☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️
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☀️ The most important thing to understand about politics is that Head Monkey Good, Not Bad. Stop saying Head Monkey Bad. ☀️
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Homeland Security is monitoring anti-ICE Reddit posts, an intelligence bulletin leaked to me reveals:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-s...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-s...
Homeland Security Spies on Reddit Users
Leak show feds tracking anti-ICE Reddit users like "Budget-Chicken-2425"
www.kenklippenstein.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:29 AM
Homeland Security is monitoring anti-ICE Reddit posts, an intelligence bulletin leaked to me reveals:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-s...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-s...
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An opinion I pretty firmly hold is that everyone should make a song, paint a painting, act in something, and write a book even if all of those things end up being objectively terrible
February 8, 2026 at 5:41 AM
An opinion I pretty firmly hold is that everyone should make a song, paint a painting, act in something, and write a book even if all of those things end up being objectively terrible
I'm grateful Alan Dershowitz has lived long enough to learn that Woody Allen and Jeffrey Epstein were ridiculing him behind his back.
![Allen to Epstein: "He's the biggest self-promoter I've ever met. It's quite laughable how desperate he is. Also the biggest name dropper. It's [sic] makes me shutter [sic] it [sic] so embarrassing. He has no shame."
Epstein to Allen: "Worse than you know."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kpzki7jkovhesbsh64aiumx2/bafkreicho7oedzci4um2md72fgphxxx4fm7snzmsfbz4ns24x4zfsxkblm@jpeg)
February 4, 2026 at 9:31 PM
I'm grateful Alan Dershowitz has lived long enough to learn that Woody Allen and Jeffrey Epstein were ridiculing him behind his back.
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In light of the gutting of the Washington Post:
from Jan. 3, 2025
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
"The cartoon that was killed criticizes the billionaire tech and media chief executives who have been doing their best to curry favor with incoming President-elect Trump."
from Jan. 3, 2025
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
"The cartoon that was killed criticizes the billionaire tech and media chief executives who have been doing their best to curry favor with incoming President-elect Trump."
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
anntelnaes.substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:10 PM
In light of the gutting of the Washington Post:
from Jan. 3, 2025
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
"The cartoon that was killed criticizes the billionaire tech and media chief executives who have been doing their best to curry favor with incoming President-elect Trump."
from Jan. 3, 2025
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
"The cartoon that was killed criticizes the billionaire tech and media chief executives who have been doing their best to curry favor with incoming President-elect Trump."
February 4, 2026 at 9:16 PM
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It's really important for people to internalize that, in the eyes of Washington DC's foreign policy establishment, the biggest sin of the Obama presidency was concluding a deal with Iran that objectively satisfied the demands that Washington DC pretends to believe in.
February 4, 2026 at 8:19 PM
It's really important for people to internalize that, in the eyes of Washington DC's foreign policy establishment, the biggest sin of the Obama presidency was concluding a deal with Iran that objectively satisfied the demands that Washington DC pretends to believe in.
I'm well aware of the Washington Post's gruesome flaws, but this specifically makes me sad. As a kid I learned how to read in general and how to read newspapers specifically from the Washington Post's sports section.
February 4, 2026 at 3:16 PM
I'm well aware of the Washington Post's gruesome flaws, but this specifically makes me sad. As a kid I learned how to read in general and how to read newspapers specifically from the Washington Post's sports section.
Donald Graham didn't just sell the Washington Post to Jeff Bezos, who is merrily dismantling it today. Before that Graham let Mark Zuckerberg out of an agreement for the Post to buy 10 percent of Facebook for $6 million. Today that 10 percent would be worth $175 billion.
February 4, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Donald Graham didn't just sell the Washington Post to Jeff Bezos, who is merrily dismantling it today. Before that Graham let Mark Zuckerberg out of an agreement for the Post to buy 10 percent of Facebook for $6 million. Today that 10 percent would be worth $175 billion.
It's still incredible to me that ICE believes they can murder U.S. citizens in broad daylight with no consequences. Who do they think they are, the IDF?
February 3, 2026 at 9:37 PM
It's still incredible to me that ICE believes they can murder U.S. citizens in broad daylight with no consequences. Who do they think they are, the IDF?
