Evan “How is this not the Third Reich now?” McDonell
@evanmcdonell.bsky.social
Very cool and normal
January 22, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Very cool and normal
Such peace that they only killed a couple of Palestinians in an attack yesterday! Good job, gang! Peace!
Trump to the Board of Peace: "We have peace in the Middle East. Nobody thought that was possible. We've settled 8 wars, and I believe another one is coming pretty soon. And you know what that is. The one that I thought was gonna be a easy one."
January 22, 2026 at 12:50 PM
Such peace that they only killed a couple of Palestinians in an attack yesterday! Good job, gang! Peace!
So, as of right now, we have the “framework of a deal” with NATO that gives us unlimited access to build military bases on Greenland, without asking or informing Greenland or Denmark, as well as, what, unlimited mining rights?
And Greenland says no one has bothered to ask them about it?!?!
And Greenland says no one has bothered to ask them about it?!?!
What is in Trump’s Greenland ‘deal’ – and what is missing?
US president abruptly dropped threats against allies after talks with Rutte on the ‘framework’ of a deal that does not involve selling Greenland
www.independent.co.uk
January 22, 2026 at 12:33 PM
So, as of right now, we have the “framework of a deal” with NATO that gives us unlimited access to build military bases on Greenland, without asking or informing Greenland or Denmark, as well as, what, unlimited mining rights?
And Greenland says no one has bothered to ask them about it?!?!
And Greenland says no one has bothered to ask them about it?!?!
I’m guessing she ends up with a full pardon and probably that contract with the military to provide her super-legit blood diagnostics….
Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced Theranos CEO, has asked President Donald Trump for an early release from prison after being convicted of defrauding investors, according to a request filed last year with the Department of Justice. https://cnn.it/3NVVHHv
January 22, 2026 at 2:33 AM
I’m guessing she ends up with a full pardon and probably that contract with the military to provide her super-legit blood diagnostics….
When he gets home and Miller starts whispering in his ear about how this isn’t enough to defend the ”fatherland” from foreigners he‘ll change his tune again.
I mean, I guess maybe we should just agree to let him pretend that effectively preserving the status quo is a huge brilliant "deal."
January 22, 2026 at 12:08 AM
When he gets home and Miller starts whispering in his ear about how this isn’t enough to defend the ”fatherland” from foreigners he‘ll change his tune again.
This is one reason why Trump’s “deals” never include specifics.
January 22, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Thank goodness Trump is a completely superficial financial being who thinks the stock market is the same thing as the economy?https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:jbvnehrrdqoulco4rf5gxg5r/bafkreiagd5lkq5lfdjsit2amokfc6fvh23jrwrss73rje6povhn6emuipm@jpeg
January 21, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Thank goodness Trump is a completely superficial financial being who thinks the stock market is the same thing as the economy?https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:jbvnehrrdqoulco4rf5gxg5r/bafkreiagd5lkq5lfdjsit2amokfc6fvh23jrwrss73rje6povhn6emuipm@jpeg
The far more parsimonious answer is, in fact, someone showed him the stock market from this morning…
January 21, 2026 at 7:50 PM
The far more parsimonious answer is, in fact, someone showed him the stock market from this morning…
Ummm…someone’s going to need to make this “framework” public because I’m not sure NATO should get to decide for Greenland how much of it the US gets…
Trump: "Based upon a very productive meeting I had with Mark Rutte, we have formed the framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland and, in fact, the entire Arctic Region. This solution, if consummated, will be a great one... Based upon this understanding, I will not be imposing the Tariffs"
January 21, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Ummm…someone’s going to need to make this “framework” public because I’m not sure NATO should get to decide for Greenland how much of it the US gets…
Why are we still letting Trump and Netanyahu pretend there’s a successful ceasefire in Gaza?
Three journalists among 11 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza
Three journalists among 11 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza
Reporters had been in car on way to new camp, says media group, as two 13-year-old boys killed in separate incidents
Hospitals in Gaza say Israeli forces killed at least 11 Palestinians on Wednesday, including two 13-year-old boys and three journalists, in the latest violence to undermine a three-month-old ceasefire.
