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I'm somewhat tired of pretending that trans women using women's changing rooms and bathrooms has ever been a problem, as entire legal systems contradict their own precedent specifically to deny trans women dignity and serve up sacrifices to gender-conservatives and bigoted religious groups.
January 17, 2026 at 9:50 AM
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criminalerin.bsky.social
Meanwhile in Minneapolis, the National Guard is being deployed today to escort the *checks news* *checks news again* *checks my vision at the optometrist* *checks news* racists marching through Somali neighborhoods to protest the existence of day cares for Black kids

mndaily.com/city/minneso...
Minnesota National Guard, several other agencies mobilized ahead of Saturday march Minnesota’s commissioner for the Department of Public Safety announced the action Friday. by Tyler Church and Alexis Letang Published January 16, 2026 “March Against Minnesota Fraud,” organized by conservative influencer Jake Lang, is planned for Saturday at 12 p.m. at Minneapolis City Hall. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune, Rep. Mohamud Noor said he is fearful of the protest moving to areas with high Somali populations, such as the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood. Activists also expect the protest to travel through the University of Minnesota campus. The protest, which Lang broadcasted on X, calls to “take back” the state from Democrats, following President Donald Trump’s recent scrutiny of Minnesota’s Somali community. The “crusaders”, as Lang called the members of the protest in his X post, plan to start at Minneapolis’ city hall. The Minneapolis Police Inspector Bill Peterson told Minneapolis residents Tuesday in a monthly community safety meeting that the city has prepared for the event, adding that they are “hyper-aware” that the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood could be a target due to their large Somali population.
January 17, 2026 at 12:36 PM
droseph.bsky.social
not even going to link to that toxic waste in Rollingstone: its not simply out of touch with the left, or the average suburban liberal mom, it is divorced entirely from reality, and I really have to question just how that got published.
January 17, 2026 at 1:06 PM
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jane.meangirls.online
There’s no opposition party to vote for, just a junior partner in the fascist coalition.
senategabe.bsky.social Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 3h
Democrats are ahead by significantly less than they were in 2018 in the generic congressional vote and are far more hated than the Republicans in surveys.

Yet everyone seems to be assuming the Dems are about to wipe the floor in the midterms.
January 17, 2026 at 12:08 PM
droseph.bsky.social
This is already exactly what it is like to live outside of the United States sphere of influence
explaintrade.com Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 4h
2/ Consider an alternative universe where all states are operating on the assumption that their territory is only theirs provided they can either defend it, or deter aggression.

That every one of their neighbours is one moment of strength away from seizing leibesraum.

What does that look like?
January 17, 2026 at 11:58 AM
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explaintrade.com
1/ Something which I don't think gets articulated clearly often enough is that a system where countries generally respect international sovereignty and territorial integrity is not pure charity or morality by the United States, but in its direct interests.

Despite it being the strongest bear.
January 17, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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juniorhoncho.bsky.social
trump (spit polishing kissinger's nobel peace prize, not even glancing up): wow amazing. what a terrific gesture and so deserved. (pointing, still not looking up) you there. have little marco fetch a gift bag for miss muchacho. tell him she's waiting outside
January 17, 2026 at 10:25 AM
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wired.com
Plus: AI reportedly caused ICE to send agents into the field without training, Palantir’s app for targeting immigrants gets exposed, and more. www.wired.com/story/securi...
US Hackers Reportedly Caused a Blackout in Venezuela
Plus: AI reportedly caused ICE to send agents into the field without training, Palantir’s app for targeting immigrants gets exposed, and more.
www.wired.com
January 17, 2026 at 11:34 AM
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bigjoel.bsky.social
I somehow missed that Israel has banned 40 aid organizations, including doctors without borders and oxfam, from entering gaza and the west bank

www.npr.org/2026/01/11/g...
Inside a Gaza medical clinic at risk of shutting down after an Israeli ban
A recent Israeli decision to bar Doctors Without Borders and other aid groups means international staff and aid can no longer enter Gaza or the West Bank. Local staff must rely on dwindling supplies a...
www.npr.org
January 17, 2026 at 4:12 AM
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casey.app
This and Mamdani’s revocation of all EOs after Adams’s corrupt bargain are the template moving forward. No nibbling around the edges; total bulldozing.
samshirazi.bsky.social Sam Shirazi @samshirazi.bsky.social · 14h
Wow

