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“The truth always lies somewhere in the middle” has to be one of my least favorite phrases. Sometimes, one side is actually truthful and one side is actually malicious and lying!
January 19, 2026 at 8:34 PM
“The truth always lies somewhere in the middle” has to be one of my least favorite phrases. Sometimes, one side is actually truthful and one side is actually malicious and lying!
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And lots of times when two people disagree, both of them are wrong (though one is perhaps less wrong), and the truth lies considerably further out on the ideological spectrum than most people involved in the discourse have yet managed to imagine.
“The truth always lies somewhere in the middle” has to be one of my least favorite phrases. Sometimes, one side is actually truthful and one side is actually malicious and lying!
January 19, 2026 at 8:37 PM
And lots of times when two people disagree, both of them are wrong (though one is perhaps less wrong), and the truth lies considerably further out on the ideological spectrum than most people involved in the discourse have yet managed to imagine.
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I never understand why people who tout their moderate and centrist credentials aren't directly asked about this.
January 19, 2026 at 5:23 PM
I never understand why people who tout their moderate and centrist credentials aren't directly asked about this.
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“.. foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.” 🤡
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
January 19, 2026 at 3:37 PM
“.. foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.” 🤡
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
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Protecting people is my job. No one—not this administration, not ICE—will keep me from doing it.
I sat down with @newyorker.com to talk about why I’m not backing down in the face of political intimidation.
I sat down with @newyorker.com to talk about why I’m not backing down in the face of political intimidation.
January 19, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Protecting people is my job. No one—not this administration, not ICE—will keep me from doing it.
I sat down with @newyorker.com to talk about why I’m not backing down in the face of political intimidation.
I sat down with @newyorker.com to talk about why I’m not backing down in the face of political intimidation.
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"many of them don't want to be doing what they've been directed to do"
Oh come on.
These guys are not conscripts, there is no commissar with a pistol behind them looking for signs of wavering.
They can just quit at any time! They can quit today. They can quit tomorrow.
Oh come on.
These guys are not conscripts, there is no commissar with a pistol behind them looking for signs of wavering.
They can just quit at any time! They can quit today. They can quit tomorrow.
In an interview with @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social, Blas Nuñez-Neto wouldn't tell us his clients, but did say we should remember that ICE agents are people too. (Can't believe this quote below)
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
![Nuñez-Neto recommended that protesters understand that ICE agents are people, too.
“I think it would help both sides to appreciate the fact that that’s a human being across from you who may or may not want to do the things they’ve been ordered to do. In my long history being in and out of the Department [of Homeland Security], it is very often what makes the news are the terrible things that happen but what doesn’t get reported are the … stories about agents bringing toys into the border patrol station,” he said.
“We’re all human beings, many of them have families, many of them don’t want to be doing what they’ve been directed to do … so it would help us all to lower the temperature a bit. I’m angry too.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nztbvvo2gl4227zuxjf7gog3/bafkreia3sqpgq4ufvy746ld4tuadfwuf7ul4so6u2wjhf5oggd6kzxibtm@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 3:09 PM
"many of them don't want to be doing what they've been directed to do"
Oh come on.
These guys are not conscripts, there is no commissar with a pistol behind them looking for signs of wavering.
They can just quit at any time! They can quit today. They can quit tomorrow.
Oh come on.
These guys are not conscripts, there is no commissar with a pistol behind them looking for signs of wavering.
They can just quit at any time! They can quit today. They can quit tomorrow.
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3K billionaires control $18.3 trillion, and this concentration of wealth is reshaping democracy itself. Billionaire money changes who gets heard, who decides, and who gets left behind.
Read the evidence: www.oxfam.org/en/resisting... #RuleOfTheRich #FightInequality #TaxTheSuperRich
Read the evidence: www.oxfam.org/en/resisting... #RuleOfTheRich #FightInequality #TaxTheSuperRich
January 19, 2026 at 12:02 AM
3K billionaires control $18.3 trillion, and this concentration of wealth is reshaping democracy itself. Billionaire money changes who gets heard, who decides, and who gets left behind.
