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During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.
Interesting. bsky.app/profile/port...
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Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
January 29, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
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Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people.
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The Means-Testing Industrial Complex
The vendors getting rich from putting administrative burdens on the poor
open.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
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Flashbacks to me in my car listening to NPR on election day as some Trump-voting kid in Georgia is telling the interviewer "I'm trying to buy a house soon so I'm hoping for those prices to come down" and smashing my face repeatedly into my steering wheel
Trump: "I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people who own homes."
January 29, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Flashbacks to me in my car listening to NPR on election day as some Trump-voting kid in Georgia is telling the interviewer "I'm trying to buy a house soon so I'm hoping for those prices to come down" and smashing my face repeatedly into my steering wheel
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Trump invading the Georgia Election headquarters should be awake up call for everyone to vote, even if you’ve never voted in your life! Get registered, now. Why was Tulsi Gabbard there?
January 29, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Trump invading the Georgia Election headquarters should be awake up call for everyone to vote, even if you’ve never voted in your life! Get registered, now. Why was Tulsi Gabbard there?
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When Keystone Kash's FBI raided the Georgia election office, they not only took all the ballots and equipment, they also took the back-up images of the ballots.
Taking the back-up images means that they can tamper with the ballots without anyone being able to prove they did it.
Taking the back-up images means that they can tamper with the ballots without anyone being able to prove they did it.
January 29, 2026 at 8:51 PM
When Keystone Kash's FBI raided the Georgia election office, they not only took all the ballots and equipment, they also took the back-up images of the ballots.
Taking the back-up images means that they can tamper with the ballots without anyone being able to prove they did it.
Taking the back-up images means that they can tamper with the ballots without anyone being able to prove they did it.
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This morning I wrote that DOJ’s ballot seizure in Georgia looks like a dry run for 2026. My advice and request: Sign up to Democracy Docket to stay informed. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
January 29, 2026 at 8:47 PM
This morning I wrote that DOJ’s ballot seizure in Georgia looks like a dry run for 2026. My advice and request: Sign up to Democracy Docket to stay informed. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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Important. There has not been a deescalation.
January 28, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Important. There has not been a deescalation.
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"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 3:32 PM
"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
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‘They are no longer strategizing for voluntary adoption by those who come to recognize the technology’s utility by electively applying it to the problems they face. They are planning how to cross the chasm by forced adoption.’
By @mattseybold.bsky.social
By @mattseybold.bsky.social
"You have to use it. You have to trust it.": Forced Adoption of AI is The Subtext of Davos
Authoritarianism is the AI Bailout; But If AI Doesn't Need a Bailout, Does it Need Authoritarianism?
theamericanvandal.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:17 AM
‘They are no longer strategizing for voluntary adoption by those who come to recognize the technology’s utility by electively applying it to the problems they face. They are planning how to cross the chasm by forced adoption.’
By @mattseybold.bsky.social
By @mattseybold.bsky.social
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Two global trading houses that brokered an opaque deal with the Trump admin this month to sell Venezuelan oil were previously prosecuted for bribery schemes involving oil sales elsewhere… A senior trader at Vitol donated $6 million to Trump’s 2024 election. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Trump officials awarded Venezuela oil-sale contracts to firms tied to bribery
The Trump administration awarded $500 million in contracts for Venezuelan oil sales to two firms with a history of bribery and corruption.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:39 PM
Two global trading houses that brokered an opaque deal with the Trump admin this month to sell Venezuelan oil were previously prosecuted for bribery schemes involving oil sales elsewhere… A senior trader at Vitol donated $6 million to Trump’s 2024 election. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.
January 29, 2026 at 3:20 AM
An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.
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Of the biggest scandals in US history just this week, I think I’d rank them:
1) Federal paramilitaries invade US city based on racist lies, murder US citizens
2) Slush fund for the president from stolen foreign resources held in Qatar
3) Whatever FBI and DNI are doing re: 2020 election in Georgia
1) Federal paramilitaries invade US city based on racist lies, murder US citizens
2) Slush fund for the president from stolen foreign resources held in Qatar
3) Whatever FBI and DNI are doing re: 2020 election in Georgia
January 29, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Of the biggest scandals in US history just this week, I think I’d rank them:
1) Federal paramilitaries invade US city based on racist lies, murder US citizens
2) Slush fund for the president from stolen foreign resources held in Qatar
3) Whatever FBI and DNI are doing re: 2020 election in Georgia
1) Federal paramilitaries invade US city based on racist lies, murder US citizens
2) Slush fund for the president from stolen foreign resources held in Qatar
3) Whatever FBI and DNI are doing re: 2020 election in Georgia
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Best as I understand, Pam Bondi did not intervene in the case of a Jan6er, Christopher Moynihan, who threatened Hakeem Jeffries.
