Eric Thee Colt
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Playbook | As Tom Homan arrives in Minnesota, rumors swirl that Gregory Bovino's next raids will take place at Harvard's Institute of Politics.
January 27, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Playbook | As Tom Homan arrives in Minnesota, rumors swirl that Gregory Bovino's next raids will take place at Harvard's Institute of Politics.
Is framing another capitulation really “plotting a strategy”?
The Trump admin is scrambling because the secret police it sends out for kidnappings and rioting has been killing people on video then brazenly lying about it, but Schumer's instinct is to whip his caucus into taking a position *more conservative* than that held by the median voter.
He's got to go.
He's got to go.
Majority of the country now wants to abolish and/or dismantle ICE and yet Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. told the caucus the message had to be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity.
So pathetic and weak.
Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity.
So pathetic and weak.
January 27, 2026 at 4:44 AM
Is framing another capitulation really “plotting a strategy”?
Yesterday
This. He has to go.
The Trump admin is scrambling because the secret police it sends out for kidnappings and rioting has been killing people on video then brazenly lying about it, but Schumer's instinct is to whip his caucus into taking a position *more conservative* than that held by the median voter.
He's got to go.
He's got to go.
January 27, 2026 at 4:42 AM
Yesterday
Will the political class be searching for stark-raving mad imbeciles to run in our presidential elections from here on in?
January 27, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Will the political class be searching for stark-raving mad imbeciles to run in our presidential elections from here on in?
The point is to use any and every publicly-funded institution to attack the vulnerable as cruelly as possible, not to be consistent or un-hypocritical.
we are witnessing historic backpedaling here
January 27, 2026 at 1:57 AM
The point is to use any and every publicly-funded institution to attack the vulnerable as cruelly as possible, not to be consistent or un-hypocritical.
Sniffing out the news
Brian Stelter: A top Post reporter tells me "there's now a strong sense" across the newsroom "that neither Jeff Bezos nor Will Lewis are serious, good-faith stewards of The Washington Post."
January 26, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Sniffing out the news
I’m kind of stunned that someone is so stupid out to lunch cynical as to write this about Rowling without mentioning the bigot part.
this is a very weak piece, for multiple reasons. its claim about Gen Z is based on a couple of comments, not actual sales. it is also extremely normal for kids not to be *that* into a series from two decades ago. And there's minimum mention of Rowling turning into a fervent bigot.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
Younger generations “have fallen out of love with Harry Potter because they have fallen out of love with the worldview the series represents,” writes Louise Perry. “Which is to say that young people have fallen out of love with liberalism.”
Younger generations “have fallen out of love with Harry Potter because they have fallen out of love with the worldview the series represents,” writes Louise Perry. “Which is to say that young people have fallen out of love with liberalism.”
January 26, 2026 at 9:49 PM
I’m kind of stunned that someone is so stupid out to lunch cynical as to write this about Rowling without mentioning the bigot part.
President’s racist masked gestapo has “gone too far”
“The steady drumbeat of imagery out of Minnesota is persuading the last few persuadable voters that this deportation campaign has gone too far. More than half of independents now approve of abolishing ICE, once a rallying cry of progressives.”
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
The Killings and Cruelty in Minneapolis Can’t Be Spun
Over the course of the last many days, indelible images have dominated the White House’s mass deportation efforts in Minnesota. A teary-eyed five-year-old named Liam Ramos, wearing a blue bunny hat an...
www.bloomberg.com
January 26, 2026 at 9:48 PM
President’s racist masked gestapo has “gone too far”
It pains me to say that Obama has not met the moment for some time.
Feel like I should do a thread at some point breaking down why the Clinton statement is really good and the Obama statement is forgettable and boring
Two former presidents felt compelled to comment publicly
January 26, 2026 at 7:04 AM
It pains me to say that Obama has not met the moment for some time.
I hate when I wake up in the morning and Putin has used a fatuous pampered morbidly ignorant racist f**kstick to destroy my country from the inside and likely any hopes for my child’s future life in a sane world.
January 26, 2026 at 7:01 AM
I hate when I wake up in the morning and Putin has used a fatuous pampered morbidly ignorant racist f**kstick to destroy my country from the inside and likely any hopes for my child’s future life in a sane world.
Exactly.
Are these good arguments? Does precedent and historical analysis support them? Is there case law that undermines or negates key props of the reasoning?
Who cares? Seriously. If that's how you're gonna do this going forward, you've already lost. /🧵
Who cares? Seriously. If that's how you're gonna do this going forward, you've already lost. /🧵
January 24, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Exactly.
