James A. Robichaux
@jamesrobichaux.bsky.social
I am working to purge the dishonest and destructive mythologies of Monetarism and taxpayerism from people's brains.
You can read my essays on those subjects here:
https://jamesarobichaux.substack.com/
You can read my essays on those subjects here:
https://jamesarobichaux.substack.com/
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It’s come to this: “Catholic members of the US armed forces could in good conscience consider disobeying orders to attack Greenland if such orders were issued, according to Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the bishop responsible for the pastoral care of US military personnel.”
Military archbishop: Troops could refuse orders on Greenland
Speaking to Britain's Sunday program on BBC, Archbishop Timothy Broglio reiterated that conscience could permit refusal of an unjust military order.
aleteia.org
January 20, 2026 at 1:24 AM
It’s come to this: “Catholic members of the US armed forces could in good conscience consider disobeying orders to attack Greenland if such orders were issued, according to Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the bishop responsible for the pastoral care of US military personnel.”
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This is such a widespread sickness among pundits. Pointing out that Republicans are lying about welfare fraud — and have been for decades — doesn't qualify as a publishable take.
So you get this bizarre fixation on optics and this amorphous demand for Dems to "admit" something they admit already.
So you get this bizarre fixation on optics and this amorphous demand for Dems to "admit" something they admit already.
January 19, 2026 at 4:58 PM
This is such a widespread sickness among pundits. Pointing out that Republicans are lying about welfare fraud — and have been for decades — doesn't qualify as a publishable take.
So you get this bizarre fixation on optics and this amorphous demand for Dems to "admit" something they admit already.
So you get this bizarre fixation on optics and this amorphous demand for Dems to "admit" something they admit already.
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This is a really important story, and one that explains the place of the Hmong community in the Twin Cities and why this entire occupation is really just ethnic cleansing (my words). Also, props to Marisa for doing the work to get this story right when so many out-of-town journalists have failed.
New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for.
My story:
My story:
Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home
DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.
www.thehandbasket.co
January 20, 2026 at 1:14 AM
This is a really important story, and one that explains the place of the Hmong community in the Twin Cities and why this entire occupation is really just ethnic cleansing (my words). Also, props to Marisa for doing the work to get this story right when so many out-of-town journalists have failed.
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A truth: I do not want to suffer negative consequences as collateral damage of the horrible things Trump is doing, because I despise and reject his regime.
A truer truth: if inconvenience and mild hardship for me means safety and freedom for the world, bring it on.
A truer truth: if inconvenience and mild hardship for me means safety and freedom for the world, bring it on.
To those who are claiming that it'd be too cruel and extreme for the EU to cut off American tourist visas now (or to otherwise sanction or inconvenience us Americans in any way)....
You're REALLY not gonna like what happens if the madman Trump is permitted to set off a hot war with Europe.
You're REALLY not gonna like what happens if the madman Trump is permitted to set off a hot war with Europe.
January 19, 2026 at 8:30 PM
A truth: I do not want to suffer negative consequences as collateral damage of the horrible things Trump is doing, because I despise and reject his regime.
A truer truth: if inconvenience and mild hardship for me means safety and freedom for the world, bring it on.
A truer truth: if inconvenience and mild hardship for me means safety and freedom for the world, bring it on.
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Ummm if you placate him, he will take more
Has Europe learned NOTHING from their own history
Has Europe learned NOTHING from their own history
We're now at the 'What bauble can we offer Trump that will dissuade him from invading us?' stage of diplomacy
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
www.wsj.com/world/europe...
January 20, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Ummm if you placate him, he will take more
Has Europe learned NOTHING from their own history
Has Europe learned NOTHING from their own history
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For a preview of this, all Collins and Schumer and Jeffries and the rest need to do is look at what Europeans are saying about them. Right now.
Our moment has far more video and digital documentation about their every move than people in the past ever got.
Our moment has far more video and digital documentation about their every move than people in the past ever got.
January 19, 2026 at 11:37 PM
For a preview of this, all Collins and Schumer and Jeffries and the rest need to do is look at what Europeans are saying about them. Right now.
Our moment has far more video and digital documentation about their every move than people in the past ever got.
Our moment has far more video and digital documentation about their every move than people in the past ever got.
