Colleen Torkelson
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Bruce Springsteen: “If you stand against heavily armed federal troops using Gestapo tactics in an American city and believe you shouldn’t be killed for exercising your right to protest, send a message to this president — ICE should get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
January 19, 2026 at 1:37 AM
Bruce Springsteen: “If you stand against heavily armed federal troops using Gestapo tactics in an American city and believe you shouldn’t be killed for exercising your right to protest, send a message to this president — ICE should get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
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Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder.
" Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..."
www.al.com/news/2026/01...
" Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..."
www.al.com/news/2026/01...
Alabama uses Japanese American Internment era law to charge immigrants who don’t self-register
Alabama is finding new ways to criminally charge undocumented immigrants
www.al.com
January 18, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder.
" Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..."
www.al.com/news/2026/01...
" Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..."
www.al.com/news/2026/01...
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January 17, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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It really is staggering to see so many people willing to toss aside our 249 year experiment in democracy for an increasingly erratic,visibly unraveling, criminally convicted reality show charlatan. And yet, here we are.
January 13, 2026 at 2:06 AM
It really is staggering to see so many people willing to toss aside our 249 year experiment in democracy for an increasingly erratic,visibly unraveling, criminally convicted reality show charlatan. And yet, here we are.
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Must be a coincidence that they keep ripping off Nazi phrases
January 11, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Must be a coincidence that they keep ripping off Nazi phrases
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whats missing from all the coverage is that the president is using the military to harass, brutalize and punish areas of the country that didnt vote for him
January 10, 2026 at 2:37 PM
whats missing from all the coverage is that the president is using the military to harass, brutalize and punish areas of the country that didnt vote for him
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Crockett: "Everyone wants to talk about how Maduro was illegitimate. As we sit here on January 6, I do want to be clear: somebody else was trying to be a Maduro of the United States. Somebody else wanted to do the exact same thing. The difference is Maduro was successful."
January 6, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Crockett: "Everyone wants to talk about how Maduro was illegitimate. As we sit here on January 6, I do want to be clear: somebody else was trying to be a Maduro of the United States. Somebody else wanted to do the exact same thing. The difference is Maduro was successful."
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At least 33 January 6 defendants who were pardoned by President Trump have since been charged, arrested or convicted of new crimes, according to Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee who released two new reports Tuesday on the fifth anniversary of the insurrection.
January 6, 2026 at 8:03 PM
At least 33 January 6 defendants who were pardoned by President Trump have since been charged, arrested or convicted of new crimes, according to Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee who released two new reports Tuesday on the fifth anniversary of the insurrection.
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Never forget. 🇺🇸
January 6, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Never forget. 🇺🇸
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No, it was a successful coup. None of the people who led it were punished, and are in fact back in power, rewarded for their efforts to break the system by running it. Donald Trump is currently the dictator he attempted to become 5 years ago, and it’s because nobody treated trying as a crime.
We must speak plainly: January 6th was an attempted coup. It was an effort to nullify millions of lawful votes and subvert the will of the American people.
January 6, 2026 at 6:26 PM
No, it was a successful coup. None of the people who led it were punished, and are in fact back in power, rewarded for their efforts to break the system by running it. Donald Trump is currently the dictator he attempted to become 5 years ago, and it’s because nobody treated trying as a crime.
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"We’ve never left the January 6 era. But what’s most staggering is how many people would prefer to pretend we never entered it in the first place...a large faction of more grudging GOP supporters, for whom the Capitol insurrection is an unpleasant memory repressed."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
January 6th and the Never-Ending Coup
Trump’s insurrection could happen again.
open.substack.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:35 PM
"We’ve never left the January 6 era. But what’s most staggering is how many people would prefer to pretend we never entered it in the first place...a large faction of more grudging GOP supporters, for whom the Capitol insurrection is an unpleasant memory repressed."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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In a nutshell.
January 4, 2026 at 9:15 AM
In a nutshell.
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A US president uses his for-profit (but money losing) social media site to announce a military strike against a foreign sovereign nation and the seizure by military force of a foreign government leader. Says a lot about where things are at in the US in 2026.
January 3, 2026 at 10:22 AM
A US president uses his for-profit (but money losing) social media site to announce a military strike against a foreign sovereign nation and the seizure by military force of a foreign government leader. Says a lot about where things are at in the US in 2026.
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Rest in peace, Rob Reiner.
December 15, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Rest in peace, Rob Reiner.
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Sounds about right.
December 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Sounds about right.
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Trump rages that Henry Cuellar didn’t pay him back for a pardon by switching parties, blasting Cuellar for a “lack of LOYALTY.”
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
December 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Trump rages that Henry Cuellar didn’t pay him back for a pardon by switching parties, blasting Cuellar for a “lack of LOYALTY.”
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
In other words, Trump admits he was trying to use his pardon power to buy Republicans a House seat.
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This is stunningly good reporting by two bylined reporters and six credited researchers, and it's undermined throughout by links to an "Ask the Post AI" that delivers insipid answers to its own contrived prompts under the guise of "More context on this article"
December 2, 2025 at 2:56 AM
This is stunningly good reporting by two bylined reporters and six credited researchers, and it's undermined throughout by links to an "Ask the Post AI" that delivers insipid answers to its own contrived prompts under the guise of "More context on this article"
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I’m not an expert in the law of war, but an order to kill injured people who were not posing a single threat to anyone would seem to me to be a possible war crime.
November 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I’m not an expert in the law of war, but an order to kill injured people who were not posing a single threat to anyone would seem to me to be a possible war crime.
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We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
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This dog ain’t gonna wag itself.
Scoop: Military officials on Weds presented Trump with updated options for potential operations in Venezuela, including land strikes, per sources. Hegseth, Caine at White House yday afternoon for briefings. No final decision made, two of the sources told @cbsnews.com
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-v...
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-v...
Top officials present Trump with military options for Venezuela in the coming days
The potential operations for Venezuela presented to Trump included options for strikes on land, multiple sources said.
www.cbsnews.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This dog ain’t gonna wag itself.
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For the remarkable number of folks in excellent law firms, corporate suites, non-legal academia who still aren't really sure "where we are" country-wise, I'm just not sure how much clearer he can be. Countries in which opponents of the government can "never obtain power" are not democracies.
Trump: "They're gonna make DC a state and they're gonna make Puerto Rico a state. So now they pick up two states, four senators. They're gonna pick up electoral votes. It's gonna be a very, very bad situation. Now, if we do what I'm saying, they'll most likely never obtain power."
November 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
For the remarkable number of folks in excellent law firms, corporate suites, non-legal academia who still aren't really sure "where we are" country-wise, I'm just not sure how much clearer he can be. Countries in which opponents of the government can "never obtain power" are not democracies.