Palestinian health officials said the Israeli airstrike killed three Palestinian journalists who were travelling in a car to film a newly established displacement camp in the Netzarim area of central Gaza. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
January 21, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Why are we still letting Trump and Netanyahu pretend there’s a successful ceasefire in Gaza?
So, who wants a brand-new United Nations except that Donald Trump is the permanent Chairman so long as he wishes to be?
reason.com/volokh/2026/...
reason.com/volokh/2026/...
The Charter of the Board of Peace
The Times of Israel published the text of the Charter of the Board of Peace. As I suspected, this is...
reason.com
January 21, 2026 at 6:18 PM
So, who wants a brand-new United Nations except that Donald Trump is the permanent Chairman so long as he wishes to be?
reason.com/volokh/2026/...
reason.com/volokh/2026/...
At what point, when appearing in Court making arguments that they MUST know are completely frivolous, should the various Bars start proceedings? Asking for a country I know…
When this is over, amoral anti-American law firms like Jones Day will eagerly be running Operation Paperclip for the lawless scum of the Trump DoJ like D. John Sauer, and the profession has to find a way to inflict debilitating harm on those firms and their managers or give up on the rule of law.
After Sauer says Lisa Cook "was given an opportunity" to respond to the allegations, KBJ asks whether that due process was: "She supposed to post about it, and that was the opportunity to be heard?"
Yes, Sauer replies.
Yes, Sauer replies.
January 21, 2026 at 5:58 PM
At what point, when appearing in Court making arguments that they MUST know are completely frivolous, should the various Bars start proceedings? Asking for a country I know…
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A crisis for the stability of the global order. Open mob-style shakedowns of our treaty allies and threats against them.
January 21, 2026 at 4:28 PM
A crisis for the stability of the global order. Open mob-style shakedowns of our treaty allies and threats against them.
Neither Denmark nor Greenland can allow this now; the presence of US troops on their land should be non-starters considering the US is a fundamentally unreliable negotiator at this point.
Why would you trust us to stop there?
Why would you trust us to stop there?
The best case scenario is that we end up reaffirming the status quo—the US can build bases and station troops in Greenland—and Trump pretends this is some fantastic new “deal” he’s made rather than what we already had.
January 21, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Neither Denmark nor Greenland can allow this now; the presence of US troops on their land should be non-starters considering the US is a fundamentally unreliable negotiator at this point.
Why would you trust us to stop there?
Why would you trust us to stop there?
I’m guessing it’s so they can create some insanely narrow reasoning to reject the Admin’s argument while crafting the obvious way they CAN go about it, as they have done in the past (Trump I “Muslim Ban”)
The real question I have about the Cook case, given how today's arguments have gone, is why #SCOTUS deferred the application pending argument back in October, rather than just denying it outright.
January 21, 2026 at 5:25 PM
I’m guessing it’s so they can create some insanely narrow reasoning to reject the Admin’s argument while crafting the obvious way they CAN go about it, as they have done in the past (Trump I “Muslim Ban”)
This right here. This was the moment. SCOTUS stole a case settled (properly!) by the Florida State Supreme Court in order to hand the presidency to Bush. This embarrassment should be on Rehnquist’s gravestone.
It could be the precedent to completely steal elections this November…
It could be the precedent to completely steal elections this November…
Once again, the stealing of the 2000 election by the Wizards In Robes, who decided not everyone’s vote counted, wasn’t only the point at which 🇺🇸 stopped being anything approaching a democracy, it was also a world historical critical juncture for int’l politics. A fork in The Road Forward, as it were
in another timeline we are two decades past a Gore presidency
January 21, 2026 at 5:21 PM
This right here. This was the moment. SCOTUS stole a case settled (properly!) by the Florida State Supreme Court in order to hand the presidency to Bush. This embarrassment should be on Rehnquist’s gravestone.
It could be the precedent to completely steal elections this November…
It could be the precedent to completely steal elections this November…
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I cannot tell you how absolutely infuriatingly this stuff comes across to Europeans.
When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.
When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.
Newsom: "It was remarkably boring. It was remarkably insignificant. He was never going invade Greenland. It was never real."
January 21, 2026 at 4:22 PM
I cannot tell you how absolutely infuriatingly this stuff comes across to Europeans.
