David Faris
@davidfaris.bsky.social
Prof. of Politics, writer at @slate.bsky.social, @newsweek.com and @thenation. Author, IT’S TIME TO FIGHT DIRTY. Chicago, in the Medium Bucket. Dad, husband. The alarmists were right. Views are mine alone.
https://blogs.roosevelt.edu/dfaris
https://blogs.roosevelt.edu/dfaris
Love how the main Google search page, in addition to being completely useless and headlined by AI slop, is now festooned with the equivalent of Taboola clickbait stories.
January 22, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Love how the main Google search page, in addition to being completely useless and headlined by AI slop, is now festooned with the equivalent of Taboola clickbait stories.
The people running this country are genuinely depraved full stop.
This guy went to work today, put a mask on, kidnapped a 5 year old child, and then used him as bait so both he and his father could be sent behind bars
January 22, 2026 at 3:09 AM
The people running this country are genuinely depraved full stop.
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completely unironically, this is how we'll know
Everyone in his inner circle would be insider trading trading on his death on Kalshi before turning the plane around
January 21, 2026 at 4:11 AM
completely unironically, this is how we'll know
Industry is really a show working at the top of its game. Last night’s episode was one of the best hours of television I’ve ever seen.
January 21, 2026 at 4:23 AM
Industry is really a show working at the top of its game. Last night’s episode was one of the best hours of television I’ve ever seen.
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The more I think about this, the angrier I get. It takes a particularly virulent strain of sociopathy to sit and let hard-working people serve you a meal knowing that you plan to arrest them and send them off for deportation once they're off of work.
Really depraved shit.
Really depraved shit.
A few days ago, Fox News was whining about ICE agents getting heckled at a Mexican restaurant in Minneapolis.
Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
ICE agents ate at a Minnesota Mexican restaurant before arresting staff
Immigration law enforcement agents reportedly followed employees out of the restaurant after they closed for the evening
www.independent.co.uk
January 18, 2026 at 12:13 AM
The more I think about this, the angrier I get. It takes a particularly virulent strain of sociopathy to sit and let hard-working people serve you a meal knowing that you plan to arrest them and send them off for deportation once they're off of work.
Really depraved shit.
Really depraved shit.
Either these countries can decide to stand up to this babbling, dangerous lunatic and tell him to fuck all the way off, or they can keep getting rolled.
A terrible day.
The U.S. government vs. the free world.
The U.S. government vs. the free world.
January 18, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Either these countries can decide to stand up to this babbling, dangerous lunatic and tell him to fuck all the way off, or they can keep getting rolled.
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It's not a game, you fucking imbeciles
January 16, 2026 at 2:41 PM
It's not a game, you fucking imbeciles
Feel like the Dodgers just genuinely don’t want there to be a 2027 season.
January 16, 2026 at 3:21 AM
Feel like the Dodgers just genuinely don’t want there to be a 2027 season.
Our feelings for you haven’t changed, America. But after everything that’s happened….
Macron: At the request of Denmark, I have decided that France will participate in the joint exercises organized by Denmark in Greenland, Operation Arctic Endurance. The first French military elements are already on their way. Others will follow.
January 15, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Our feelings for you haven’t changed, America. But after everything that’s happened….
Dems need to try to shut the government down until ICE is meaningfully reined in. People who feel like their own party has abandoned them to a fascist crackdown without a fight not only won’t turn out in November, they may decide that the Democratic Party itself is obsolete and turn elsewhere.
Democrats Need to Shut Down the Government to Defund ICE Terror
With another deadline looming at the end of the month, party leaders must use the power they have to begin dismantling Trump’s police state.
www.thenation.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Dems need to try to shut the government down until ICE is meaningfully reined in. People who feel like their own party has abandoned them to a fascist crackdown without a fight not only won’t turn out in November, they may decide that the Democratic Party itself is obsolete and turn elsewhere.
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I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.
You could be next.
You could be next.
January 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.
You could be next.
You could be next.
Should be in 40-point font at the top of every news website that the US and its mad king are provoking a war with democratic NATO member states over Greenland. Fun fact: two other countries in NATO possess significant stockpiles of nuclear weapons sufficient to overwhelm America's defenses.
BREAKING part 3: Denmark is not acting alone. Several European allies are in dialogue with Copenhagen about providing military reinforcements to Greenland.
