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· Jan 17
not exactly what the woman said, but same energy. the soliloquy this is from had me bawling at the time
now, i don't do this, i'm just much too shy around people i don't know and don't check in enough with the people i do. but as an ideal to aspire to? gotta be my lodestar
now, i don't do this, i'm just much too shy around people i don't know and don't check in enough with the people i do. but as an ideal to aspire to? gotta be my lodestar
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If I controlled a bunch of PAC money I'd be running testimonials with sympathetic victims of ICE in Minneapolis as 30 second spots during, I dunno, NFL games and the like.
January 19, 2026 at 3:21 PM
If I controlled a bunch of PAC money I'd be running testimonials with sympathetic victims of ICE in Minneapolis as 30 second spots during, I dunno, NFL games and the like.
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Instead of Share Our Wealth, it would be Hoard Our Wealth: no more “welfare abuse”, no more affirmative action, no more welfare for the “underclass”, but “more prisons”, an end to busing, and the death penalty for drug dealers.
#page42
#page42
その結果、「お経とは異なる修行法」として、新たな概念を創造するような回答になってしまいました。 #page42
January 19, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Instead of Share Our Wealth, it would be Hoard Our Wealth: no more “welfare abuse”, no more affirmative action, no more welfare for the “underclass”, but “more prisons”, an end to busing, and the death penalty for drug dealers.
#page42
#page42
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Today basically every American politician will post about MLK on this app.
Very VERY few of them will connect it to anything happening in the country right now.
Very VERY few of them will connect it to anything happening in the country right now.
January 19, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Today basically every American politician will post about MLK on this app.
Very VERY few of them will connect it to anything happening in the country right now.
Very VERY few of them will connect it to anything happening in the country right now.
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koizumi jr aside like, how do you treat the contemporary US as a serious security guarantor that won't turn into a gangster?
i wonder what Tokyo does if the EU and the US get into an economic war over Greenland
January 19, 2026 at 1:51 PM
koizumi jr aside like, how do you treat the contemporary US as a serious security guarantor that won't turn into a gangster?
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apparently denmark is not one of the countries where your own party will invite their leader to give a speech in the senate about how the sitting president is a piece of shit and he ought to be removed from power
if we do not push Chuck Schumer out of power, he will not just meekly submit to the right until they put him in the camps, he will blow up NATO as well
The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
January 19, 2026 at 5:47 AM
apparently denmark is not one of the countries where your own party will invite their leader to give a speech in the senate about how the sitting president is a piece of shit and he ought to be removed from power
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The President of the United States is incontrovertibly mentally unwell and wants to make war. The Prime Minister of Norway has confirmed that he received this letter.
It seems to me that several things must happen, preferably as soon as possible. 1/3
It seems to me that several things must happen, preferably as soon as possible. 1/3
Not the sort of letter committed to paper by a well man. "Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"
January 19, 2026 at 1:29 PM
The President of the United States is incontrovertibly mentally unwell and wants to make war. The Prime Minister of Norway has confirmed that he received this letter.
It seems to me that several things must happen, preferably as soon as possible. 1/3
It seems to me that several things must happen, preferably as soon as possible. 1/3
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this feels right to me
the project was a failure, but an interesting & important failure that will shape the genre for decades to come
the project was a failure, but an interesting & important failure that will shape the genre for decades to come
George R.R. Martin has said that if he never completes Game of Thrones sequel Winds of Winter (or the book after that), there's no plan for anyone else to step in. Instead, his Song of Ice and Fire series simply "won't be finished."
Game of Thrones Writer George R.R. Martin Says There's No Plan if He Dies Before Completing Winds of Winter, and the Series Simply 'Won't Be Finished'
bit.ly
January 19, 2026 at 1:22 PM
this feels right to me
the project was a failure, but an interesting & important failure that will shape the genre for decades to come
the project was a failure, but an interesting & important failure that will shape the genre for decades to come
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Pictured: Congress, moments before it drowns
January 19, 2026 at 12:32 PM
Pictured: Congress, moments before it drowns
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Misinformed?
It was an anti-US deployment! That was the entire point!
What does "clarification of the nature" even mean?
"Oh no sorry Mr Trump they're just in holiday, they like the snow"?
It was an anti-US deployment! That was the entire point!
What does "clarification of the nature" even mean?
"Oh no sorry Mr Trump they're just in holiday, they like the snow"?
![Starmer says he clarified nature of European troop deployment to Greenland when he spoke to Trump
Q: [From Gary Gibbon from Channel 4 News] Is there anything that Trump could do that would make you stop thinking of him as an ally? And do you think he announced tariffs because he had been misinformed about the nature of the military deployment by some European countries to Greenland?
Starmer said he spoke to Trump about the deployment yesterday, and stressed that soldiers were going there to protect it from Russia.
(He does not dispute the suggestion that Trump may have believed it was an anti-US deployment.)
On the other point, he says working with allies does not mean pretending they don’t have differences.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:movr4wsu2du5xbmeragyr5cx/bafkreibnq6enjfc33lcm7flvlmv5muv4wcm6k32o5m7paz3rdpum3kfopa@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 10:08 AM
Misinformed?
It was an anti-US deployment! That was the entire point!
What does "clarification of the nature" even mean?
"Oh no sorry Mr Trump they're just in holiday, they like the snow"?
It was an anti-US deployment! That was the entire point!
What does "clarification of the nature" even mean?
"Oh no sorry Mr Trump they're just in holiday, they like the snow"?
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Haruka and Erika.
January 19, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Haruka and Erika.
