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this story quotes:
- A trump ambassador
- A museum run by Trump appointees
- Stop Antisemitism, an organization funded by right-wing donors
... aaannnnddd that's it! Not a single scholar of the Holocaust. Not anyone unaffiliated with Walz' political opponents.
- A trump ambassador
- A museum run by Trump appointees
- Stop Antisemitism, an organization funded by right-wing donors
... aaannnnddd that's it! Not a single scholar of the Holocaust. Not anyone unaffiliated with Walz' political opponents.
The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
Tim Walz condemned for comparing Minnesota children to Anne Frank
The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
bit.ly
January 28, 2026 at 3:01 AM
this story quotes:
- A trump ambassador
- A museum run by Trump appointees
- Stop Antisemitism, an organization funded by right-wing donors
... aaannnnddd that's it! Not a single scholar of the Holocaust. Not anyone unaffiliated with Walz' political opponents.
- A trump ambassador
- A museum run by Trump appointees
- Stop Antisemitism, an organization funded by right-wing donors
... aaannnnddd that's it! Not a single scholar of the Holocaust. Not anyone unaffiliated with Walz' political opponents.
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Holy shit, there's an open carry #2A protest of ICE happening in Douglas County Colorado -- a very wealthy and very red suburb county of Denver. (I lived there for 16 years.) The Trump Administration pissing off committed gun owners sufficiently for them to join the protests against ICE is wild.
January 28, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Holy shit, there's an open carry #2A protest of ICE happening in Douglas County Colorado -- a very wealthy and very red suburb county of Denver. (I lived there for 16 years.) The Trump Administration pissing off committed gun owners sufficiently for them to join the protests against ICE is wild.
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This was an invented moral panic. The NYT and Fox News ran more stories about trans people than the Advocate, an explicitly LGBTQ publication. It was the exact same story in the UK. The media fanned the flames of a moral panic.
Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.
January 28, 2026 at 12:05 PM
This was an invented moral panic. The NYT and Fox News ran more stories about trans people than the Advocate, an explicitly LGBTQ publication. It was the exact same story in the UK. The media fanned the flames of a moral panic.
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It took *three* of them to write this
The level of cope among MAGAs is off the charts. This is the funniest thing I’ve read all week. Imagine calling yourself a journalist and actually signing your name to THIS headline.😅
I swear to God NYPost is trying to put @bencollins.bsky.social and The Onion out of business. 😅😅😅
I swear to God NYPost is trying to put @bencollins.bsky.social and The Onion out of business. 😅😅😅
January 28, 2026 at 1:48 AM
It took *three* of them to write this
and while I don't! believe in Geocentrism I do now pay some attention to how the sun appears to go in a circle across the sky before it disappears at night
In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:
January 28, 2026 at 2:23 AM
and while I don't! believe in Geocentrism I do now pay some attention to how the sun appears to go in a circle across the sky before it disappears at night
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Andrew Huberman, Dog Phrenologist
In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:
January 28, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Andrew Huberman, Dog Phrenologist
vividly remember being on twitter in ~2018 and being told by this type of person that I needed to get out of my "elite coastal liberal bubble" and I was like. I live in Provo Utah because I attend Brigham Young University but okayyyyy
January 28, 2026 at 12:47 AM
vividly remember being on twitter in ~2018 and being told by this type of person that I needed to get out of my "elite coastal liberal bubble" and I was like. I live in Provo Utah because I attend Brigham Young University but okayyyyy
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americans hate it when they're shown on tv doing something cool
TOM HOMAN: “We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous. We’re going to put their face on TV. We’re going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods, in their schools, know who these people are.”
Story: www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
January 27, 2026 at 7:48 PM
americans hate it when they're shown on tv doing something cool
still trying to get enough food for August after losing his SNAP benefits, because there's only so many times you can have sleep for dinner without getting dizzy
Look I don't know what to say at this point. I'm just one disabled guy with no income. I'm not trying to mulnipulate anyone or anything but I'm in over my head trying to figure out next month's budget. PayPal preferred as usual.
PayPal.me/AugustMcMullen
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
PayPal.me/AugustMcMullen
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
January 28, 2026 at 12:34 AM
still trying to get enough food for August after losing his SNAP benefits, because there's only so many times you can have sleep for dinner without getting dizzy
just had a patient mansplain the rules on testosterone refills to me, a transmasc employee of the pharmacy
January 27, 2026 at 9:13 PM
just had a patient mansplain the rules on testosterone refills to me, a transmasc employee of the pharmacy
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After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.
Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”
January 27, 2026 at 8:17 PM
After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.
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Look I don't know what to say at this point. I'm just one disabled guy with no income. I'm not trying to mulnipulate anyone or anything but I'm in over my head trying to figure out next month's budget. PayPal preferred as usual.
PayPal.me/AugustMcMullen
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
PayPal.me/AugustMcMullen
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
January 27, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Look I don't know what to say at this point. I'm just one disabled guy with no income. I'm not trying to mulnipulate anyone or anything but I'm in over my head trying to figure out next month's budget. PayPal preferred as usual.
PayPal.me/AugustMcMullen
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
PayPal.me/AugustMcMullen
www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...
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Stop what you’re doing and read this piece, which is as powerful as you’d expect from @adamserwer.bsky.social witnessing the events of last week on the ground in Minnesota. “The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone.”
Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong
The pushback against ICE exposed a series of mistaken assumptions.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Stop what you’re doing and read this piece, which is as powerful as you’d expect from @adamserwer.bsky.social witnessing the events of last week on the ground in Minnesota. “The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone.”
