A Despondent Guy
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More from Tel Aviv this evening🧵
Credit: Marcelo Sznaidman
Credit: Marcelo Sznaidman
January 10, 2026 at 10:16 PM
More from Tel Aviv this evening🧵
Credit: Marcelo Sznaidman
Credit: Marcelo Sznaidman
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"A medic at one Tehran hospital said there were "direct shots to the heads of the young people, to their hearts as well", while a doctor said an eye hospital in the capital had gone into crisis mode"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Iran medics describe hospitals overwhelmed with dead and injured protesters
Hundreds of people are believed to have been killed and injured by the security forces, with more than 70 bodies brought to one hospital.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 10, 2026 at 10:05 PM
"A medic at one Tehran hospital said there were "direct shots to the heads of the young people, to their hearts as well", while a doctor said an eye hospital in the capital had gone into crisis mode"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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January 10, 2026 at 5:34 PM
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BREAKING: The Hennepin County District Attorney's office says they have jurisdiction to charge the ICE agent involved in the fatal Minneapolis shooting.
January 8, 2026 at 8:58 PM
BREAKING: The Hennepin County District Attorney's office says they have jurisdiction to charge the ICE agent involved in the fatal Minneapolis shooting.
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A US citizen has apparently been shot by ICE agents in Minneapolis. I’m gathering information, but the situation on the ground is volatile.
ICE should leave now for everyone’s safety.
ICE should leave now for everyone’s safety.
January 7, 2026 at 5:25 PM
A US citizen has apparently been shot by ICE agents in Minneapolis. I’m gathering information, but the situation on the ground is volatile.
ICE should leave now for everyone’s safety.
ICE should leave now for everyone’s safety.
We found the super predators.
“Dominant predator force” meant as a positive is kind of all you need to know about these sick freaks.
Ogles: "It's important that we have a stake in Greenland, that they are quite frankly a protectorate of the US. They've been in relationship with Denmark - that needs to end. We've spilled more blood protecting Greenland than the Danes... we are the dominant predator force in the Western Hemisphere"
January 7, 2026 at 5:26 PM
We found the super predators.
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Venezuelan independent media group Runrun.es has reported 55 identified dead in US attacks: 23 Venezuelan soldiers, 2 civilian women, and 32 Cubans
January 6, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Venezuelan independent media group Runrun.es has reported 55 identified dead in US attacks: 23 Venezuelan soldiers, 2 civilian women, and 32 Cubans
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Oh dear. Another day, another American insisting that British Asians aren’t British. It’s literally only about three months since the last one of these.
London is considered one of the best cities for *foreign, imported/colonized* food.
Try getting anything resembling that in rural Northern England or Wales.
Try getting anything resembling that in rural Northern England or Wales.
January 6, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Oh dear. Another day, another American insisting that British Asians aren’t British. It’s literally only about three months since the last one of these.
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Because that’s what it is. Someone had to knowingly spread this false information, because the articles about these stories aren’t hiding these facts. In fact most articles about the CPB don’t even mention PBS in the headline.
I won’t lie, accurate info is hard to come by.
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I won’t lie, accurate info is hard to come by.
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January 6, 2026 at 8:48 PM
Because that’s what it is. Someone had to knowingly spread this false information, because the articles about these stories aren’t hiding these facts. In fact most articles about the CPB don’t even mention PBS in the headline.
I won’t lie, accurate info is hard to come by.
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I won’t lie, accurate info is hard to come by.
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OMG DID YOU HEAR??? MTV and PBS shut down!!!!!
If you are on any social media, I’m very confident that you heard at least one of these in the last three days.
They’re both false.
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If you are on any social media, I’m very confident that you heard at least one of these in the last three days.
They’re both false.
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January 6, 2026 at 8:48 PM
OMG DID YOU HEAR??? MTV and PBS shut down!!!!!
If you are on any social media, I’m very confident that you heard at least one of these in the last three days.
They’re both false.
1/
If you are on any social media, I’m very confident that you heard at least one of these in the last three days.
They’re both false.
1/
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Back in February 2025, while others were still marketing Trump as a proponent of "American restraint," I wrote this. It's worth remembering who told you the truth about reality and who didn't! www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
January 6, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Back in February 2025, while others were still marketing Trump as a proponent of "American restraint," I wrote this. It's worth remembering who told you the truth about reality and who didn't! www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
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I am genuinely at a loss for a precedent here. Very, very few states in history ever enjoyed the success of the USA even on a regional level and I just can’t think of any of them dynamiting it all for absolutely no gain
January 6, 2026 at 12:37 AM
I am genuinely at a loss for a precedent here. Very, very few states in history ever enjoyed the success of the USA even on a regional level and I just can’t think of any of them dynamiting it all for absolutely no gain
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It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason
January 6, 2026 at 12:35 AM
It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason
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I’m not quite here yet but I’m close
Those of you who used Twitter from very early on may recall that it had gotten a lot more unpleasant even pre-Elon; I personally would say during the 2016 election cycle, but certainly by COVID
That’s what it increasingly feels like here
Those of you who used Twitter from very early on may recall that it had gotten a lot more unpleasant even pre-Elon; I personally would say during the 2016 election cycle, but certainly by COVID
That’s what it increasingly feels like here
January 5, 2026 at 8:22 PM
I’m not quite here yet but I’m close
Those of you who used Twitter from very early on may recall that it had gotten a lot more unpleasant even pre-Elon; I personally would say during the 2016 election cycle, but certainly by COVID
That’s what it increasingly feels like here
Those of you who used Twitter from very early on may recall that it had gotten a lot more unpleasant even pre-Elon; I personally would say during the 2016 election cycle, but certainly by COVID
That’s what it increasingly feels like here
Also, it is just insane, an actual mental illness, the way this site just use any event to hyperfixate on Democratic messaging. Shit does not matter, but it'll take up all the oxygen in the room. Literally the most popular topic here.
