Alan Howard
alan-howard.bsky.social
Alan Howard
@alan-howard.bsky.social
Bibliophile and traveler
Machado is desperate to get close to Trump and lead Venezuela.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/w...
Machado Offered Trump Her Nobel, but Prize Institute Says It’s Not Allowed
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 4:51 PM
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Because of course not. I mean, c’mon
“.. After Mr. Trump promised the $100 billion in investments by Big Oil, two people close to the companies attending Friday’s meeting cautioned that they were not aware of any such commitment by the businesses.” 🤡

@nytimes.com #OOTT
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/b...
January 10, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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I wasn't aware of this shooting. It's well reported in the local news but I hadn't seen it in East Coast reporting.
A Black man was killed by ICE (off duty) in Los Angeles on New Year’s Eve. And like Renée Good, he was an American citizen. But most people have not heard about Keith Porter.

I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
January 10, 2026 at 4:08 PM
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Some 600 immigrant kids were sent to federal custody by ICE in 2025.

A 17-year-old was detained at a traffic stop because officers couldn’t make contact with his dad, who is deaf.

Another kid ended up in a shelter after making a wrong turn.

(Published Nov. 2025)
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
www.propublica.org
January 10, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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All the lies they're telling about Renee Good are in service of an even bigger lie: that individual human lives have no intrinsic worth and are therefore theirs to dispose of. publiccomment.blog/p/the-poison...
The Poison Always Drips Through
On Renee Good and George Floyd
publiccomment.blog
January 9, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Complete rubbish. The man doesn’t understand anything.
⚡️Russia will take over Greenland if US doesn't get there first, Trump claims.

"We are going to do something with Greenland, whether they like it or not. Because if we don't do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland, and we're not going to have Russia or China as a neighbor."
Russia will take over Greenland if US doesn't get there first, Trump claims
"We are going to do something with Greenland, whether they like it or not," Trump told reporters. "Because if we don't do it, Russia or China will take over Greenland, and we're not going to have Russ...
kyivindependent.com
January 10, 2026 at 12:25 AM
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Is It Good Politics to Defend a Harmless Woman Getting Shot in the Face? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-it...
Is It Good Politics to Defend a Harmless Woman Getting Shot in the Face?
I’ve seen some comments that whatever the hideousness of it President Trump’s...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 9, 2026 at 11:55 PM
He’s going to steal Venezuela’s oil and minerals. And he is starting by stealing Machado’s Nobel Prize.
sometimes things are simply so stupid that i can't get my head around the idea that they are happening.
This is sad on so many levels — about something that was intended to celebrate the best in people.

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/w...
January 10, 2026 at 12:23 AM
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This is so profoundly horrifying on so many levels. I don't even know what to think or to say about the agent not even devoting his full attention or both hands to threatening to shoot and then actually shooting this woman in the face.
We've analysed this video of the shooting of Renee Nicole Good yesterday in Minneapolis frame-by-frame to highlight the positioning of the gun and phone in the ICE agent's hands.
Video: @minnesotareformer.com with annotations by Bellingcat
January 10, 2026 at 12:14 AM
VP Vance says this video proves the ICE agent was in danger. My question is, what planet do you live on? This proves nothing….
New video has emerged of the fatal shooting of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The video shows Good speaking in the seconds before the shooting.
January 9, 2026 at 9:13 PM
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Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.
January 9, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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None of ‘em
Trump keeps talking about Venezuela agreeing to do tons of stuff for the US oil companies. I've seen zero acknowledgment of any of this from Venezuela officials. Which oil company is gonna trust Trump on this?
January 9, 2026 at 8:39 PM
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Oof. Hats off to the guy who took the video. That took some onions.
I think it is probably a bad idea to put clearly unhinged, angry psychopaths in federal law enforcement positions.
January 9, 2026 at 4:24 PM
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The Cover-up of the Fatal ICE Shooting Is Already Underway talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
The Cover-up of the Fatal ICE Shooting Is Already Underway
Programming note: Join me for the first Morning Memo Live event on...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 9, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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We got “liberated”, alright. 🤡

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
January 9, 2026 at 3:50 PM
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Amen to this…
“He reads it. He cites it. And he makes it accessible to a national audience.” Very cool moment @historians.org #AHA26 recognizing @jamellebouie.net’s exceptional engagement w history and historians in his brilliant opinion writing.
January 9, 2026 at 3:59 PM
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A credulous media will be the death of the Republic
Why would Trump stop lying? It's worked for him so far.
Lying has helped him avoid almost all accountability as a sex predator.
Lying has made him billions.
Lying got him out of felonies that would put anyone else in prison.
Lying has made him so powerful that most media won't call his lies "lies."
January 9, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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Venezuela released a number of imprisoned high-profile opposition figures, activists and journalists, in what the government described as a gesture to "seek peace". n.pr/4bpBeVi
Venezuela releases imprisoned opposition figures, which Trump says U.S. requested
Venezuela released a number of imprisoned high-profile opposition figures, activists and journalists, in what the government described as a gesture to "seek peace".
n.pr
January 9, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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Amazeballs. But not surprising at all.
First found by @bharatkumarmd.bsky.social on the extremely bad site: yesterday at 8:20 pm, Trump tweeted out jobs numbers that included data that weren’t released until 8:30 am today. It was a copy of a presentation with CEA letterhead.
January 9, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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We filed an Amicus in brief here.

www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

It's the right result, and I just want to make a wonky observation. A case like this scrambles traditional outcome-method alignments.

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January 9, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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Not at all corrupt. Nope, not a bit
Several Ukrainian officials “said it was likely meant as a signal to the Trump administration that Kyiv is eager to cooperate ..”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/w...
January 9, 2026 at 1:51 AM
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I’d add, MOST OF THE ICE AGENTS PRESENT clearly didn’t believe it. Nobody but the murderer pulls a gun or otherwise reacts like some murderous terror attack is underway.
WATCH: “Renee Good was not a domestic terrorist. No one acting in good faith actually believes that, no matter what some of our Trump officials say at press conferences,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social.
January 9, 2026 at 1:21 AM
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Wait wait wait, while Americans have to pay hundreds of billions of dollars in new tariffs, Trump is going send over $10,000 to each person in *Greenland*?????????

This is a joke right ?

www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Exclusive: Trump administration mulls payments to sway Greenlanders to join US
U.S. officials have discussed sending lump sum payments to Greenlanders as part of a bid to convince them to secede from Denmark and potentially join the United States, according to four sources famil...
www.reuters.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:12 PM
There is no such thing as absolute immunity.
Yep, as always, JD Vance is completely full of shit. ICE agents do not have categorical or absolute immunity.
January 8, 2026 at 9:30 PM