@msdobalina.bsky.social
Biding my time 'til I unplug Peter Thiel's cryochamber.
“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice."
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer
“Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the good than malice."
~Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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If I am any country in the world right now (except Russia), I am looking at the US like a box that fell out of a truck driving in front of me that is marked "TNT."
Pulitzer worthy:
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A lot going on here. Watch the video first, then read MPR's account of what happened. The driver passes into a space where there is no law or accountability, but then out again when local police show up. Later on the police say they did NOT intervene. (OK officer...)
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
St. Peter police chief intervened and got federal agents to release resident, sources say
Sources tell MPR News that the police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into detention. It is believed to t...
www.mprnews.org
February 1, 2026 at 2:39 AM
A lot going on here. Watch the video first, then read MPR's account of what happened. The driver passes into a space where there is no law or accountability, but then out again when local police show up. Later on the police say they did NOT intervene. (OK officer...)
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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Before the 2024 election, I outlined 9 ways Trump had damaged Constitutional democracy, saying the 10th and final barrier was We the People.
We’re not a year into democratic backsliding. We’re a year into a plurality of American voters endorsing nearly a decade of backsliding, and opting for more.
We’re not a year into democratic backsliding. We’re a year into a plurality of American voters endorsing nearly a decade of backsliding, and opting for more.
The Institutions of American Democracy are Hanging by a Thread
Trump has brought the United States further down the path of democratic backsliding than many realize. The election is the only barrier left.
www.arcdigital.media
February 1, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Before the 2024 election, I outlined 9 ways Trump had damaged Constitutional democracy, saying the 10th and final barrier was We the People.
We’re not a year into democratic backsliding. We’re a year into a plurality of American voters endorsing nearly a decade of backsliding, and opting for more.
We’re not a year into democratic backsliding. We’re a year into a plurality of American voters endorsing nearly a decade of backsliding, and opting for more.
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Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 31, 2026 at 8:42 PM
Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Just got gassed pretty good at the labor union anti-ICE protest in Portland. Massive march, 5-10k strong. Vibes were very much liberal rather than radical. Lots of kids and older folks.
They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.
They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.
February 1, 2026 at 2:03 AM
Just got gassed pretty good at the labor union anti-ICE protest in Portland. Massive march, 5-10k strong. Vibes were very much liberal rather than radical. Lots of kids and older folks.
They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.
They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.
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1/ Ian Austin has since been re-arrested along with Don Lemon, which he believes is bc the video we made of him (below) criticizing the Trump regime and encouraging fellow vets to wake up had gotten millions of views.
It's not just journalists. It's ANYONE. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
It's not just journalists. It's ANYONE. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
January 31, 2026 at 8:28 PM
1/ Ian Austin has since been re-arrested along with Don Lemon, which he believes is bc the video we made of him (below) criticizing the Trump regime and encouraging fellow vets to wake up had gotten millions of views.
It's not just journalists. It's ANYONE. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
It's not just journalists. It's ANYONE. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Y’all wanna see bots try to throw a dead body over a wall
February 1, 2026 at 1:12 AM
Y’all wanna see bots try to throw a dead body over a wall
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Tech journalists try googling the founder or talking to literally anyone with a clue before writing a breathless story about the latest bullshit challenge.
The guy who vibe coded a crypto rug pull scientific error detection and got coverage in Nature is back with a vibe coded ai social media network, with similarly crypto intentions… getting coverage from major outlets.
www.404media.co/exposed-molt...
www.404media.co/exposed-molt...
Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site
'It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.'
www.404media.co
February 1, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Tech journalists try googling the founder or talking to literally anyone with a clue before writing a breathless story about the latest bullshit challenge.
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Luis Edward Hermosillo, 45, a Border Patrol Agent from Riverside, CA, was sentenced on Oct 23, 2012 to eight years in prison after stopping a woman at a Riverside County border checkpoint, ordering her to drive to a remote location and then sexually assaulting her in front of her two young children.
February 1, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Luis Edward Hermosillo, 45, a Border Patrol Agent from Riverside, CA, was sentenced on Oct 23, 2012 to eight years in prison after stopping a woman at a Riverside County border checkpoint, ordering her to drive to a remote location and then sexually assaulting her in front of her two young children.
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we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds
Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.”
This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker
January 31, 2026 at 8:31 PM
we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds
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34,000 signing up for this work AFTER seeing their fellow citizens gunned down by federal thugs in cold blood? I'm chugging whatever the opposite of doomerism is
More than 34,000 Minnesotans signed up to be trained as ICED observers with various activist groups in recent weeks, many of them since Jan. 7, when a federal agent shot and killed Renée Good.
Thousands of new ICE watchers hit the streets after two killings
Minnesotans outraged by the killings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti have signed up in large numbers to monitor and protest ICE with other activists.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 1, 2026 at 1:13 AM
34,000 signing up for this work AFTER seeing their fellow citizens gunned down by federal thugs in cold blood? I'm chugging whatever the opposite of doomerism is
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Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
February 1, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
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To be fair, World's Economy Held Hostage by Child Sex Trafficking Ring is much less important than Plan to Save Elephants Turns Deadly.
January 31, 2026 at 6:04 PM
To be fair, World's Economy Held Hostage by Child Sex Trafficking Ring is much less important than Plan to Save Elephants Turns Deadly.
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This is how barricades worked in Paris during 1848 and 1871, just, fun fact. If you make a large enough area with such blockades at the entrances...
