Paula Schaap
@redsonja.bsky.social
Writer and editor. Also lawyer. Also, I play poker. And yes, that is my actual dog in the avatar. Her name is Muppet, the name she came with; we couldn't figure out a better one. Opinions my own; usual disclaimers.
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SBF is auditioning hard for a pardon and reinventing himself as a Republican.
Apparently his conversion happened in 2022 right before he got caught defrauding investors out of billions.
Apparently his conversion happened in 2022 right before he got caught defrauding investors out of billions.
January 30, 2026 at 2:48 AM
SBF is auditioning hard for a pardon and reinventing himself as a Republican.
Apparently his conversion happened in 2022 right before he got caught defrauding investors out of billions.
Apparently his conversion happened in 2022 right before he got caught defrauding investors out of billions.
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Since I'm pretty sure this administration doesn't realize this document exists, it would be worth downloading the 2020 Intelligence Community Assessment on foreign threats to the U.S. elections before it disappears, which includes the following finding:
www.dni.gov/index.php/ne...
www.dni.gov/index.php/ne...
January 30, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Since I'm pretty sure this administration doesn't realize this document exists, it would be worth downloading the 2020 Intelligence Community Assessment on foreign threats to the U.S. elections before it disappears, which includes the following finding:
www.dni.gov/index.php/ne...
www.dni.gov/index.php/ne...
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Sitting President attempts to steal $10 BILLION from taxpayers.
The most corrupt regime of our lifetimes. With no close second.
And the Hunter hunters are silent.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
The most corrupt regime of our lifetimes. With no close second.
And the Hunter hunters are silent.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
January 30, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Sitting President attempts to steal $10 BILLION from taxpayers.
The most corrupt regime of our lifetimes. With no close second.
And the Hunter hunters are silent.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
The most corrupt regime of our lifetimes. With no close second.
And the Hunter hunters are silent.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
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Pam Bondi's tweets of mug shots of arrested people is itself an impeachable offense, a clear violation of their fourth amendment rights, and I hope they all sue the federal government and her and get millions.
This is, like much Trump garbage, obscene.
I refuse to become numb to the obsenities.
This is, like much Trump garbage, obscene.
I refuse to become numb to the obsenities.
January 30, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Pam Bondi's tweets of mug shots of arrested people is itself an impeachable offense, a clear violation of their fourth amendment rights, and I hope they all sue the federal government and her and get millions.
This is, like much Trump garbage, obscene.
I refuse to become numb to the obsenities.
This is, like much Trump garbage, obscene.
I refuse to become numb to the obsenities.
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This is a cover up of a murder, led by our own federal government.
January 29, 2026 at 11:00 PM
This is a cover up of a murder, led by our own federal government.
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The Ethicist | I missed my chance to report my annoying co-worker for insufficiently mourning Charlie Kirk. Can I now report her for failing to watch the Melania documentary?
January 30, 2026 at 2:50 AM
The Ethicist | I missed my chance to report my annoying co-worker for insufficiently mourning Charlie Kirk. Can I now report her for failing to watch the Melania documentary?
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this was the town hall held by tom suozzi (one of the dems who just voted for more ice funding). the protestor dragged out while yelling HOW FUCKING DARE YOU deserves his own holiday.
January 29, 2026 at 7:06 PM
this was the town hall held by tom suozzi (one of the dems who just voted for more ice funding). the protestor dragged out while yelling HOW FUCKING DARE YOU deserves his own holiday.
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Ahem the 30-year approaching 5%. About that de-facto weak dollar policy….
January 30, 2026 at 2:51 AM
Ahem the 30-year approaching 5%. About that de-facto weak dollar policy….
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Bet he’s afraid to fly.
Greg Bovino appears to be driving back to California after being reassigned from Minneapolis.
Eagle-eyed observers spotted Bovino in South Dakota and Wyoming as he travels west in a convoy of SUVs.