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It's strange for the President of the United States to be litigating in his personal capacity against the Justice Department he runs — but he's seeking an order barring "current, former and future" DOJ officials from releasing Jack Smith's second volume. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 20, 2026 at 11:38 PM
It's strange for the President of the United States to be litigating in his personal capacity against the Justice Department he runs — but he's seeking an order barring "current, former and future" DOJ officials from releasing Jack Smith's second volume. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
We deserve this
Government so small it makes people with the same last name as the President insanely rich through obviously corrupt deals
Since Trump was re-elected, @forbes.com estimates—
💰His net worth is up $2.3 billion, to an $6.7 billion
💰Eric’s has increased tenfold, to $400 million
💰Don Jr.’s has increased sixfold, to $300 million
💰19-year-old Barron Trump is worth $150 million
💰His net worth is up $2.3 billion, to an $6.7 billion
💰Eric’s has increased tenfold, to $400 million
💰Don Jr.’s has increased sixfold, to $300 million
💰19-year-old Barron Trump is worth $150 million
January 21, 2026 at 12:36 AM
We deserve this
My pyramid scam is really going to falter if people don’t adopt it more widely
I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.
AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
Big tech boss tells delegates at Davos that broader global use is essential if technology is to deliver lasting growth
www.irishtimes.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:33 AM
My pyramid scam is really going to falter if people don’t adopt it more widely
1-Y medical deferment, 1968
Bone spurs in da house!
January 20, 2026 at 12:47 AM
1-Y medical deferment, 1968
Bone spurs in da house!
January 20, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Bone spurs in da house!
DumbHitler
Trump tells Norway “he no longer feels obligated ‘to think purely of Peace’ because he had not been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize,” as he again demands Greenland. Via Reuters
Trump tells Norway he no longer feels obligation to think only of peace
President Donald Trump in a written message to Norway's prime minister said he no longer feels obligated "to think purely of Peace" because he had not been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and he repeat...
www.reuters.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:27 PM
DumbHitler
“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.”
Holy shit. Could Putin have planned this any better?
Holy shit. Could Putin have planned this any better?
Donald Trump links threats to seize Greenland to Nobel prize snub in letter — Guardian US
US president says he no longer feels the need to think ‘purely of peace’ in letter to Norwegian prime minister
apple.news
January 19, 2026 at 12:25 PM
“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.”
Holy shit. Could Putin have planned this any better?
Holy shit. Could Putin have planned this any better?
General Strike
every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
January 16, 2026 at 10:14 PM
General Strike
Nobel Idiot Prize (medal only) goes to Clay Higgins, R-La
“The Biden FBI did have undercover agents and confidential informants embedded within the rally crowds
Joe Biden was not president on Jan. 6 — Donald Trump was.”
“The Biden FBI did have undercover agents and confidential informants embedded within the rally crowds
Joe Biden was not president on Jan. 6 — Donald Trump was.”
House Republicans are investigating Jan. 6. NPR fact-checked the first hearing — NPR
A Republican-led congressional subcommittee is leading a new investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Do their claims add up?
apple.news
January 16, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Nobel Idiot Prize (medal only) goes to Clay Higgins, R-La
“The Biden FBI did have undercover agents and confidential informants embedded within the rally crowds
Joe Biden was not president on Jan. 6 — Donald Trump was.”
“The Biden FBI did have undercover agents and confidential informants embedded within the rally crowds
Joe Biden was not president on Jan. 6 — Donald Trump was.”
Question for you linguists out there: what is the difference between “quell” and “illegally brutally and undemocratically disrupt exercise of constitutionally guaranteed free speech with paramilitaries, violent thugs and complicit media cooperation”?
January 15, 2026 at 8:14 PM
Question for you linguists out there: what is the difference between “quell” and “illegally brutally and undemocratically disrupt exercise of constitutionally guaranteed free speech with paramilitaries, violent thugs and complicit media cooperation”?
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New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...
www.404media.co
January 15, 2026 at 2:06 PM
New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
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This is such a telling quote about the Billionaire Mindset, from a story about Stephen Ross being offered $15 billion for the Miami Dolphins. “Yeah I could sell, but what would I even do with the money?”
House the homeless motherfucker
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
House the homeless motherfucker
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
January 15, 2026 at 4:29 PM
This is such a telling quote about the Billionaire Mindset, from a story about Stephen Ross being offered $15 billion for the Miami Dolphins. “Yeah I could sell, but what would I even do with the money?”
House the homeless motherfucker
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
House the homeless motherfucker
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Totally normal
January 15, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Totally normal