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It's really cool how we're about to destabilize the global economy and throw NATO into disarray for literally nothing
Footage shows Danish troops arriving in Greenland as part of a new military deployment. Among the personnel who landed on the island is Major General Peter H. Boysen, Chief of the Danish Army Command. #Greenland
January 19, 2026 at 11:58 PM
It's really cool how we're about to destabilize the global economy and throw NATO into disarray for literally nothing
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Also, please note: they tried very hard to be scary, kept saying “this is where you live, go home” over the loudspeaker. But when you continue to follow them, they don’t arrest you, they run. Their tactics are based in fear and bullying, not any true legal authority.
Here’s a really tense ICE situation in front of my home. One car looped a block 25 times until two reinforcement cars showed up and led me home. Was pretty scary because I was solo - BUT I knew I had backup from thousands of courageous neighbors and observers. Strength in numbers.
ICE threatens me at home - 1/19/26
YouTube video by Will Stancil
youtu.be
January 19, 2026 at 9:24 PM
Also, please note: they tried very hard to be scary, kept saying “this is where you live, go home” over the loudspeaker. But when you continue to follow them, they don’t arrest you, they run. Their tactics are based in fear and bullying, not any true legal authority.
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Representative LaMonica McIver, Trump's first political prosecution www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
The Congresswoman Criminalized for Visiting ICE Detainees
LaMonica McIver went to tour an immigration jail in her district. Now she faces seventeen years in prison.
www.newyorker.com
January 19, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Representative LaMonica McIver, Trump's first political prosecution www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Yes to all of this!
ICE should not be there at all.
❤️
ICE should not be there at all.
❤️
January 19, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Yes to all of this!
ICE should not be there at all.
❤️
ICE should not be there at all.
❤️
👏 NOBODY
👏 funds
👏 the
👏 United
👏 States
👏 Government.
👏 funds
👏 the
👏 United
👏 States
👏 Government.
January 19, 2026 at 4:18 PM
👏 NOBODY
👏 funds
👏 the
👏 United
👏 States
👏 Government.
👏 funds
👏 the
👏 United
👏 States
👏 Government.
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"Abolishing an agency that teargasses two-year-olds and shoots mothers in the street isn't radical. It is basic human decency."
Read this crucial essay by @victorerikray.bsky.social and @hebagowayed.bsky.social:
Read this crucial essay by @victorerikray.bsky.social and @hebagowayed.bsky.social:
Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray
It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim
www.theguardian.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:52 PM
"Abolishing an agency that teargasses two-year-olds and shoots mothers in the street isn't radical. It is basic human decency."
Read this crucial essay by @victorerikray.bsky.social and @hebagowayed.bsky.social:
Read this crucial essay by @victorerikray.bsky.social and @hebagowayed.bsky.social:
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The US has reduced its presence in Greenland to a single base and less than 200 troops.
If Russia were an imminent threat, Washington could simply deploy more forces tomorrow under the existing defense treaty.
Trump is just inventing a security crisis to justify an annexation
If Russia were an imminent threat, Washington could simply deploy more forces tomorrow under the existing defense treaty.
Trump is just inventing a security crisis to justify an annexation
January 19, 2026 at 9:14 AM
The US has reduced its presence in Greenland to a single base and less than 200 troops.
If Russia were an imminent threat, Washington could simply deploy more forces tomorrow under the existing defense treaty.
Trump is just inventing a security crisis to justify an annexation
If Russia were an imminent threat, Washington could simply deploy more forces tomorrow under the existing defense treaty.
Trump is just inventing a security crisis to justify an annexation
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Black Lives Matter organizers warned everyone about this. Black thinkers like @ruha9.bsky.social also warned everyone about this! Read her book Race After Technology!
New from 404 Media: ICE's facial recognition app, which the agency is using to decide who to detain and deport, misidentified a woman. Twice.
ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate
www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate
www.404media.co/ices-facial-...
ICE’s Facial Recognition App Misidentified a Woman. Twice
In testimony from a CBP official obtained by 404 Media, the official described how Mobile Fortify returned two different names after scanning a woman's face during an immigration raid. ICE has said th...
www.404media.co
January 19, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Black Lives Matter organizers warned everyone about this. Black thinkers like @ruha9.bsky.social also warned everyone about this! Read her book Race After Technology!
