Zach Halper
@zanath.bsky.social
PR by day, Star Wars, politics, baseball by night.
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It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
February 13, 2026 at 4:48 AM
It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
I think I’ll believe Walz and Frey over the bald Nazi
Stephen Miller claims the Trump admin struck a deal w/ MN officials whereby "jails & prisons are no longer going to obey the unlawful edict by Ellison. Instead they're gonna follow federal law, the supreme law of the land, & hand over criminal illegals." (State officials have denied any such deal.)
February 13, 2026 at 2:54 AM
I think I’ll believe Walz and Frey over the bald Nazi
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Mayor Frey on Tom Homan saying DHS had "some issues" in Minneapolis: "'Issues' would be certainly the understatement of the century. These are people that should be alive today. Alex and Renee were standing up for their neighbors. Constitutionally protected activity was taking place."
February 13, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Mayor Frey on Tom Homan saying DHS had "some issues" in Minneapolis: "'Issues' would be certainly the understatement of the century. These are people that should be alive today. Alex and Renee were standing up for their neighbors. Constitutionally protected activity was taking place."
Ripped Stinky alert @blastpoints.bsky.social
⚔️ Wanted: Dead Or Alive ⚔️
¿Necesitamos un playset de Rotta el Hutt luchando contra el Savrip Mantelliano en la arena?, la respuesta es SI.
Si el tráiler de #TheMandalorianAndGrogu nos dejó algo claro… es que la galaxia vuelve a oler a arena, sangre y espectáculo.
¿Necesitamos un playset de Rotta el Hutt luchando contra el Savrip Mantelliano en la arena?, la respuesta es SI.
Si el tráiler de #TheMandalorianAndGrogu nos dejó algo claro… es que la galaxia vuelve a oler a arena, sangre y espectáculo.
February 13, 2026 at 1:44 AM
Ripped Stinky alert @blastpoints.bsky.social
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NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
February 12, 2026 at 3:22 AM
NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”
Hawt
⚔️ Wanted: Dead Or Alive ⚔️
¿Necesitamos un playset de Rotta el Hutt luchando contra el Savrip Mantelliano en la arena?, la respuesta es SI.
Si el tráiler de #TheMandalorianAndGrogu nos dejó algo claro… es que la galaxia vuelve a oler a arena, sangre y espectáculo.
¿Necesitamos un playset de Rotta el Hutt luchando contra el Savrip Mantelliano en la arena?, la respuesta es SI.
Si el tráiler de #TheMandalorianAndGrogu nos dejó algo claro… es que la galaxia vuelve a oler a arena, sangre y espectáculo.
February 13, 2026 at 12:02 AM
Hawt
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Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
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This is important. The head of CBP says here that his agency did NOT provide the assessment that led DHS to label Alex Pretti a terrorist looking to inflict mass casualties.
That appears to contradict Stephen Miller's claim that the initial assessment was based on CBP reports:
That appears to contradict Stephen Miller's claim that the initial assessment was based on CBP reports:
February 12, 2026 at 5:37 PM
This is important. The head of CBP says here that his agency did NOT provide the assessment that led DHS to label Alex Pretti a terrorist looking to inflict mass casualties.
That appears to contradict Stephen Miller's claim that the initial assessment was based on CBP reports:
That appears to contradict Stephen Miller's claim that the initial assessment was based on CBP reports:
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HASSAN: You said you don't want to comment on these ongoing investigations because you don't want to bias them. So did Noem and Stephen Miller bias the investigation when they called Pretti a domestic terrorist?
LYONS: I don't want to comment. That's their comments
H: That doesn't make any sense
LYONS: I don't want to comment. That's their comments
H: That doesn't make any sense
February 12, 2026 at 5:22 PM
HASSAN: You said you don't want to comment on these ongoing investigations because you don't want to bias them. So did Noem and Stephen Miller bias the investigation when they called Pretti a domestic terrorist?
LYONS: I don't want to comment. That's their comments
H: That doesn't make any sense
LYONS: I don't want to comment. That's their comments
H: That doesn't make any sense
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Gov. Tim Walz: "They left us with deep damage. Generational trauma. Economic ruin in some cases. The left us with many unanswered questions. Where are our children? Where and what is the process of the investigation into those that were responsible for the deaths of Renee and Alex?"
