Federalist OSX
LightNews LightNews
federalistosx.bsky.social
Federalist OSX
@federalistosx.bsky.social
82 followers 70 following 440 posts
Grizzled veteran of government, proponent of humanism and humility in policy and politics, defender of American democracy. Always striving for a more perfect Union. And NYC 🗽
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
federalistosx.bsky.social
Federalist OSX @federalistosx.bsky.social · 9d
Justice for Good 💜 🇺🇸
federalistosx.bsky.social
You Know You Are a Rogue Administration When

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...
Top Catholic Clerics Denounce U.S. Foreign Policy
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 5:23 PM
Reposted by Federalist OSX
cingraham.bsky.social
😚👌
Lengthy Twitter exchange that ends with John Ganz calling Richard Hanania a total piece of shit
January 18, 2026 at 4:34 PM
federalistosx.bsky.social
Essential reading from @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social
mollyjongfast.bsky.social Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d
I spend a lot of time, thinking about all of the reforms that will be necessary when this regime ends

This from @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social is very smart

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...
Opinion | An Old Theory Helps Explain What Happened to Renee Good
www.nytimes.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:05 PM
federalistosx.bsky.social
Can and must
billkristolbulwark.bsky.social Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 3d
Congress can stop ICE. Congress can block the use of force in Greenland. In other words, in this crisis, Congress can act to support civil liberties at home and free nations abroad. To fail to act would be to be complicit in a dreadful outcome.
January 18, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Reposted by Federalist OSX
ositanwanevu.com
Apropos of nothing, let's check in with how things are going at Bari Weiss's free speech university. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Most people didn’t think much of it when the university dean, Ben Crocker, called a student named Dan into his office on Monday, Sept. 9, the first day of classes. But at 7:44 in the evening, they received an email from three administrators saying that Dan had been removed from campus, “transported to his home out of state,” and barred from further access to the university. The nature of the allegations concerned, at their core, a pair of charged statements Dan allegedly made that would be familiar to any Title IX officer. The first was a general statement implying that UATX girls carried themselves physically in a way that invited sexual assault. The second was a suggestion to a specific female student that she had carried herself in a way that invited sexual assault. Dan had already been the subject of some negative attention on campus because of provocative statements he’d made in a UATX-based Discord “introductions” chat. These included a challenge — “If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I’ll kill you” — which was a reference to the 1981 movie “Stripes” and likely misunderstood by fellow students. In another exchange, a discussion of transgender issues, Dan expressed reservations about hormone treatment and said that he couldn’t wait “to play devil’s advocate for legalizing pedophilia.” Between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m., Crocker visited the dorms, where he hosted a meeting on the roof to discuss the issue with students. Crocker’s message was that Dan’s conduct had been evaluated to be a “credible threat” — a phrase that would be repeated by the administration many times over the following days. Crocker then faced what one student attendee recalled as a “firing squad” of questions. Some students said that Dan had seemed off, but others saw his hasty removal as an example of the very cancel culture to which UATX was supposed to be the antithesis. Several students noted a lack of diversity. Consistent with its emphasis on “merit-based admissions,” UATX doesn’t publish demographic data. The students with whom I spoke said their classmates — and the college’s leadership — were overwhelmingly white, disproportionately came from wealthy families and had an overrepresentation of apparent neurodivergence. They found ideological diversity to be particularly lacking. “I didn’t realize exactly how conservative it would be,” one current student told me. “You know, when I hear free speech and open debate and all that jazz, I assumed that there was going to be a more equal amount of political views, and there wasn’t.” Classes weren’t as innovative as most students expected. “Year one was exceptionally boring,” the student said. “They did great books, they just didn’t do it in a great way,” said another student, who lamented the amount of memorization required. “I thought we were going to be intensely debating,” he said. Several students shared course syllabi with me. Most are easy enough to imagine being offered on any campus — with the notable exception of math and science. “The math classes go over algebra you learned in ninth grade,” a student told me. “There was just nothing there.” He described the offering as “schizophrenic” and described a class he’d taken at University of Texas at Austin as “exponentially more important.” Indeed, the syllabus I reviewed for a class called “Intellectual Foundations of Science II” covered a range of topics unusual for a science class including “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.” A student who’d taken the course shared a slide with me on “ensoulment” — the principally religious question of when a soul enters the human body — and said that the class had been told that IVF but not abortion could be consistent with the Catholic belief about ensoulment. The poor quality of the science offerings had bothered Heying and Pinker. “Others thought I was the token liberal,” Heying told me, “but I came to understand myself as the token scientist.” In an email, Pinker wrote, “They should have hired a widely esteemed scientist and proven program builder to set up their science division.” Another surprising similarity with other colleges stemmed directly from Dan’s expulsion: The students feared cancellation. “At any moment a frivolous Title IX complaint could be filed against you,” a former student told me. “I’ve never felt my speech was so chilled as it was in the classroom at UATX.” During the many conversations I had reporting this story, two questions came up more than any other. The first: Where was Bari Weiss? Many of the people I interviewed told me about internal conversations and shared internal emails. Weiss, who remains on the board of trustees, was almost never present in the conversations as they were related to me, and while I saw many emails on which Kanelos and Ferguson were copied, I never saw any including Weiss. speaks onstage during an event in New York City, on Nov. 19, 2024. | Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Free Press One person I spoke to, who was present during the early planning stages, told me that Weiss was “very elusive” and almost never present in person. This was ironic since UATX was closely associated with Weiss — a bust of whom now resides in the school library. Weiss, meanwhile, has only risen further during the Trump 2.0 era and is now editor-in-chief of CBS News, where she has been criticized as genuflecting to the Trump administration. A spokesperson for CBS News did not respond to a request for comment from Weiss. One former member of the development team told me that they would routinely ask prospective donors how they got to know UATX. “Eighty percent of the time, the answer was Bari Weiss,” they said. “It was very often referred to as Bari Weiss’ University, or Bari Weiss’ University Project, or Bari Weiss’ University of Austin.” For several people, this was a source of resentment. “I don’t care whether she wants to pretend this is all gone now — she is the reason that this place exists. She was huge, she was held in such high regard, she had such an enormous impact,” the former staffer said. “I want her to be held to account,” she added. “I’m pissed.”
January 16, 2026 at 4:40 PM
federalistosx.bsky.social
Attn: “Sí - BS News”
muellershewrote.com Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 4d
NEW: Jonathan Ross, the ICE thug who murdered Renee Good, was NOT TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL according to police reports. He was taken to the Federal Building. He was NOT INJURED. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 16, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Reposted by Federalist OSX
ryanjreilly.com
A former federal agent after watching the New York Times breakdown of the ICE shooting:
I watched it, that actually makes it much worse. He never should have been in front of the SUV. We are trained do not get in front of a vehicle like that, there’s only bad outcomes. Also, his video clearly shows she was not surreptitiously reaching for any objects within the vehicles drivers compartment, so the only defense for the agent would be that she was trying to run him over, which clearly isn’t the case, as emphasized by the fact that his legs were out of the way. The video also shows the SUV was moving so slowly that even in icy conditions he should’ve just moved out of the way. In the department of justice we are prohibited from using deadly force purely to prevent escape. Bad shoot all around
January 16, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Reposted by Federalist OSX
thetnholler.bsky.social
“I will be blind for life. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, plastic in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.”