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a lot of american politics fails because politicians want to pretend their job isn't political, its fucking bizarre and inane
January 19, 2026 at 3:44 AM
a lot of american politics fails because politicians want to pretend their job isn't political, its fucking bizarre and inane
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also an aside, a partisan political attack on our democracy was never going to have a non-partisan legalist solution, its a fundamentally a political problem
the theory behind the "investigation" of donald trump was that an event which had never before happened and which the entire conservative legal movement existed to prevent (the prosecution of a republican president for a crime) would occur mechanically by operation of law, without biden's approval.
Yep. Showing vigor and resolve, and also demonstrating that he was as bad as Biden and co said. Because if you're dumb, you might work backwards from what happened to "oh they were bullshitting, if he was really that bad he'd be in jail"
January 19, 2026 at 3:42 AM
also an aside, a partisan political attack on our democracy was never going to have a non-partisan legalist solution, its a fundamentally a political problem
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My brother in America can't believe what I paid for my bicycle accident a few years ago.
Hello yes sorry I know we’re not supposed to take photos inside the hospital but I just need to snap a quick one of this perfectly normal medical bill cuz see I’m American (don’t tell anyone.)
January 19, 2026 at 12:10 PM
My brother in America can't believe what I paid for my bicycle accident a few years ago.
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I hate to put it in these terms, but it happens to be true: our country's security rests on completely destroying the Republican party
January 19, 2026 at 5:09 AM
I hate to put it in these terms, but it happens to be true: our country's security rests on completely destroying the Republican party
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Yup. There needs to be a guarantee that this will never happen again. A *guarantee*. By whatever means necessary.
The only mechanism Democrats will have for regaining the US's diplomatic standing with Europe is take take extreme measures against the Republican party. They will never trust us again unless they think the Republican party in its current form is dead.
January 19, 2026 at 9:16 AM
Yup. There needs to be a guarantee that this will never happen again. A *guarantee*. By whatever means necessary.
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specifically people are angry with Sanders because he's supposed to be one of the more reasonable ones, but his tone-deaf "ah hah Denmark actually has better social policies!!!" skeet in the face of the collapse of the geopolitical order implies someone who is not taking this entirely seriously
January 19, 2026 at 12:03 PM
specifically people are angry with Sanders because he's supposed to be one of the more reasonable ones, but his tone-deaf "ah hah Denmark actually has better social policies!!!" skeet in the face of the collapse of the geopolitical order implies someone who is not taking this entirely seriously
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no-one is saying that Americans are unaware that things are crazy. the point is that quite a lot of American pundits seem to be treating Greenland as a standard Trump escalation or distraction which can be easily moved on from or undone, and it's important to understand why that isn't the case
I am not here for Europeans telling me Americans don't know how crazy things are. The Nazis are killing people over here at the moment so we're busy but thanks for the input. I had hoped for solidarity but I suppose I'll have to settle for sneering condescension instead.
January 19, 2026 at 12:01 PM
no-one is saying that Americans are unaware that things are crazy. the point is that quite a lot of American pundits seem to be treating Greenland as a standard Trump escalation or distraction which can be easily moved on from or undone, and it's important to understand why that isn't the case
yeah sleep is not happening. good morning all, stay safe. here is a cute thing
January 19, 2026 at 11:55 AM
yeah sleep is not happening. good morning all, stay safe. here is a cute thing
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おー、「右傾化ではない」と発言した。やっぱり、中道改革連合というネーミングは正解だったのかもしれん。これのおかげで、自民党は「右翼じゃありません」といちいち言わないとダメになるわけだ。
January 19, 2026 at 9:39 AM
おー、「右傾化ではない」と発言した。やっぱり、中道改革連合というネーミングは正解だったのかもしれん。これのおかげで、自民党は「右翼じゃありません」といちいち言わないとダメになるわけだ。
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this Greenland shit is fucking insane. it’s fucking insane. the fact that anyone is humoring him is fucking insane. the biggest problem in the world today is that nobody is taking the president seriously for the fucking psychopath he is. this isn’t all some fucking joke
![NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreie7itpptx3xbxhpsnlaqmwk752h7pcrion5ija2apksljtax2adx4@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 5:53 AM
this Greenland shit is fucking insane. it’s fucking insane. the fact that anyone is humoring him is fucking insane. the biggest problem in the world today is that nobody is taking the president seriously for the fucking psychopath he is. this isn’t all some fucking joke
“Like the boycotters in Montgomery, this is not part of some grand design, something worked out well in advance by a disciplined organization. This is something that ordinary people have taken it upon themselves to do”
some real “we’re the ones we’ve been waiting for” energy. absolutely correct.
some real “we’re the ones we’ve been waiting for” energy. absolutely correct.
“Today, almost 58 years after MLK was murdered, more than 97 years after he was born, and as we approach the 250th anniversary of our founding, ordinary Americans are coming together again to protect our way of life. Many of us have organized towards that end, and more of us are doing so every day.”
We Have Organized, and More Must Do So
Minneapolis has shown us the path.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 19, 2026 at 11:24 AM
“Like the boycotters in Montgomery, this is not part of some grand design, something worked out well in advance by a disciplined organization. This is something that ordinary people have taken it upon themselves to do”
some real “we’re the ones we’ve been waiting for” energy. absolutely correct.
some real “we’re the ones we’ve been waiting for” energy. absolutely correct.
this was leaked yesterday or the day before but yeah. wow
JAPAN PM TAKAICHI: TO CALL SNAP ELECTION ON JAN 23
January 19, 2026 at 11:19 AM
this was leaked yesterday or the day before but yeah. wow
a bit, uh, too on message. actually the same problem the dem leadership has rn?
i feel like Americans don't get the level of eye-rolling this is getting from Europe
January 19, 2026 at 11:17 AM
a bit, uh, too on message. actually the same problem the dem leadership has rn?