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"The wall looks permanent until the day it comes down." Read this. You'll be glad you did.
The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls
On the optimism of preparation in a time of democratic decay.
data4democracy.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:28 PM
"The wall looks permanent until the day it comes down." Read this. You'll be glad you did.
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"The wall looks permanent until the day it comes down."
data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-wall-l...
Several people I know have used the word "beautiful" for this piece, and that's exactly right. A beautifully phrased essay on the bind we're in— until we aren't.
Recommended, in an extreme way.
data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-wall-l...
Several people I know have used the word "beautiful" for this piece, and that's exactly right. A beautifully phrased essay on the bind we're in— until we aren't.
Recommended, in an extreme way.
The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls
On the optimism of preparation in a time of democratic decay.
data4democracy.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:32 AM
"The wall looks permanent until the day it comes down."
data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-wall-l...
Several people I know have used the word "beautiful" for this piece, and that's exactly right. A beautifully phrased essay on the bind we're in— until we aren't.
Recommended, in an extreme way.
data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-wall-l...
Several people I know have used the word "beautiful" for this piece, and that's exactly right. A beautifully phrased essay on the bind we're in— until we aren't.
Recommended, in an extreme way.
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"Argentina's done it. Russia's done it. Turkey's done it. Venezuela's done it. And Zimbabwe's done it. It's a thing that tin pot dictators do... right before starting a hyperinflation and destroying their own economies."
January 12, 2026 at 11:42 PM
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I propose the only way of getting through *all this* for the foreseeable is to Bring Back Morning Tea Break.
I declare 11am to be time for A Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down. And maybe a chat. About the weather.
I declare 11am to be time for A Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down. And maybe a chat. About the weather.
January 12, 2026 at 11:08 AM
I propose the only way of getting through *all this* for the foreseeable is to Bring Back Morning Tea Break.
I declare 11am to be time for A Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down. And maybe a chat. About the weather.
I declare 11am to be time for A Nice Cup of Tea and a Sit Down. And maybe a chat. About the weather.
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The yawning canyon between the bravery of ordinary people trying to protect their neighbors and exercising their First Amendment rights versus the cowardice, silence, and capitulation by elites is something to behold.
January 12, 2026 at 11:38 AM
The yawning canyon between the bravery of ordinary people trying to protect their neighbors and exercising their First Amendment rights versus the cowardice, silence, and capitulation by elites is something to behold.
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Peltola jumping into #AKSen makes it more likely that Senate control comes down to mail ballots that get counted late and trend Dem. If know that the DOJ knows that.
#BrokenPost catalogs how Trump's attacks on voting rights but positions it as merely "trying to change how the midterm elections are conducted...beyond typical political persuasion...challenging long-established democratic norms."
It's fascism.
It's fascism.
January 12, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Peltola jumping into #AKSen makes it more likely that Senate control comes down to mail ballots that get counted late and trend Dem. If know that the DOJ knows that.
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'Disability isn’t securitized like death. That makes it the ideal objective for anyone with time to kill (no pun intended). Death by a thousand cuts. The frog in boiling water...Yet time somehow remains our blind spot. To die in slow motion is still to die'.
sciencepolitics.org/2026/01/09/r...
sciencepolitics.org/2026/01/09/r...
Rethinking Security for a More Resilient US - Science Politics
Invisible links between long COVID, AI, and social media signal an emerging trend of mass disability in the post-pandemic U.S.
sciencepolitics.org
January 12, 2026 at 1:21 PM
'Disability isn’t securitized like death. That makes it the ideal objective for anyone with time to kill (no pun intended). Death by a thousand cuts. The frog in boiling water...Yet time somehow remains our blind spot. To die in slow motion is still to die'.
sciencepolitics.org/2026/01/09/r...
sciencepolitics.org/2026/01/09/r...
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Finally, America has more masculine energy, defined as publicly expressing panicky terror at the sight of anyone who looks like your mom. Or a former school teacher. Also cities, especially with subways. And rainbows. But only the manliest men, the hard men, go around saying they’re scared of mommy.
