John Wallach
@jmwallach.bsky.social
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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Pinned
Kudos to the Star Tribune giving Liam top billing over Vance.
Front page of tomorrow's Star Tribune.
Below the fold is where JD is most comfortable.
What about something a bit heftier?
WOMEN👏DON’T👏WANT👏CHOCOLATES 👏FOR 👏VALENTINE’S 👏DAY 👏THEY 👏WANT 👏MERRIAM-WEBSTER’S 👏COLLEGIATE 👏DICTIONARY 👏TWELFTH 👏EDITION 👏
February 15, 2026 at 12:06 AM
What about something a bit heftier?
Can't believe Will is doxxing them on main.
The Minneapolis commuters are such heroes, I wish I could tell you about them
February 14, 2026 at 11:58 PM
Can't believe Will is doxxing them on main.
A Trump of child rapists?
A murder of crows. A parliament of owls. A cabinet of pedophiles.
The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it.
Seems kinda bad?
Seems kinda bad?
February 14, 2026 at 11:58 PM
A Trump of child rapists?
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Serial killer shit
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 14, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Serial killer shit
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"the elite of the antebellum South were degenerate gamblers who financed their lifestyles with industrialized rape and would kill you for pointing this out" is a straightforwardly accurate statement
February 14, 2026 at 2:28 PM
"the elite of the antebellum South were degenerate gamblers who financed their lifestyles with industrialized rape and would kill you for pointing this out" is a straightforwardly accurate statement
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As a strict constitutionalist, I am so horrified by the possibility of a president serving three terms that I may have to write in Edmund Burke in 2028 if Trump runs again.
February 14, 2026 at 7:38 PM
As a strict constitutionalist, I am so horrified by the possibility of a president serving three terms that I may have to write in Edmund Burke in 2028 if Trump runs again.
Adventures in nominative determinism
February 14, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Adventures in nominative determinism
Stephen Miller big mad that she flubbed on right.
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."
February 14, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Stephen Miller big mad that she flubbed on right.
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My brain's full of worms
My gut's full of meat
Let's snort some lines
Off a gross toilet seat
My gut's full of meat
Let's snort some lines
Off a gross toilet seat
It's FUNNY because NOW we don't KNOW which HEARTS are POISONOUS.
February 14, 2026 at 9:40 PM
My brain's full of worms
My gut's full of meat
Let's snort some lines
Off a gross toilet seat
My gut's full of meat
Let's snort some lines
Off a gross toilet seat
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Two Rice University undergrads (freshmen!) built a digital mapping tool to track ICE activity. Students are OK.
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
How 2 University Freshman Are Tracking ICE Enforcement Actions Across the Country
With ICE Map, Rice University students Jack Vu and Abby Manuel hope to help communities understand where immigration enforcement activity is happening and how it unfolds in real time.
www.thenation.com
February 14, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Two Rice University undergrads (freshmen!) built a digital mapping tool to track ICE activity. Students are OK.
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Not a fan of the rather thinly sourced allegations about Mrs Forehead/Kirk going around. Totally willing to believe she is a sex pest but need better evidence.
February 14, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Not a fan of the rather thinly sourced allegations about Mrs Forehead/Kirk going around. Totally willing to believe she is a sex pest but need better evidence.
I have feelings.
That’s right Mike
February 14, 2026 at 8:51 PM
I have feelings.
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To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.
February 14, 2026 at 11:33 AM
To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.
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That's weird, she just told me that she didn't even race today.
February 14, 2026 at 8:01 PM
That's weird, she just told me that she didn't even race today.
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white dudes in Callaway hats doing this are a five alarm fire for the GOP
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 7:08 PM
white dudes in Callaway hats doing this are a five alarm fire for the GOP
This should be illegal.
February 14, 2026 at 8:00 PM
This should be illegal.
Trump realized that dinning with Bill Maher was a waste of time. Maybe he doesn't have dementia.
February 14, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Trump realized that dinning with Bill Maher was a waste of time. Maybe he doesn't have dementia.
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In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 5:07 PM
In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
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Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.
February 14, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.
It is going to be really funny when the Rischs, Morans, and such do not support removing filibuster for their imaginary fraud bill.
As is the way of things, the House, which is completely run by crazy people, threw a ridiculous piece of bad legislation to the Senate, which contains far fewer crazy people, but only AFTER giving the entire Republican voter base rabies over it.
February 14, 2026 at 6:49 PM
It is going to be really funny when the Rischs, Morans, and such do not support removing filibuster for their imaginary fraud bill.
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This is what "the rule of men, not of laws" looks like.
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, but the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely.
www.reuters.com
February 14, 2026 at 6:44 PM
This is what "the rule of men, not of laws" looks like.
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Oh yay, evolutionary psychology now being cited by the UK’s far right party to justify their Handmaid’s Tale vision of the future
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
February 14, 2026 at 10:31 AM
Oh yay, evolutionary psychology now being cited by the UK’s far right party to justify their Handmaid’s Tale vision of the future
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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The SAVE Act and Trump’s weird EO threat today aren’t serious, they’re creating ways for Trump to save face after the GOP gets their asses kicked this year. It’s not that they lost because their policies are unpopular, the other guys stole it. It’s like blaming lag for being bad at video games.
February 14, 2026 at 4:52 AM
The SAVE Act and Trump’s weird EO threat today aren’t serious, they’re creating ways for Trump to save face after the GOP gets their asses kicked this year. It’s not that they lost because their policies are unpopular, the other guys stole it. It’s like blaming lag for being bad at video games.