February 12, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Gov. Tim Walz: "They left us with deep damage. Generational trauma. Economic ruin in some cases. The left us with many unanswered questions. Where are our children? Where and what is the process of the investigation into those that were responsible for the deaths of Renee and Alex?"
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This is what the gop is going to face for the next 3 years. Stuttering delusional old white guys dumbfounded when someone replies “of course I am in favor of my constitutional rights, why do you hate this country?” every time they assert the secret police should be able to kill you for talking back.
RON JOHNSON: Did you ever encourage people to go out there and exercise their First Amendment rights?
KEITH ELLISON: I freely admit being in favor of the First Amendment
KEITH ELLISON: I freely admit being in favor of the First Amendment
February 12, 2026 at 3:20 PM
This is what the gop is going to face for the next 3 years. Stuttering delusional old white guys dumbfounded when someone replies “of course I am in favor of my constitutional rights, why do you hate this country?” every time they assert the secret police should be able to kill you for talking back.
Come on, man.
“Everything he was doing to make America great I was cool with up until he started messing with the immigrants,” said Andre Lewis, 32, who lives in White Bear Lake.
Gotta love the American voter
www.startribune.com/minnesotas-s...
Gotta love the American voter
www.startribune.com/minnesotas-s...
Minnesota’s suburbs are an election battleground. Trump’s immigration surge is unpopular there.
A new poll shows suburban residents and independents aligning more with Twin Cities residents in opposing Trump’s crackdown and immigration agents’ tactics.
www.startribune.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Come on, man.
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Donald Trump, ICE, and CBP retreat defeated from another American city.
Homan in Minnesota: "I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude. A significant drawdown has already been underway this week and will continue."
February 12, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Donald Trump, ICE, and CBP retreat defeated from another American city.
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Scholars of genocide have written so much about this kind of dehumanizing propaganda. Now it's happening here.
February 12, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Scholars of genocide have written so much about this kind of dehumanizing propaganda. Now it's happening here.
Not the most important part of this very stupid argument, but this almost certainly did not happen.
Rep. Brian Steil: "I flew home to my home state of Wisconsin, went to buy a 6 pack a beer, the clerk asked for my ID, confirmed it, and then I was allowed to buy the beer. I just think it's nuts that we protect our beer more than our ballots."
February 12, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Not the most important part of this very stupid argument, but this almost certainly did not happen.
More of this, please
CNBC: What about the horrific conditions in DHS detention centers? Do they need to be looked at?
REP. JASON SMITH: I'm sure those conditions never existed under Biden or Obama
CNBC: I'm sorry, sir. I'm not asking about Biden. I'm asking about conditions right now. I think it's a natl embarrassment
REP. JASON SMITH: I'm sure those conditions never existed under Biden or Obama
CNBC: I'm sorry, sir. I'm not asking about Biden. I'm asking about conditions right now. I think it's a natl embarrassment
February 12, 2026 at 1:32 PM
More of this, please
You can’t make this shit up.
According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.
February 12, 2026 at 1:17 PM
You can’t make this shit up.
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this is one of the dumbest Republican talking points, and that's really saying something
February 12, 2026 at 1:11 PM
this is one of the dumbest Republican talking points, and that's really saying something
Okay I’m just watching the men’s short program and Ilia Malinin is a freak.
February 12, 2026 at 2:43 AM
Okay I’m just watching the men’s short program and Ilia Malinin is a freak.
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Sending this to my wife after I tell her I’m not taking out the trash
February 12, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Sending this to my wife after I tell her I’m not taking out the trash
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Rough week for Trump, right? Backlash from Rs to racist memes, loses the Canada tariffs vote, Lutnick and Bondi making terrible headlines in Congress, SAVE passes but DOA in Senate, all-time-low approval numbers… etc. I’m expecting some truly unhinged Truth Social posts tonight
February 12, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Rough week for Trump, right? Backlash from Rs to racist memes, loses the Canada tariffs vote, Lutnick and Bondi making terrible headlines in Congress, SAVE passes but DOA in Senate, all-time-low approval numbers… etc. I’m expecting some truly unhinged Truth Social posts tonight
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This guy has no fucking juice. People need to realize standing up to him works and catering to him does not.
Trump threatens to support primaries against Republicans who vote against tariffs
February 11, 2026 at 11:21 PM
This guy has no fucking juice. People need to realize standing up to him works and catering to him does not.