January 12, 2026 at 1:27 PM
Finally, America has more masculine energy, defined as publicly expressing panicky terror at the sight of anyone who looks like your mom. Or a former school teacher. Also cities, especially with subways. And rainbows. But only the manliest men, the hard men, go around saying they’re scared of mommy.
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PSA: Examples of a judicial warrant and an administrative warrant. ICE cannot enter your home with only an administrative warrant.
January 11, 2026 at 11:03 PM
PSA: Examples of a judicial warrant and an administrative warrant. ICE cannot enter your home with only an administrative warrant.
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I just found out last night that the $50k enrollment bonus only pays out after 5 years of service, and reader, the laugh I let out when I read that woke the dog from across the house. These absolute fucking grapes aren't seeing a dime of that money. No way they can ride out 5 years of this job.
January 11, 2026 at 8:50 PM
I just found out last night that the $50k enrollment bonus only pays out after 5 years of service, and reader, the laugh I let out when I read that woke the dog from across the house. These absolute fucking grapes aren't seeing a dime of that money. No way they can ride out 5 years of this job.
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This is today in Minnesota. A swarm of ICE thugs bashed in the door with guns aimed. Everyone has to watch and share. This is now Sunday in America.
January 11, 2026 at 11:10 PM
This is today in Minnesota. A swarm of ICE thugs bashed in the door with guns aimed. Everyone has to watch and share. This is now Sunday in America.
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ice takes out ICE again 😬 🧊
January 11, 2026 at 8:01 PM
ice takes out ICE again 😬 🧊
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Hi, legal scholar here. This is not funny. Constitutions only do this when they're in crisis.
January 12, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Hi, legal scholar here. This is not funny. Constitutions only do this when they're in crisis.
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hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 1:04 AM
hi, political philosopher here! this is not funny, central banks only do this when they're in extreme distress
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If you need some hope today — and don’t we all? — read @adambonica.bsky.social . As a bonus, you’ll also find an agenda and a source of resolve to make it happen.
open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...
open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...
The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls
On the optimism of preparation in a time of democratic decay.
open.substack.com
January 11, 2026 at 2:34 PM
If you need some hope today — and don’t we all? — read @adambonica.bsky.social . As a bonus, you’ll also find an agenda and a source of resolve to make it happen.
open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...
open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...
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You cannot tell voters that this regime is an existential threat one day and aid and abet it every other day. Either you're lying or you are complicit, neither of which makes you fit for office.
7 Democrats just voted today to confirm a Trump judicial nominee who refused to say what happened on January 6 or answer who won the 2020 election:
Durbin
Hassan
Kaine
King
Klobuchar
Shaheen
Welch
Durbin
Hassan
Kaine
King
Klobuchar
Shaheen
Welch
January 10, 2026 at 12:49 AM
You cannot tell voters that this regime is an existential threat one day and aid and abet it every other day. Either you're lying or you are complicit, neither of which makes you fit for office.
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inspected only for narrow transparency purposes related to list maintenance not for broad law-enforcement review, data mining, or politicized investigations. Absent a specific court order or clear statutory authority, voluntarily transferring voter rolls to fed law enforcement violates federal law.
Texas gives DOJ list of its 18 million registered voters
The Justice Department has asked states for their voter rolls with an eye toward purging ineligible voters. Democrats say sharing the data could violate federal election law.
www.texastribune.org
January 10, 2026 at 1:13 AM
inspected only for narrow transparency purposes related to list maintenance not for broad law-enforcement review, data mining, or politicized investigations. Absent a specific court order or clear statutory authority, voluntarily transferring voter rolls to fed law enforcement violates federal law.
