@annheiser.bsky.social
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Get a lawless tyrant who can be bribed with ego-fluffing; it’s very cheap.
The Supreme Court sets aside lower court decisions upholding convictions for bribery related to the FIFA scandal because the Trump administration decided to dismiss those criminal cases "in the interests of justice." The FIFA prosecution ends in a whimper. www.supremecourt.gov/orders/court...
January 12, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Get a lawless tyrant who can be bribed with ego-fluffing; it’s very cheap.
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THIS 👇
"In every society fallen to authoritarianism, the state goes after the press first+ closes in on universities next.
All of us who live, work,+learn within the university should think of our institution as part of the larger constitutional structure of the nation."
www.chronicle.com/article/univ...
All of us who live, work,+learn within the university should think of our institution as part of the larger constitutional structure of the nation."
www.chronicle.com/article/univ...
Universities Need a New Defense
The authoritarian threat is growing. The old playbook won’t work.
www.chronicle.com
January 11, 2026 at 1:06 PM
THIS 👇
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Update: Gold hits a record high, the US dollar falls and Wall Street futures dip after the DoJ launches a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve’s chairman. www.ft.com/content/09aa...
Gold hits record high on worries over Fed independence
Dollar weakens and Wall Street futures fall after US prosecutors launch criminal investigation into chair Jay Powell
www.ft.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:53 AM
Update: Gold hits a record high, the US dollar falls and Wall Street futures dip after the DoJ launches a criminal investigation into Federal Reserve’s chairman. www.ft.com/content/09aa...
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One basic lesson from political research is that secret police generally rely on mediocre men willing to do the dirty work of authoritarian regimes in order to advance their careers.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
January 11, 2026 at 3:17 PM
One basic lesson from political research is that secret police generally rely on mediocre men willing to do the dirty work of authoritarian regimes in order to advance their careers.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...
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"The conservative legal movement is threatened by the successes of people's movements for freedom and the progress those movements have made in discarding undemocratic hierarchies. So originalists dig through the trash bin of history like racist raccoons looking for leftover oppression."
January 12, 2026 at 12:34 AM
"The conservative legal movement is threatened by the successes of people's movements for freedom and the progress those movements have made in discarding undemocratic hierarchies. So originalists dig through the trash bin of history like racist raccoons looking for leftover oppression."
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What’s also insane is how the courts have spent years pretending this man is putting forth novel, considered theories of constitutional authority when, as demonstrated here, he is simply making decrees as if the Constitution didn’t exist and waiting for servile judges to validate them
TRUMP: CREDIT CARD COMPANIES WILL BE IN VIOLATION OF LAW IF THEY DON’T COMPLY BY JAN 20 ON INTEREST RATE CAP
January 12, 2026 at 2:53 AM
What’s also insane is how the courts have spent years pretending this man is putting forth novel, considered theories of constitutional authority when, as demonstrated here, he is simply making decrees as if the Constitution didn’t exist and waiting for servile judges to validate them
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Very funny that the guy who turned the east wing of the White House into a pile of rubble one Friday is criminally investigating the federal reserve chairman about a building renovation
January 12, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Very funny that the guy who turned the east wing of the White House into a pile of rubble one Friday is criminally investigating the federal reserve chairman about a building renovation
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I'd like to request an ad in the next print Onion promoting Hilton Hotels' new slogan "The Official Innkeeper for ICE!"
"Complimentary Continental Breakfast and Kidnapping"
"Complimentary Continental Breakfast and Kidnapping"
January 12, 2026 at 3:05 AM
I'd like to request an ad in the next print Onion promoting Hilton Hotels' new slogan "The Official Innkeeper for ICE!"
"Complimentary Continental Breakfast and Kidnapping"
"Complimentary Continental Breakfast and Kidnapping"
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Yes, as many of us have been saying for months. The same is true in the House. A minyan of people who could fulfill their oaths & end most of the lawless authoritarianism tomorrow. And they are who get total free passes while everyone yells at Democrats:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
With Trump going full authoritarian on Venezuela-Greenland, ICE, and the Fed, the response has to be serious. Four Republican senators (Tillis, McConnell, Murkowski, Collins?) could announce they’ll caucus for now with the Dems to give them control of the Senate to check Trump.
January 12, 2026 at 2:55 AM
Yes, as many of us have been saying for months. The same is true in the House. A minyan of people who could fulfill their oaths & end most of the lawless authoritarianism tomorrow. And they are who get total free passes while everyone yells at Democrats:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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On the phone with them right now.
You can host the armed goons terrorizing our families, or you can host us.
You can host the armed goons terrorizing our families, or you can host us.
It's worth your time to call Hilton to cancel your account with them. 1-800-446-6677. Here's why:
They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course.
The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.
They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course.
The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.
Boycott Hilton Hotels
January 11, 2026 at 11:59 PM
On the phone with them right now.
You can host the armed goons terrorizing our families, or you can host us.
You can host the armed goons terrorizing our families, or you can host us.
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In this clip from a longer interview, she says while she was in detention, agents called Renee Good a “lesbian b*tch.”
This video belongs to @statuscoupnews.bsky.social and I’ll take it down if they want me to.
2/2
This video belongs to @statuscoupnews.bsky.social and I’ll take it down if they want me to.
2/2
January 12, 2026 at 2:46 AM
In this clip from a longer interview, she says while she was in detention, agents called Renee Good a “lesbian b*tch.”
This video belongs to @statuscoupnews.bsky.social and I’ll take it down if they want me to.