Kaden Rummler was shot in the face by Trump’s ICE goons, then dragged
January 15, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Reposted by Federalist OSX
joshtpm.bsky.social
This is hilarious and I applaud the hilarity. Let’s be honest. Probably best just close CBS News down now before it gets more embarrassing.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 5d
“Huge internal concern” among CBS staff over that “internal bleeding” story.

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
The network’s top editor, Bari Weiss, expressed a high level of interest in the story on an editorial call Wednesday morning, according to staffers who listened. “There was big internal dissension about the ‘internal bleeding’ report here last night,” the CBS News staffer, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said . “It was viewed as a thinly-veiled, anonymous leak by [the Trump administration] to someone who’d carry it online.” “Felt to many here like we were carrying water for the admin’s justifying of the shooting to keep our access to our sources,” said a second network staffer, who was also not authorized to comment. In a statement, a CBS News sp
January 16, 2026 at 3:25 AM
federalistosx.bsky.social
Now if it had a grenade inside this would be good screenwriting
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 5d
María Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, said she would to hand her 2025 Nobel Peace Prize award to President Trump — an extraordinary bid to win his sympathies that has sparked sharp reaction from the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Machado’s Nobel gamble: A peace offering to win over a wary Trump
The Venezuelan opposition leader said she would hand her 2025 award to the president, an extraordinary move to regain his favor as he warms to the remnants of the Maduro regime.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Reposted by Federalist OSX
thetnholler.bsky.social
“They chased him, he got home and when we closed the door they shot him.”