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Texas officials have turned over the state’s voter rolls to the Justice Department. This action violates the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), which strictly limits how completed voter registration data can be disclosed and used. Under 52 U.S.C. § 20507(i), voter information may be
January 10, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Texas officials have turned over the state’s voter rolls to the Justice Department. This action violates the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), which strictly limits how completed voter registration data can be disclosed and used. Under 52 U.S.C. § 20507(i), voter information may be
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- ...many healthcare workers still don’t believe that long COVID is real, despite dramatically disabling symptoms in people with no preexisting risk factors
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
Healthcare Workers With Long COVID Struggle to Find Support
Some healthcare workers fail to recognize the symptoms of long COVID in themselves, says one physician.
www.medscape.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:48 PM
- ...many healthcare workers still don’t believe that long COVID is real, despite dramatically disabling symptoms in people with no preexisting risk factors
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
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Gift 🎁 link.
"the administration is sending a message to the entire country: If you show up for your immigrant neighbors, or even are simply present when those neighbors are taken, your rights will not be protected by the law and your life will be at risk."
🧵1/2
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...
"the administration is sending a message to the entire country: If you show up for your immigrant neighbors, or even are simply present when those neighbors are taken, your rights will not be protected by the law and your life will be at risk."
🧵1/2
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...
Opinion | I’m the Mayor of Minneapolis. Trump Is Lying to You.
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Gift 🎁 link.
"the administration is sending a message to the entire country: If you show up for your immigrant neighbors, or even are simply present when those neighbors are taken, your rights will not be protected by the law and your life will be at risk."
🧵1/2
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...
"the administration is sending a message to the entire country: If you show up for your immigrant neighbors, or even are simply present when those neighbors are taken, your rights will not be protected by the law and your life will be at risk."
🧵1/2
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...
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Great thread. I will add one thing: it’s very clear that when ICE is going into a new city, it’s not going into a city who hasn’t learned. Organizers are sharing. They start and people already have every license plate number they’ve used and are tracking their vehicles on day one.
They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
"The Department of Homeland Security plans to pause operations in Chicago — where Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official, has led controversial arrest efforts — to support the immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota."
January 9, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Great thread. I will add one thing: it’s very clear that when ICE is going into a new city, it’s not going into a city who hasn’t learned. Organizers are sharing. They start and people already have every license plate number they’ve used and are tracking their vehicles on day one.
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Weekend of action "ICE OUT FOR GOOD"
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January 9, 2026 at 1:43 AM
Weekend of action "ICE OUT FOR GOOD"
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Expect to see a surge of proud ignorance and proplawganda about what you can say about ICE agent Jonathan Ross, identified by local media as the person who shot and killed Renee Good.
In particular, expect a repeat of Rittenhouse-era “accusing him of murder is defamation” rhetoric.
It’s not.
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In particular, expect a repeat of Rittenhouse-era “accusing him of murder is defamation” rhetoric.
It’s not.
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January 9, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Expect to see a surge of proud ignorance and proplawganda about what you can say about ICE agent Jonathan Ross, identified by local media as the person who shot and killed Renee Good.
In particular, expect a repeat of Rittenhouse-era “accusing him of murder is defamation” rhetoric.
It’s not.
/1
In particular, expect a repeat of Rittenhouse-era “accusing him of murder is defamation” rhetoric.
It’s not.
/1
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Harvard firing this resident dean at the behest of reactionaries has left his family homeless - help if you can
"We have a beloved five-year-old daughter who is thriving in her current school, and a newborn son, whom we named Dean Davis because my husband’s role as a Dean meant so much to him."
"We have a beloved five-year-old daughter who is thriving in her current school, and a newborn son, whom we named Dean Davis because my husband’s role as a Dean meant so much to him."
The resident dean who was fired was given only ten days to vacate his housing. @harvard.edu is putting a Black family — with a newborn baby — out on the street because of comments opposing white supremacy.
Please donate to their gofundme:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
Please donate to their gofundme:
www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...
January 8, 2026 at 3:05 PM
Harvard firing this resident dean at the behest of reactionaries has left his family homeless - help if you can
"We have a beloved five-year-old daughter who is thriving in her current school, and a newborn son, whom we named Dean Davis because my husband’s role as a Dean meant so much to him."
"We have a beloved five-year-old daughter who is thriving in her current school, and a newborn son, whom we named Dean Davis because my husband’s role as a Dean meant so much to him."