Read the evidence: www.oxfam.org/en/resisting... #RuleOfTheRich #FightInequality #TaxTheSuperRich
Read the evidence: www.oxfam.org/en/resisting... #RuleOfTheRich #FightInequality #TaxTheSuperRich
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This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
January 19, 2026 at 3:46 PM
This is what happened in our neighborhood yesterday. ICE snatched a human being off of our streets, roughed them up badly, and then pepper sprayed legal observers as they documented it all. This is a daily occurrence happening all throughout Minnesota right now.
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Re: Greenland.
Can we stop imagining Trump is anything other than certifiably insane?
Can we stop imagining Trump is anything other than certifiably insane?
January 19, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Re: Greenland.
Can we stop imagining Trump is anything other than certifiably insane?
Can we stop imagining Trump is anything other than certifiably insane?
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Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.
This is so smart. I’m so impressed with all the different ways you’re helping your neighbors.
January 19, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.
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Trump’s insane new threat leaves no doubt: it’s time for the 25th Amendment.
January 19, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Trump’s insane new threat leaves no doubt: it’s time for the 25th Amendment.
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Republican Nazis thought we would greet ICE as liberators. They fundamentally do not understand human decency.
Trump is privately worried about the "optics" of ICE raids and his advisers are looking for ways to soften them, Axios reports. I'm calling bullshit: The terror and violence cannot be hived off from the broader policy agenda. They are 100% intrinsic to it.
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2053...
Trump’s Own Advisers Suddenly Unnerved as ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn
So the president doesn’t like the “optics” of what ICE is doing. But there’s no such thing as sanitized, popular mass deportations—and this is by design.
newrepublic.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Republican Nazis thought we would greet ICE as liberators. They fundamentally do not understand human decency.
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On several occasions
omg it’s so embarrassing
omg it’s so embarrassing
'“As regards the Nobel Peace Prize, I have on several occasions clearly explained to Trump what is well known, namely that it is an independent Nobel Committee, and not the Norwegian government, that awards the prize,” [Norwegian Prime Minister] Mr. Store said.'
Breaking News: President Trump told Norway’s prime minister that one reason he’s pushing to acquire Greenland is because he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize.
January 19, 2026 at 3:35 PM
On several occasions
omg it’s so embarrassing
omg it’s so embarrassing
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If Trump’s Cabinet cared more about the country than their own money and power, they’d invoke the 25th Amendment and remove the madman now. (They don’t, of course.)
January 19, 2026 at 3:07 PM
If Trump’s Cabinet cared more about the country than their own money and power, they’d invoke the 25th Amendment and remove the madman now. (They don’t, of course.)
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Wildly inadequate cringe performative nonsense
Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"
Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"
i feel like Americans don't get the level of eye-rolling this is getting from Europe
January 19, 2026 at 4:11 AM
Wildly inadequate cringe performative nonsense
Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"
Today in "neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party"
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We are starting to get all of Russia's financial reports for the year 2025. It's all bad. Russia is a sinking ship.
January 19, 2026 at 4:00 AM
We are starting to get all of Russia's financial reports for the year 2025. It's all bad. Russia is a sinking ship.
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A Texas district in which Black students were allegedly taunted with monkey noises.
An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.”
These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored:
An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.”
These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored:
Monkey Sounds, “White Power” and the N-Word: Racial Harassment Against Black Students Ignored Under Trump
Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discriminat...
www.propublica.org
January 19, 2026 at 4:00 AM
A Texas district in which Black students were allegedly taunted with monkey noises.
An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.”
These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored:
An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.”
These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored:
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“Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi….But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis.” — D. Thompson*
Border Patrol chief Greg Bovino marches through Minneapolis surrounded by federal agents, shouting at American citizens.
