TProphet
@tprophet.org
Founder of @queercon @telechallenge @flyawardcat. Writer @2600, @tribeofhackers.
Every day, my life continues to amaze me.
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TProphet
@tprophet.org
· Dec 1
Meta: I have kept a public Mastodon account since leaving the other place, and this hasn't resulted in the level of drama that a public Twitter account did. Twitter kept turning my life upside down and never made me any money, so I limit social media because I don't have time for that.
USD is already crashing on global currency markets. This should be fun. I only got ~1/3 out before this, unfortunately :(
January 12, 2026 at 1:27 AM
USD is already crashing on global currency markets. This should be fun. I only got ~1/3 out before this, unfortunately :(
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i would like to roll back in time to more or elss anytime pre-2024 election and tell this website that the institutional actor most willing to call trump a fucking idiot in the face of threats was Powell lmao
January 12, 2026 at 1:11 AM
i would like to roll back in time to more or elss anytime pre-2024 election and tell this website that the institutional actor most willing to call trump a fucking idiot in the face of threats was Powell lmao
The bond markets should be fun tomorrow: www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
Good evening. On Friday, the Department of Justice served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas, threatening a criminal indictment related to my testi
www.federalreserve.gov
January 12, 2026 at 1:13 AM
The bond markets should be fun tomorrow: www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
I don't spend much time in the US or see much television propaganda but I'm in Seattle today and the local ABC news affiliate was on. They were unironically calling whatever is going on in Venezuela a "special military operation."
And this is life under being governed by 4chan trolls, I guess.
And this is life under being governed by 4chan trolls, I guess.
January 11, 2026 at 5:47 AM
I don't spend much time in the US or see much television propaganda but I'm in Seattle today and the local ABC news affiliate was on. They were unironically calling whatever is going on in Venezuela a "special military operation."
And this is life under being governed by 4chan trolls, I guess.
And this is life under being governed by 4chan trolls, I guess.
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not that far off from an act of war
The US Department of Agriculture suspends all federal funding to Minnesota, effective immediately.
January 10, 2026 at 1:13 AM
not that far off from an act of war
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Here is a thread about a true police-shooting incident that I'm going to use to pose a fun little thought problem for anyone anywhere who think there ia a single justifiable reason to ever allow a law enforcement officer to use force on a citizen and remain anonymous. From my back pages:
January 9, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Here is a thread about a true police-shooting incident that I'm going to use to pose a fun little thought problem for anyone anywhere who think there ia a single justifiable reason to ever allow a law enforcement officer to use force on a citizen and remain anonymous. From my back pages:
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I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.
January 9, 2026 at 2:15 PM
I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.
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Im not so sure of this kind of math because:
a) 20% of the pop is rabid, and a lot of those are cops or military
b) capital makes a small force much more effective
I think the fact the US is just big and rich is a pretty steep hill to climb though. makes it hard to concentrate the goons
a) 20% of the pop is rabid, and a lot of those are cops or military
b) capital makes a small force much more effective
I think the fact the US is just big and rich is a pretty steep hill to climb though. makes it hard to concentrate the goons
So to return to this: Mussolini had 200,000 blackshirts for the March on Rome in a country of ~35m. Hitler had 400,000 brownshirts in 1932 in Germany for a population of ~60m.
So around 0.6% of the population.
0.6% of 340m Americans is just over 2 million.
They do not have enough goons.
So around 0.6% of the population.
0.6% of 340m Americans is just over 2 million.
They do not have enough goons.
In 1932, on the eve of seizing power, the Nazi goon army - the Sturmabteiling or SA - numbered 400,000 members. By 1933, it was over two *million.*
DHS has 240,00 employees and lot of those are non-goons who have, you know, real jobs.
DHS has 240,00 employees and lot of those are non-goons who have, you know, real jobs.
