Michael J. Steudeman
@msteudeman.bsky.social
rhetoric, education, neurodiversity, dad humor. Author of Absence of National Feeling: Education Debates in the Reconstruction Congress (U. Press of Mississippi, 2025).
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Conservative oligarchs buying up all our media and tech platforms but ultimately their attempt to command the vibes is like king canute
Since last year’s Grammy’s the tariffs have soured voters on Trump’s affordability agenda, Minnesota/ICE happened, and now bitcoin’s plunging so “At least he’ll pump our bags” isn’t working either.
February 2, 2026 at 3:48 AM
Conservative oligarchs buying up all our media and tech platforms but ultimately their attempt to command the vibes is like king canute
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One of the detainees speaking out in this article is Nasra Ahmed, a 23 year old US citizen who was grabbed by ICE on her way to the pharmacy to pick up anti seizure medication.
She had her papers.
ICE didn’t care.
She’s been arrested again at an anti ICE protest.
She had her papers.
ICE didn’t care.
She’s been arrested again at an anti ICE protest.
‘No humanity’: Detainees describe conditions inside Whipple Federal Building
Immigration sweep brings overcrowded rooms and overflowing toilets. Lawyers say they can’t visit their clients. The Department of Homeland Security says “all detainees receive full due process.”
www.startribune.com
February 1, 2026 at 2:18 AM
One of the detainees speaking out in this article is Nasra Ahmed, a 23 year old US citizen who was grabbed by ICE on her way to the pharmacy to pick up anti seizure medication.
She had her papers.
ICE didn’t care.
She’s been arrested again at an anti ICE protest.
She had her papers.
ICE didn’t care.
She’s been arrested again at an anti ICE protest.
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I have heard about DHS literally every day for over a year
Kristi Noem: "I always tell people that the days you don't hear about us are the days we were successful."
February 1, 2026 at 11:25 PM
I have heard about DHS literally every day for over a year
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The people who are saying shit like "well it's either this or the borders are totally open" are doing their best to convince America that we should have completely open borders.
February 1, 2026 at 12:19 AM
The people who are saying shit like "well it's either this or the borders are totally open" are doing their best to convince America that we should have completely open borders.
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It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.
February 1, 2026 at 3:10 AM
It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.
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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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Denny Carter on talking to your children about the president's racism, which becomes more normalized all the time:
https://badfaithtimes.com/tell-your-kids-this-shit-is-racist/
https://badfaithtimes.com/tell-your-kids-this-shit-is-racist/
Tell Your Kids This Shit Is Racist
American children deserve to know they're being raised under a white supremacist regime.
badfaithtimes.com
January 31, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Denny Carter on talking to your children about the president's racism, which becomes more normalized all the time:
https://badfaithtimes.com/tell-your-kids-this-shit-is-racist/
https://badfaithtimes.com/tell-your-kids-this-shit-is-racist/
I probably need to up my effexor, but what would help even more is not living under fascism
February 1, 2026 at 2:44 AM
I probably need to up my effexor, but what would help even more is not living under fascism
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BREAKING: Federal judge orders Adrian Conejo Arias and his minor son, L.C.R., released.
"The Great Writ and release from detention are GRANTED."
"Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster."
"The Great Writ and release from detention are GRANTED."
"Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster."
![Ultimately, Petitioners may, because of the arcane United States immigration system, return to
their home country, involuntarily or by self-deportation. But that result should occur through a more
orderly and humane policy than currently in place.
Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you
can keep it."
With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike,
It is so ORDERED.
SIGNED this 31st day of February [sic], 2026.
Fred Biery
FRED BIERY
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
Credit: Bystander
Matthew 19:14
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January 31, 2026 at 8:44 PM
BREAKING: Federal judge orders Adrian Conejo Arias and his minor son, L.C.R., released.
"The Great Writ and release from detention are GRANTED."
"Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster."
"The Great Writ and release from detention are GRANTED."
"Civics lesson to the government: Administrative warrants issued by the executive branch to itself do not pass probable cause muster."
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we could also normalise reporting popular vote/majority controll splits, the way we do for the electoral college
the current senate as a 53/45 republican majority, but democrats won the more overall votes in the elections (24, 22, 20) that constituted the chamber
the current senate as a 53/45 republican majority, but democrats won the more overall votes in the elections (24, 22, 20) that constituted the chamber
What percentage of Americans do all the Senate Democrats plus Murkowski & Collins represent
I would like to see this information included in every report of a Senate vote, the same way journos eventually established the norm of reporting the party of the president who appointed federal judges.
I would like to see this information included in every report of a Senate vote, the same way journos eventually established the norm of reporting the party of the president who appointed federal judges.
👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.
January 31, 2026 at 5:12 PM
we could also normalise reporting popular vote/majority controll splits, the way we do for the electoral college
the current senate as a 53/45 republican majority, but democrats won the more overall votes in the elections (24, 22, 20) that constituted the chamber
the current senate as a 53/45 republican majority, but democrats won the more overall votes in the elections (24, 22, 20) that constituted the chamber
maybe there was a group-evolutionary benefit to some people having clinical depression. Maybe we’re here to be the canaries in the coal mines, to give everyone advance warning that the community is becoming too suffocating, too isolating, too brutal, too cruel, too inhumane for any of us to survive.
January 31, 2026 at 5:03 PM
maybe there was a group-evolutionary benefit to some people having clinical depression. Maybe we’re here to be the canaries in the coal mines, to give everyone advance warning that the community is becoming too suffocating, too isolating, too brutal, too cruel, too inhumane for any of us to survive.
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Think one of the more chilling things I’ve ever seen up close - which made me an early adapter of calling him a fascist - was watching Trump whip a stadium full of supporters in Greenville, North Carolina into a frenzy about Omar, watching a sea of his Red Hats chant “send her back!”
