Not the Governor of North Carolina; got the handle first
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Philosopher by training; cranky by nature. Professional in science and technology policy. Also photography, combatting antisemitism, politics, and ethics.
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January 30, 2026 at 9:06 PM
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My favorite Christopher Guest film is A Mighty Wind. Thinking of this scene.
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Mitch & Mickey - A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow
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January 30, 2026 at 8:14 PM
My favorite Christopher Guest film is A Mighty Wind. Thinking of this scene.
youtu.be/QwLZfPPM7GQ?...
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"I will never forget this episode, the ugliest moment in the ugliest campaign of my lifetime. They attempted to spark what amounted to a pogrom in a small city, a city run by their own party, in a state run by their own party, and there were no consequences for it whatsoever."
Terror Returns to Springfield
Ohio is preparing for the next occupation. We need to prepare with them.
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January 30, 2026 at 7:08 PM
"I will never forget this episode, the ugliest moment in the ugliest campaign of my lifetime. They attempted to spark what amounted to a pogrom in a small city, a city run by their own party, in a state run by their own party, and there were no consequences for it whatsoever."
Going to do a marathon to celebrate my queen, Catherine O’Hara. 😢
January 30, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Going to do a marathon to celebrate my queen, Catherine O’Hara. 😢
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Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...
January 30, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...
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January 30, 2026 at 5:47 PM
“We moved 1.75 people off of SNAP,” not because those people didn’t *need* the support. These people aren’t suddenly out of poverty. Now they’re just poor *and* not getting SNAP, because this administration hates them.
Brooke Rollins: "The American dream is not being on a food stamp program. The American dream is not being on all these programs. That should be a hand up, not a handout. As of yesterday, we have moved 1.75 million people off of SNAP."
January 30, 2026 at 5:30 PM
“We moved 1.75 people off of SNAP,” not because those people didn’t *need* the support. These people aren’t suddenly out of poverty. Now they’re just poor *and* not getting SNAP, because this administration hates them.
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Not good seeing a U.S. assistant AG for the Civil Rights Division do this
January 30, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Not good seeing a U.S. assistant AG for the Civil Rights Division do this
Well, since the US trade agreements aren’t worth anything, there’s no leverage here.
Trump says ‘very dangerous’ for UK to do business with China, after Starmer hails progress in Beijing
Trump says ‘very dangerous’ for UK to do business with China, after Starmer hails progress in Beijing
US president warns Keir Starmer over closer ties with China during British PM’s trip to secure lower tariffs and better access to Chinese market
Donald Trump has warned the UK against doing business with China, just hours after Keir Starmer lauded the economic relationship during a landmark visit to Beijing.
The US president said it was “very dangerous” for the UK to pursue closer ties with the rival superpower as the prime minister’s three-hour talks with leader Xi Jinping underlined a thaw in previously strained relations. Continue reading...
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January 30, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Well, since the US trade agreements aren’t worth anything, there’s no leverage here.
Concentration camps. We need to say it: they're concentration camps.
NEW: ICE has spent at least $172 million this month on warehouses that it plans to convert into immigration jails
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US Spends Millions on Warehouses in Historic Expansion of ICE Detention
Plans for ‘mega centers’ and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.
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January 30, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Concentration camps. We need to say it: they're concentration camps.
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Don’t worry because they’re gonna record themselves filling the concentration camps with body cams
NEW: ICE has spent at least $172 million this month on warehouses that it plans to convert into immigration jails
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US Spends Millions on Warehouses in Historic Expansion of ICE Detention
Plans for ‘mega centers’ and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.
www.bloomberg.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Don’t worry because they’re gonna record themselves filling the concentration camps with body cams
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LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT: Trump takes over the Kennedy Center, illegally slaps his name on it, and uses the venue to premiere a film about his wife—a film, directed by an accused rapist, that is a gift from the founder of Amazon, who wants to avoid regulation and is firing a fuckton of reporters.
Who Was at the ‘Melania’ Premiere?
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January 30, 2026 at 2:19 AM
LET ME GET THIS STRAIGHT: Trump takes over the Kennedy Center, illegally slaps his name on it, and uses the venue to premiere a film about his wife—a film, directed by an accused rapist, that is a gift from the founder of Amazon, who wants to avoid regulation and is firing a fuckton of reporters.
I think a lot about Josh Hawley - a man who has never even seen a callous - holding up Teddy Roosevelt as the paradigm of masculinity. There needs to be more emphasis on the utter silliness of these dipshits.
For a crowd obsessed with being an alpha male, they all give off such suck-up loser energy
The celebrities all came out for the big premiere.
January 30, 2026 at 2:59 AM
I think a lot about Josh Hawley - a man who has never even seen a callous - holding up Teddy Roosevelt as the paradigm of masculinity. There needs to be more emphasis on the utter silliness of these dipshits.
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Gonna go ahead and say this was a) inevitable and b) widely predicted, but the subhuman shitstains involved in all this c) don't care.
Multiple Men Have Impersonated ICE Agents To Kidnap And Assault Women
In a letter shared with HuffPost, the Democratic Women’s Caucus urged DHS to mandate ICE agents to “visibly and clearly identify themselves" when making arrests.
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January 29, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Gonna go ahead and say this was a) inevitable and b) widely predicted, but the subhuman shitstains involved in all this c) don't care.
The U.S. Special Envoy to Greenland, everybody.
Gov. Landry: "I like to ask Democrats if they like their communities to be dangerous or safe. Do they want their children to be able to walk to school or do they want to worry if they send them on the sidewalks, that unfortunate violent things are going to happen to them?"
