Werner Herzog's Bear
@jasontebbe.bsky.social
Teacher, historian, and blogger. Born and raised in Nebraska, working and living in Jersey.
Substack: I Used to Be Disgusted, Now I Try to Be Amused https://jasontebbe.substack.com/
Substack: I Used to Be Disgusted, Now I Try to Be Amused https://jasontebbe.substack.com/
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Each of these 7 items would easily be the biggest scandal for like 45 Presidents.
February 2, 2026 at 1:32 PM
Each of these 7 items would easily be the biggest scandal for like 45 Presidents.
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University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
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‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illini
In a post that included a graphic of a presumed officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE."
dailyillini.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:40 AM
University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
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multiple trump-created crises converging with deadly results.
BREAKING: ICE has halted "all movement" at a Texas detention facility due to measles infections, DHS confirms.
ICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections
The measles cases at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center were detected Friday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News.
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February 2, 2026 at 1:27 AM
multiple trump-created crises converging with deadly results.
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1/ BREAKING: Government documents reviewed by ProPublica identify Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, as the two who fired their weapons during the deadly encounter with Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 1, 2026 at 9:12 PM
1/ BREAKING: Government documents reviewed by ProPublica identify Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, as the two who fired their weapons during the deadly encounter with Alex Pretti in Minneapolis.
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If you watch the reaction of everyone else in the room, it seems very unlikely that this “sound effect” has been added for comedic purposes.
The fact that everyone sprints away like there’s a Sarin leak… I’ve seen enough, our president shit himself in the oval office on live TV.
The fact that everyone sprints away like there’s a Sarin leak… I’ve seen enough, our president shit himself in the oval office on live TV.
February 1, 2026 at 8:26 PM
If you watch the reaction of everyone else in the room, it seems very unlikely that this “sound effect” has been added for comedic purposes.
The fact that everyone sprints away like there’s a Sarin leak… I’ve seen enough, our president shit himself in the oval office on live TV.
The fact that everyone sprints away like there’s a Sarin leak… I’ve seen enough, our president shit himself in the oval office on live TV.
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The classic of the genre, from the British Daily Star:
On the left is a picture of, and a leering caption about, the 15 year old singer Charlotte Church
On the right, fire and brimstone about the perverts behind Brass Eye, and the "Paedogeddon" episode* corrupting the nation...
On the left is a picture of, and a leering caption about, the 15 year old singer Charlotte Church
On the right, fire and brimstone about the perverts behind Brass Eye, and the "Paedogeddon" episode* corrupting the nation...
November 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
The classic of the genre, from the British Daily Star:
On the left is a picture of, and a leering caption about, the 15 year old singer Charlotte Church
On the right, fire and brimstone about the perverts behind Brass Eye, and the "Paedogeddon" episode* corrupting the nation...
On the left is a picture of, and a leering caption about, the 15 year old singer Charlotte Church
On the right, fire and brimstone about the perverts behind Brass Eye, and the "Paedogeddon" episode* corrupting the nation...
So are all the centrist media outlets going to demand that Republicans have to be less extreme after the Rehmet win? Just asking because any time a Democrat loses a blue district the entire political media apparatus says Democrats have to support conservative policies.
February 1, 2026 at 4:16 PM
So are all the centrist media outlets going to demand that Republicans have to be less extreme after the Rehmet win? Just asking because any time a Democrat loses a blue district the entire political media apparatus says Democrats have to support conservative policies.
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Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
February 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
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It's easy to see these academics as individual bad actors. But I'd argue--they were enabled by "elite" schools' look-the-other-way approach to dealing with big-name abusers, and by the fact that, societially, we treat people associated with "elite" schools as automatically deserving of deference.
Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/
January 31, 2026 at 10:49 PM
It's easy to see these academics as individual bad actors. But I'd argue--they were enabled by "elite" schools' look-the-other-way approach to dealing with big-name abusers, and by the fact that, societially, we treat people associated with "elite" schools as automatically deserving of deference.
How I know the tide is turning: if you criticized Trump in public last year conservatives would push back and defend him or go after liberals; now they just say “There’s no need to get political.”
February 1, 2026 at 3:52 PM
How I know the tide is turning: if you criticized Trump in public last year conservatives would push back and defend him or go after liberals; now they just say “There’s no need to get political.”
Serious question: if we were to draw up articles of impeachment against Trump, how things could we could come up with? Let me try:
- Boat strikes
- Suing the govt to oversee his own settlement
- Kidnapping a foreign head of state
- Doing so without consulting Congress
- Warrantless ICE raids
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- Boat strikes
- Suing the govt to oversee his own settlement
- Kidnapping a foreign head of state
- Doing so without consulting Congress
- Warrantless ICE raids
1/
February 1, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Serious question: if we were to draw up articles of impeachment against Trump, how things could we could come up with? Let me try:
- Boat strikes
- Suing the govt to oversee his own settlement
- Kidnapping a foreign head of state
- Doing so without consulting Congress
- Warrantless ICE raids
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- Boat strikes
- Suing the govt to oversee his own settlement
- Kidnapping a foreign head of state
- Doing so without consulting Congress
- Warrantless ICE raids
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Any president other than the Very Special Boy would be impeached by Tuesday and removed by Friday for doing this.
Trump on his multiple suits against the federal government: "I'm supposed to work out a settlement with myself ... We could make it a substantial amount, nobody would care, because it's gonna go to numerous, very good charities."
February 1, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Any president other than the Very Special Boy would be impeached by Tuesday and removed by Friday for doing this.
