@artish-heathen.bsky.social
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"I begged my wife for the last two months to stop calling me flaccid. That kind of rhetoric needed to stop. I said to her in March--if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be a black eye. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anyone with a black eye. But I warned her."
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 30, 2026 at 12:03 AM
"I begged my wife for the last two months to stop calling me flaccid. That kind of rhetoric needed to stop. I said to her in March--if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be a black eye. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anyone with a black eye. But I warned her."
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I know this sounded far afield when I started writing about it in 2024, but the Network State idea is everywhere you look in this era of tech oligarch power. To understand their goal, you have to understand the idea.
January 30, 2026 at 2:10 AM
I know this sounded far afield when I started writing about it in 2024, but the Network State idea is everywhere you look in this era of tech oligarch power. To understand their goal, you have to understand the idea.
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Wow, someone was allowed to mention the Network State in the New York Times opinion section. I believe this is a first.
Trump Is Not a Nationalist. He’s Something Worse.
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
Trump Is Not a Nationalist. He’s Something Worse.
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
January 30, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Wow, someone was allowed to mention the Network State in the New York Times opinion section. I believe this is a first.
Trump Is Not a Nationalist. He’s Something Worse.
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
Trump Is Not a Nationalist. He’s Something Worse.
gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...
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This is a very powerful video from comedian Josh Johnson. Not just because what he says that's meaningful. But because it shows an emerging trend that high profile people have finally started speaking up, despite concerns it might alienate their followers.
It is time to choose sides.
It is time to choose sides.
January 29, 2026 at 5:16 PM
This is a very powerful video from comedian Josh Johnson. Not just because what he says that's meaningful. But because it shows an emerging trend that high profile people have finally started speaking up, despite concerns it might alienate their followers.
It is time to choose sides.
It is time to choose sides.
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@sandibachom.bsky.social is one of the best and most honest film journalists I've ever seen. I have followed her for years...first on Twitter...then X...now here. She has sacrificed so much and risked her personal safety to bring us the facts.
Thank you Sandi!
Thank you Sandi!
January 28, 2026 at 10:43 PM
@sandibachom.bsky.social is one of the best and most honest film journalists I've ever seen. I have followed her for years...first on Twitter...then X...now here. She has sacrificed so much and risked her personal safety to bring us the facts.
Thank you Sandi!
Thank you Sandi!
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The date for the next No Kings Day is set.
But this is a save the date, not a “sit back and wait.” 🧵
But this is a save the date, not a “sit back and wait.” 🧵
January 28, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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This is incredible. Sound up.
January 28, 2026 at 9:03 PM
This is incredible. Sound up.
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this quotation comes to a satisfying conclusion
NEW from @justinrohrlich.bsky.social:
“I’m not surprised this happened,” Ilhan Omar attacker Anthony Kazmierczak’s brother said. “Not at all. Unfortunately, he and my mother are both right-wing extremists.”
"In my mind, he’s a piece of s**t," he added.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
“I’m not surprised this happened,” Ilhan Omar attacker Anthony Kazmierczak’s brother said. “Not at all. Unfortunately, he and my mother are both right-wing extremists.”
"In my mind, he’s a piece of s**t," he added.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Brother calls Ilhan Omar suspect ‘right-wing extremist,’ has hated Somalis for years
Exclusive: ‘In my mind, he’s a piece of s**t,’ Anthony Kazmierczak’s brother told The Independent
www.independent.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 7:31 PM
this quotation comes to a satisfying conclusion
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
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Another legendary performance at the Kennedy Center. Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, honoring Carole King with ‘Natural Woman’.
January 28, 2026 at 3:52 AM
Another legendary performance at the Kennedy Center. Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, honoring Carole King with ‘Natural Woman’.
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More TikTok shenanigans — users are reporting the word “Epstein” won’t go through in Direct messages 🤔
January 27, 2026 at 3:48 AM
More TikTok shenanigans — users are reporting the word “Epstein” won’t go through in Direct messages 🤔
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🔥 Tennessee’s own sheryl crow bringing it
January 25, 2026 at 5:23 AM
🔥 Tennessee’s own sheryl crow bringing it
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Walz: "We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody is gonna write that children's story about Minnesota."
January 25, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Walz: "We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody is gonna write that children's story about Minnesota."
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Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.
January 25, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.
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Read every word.
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
January 25, 2026 at 1:30 AM
Read every word.
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Thanks Simon for this important piece!
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-courag...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-courag...
The Courage Of The People Of Minnesota Is Lifting Up And Inspiring A Nation
Watch now | For those in the path of the storm - stay safe all!
www.hopiumchronicles.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:28 AM
Thanks Simon for this important piece!
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-courag...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-courag...
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For no particular reason, thinking about the WSJ writing an entire editorial in 2017 denouncing me for saying Trump posed an authoritarian threat www.wsj.com/articles/so-...
(To their credit, they now frequently speak out against Trump, though rarely acknowledging the full scope of the threat.)
(To their credit, they now frequently speak out against Trump, though rarely acknowledging the full scope of the threat.)
January 25, 2026 at 2:42 PM
For no particular reason, thinking about the WSJ writing an entire editorial in 2017 denouncing me for saying Trump posed an authoritarian threat www.wsj.com/articles/so-...
(To their credit, they now frequently speak out against Trump, though rarely acknowledging the full scope of the threat.)
(To their credit, they now frequently speak out against Trump, though rarely acknowledging the full scope of the threat.)
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"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."
January 24, 2026 at 9:14 PM
"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."
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Protesters in Los Angeles projected an anti-ICE video onto the Twin Towers, an ICE-linked detention facility where the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department actively collaborates with ICE for deportation screenings.
January 25, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Protesters in Los Angeles projected an anti-ICE video onto the Twin Towers, an ICE-linked detention facility where the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department actively collaborates with ICE for deportation screenings.
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M. Gessen, gift link: The soviet secret police too "were ruled by quotas... Fundamentally, the terror was random. That is, in fact, how state terror works. The randomness is the difference between a regime based on terror and a regime that is plainly repressive"
Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:55 PM
M. Gessen, gift link: The soviet secret police too "were ruled by quotas... Fundamentally, the terror was random. That is, in fact, how state terror works. The randomness is the difference between a regime based on terror and a regime that is plainly repressive"
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This is Alex Pretti.
January 25, 2026 at 2:24 AM
This is Alex Pretti.
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Why are they still on the job? The Nazis gotta Nazi policy?
January 25, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Why are they still on the job? The Nazis gotta Nazi policy?
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Before joining the Veterans Administration, Alex Pretti did medical research to help treat cancer. His work is published in medical journals.
January 25, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Before joining the Veterans Administration, Alex Pretti did medical research to help treat cancer. His work is published in medical journals.
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Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
January 24, 2026 at 6:26 PM
Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.
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The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...
January 24, 2026 at 6:19 PM
The way to reconcile this is their aspiration was always to put down a slave revolt, not fight in one. bsky.app/profile/osit...