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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The only words in this report that matter:
"We are losing this war[.]"
The Trump Regime has declared war on a US state such that senior officials are comfortable using that terminology to the press.
Let that sink in.
"We are losing this war[.]"
The Trump Regime has declared war on a US state such that senior officials are comfortable using that terminology to the press.
Let that sink in.
Bill Melugin of Fox News may be the best-sourced journalist within ICE and CBP. If he's hearing this, the administration has a real problem.
January 26, 2026 at 3:49 AM
The only words in this report that matter:
"We are losing this war[.]"
The Trump Regime has declared war on a US state such that senior officials are comfortable using that terminology to the press.
Let that sink in.
"We are losing this war[.]"
The Trump Regime has declared war on a US state such that senior officials are comfortable using that terminology to the press.
Let that sink in.
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Yen jumps in broad hit to dollar as Japan intervention risks grow reut.rs/4a475ZE
Yen jumps in broad hit to dollar as Japan intervention risks grow
Japan's yen is surging and dragging down the dollar across markets, as rate checks have investors on high alert over the risks of the first joint U.S.-Japan currency intervention in 15 years.
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January 26, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Yen jumps in broad hit to dollar as Japan intervention risks grow reut.rs/4a475ZE
Seems like a rather weak opening bid.
NEWS from inside the Senate Dem meeting tonight:
1-Schumer has the votes to block the DHS funding bill
2-They're going to ask for real investigations into the murders (including an end to impeding the state/local investigations), an end to masks and arrest quotas.
(cont'd)
1-Schumer has the votes to block the DHS funding bill
2-They're going to ask for real investigations into the murders (including an end to impeding the state/local investigations), an end to masks and arrest quotas.
(cont'd)
January 26, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Seems like a rather weak opening bid.
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MAGA mistook caring about people for weakness, and is uncomfortable seeing that it’s strength.
January 26, 2026 at 1:59 AM
MAGA mistook caring about people for weakness, and is uncomfortable seeing that it’s strength.
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I’ve never heard of a “law enforcement” agency putting an officer who just killed someone back on the street under 24 hours. And that’s because all shootings are treated as homicides pending investigation. This is as clear a sign as you’ll get that DHS personnel enjoy practical immunity from murder.
CBP chief Bovino has confirmed that the officers who executed Alex Pretti in the street yesterday are not only *not on administrative leave,* they have all been reassigned to other jurisdictions and are all on the street today.
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
This is totally unheard of for any officer-involved shooting
January 25, 2026 at 8:56 PM
I’ve never heard of a “law enforcement” agency putting an officer who just killed someone back on the street under 24 hours. And that’s because all shootings are treated as homicides pending investigation. This is as clear a sign as you’ll get that DHS personnel enjoy practical immunity from murder.
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“.. Close a deal with Europe, and the US will be forced to recognize that India has options and can act on them.” 🇮🇳
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January 25, 2026 at 9:18 PM
“.. Close a deal with Europe, and the US will be forced to recognize that India has options and can act on them.” 🇮🇳
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i feel for all the radical centrists out there now confronting the fact that their ideology was the one built in a bubble and formed by groupthink. with enough exposure to facts and logic they will, some day god willing, catch up to the left
January 25, 2026 at 7:45 PM
i feel for all the radical centrists out there now confronting the fact that their ideology was the one built in a bubble and formed by groupthink. with enough exposure to facts and logic they will, some day god willing, catch up to the left
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Live footage of Hannah Arendt's dichotomy between violence and power.
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Live footage of Hannah Arendt's dichotomy between violence and power.
Seems a little odd, I guess I thought France 24 was pretty legitimate. (Wurman to be clear seems a little less.)
whew. here we go again
1. Wurman suggests that administrative warrants might be OK for house arrests when they are supported by final orders of removal. because federal judges can’t question those orders under the INA.
2. This seems clearly wrong. Bear with me.
1. Wurman suggests that administrative warrants might be OK for house arrests when they are supported by final orders of removal. because federal judges can’t question those orders under the INA.
2. This seems clearly wrong. Bear with me.
January 25, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Seems a little odd, I guess I thought France 24 was pretty legitimate. (Wurman to be clear seems a little less.)
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Sometimes think right-wing conspiracy theories abt the left are animated by right not being able to conceive of movements unlike their own: movements that don’t have uber rich benefactors/donors, that aren’t organized by strict top-down hierarchies & cults of personality, that aren’t grifts/scams
Breathless reports on Twitter from Project Veritas & fellow creeps of infiltrating ICE watch signals. I thought, Oh, no, they found a couple of jackasses & are going to blow them up. But no, the "conspiracy" is that many people volunteer, take turns on shifts, and train at nonviolence.
January 25, 2026 at 5:43 PM
Sometimes think right-wing conspiracy theories abt the left are animated by right not being able to conceive of movements unlike their own: movements that don’t have uber rich benefactors/donors, that aren’t organized by strict top-down hierarchies & cults of personality, that aren’t grifts/scams
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This quote rules
I keep thinking about this quote from Amos Lawrence about the 1854 Boston Slave Riot - “We went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
January 25, 2026 at 5:27 PM
This quote rules
Incisive way of putting it. "Truth is treated as a social agreement, a compromise position."
Our institutions are so cowed, our public is so infatuated with the notion that you can invent your own truth, that no one feels they can simply be the arbiter of what is true and real, trusting the evidence of their eyes and ears. Truth is treated as a social agreement, a compromise position.
January 25, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Incisive way of putting it. "Truth is treated as a social agreement, a compromise position."
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This is the lead story on Fox right now.
January 25, 2026 at 4:32 PM
This is the lead story on Fox right now.
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DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:
January 25, 2026 at 4:27 PM
DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:
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two problems with the notion of a “civil war” is that it (1) can suggest some sort of balance of belligerents, as opposed to a state just liquidating its own people; and (2) implies a disjunction from some sort of status quo “civil society” that didn’t already run on brutal public repression
January 25, 2026 at 1:37 PM
two problems with the notion of a “civil war” is that it (1) can suggest some sort of balance of belligerents, as opposed to a state just liquidating its own people; and (2) implies a disjunction from some sort of status quo “civil society” that didn’t already run on brutal public repression
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The Rodney King video is one of the most important moments in American history because it showed people, particularly comfortable white people, irrefutable evidence that marginalized people’s stories of how police behaved - which were never believed - were in fact true.
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
January 24, 2026 at 11:37 PM
The Rodney King video is one of the most important moments in American history because it showed people, particularly comfortable white people, irrefutable evidence that marginalized people’s stories of how police behaved - which were never believed - were in fact true.
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crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.
please keep sharing with your networks.
please keep sharing with your networks.
Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 15, 2026 at 4:24 PM
crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.
please keep sharing with your networks.
please keep sharing with your networks.
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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
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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.
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January 25, 2026 at 3:37 AM
A bill was just vetoed in New Jersey
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