Eagle-eyed observers spotted Bovino in South Dakota and Wyoming as he travels west in a convoy of SUVs.
Live: Homan acknowledges ICE operations in Minnesota have not been ‘perfect’
Border czar Tom Homan is in Minnesota to manage immigration operations in the state. “The withdrawal of law enforcement resources here is dependent upon cooperation,” he said.
bit.ly
January 30, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Bet he’s afraid to fly.
You can never have too many Lambies.
January 30, 2026 at 2:49 AM
You can never have too many Lambies.
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#StopICEforGood #AbolishICE
#StopICE
Somewhere in the dark in North Denver to Boulder land….
If you can’t tell, these are children being taken into detention. 😭
@nd2b.bsky.social
@foreverindivisible.bsky.social
@indivisible.org
@rbhubbell.bsky.social @jesscraven101.bsky.social
#StopICE
Somewhere in the dark in North Denver to Boulder land….
If you can’t tell, these are children being taken into detention. 😭
@nd2b.bsky.social
@foreverindivisible.bsky.social
@indivisible.org
@rbhubbell.bsky.social @jesscraven101.bsky.social
January 30, 2026 at 2:19 AM
#StopICEforGood #AbolishICE
#StopICE
Somewhere in the dark in North Denver to Boulder land….
If you can’t tell, these are children being taken into detention. 😭
@nd2b.bsky.social
@foreverindivisible.bsky.social
@indivisible.org
@rbhubbell.bsky.social @jesscraven101.bsky.social
#StopICE
Somewhere in the dark in North Denver to Boulder land….
If you can’t tell, these are children being taken into detention. 😭
@nd2b.bsky.social
@foreverindivisible.bsky.social
@indivisible.org
@rbhubbell.bsky.social @jesscraven101.bsky.social
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"And that cooperation ... non-sequential $100 bills?"
Homan: "The withdrawal of law enforcement resources here is dependent upon cooperation ... as we see that cooperation happen, then the redeployment will happen"
January 29, 2026 at 2:15 PM
"And that cooperation ... non-sequential $100 bills?"
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Shorter Powell: the economy looks more boring and so we want to be boring too. Please, for the love of god, let us be boring.
January 28, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Shorter Powell: the economy looks more boring and so we want to be boring too. Please, for the love of god, let us be boring.
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One clear way to rapidly end a Trump immigration enforcement crackdown. Intervention from vulnerable Republican Senate seat
January 29, 2026 at 1:17 PM
One clear way to rapidly end a Trump immigration enforcement crackdown. Intervention from vulnerable Republican Senate seat
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I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
January 24, 2026 at 7:23 PM
I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
Somebody has to work a little harder on @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social's constituent replies. The response to an email to her office imploring her to vote to defund ICE says: "The murder of American citizens is intolerable." Which begs the question if the murder of non-citizens is tolerable.
January 29, 2026 at 1:39 PM
Somebody has to work a little harder on @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social's constituent replies. The response to an email to her office imploring her to vote to defund ICE says: "The murder of American citizens is intolerable." Which begs the question if the murder of non-citizens is tolerable.
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My predictions for 2026 were for the Dollar to fall and the debasement trade to roar. That's happening. The Fed is an inadvertent catalyst. Jackson Hole on Aug. 22 started the precious metals rally and every Fed meeting since is adding fuel to the fire...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/prediction...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/prediction...
January 29, 2026 at 1:27 PM
My predictions for 2026 were for the Dollar to fall and the debasement trade to roar. That's happening. The Fed is an inadvertent catalyst. Jackson Hole on Aug. 22 started the precious metals rally and every Fed meeting since is adding fuel to the fire...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/prediction...
robinjbrooks.substack.com/p/prediction...
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Share this with everyone you know. ICE has not backed down in Minnesota. They are kidnapping children from their homes and sending them to an unheated prison in the dead of winter. The maximum legal detention time is 20 days (still too long!). Some kids have been imprisoned over 100 days there
One Minnesota journalist doing remarkable work right now is Elizabeth Shockman/@eshockmanwrites.bsky.social for @mprnews.org. This article posted yesterday on child detentions is an essential read. An essential read.