Twin Cities rapid responders have set up a "filter blockade" at 34th and Cedar and are calling for volunteers and donations. This is a new tactic developing over the last week: community is allowed to pass, but ICE agents are stopped/slowed before they can terrorize our neighbors.
January 31, 2026 at 6:11 PM
This is how barricades worked in Paris during 1848 and 1871, just, fun fact. If you make a large enough area with such blockades at the entrances...
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the laziest, most vapid rich fuckboy imaginable. just cruising around soaking select universities in money & going "hrm, yes, intriguing, come tell me more at our little soiree" with whichever faculty cranks professed the most rapey evo-psych theories
Jeffrey Epstein’s fuckin intolerable writing has actually saved me from a lot of psychic damage, because I simply cannot read it.
Why the fuck does Epstein put like five spaces on either side of every comma and shit this is driving me mad.
January 31, 2026 at 1:04 AM
the laziest, most vapid rich fuckboy imaginable. just cruising around soaking select universities in money & going "hrm, yes, intriguing, come tell me more at our little soiree" with whichever faculty cranks professed the most rapey evo-psych theories
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Because Oregon is such a reliably blue state, the evolution of the OR GOP into a party that increasingly tolerates/normalizes political violence is especially concerning. Democracies contain conflict by channeling them through the electoral process. If you lose, you regroup and try again. But...
January 31, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Because Oregon is such a reliably blue state, the evolution of the OR GOP into a party that increasingly tolerates/normalizes political violence is especially concerning. Democracies contain conflict by channeling them through the electoral process. If you lose, you regroup and try again. But...
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Advocacy/tolerance for political violence is a very bright line that divides democracies from democracies that are backsliding into authoritarianism. Democracies in which one of two major parties openly endorses political violence, or at least is winkingly tolerant of it; are democracies in trouble.
January 31, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Advocacy/tolerance for political violence is a very bright line that divides democracies from democracies that are backsliding into authoritarianism. Democracies in which one of two major parties openly endorses political violence, or at least is winkingly tolerant of it; are democracies in trouble.
We're #1 !!!
(At high-speed circling the drain)
(At high-speed circling the drain)
New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries.
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
January 31, 2026 at 5:25 PM
We're #1 !!!
(At high-speed circling the drain)
(At high-speed circling the drain)
True, and dank as all f**k
Bari just hired this guy lol
Oh look, according to Peter Attia MD “pussy is low carb” something that is totally normal for a doctor to say to Epstein, who had previously been convicted of procuring a child for prostitution
January 31, 2026 at 5:00 PM
True, and dank as all f**k
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“bari weiss’s wife in the epstein files” is simply too perfect
If I have the right Nellie Bowles, the partner in question is Bari Weiss
January 31, 2026 at 4:12 PM
“bari weiss’s wife in the epstein files” is simply too perfect
Putin owns our lazy, sleepwalking asses to an impressive degree.
January 31, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Putin owns our lazy, sleepwalking asses to an impressive degree.
Even completely ignoring the Podesta emails, this is insanely dank. We all know plenty about how Russia recruits Americans, and we know too much about Epstein, to dismiss this as coincidence. Sometimes the presumption really does validly flip 180 degrees.
Vance’s benefactor Peter Thiel, Epstein, and Russia’s ambassador Vitaly Churkin having an “important lunch” 1 month before the 2016 election — right before the Podesta emails were released by Wikileaks
Probably nothing! 🙃🥶
Probably nothing! 🙃🥶
January 31, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Even completely ignoring the Podesta emails, this is insanely dank. We all know plenty about how Russia recruits Americans, and we know too much about Epstein, to dismiss this as coincidence. Sometimes the presumption really does validly flip 180 degrees.
Provides some background on the judge who signed off on the Georgia ballots warrant. At this point, "nothing to see here" (if anything, her bio suggests she's a normal human, serious about her role, maybe slightly left).
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/we-h...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/we-h...
We Have Questions About the FBI’s Fulton County Search
The administration continues to litigate the 2020 election more than five years later.
www.lawfaremedia.org
January 31, 2026 at 6:46 AM
Provides some background on the judge who signed off on the Georgia ballots warrant. At this point, "nothing to see here" (if anything, her bio suggests she's a normal human, serious about her role, maybe slightly left).
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/we-h...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/we-h...
Remember when this goldbricking shit heel posed as a Democrat?
January 31, 2026 at 5:10 AM
Remember when this goldbricking shit heel posed as a Democrat?
What judge signed off on this????
“There could be few more well-trod hallmarks of authoritarianism than control over electoral processes to get the results that the ruler wants,” according to David Laufman, former senior counterintelligence expert at the DOJ.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
‘It’s a Five-Alarm Fire’
The FBI’s search and seizure of material from Fulton County election offices marks a major escalation.
www.theatlantic.com
January 31, 2026 at 5:05 AM
What judge signed off on this????
"The intelligence director promised she would soon brief him, adding, “We are finding documents literally tucked away in the back of safes and random offices.”
They are going to manufacture reams of evidence.
They are going to manufacture reams of evidence.
“There could be few more well-trod hallmarks of authoritarianism than control over electoral processes to get the results that the ruler wants,” according to David Laufman, former senior counterintelligence expert at the DOJ.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
‘It’s a Five-Alarm Fire’
The FBI’s search and seizure of material from Fulton County election offices marks a major escalation.
www.theatlantic.com
January 31, 2026 at 4:43 AM
"The intelligence director promised she would soon brief him, adding, “We are finding documents literally tucked away in the back of safes and random offices.”
They are going to manufacture reams of evidence.
They are going to manufacture reams of evidence.