January 10, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Im not so sure of this kind of math because:
a) 20% of the pop is rabid, and a lot of those are cops or military
b) capital makes a small force much more effective
I think the fact the US is just big and rich is a pretty steep hill to climb though. makes it hard to concentrate the goons
a) 20% of the pop is rabid, and a lot of those are cops or military
b) capital makes a small force much more effective
I think the fact the US is just big and rich is a pretty steep hill to climb though. makes it hard to concentrate the goons
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I have been as impressed by the normal people of this country as I have been disgusted by elite institutions and every bit of optimism I have that we are going to make it comes from that
It's incredibly demoralizing to constantly see the highest institutions of government and academia and the most important and widely seen news outlets knuckle under one after another, but then to see the gulf between that and the bravery of communities and neighbors and teachers - that's something
January 10, 2026 at 12:56 AM
I have been as impressed by the normal people of this country as I have been disgusted by elite institutions and every bit of optimism I have that we are going to make it comes from that
So we're not being greeted as liberators after all?
If this bizarre pacted transition in Venzuela continues, in the near future we should expect: (a) coup attempts, (b) mutinies, and (c) insurgencies.
I expect these to be related, for example, failed coup makers and mutineers head for the jungles to link up with ELN and dissident FARC guerrillas.
I expect these to be related, for example, failed coup makers and mutineers head for the jungles to link up with ELN and dissident FARC guerrillas.
January 10, 2026 at 1:22 AM
So we're not being greeted as liberators after all?
So far to avoid releasing the Epstein files, they have started another stupid oil war and are now threatening to invade Greenland. There must be something really, really bad in them.
January 8, 2026 at 6:42 AM
So far to avoid releasing the Epstein files, they have started another stupid oil war and are now threatening to invade Greenland. There must be something really, really bad in them.
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it is the policy of this government to treat democratic-led states as conquered territories and the people therein as something like hostiles or even enemy combatants
Dr Oz threatens to pull Medicaid support for Minnesota: "Sticking to the narrative that's cold in Minnesota -- this is the tip of the iceberg"
January 7, 2026 at 11:52 PM
it is the policy of this government to treat democratic-led states as conquered territories and the people therein as something like hostiles or even enemy combatants
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ICE's killing of unarmed American citizen Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis today has NSPM-7 written all over it, as well as a related Pam Bondi memo ordering feds to see any interference of ICE agents as a terrorist threat:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-kills-...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-kills-...
ICE Kills American Woman in Minneapolis
Trump decries “radical left;” homeland security screams “domestic terror”
www.kenklippenstein.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:00 PM
ICE's killing of unarmed American citizen Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis today has NSPM-7 written all over it, as well as a related Pam Bondi memo ordering feds to see any interference of ICE agents as a terrorist threat:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-kills-...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-kills-...
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Folks look at you Iike you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & then it’s Wednesday.
Presidentialism, & the post-WWII imperial presidency now being fully weaponized by the authoritarians, was a grave mistake:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Presidentialism, & the post-WWII imperial presidency now being fully weaponized by the authoritarians, was a grave mistake:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
This is insane. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Withdrawing the United States from International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties that Are Contrary to the Interests of the United States
MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United
www.whitehouse.gov
January 8, 2026 at 1:51 AM
Folks look at you Iike you’re crazy when you say we’re in the midst of the worst Article I constitutional crisis in 🇺🇸 history, & then it’s Wednesday.
Presidentialism, & the post-WWII imperial presidency now being fully weaponized by the authoritarians, was a grave mistake:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Presidentialism, & the post-WWII imperial presidency now being fully weaponized by the authoritarians, was a grave mistake:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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The American people can see for themselves how dishonest & cynical this is.
Drug trafficking warrants the use of military force to topple a foreign government in one instance, and then merits Trump pardoning the former Honduran President, lawfully convicted of the same crime?
Drug trafficking warrants the use of military force to topple a foreign government in one instance, and then merits Trump pardoning the former Honduran President, lawfully convicted of the same crime?
RUBIO: Maduro was indicted. Nobody ever did anything about it.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Hernandez was convicted by a jury
RUBIO: The pardon authority is something I'm not involved in
STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you support it?