‘ICE conveyor belt’ illegally detaining, moving Minnesota children to Texas faster than courts can respond
ICE is pulling Minnesota immigrant families with legal status out of their driveways, homes and school commutes and sending them to Texas within hours — in at least two cases against a judge’s order. ...
www.mprnews.org
January 29, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Share this with everyone you know. ICE has not backed down in Minnesota. They are kidnapping children from their homes and sending them to an unheated prison in the dead of winter. The maximum legal detention time is 20 days (still too long!). Some kids have been imprisoned over 100 days there
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📣 CMS posts semifinal 2026 #ACA Open Enrollment report: 23.0M plan selections, down "only" 1.3M...but don't let that fool you:
charlesgaba.substack.com/p/cms-posts-...
charlesgaba.substack.com/p/cms-posts-...
CMS posts semifinal 2026 Open Enrollment report: 23.0M QHPs, down "only" 1.3M...
...but don't let that fool you.
charlesgaba.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:54 PM
📣 CMS posts semifinal 2026 #ACA Open Enrollment report: 23.0M plan selections, down "only" 1.3M...but don't let that fool you:
charlesgaba.substack.com/p/cms-posts-...
charlesgaba.substack.com/p/cms-posts-...
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This is pretty fucked up. I know everything is, but this is especially.
The woman who recorded Alex Pretti's shooting tells CNN she has still not been contacted by anyone in the federal government as part of its investigation.
January 28, 2026 at 3:35 PM
This is pretty fucked up. I know everything is, but this is especially.
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Parker is right, of course. What's extra weird to me is that so many journos have no problem posting shit that makes them look stone stupid. Like you can't say you're plugged in or that readers should trust you if you're actively showing the world you have the mental capacity of a bowl of soup
"They told us what they were going to do. They published it. They put it on a website. And when it happened, the press was surprised."
Hoo boy, everyone should bookmark this @parkermolloy.com piece & make sure everyone involved in media reads it.
Hoo boy, everyone should bookmark this @parkermolloy.com piece & make sure everyone involved in media reads it.
This is Literally the Job
Political journalists need to stop pretending they don't know what Republicans are going to do.
www.readtpa.com
January 28, 2026 at 3:15 PM
Parker is right, of course. What's extra weird to me is that so many journos have no problem posting shit that makes them look stone stupid. Like you can't say you're plugged in or that readers should trust you if you're actively showing the world you have the mental capacity of a bowl of soup
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Police Ask For Public’s Help In Falsifying Report
January 27, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Police Ask For Public’s Help In Falsifying Report
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Bari’s sole, career-defining trick is to repackage bog-standard elite opinion as something “edgy” and “heterodox.”
There is an audience for that product, and the audience has a lot of spare cash. (You will never go broke telling rich people what they want to hear.)
But it’s a NICHE audience.
There is an audience for that product, and the audience has a lot of spare cash. (You will never go broke telling rich people what they want to hear.)
But it’s a NICHE audience.
January 27, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Bari’s sole, career-defining trick is to repackage bog-standard elite opinion as something “edgy” and “heterodox.”
There is an audience for that product, and the audience has a lot of spare cash. (You will never go broke telling rich people what they want to hear.)
But it’s a NICHE audience.
There is an audience for that product, and the audience has a lot of spare cash. (You will never go broke telling rich people what they want to hear.)
But it’s a NICHE audience.
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Kash Patel this Sunday: “You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines, to any sort of protest that you want."
January 27, 2026 at 3:30 PM
Kash Patel this Sunday: “You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines, to any sort of protest that you want."
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whole lotta people holding on to real-life "fell for it again" awards right now
January 27, 2026 at 6:04 PM
whole lotta people holding on to real-life "fell for it again" awards right now