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This incident alone would have triggered hearings and probably a senior-level resignation in another administration.
This is just insane. It’s only a matter of time before DHS kills another innocent person here.
(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
(clip via MPR and @davidjbier.bsky.social on X)
January 31, 2026 at 8:32 PM
This incident alone would have triggered hearings and probably a senior-level resignation in another administration.
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History shows that democracies unravel when leaders recast their own citizens as enemies. That’s the moment we’re living in. My new TIME essay looks at how the Trump administration’s rhetoric is being used to justify violence, dodge accountability, and weaken the meaning of citizenship.
The Danger of Turning Americans into Enemies
In Minnesota, "Trump has redefined dissent not as a civic act, but as an enemy force," writes Andrew Weinstein.
time.com
January 31, 2026 at 2:44 PM
History shows that democracies unravel when leaders recast their own citizens as enemies. That’s the moment we’re living in. My new TIME essay looks at how the Trump administration’s rhetoric is being used to justify violence, dodge accountability, and weaken the meaning of citizenship.
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Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:
![Not unrelatedly, I am noticing that a lot of--oftentimes even well-intentioned--people are spending time trying to delineate exactly which historical referent best captures what's going on now, as if we have to pick only one. There is the now well-circulated meme that says: no, ICE isn't the Gestapo, it's actually American--it's slave catchers. But this is a kind of odd distinction: the Nazis were themselves influenced by the Americans (if you're curious read the excellent book by James Whitman, _Hitler's American Model_). Nazis came here and studied American legal systems and statutes ... and remarkably a group of "liberal" Nazis decided that they couldn't make German laws as *extreme* as American ones (and this "liberal" group in fact won the day; German laws weren't as extreme as many of ours). Equally, Nazi jurists and theorists like Carl Schmitt were deeply influenced by American notions of manifest destiny. So the Nazi and American contexts were already fused. The idea of foreign/domestic is already quite complex in this context. (And this is before we even speak of the many actual Nazis that existed here and the many people who materially supported Hitler and the regime).
We can complicate this picture more by noting that Nazism itself, even apart from these American influences, wasn't something that sprouted up out of thin air: it, too, had a(n experimental) history. Many of its barbaric practices and aims were developed and tested on colonial and imperial victims (as I have written elsewhere: there is a direct line from Shark Island concentration camp [called frequently simply "Death Island" where the Germans committed genocide against the Herero and Nama people] to the entire Nazi camp system). Thinkers like Hannah Arendt and Aimé Césaire drew our attention to this already in the middle of the last century.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ybkylffhwhn2an2ic2lxh76k/bafkreifucubotcz54scclzmnpxlnv6x5olf2zb6ow5xufzdyqbflhuzcn4@jpeg)
January 30, 2026 at 1:24 AM
Please read this extremely thoughtful & careful post on Tim Walz, Anne Frank, & the US Holocaust Memorial Museum from Martin Shuster, philosopher, Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies, former Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow, & scholar of genocide, the Holocaust, & authoritarianism:
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When truth-tellers are jailed and killers are shielded, you’re not in a democracy—you’re in a regime. That’s where we are.
Why This Moment Demands Our Attention
A look at how political language in the U.S. is shifting toward labeling fellow Americans as “enemies”—and why that shift matters for all of us.
andrewweinstein.substack.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:16 PM
When truth-tellers are jailed and killers are shielded, you’re not in a democracy—you’re in a regime. That’s where we are.
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I'm told that Trump has posted on Truth Social something like forty times in the last twenty minutes—which is a good excuse for me to trot out a reminder about this useful tool:
Hey, political journalists on Bluesky: If you ever need to find a specific Trump Truth Social post—since searching through them is so difficult—one of my colleagues built this comprehensive database a few months ago. *Super* helpful.
trumpstruth.org
trumpstruth.org
Trump's Truth
'Trump's Truth' is a searchable archive of Donald Trump's posts on TRUTH Social.
trumpstruth.org
January 29, 2026 at 2:48 AM
I'm told that Trump has posted on Truth Social something like forty times in the last twenty minutes—which is a good excuse for me to trot out a reminder about this useful tool:
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We could've had a nice planet ...
January 29, 2026 at 3:15 AM
We could've had a nice planet ...
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Trump was hyping Hammer and Scorecard horseshit a week after Election Day. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
January 29, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Trump was hyping Hammer and Scorecard horseshit a week after Election Day. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Amid these dark moments, something important is beginning to shift.
It's clearly the result of healthy political pressure - which we must sustain, and build.
It's clearly the result of healthy political pressure - which we must sustain, and build.
January 27, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Amid these dark moments, something important is beginning to shift.
It's clearly the result of healthy political pressure - which we must sustain, and build.
It's clearly the result of healthy political pressure - which we must sustain, and build.
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This is the grim, depressing reality Donald Trump has made of American life.
Instead of waking up on a Saturday, relaxing and spending time with your loved ones, you now have to watch American towns being ravaged and their citizens being murdered by violent secret police. All because of one man.
Instead of waking up on a Saturday, relaxing and spending time with your loved ones, you now have to watch American towns being ravaged and their citizens being murdered by violent secret police. All because of one man.
January 24, 2026 at 5:17 PM
This is the grim, depressing reality Donald Trump has made of American life.
