@iangrant25.bsky.social
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Super important story by @crampell.bsky.social at @thebulwark.com about the Trump administration's misuse of personal information:
Trump’s Chilling Weaponization of Confidential Government Records
Remind me—who else in history made lists of Jewish intellectuals and people with disabilities?
open.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Super important story by @crampell.bsky.social at @thebulwark.com about the Trump administration's misuse of personal information:
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The mother of British veteran Ben Parkinson is not mincing her words about Donald Trump insulting NATO forces in Afghanistan 👀
absolutely nails him
absolutely nails him
January 23, 2026 at 9:07 PM
The mother of British veteran Ben Parkinson is not mincing her words about Donald Trump insulting NATO forces in Afghanistan 👀
absolutely nails him
absolutely nails him
Excellent ratio.
JD Vance: "To our fellow Americans we say, you're never gonna find great meaning in a cubicle or in front of a computer screen. But you will find great meaning if you dedicate yourself to the creation and sustenance of human life."
January 23, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Excellent ratio.
What do you think he meant, GOP?
January 23, 2026 at 7:00 PM
What do you think he meant, GOP?
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Pure Class 🏆🎵 🇬🇱🇩🇰🇪🇺🇨🇦
Sky News: Danish PM Mette Freideriksen’s note in the visitors book when she visited UK today
January 23, 2026 at 5:42 AM
Pure Class 🏆🎵 🇬🇱🇩🇰🇪🇺🇨🇦
The value of a dollar under Biden and under Trump. Denmark and Sweden are doing the right thing selling USDs.
January 23, 2026 at 5:31 PM
The value of a dollar under Biden and under Trump. Denmark and Sweden are doing the right thing selling USDs.
It's what he did to Zelensky. Tit for tat.
techtimesofficial
In a breach of diplomatic protocol that signals the absolute depth of the transatlantic rift, President Trump has touched down in Davos, Switzerland, to a "silent arrival." Breaking with the fanfare customarily afforded to a US Head of State, there was no official welcoming.
In a breach of diplomatic protocol that signals the absolute depth of the transatlantic rift, President Trump has touched down in Davos, Switzerland, to a "silent arrival." Breaking with the fanfare customarily afforded to a US Head of State, there was no official welcoming.
January 23, 2026 at 5:13 PM
It's what he did to Zelensky. Tit for tat.
Lovely story.
A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain.
A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.
The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.
The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...
January 23, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Lovely story.
There's a sharpened knitting needle to the heart. 👍
The BBC spent the past decade trying to throw trans women and girls into a gas chamber. I'm not feeling too sorry for the BBC.
I don't think it's a good idea to be doing the propaganda of a foreign power for them. A sign of getting old, I suppose.
I don't think it's a good idea to be doing the propaganda of a foreign power for them. A sign of getting old, I suppose.
January 23, 2026 at 9:22 AM
There's a sharpened knitting needle to the heart. 👍
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I just thought everyone should see this
January 22, 2026 at 11:02 PM
I just thought everyone should see this
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Jack Smith: "The people who assaulted police officers and were convicted after trial in my view and I think in the view of the judges who sentenced them to prison are dangerous to their community. Some of these people have already committed crimes against their communities again."
January 22, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Jack Smith: "The people who assaulted police officers and were convicted after trial in my view and I think in the view of the judges who sentenced them to prison are dangerous to their community. Some of these people have already committed crimes against their communities again."
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When TE Lawrence left the first draft of Seven Pillars of Wisdom on a train in Reading, he was at least able to rewrite it from scratch because he had actually written it himself...
January 22, 2026 at 10:27 PM
When TE Lawrence left the first draft of Seven Pillars of Wisdom on a train in Reading, he was at least able to rewrite it from scratch because he had actually written it himself...
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America sneezes. We catch a cold.
And the UK is overexposed.
As long as foreign tech runs our digital infrastructure, our systems can be used as leverage or disrupted on Trump's say so.
Tell your MP to support the motion for #DigitalSovereignty ⬇️
action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-governm...
And the UK is overexposed.
As long as foreign tech runs our digital infrastructure, our systems can be used as leverage or disrupted on Trump's say so.
Tell your MP to support the motion for #DigitalSovereignty ⬇️
action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-governm...
Protect Britain’s Digital Backbone — Ask Your MP to Act
Take action! What’s the problem? The UK’s digital backbone. The cloud services, data systems, and platforms that underpin government, public services, and democratic processes is dangerously reliant…
action.openrightsgroup.org
January 22, 2026 at 9:46 AM
America sneezes. We catch a cold.
And the UK is overexposed.
As long as foreign tech runs our digital infrastructure, our systems can be used as leverage or disrupted on Trump's say so.
Tell your MP to support the motion for #DigitalSovereignty ⬇️
action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-governm...
And the UK is overexposed.
As long as foreign tech runs our digital infrastructure, our systems can be used as leverage or disrupted on Trump's say so.
Tell your MP to support the motion for #DigitalSovereignty ⬇️
action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-governm...
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.. at suppressing the Epstein files.
