JD
@oderigrulez.bsky.social
Will talk too much about the Vorkosigan Saga, Worm (and other web serials), Star Wars, and other nerdy stuff. He/him
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all these stupid meathead criminal motherfuckers are going to want to riot when they learn they’re getting a $10K/yr pay cut five years from now anyway, cut out the middleman and press the max sentence on the DUI convictions and DV calls they’re gonna get in the intervening years, strip the pensions
a not insignificant number of these tools are meathead, low security, Bureau of Prison employees who want to fulfill their desires to kick ass. I’ll bet most didn’t read or understand the fine print on the $50K bonus payout timeline.
January 13, 2026 at 5:06 AM
all these stupid meathead criminal motherfuckers are going to want to riot when they learn they’re getting a $10K/yr pay cut five years from now anyway, cut out the middleman and press the max sentence on the DUI convictions and DV calls they’re gonna get in the intervening years, strip the pensions
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literally do a counterintelligence investigation of his drug use and cut off his government contracts on the basis of SEAD-4. he is on camera smoking weed in the past seven years!
“we will bring Elon back into the Dem fold”
no
break him
no
break him
I’m looking for a lot of undo button promises from the 2028 Democratic field, but I’d really like to see some candidate get behind the federal government unwinding some of these incredibly hinky deals with Musk.
January 13, 2026 at 5:35 AM
literally do a counterintelligence investigation of his drug use and cut off his government contracts on the basis of SEAD-4. he is on camera smoking weed in the past seven years!
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I just need to explain how absurd the court cases around the offshore wind projects are getting
Because the federal government is arguing it paused work on the wind projects to try and mitigate impacts to security
But they’re refusing to give any info about security impacts to the companies
Because the federal government is arguing it paused work on the wind projects to try and mitigate impacts to security
But they’re refusing to give any info about security impacts to the companies
January 12, 2026 at 10:29 PM
I just need to explain how absurd the court cases around the offshore wind projects are getting
Because the federal government is arguing it paused work on the wind projects to try and mitigate impacts to security
But they’re refusing to give any info about security impacts to the companies
Because the federal government is arguing it paused work on the wind projects to try and mitigate impacts to security
But they’re refusing to give any info about security impacts to the companies
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oh wow. you're trying to cancel jamelle bouie. do you feel proud? do you feel brave? is this Praxis?
January 12, 2026 at 10:08 PM
oh wow. you're trying to cancel jamelle bouie. do you feel proud? do you feel brave? is this Praxis?
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I actually doubt Trump will try to take credit for or acknowledge it - Trumpism is predicated on the perception that American cities are unsafe hellholes and must be destroyed and replaced with suburbs and a falling murder rate cuts against that ideology.
We're going to see a gobsmackingly low murder rate for 2025, possibly the lowest on record. This of course is great news.
But Trump is going to try to take credit for it. So keep this graph in mind. The steep drop began in 2022.
jasher.substack.com/p/the-cities...
But Trump is going to try to take credit for it. So keep this graph in mind. The steep drop began in 2022.
jasher.substack.com/p/the-cities...
January 12, 2026 at 2:38 PM
I actually doubt Trump will try to take credit for or acknowledge it - Trumpism is predicated on the perception that American cities are unsafe hellholes and must be destroyed and replaced with suburbs and a falling murder rate cuts against that ideology.
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In addition to Good's murder, ICE has been busy in Minneapolis causing car wrecks and traffic jams, filling the streets with tear gas and goons with loaded weapons, issuing specific threats and sewing general chaos.
This is not law enforcement to preserve order. It's an occupation to cause chaos.
This is not law enforcement to preserve order. It's an occupation to cause chaos.
Trump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity.
(vid via Ford Fischer on X)
(vid via Ford Fischer on X)
January 12, 2026 at 9:58 PM
In addition to Good's murder, ICE has been busy in Minneapolis causing car wrecks and traffic jams, filling the streets with tear gas and goons with loaded weapons, issuing specific threats and sewing general chaos.