The night before Spanberger’s inauguration

She’s cleared house at UVA

Top Youngkin appointees resign

Spanberger should be able to easily replace them given Dem trifecta

The former CIA officer asserting her control
January 17, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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jbendery.bsky.social
The Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of nearly 100 House Democrats, will announce later today that it's formally endorsing legislation to strip $175 billion from ICE and put it toward affordable housing. www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-fe...
Progressive Caucus Backs Bill To Redirect ICE Money To Affordable Housing
www.huffpost.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:00 PM
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carlbeijer.bsky.social
What if I told you that many people who radically disagree with Will's politics have been doing ICE monitoring for decades
January 17, 2026 at 5:31 AM
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ositanwanevu.com
Apropos of nothing, let's check in with how things are going at Bari Weiss's free speech university. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Most people didn’t think much of it when the university dean, Ben Crocker, called a student named Dan into his office on Monday, Sept. 9, the first day of classes. But at 7:44 in the evening, they received an email from three administrators saying that Dan had been removed from campus, “transported to his home out of state,” and barred from further access to the university. The nature of the allegations concerned, at their core, a pair of charged statements Dan allegedly made that would be familiar to any Title IX officer. The first was a general statement implying that UATX girls carried themselves physically in a way that invited sexual assault. The second was a suggestion to a specific female student that she had carried herself in a way that invited sexual assault. Dan had already been the subject of some negative attention on campus because of provocative statements he’d made in a UATX-based Discord “introductions” chat. These included a challenge — “If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I’ll kill you” — which was a reference to the 1981 movie “Stripes” and likely misunderstood by fellow students. In another exchange, a discussion of transgender issues, Dan expressed reservations about hormone treatment and said that he couldn’t wait “to play devil’s advocate for legalizing pedophilia.” Between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m., Crocker visited the dorms, where he hosted a meeting on the roof to discuss the issue with students. Crocker’s message was that Dan’s conduct had been evaluated to be a “credible threat” — a phrase that would be repeated by the administration many times over the following days. Crocker then faced what one student attendee recalled as a “firing squad” of questions. Some students said that Dan had seemed off, but others saw his hasty removal as an example of the very cancel culture to which UATX was supposed to be the antithesis. Several students noted a lack of diversity. Consistent with its emphasis on “merit-based admissions,” UATX doesn’t publish demographic data. The students with whom I spoke said their classmates — and the college’s leadership — were overwhelmingly white, disproportionately came from wealthy families and had an overrepresentation of apparent neurodivergence. They found ideological diversity to be particularly lacking. “I didn’t realize exactly how conservative it would be,” one current student told me. “You know, when I hear free speech and open debate and all that jazz, I assumed that there was going to be a more equal amount of political views, and there wasn’t.” Classes weren’t as innovative as most students expected. “Year one was exceptionally boring,” the student said. “They did great books, they just didn’t do it in a great way,” said another student, who lamented the amount of memorization required. “I thought we were going to be intensely debating,” he said. Several students shared course syllabi with me. Most are easy enough to imagine being offered on any campus — with the notable exception of math and science. “The math classes go over algebra you learned in ninth grade,” a student told me. “There was just nothing there.” He described the offering as “schizophrenic” and described a class he’d taken at University of Texas at Austin as “exponentially more important.” Indeed, the syllabus I reviewed for a class called “Intellectual Foundations of Science II” covered a range of topics unusual for a science class including “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.” A student who’d taken the course shared a slide with me on “ensoulment” — the principally religious question of when a soul enters the human body — and said that the class had been told that IVF but not abortion could be consistent with the Catholic belief about ensoulment. The poor quality of the science offerings had bothered Heying and Pinker. “Others thought I was the token liberal,” Heying told me, “but I came to understand myself as the token scientist.” In an email, Pinker wrote, “They should have hired a widely esteemed scientist and proven program builder to set up their science division.” Another surprising similarity with other colleges stemmed directly from Dan’s expulsion: The students feared cancellation. “At any moment a frivolous Title IX complaint could be filed against you,” a former student told me. “I’ve never felt my speech was so chilled as it was in the classroom at UATX.” During the many conversations I had reporting this story, two questions came up more than any other. The first: Where was Bari Weiss? Many of the people I interviewed told me about internal conversations and shared internal emails. Weiss, who remains on the board of trustees, was almost never present in the conversations as they were related to me, and while I saw many emails on which Kanelos and Ferguson were copied, I never saw any including Weiss. speaks onstage during an event in New York City, on Nov. 19, 2024. | Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Free Press One person I spoke to, who was present during the early planning stages, told me that Weiss was “very elusive” and almost never present in person. This was ironic since UATX was closely associated with Weiss — a bust of whom now resides in the school library. Weiss, meanwhile, has only risen further during the Trump 2.0 era and is now editor-in-chief of CBS News, where she has been criticized as genuflecting to the Trump administration. A spokesperson for CBS News did not respond to a request for comment from Weiss. One former member of the development team told me that they would routinely ask prospective donors how they got to know UATX. “Eighty percent of the time, the answer was Bari Weiss,” they said. “It was very often referred to as Bari Weiss’ University, or Bari Weiss’ University Project, or Bari Weiss’ University of Austin.” For several people, this was a source of resentment. “I don’t care whether she wants to pretend this is all gone now — she is the reason that this place exists. She was huge, she was held in such high regard, she had such an enormous impact,” the former staffer said. “I want her to be held to account,” she added. “I’m pissed.”
January 16, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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disabilitystor1.bsky.social
Joe Biden, I would note, made it very clear that he had the utmost contempt for academics and students who (silly them) believed in the first amendment and in their right to protest the US funding and supporting genocide. Biden made that contempt clear but it would never be enough for the right.
robertsilverman.bsky.social Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 16h
what the hell is this revisionist nonsense? This *did not happen*—except in the minds of the far-right. You're buying their bad faith bullshit. MAGA called for and now is building a white ethnostate b/c *they are white nationalists*. That's what they do. FFS
January 17, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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nickturse.bsky.social
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January 17, 2026 at 6:39 AM
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thembo.bsky.social
I'm sorry guys, I'm afraid I may have arrived here from a separate timeline. In my universe, Newsom "went after" Trump by having his staff post ai slop and lazy tweets while Gavin himself spent his evenings agreeing with nazis on his podcast. What heroics did he do here?
maddenifico.bsky.social Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 18h
This gentleman is spot-fucking-on. This is why I am currently 100% behind Gavin Newsom. No one politician has had the balls to go after the pedophile führer with ZERO fucks to give. NOT ONE. 🙌💪👏✊👇
January 17, 2026 at 5:50 AM
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tobitac.bsky.social
One application of that cynical take I feel confident about is that there were some US political leaders who hoped for the worst for Hong Kong democracy protesters while loudly cheering them on. Nothing but political profit for them
seva.bsky.social Seva @seva.bsky.social · 16h
the argument:
January 17, 2026 at 5:54 AM
droseph.bsky.social
if this is true, then something drastic needs to happen to shake up the Democratic Party leadership. This can't go on.
jules.su Jules Suzdaltsev @jules.su · 6h
one thing we should probably recall at this point is how meticulously the Nazis documented their crimes on camera, which is to say - yeah that doesn’t make them do less crimes buddy
January 17, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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eschatonblog.com
"Give it to bari, she will run with anything " - something regularly said at DHS
buttnakedpatriot.bsky.social The Screaming Butt Naked Patriot @buttnakedpatriot.bsky.social · 17h
As you already well know by now, it's all lies.

