fideschris.bsky.social
@fideschris.bsky.social
Moderate common sensical Canadian
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Do any Republicans in Congress care about Trump grabbing oil from Venezuela, handing it off to his megadonors to sell on the international market to whoever, depositing the proceeds in foreign bank accounts, then spending the money however he sees fit with no input from Congress?
January 16, 2026 at 12:55 PM
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of course
The deal has kick-started the president’s controversial plan to sell up to 50mn barrels of Venezuelan oil, with more sales expected in the ‘coming days and weeks’. ft.trib.al/a2pf6om
January 16, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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January 16, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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Now that Trump got that medal from Machado, he will never meet with her again nor will he help her in Venezuela. He’s getting his oil from the Maduro regime, which is all he cares about. He believes she stole what is rightfully his, and now he’s staring at the medal like Gollum.
January 16, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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Anyone with a shred of class and decency would have politely refused it, so naturally Trump took it.
January 16, 2026 at 12:54 AM
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Germans have a word for just such a moment:

Fremdschaemen

[the feeling of shame on someone else’s behalf; the feeling of shame for someone else who has done sth. embarrassing]
January 15, 2026 at 9:59 PM
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I’d argue it’s the state violence Stephen Miller has always wanted, and he’s feeling very blessed to have a narcissistic president with dementia he can use as a puppet to enact his darkest teenage fantasies
January 15, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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Never forget that without Trump, these are people who would never have been within a million miles of any job that carries serious responsibilities - and they know it.
LEAVITT: Why was Renee Good unfortunately and tragically killed?

REPORTER: Because an ICE agent acted recklessly and killed her unjustifiably

LEAVITT: Oh, ok. So you're a biased reporters with a biased opinion. You're a left-wing hack.
January 15, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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It used to be that victims of murders in the U.S. would be smeared by InfoWars and Gateway Pundit as a way to fetishize guns and violence for ad dollars and supplement sales, with the added benefit of cozying up to far-right politicians. Now that work is done by CBS News.
January 14, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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Always been the goal. They love the chaos and brutality. And especially how scared we are.
January 15, 2026 at 4:53 PM
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🔥 From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social : “This is nuts. What the fuck is going on? I’ve never protested in my life… they tell you it’s immigrants — it’s fucking anybody. They’re just trying to scare people. I’m not paid to be here. I have to work in the morning. This is wrong.”
January 15, 2026 at 1:59 PM
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Donald Trump is a criminal who should be in jail and not the White House. ICE is a band of lawless goons who shouldn't be allowed to carry guns or badges. And the citizens who peacefully protest the Administration's violence against our nation are the true patriots.
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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My husband was on the 2 train and a guy started braying about how Renee Good deserved to die and her "lesbian lover" did too. My husband got pissed and said, "You're absolutely disgusting." "Fuck you!" the guy said. "Fuck YOU!" my husband said. The guy left.

See? We just need to talk to each other.
January 14, 2026 at 11:46 PM
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EXACTLY
January 15, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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Trump setting up off shore accounts to facilitate his corruption.
Seizure ... by whom? If we're asserting that the money is safer in Qatar than the US, that suggests that it is being protected because Qatar has something the US lacks — presumably a lack of accountability to American courts and Congress. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
January 14, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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Here's a hot take I know some people will think is crazy:

Our country would be much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much much better off if Harris/Walz had won in 2024.
January 14, 2026 at 5:13 PM
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Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.
January 15, 2026 at 2:39 AM
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Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning.

I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.
January 15, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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I was told over and over by Republicans that the entire point of 2A was for Americans to defend themselves against brutal government tyranny. That’s what we have! And by the grace of an amazing populace they haven’t asserted that right.
January 15, 2026 at 2:55 AM
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It’s the Weekend At Bernie’s presidency, and the corpse is starting to turn.
Every couple of weeks we get a different description of the apparently awful stench coming off our necrotic president and I think it's high time the media nail down exactly what kind of rotten meat covered in women's perfume he actually smells like.
January 15, 2026 at 1:20 AM
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telling the secret police they have immunity to harm & kill citizens really lays bare the hollowness of decades of right-wing GOP screeching about encroaching Big Government - it was never a problem they had with government per se, just that it wasn't being used to harm the people they wanted to
January 14, 2026 at 6:43 AM
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So very tired, we, the Jews of the world, are
Once again: a far-right president asking Jews to register as Jewish, in the name of protecting the Jews, after he has repeatedly accused Jews of being “disloyal.” What could go wrong?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
UPenn faculty condemn Trump administration’s demand for ‘lists of Jews’
Groups say EEOC demand for names and personal details echoes dark history and threatens safety and civil rights
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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Danish Foreign Minster Lars Løkke Rasmussen speaks after WH meeting: "For us, ideas that would not respect the territorial of the Kingdom of Denmark and the right of self-determination of the Greenlandic people are of course totally unacceptable. We therefore still have a fundamental disagreement."
January 14, 2026 at 7:02 PM
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Whenever I am bleeding internally after being hit by a car I keep filming on my cell
phone while briskly walking away from the scene without waiting for medical attention. What about you guys?
BREAKING: The ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good last week in Minneapolis, Jonathan Ross, suffered internal bleeding to the torso following the incident, according to two U.S. officials briefed on his medical condition.
ICE agent who shot Renee Good suffered internal bleeding, officials say
Jonathan Ross, who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis last week, suffered internal bleeding after the incident, two officials said, though it's not clear how extensive the bleeding was.
cbsn.ws
January 14, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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Employee of the month tbh
Trump is seen flipping off Ford worker who appears to yell "pedophile protector" as he walks by
January 13, 2026 at 10:21 PM