This isn’t about deporting “the worst of the worst.” It’s about deliberately sowing fear and chaos in cities that oppose the Trump regime
ht: @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social
This isn’t about deporting “the worst of the worst.” It’s about deliberately sowing fear and chaos in cities that oppose the Trump regime
ht: @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 4:21 AM
“Kind, good, happy, gentlemanly, secure people never go Nazi….But the frustrated and humiliated intellectual, the rich and scared speculator, the spoiled son, the labor tyrant, the fellow who has achieved success by smelling out the wind of success—they would all go Nazi in a crisis.” — D. Thompson*
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“we might go to war with Europe over Greenland” is not normal behavior and cannot be slotted into normal political rhetoric by people who would like to reestablish normal political relations with Europe someday
i feel like Americans don't get the level of eye-rolling this is getting from Europe
January 19, 2026 at 4:19 AM
“we might go to war with Europe over Greenland” is not normal behavior and cannot be slotted into normal political rhetoric by people who would like to reestablish normal political relations with Europe someday
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What Schumer is telling you here is that his strategy is just to whine about how bad things are. That's it. Just whine, and hope that wins the midterms.
Replace this man. Come on. He's done.
Replace this man. Come on. He's done.
NEW: In this interview, Chuck Schumer describes the "five buckets" Dems think are key to their possibly winning a Senate majority in 2026: housing, "the high price of food [and] food monopolies playing a major role there," electricity, "the high cost of childcare," and health care.
Zero Chucks Left to Give
Chuck Schumer now sees a path back to the majority. Can he manage his way through it?
www.thebulwark.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:37 AM
What Schumer is telling you here is that his strategy is just to whine about how bad things are. That's it. Just whine, and hope that wins the midterms.
Replace this man. Come on. He's done.
Replace this man. Come on. He's done.
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What emerges from Todd Blanche's statements: the FBI excluded local Minnesota and Minneapolis authorities from an investigation that it never in fact ever conducted—because of orders from the top that it not do so. No investigation of this homicide occurred.
BREAM: Is the FBI investigating the ICE agent who shot Renee Good?
BLANCHE: What happened has been reviewed by millions of Americans bc it was recorded. We investigate when it's appropriate. That is not the case here. We are not going to bow to pressure. So no, we are not investigating.
BLANCHE: What happened has been reviewed by millions of Americans bc it was recorded. We investigate when it's appropriate. That is not the case here. We are not going to bow to pressure. So no, we are not investigating.
January 19, 2026 at 4:11 AM
What emerges from Todd Blanche's statements: the FBI excluded local Minnesota and Minneapolis authorities from an investigation that it never in fact ever conducted—because of orders from the top that it not do so. No investigation of this homicide occurred.
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insane loser energy
NEW: In this interview, Chuck Schumer describes the "five buckets" Dems think are key to their possibly winning a Senate majority in 2026: housing, "the high price of food [and] food monopolies playing a major role there," electricity, "the high cost of childcare," and health care.
Zero Chucks Left to Give
Chuck Schumer now sees a path back to the majority. Can he manage his way through it?
www.thebulwark.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:41 AM
insane loser energy
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Here is the most important rule in politics:
If you want a thing just push for the thing.
All the rules about how you are not allowed to do that are made up and designed to prevent you from pushing for the thing.
If you want a thing just push for the thing.
All the rules about how you are not allowed to do that are made up and designed to prevent you from pushing for the thing.
January 19, 2026 at 4:39 AM
Here is the most important rule in politics:
If you want a thing just push for the thing.
All the rules about how you are not allowed to do that are made up and designed to prevent you from pushing for the thing.
If you want a thing just push for the thing.
All the rules about how you are not allowed to do that are made up and designed to prevent you from pushing for the thing.
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*fiddling with the air conditioning as the car plummets off a mountain*
NEW: In this interview, Chuck Schumer describes the "five buckets" Dems think are key to their possibly winning a Senate majority in 2026: housing, "the high price of food [and] food monopolies playing a major role there," electricity, "the high cost of childcare," and health care.
Zero Chucks Left to Give
Chuck Schumer now sees a path back to the majority. Can he manage his way through it?
www.thebulwark.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:42 AM
*fiddling with the air conditioning as the car plummets off a mountain*
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I'm already incandescently angry that the US took Hawai'i.
January 19, 2026 at 4:38 AM
I'm already incandescently angry that the US took Hawai'i.