RUBIO: I wasn't involved in those deliberations. I haven't looked at the case file.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Hernandez was convicted by a jury
RUBIO: The pardon authority is something I'm not involved in
STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you support it?
RUBIO: I wasn't involved in those deliberations. I haven't looked at the case file.
January 6, 2026 at 12:54 AM
The American people can see for themselves how dishonest & cynical this is.
Drug trafficking warrants the use of military force to topple a foreign government in one instance, and then merits Trump pardoning the former Honduran President, lawfully convicted of the same crime?
Drug trafficking warrants the use of military force to topple a foreign government in one instance, and then merits Trump pardoning the former Honduran President, lawfully convicted of the same crime?
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yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.
Right.
If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
If you want a good explanation of why the American system of government worked well enough for 200 years and then suddenly stopped, it's because Republicans in Congress suddenly started letting their partisan interests COMPLETELY override their institutional interests
a lot of problems wouldn't exist if we had a congress with even an ounce of self interest
January 4, 2026 at 11:52 PM
yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.
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What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
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Yeah, people are fixating on a Cabinet Secretary being given a sovereign country to run because the president waged war without congressional approval and kidnapped the old leader. Weird that they’d get hung up on that.
WELKER: Mr. Secretary, are you running Venezuela right now?
MARCO RUBIO: Yeah. People are fixating on that. Here's the bottom line -- we expect to see changes in Venezuela
MARCO RUBIO: Yeah. People are fixating on that. Here's the bottom line -- we expect to see changes in Venezuela
January 4, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Yeah, people are fixating on a Cabinet Secretary being given a sovereign country to run because the president waged war without congressional approval and kidnapped the old leader. Weird that they’d get hung up on that.
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We may see efforts to indict the leaders of Cuba, Colombia, maybe even Mexico so that Rubio can say this again.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Why wasn't congressional authorization necessary?
RUBIO: It wasn't necessary because this was not an invasion. We didn't occupy a country. This was an arrest operation.
RUBIO: It wasn't necessary because this was not an invasion. We didn't occupy a country. This was an arrest operation.
January 4, 2026 at 4:40 PM
We may see efforts to indict the leaders of Cuba, Colombia, maybe even Mexico so that Rubio can say this again.
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Nobody asked for an invasion of Venezuela. Nobody wanted this. Our country is run by narcissistic loons, and the only comfort I take is knowing how badly they will screw this up.
My column:
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
My column:
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
January 4, 2026 at 3:57 AM
Nobody asked for an invasion of Venezuela. Nobody wanted this. Our country is run by narcissistic loons, and the only comfort I take is knowing how badly they will screw this up.
My column:
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
My column:
www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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absolutely bizarre to see a violent, rogue american regime, which is threatening military attacks on a bunch of major trading partners and close allies, and openly fantasizing about hitler-style wars of territorial conquest, covered in the tone of horse-race political commentary
January 4, 2026 at 3:14 AM
absolutely bizarre to see a violent, rogue american regime, which is threatening military attacks on a bunch of major trading partners and close allies, and openly fantasizing about hitler-style wars of territorial conquest, covered in the tone of horse-race political commentary
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“Trump hinted at a future conflict with Mexico in particular in an interview with Fox News Saturday morning.”
“Something is gonna have to be done with Mexico,” said the convicted felon:
newrepublic.com/post/204884/...
“Something is gonna have to be done with Mexico,” said the convicted felon:
newrepublic.com/post/204884/...
After Venezuela Attack, Trump Says Something Must Be Done About Mexico
Donald Trump is hinting at a military conflict with Mexico next.
newrepublic.com
January 3, 2026 at 4:30 PM
“Trump hinted at a future conflict with Mexico in particular in an interview with Fox News Saturday morning.”
“Something is gonna have to be done with Mexico,” said the convicted felon:
newrepublic.com/post/204884/...
“Something is gonna have to be done with Mexico,” said the convicted felon:
newrepublic.com/post/204884/...
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