2/2
This video belongs to @statuscoupnews.bsky.social and I’ll take it down if they want me to.
2/2
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I still can't believe we passed on the chance to have a beautiful, moral, kind, capable, and qualified president, whose goal was to give us nice things, and chose instead an angry, demented, fascist tyrant who lies constantly, and wants to keep all the nice things for himself and his cronies.
Flashback Kamala Harris: “Donald Trump intends to use the United States Military against American citizens who simply disagree with him.”
January 12, 2026 at 3:10 AM
I still can't believe we passed on the chance to have a beautiful, moral, kind, capable, and qualified president, whose goal was to give us nice things, and chose instead an angry, demented, fascist tyrant who lies constantly, and wants to keep all the nice things for himself and his cronies.
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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.
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 3:24 PM
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.
I need y’all to realize this. Black people experience this lack of visibility all the time when it comes to being victims.
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What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
January 12, 2026 at 1:44 AM
What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
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Congratulations to all the bankers, hedge-fund managers, private-equity honchos, tech titans, corporate executives and op-ed writers for backing the man who will do more to undermine the system that made them insanely wealthy than any other presidential candidate in their lifetimes.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the US central bank had been served grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department threatening a criminal indictment, a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks on the Fed.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Fed Served With DOJ Subpoenas, Powell Vows to Stand Firm
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the US central bank had been served grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department threatening a criminal indictment, a dramatic escalation of the Trump admi...
www.bloomberg.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Congratulations to all the bankers, hedge-fund managers, private-equity honchos, tech titans, corporate executives and op-ed writers for backing the man who will do more to undermine the system that made them insanely wealthy than any other presidential candidate in their lifetimes.
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Racism is a helluva drug. They learned nothing from the end of slavery?
Congratulations to all the bankers, hedge-fund managers, private-equity honchos, tech titans, corporate executives and op-ed writers for backing the man who will do more to undermine the system that made them insanely wealthy than any other presidential candidate in their lifetimes.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the US central bank had been served grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department threatening a criminal indictment, a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks on the Fed.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
January 12, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Racism is a helluva drug. They learned nothing from the end of slavery?
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If you want to support the citizen witnesses of MN - those tracking ICE, blowing whistles, recording, & by being present preventing violence
our Rochester MN chapter needs more support.
@50501movement.bsky.social
@copalmn.bsky.social
#Minnesota #IceWatch #copal
our Rochester MN chapter needs more support.
@50501movement.bsky.social
@copalmn.bsky.social
#Minnesota #IceWatch #copal
Donate — MN50501 - Rochester
www.mn50501rochester.org
January 12, 2026 at 2:10 AM
If you want to support the citizen witnesses of MN - those tracking ICE, blowing whistles, recording, & by being present preventing violence
our Rochester MN chapter needs more support.
@50501movement.bsky.social
@copalmn.bsky.social
#Minnesota #IceWatch #copal
our Rochester MN chapter needs more support.
@50501movement.bsky.social
@copalmn.bsky.social
#Minnesota #IceWatch #copal
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Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
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Not sure but ICE might have killed someone else just now
January 11, 2026 at 11:10 PM
Not sure but ICE might have killed someone else just now
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I hope this person is okay but the video is horrifying beyond belief - not gory, just the violence of the scene.
WHY IS THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT DOING THIS TO MY CITY
WHY IS THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT DOING THIS TO MY CITY
January 12, 2026 at 12:11 AM
I hope this person is okay but the video is horrifying beyond belief - not gory, just the violence of the scene.
WHY IS THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT DOING THIS TO MY CITY
WHY IS THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT DOING THIS TO MY CITY
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It's worth your time to call Hilton to cancel your account with them. 1-800-446-6677. Here's why:
They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course.
The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.
They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course.
The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.
Boycott Hilton Hotels
January 11, 2026 at 11:42 PM
It's worth your time to call Hilton to cancel your account with them. 1-800-446-6677. Here's why:
They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course.
The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.
They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course.
The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.
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Once again, here's the actual men in women's bathrooms, ICE agents.
www.rawstory.com/ice-26748732...
www.rawstory.com/ice-26748732...
Shocking video appears to show ICE agent 'accompanying female detainee into porta-potty'
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is demanding answers after the release of a shocking video that appears to show a federal immigration agent “accompanying a female detainee into a porta-potty” in Minnesota.Publ...
www.rawstory.com
January 11, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Once again, here's the actual men in women's bathrooms, ICE agents.
www.rawstory.com/ice-26748732...
www.rawstory.com/ice-26748732...
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This is well worth a watch, not just because you can see someone who was on the sidelines quickly become involved and engaged, but because it's another reminder that no one wants these fucking goons in their community.
Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
From the minnesota community on Reddit: ST. PAUL, MN: A sobbing resident calls 911 as federal agents force their way into her home to chase down a DoorDash driver who was just trying to deliver food.
Explore this post and more from the minnesota community
www.reddit.com
January 11, 2026 at 11:47 PM
This is well worth a watch, not just because you can see someone who was on the sidelines quickly become involved and engaged, but because it's another reminder that no one wants these fucking goons in their community.
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Oh my! This is karma at its best & snarkiest.
I just found out last night that the $50k enrollment bonus only pays out after 5 years of service, and reader, the laugh I let out when I read that woke the dog from across the house. These absolute fucking grapes aren't seeing a dime of that money. No way they can ride out 5 years of this job.
ICE recruitment is going well.
January 11, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Oh my! This is karma at its best & snarkiest.