When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.
When we say America is no longer a reliable ally, it goes considerably deeper than Donald Trump himself. This kind of complacent, condescending shit is a *huge* part of it.
True. But Dictators do…
Presidents don't float policies that are opposed by the mass public 86 - 9. This is not normal.
Quinnipiac Poll, Jan 8-12 - poll.qu.edu/poll-release...
January 20, 2026 at 4:02 PM
True. But Dictators do…
Same is true for all cops in every city, too, you know…
They WILL NOT WIN, they CANNOT WIN, because they CANNOT AND WILL NEVER HAVE ENOUGH GUYS
The combined populations of Mpls and St. Paul is about 740,000 (thats not even counting the metro area). If just 0.8% of us show up that’s easily more than double the goons ICE has sent.
January 20, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Same is true for all cops in every city, too, you know…
One of the upsides of a fascist takeover is it will likely end one day, and then we can restructure our government into one that works.
End the office of the President and expand the size of our legislature, get rid of the special upper chamber, ensure the independence of the Judiciary.
End the office of the President and expand the size of our legislature, get rid of the special upper chamber, ensure the independence of the Judiciary.
this from @juliaazari.bsky.social is great and has me thinking — as circumstances often do these days — about something that has been lost in the age of trump, which is the presidency as steward of the constitution.
Does the American presidency exist anymore?
Last week Donald Trump flipped off a worker at a Ford plant for yelling “pedophile protector” at him.
goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 1:57 AM
One of the upsides of a fascist takeover is it will likely end one day, and then we can restructure our government into one that works.
End the office of the President and expand the size of our legislature, get rid of the special upper chamber, ensure the independence of the Judiciary.
End the office of the President and expand the size of our legislature, get rid of the special upper chamber, ensure the independence of the Judiciary.
Todd Blanche thinks he’s getting the next seat on the Supreme Court, y’all
Can someone explain to me what Todd Blanche hopes to get out of this in the end? Like, I get that JD and Marco think they might get to be president. Miller gets to live out his psychopathic fantasy. But Blanche…? This is his peak. Is it to be AG when Trump fires Bondi? Like what is his point
BREAM: Is the FBI investigating the ICE agent who shot Renee Good?
BLANCHE: What happened has been reviewed by millions of Americans bc it was recorded. We investigate when it's appropriate. That is not the case here. We are not going to bow to pressure. So no, we are not investigating.
BLANCHE: What happened has been reviewed by millions of Americans bc it was recorded. We investigate when it's appropriate. That is not the case here. We are not going to bow to pressure. So no, we are not investigating.
January 19, 2026 at 5:18 AM
Todd Blanche thinks he’s getting the next seat on the Supreme Court, y’all
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January 18, 2026 at 1:37 AM
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US-Israeli cooperation agreement on AI looks less banal when you know about the central role of Israeli tech in surveillance, zero contact phone hacking, facial recognition, targeting, and other core instruments of state repression.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
www.state.gov/releases/off...
Joint Statement of the United States and Israel on the Launch of a Strategic Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, Research, and Critical Technologies - United States Department of State
The text of the following statement was released by the Governments of the United States of America and the State of Israel on the occasion of the launch of a Strategic Partnership on Artificial Intel...
www.state.gov
January 17, 2026 at 3:52 PM
US-Israeli cooperation agreement on AI looks less banal when you know about the central role of Israeli tech in surveillance, zero contact phone hacking, facial recognition, targeting, and other core instruments of state repression.
www.state.gov/releases/off...
www.state.gov/releases/off...
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WOW WHO COULD HAVE FORESEEN THIS OTHER THAN LITERALLY EVERYONE
January 17, 2026 at 12:33 PM
WOW WHO COULD HAVE FORESEEN THIS OTHER THAN LITERALLY EVERYONE
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👀 Virginia senate president pro tempore calls for turning the 6D-5R House delegation into 10D-1R in redistricting. With some colorful language regarding the commonwealth’s two Democratic senators.
January 17, 2026 at 3:03 AM
👀 Virginia senate president pro tempore calls for turning the 6D-5R House delegation into 10D-1R in redistricting. With some colorful language regarding the commonwealth’s two Democratic senators.