This is not law enforcement to preserve order. It's an occupation to cause chaos.
This is not law enforcement to preserve order. It's an occupation to cause chaos.
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what they *aren't* is particularly ideologically moderate, that's a self-serving lie from centrists. they much worse than that: ideologically incoherent, against bad stuff and in favor of good stuff hypothetically but with no underlying principles to guide them
January 12, 2026 at 9:23 PM
what they *aren't* is particularly ideologically moderate, that's a self-serving lie from centrists. they much worse than that: ideologically incoherent, against bad stuff and in favor of good stuff hypothetically but with no underlying principles to guide them
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swing voters are real, here to stay, and gigantic morons
New Gallup figures in these charts. Well, so much for that emerging Republican majority people were writing about in November 2024. Was evidently a mass overreaction to Trump's win and failure to acknowledge softness of support, and thermostatic politics www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trumps-win...
January 12, 2026 at 9:06 PM
swing voters are real, here to stay, and gigantic morons
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By every metric, congestion pricing been a success. And even most of the people who opposed it in NYC have since come around.
But it may still be a red meat issue to *people who don't actually live here* and that's presumably whom he's trying to appeal to.
But it may still be a red meat issue to *people who don't actually live here* and that's presumably whom he's trying to appeal to.
New York news: Trump is vaguely threatening to end congestion pricing, again. Unclear why he is bringing this up now.
January 12, 2026 at 10:19 PM
By every metric, congestion pricing been a success. And even most of the people who opposed it in NYC have since come around.
But it may still be a red meat issue to *people who don't actually live here* and that's presumably whom he's trying to appeal to.
But it may still be a red meat issue to *people who don't actually live here* and that's presumably whom he's trying to appeal to.
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I'm reminded of how the images of Yanukovich's Berkut goons attacking & killing people radicalized even his base against him.
ICE is now behaving in such a way that even Tucker Carlson’s favorite Holocaust minimizing, Hitler-apologist “historian” is like “hey now guys, this is getting a little out of hand.”
January 12, 2026 at 10:28 PM
I'm reminded of how the images of Yanukovich's Berkut goons attacking & killing people radicalized even his base against him.
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What’s this old thing
January 12, 2026 at 3:14 PM
What’s this old thing
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cope, seethe, etc
January 12, 2026 at 10:19 PM
cope, seethe, etc
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One basic pattern here is that DHS officials are engaging in violence simply because they are irritated at citizens protesting them. There is no plausible threat of violence here. He just wants to inflict pain, and believes there will be no penalty for doing so.
Big clash this afternoon between DHS agents and protesters in a residential street in Minneapolis, following a DHS agent hitting another vehicle. Tear gas was deployed in people’s yards and agents pepper prayed people.
January 12, 2026 at 10:09 PM
One basic pattern here is that DHS officials are engaging in violence simply because they are irritated at citizens protesting them. There is no plausible threat of violence here. He just wants to inflict pain, and believes there will be no penalty for doing so.
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“The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
Grateful to @geneweingarten.bsky.social for bringing up a story of a murder in the Civil Rights era that I had never heard of, one that has particular relevance right now.
geneweingarten.substack.com/p/this-has-h...
geneweingarten.substack.com/p/this-has-h...
This Has Happened Before
Viola Liuzzo was 39 years old when she was murdered. It was March 25, 1965.
geneweingarten.substack.com
January 12, 2026 at 10:05 PM
“The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”
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The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Department of Justice withdrew guidance expressly prohibiting lenders from discriminating against immigrants and non-citizens on Monday, potentially denting immigrants' legal ability to access loans.
US withdraws policy expressly barring lending bias against immigrants
The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Department of Justice withdrew guidance expressly prohibiting lenders from discriminating against immigrants and non-citizens on Monday, potentially denting immigrants' legal ability to access loans.
reut.rs
January 12, 2026 at 10:01 PM
The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and the Department of Justice withdrew guidance expressly prohibiting lenders from discriminating against immigrants and non-citizens on Monday, potentially denting immigrants' legal ability to access loans.
