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statement from anika bowie, st. paul city council member, on the arrest of her husband jamael lundy this morning by federal agents for the protest at a church in st. paul led by an ICE agent. she calls his arrest “militarized and traumatic”
January 30, 2026 at 5:46 PM
statement from anika bowie, st. paul city council member, on the arrest of her husband jamael lundy this morning by federal agents for the protest at a church in st. paul led by an ICE agent. she calls his arrest “militarized and traumatic”
And so much of their audience/platform is dependent on this framing now. Idk how the incentives change.
"Ds suck" is what their audience WANTS to hear and any facts that suggest otherwise are gonna be manipulated to fit that conclusion (lest you become a "neoliberal sellout").
"Ds suck" is what their audience WANTS to hear and any facts that suggest otherwise are gonna be manipulated to fit that conclusion (lest you become a "neoliberal sellout").
yeah, like this is both the clear solution and when you look at the actual informational landscapes that ppl exist in currently, the well is just so thoroughly posioned. So many ppl where this would need to take root--on social media--have been steeping for *years* now in "Ds suck" from all angles.
January 30, 2026 at 5:26 PM
And so much of their audience/platform is dependent on this framing now. Idk how the incentives change.
"Ds suck" is what their audience WANTS to hear and any facts that suggest otherwise are gonna be manipulated to fit that conclusion (lest you become a "neoliberal sellout").
"Ds suck" is what their audience WANTS to hear and any facts that suggest otherwise are gonna be manipulated to fit that conclusion (lest you become a "neoliberal sellout").
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Once again, we cancelled $86M in Dept of Education funding across all of America’s universities for area & foreign language studies - programs created during the Cold War expressly for national security purposes - because we were told we couldn’t afford it & it wasn’t a government priority anymore.
"Federal troop deployments to U.S. cities cost a total of $496 million in 2025, CBO estimates. Continuing current deployments will cost $93 million a month; 1,000 Guard personnel deployed to a city will cost at least $18 million a month." www.cbo.gov/publication/...
January 29, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Once again, we cancelled $86M in Dept of Education funding across all of America’s universities for area & foreign language studies - programs created during the Cold War expressly for national security purposes - because we were told we couldn’t afford it & it wasn’t a government priority anymore.
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I think more candidates running for office in Chicago should tell the Tribune Editorial Board to get fucked.
January 29, 2026 at 9:26 PM
I think more candidates running for office in Chicago should tell the Tribune Editorial Board to get fucked.
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Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"
January 28, 2026 at 1:21 PM
Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"
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Suddenly republicans have forgotten what the constitution says 🤷🏼 🇺🇸
January 28, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Suddenly republicans have forgotten what the constitution says 🤷🏼 🇺🇸
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Impeachable and should get a massive reaction from Congress. It won’t since the majority agrees with him, but we need at least a LARGE reaction.
January 28, 2026 at 11:42 AM
Impeachable and should get a massive reaction from Congress. It won’t since the majority agrees with him, but we need at least a LARGE reaction.
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I know I should ignore anyone bringing up the DNC but I still can’t get over how sad it is. You’re the faction of real fighters and you’d be doing a way better job defeating the right, but you can’t because you got bodied by the DNC? That’s the story you want to go with?
January 27, 2026 at 8:07 PM
I know I should ignore anyone bringing up the DNC but I still can’t get over how sad it is. You’re the faction of real fighters and you’d be doing a way better job defeating the right, but you can’t because you got bodied by the DNC? That’s the story you want to go with?
Trump, Stephen Miller, and Elon musk say THANK YOU to people who lie like this
January 27, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Trump, Stephen Miller, and Elon musk say THANK YOU to people who lie like this
I’ll never get over it in no small part bc I couldn’t imagine a more self-defeating approach to their self proclaimed theory of change.
If people aren’t even willing to fucking vote to stop a GOP fascist from taking power then they’re unlikely to show up in the streets either!
If people aren’t even willing to fucking vote to stop a GOP fascist from taking power then they’re unlikely to show up in the streets either!