January 29, 2026 at 8:09 PM
The U.S. Special Envoy to Greenland, everybody.
"I don't want to drive housing prices down." should be an easy pull quote for the DNC, but they haven't even been good at the affordability messaging... so I'm not optimistic.
Trump: "People that own their homes -- we're gonna keep them wealthy. We're gonna keep those prices up. We're not gonna destroy the value of their homes so that somebody who didn't work very hard can buy a home."
January 29, 2026 at 8:07 PM
"I don't want to drive housing prices down." should be an easy pull quote for the DNC, but they haven't even been good at the affordability messaging... so I'm not optimistic.
"OK, but how can you show overperformance in a district Harris won by 70."
Minnesota:
Minnesota:
Good lord Putin doesnt even rig it this big
January 29, 2026 at 6:30 PM
"OK, but how can you show overperformance in a district Harris won by 70."
Minnesota:
Minnesota:
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When racists killed Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman in 1964, they burned their station wagon but left it just off a road where it was easily found.
When racists killed Viola Liuzzo, they advertised her shot-up car for sale, promoting it as a possible tourist attraction.
When racists killed Viola Liuzzo, they advertised her shot-up car for sale, promoting it as a possible tourist attraction.
ICE's decision to just leave cars abandoned in the roads is one of those dystopian things that makes you recoil in shock when you encounter it.
A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
January 29, 2026 at 6:09 PM
When racists killed Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney and Andrew Goodman in 1964, they burned their station wagon but left it just off a road where it was easily found.
When racists killed Viola Liuzzo, they advertised her shot-up car for sale, promoting it as a possible tourist attraction.
When racists killed Viola Liuzzo, they advertised her shot-up car for sale, promoting it as a possible tourist attraction.
I sometimes wish Bill Kristol and his ilk hadn't spent decades building a political party and propaganda machine that used knee-jerk nationalism and religious extremism to start a political dumpster fire easily manipulated by an incompetent orange carnival barker.
But that's Dan Quayle's brain.
But that's Dan Quayle's brain.
I sometimes wish the Democratic Party in Congress consisted of any 260 people in the Minneapolis telephone directory rather than the 260 dignitaries now representing us.
January 29, 2026 at 6:07 PM
I sometimes wish Bill Kristol and his ilk hadn't spent decades building a political party and propaganda machine that used knee-jerk nationalism and religious extremism to start a political dumpster fire easily manipulated by an incompetent orange carnival barker.
But that's Dan Quayle's brain.
But that's Dan Quayle's brain.
This.
Though I might frame is somewhat differently: If they're not even changing the lies they're telling, then why expect the behavior to change?
Though I might frame is somewhat differently: If they're not even changing the lies they're telling, then why expect the behavior to change?
we are now focusing on those with CRIMINAL records says the administration that won’t stop lying about who had a criminal record or not and always defines someone being here in a way they don’t like as automatically having a criminal record
tom homan’s little speech means nothing has changed unless things change on the ground and even then, I can’t think of a person there who I’ve spoken to who isn’t in a “we’re not falling for it” mindset. Even a slight pause on this or that thing can be ramped up five seconds after Dems and media…
January 29, 2026 at 4:40 PM
This.
Though I might frame is somewhat differently: If they're not even changing the lies they're telling, then why expect the behavior to change?
Though I might frame is somewhat differently: If they're not even changing the lies they're telling, then why expect the behavior to change?
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"in theater" is an expression that has no place anywhere within the United States. "In theater" means in a war.
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
January 29, 2026 at 4:30 PM
"in theater" is an expression that has no place anywhere within the United States. "In theater" means in a war.
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A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
January 29, 2026 at 3:58 PM
A legal asylum-seeker who works at Chipotle and plays music at a church in Maine went missing. His pastor searched and searched, eventually finding his abandoned car with the keys on the floor.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
ICE grabbed him. No criminal record. No explanation.
The United States cannot have a reasonable place in the international order while the GOP is politically viable. No country can trust agreements with the US if the GOP can retake power. Foreign policy Dems should say this, but they play moderate footsies too much.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/e...
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US Embassy in Copenhagen removes flags honoring fallen Danish soldiers, angering veterans | CNN
The US Embassy in Copenhagen has angered Danish veterans by removing flags honoring soldiers killed in Afghanistan from an area outside the building.
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January 29, 2026 at 3:12 PM
The United States cannot have a reasonable place in the international order while the GOP is politically viable. No country can trust agreements with the US if the GOP can retake power. Foreign policy Dems should say this, but they play moderate footsies too much.
www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/e...
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The occupation and violence in Minnesota are transparently an act of political extortion. The administration continues to say so, and the basic follow-up should be: Why is the President using DHS and DOJ to undermine state's rights?
Homan: "The withdrawal of law enforcement resources here is dependent upon cooperation ... as we see that cooperation happen, then the redeployment will happen"
January 29, 2026 at 2:15 PM
The occupation and violence in Minnesota are transparently an act of political extortion. The administration continues to say so, and the basic follow-up should be: Why is the President using DHS and DOJ to undermine state's rights?
"The rhetoric" as a way to shift to both-sides-ism is a line that has worked for this administration many times, enabled by credulous media reporting. It's not working anymore, not because the media has gotten smarter, but because the cases are so visible and egregious they cannot be spun.
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 2:12 PM
"The rhetoric" as a way to shift to both-sides-ism is a line that has worked for this administration many times, enabled by credulous media reporting. It's not working anymore, not because the media has gotten smarter, but because the cases are so visible and egregious they cannot be spun.