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My God: After the Trump administration killed Renee Good they tried to be pursue a criminal case against her.
www.ms.now/news/doj-sou...
www.ms.now/news/doj-sou...
January 24, 2026 at 12:27 AM
My God: After the Trump administration killed Renee Good they tried to be pursue a criminal case against her.
www.ms.now/news/doj-sou...
www.ms.now/news/doj-sou...
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How dare the Coward in the White House undermine the bravery and sacrifice of our British troops.
Reform and Nigel Farage should be ashamed to associate themselves with him.
Reform and Nigel Farage should be ashamed to associate themselves with him.
January 23, 2026 at 6:46 PM
How dare the Coward in the White House undermine the bravery and sacrifice of our British troops.
Reform and Nigel Farage should be ashamed to associate themselves with him.
Reform and Nigel Farage should be ashamed to associate themselves with him.
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I’m so proud of Minnesota. I understand why some people belittle protests as not enough, but I really think this shit matters.
I saw a clip on Fox News and they had to admit thousands of people showed up. It’s not going to stop Trump, but it’s a signal to your neighbors that they’re not alone.
I saw a clip on Fox News and they had to admit thousands of people showed up. It’s not going to stop Trump, but it’s a signal to your neighbors that they’re not alone.
January 23, 2026 at 10:51 PM
I’m so proud of Minnesota. I understand why some people belittle protests as not enough, but I really think this shit matters.
I saw a clip on Fox News and they had to admit thousands of people showed up. It’s not going to stop Trump, but it’s a signal to your neighbors that they’re not alone.
I saw a clip on Fox News and they had to admit thousands of people showed up. It’s not going to stop Trump, but it’s a signal to your neighbors that they’re not alone.
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I first created this concept map in 2016. After reading your article I created a #Project2029 version. I'm not sure it has every issue you included. It might have others, too. Each cluster needs links to someone aggregating info & connecting people focused on that issue. I hope it helps.
January 23, 2026 at 11:33 PM
I first created this concept map in 2016. After reading your article I created a #Project2029 version. I'm not sure it has every issue you included. It might have others, too. Each cluster needs links to someone aggregating info & connecting people focused on that issue. I hope it helps.
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We need thinkers,writers,web developers,financiers. No one can do this better than us. Let’s do this.
open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...
open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...
Project 2029:
A Call to Action
open.substack.com
January 23, 2026 at 10:25 PM
We need thinkers,writers,web developers,financiers. No one can do this better than us. Let’s do this.
open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...
open.substack.com/pub/joadt/p/...
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Thesis: ICE is un-American and the Minneapolis protestors are real Americans.
Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror.
Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.
Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror.
Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.
January 23, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Thesis: ICE is un-American and the Minneapolis protestors are real Americans.
Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror.
Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.
Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror.
Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.
Reposted by Mike Bennett
It would happen no matter what. The US President is basically a Roomba. When he runs into opposition he turns and starts devouring in another direction. Sooner or later he always circles back, though.
January 23, 2026 at 4:36 PM
It would happen no matter what. The US President is basically a Roomba. When he runs into opposition he turns and starts devouring in another direction. Sooner or later he always circles back, though.
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This is Minneapolis:
Another parent handed this to me at elementary school pick up today.
Hidden message & beautiful art!
❄️
Another parent handed this to me at elementary school pick up today.
Hidden message & beautiful art!
❄️
January 23, 2026 at 2:57 AM
This is Minneapolis:
Another parent handed this to me at elementary school pick up today.
Hidden message & beautiful art!
❄️
Another parent handed this to me at elementary school pick up today.
Hidden message & beautiful art!
❄️
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In the case of Rhodesia, the downfall was caused by a strongman who wanted to make his country great again, deported unwanted immigrants i.e. folks he deemed as immigrants, while ignoring the economic advice of experts in the field.
January 12, 2026 at 6:29 PM
In the case of Rhodesia, the downfall was caused by a strongman who wanted to make his country great again, deported unwanted immigrants i.e. folks he deemed as immigrants, while ignoring the economic advice of experts in the field.
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Annassi Hansen, a traditional Inuit carver, stares blankly at a chunk of narwhal tusk…unable to focus on transforming them into tiny figurines.
“Trump makes me sick in the head,” he said from his workshop in Nuuk, Greenland’s capital. “He just does not shut up.”
www.ft.com/content/726f...
“Trump makes me sick in the head,” he said from his workshop in Nuuk, Greenland’s capital. “He just does not shut up.”
www.ft.com/content/726f...
‘I am just so tired of Trump’: Greenland on alert as US hovers
Anxiety and patriotism swirl as details of a ‘future deal’ touted by US president trickle out
www.ft.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Annassi Hansen, a traditional Inuit carver, stares blankly at a chunk of narwhal tusk…unable to focus on transforming them into tiny figurines.
“Trump makes me sick in the head,” he said from his workshop in Nuuk, Greenland’s capital. “He just does not shut up.”
www.ft.com/content/726f...
“Trump makes me sick in the head,” he said from his workshop in Nuuk, Greenland’s capital. “He just does not shut up.”
www.ft.com/content/726f...
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A very wise man all those centuries ago.
January 23, 2026 at 3:41 PM
A very wise man all those centuries ago.
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Reposted by Mike Bennett
I just thought everyone should see this
January 22, 2026 at 11:02 PM
I just thought everyone should see this
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I need to write a long-form piece about how dang *Minnesotan* the resistance to ICE is here. You have a metro population that quietly got itself organized in a completely decentralized way, and everyone just got down to work. And it's clearly sending the feds into a tailspin.