The zero sum argument that “liberals only want people to vote and never do anything else” is ENTIRELY a strawman they use to rationalize the fact that they’re the ones advocating for inaction! (and for no real end other than just to spite people theyve deemed insufficiently radical)
January 27, 2026 at 8:39 PM
I’ll never get over it in no small part bc I couldn’t imagine a more self-defeating approach to their self proclaimed theory of change.
If people aren’t even willing to fucking vote to stop a GOP fascist from taking power then they’re unlikely to show up in the streets either!
If people aren’t even willing to fucking vote to stop a GOP fascist from taking power then they’re unlikely to show up in the streets either!
What is with the right and their obsession with branding themselves as heterodox nonaligned thinkers when they are plainly just right wing!
It’s a clear marker of some sort of anxiety about one’s beliefs/role that you just don’t find on the left I think
It’s a clear marker of some sort of anxiety about one’s beliefs/role that you just don’t find on the left I think
basically a collection of weiss's friends and pet projects
The new CBS contributors:
Elliot Ackerman, Peter Attia, Masih Alinejad, Arthur Brooks, Caroline Chambers, Clare de Boer, Niall Ferguson, Roland Fryer Jr., Andrew Huberman, Coleman Hughes, Mark Hyman, Janna Levin, Casey Lewis, HR McMaster, Patrick McGee, Reihan Salam, Lauren Sherman, Derek Thompson
Elliot Ackerman, Peter Attia, Masih Alinejad, Arthur Brooks, Caroline Chambers, Clare de Boer, Niall Ferguson, Roland Fryer Jr., Andrew Huberman, Coleman Hughes, Mark Hyman, Janna Levin, Casey Lewis, HR McMaster, Patrick McGee, Reihan Salam, Lauren Sherman, Derek Thompson
January 27, 2026 at 6:00 PM
What is with the right and their obsession with branding themselves as heterodox nonaligned thinkers when they are plainly just right wing!
It’s a clear marker of some sort of anxiety about one’s beliefs/role that you just don’t find on the left I think
It’s a clear marker of some sort of anxiety about one’s beliefs/role that you just don’t find on the left I think
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Worst consequence any MAGA chud can imagine, I'm sure.
"DHS has suspended Gregory Bovino’s access to his social media accounts effective immediately," CNN reports
January 27, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Worst consequence any MAGA chud can imagine, I'm sure.
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National Nurses United, largest nurses' union in US, are holding actions over the coming week in honor of Alex Pretti and all others killed by ICE
www.nationalnursesunited.org/week-of-acti...
www.nationalnursesunited.org/week-of-acti...
Week of action in honor of Alex Pretti, RN and all others killed by ice
Join National Nurses United RN members in a week-long series of actions to honor Pretti and all who have been murdered by ICE, as well as demand that Congress vote to immediately abolish this violent,...
www.nationalnursesunited.org
January 26, 2026 at 9:31 PM
National Nurses United, largest nurses' union in US, are holding actions over the coming week in honor of Alex Pretti and all others killed by ICE
www.nationalnursesunited.org/week-of-acti...
www.nationalnursesunited.org/week-of-acti...
It’s liberal derangement syndrome
Super cool and awesome that “Democrats” means
* D elected officials
* D elected officials, but Manchin-ly
* professional D staffers and officials
* billionaire donors
* small dollar donors and activists
* people who vote for Democrats
It would save anguish if people just indicated which they mean
* D elected officials
* D elected officials, but Manchin-ly
* professional D staffers and officials
* billionaire donors
* small dollar donors and activists
* people who vote for Democrats
It would save anguish if people just indicated which they mean
January 26, 2026 at 7:55 PM
It’s liberal derangement syndrome
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let's not forget
* people's mothers
* non-Communists
* the actions of the Republican Party
* women, the most bourgeois gender
* people's mothers
* non-Communists
* the actions of the Republican Party
* women, the most bourgeois gender
Super cool and awesome that “Democrats” means
* D elected officials
* D elected officials, but Manchin-ly
* professional D staffers and officials
* billionaire donors
* small dollar donors and activists
* people who vote for Democrats
It would save anguish if people just indicated which they mean
* D elected officials
* D elected officials, but Manchin-ly
* professional D staffers and officials
* billionaire donors
* small dollar donors and activists
* people who vote for Democrats
It would save anguish if people just indicated which they mean
January 26, 2026 at 3:18 PM
let's not forget
* people's mothers
* non-Communists
* the actions of the Republican Party
* women, the most bourgeois gender
* people's mothers
* non-Communists
* the actions of the Republican Party
* women, the most bourgeois gender
I can’t stand the way pseudo-archeology has been normalized and the role people like Joe Rogan play in that
it won’t help Seattle that their divisive coach Mike Macdonald is always pushing his agenda on the fans
January 26, 2026 at 7:00 PM
I can’t stand the way pseudo-archeology has been normalized and the role people like Joe Rogan play in that
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I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...
MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
January 26, 2026 at 6:12 PM
I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...
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one important meta-point I was trying to make in this article about DOGE is that the direct size of the federal government was already very small by historic standards
The Fed's share of the workforce was near all-time lows in 2024, & thats true even accounting for contractors
The Fed's share of the workforce was near all-time lows in 2024, & thats true even accounting for contractors
January 23, 2026 at 11:11 PM
one important meta-point I was trying to make in this article about DOGE is that the direct size of the federal government was already very small by historic standards
The Fed's share of the workforce was near all-time lows in 2024, & thats true even accounting for contractors
The Fed's share of the workforce was near all-time lows in 2024, & thats true even accounting for contractors
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all ultraleftists are bad liberals theory undefeated bsky.app/profile/glon...
It's fascinating how the "solution" to mass systemic problems under this logic is always deep personal introspection about the mass weight of history instead of like, joining with other people to do something.
January 22, 2026 at 5:44 PM
all ultraleftists are bad liberals theory undefeated bsky.app/profile/glon...
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The director of the FBI: "I don't read."
His staff (paraphrased): "he doesn’t like meetings in office settings. What he wants is social events."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
His staff (paraphrased): "he doesn’t like meetings in office settings. What he wants is social events."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
January 22, 2026 at 7:21 PM
The director of the FBI: "I don't read."
His staff (paraphrased): "he doesn’t like meetings in office settings. What he wants is social events."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
His staff (paraphrased): "he doesn’t like meetings in office settings. What he wants is social events."
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Conservatives want all the benefits of human empathy to accrue to them without any demonstration that they have it themselves. Turns out you actually have to mean it to get any warm fuzzies back! But they keep looking for another explanation in frustration. Surely it’s bias or whatever!
January 23, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Conservatives want all the benefits of human empathy to accrue to them without any demonstration that they have it themselves. Turns out you actually have to mean it to get any warm fuzzies back! But they keep looking for another explanation in frustration. Surely it’s bias or whatever!
A close cousin of this is the pop left who essentially act like they “own” all critiques of democrats and that everyone else is too dumb to understand their surface level analysis they got from online influencers
I think there’s people who really enjoy being the keepers of secret knowledge (“America was racist”) and being the person who could lecture others for being too privileged/dumb to have the secret knowledge. It is an enjoyable dynamic for them and they want to keep doing it at inappropriate moments
January 22, 2026 at 6:56 PM
A close cousin of this is the pop left who essentially act like they “own” all critiques of democrats and that everyone else is too dumb to understand their surface level analysis they got from online influencers
Even after 10 years of Trump I still couldn’t tell you what alternative vision Dems have on offer re immigration and the border.
As a result they find themselves almost completely paralyzed and ineffectual in any situation that requires more than rehearsing known, “safe” lines about health care and prices. They are unable to act because they just see an endless series of potential backlash to any unfamiliar course of action.
January 22, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Even after 10 years of Trump I still couldn’t tell you what alternative vision Dems have on offer re immigration and the border.
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Immediate punishment for speaking out against the regime.
Mischief Toy Store in St. Paul has until Wednesday to turn over employment records to the Department of Homeland Security as part of a surprise audit launched Friday, just hours after one of the shop's owners criticized ICE agents during a television interview. bit.ly/4r5AFol
January 21, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Immediate punishment for speaking out against the regime.