She has not intervened in case of Christian Joel Young, who assaulted Maxwell Frost.
But is intervening in the case Trump weighed in on, the Ilhan Omar attack.
She has not intervened in case of Christian Joel Young, who assaulted Maxwell Frost.
But is intervening in the case Trump weighed in on, the Ilhan Omar attack.
January 28, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Best as I understand, Pam Bondi did not intervene in the case of a Jan6er, Christopher Moynihan, who threatened Hakeem Jeffries.
She has not intervened in case of Christian Joel Young, who assaulted Maxwell Frost.
But is intervening in the case Trump weighed in on, the Ilhan Omar attack.
She has not intervened in case of Christian Joel Young, who assaulted Maxwell Frost.
But is intervening in the case Trump weighed in on, the Ilhan Omar attack.
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New low for Trump approval today, at 39% of U.S. adults on average across dozens of pollsters. fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv...
January 28, 2026 at 9:15 PM
New low for Trump approval today, at 39% of U.S. adults on average across dozens of pollsters. fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv...
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I was cleaning out some files just now, and came across something that I’m sure my European followers have probably never seen.
Behold, the 98-page itemized bill for my kid’s 3-month NICU stay.
(Lego Obiwan is there for scale.)
Behold, the 98-page itemized bill for my kid’s 3-month NICU stay.
(Lego Obiwan is there for scale.)
January 29, 2026 at 2:04 AM
I was cleaning out some files just now, and came across something that I’m sure my European followers have probably never seen.
Behold, the 98-page itemized bill for my kid’s 3-month NICU stay.
(Lego Obiwan is there for scale.)
Behold, the 98-page itemized bill for my kid’s 3-month NICU stay.
(Lego Obiwan is there for scale.)
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Andy McCarthy lays out why having DHS investigate Alex Pretti's murder is so problematic.
But there's another now: the goons that assaulted Pretti 11 days before CBP murdered him are HSI, the subpart of DHS purportedly investigating the murder.
www.nationalreview.com/2026/01/trum...
But there's another now: the goons that assaulted Pretti 11 days before CBP murdered him are HSI, the subpart of DHS purportedly investigating the murder.
www.nationalreview.com/2026/01/trum...
Trump Administration Already Undermining Probe of Alex Pretti’s Death | National Review
As with Renee Good’s death, refusal to conduct a credible criminal investigation only makes the eventual prosecution of federal agents more likely.
www.nationalreview.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:07 AM
Andy McCarthy lays out why having DHS investigate Alex Pretti's murder is so problematic.
But there's another now: the goons that assaulted Pretti 11 days before CBP murdered him are HSI, the subpart of DHS purportedly investigating the murder.
www.nationalreview.com/2026/01/trum...
But there's another now: the goons that assaulted Pretti 11 days before CBP murdered him are HSI, the subpart of DHS purportedly investigating the murder.
www.nationalreview.com/2026/01/trum...
2030?
Don't let them get away with this.
www.mediaite.com/media/tv/cnn...
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CNN Legal Eagle Reveals Trump DOJ Isn’t on Pace to Release Epstein Files Until 2030
CNN's Elie Honig hung a lantern on the Trump administration's astonishingly slow-rolling release of the Epstein files on Tuesday morning.
www.mediaite.com
January 29, 2026 at 5:41 AM
2030?
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So my connect the dots here is that there will be some allegation that there was foreign interference in the voting — Hugo Chavez, Italian satellites, etc. — (hence why DNI is involved), making it a nat sec issue that they will use to justify doing something crazy/illegal in Nov
“.. U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard speaks on the phone while standing inside a vehicle loaded with boxes outside the Fulton County Election Hub and Operation Center after the FBI executed a search warrant there.”