"Trump and His Party Have Put Ilhan Omar in Danger for Years"
The Minnesota congresswoman has weathered years of racist smears from Trump and his right-wing lackeys, in the lead-up to Tuesday’s attack on her. Zeteo has the receipts.
The Minnesota congresswoman has weathered years of racist smears from Trump and his right-wing lackeys, in the lead-up to Tuesday’s attack on her. Zeteo has the receipts.
Trump and His Party Have Put Ilhan Omar in Danger for Years
The Minnesota congresswoman has weathered years of racist smears from Trump and his right-wing lackeys, in the lead-up to Tuesday’s attack on her.
zeteo.com
January 29, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Think one of the more chilling things I’ve ever seen up close - which made me an early adapter of calling him a fascist - was watching Trump whip a stadium full of supporters in Greenville, North Carolina into a frenzy about Omar, watching a sea of his Red Hats chant “send her back!”
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there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content
January 30, 2026 at 1:54 PM
there's this new dynamic where the DOJ cannot win in court and is (relatedly) incapable of meeting the minimum threshold of professional legal conduct, and so an increasing percentage of its actions are purely for intimidation and content
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This is also a core information behavior underlying a Too Online/meme-driven/participatory make-believe/fascist fantasist epistemology: taking ad hoc concepts and other metaphors too seriously as reified structures for how the world actually is and circulating all sense-making through those concepts
January 30, 2026 at 3:48 PM
This is also a core information behavior underlying a Too Online/meme-driven/participatory make-believe/fascist fantasist epistemology: taking ad hoc concepts and other metaphors too seriously as reified structures for how the world actually is and circulating all sense-making through those concepts
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Y'all, it matters that journalists are being arrested on US soil for existing as journalists. Remember when we told y'all fascist regimes look a particular way. This is that.
January 30, 2026 at 2:20 PM
Y'all, it matters that journalists are being arrested on US soil for existing as journalists. Remember when we told y'all fascist regimes look a particular way. This is that.
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In Politika, Aristotle says you can recognize a tyrannical regime in the fact that it intrudes into every aspect of the lives of its subjects while enshrouding the tyrant and his enablers in complete secrecy. What we see with ICE is the demonstration of that principle. bsky.app/profile/davi...
the extreme irony and hypocrisy of a govt masking its secret police while building and enforcing a database recognizing every one of our faces and personal data. 🤬
January 30, 2026 at 3:35 PM
In Politika, Aristotle says you can recognize a tyrannical regime in the fact that it intrudes into every aspect of the lives of its subjects while enshrouding the tyrant and his enablers in complete secrecy. What we see with ICE is the demonstration of that principle. bsky.app/profile/davi...
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Anyway congrats to our Free Speech Champions(tm) who helped usher in the most censorious American government since the Palmer Raids
January 30, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Anyway congrats to our Free Speech Champions(tm) who helped usher in the most censorious American government since the Palmer Raids
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there is a specific tic in the way that centrist Dems address law enforcement:
they don’t understand that the interaction with police *is* the harm. they think a show your papers situation is neutral as long as you leave walking, but police interaction is itself traumatic. It’s terrifying.
they don’t understand that the interaction with police *is* the harm. they think a show your papers situation is neutral as long as you leave walking, but police interaction is itself traumatic. It’s terrifying.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand a ban on the deportation of American citizens as a condition of winning their support for legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Jeffries demands ban on deportation of US citizens as part of DHS reforms
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand a ban on the deportation of American citizens as a condition of winning their support for legislation fun…
www.kget.com
January 30, 2026 at 2:24 AM
there is a specific tic in the way that centrist Dems address law enforcement:
they don’t understand that the interaction with police *is* the harm. they think a show your papers situation is neutral as long as you leave walking, but police interaction is itself traumatic. It’s terrifying.
they don’t understand that the interaction with police *is* the harm. they think a show your papers situation is neutral as long as you leave walking, but police interaction is itself traumatic. It’s terrifying.
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recorded a Windows 95 full disk defrag to soothe your timeline.
January 29, 2026 at 9:48 AM
recorded a Windows 95 full disk defrag to soothe your timeline.
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In fact most of the proposals I see tossed around appear designed to make immigration arrests more seamless and less upsetting, rather than actually reduce the number of people arrested and sent to jail.
January 29, 2026 at 2:28 AM
In fact most of the proposals I see tossed around appear designed to make immigration arrests more seamless and less upsetting, rather than actually reduce the number of people arrested and sent to jail.
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lol, so this company can sell this info to bosses and professors for a higher premium, and then sell the students platinum level service where they hide the plagiarism even more, and then …
January 28, 2026 at 12:20 PM
lol, so this company can sell this info to bosses and professors for a higher premium, and then sell the students platinum level service where they hide the plagiarism even more, and then …
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I have begun to think that Minnesota pushback to ICE was unique and a model because it gave people something to do. It wasn’t about just going out in streets for rallying purposes. People had a mission: videos, whistles, information and communication flow to communities. They had something to do.
January 27, 2026 at 7:00 PM
I have begun to think that Minnesota pushback to ICE was unique and a model because it gave people something to do. It wasn’t about just going out in streets for rallying purposes. People had a mission: videos, whistles, information and communication flow to communities. They had something to do.
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i'm being flip but when i think about the guys who are gassing preschools and putting children in camps and killing people both on and off camera--complaining about WHISTLES--i understand why dante was like no, we need way more kinds of hell. at least nine
January 28, 2026 at 1:33 AM
i'm being flip but when i think about the guys who are gassing preschools and putting children in camps and killing people both on and off camera--complaining about WHISTLES--i understand why dante was like no, we need way more kinds of hell. at least nine
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it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
January 28, 2026 at 12:23 AM
it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”