Preparing for the arrival of allied forces is a key task for the advance unit now on the ground.
www.dr.dk/tjenester/ki...
Preparing for the arrival of allied forces is a key task for the advance unit now on the ground.
www.dr.dk/tjenester/ki...
LIVE: Storpolitisk drama mellem USA, Danmark og Grønland
www.dr.dk
January 14, 2026 at 4:15 PM
Should be in 40-point font at the top of every news website that the US and its mad king are provoking a war with democratic NATO member states over Greenland. Fun fact: two other countries in NATO possess significant stockpiles of nuclear weapons sufficient to overwhelm America's defenses.
My two-year-old keeps trying to say “I want a Dunkin Donut” but it keeps coming out as “I want a fucking Donut”
January 14, 2026 at 2:04 PM
My two-year-old keeps trying to say “I want a Dunkin Donut” but it keeps coming out as “I want a fucking Donut”
Really fun to join @maryharris.bsky.social on @slate.com’s @whatnext.bsky.social to present the (I guess???) optimistic case for the midterm elections.
January 13, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Really fun to join @maryharris.bsky.social on @slate.com’s @whatnext.bsky.social to present the (I guess???) optimistic case for the midterm elections.
Hapless, feckless Democrats look set for big midterm gains in spite of themselves. New for @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Despite Themselves, Democrats Look Well Positioned for the Midterms
An otherwise inert opposition party may well clean up on Donald Trump's destructive and hubristic governing record.
www.thenation.com
January 12, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Hapless, feckless Democrats look set for big midterm gains in spite of themselves. New for @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.
January 10, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Not an exaggeration at all to say that the feeling in Minneapolis is that the entire metro area is being treated as occupied territory by federal agents. Impossible to overstate how overwhelmingly people here do not like it. This does not feel sustainable.
I think that point is "now"
at some point we're gonna have to have a real conversation about why we're still paying federal taxes to a regime that isn't using them to help anyone, but instead is using them to brutalize us
January 10, 2026 at 2:44 AM
I think that point is "now"
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Laughing at all the people saying shit like we should get rid of the few bad apples in the ethnic cleansing operation
January 9, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Laughing at all the people saying shit like we should get rid of the few bad apples in the ethnic cleansing operation
Never change, Bret.
January 8, 2026 at 1:20 PM
Never change, Bret.
We’re well past the point where in many other countries the military would be having high-level discussions about deposing the civilian leadership.
January 7, 2026 at 9:22 PM
We’re well past the point where in many other countries the military would be having high-level discussions about deposing the civilian leadership.
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If Dems aren't throwing fireballs and making this into the biggest story ever, dump all of them. If any piece of shit in office talks about lowering costs instead of "Trump is taking over countries and ice is killing Americans on the street," they're in on it. And let em know if it's your Rep or Sen
Someone who claims to have witnessed the incident says
- car was blocking ice
- they told them to move
- "something happened'
- ICE shot into the car as it was driving away
- passenger got out of the car covered away and said friend was dead
There is video and I have seen it
- car was blocking ice
- they told them to move
- "something happened'
- ICE shot into the car as it was driving away
- passenger got out of the car covered away and said friend was dead
There is video and I have seen it
January 7, 2026 at 4:58 PM
If Dems aren't throwing fireballs and making this into the biggest story ever, dump all of them. If any piece of shit in office talks about lowering costs instead of "Trump is taking over countries and ice is killing Americans on the street," they're in on it. And let em know if it's your Rep or Sen
Starting to feel like maybe entrusting the greatest military power in human history to an entourage of delusional fabulists, racist cranks and greed-soaked mercantilists may not have been wise.
January 4, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Starting to feel like maybe entrusting the greatest military power in human history to an entourage of delusional fabulists, racist cranks and greed-soaked mercantilists may not have been wise.
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"Cognitive amplifier tools" son it's a Teddy Ruxpin that makes teenagers commit suicide.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says people should move beyond calling AI 'slop'
"We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication and develop a new equilibrium ... that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier tools as we relate to each other"
"We need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication and develop a new equilibrium ... that accounts for humans being equipped with these new cognitive amplifier tools as we relate to each other"
January 3, 2026 at 1:45 AM
"Cognitive amplifier tools" son it's a Teddy Ruxpin that makes teenagers commit suicide.