January 22, 2026 at 4:45 PM
I need to write a long-form piece about how dang *Minnesotan* the resistance to ICE is here. You have a metro population that quietly got itself organized in a completely decentralized way, and everyone just got down to work. And it's clearly sending the feds into a tailspin.
Reposted by Mike Bennett
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a very common problem for autocrats, who assume everyone is secretly like them. I remember Putin being unable to grasp that Bush was not responsible for firing journalists
The Trump disbelief that the Norwegian govt doesn't control the Nobel process is deeply indicative of his thinking. He can't conceive that an institution could (or should) be genuinely independent of coercion or political power. That's the change he represents.
Trump: "I should have gotten the Nobel prize for each war...I saved millions and millions of people...and don't let anyone tell you that Norway doesn't control the shots. It's in Norway. Norway controls the shots. It's a joke. They've lost such prestige.“
January 21, 2026 at 1:06 PM
a very common problem for autocrats, who assume everyone is secretly like them. I remember Putin being unable to grasp that Bush was not responsible for firing journalists
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I’ve never understood why this isn’t a thing. A financial and ethical audit at the end of the term, with penalties enforced right away—something like clearing in high school—makes far more sense than the present combination of scrutiny before office, immunity while in it, and impunity after.
Politicians having to undergo a thorough audit every few years is also an appealing idea if we’re thinking in Athenian terms.
January 22, 2026 at 4:06 AM
I’ve never understood why this isn’t a thing. A financial and ethical audit at the end of the term, with penalties enforced right away—something like clearing in high school—makes far more sense than the present combination of scrutiny before office, immunity while in it, and impunity after.
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This blog post on the @atprotocol.dev site has my byline on it.
We may have some other takes to share, @knowtheory.net has been thinking this through for a while.
The tone here is - welcome! We're happy to have you, hope you'll lead with joy and dig in to help out.
We may have some other takes to share, @knowtheory.net has been thinking this through for a while.
The tone here is - welcome! We're happy to have you, hope you'll lead with joy and dig in to help out.
W is a new European platform aspiring to be an alternative to X.
What if we told you that it may actually be launching as an ATProto powered app?
This is a W for ATProto
atprotocol.dev/w-for-atproto/
What if we told you that it may actually be launching as an ATProto powered app?
This is a W for ATProto
atprotocol.dev/w-for-atproto/
W for ATProto
W is a new platform recently announced, aspiring to be a European alternative to X.
It may actually be powered by ATProto, based on leaked screenshots.
This is a win for ATProto
atprotocol.dev
January 21, 2026 at 9:36 PM
This blog post on the @atprotocol.dev site has my byline on it.
We may have some other takes to share, @knowtheory.net has been thinking this through for a while.
The tone here is - welcome! We're happy to have you, hope you'll lead with joy and dig in to help out.
We may have some other takes to share, @knowtheory.net has been thinking this through for a while.
The tone here is - welcome! We're happy to have you, hope you'll lead with joy and dig in to help out.
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Sharing this report of ICE depravity from Facebook at the request of community member. This is from a suburb north of ICE-occupied Minneapolis.
The text is from her post on Facebook.
The text is from her post on Facebook.
January 21, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Sharing this report of ICE depravity from Facebook at the request of community member. This is from a suburb north of ICE-occupied Minneapolis.
The text is from her post on Facebook.
The text is from her post on Facebook.
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🚨"Theyr're dumping people in the woods" - Medical workers are flagging potential cases of federal agents releasing injured detainees in the most inhumane method possible. LIVE NOW⬇️
January 22, 2026 at 12:46 AM
🚨"Theyr're dumping people in the woods" - Medical workers are flagging potential cases of federal agents releasing injured detainees in the most inhumane method possible. LIVE NOW⬇️
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This is complete nonsense. NATO doesn’t have the power to negotiate over the territory of sovereign member states, let alone mineral rights. This is #Trump simply announcing his terms as a ‘deal’ to save face when in reality it’s a climb-down. #Trumpland #ImpeachTrump www.cnbc.com/2026/01/21/t...
Trump says he reached Greenland deal 'framework' with NATO, backs off Europe tariffs
Trump suggested to CNBC that the Greenland framework involves mineral rights for the U.S., as well as the administration's proposed "Golden Dome" system.
www.cnbc.com
January 21, 2026 at 10:12 PM
This is complete nonsense. NATO doesn’t have the power to negotiate over the territory of sovereign member states, let alone mineral rights. This is #Trump simply announcing his terms as a ‘deal’ to save face when in reality it’s a climb-down. #Trumpland #ImpeachTrump www.cnbc.com/2026/01/21/t...
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He fell for the old Viking trick, didn't he?
January 21, 2026 at 5:45 PM
He fell for the old Viking trick, didn't he?
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confusing Iceland and Greenland? good to see Erik the Red's psyop still going strong, 1041 years on
January 21, 2026 at 6:29 PM
confusing Iceland and Greenland? good to see Erik the Red's psyop still going strong, 1041 years on
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To be fair, Greenland is very icy and Iceland is quite green around the edges.
January 21, 2026 at 5:54 PM
To be fair, Greenland is very icy and Iceland is quite green around the edges.
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I hope the UK prime minister gets a little bit of his (Mr Carney’s) courage and flavour to stand up to that felon 45,47. It is disgraceful that he took Britain this path of being still a vassal of USA. I am terribly excited by the European stance particularly Mr Macron and Ms Ursula von der Leyen
January 21, 2026 at 1:24 PM
I hope the UK prime minister gets a little bit of his (Mr Carney’s) courage and flavour to stand up to that felon 45,47. It is disgraceful that he took Britain this path of being still a vassal of USA. I am terribly excited by the European stance particularly Mr Macron and Ms Ursula von der Leyen