@reuters.com
@reuters.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:31 AM
So my connect the dots here is that there will be some allegation that there was foreign interference in the voting — Hugo Chavez, Italian satellites, etc. — (hence why DNI is involved), making it a nat sec issue that they will use to justify doing something crazy/illegal in Nov
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It is wild to me that a military incursion to steal another country’s resources so the president can have a personal slush fund in Qatar is like the 5th most scandalous thing currently happening.
this is a straightforward impeachable offense for trump, vance, rubio and every other person down the line who enabled it and the framers would have thought impeachment for it did not go nearly far enough
Marco Rubio: "The oil proceeds are being deposited into an account that ultimately will become a US Treasury blocked account here in the US. We will say 'this is what this money can be spent on.' They will submit to us a budget request -- 'we want to use the money on these things.'"
January 29, 2026 at 12:54 AM
It is wild to me that a military incursion to steal another country’s resources so the president can have a personal slush fund in Qatar is like the 5th most scandalous thing currently happening.
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Haitians in Springfield, Ohio lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. There will very likely be a major ICE incursion the next day. Haitians in Springfield were the targets of Vance’s lying during the campaign.
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/28/t...
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/28/t...
'The folks are fearful.' Haitians living in Ohio may soon lose temporary protected status • Ohio Capital Journal
Thousands of Haitians living in Ohio will lose their temporary protected status next week unless a federal court blocks it.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:04 AM
Haitians in Springfield, Ohio lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. There will very likely be a major ICE incursion the next day. Haitians in Springfield were the targets of Vance’s lying during the campaign.
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/28/t...
ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/28/t...
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TikTok is reportedly being throttled in such a way where any liberal messaging about Epstein, about Trump, or about ICE gets zero views whatsoever.
www.adammockler.com/p/trumps-reg...
www.adammockler.com/p/trumps-reg...
Trump's Regime Just Bought TikTok...
The MAGA billionaire takeover of the media needs to be addressed ASAP.
www.adammockler.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:03 AM
TikTok is reportedly being throttled in such a way where any liberal messaging about Epstein, about Trump, or about ICE gets zero views whatsoever.
www.adammockler.com/p/trumps-reg...
www.adammockler.com/p/trumps-reg...
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Since we published this, Pam Bondi's X account has started posting mugshots of Minnesotans arrested for impeding ICE/CBP. Sharing a defendant's photo publicly in this way is forbidden under DOJ rules
ICE and CBP are at the head of Trump's campaign to terrorize Minnesotans. But the Justice Department is not far behind.
ICE’s No. 1 Ally
The Department of Justice has rushed to shield federal agents from accountability and launched needless criminal investigations into Minnesota officials and residents.
www.theatlantic.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Since we published this, Pam Bondi's X account has started posting mugshots of Minnesotans arrested for impeding ICE/CBP. Sharing a defendant's photo publicly in this way is forbidden under DOJ rules
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OKLAHOMA CITY MAYOR HOLT:
“.. It’s roiling the country. .. We’re all sort of feeling the angst of our residents and the fear that our city will be next and that chaos is going to inevitably creep across the entire country.”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
“.. It’s roiling the country. .. We’re all sort of feeling the angst of our residents and the fear that our city will be next and that chaos is going to inevitably creep across the entire country.”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 29, 2026 at 12:58 AM
OKLAHOMA CITY MAYOR HOLT:
“.. It’s roiling the country. .. We’re all sort of feeling the angst of our residents and the fear that our city will be next and that chaos is going to inevitably creep across the entire country.”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
“.. It’s roiling the country. .. We’re all sort of feeling the angst of our residents and the fear that our city will be next and that chaos is going to inevitably creep across the entire country.”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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Cool. Cool cool cool. coolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcool.
2026 will definitely be better though, right?
Right??
2026 will definitely be better though, right?
Right??
January 10, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Cool. Cool cool cool. coolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcoolcool.
2026 will definitely be better though, right?
Right??
2026 will definitely be better though, right?
Right??
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A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot.
"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."
"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."
ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social
"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."
"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."
ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social
January 28, 2026 at 7:09 PM
A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot.
"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."
"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."
ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social
"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."
"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."
ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social