Every single thing anyone in this entire administration says is a lie.

All of it.

Every time.
January 17, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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kendrawrites.com
ICE raids are not the first time this was made explicit. I think people downplay how much Jim Crow was not just about controlling Black people but it was also about controlling white people. If you thought racism was dumb and acted that way you could end up with a bomb in your home
sesmith.lol s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 9h
Just keep coming back to the fact that keeping people in a constant state of terror is a form of mass disablement and essential to the eugenic project that is the United States.
January 17, 2026 at 6:08 AM
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taylorlorenz.bsky.social
Scott Galloway is a raging misogynist and continues to use his platform to push harmful reactionary rhetoric
mikestabile.bsky.social Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · Dec 13
The link between sexual repression and militarism is becoming clearer by the day.

Galloway blames OnlyFans for loneliness, depression, small business closures, extremism, tyranny and *checks notes* impending societal extinction.

His solution? Mandatory national service.
Scott Galloway: OnlyFans is the billion-dollar symptom of a loneliness pandemic
The most unstable, violent societies have one thing in common: lonely young men. We are producing millions of them, writes Scott Galloway
www.standard.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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diplomatofnight.com
Israeli soldiers in Israeli-occupied Syria stole over 250 goats from a Syrian farmstead and took them to multiple illegal settlements in the Israeli occupied West Bank
Israeli troops smuggled herd of 250 goats from Syria to West Bank farms — report
IDF tells Israeli TV network that team commander was dismissed from service over incident and company commander reprimanded, while squad itself was suspended for significant period
www.timesofisrael.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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billcorbett.bsky.social
consent manufacturers
dreamseadrifter.bsky.social Nick Walker Hirsch @dreamseadrifter.bsky.social · 16h
What are those journalists even there for?
January 16, 2026 at 10:39 PM
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yasharali.bsky.social
Over our dead bodies

Long Live Iran.

bit.ly/49qVchd
January 16, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social
Ahahahahahaha

bsky.app/profile/hell...
January 16, 2026 at 6:17 PM