere:
Build
Up
Raise
Risks
Ignore
The
Opposition
He's humiliating the brave Venezuelan democratic resistance to bolster Chavistas while giving the Supreme Leader an excuse to tar demonstrators as foreign stooges.
Build
Up
Raise
Risks
Ignore
The
Opposition
He's humiliating the brave Venezuelan democratic resistance to bolster Chavistas while giving the Supreme Leader an excuse to tar demonstrators as foreign stooges.
January 10, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Another clear pattern by the Trump Administration in Venezuela, Iran, and elsewhere:
Build
Up
Raise
Risks
Ignore
The
Opposition
He's humiliating the brave Venezuelan democratic resistance to bolster Chavistas while giving the Supreme Leader an excuse to tar demonstrators as foreign stooges.
Build
Up
Raise
Risks
Ignore
The
Opposition
He's humiliating the brave Venezuelan democratic resistance to bolster Chavistas while giving the Supreme Leader an excuse to tar demonstrators as foreign stooges.
So if a mugger intercepts her on her way to meet with Trump, then the mugger will become a Nobel laureate?
For the millionth (ok, the second) time today, this is not how it works.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
January 9, 2026 at 12:10 PM
So if a mugger intercepts her on her way to meet with Trump, then the mugger will become a Nobel laureate?
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This is what I think of when I recognize that the lies Tricia McLaughlin, Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, JD Vance, and Trump all told about Renee Good's killing are INCONSISTENT.
They're not just inconsistent with the video. They're inconsistent with each other.
They're not just inconsistent with the video. They're inconsistent with each other.
“If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer… And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind…And with such a people you can then do what you please.”
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
January 9, 2026 at 11:27 AM
This is what I think of when I recognize that the lies Tricia McLaughlin, Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, JD Vance, and Trump all told about Renee Good's killing are INCONSISTENT.
They're not just inconsistent with the video. They're inconsistent with each other.
They're not just inconsistent with the video. They're inconsistent with each other.
All lies dishonor the teller. But some lies are so grotesque that they express contempt for, and dishonor, the listener. He must think a great many of his followers are completely debased to think it profits him to tell these obvious lies. Sadly, he seems to be correct about them.
That he chooses the "me or your lying eyes?" approach, in the full knowledge that there are multiple videos out there, is a striking commentary on the nature of propaganda in the modern information environment.
Trump: "I have just viewed the clip of the event which took place in Minneapolis. It is a horrible thing to watch. The woman screaming was, obviously, a professional agitator, and the woman driving the car was very disorderly, obstructing and resisting ... "
January 9, 2026 at 11:43 AM
All lies dishonor the teller. But some lies are so grotesque that they express contempt for, and dishonor, the listener. He must think a great many of his followers are completely debased to think it profits him to tell these obvious lies. Sadly, he seems to be correct about them.
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Alfred Nobel specifically stated in his will that once the prize has been awarded it can’t be changed. But if Trump is so pathetic that he wants to take Machado’s medal, and she’s so desperate and weak that she will give it to him, let the world watch that disgraceful charade.
January 9, 2026 at 11:15 AM
Alfred Nobel specifically stated in his will that once the prize has been awarded it can’t be changed. But if Trump is so pathetic that he wants to take Machado’s medal, and she’s so desperate and weak that she will give it to him, let the world watch that disgraceful charade.
The same ethical shortcomings that allow far-right politicians to spew racial hatred and disregard the rule of law also allow them to corrupt public administration and public works projects to their own financial benefit. "Bigot with integrity" just isn't a thing.
A quick look at Reform run councils should disabuse them of the notion they'll "get things done".
Interesting anon quotations from civil servants about prospect of a Reform govt via Emilio Casalicchio www.politico.eu/newsletter/l...
January 9, 2026 at 11:14 AM
The same ethical shortcomings that allow far-right politicians to spew racial hatred and disregard the rule of law also allow them to corrupt public administration and public works projects to their own financial benefit. "Bigot with integrity" just isn't a thing.
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The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism.
Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.
Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.
January 8, 2026 at 9:05 PM
The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism.
Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.
Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.