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it's so funny when bouie's top level comment was "we need to abolish ICE but also need to figure out how to sell abolition to moderates"
inventing a bouie to be mad at
inventing a bouie to be mad at
January 12, 2026 at 8:47 PM
it's so funny when bouie's top level comment was "we need to abolish ICE but also need to figure out how to sell abolition to moderates"
inventing a bouie to be mad at
inventing a bouie to be mad at
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NEW: A federal judge today struck down a stop work order Trump issued before Christmas on a big New England offshore wind project under construction
It’s a huge ruling and suggests other stop work orders against offshore wind farms in progress may very soon fail too
It’s a huge ruling and suggests other stop work orders against offshore wind farms in progress may very soon fail too
How Trump’s Case Against Revolution Wind Fell Apart (Again)
A federal court has once again allowed Orsted to resume construction on its offshore wind project.
heatmap.news
January 12, 2026 at 10:01 PM
NEW: A federal judge today struck down a stop work order Trump issued before Christmas on a big New England offshore wind project under construction
It’s a huge ruling and suggests other stop work orders against offshore wind farms in progress may very soon fail too
It’s a huge ruling and suggests other stop work orders against offshore wind farms in progress may very soon fail too
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wondering if the parenting discourse might make the dude act more normal. nothing makes it obvious that your fellow travellers are psychopaths than hearing them, uh, tell you to beat your two year old kids for being moderately annoying
January 12, 2026 at 9:03 PM
wondering if the parenting discourse might make the dude act more normal. nothing makes it obvious that your fellow travellers are psychopaths than hearing them, uh, tell you to beat your two year old kids for being moderately annoying
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Reminding my Dem leaders that the lesson of the Biden years is that you really should breach a couple of norms to keep bigger and more important norms in place.
A good test of the next Democratic administration will be if Bovino and InfantryDort still have jobs on day two.
reminder that bovino is a *CIVIL SERVANT* sephiroth posting at Senators like he's the VP
January 12, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Reminding my Dem leaders that the lesson of the Biden years is that you really should breach a couple of norms to keep bigger and more important norms in place.
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never log off, never surrender (laudatory)
Will focusing his endless font of energy when it comes to being annoying towards ICE totally rules and I tip my cap. Someone buy that man a tank of gas
January 12, 2026 at 6:05 PM
never log off, never surrender (laudatory)
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Immense skill issue to not have found this immediately obvious in 2016
January 12, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Immense skill issue to not have found this immediately obvious in 2016
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Powell standing up to Trump is the same thing as the Minneapolis residents standing up to ICE - both rely on the realization that all of their power flows out of their ability to make you afraid, and you don’t have to be, and then they have barely any power over you anymore.
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Powell standing up to Trump is the same thing as the Minneapolis residents standing up to ICE - both rely on the realization that all of their power flows out of their ability to make you afraid, and you don’t have to be, and then they have barely any power over you anymore.
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Local parents groups asking if adults can ride school buses to help protect children from ICE after a special ed bus got stopped this morning. Like a Dirty Harry movie except the villain in the federal government.
January 12, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Local parents groups asking if adults can ride school buses to help protect children from ICE after a special ed bus got stopped this morning. Like a Dirty Harry movie except the villain in the federal government.
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Will Stancil following ICE agents around Minneapolis with his Honda Civic:
January 12, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Will Stancil following ICE agents around Minneapolis with his Honda Civic:
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Bovino permanently looks like his wife made him move into a hotel
It occurs to me all the yelling at ICE in MPLS isn't merely funny. Getting made fun of like this is awful for morale. ICE is losing field officers faster than it can wave them through training, and a big part of it is how little of this these little weasels can take.
ICE at Midway Target and seem to possible be leaving. Lots of community members here
January 12, 2026 at 5:12 PM
Bovino permanently looks like his wife made him move into a hotel