uncle of the second class
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I have just read Against the Day, and I will not be taking questions at this time. Chicago, he/him.
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A former Baker McKenzie lawyer who accused a firm leader of sexual assault wants a court to dismiss the firm’s defamation lawsuit against her.
Ex-Baker Lawyer Wants Sex Assault Defamation Suit Axed (1)
A former Baker McKenzie lawyer who accused a firm leader of sexual assault wants a court to dismiss the firm’s defamation lawsuit against her.
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January 25, 2026 at 11:00 AM
A former Baker McKenzie lawyer who accused a firm leader of sexual assault wants a court to dismiss the firm’s defamation lawsuit against her.
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The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.
James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.
January 25, 2026 at 11:06 AM
The fact that every right winger with influence screams "who is paying for all of this" tells you exactly how awash in cash they all are, and how much they rely on that to keep their movement afloat.
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Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.
January 24, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Immigration is a fake problem. We have politicians on the one hand who want to use immigrants as scapegoats for our real ones and politicians on the other who are too cowardly to stand against them and tell the truth. That is the entire situation. Until that changes, people will continue to die.
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All hail our new Billionaire overlords.
As I said around the time of this photo. I don’t think these extremely self-absorbed people understand what it means for their own futures to be so visibly supporting a lawless and unpopular regime.
As I said around the time of this photo. I don’t think these extremely self-absorbed people understand what it means for their own futures to be so visibly supporting a lawless and unpopular regime.
January 25, 2026 at 3:50 AM
All hail our new Billionaire overlords.
As I said around the time of this photo. I don’t think these extremely self-absorbed people understand what it means for their own futures to be so visibly supporting a lawless and unpopular regime.
As I said around the time of this photo. I don’t think these extremely self-absorbed people understand what it means for their own futures to be so visibly supporting a lawless and unpopular regime.
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I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength
you don't become a martyr because you were a saint, you become a saint because you were martyred
I agree that we can’t make Alex Pretti a Benedictine monk because that’s a trap, but we can talk about the good things we did because people will see and hear them and think “I do those things too”
January 25, 2026 at 12:27 AM
I keep thinking “my god the people they’ve killed seem like exceptionally good folks” and I think the lesson there is that they’re not exceptional, but that wonderful people abound and that a baseline distrust in humanity is a shitty conservative trope that privileges power over collective strength
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A bill was just vetoed in New Jersey
boltsmag.org/new-jersey-g...
boltsmag.org/new-jersey-g...
On His Way Out, New Jersey Governor Vetoes Legislation to Bar Local Assistance to ICE - Bolts
Phil Murphy killed a bill that'd have codified in law restrictions on how sheriffs and police can partner with ICE. Some restrictions remain in place, for now, via an attorney general directive.
boltsmag.org
January 25, 2026 at 3:37 AM
A bill was just vetoed in New Jersey
boltsmag.org/new-jersey-g...
boltsmag.org/new-jersey-g...
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Indonesia resumes search for 80 after landslide kills 10 in West Java reut.rs/4ai8dsL
Indonesia resumes search for 80 after landslide kills 10 in West Java
Indonesian authorities resumed search-and-rescue efforts for 80 people missing after a landslide killed 10 in a residential area of West Java province.
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January 25, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Indonesia resumes search for 80 after landslide kills 10 in West Java reut.rs/4ai8dsL
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This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit.
It's all white supremacy and greed.
It's all white supremacy and greed.
January 25, 2026 at 2:03 AM
This moment in history provides us with incontrovertible evidence that all the conservatives who claim to be extremely devoted to freedom of speech and the right to bear arms, and opposed to the encroachment of tyranny, are completely and totally full of shit.
It's all white supremacy and greed.
It's all white supremacy and greed.
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"Just like the killing of Renée Good, Saturday morning’s shooting once again raises the question of why it is so damned difficult to hold federal officers—and the federal government itself—accountable if and when they violate our rights."
Me on the federal accountability gap—and how to close it:
Me on the federal accountability gap—and how to close it:
204. Accountability After Minneapolis
A short post explaining (1) why it's so hard to hold federal officers and/or the federal government liable for violating our rights; and (2) how a one-sentence statute could (and *SHOULD*) fix it.
www.stevevladeck.com
January 24, 2026 at 7:55 PM
"Just like the killing of Renée Good, Saturday morning’s shooting once again raises the question of why it is so damned difficult to hold federal officers—and the federal government itself—accountable if and when they violate our rights."
Me on the federal accountability gap—and how to close it:
Me on the federal accountability gap—and how to close it:
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I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.
January 25, 2026 at 2:20 AM
I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
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You need to understand that there are not lengthy standoffs between protesters and ICE in Minneapolis. Alex Pretti was not a “protester” in a conventional sense. ICE lurks around the city and occasionally takes aggressive actions, and bystanders and observers document it and raise the alarm
obviously rioting is not what anyone wants to have happen, but does the NG's agenda being to control the protest suggest that they are there to support the federal agencies against the protestors?