Instead of waking up on a Saturday, relaxing and spending time with your loved ones, you now have to watch American towns being ravaged and their citizens being murdered by violent secret police. All because of one man.
Instead of waking up on a Saturday, relaxing and spending time with your loved ones, you now have to watch American towns being ravaged and their citizens being murdered by violent secret police. All because of one man.
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"ICE’s failure to pay its bills for months has caused some medical providers to deny services to ICE detainees, an administration source, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press, told Popular Information."
popular.info/p/ice-has-st...
popular.info/p/ice-has-st...
ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
popular.info
January 20, 2026 at 3:01 PM
"ICE’s failure to pay its bills for months has caused some medical providers to deny services to ICE detainees, an administration source, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press, told Popular Information."
popular.info/p/ice-has-st...
popular.info/p/ice-has-st...
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*fiddling with the air conditioning as the car plummets off a mountain*
NEW: In this interview, Chuck Schumer describes the "five buckets" Dems think are key to their possibly winning a Senate majority in 2026: housing, "the high price of food [and] food monopolies playing a major role there," electricity, "the high cost of childcare," and health care.
Zero Chucks Left to Give
Chuck Schumer now sees a path back to the majority. Can he manage his way through it?
www.thebulwark.com
January 19, 2026 at 4:42 AM
*fiddling with the air conditioning as the car plummets off a mountain*
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This is the fucking limit. I had no idea that Amazon drivers AREN'T ALLOWED TO SING
wat
CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
wat
CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
January 18, 2026 at 4:56 PM
This is the fucking limit. I had no idea that Amazon drivers AREN'T ALLOWED TO SING
wat
CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
wat
CRUSH this monopoly wtf my levels were already redlining
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The same guy telling you Portland is war-ravaged, told you Mexico was going to pay for the wall and people were eating your pets in Ohio.
September 27, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The same guy telling you Portland is war-ravaged, told you Mexico was going to pay for the wall and people were eating your pets in Ohio.
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Fact Checker by Glenn Kessler: The White House’s campaign against the Congressional Budget Office is veering into the ridiculous.
What they call a “verifiable fact” is a nonsense fact.
What they call a “verifiable fact” is a nonsense fact.
Analysis | The White House’s disingenuous claim about CBO’s political leanings
What the White House calls a ‘verifiable fact’ is a nonsense fact.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 4, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Fact Checker by Glenn Kessler: The White House’s campaign against the Congressional Budget Office is veering into the ridiculous.
What they call a “verifiable fact” is a nonsense fact.
What they call a “verifiable fact” is a nonsense fact.
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it begins
If there is any doubt that tariffs are passed through to consumers, the cost of propane to heat my house just went up by the amount of the tariff
February 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
it begins
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Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order to consolidate power. The sudden disaster that requires the end of checks and balances, the dissolution of opposition parties, the suspension of freedom #ShieldOfResistance
LESSON 18: Be Calm When The Unthinkable Arrives
YouTube video by Timothy Snyder
youtu.be
December 31, 2024 at 7:46 PM
Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order to consolidate power. The sudden disaster that requires the end of checks and balances, the dissolution of opposition parties, the suspension of freedom #ShieldOfResistance
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I’m sure he wants the history of it all told his way.
December 30, 2024 at 4:48 PM
I’m sure he wants the history of it all told his way.
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Randomly remembered this galaxy brain take
December 14, 2024 at 12:51 AM
Randomly remembered this galaxy brain take
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One reason redners > wegman’s. Redners sues suppliers for price gouging.
www.supermarketnews.com/supplier-new...
www.supermarketnews.com/supplier-new...
Hot potato: Redner’s lawsuit accuses companies of frozen french fry cartel
The employee-owned grocery chain alleges four top producers began price-fixing scheme in 2021
www.supermarketnews.com
November 29, 2024 at 6:41 PM
One reason redners > wegman’s. Redners sues suppliers for price gouging.
www.supermarketnews.com/supplier-new...
www.supermarketnews.com/supplier-new...
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You’d have to think Trump has suddenly started mapping out game theory possibilities on an Ivy League window as opposed to making snap decisions based on the last person he talked to and whatever he think is best for him in the moment. Color me skeptical an old dog learned new tricks.
There’s a narrative that Gaetz was a deliberate head-fake — a distraction to boost the real candidate — but I am always suspicious of narratives that attribute four-dimensional chess to trump as opposed to knocking over the table and eating the checkers.
November 22, 2024 at 3:06 AM
You’d have to think Trump has suddenly started mapping out game theory possibilities on an Ivy League window as opposed to making snap decisions based on the last person he talked to and whatever he think is best for him in the moment. Color me skeptical an old dog learned new tricks.
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“There are only three constants in Gabbard’s political biography: self-promotion; an attraction to quasi-revolutionary movements…coupled with a hostility to the boring, detailed work of governing; and an abiding attraction to murderous authoritarians.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/i-served-w...
www.thebulwark.com/p/i-served-w...
I Served With Tulsi Gabbard and Yikes
She’s no good.
www.thebulwark.com
November 20, 2024 at 1:43 AM
“There are only three constants in Gabbard’s political biography: self-promotion; an attraction to quasi-revolutionary movements…coupled with a hostility to the boring, detailed work of governing; and an abiding attraction to murderous authoritarians.”
www.thebulwark.com/p/i-served-w...
www.thebulwark.com/p/i-served-w...
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