January 4, 2026 at 3:24 AM
Also, it is just insane, an actual mental illness, the way this site just use any event to hyperfixate on Democratic messaging. Shit does not matter, but it'll take up all the oxygen in the room. Literally the most popular topic here.
The impeachment thing bothers me more and more.
It failed twice, and it made no one happy. People on this platform routinely forget it happened.
On a platform full of people who sneer at "strongly worded letters", everyone is obsessed with the most strongly worded letrer possible.
It failed twice, and it made no one happy. People on this platform routinely forget it happened.
On a platform full of people who sneer at "strongly worded letters", everyone is obsessed with the most strongly worded letrer possible.
January 4, 2026 at 3:17 AM
The impeachment thing bothers me more and more.
It failed twice, and it made no one happy. People on this platform routinely forget it happened.
On a platform full of people who sneer at "strongly worded letters", everyone is obsessed with the most strongly worded letrer possible.
It failed twice, and it made no one happy. People on this platform routinely forget it happened.
On a platform full of people who sneer at "strongly worded letters", everyone is obsessed with the most strongly worded letrer possible.
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A concept I've been meaning to float to make sense of what's happened to the US Constitution is an idea from the British constitutional tradition: "implied repeal."
It's useful because it helps us to understand that Article I, & much else of the US Constitution, has been implicitly repealed.
It's useful because it helps us to understand that Article I, & much else of the US Constitution, has been implicitly repealed.
January 3, 2026 at 7:35 PM
A concept I've been meaning to float to make sense of what's happened to the US Constitution is an idea from the British constitutional tradition: "implied repeal."
It's useful because it helps us to understand that Article I, & much else of the US Constitution, has been implicitly repealed.
It's useful because it helps us to understand that Article I, & much else of the US Constitution, has been implicitly repealed.
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In the wake of Trump's illegal operation against Venezuela and bizarre and unsupported claims that the US is now running Venezuela, I think the most important thing we can do right now is get mad at Democrats for not opposing it in exactly the right way even though they're clearly opposing it.
January 3, 2026 at 7:01 PM
In the wake of Trump's illegal operation against Venezuela and bizarre and unsupported claims that the US is now running Venezuela, I think the most important thing we can do right now is get mad at Democrats for not opposing it in exactly the right way even though they're clearly opposing it.
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There is no crisis. There is no pressing act of war. None of the usual excuses of Presidential authority to take immediate action are present except "Donald Trump says so."
There is a world where some intervention in Venezuela was legal, but we are in the explicitly ILLEGAL one. That's important!
There is a world where some intervention in Venezuela was legal, but we are in the explicitly ILLEGAL one. That's important!
January 3, 2026 at 6:31 PM
There is no crisis. There is no pressing act of war. None of the usual excuses of Presidential authority to take immediate action are present except "Donald Trump says so."
There is a world where some intervention in Venezuela was legal, but we are in the explicitly ILLEGAL one. That's important!
There is a world where some intervention in Venezuela was legal, but we are in the explicitly ILLEGAL one. That's important!
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Some people are saying it doesn't matter that Maduro is a bad man and a tyrant.
I respectfully disagree. It matters a lot, because even when dealing with very bad men, it is not an excuse to ignore the processes that make society function, and we have to loudly assert this fact.
I respectfully disagree. It matters a lot, because even when dealing with very bad men, it is not an excuse to ignore the processes that make society function, and we have to loudly assert this fact.
January 3, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Some people are saying it doesn't matter that Maduro is a bad man and a tyrant.
I respectfully disagree. It matters a lot, because even when dealing with very bad men, it is not an excuse to ignore the processes that make society function, and we have to loudly assert this fact.
I respectfully disagree. It matters a lot, because even when dealing with very bad men, it is not an excuse to ignore the processes that make society function, and we have to loudly assert this fact.
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My statement on the Trump Administration’s actions in Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 5:23 PM
My statement on the Trump Administration’s actions in Venezuela.
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Sure, but consider the possibility Trump does not in fact know a single thing about the oil market, and the Scheming Viziers (who have their own reasons to want war with Venezuela) are using oil as their way to sell him on this.
January 3, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Sure, but consider the possibility Trump does not in fact know a single thing about the oil market, and the Scheming Viziers (who have their own reasons to want war with Venezuela) are using oil as their way to sell him on this.
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5. I have no respect for Donald Trump. He diminishes everything he touches. But focusing on him right now is like being bitten by your neighbor’s unleashed, unfenced rabid dog and focusing on the dog. If we don’t hold his enablers to account we’re going to keep getting bit.
January 3, 2026 at 2:55 PM
5. I have no respect for Donald Trump. He diminishes everything he touches. But focusing on him right now is like being bitten by your neighbor’s unleashed, unfenced rabid dog and focusing on the dog. If we don’t hold his enablers to account we’re going to keep getting bit.
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In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
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January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.