We do not need to save conservatism from Trumpism. 👍
The people I've seen criticizing Ganz (who is right, and spoke appropriately to Hanania, a fucking creep) are those who want to save US conservatism from Trumpism and that is a project I want to see treated much as Ganz treats Hanania.
January 19, 2026 at 3:17 PM
We do not need to save conservatism from Trumpism. 👍
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I went into a MAGA TikTok live (it’s a sickness) to try to understand the arguments for annexing Greenland. They were so incoherent I can’t even summarize them.
January 19, 2026 at 3:16 PM
I went into a MAGA TikTok live (it’s a sickness) to try to understand the arguments for annexing Greenland. They were so incoherent I can’t even summarize them.
Martin Luther King Jr did not speak, write, or advocate on behalf of "taxpayers."
January 19, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Martin Luther King Jr did not speak, write, or advocate on behalf of "taxpayers."
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Quite a quote from Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair, who was asked about his STOP THE GENOCIDE eye black after today’s game
www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
January 19, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Quite a quote from Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair, who was asked about his STOP THE GENOCIDE eye black after today’s game
www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
www.usatoday.com/story/sports...
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January 19, 2026 at 8:09 AM
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“And no U.S. citizen should be treated this way.” Does that mean it would be acceptable if these actions were committed against migrant citizens?
Please don’t make that difference, it’s really dangerous
Please don’t make that difference, it’s really dangerous
January 19, 2026 at 6:54 AM
“And no U.S. citizen should be treated this way.” Does that mean it would be acceptable if these actions were committed against migrant citizens?
Please don’t make that difference, it’s really dangerous
Please don’t make that difference, it’s really dangerous
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Trump-Noem Nazi Gestapo targeting Hmong Americans in Minnesota.
If you're not white, you're a target for these armed masked terrorists.
www.fox9.com/news/video-s...
If you're not white, you're a target for these armed masked terrorists.
www.fox9.com/news/video-s...
Video of St. Paul man refusing to open door for federal agents goes viral
The immigration crackdown was initially supposed to focus on the Somali community, but other immigrant communities are feeling the effects.
www.fox9.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:29 AM
Trump-Noem Nazi Gestapo targeting Hmong Americans in Minnesota.
If you're not white, you're a target for these armed masked terrorists.
www.fox9.com/news/video-s...
If you're not white, you're a target for these armed masked terrorists.
www.fox9.com/news/video-s...
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so weird how in the post the guy's brother-in-law says "this is not about politics"
this is probably one of the most about politics things ever
this is probably one of the most about politics things ever
January 19, 2026 at 6:35 AM
so weird how in the post the guy's brother-in-law says "this is not about politics"
this is probably one of the most about politics things ever
this is probably one of the most about politics things ever
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Beyond disgusting treatment.
The man is of an age that there's a good chance he may have been one of the many Hmong that helped US troops during Vietnam.
And this is the thanks he gets...humiliated by the kids or grandkids of the same GIs he may have assisted.
What a slap in the face.
The man is of an age that there's a good chance he may have been one of the many Hmong that helped US troops during Vietnam.
And this is the thanks he gets...humiliated by the kids or grandkids of the same GIs he may have assisted.
What a slap in the face.
January 19, 2026 at 5:51 AM
Beyond disgusting treatment.
The man is of an age that there's a good chance he may have been one of the many Hmong that helped US troops during Vietnam.
And this is the thanks he gets...humiliated by the kids or grandkids of the same GIs he may have assisted.
What a slap in the face.
The man is of an age that there's a good chance he may have been one of the many Hmong that helped US troops during Vietnam.
And this is the thanks he gets...humiliated by the kids or grandkids of the same GIs he may have assisted.
What a slap in the face.
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Them not letting him change into street clothes, let alone warmer clothes, tells you about how inhumane they are treating people. They want to humiliate even our elders.
January 19, 2026 at 5:45 AM
Them not letting him change into street clothes, let alone warmer clothes, tells you about how inhumane they are treating people. They want to humiliate even our elders.
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I have to pause myself because I used to use "citizen" to just mean short for community member, and something that sounds better than "individual" which sounds ugh, but nowadays "citizen" comes with the connotation of legal status and othering. 🙁
January 19, 2026 at 9:15 AM
I have to pause myself because I used to use "citizen" to just mean short for community member, and something that sounds better than "individual" which sounds ugh, but nowadays "citizen" comes with the connotation of legal status and othering. 🙁