MN orgs/electeds say👇🏽this is the family calling the police with ICE outside, after a man was shot in the leg with a pregnant woman & child inside

Different than DHS’ shovel story: www.instagram.com/reel/DThEdD8...
January 15, 2026 at 4:50 AM
federalistosx.bsky.social
Dum people using AI are still dum
thedailybeast.bsky.social The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 5d
Kristi Noem’s frantic ICE hiring push resulted in applicants with no experience bypassing crucial training before being sent into the field due to a humiliating tech glitch.
ICE Barbie’s Recruitment Blitz Hit by Embarrassing Tech Error
Applicants with no experience were able to skip vital training if they just said they really wanted to be an “officer.”
trib.al
January 15, 2026 at 12:47 PM
federalistosx.bsky.social
Don’t turn your eyes away from occupied Minneapolis 💜

www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
Video: What Our Photographer Saw in Minneapolis
David Guttenfelder, a visual journalist for The New York Times, was at the scene in Minneapolis immediately after an ICE agent killed a 37-year-old woman in her vehicle. He walks us through the photos...
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:55 AM
Reposted by Federalist OSX
eviebauer727.bsky.social
A veteran goes off.

“I've bled for this country, I've fought for this country—they're disgracing this fucking country and what it fucking means!“
January 14, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Reposted by Federalist OSX
dell.bsky.social
BREAKING: Hundreds of sensitive U.S. records obtained by WIRED undercut the Trump administration’s claims portraying Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua as a unified terrorist force invading the country. Intelligence agencies spent much of 2025 unsure TdA even functioned as an organization on U.S. soil.
Trump Warned of a Tren de Aragua ‘Invasion.’ US Intel Told a Different Story
Hundreds of records obtained by WIRED show thin intelligence on the Venezuelan gang in the United States, describing fragmented, low-level crime rather than a coordinated terrorist threat.
www.wired.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Reposted by Federalist OSX
thetnholler.bsky.social
JUST NOW from @statuscoupnews.bsky.social — ICE attacking protestors after shooting someone else.

Minneapolis has been invaded.
January 15, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Reposted by Federalist OSX
aedwardslevy.bsky.social
New CNN polling:

Most Americans see an immigration officer’s fatal shooting of Renee Good as an inappropriate use of force. Roughly half view it as a sign of broader issues with the way ICE is operating, w/under 1/3 saying that ICE operations have made cities safer.

www.cnn.com/2026/01/14/p...
Bar charts showing that most Americans call the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis an inappropriate use of force and roughly half that ICE enforcement action is making cities less safe. Views are sharply divided along partisan lines, but with Democratic-aligned adults more united in opposition to ICE than Republican-aligned adults are in support.
January 14, 2026 at 5:05 PM
federalistosx.bsky.social
“Don’t trust us … we don’t know what we’re doing”
thetnholler.bsky.social The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 9d
NOEM: “We can’t trust the government anymore.”
BASH: “You are the government.”
NOEM: “Yes, that’s what I’m saying.”🤔

The only honest thing @KristiNoem said today
January 12, 2026 at 12:52 PM
Reposted by Federalist OSX
thetnholler.bsky.social
NOEM: “We can’t trust the government anymore.”
BASH: “You are the government.”
NOEM: “Yes, that’s what I’m saying.”🤔

The only honest thing @KristiNoem said today
January 11, 2026 at 10:04 PM
federalistosx.bsky.social
Justice for Good 💜 🇺🇸
January 11, 2026 at 1:36 PM
federalistosx.bsky.social
I know there’s a lot going on but we need to SAVE MINNESOTA FROM PARAMILITARY OCCUPATION right now, people
January 11, 2026 at 11:59 AM
federalistosx.bsky.social
I used to agree with this premise but then the worst people in America took charge with the specific purpose of destroying our Democratic republic, so let’s also perhaps be mindful of this
theatlantic.com The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 9d
America has become a red-tape state with an almost pathological aversion to giving officials the authority to do their jobs, Philip K. Howard argues. “For America to function, we need to put people in charge again.”
Put Humans in Charge Again
For America to function, we need to let officials use their judgment.
bit.ly
January 11, 2026 at 11:57 AM
federalistosx.bsky.social
Ok, @nytimes, step it up. this isn’t actually that hard. You can’t cover Trump threatening military action if Iran kills protestors and Trump killing American protestors SEPARATELY
January 11, 2026 at 11:46 AM
federalistosx.bsky.social
So I guess there’s no one out there who still thinks Minnesota is a swing state
January 10, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Reposted by Federalist OSX
philabcoulter.bsky.social
Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.
January 9, 2026 at 1:50 AM