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(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
Palantir Defends Work With ICE to Staff Following Killing of Alex Pretti
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this,” one worker wrote on Slack.
www.wired.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:51 AM
(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star)
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
Does this look like a big laser to anyone else
I have turned autocorrect off my phone. We'll see how this goes.
January 27, 2026 at 3:46 PM
I have turned autocorrect off my phone. We'll see how this goes.
they do not provide informed consent for HRT, for instance nobody warns you that testosterone will convince you you’d be great at stand-up comedy
January 27, 2026 at 3:43 PM
they do not provide informed consent for HRT, for instance nobody warns you that testosterone will convince you you’d be great at stand-up comedy
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their silence is defending in the face of monied interests after having such a long & storied record of specifically targeting consenting adult minority groups 🙈🙉🙊
![Snippet from the 01/26/2026 article titled "Payment processors were against CSAM until Grok started making it" by Elizabeth Lopatto (lopatto.bsky.social).
"It’s a striking reversal. “The industry is no longer willing to self-regulate for something as universally agreed on as the most abhorrent thing out there,” which is CSAM, says Lana Swartz, the author of New Money: How Payment Became Social Media, of the inaction by Stripe and the credit card companies.
[OP HIGHLIGHTED SECTION] Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Stripe, and Discover did not return requests for comment. [/OP HIGHLIGHTED SECTION] The US Financial Coalition Against Child Sexual Exploitation — an industry group composed of payments processors, banks, and credit card companies — also did not return a request for comment. On its website, FCACSE brags that “As a result of its efforts, the use of credit cards to purchase child sexual abuse content online has been virtually eliminated globally.”
Except, of course, on X."
Source: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/867874/stripe-visa-mastercard-amex-csam-grok?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6ImdLZUlyaHNwS1UiLCJwIjoiL2FpLWFydGlmaWNpYWwtaW50ZWxsaWdlbmNlLzg2Nzg3NC9zdHJpcGUtdmlzYS1tYXN0ZXJjYXJkLWFtZXgtY3NhbS1ncm9rIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY5OTU0MTU4LCJpYXQiOjE3Njk1MjIxNTh9.7i8Ih6HbZoIg3Y9r7Y2uJ8RqmvxbkWAgqglPD9GmX4c&utm_medium=gift-link](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r5zm7hhfym4dd5ymmscwe3mi/bafkreicdtfakcsegfpm2cu3enexetp65pcraxzvuqpd63vnq3aptbt5rom@jpeg)
January 27, 2026 at 2:08 PM
their silence is defending in the face of monied interests after having such a long & storied record of specifically targeting consenting adult minority groups 🙈🙉🙊
student doing shadowing hours asked me what kind of bird I’d be if I were a bird and after a VERY long time I finally decided I would be a seagull because I feel a deep ancestral connection to Utah despite it objectively not being my most suitable habitat anymore
January 27, 2026 at 6:49 AM
student doing shadowing hours asked me what kind of bird I’d be if I were a bird and after a VERY long time I finally decided I would be a seagull because I feel a deep ancestral connection to Utah despite it objectively not being my most suitable habitat anymore
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remember our most potent weapon, gents:
"bro, you are an embarrassment"
"bro, you are an embarrassment"
One other thought I've had a lot recently is that as a white guy it's embarrassing to see other white guys complain that they're doing the absolute bare minimum, what more could you POSSIBLY want from them. Like if nothing else, have some self respect ffs.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
remember our most potent weapon, gents:
"bro, you are an embarrassment"
"bro, you are an embarrassment"
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A lot more people should know about the bravery Marimar Martinez displayed in the midst of Chicago’s occupation and the murder of two observers in MSP. They tried to kill her, shooting her 5 times, and it’s a miracle she’s alive to push for transparency like this after being persecuted by the DOJ.
The woman who survived five gunshots from a Border Patrol agent in Chicago, only to be criminally charged and then cleared, now wants a judge’s permission to share records showing how the feds respond when agents use deadly force.
@chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
@chicago.suntimes.com story: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Woman shot by Border Patrol in Chicago asks judge to let her release evidence
Marimar Martinez is blocked from releasing evidence in her case by what's known as a "protective order." Though standard, her attorney says it's “become an albatross” around her neck and “keeps the en...
chicago.suntimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:27 PM
A lot more people should know about the bravery Marimar Martinez displayed in the midst of Chicago’s occupation and the murder of two observers in MSP. They tried to kill her, shooting her 5 times, and it’s a miracle she’s alive to push for transparency like this after being persecuted by the DOJ.
*watching my preceptor pour a fresh Diet Coke into his insulated tumbler at 4:57 pm on a Monday* “huh you really WERE married to a Mormon for a little while”
January 27, 2026 at 6:06 AM
*watching my preceptor pour a fresh Diet Coke into his insulated tumbler at 4:57 pm on a Monday* “huh you really WERE married to a Mormon for a little while”
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still true, still true
January 26, 2026 at 11:21 PM
still true, still true
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I would say that if people pointing out that they've been saying this all along and insisting you reflect on why you didn't listen before is going to make you regress on your views or resent those people you ostensibly agree with now, you didn't really change your opinion in a meaningful way.
Bluesky idea: if people who didn't agree with you change their opinions so that they do agree with you, why not be happy that you are making progress - rather than complaining that they are "only just catching up"?
January 26, 2026 at 12:53 PM
I would say that if people pointing out that they've been saying this all along and insisting you reflect on why you didn't listen before is going to make you regress on your views or resent those people you ostensibly agree with now, you didn't really change your opinion in a meaningful way.