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Jason Karsh
@jkarsh.bsky.social
Writer. Photographer. Liberal. Obama alum. Petter of dogs. Partaker of libations. Medium: @jkarsh | Instagram: _jkarsh
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As the Trump admin predictably rolls the National Guard into the streets and a Republican army of enablers roots for military violence against Americans, some words on why, and the way forward.
The Tyranny of Tiny Men
The way to fight back is not to give up on anyone. The way forward is to stand with each other, for each other.
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if CBS and the Washington Post both gut their newsrooms this week, that’s the nail in the coffin for the “just find a nice billionaire and settle down” theory of media preservation
January 26, 2026 at 5:20 PM
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Not really the best sign when newspapers are having to run this infographic to explain to Americans what the paramilitary government force is gassing them with
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE

Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 26, 2026 at 9:07 PM
I feel like a couple of people last week said the temperatures over the weekend would break these clowns. Turns out it was both the temperature in the air and the temperature in the streets.
January 26, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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Timeline cleanse!

It's a good day to learn something new ♥️
January 26, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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From Paul Farhi at the other site. Former media reporter there.
January 26, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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Good. We hate you. Everyone hates you. Even you hate yourselves.
January 26, 2026 at 6:04 PM
This reminds me how little fake Melania we’ve gotten this time around. It’s as if they’re spending all this time on crimes and pedophile coverups and violent oppressive racism that they forgot what the people really want—multiple versions of the First Lady in public because Trump is so repulsive.
2 MELANIA 2 FURIOUS
January 26, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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And just like that, the DOJ went from not releasing the Epstein files to Americans are the enemy.
January 25, 2026 at 4:15 PM
You win your division for a guaranteed home playoff game and home field advantage. You try to get the one seed for home field throughout the playoffs, not so you can force your fans to spend even more money to go to Arizona and give up HFA. People hate this argument because it is dumb.
Everyone hates the idea of neutral-site conference championship games. Until the fourth quarter of Patriots-Broncos, which was unplayable -- and unwatchable.
Should conference championships be played at neutral sites?
Patriots-Broncos snowstorm could dust off an old debate.
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January 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Thing is, part of the reason they went to Minnesota is because Trump felt like he lost to the protests over George Floyd because he wasn’t violent enough. And for someone as racist and insecure as him, he was always going to take the opportunity for a rematch.
If the admin's strategic goal was to break public resistance to immigration enforcement activities, it was a tactical mistake to go to the Twin Cities.
January 26, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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Although guns have been a part of US culture from the beginning, modern right-wing gun culture is downstream of the industry's need for profit, and they do that by selling a fantasy of right-wing violence against left wingers, Pretti doesn't fit that fantasy bsky.app/profile/hcom...
We're is the NRA shouting about 2A rights. No fucking where that just shows you what they truely care about. We are just cannon fodder for profits
January 26, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Looking forward to Fireside Chats on Race Purity with Stephen Miller every week on CBS.
NEWS: Bari Weiss will hold an all-hands meeting to discuss the future of CBS News tomorrow, per note that just went out to employees.
January 26, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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“If your state doesn’t help us we will be forced to murder its citizens” is an argument that only works on people who are already subnormal bootlickers.
Blanche: "Remember, what we all saw in that 10 or second video is not the full story. Every American should know that. The story goes way beyond that. It starts with the fact that literally for months we have received 0 assistance from the state of Minnesota."
January 26, 2026 at 4:15 PM
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Here's what you need to know about your constitutional protections from immigration stops and detentions.

From @politifact.bsky.social:
What legal rights do you have in encounters with ICE?
Here's what you need to know about your constitutional protections from immigration stops and detentions.
19thnews.org
January 26, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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Look forward to the leaks of this
NEWS: Bari Weiss will hold an all-hands meeting to discuss the future of CBS News tomorrow, per note that just went out to employees.
January 26, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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There are people trying to stop others from using whistles, and next they'll say it's ableism.

As your disability advocate friend, I will be the first with serious sensory sensitivity to say that I would rather be in pain than someone get abducted, or shot.

Block/mute this argument, it's an op.
January 26, 2026 at 2:46 PM
I’ll be shocked if he’s even aware that Trump’s shock troops have made it to Minneapolis at all. He doesn’t see a lot of the news dontchaknow.
Today we will find out that Mike Johnson knows nothing about the shooting in MN.
January 26, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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January 26, 2026 at 4:36 AM
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Courage is largely a product of empathy, which they deride as a weakness.
I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage
January 26, 2026 at 2:56 AM
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after what happened with Twitter I’m deeply skeptical people will abandon a social network they’re invested in over an ownership change but if they really are immediately censoring TikTok in a notable way in the aftermath of a radicalizing event there’s a chance they actually fuck up this transition
This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk.

Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared.

Well, here’s a link:

georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...
January 26, 2026 at 4:24 AM
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Alex Pretti's parents live in Arvada, so this is also showing up for/with them.
Candlelight vigil in Arvada, CO for Alex Pretti and Minneapolis
January 26, 2026 at 4:37 AM
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It feels weird to post this with everything going on. But--in case it brings a moment of joy or distraction: I got a dog
January 26, 2026 at 3:07 AM
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January 26, 2026 at 3:09 AM
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Lmao they picked the worst photo of each of them.
January 26, 2026 at 3:09 AM