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But it couldn’t roll the actual army in front of it.
January 28, 2026 at 10:38 PM
But it couldn’t roll the actual army in front of it.
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Makes me recall a sentiment I used to mull over quite often - a question about why Republicans always only brought up the Nazi government when drawing some parallel with a murderous, tyrannical regime, as if one had to cross the Atlantic to Europe for such a thing, when America itself had it once.
there has been a tendency in the 21st century to insist that the Holocaust was an event so unique that "never again" becomes ontologically impossible: to the right wing, history has only ever had one horror, and it exists only to be used to shield their own actions and bludgeon their enemies
The US Holocaust Museum being more outraged by Tim Walz saying that, like Anne Frank, children today are in hiding from armed agents of the state, than they are about the fact that children are in hiding from armed agents of the state, is why Holocaust remembrance culture is in crisis.
January 27, 2026 at 6:37 AM
Makes me recall a sentiment I used to mull over quite often - a question about why Republicans always only brought up the Nazi government when drawing some parallel with a murderous, tyrannical regime, as if one had to cross the Atlantic to Europe for such a thing, when America itself had it once.
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there has been a tendency in the 21st century to insist that the Holocaust was an event so unique that "never again" becomes ontologically impossible: to the right wing, history has only ever had one horror, and it exists only to be used to shield their own actions and bludgeon their enemies
The US Holocaust Museum being more outraged by Tim Walz saying that, like Anne Frank, children today are in hiding from armed agents of the state, than they are about the fact that children are in hiding from armed agents of the state, is why Holocaust remembrance culture is in crisis.
January 27, 2026 at 5:31 AM
there has been a tendency in the 21st century to insist that the Holocaust was an event so unique that "never again" becomes ontologically impossible: to the right wing, history has only ever had one horror, and it exists only to be used to shield their own actions and bludgeon their enemies
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I want to say this too: this victory was won because we had observers EVERYWHERE. ICE and CBP couldn't set foot in our city without cameras rolling. Much of the nation seemed determined to ignore our plight for weeks, but the avalanche of documentation we produced dragged the nation to us.
January 27, 2026 at 1:03 AM
I want to say this too: this victory was won because we had observers EVERYWHERE. ICE and CBP couldn't set foot in our city without cameras rolling. Much of the nation seemed determined to ignore our plight for weeks, but the avalanche of documentation we produced dragged the nation to us.
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Bros acting like Minnesota wine moms are reading “Street without joy” and “learning to eat soup with a knife” in their book clubs lmfao
MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
January 26, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Bros acting like Minnesota wine moms are reading “Street without joy” and “learning to eat soup with a knife” in their book clubs lmfao
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"There is too much Democratic talk about “asking” the administration to do an investigation or “working with” Republicans to come to agreements...Moments of crisis are fluid and unpredictable. At such moments, it’s foolish to start by compromising with oneself."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Honor Pretti and Good. End the Occupation.
Now is the time to think big and be bold.
open.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 2:46 PM
"There is too much Democratic talk about “asking” the administration to do an investigation or “working with” Republicans to come to agreements...Moments of crisis are fluid and unpredictable. At such moments, it’s foolish to start by compromising with oneself."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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“Abolish ICE” - ICE www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...
January 26, 2026 at 1:00 PM
“Abolish ICE” - ICE www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...
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“Every Tory is a coward, for servile, slavish, self-interested fear is the foundation of Toryism; and a man under such influence, though he may be cruel, never can be brave.”
—Thomas Paine, “The American Crisis” #1, published December 19, 1776
—Thomas Paine, “The American Crisis” #1, published December 19, 1776
Hurting people is easy. It's lazy. Anyone can do it with the right tools and the wrong morals.
Protecting people is hard. It takes restraint and courage and empathy. They will never have that. So they can never win, in the end. Minneapolis will win.
Protecting people is hard. It takes restraint and courage and empathy. They will never have that. So they can never win, in the end. Minneapolis will win.
January 26, 2026 at 2:52 AM
“Every Tory is a coward, for servile, slavish, self-interested fear is the foundation of Toryism; and a man under such influence, though he may be cruel, never can be brave.”
—Thomas Paine, “The American Crisis” #1, published December 19, 1776
—Thomas Paine, “The American Crisis” #1, published December 19, 1776
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I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage
January 26, 2026 at 2:13 AM
I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage
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God damn it is a balm to see this kind of love from people outside of Minnesota
The march is now passing the Chicago city hall / Cook County hall building. The chant goes up,
"Minnesota don't you fear, we, the people, are right here"
"Minnesota don't you fear, we, the people, are right here"
January 25, 2026 at 10:32 PM
God damn it is a balm to see this kind of love from people outside of Minnesota
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Live footage of Hannah Arendt's dichotomy between violence and power.
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Live footage of Hannah Arendt's dichotomy between violence and power.
The American media, somewhere along the way, came to accept the ridiculous idea that impartiality meant simply inserting itself in the spot that is equidistant from two warring arguments, instead of pointing out which of those arguments is true. It’s one of the origins of our current catastrophe.
No one will say “That’s not true, that’s false, you’re lying.” They’ll say “There are competing perspectives.” Thus they are given the power to invent reality.
January 25, 2026 at 5:30 PM
The American media, somewhere along the way, came to accept the ridiculous idea that impartiality meant simply inserting itself in the spot that is equidistant from two warring arguments, instead of pointing out which of those arguments is true. It’s one of the origins of our current catastrophe.
Nothing has ever meant anything to these people. As someone said yesterday, I’m beginning to think every conservative over the last 40 years (I’d just add, with the possible exception of Bill Kristol) never uttered a single paragraph in good faith.
January 25, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Nothing has ever meant anything to these people. As someone said yesterday, I’m beginning to think every conservative over the last 40 years (I’d just add, with the possible exception of Bill Kristol) never uttered a single paragraph in good faith.
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Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.
January 25, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
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Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA
January 25, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA
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Spot-fucking-on. 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯👇
January 25, 2026 at 3:26 AM
Spot-fucking-on. 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯👇
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Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.
January 25, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.
This is the man that the grotesque, lying administration has spent the day calling an “assassin” and a “domestic terrorist.”
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
January 25, 2026 at 4:35 AM
This is the man that the grotesque, lying administration has spent the day calling an “assassin” and a “domestic terrorist.”
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Alex Pretti - who DHS labeled a domestic terrorist - honoring a veteran that passed away in the ICU.
January 25, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Alex Pretti - who DHS labeled a domestic terrorist - honoring a veteran that passed away in the ICU.
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Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
"Please get the truth out about our son."
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i think about this picture of fred shuttlesworth looking at his bombed out house every day because it is in my classroom and so i see it five times a week. tired and defiant.
a face that says well, on we go
a face that says well, on we go
January 25, 2026 at 2:47 AM
i think about this picture of fred shuttlesworth looking at his bombed out house every day because it is in my classroom and so i see it five times a week. tired and defiant.
a face that says well, on we go
a face that says well, on we go
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Just an absolutely deranged thing for a member of the cabinet to say.
“ICE > MN” is impeachable by itself.
This is an actual post from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth: Praising ICE after Alex Pretti was killed, blaming the Democratic leadership of Minnesota, and writing that ICE is greater/better than Minnesota.
He is actively demeaning the people of Minnesota just hours after Pretti was murdered.
He is actively demeaning the people of Minnesota just hours after Pretti was murdered.
January 24, 2026 at 11:08 PM
Just an absolutely deranged thing for a member of the cabinet to say.
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When you realize you used your influential platform to make this version of our country happen
January 24, 2026 at 11:03 PM
When you realize you used your influential platform to make this version of our country happen