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Happy worst month of the year to all those who observe
February 1, 2026 at 9:13 PM
Happy worst month of the year to all those who observe
Reading the Epstein emails makes me wonder if we'd be better off if the world were run by space lizards wearing human skin
February 1, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Reading the Epstein emails makes me wonder if we'd be better off if the world were run by space lizards wearing human skin
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so I'm about halfway through my re-read of "the rise and fall of the third reich," world war 2 is about to kick off, and one notable thing is how many times hitler would start off speeches and meetings talking about how badly he/germany had been treated, usually by countries he planned on crushing
February 1, 2026 at 6:49 PM
so I'm about halfway through my re-read of "the rise and fall of the third reich," world war 2 is about to kick off, and one notable thing is how many times hitler would start off speeches and meetings talking about how badly he/germany had been treated, usually by countries he planned on crushing
This is a weird & unappreciated fact about the people at the top of the world in every situation. If you read leaked government documents, you'll see they say pretty much the same thing in private as in public. They're true believers, which is scarier than them being genius lying supervillains.
February 1, 2026 at 7:32 PM
This is a weird & unappreciated fact about the people at the top of the world in every situation. If you read leaked government documents, you'll see they say pretty much the same thing in private as in public. They're true believers, which is scarier than them being genius lying supervillains.
Tough questions. Straight answers. CBS News has gathered the sharpest minds on the topics that matter most.
January 31, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Tough questions. Straight answers. CBS News has gathered the sharpest minds on the topics that matter most.
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Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...
January 30, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...
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Worst. Paywall. Ever.
January 30, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Worst. Paywall. Ever.
Trump hates the Iraqi politician Nouri al-Maliki. Donald Rumsfeld also hated al-Maliki, whom he privately disparaged as "not Syngman Rhee." In 1948 Syngman Rhee, then-dictator of South Korea, supervised the slaughter of over 100,000 South Koreans in the space of a few weeks.
January 27, 2026 at 10:09 PM
Trump hates the Iraqi politician Nouri al-Maliki. Donald Rumsfeld also hated al-Maliki, whom he privately disparaged as "not Syngman Rhee." In 1948 Syngman Rhee, then-dictator of South Korea, supervised the slaughter of over 100,000 South Koreans in the space of a few weeks.
Tony Dokoupil recently criticized the old CBS, saying it "put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites & not enough on you [ie, regular Americans]." This explains why CBS just hired Niall Ferguson, who's British, a professor at Stanford & a hedge fund consultant.
January 27, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Tony Dokoupil recently criticized the old CBS, saying it "put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites & not enough on you [ie, regular Americans]." This explains why CBS just hired Niall Ferguson, who's British, a professor at Stanford & a hedge fund consultant.
One of the sharpest minds just hired by CBS is Niall Ferguson. Just after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Ferguson declared "I am a fully paid-up member of the neoimperialist gang."
January 27, 2026 at 8:55 PM
One of the sharpest minds just hired by CBS is Niall Ferguson. Just after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Ferguson declared "I am a fully paid-up member of the neoimperialist gang."
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I have a piece today in Defector making the case for "more training" for ICE agents. A *lot* more training. defector.com/i-have-a-gre...
I Have A Great Idea For Retraining ICE Agents | Defector
The several thousand federal agents currently running rampant in the Twin Cities have so far achieved little in the way of legitimate law enforcement objectives, but they have been rather more success...
defector.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:18 PM
I have a piece today in Defector making the case for "more training" for ICE agents. A *lot* more training. defector.com/i-have-a-gre...
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Okay I think I've mapped out ICE politics as of Monday night
January 27, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Okay I think I've mapped out ICE politics as of Monday night
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One of the hardest things to do is bring campaign-level communications to the work of governance, and snowstorms are notoriously one of the biggest litmus tests that less-engaged voters use to judge mayoral administrations. This is an excellent way to communicate.
January 25, 2026 at 4:39 PM
One of the hardest things to do is bring campaign-level communications to the work of governance, and snowstorms are notoriously one of the biggest litmus tests that less-engaged voters use to judge mayoral administrations. This is an excellent way to communicate.