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
You need to understand that there are not lengthy standoffs between protesters and ICE in Minneapolis. Alex Pretti was not a “protester” in a conventional sense. ICE lurks around the city and occasionally takes aggressive actions, and bystanders and observers document it and raise the alarm
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“We are more susceptible to fake crises than ever before.”
@yalelawjournal.bsky.social yalelawjournal.org/article/manu...
@yalelawjournal.bsky.social yalelawjournal.org/article/manu...
January 24, 2026 at 2:07 PM
“We are more susceptible to fake crises than ever before.”
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@yalelawjournal.bsky.social yalelawjournal.org/article/manu...
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It’s very frustrating to hear mainstream reporters continue to characterize what ICE, CBP and others as “immigration enforcement.” Even now. Like if you don’t know what this is about at this point I don’t know how to help you.
January 24, 2026 at 9:58 PM
It’s very frustrating to hear mainstream reporters continue to characterize what ICE, CBP and others as “immigration enforcement.” Even now. Like if you don’t know what this is about at this point I don’t know how to help you.
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you can reach the person running this from their $1.5m Georgia home here
January 24, 2026 at 9:43 PM
you can reach the person running this from their $1.5m Georgia home here
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I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says that the victim was a 37-year-old white man and US citizen with no criminal record and that he was a legally permitted gun owner.
January 24, 2026 at 6:29 PM
I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
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What's making me really livid right now is thinking back to the years of commentary lecturing us that the rise of MAGA was rooted in a sense of righteous victimization by overbearing liberal elites, and sneering at those who insisted that it was fundamentally about domination and sadism all along.
They are telling us in unequivocal terms that if you show solidarity with immigrants who are in the literal crosshairs of Trump/MAGA, you're risking a death sentence.
newrepublic.com/article/2055...
newrepublic.com/article/2055...
January 24, 2026 at 7:34 PM
What's making me really livid right now is thinking back to the years of commentary lecturing us that the rise of MAGA was rooted in a sense of righteous victimization by overbearing liberal elites, and sneering at those who insisted that it was fundamentally about domination and sadism all along.
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
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And there it is.
January 24, 2026 at 8:15 PM
And there it is.
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remember when erick erickson was haha’ing about tossing his opponents out of helicopters?
The conservative intelligentsia and media-industrial complex has been publicly masturbating about getting to kill people for years now, they are orders of magnitude worse than even the MAGA base. Everybody knows this, it's just politically incorrect to say it.
miller is regularly blamed but vance is not held to any account at all for having started the chain of events that got us here
January 24, 2026 at 8:22 PM
remember when erick erickson was haha’ing about tossing his opponents out of helicopters?
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Just thinking about this quote from a Republican about how everyone just needs to obey ICE:
"It has to be a point where people understand when they’re being confronted by an ICE agent, that’s at the end of the road. That’s not the beginning of the due process, it’s the end of the due process.”
"It has to be a point where people understand when they’re being confronted by an ICE agent, that’s at the end of the road. That’s not the beginning of the due process, it’s the end of the due process.”
January 24, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Just thinking about this quote from a Republican about how everyone just needs to obey ICE:
"It has to be a point where people understand when they’re being confronted by an ICE agent, that’s at the end of the road. That’s not the beginning of the due process, it’s the end of the due process.”
"It has to be a point where people understand when they’re being confronted by an ICE agent, that’s at the end of the road. That’s not the beginning of the due process, it’s the end of the due process.”
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fedpost (v.)
to post violent threats on the Internet, ostensibly as an everyday citizen, but actually working as an undercover federal agent
to post violent threats on the Internet, ostensibly as an everyday citizen, but actually working as an undercover federal agent
January 24, 2026 at 6:02 PM
fedpost (v.)
to post violent threats on the Internet, ostensibly as an everyday citizen, but actually working as an undercover federal agent
to post violent threats on the Internet, ostensibly as an everyday citizen, but actually working as an undercover federal agent
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ALL MN PROTESTERS
Absolutely nothing could be worse for our cause than violence and rioting. It is what ICE and Trump obviously want. Do not burn down our own city to protest invaders; they do not care; they will enjoy it. Do not do it. Do not let your fellow protesters do it.
Absolutely nothing could be worse for our cause than violence and rioting. It is what ICE and Trump obviously want. Do not burn down our own city to protest invaders; they do not care; they will enjoy it. Do not do it. Do not let your fellow protesters do it.
January 24, 2026 at 5:47 PM
ALL MN PROTESTERS
Absolutely nothing could be worse for our cause than violence and rioting. It is what ICE and Trump obviously want. Do not burn down our own city to protest invaders; they do not care; they will enjoy it. Do not do it. Do not let your fellow protesters do it.
Absolutely nothing could be worse for our cause than violence and rioting. It is what ICE and Trump obviously want. Do not burn down our own city to protest invaders; they do not care; they will enjoy it. Do not do it. Do not let your fellow protesters do it.