BARTIROMO: Congratulations, Mr President
TRUMP: You've done a great job
BARTIROMO: Thank you. So have you
TRUMP: You've done a great job
BARTIROMO: Thank you. So have you
January 22, 2026 at 1:27 PM
.. at suppressing the Epstein files.
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“We’ve invented a magic computer. It uses all of the earth’s resources, we’ve spent trillions on it and it’s the sole growth area of the US economy.”
“What does it do?”
“We were hoping you could tell us.”
“What does it do?”
“We were hoping you could tell us.”
Delicious to me
January 22, 2026 at 7:36 AM
“We’ve invented a magic computer. It uses all of the earth’s resources, we’ve spent trillions on it and it’s the sole growth area of the US economy.”
“What does it do?”
“We were hoping you could tell us.”
“What does it do?”
“We were hoping you could tell us.”
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Acting Field Director David Easterwood.
VAN SUSTEREN: The church -- that's a particularly troubling issue because you got a pastor, I purposely didn't name it, he's reportedly associated with ICE
NOEM: Thank you for not naming him. People don't realize that when you keep naming someone over and over, you increase the threats against them
NOEM: Thank you for not naming him. People don't realize that when you keep naming someone over and over, you increase the threats against them
January 20, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Acting Field Director David Easterwood.
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Two DOGE members working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with a group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls"
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Trump administration concedes DOGE team may have misused Social Security data
Some DOGE personnel had more access to data than previously acknowledged, according to a court filing.
www.politico.com
January 20, 2026 at 10:02 PM
Two DOGE members working at the Social Security Administration were secretly in touch with a group seeking to “overturn election results in certain states,” and one signed an agreement that may have involved using Social Security data to match state voter rolls"
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
A lot of people think there's a Gestapo-like quality to Stephen Miller and ICE. They should think broader, as in Himmler's Schutzstaffel or SS, of which the Gestapo was merely a part.
Here's Wikipedia on the subject en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzs...
Here's Wikipedia on the subject en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzs...
January 20, 2026 at 5:47 PM
A lot of people think there's a Gestapo-like quality to Stephen Miller and ICE. They should think broader, as in Himmler's Schutzstaffel or SS, of which the Gestapo was merely a part.
Here's Wikipedia on the subject en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzs...
Here's Wikipedia on the subject en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzs...
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Bart de Wever the PM of Belgium..
January 20, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Bart de Wever the PM of Belgium..
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One of the worst features of political journalism and analysis in the Trump era. Remember the key quote: "The former official said he doesn't think Trump is playing 'the sort of three-dimensional chess people ascribe to decisions like this. More often than not he's just eating the pieces.'"
Institutionalized #CleverFallacy. If you tell smart people to explain the underlying logic of something, they'll find one whether it has anything to do with what Trump is up to or, almost always, not.
Note how NYT continues to do "analysis" focused on Trump as a rational actor in international relations matters. He isn't. And treating him this way is dangerous sane washing.
January 19, 2026 at 6:09 PM
One of the worst features of political journalism and analysis in the Trump era. Remember the key quote: "The former official said he doesn't think Trump is playing 'the sort of three-dimensional chess people ascribe to decisions like this. More often than not he's just eating the pieces.'"
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Don’t be sheep 🐑
NGOs defend human rights, health, nature & refugees — that’s why conservatives&far right want to silence us
Fake scandals. Funding cuts. Same old authoritarian playbook
Democracy is like health: you only miss it when it’s gone
Be a black sheep ✊
2nd ep of our video series out now
NGOs defend human rights, health, nature & refugees — that’s why conservatives&far right want to silence us
Fake scandals. Funding cuts. Same old authoritarian playbook
Democracy is like health: you only miss it when it’s gone
Be a black sheep ✊
2nd ep of our video series out now
January 20, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Don’t be sheep 🐑
NGOs defend human rights, health, nature & refugees — that’s why conservatives&far right want to silence us
Fake scandals. Funding cuts. Same old authoritarian playbook
Democracy is like health: you only miss it when it’s gone
Be a black sheep ✊
2nd ep of our video series out now
NGOs defend human rights, health, nature & refugees — that’s why conservatives&far right want to silence us
Fake scandals. Funding cuts. Same old authoritarian playbook
Democracy is like health: you only miss it when it’s gone
Be a black sheep ✊
2nd ep of our video series out now
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How big is Greenland?
Its so big it covers up 99% of the Epstein files.
Its so big it covers up 99% of the Epstein files.
January 20, 2026 at 1:32 AM
How big is Greenland?
Its so big it covers up 99% of the Epstein files.
Its so big it covers up 99% of the Epstein files.
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Jennings: Let's not get our knickers in a twist here
McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…
McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…
January 20, 2026 at 4:08 AM
Jennings: Let's not get our knickers in a twist here
McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…
McGowan: Why are you talking like that? It's insane. Your attitude is just horrifying…
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Venezuela is a Diversion. The administration went into Venezuela on the same day the Department of Justice (DOJ) faced a statutory deadline to justify redactions in the Jeffrey Epstein files.
January 19, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Venezuela is a Diversion. The administration went into Venezuela on the same day the Department of Justice (DOJ) faced a statutory deadline to justify redactions in the Jeffrey Epstein files.
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