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You can get a 'light' case of measles with minor symptoms, and then 7 to 11 years later, your brain can swell up for no reason and you will die because there's no cure. OR! You can develop a Parkinsons-like neurological disorder and die slower over 1-3 years while your brain just.. fails.
Because I'm talking about measles. It is also A VERY VERY VERY CONTAGIOUS VIRUS. If someone is in a room and has measles and then leaves that room and you enter that room within TWO HOURS (depending on humidity) you can get measles.
And people are contagious for four days before the rash appears.
And people are contagious for four days before the rash appears.
::taps mic::
beyond being an absolutely miserable illness, measles can cause immune amnesia. It wipes out your immune systems memory of how to fight every infection, every vaccine you've ever had.
beyond being an absolutely miserable illness, measles can cause immune amnesia. It wipes out your immune systems memory of how to fight every infection, every vaccine you've ever had.
February 1, 2026 at 3:25 AM
You can get a 'light' case of measles with minor symptoms, and then 7 to 11 years later, your brain can swell up for no reason and you will die because there's no cure. OR! You can develop a Parkinsons-like neurological disorder and die slower over 1-3 years while your brain just.. fails.
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This is the most San Francisco thing I've ever seen lmao
February 1, 2026 at 2:39 AM
This is the most San Francisco thing I've ever seen lmao
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Gotta say, if you can't fill an average Applebee's with your pro-ICE demonstrators in *Idaho* your authoritarian consolidation isn't coming together.
BOISE: The pro-ICE event at the Idaho State Capitol building was a massive flop.
It appears they reserved the entire park and had the streets blocked off all the way through Cecil D. Andrus Park. You can barely make them out, not filling up the steps in front of the building.
It appears they reserved the entire park and had the streets blocked off all the way through Cecil D. Andrus Park. You can barely make them out, not filling up the steps in front of the building.
February 1, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Gotta say, if you can't fill an average Applebee's with your pro-ICE demonstrators in *Idaho* your authoritarian consolidation isn't coming together.
At my school’s annual international pot luck sampling amazing food from all over the world made by immigrant families, all in an atmosphere of joy. This is the world Trump and the whole fascist international wants to kill and I’ll be damned before I let them do that without a fight.
February 1, 2026 at 12:27 AM
At my school’s annual international pot luck sampling amazing food from all over the world made by immigrant families, all in an atmosphere of joy. This is the world Trump and the whole fascist international wants to kill and I’ll be damned before I let them do that without a fight.
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"Reverse Emails"!
It's been going on for a decade, & every time you point it out the elites at the Paper of Record circle wagons & call you an idiot & tell you that you're being unfair & remind you that don't understand journalism.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
It's been going on for a decade, & every time you point it out the elites at the Paper of Record circle wagons & call you an idiot & tell you that you're being unfair & remind you that don't understand journalism.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
January 31, 2026 at 7:14 PM
"Reverse Emails"!
It's been going on for a decade, & every time you point it out the elites at the Paper of Record circle wagons & call you an idiot & tell you that you're being unfair & remind you that don't understand journalism.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
It's been going on for a decade, & every time you point it out the elites at the Paper of Record circle wagons & call you an idiot & tell you that you're being unfair & remind you that don't understand journalism.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Thinking about HRC and others praising Saudi Arabia this week and commenting on its “freedom.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Ghanem al-Masarir: I mocked the Saudi leader on YouTube - then my phone was hacked and I was beaten up in London
Satirist Ghanem al-Masarir has been awarded £3m in damages, but it's unclear if Saudi Arabia will pay.
www.bbc.com
January 31, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Thinking about HRC and others praising Saudi Arabia this week and commenting on its “freedom.”
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Translated "it's fine if they're slaves or indentured servants"
January 31, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Translated "it's fine if they're slaves or indentured servants"
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this guy’s an antisemite? this guy? next you’re gonna tell me elon musk is in the epstein files
January 31, 2026 at 5:04 PM
this guy’s an antisemite? this guy? next you’re gonna tell me elon musk is in the epstein files
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It is very reminiscent of locker rooms, trading floors, & fraternities I have seen, where regardless of their wealth or talent, men defer to the guy they perceive as having the greatest capacity for seduction. Being able to manipulate women is regarded as the highest form of intelligence.
January 31, 2026 at 2:16 PM
It is very reminiscent of locker rooms, trading floors, & fraternities I have seen, where regardless of their wealth or talent, men defer to the guy they perceive as having the greatest capacity for seduction. Being able to manipulate women is regarded as the highest form of intelligence.
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Missed all the Gen X discourse yesterday, but those of us who are actually in the generation have explained this ad nauseam. We had the ultimate worst bullies and mean kids in our generation growing up, and they were never, EVER checked because adults didn't GAF.
Also, Black Gen X is Democratic.
Also, Black Gen X is Democratic.
January 30, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Missed all the Gen X discourse yesterday, but those of us who are actually in the generation have explained this ad nauseam. We had the ultimate worst bullies and mean kids in our generation growing up, and they were never, EVER checked because adults didn't GAF.
Also, Black Gen X is Democratic.
Also, Black Gen X is Democratic.
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Holy crap. Minnesota police chief tracks down ICE agents in his car and de-arrests a woman who lives in his town.
"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident
The police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into custody. It is believed to the first time local police in...
www.mprnews.org
January 31, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Holy crap. Minnesota police chief tracks down ICE agents in his car and de-arrests a woman who lives in his town.