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Ethan Jacobs 🇺🇦
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· Jan 23
If Putin had installed a president completely obedient to him and ordered him to kill the country, nothing would be different from what Trump did this past week.
The state’s promise of more or less just and effective criminal prosecution of homicide is the compensation for abandoning blood feuds / revenge killings. If the promise is broken, the result will be so ugly.
January 11, 2026 at 4:23 PM
The state’s promise of more or less just and effective criminal prosecution of homicide is the compensation for abandoning blood feuds / revenge killings. If the promise is broken, the result will be so ugly.
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These numbers are not surprising to me having covered it, but it is stark seeing it laid out like this and I’m glad the Times put this together.
Just this week, someone told me they wished I would stop including the appointing president in stories, and I was like, “Not a chance.” This is why.
Just this week, someone told me they wished I would stop including the appointing president in stories, and I was like, “Not a chance.” This is why.
Trump's appellate judges have formed a nearly united phalanx to defend his agenda from legal challenges. How often they ruled for him in 2025:
Trump appointees: 92%
Other Republican appointees: 68%
Democratic appointees: 27%
@schwartzesque.bsky.social Emma Schartz www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
Trump appointees: 92%
Other Republican appointees: 68%
Democratic appointees: 27%
@schwartzesque.bsky.social Emma Schartz www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
Trump’s ‘Superstar’ Appellate Judges Have Voted 133 to 12 in His Favor
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2026 at 4:00 PM
These numbers are not surprising to me having covered it, but it is stark seeing it laid out like this and I’m glad the Times put this together.
Just this week, someone told me they wished I would stop including the appointing president in stories, and I was like, “Not a chance.” This is why.
Just this week, someone told me they wished I would stop including the appointing president in stories, and I was like, “Not a chance.” This is why.
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It is impossible to overstate the degree to which the entire national political media's coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign, especially once Harris won the nomination, was deeply, fundamentally, shamefully unserious about the stakes & the candidates.
I can still recall all the tut-tutting from the media when Harris made this argument.
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally:
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
January 11, 2026 at 5:55 AM
It is impossible to overstate the degree to which the entire national political media's coverage of the 2024 presidential campaign, especially once Harris won the nomination, was deeply, fundamentally, shamefully unserious about the stakes & the candidates.
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If Putin had installed a president completely obedient to him and ordered him to kill the country, nothing would be different from what Trump did this past week.
January 23, 2025 at 4:09 AM
If Putin had installed a president completely obedient to him and ordered him to kill the country, nothing would be different from what Trump did this past week.
i mean i think a world where the US genuinely break NATO and launch an invasion of Greenland looks so alien to us that we will not be able to understand it
The thing I think folks struggle to appreciate with this stuff tho is however hard it is to wean Europe off US tech is *at least as hard* as it will be for US tech to get back into Europe after that type of transition kicks into high gear
January 11, 2026 at 5:46 AM
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I have some congresspeople who follow me, so I'll just throw this out there:
As a taxpayer, I would actually prefer that you *not* continue to fund the fascist military machine that is being used to kill and kidnap people from our communities.
As a taxpayer, I would actually prefer that you *not* continue to fund the fascist military machine that is being used to kill and kidnap people from our communities.
January 11, 2026 at 1:17 AM
I have some congresspeople who follow me, so I'll just throw this out there:
As a taxpayer, I would actually prefer that you *not* continue to fund the fascist military machine that is being used to kill and kidnap people from our communities.
As a taxpayer, I would actually prefer that you *not* continue to fund the fascist military machine that is being used to kill and kidnap people from our communities.
You can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!
January 11, 2026 at 5:27 AM
You can’t fight in here! This is the War Room!
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broke: great man theory of history
woke: great idiot theory of history
woke: great idiot theory of history
January 11, 2026 at 4:07 AM
broke: great man theory of history
woke: great idiot theory of history
woke: great idiot theory of history
dad: Indiana J—
son: —NO
son: —NO
January 11, 2026 at 12:19 AM
dad: Indiana J—
son: —NO
son: —NO
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Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally:
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
August 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Kamala Harris at her closing campaign rally:
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
"Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him."
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The primary mechanism by which Gamergate shaped political outcomes was by proving, and essentially creating, a particular kind market for right wing agitprop that spread like wildfire. It turned certain people into hated icons across new media.
It's a real canary in the coal mine moment for the future of socio-politics in the online era too.
Sarkeesian and Quinn went from relative unknowns to hate figures overnight for the audacity of engaging with games as an art form while being women, all coordinated via online message board.
Sarkeesian and Quinn went from relative unknowns to hate figures overnight for the audacity of engaging with games as an art form while being women, all coordinated via online message board.
January 10, 2026 at 1:44 PM
The primary mechanism by which Gamergate shaped political outcomes was by proving, and essentially creating, a particular kind market for right wing agitprop that spread like wildfire. It turned certain people into hated icons across new media.
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As it has been from the very start, the problem with Trump, the secret key to his power and the reason he’s going to get us all killed, is the enormous chunk of society that understands he is criminal, a fool, a brute, and deranged, but will not say so because they perceive him as rich and powerful
January 10, 2026 at 2:38 PM
As it has been from the very start, the problem with Trump, the secret key to his power and the reason he’s going to get us all killed, is the enormous chunk of society that understands he is criminal, a fool, a brute, and deranged, but will not say so because they perceive him as rich and powerful
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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 2:52 PM
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
The same amount of time separates the release of The Godfather (1972) and The Matrix (1999) that separates the release of The Matrix from today.
January 10, 2026 at 9:36 AM
The same amount of time separates the release of The Godfather (1972) and The Matrix (1999) that separates the release of The Matrix from today.
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America is yearning for "it."
January 9, 2026 at 9:39 PM
America is yearning for "it."
Even without a policy violation, I don’t understand what threat he can claim he was eliminating by killing her. No one was in front of the car when he shot her and she was heading away from them.
January 9, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Even without a policy violation, I don’t understand what threat he can claim he was eliminating by killing her. No one was in front of the car when he shot her and she was heading away from them.
I don’t understand what the explanation is for how shooting the driver at point blank range was supposed to protect him or anyone else from her car.
January 9, 2026 at 8:51 PM
I don’t understand what the explanation is for how shooting the driver at point blank range was supposed to protect him or anyone else from her car.
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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
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no no don't tread on ME, you see. I of course am going to tread the shit out of YOU
ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who shot and killed an unarmed civilian, flew a don't-tread-on-me Gadsden flag at his house, per the Daily Mail.
January 9, 2026 at 2:31 PM
no no don't tread on ME, you see. I of course am going to tread the shit out of YOU
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No I said don’t tread on *me*. You can get treaded on.
January 9, 2026 at 3:17 PM
No I said don’t tread on *me*. You can get treaded on.
We called them and they withdrew it.
January 9, 2026 at 3:33 PM
We called them and they withdrew it.
There is no way those lawyers knew which paragraphs in the complaint were true or false. But the answer claimed to know!
January 9, 2026 at 2:54 PM
There is no way those lawyers knew which paragraphs in the complaint were true or false. But the answer claimed to know!