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this is how it’s going to have to be, and how major movements have always been
Citizens are in the driver's seat now imho. It's cool if some politicians are quicker on the uptake than others but they are following us now, I'm not waiting for them anymore
January 25, 2026 at 2:43 AM
this is how it’s going to have to be, and how major movements have always been
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just to make that clear for the rest of the world, that's -9 degrees *fahrenheit.* -23 degrees *celsius*.
It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing
January 23, 2026 at 8:31 PM
just to make that clear for the rest of the world, that's -9 degrees *fahrenheit.* -23 degrees *celsius*.
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I love it when people ask questions like this to try to trap people. We had a whole bunch of requirements that moved people to vaccinate their children and they've been slowly dismantled by kooks! You don't need to vaccinate at gunpoint, just bring back the requirements!
So you think kids should be vaccinated at gunpoint against their parents’ wishes or removed from the home?
January 23, 2026 at 8:55 PM
I love it when people ask questions like this to try to trap people. We had a whole bunch of requirements that moved people to vaccinate their children and they've been slowly dismantled by kooks! You don't need to vaccinate at gunpoint, just bring back the requirements!
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this is another consequence of an administration being entirely of posters, by posters, and for posters. they're incapable of planning or executing strategically productive goals, because impressing groypers on twitter is more important to them than substantive results
If the admin's strategic goal was to break public resistance to immigration enforcement activities, it was a tactical mistake to go to the Twin Cities.
January 23, 2026 at 9:29 PM
this is another consequence of an administration being entirely of posters, by posters, and for posters. they're incapable of planning or executing strategically productive goals, because impressing groypers on twitter is more important to them than substantive results
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"America was always evil" is a logical and rhetorical dead end. it concedes everything to our opponents. it allows them to take the mantle of our nation - and let's be frank here, most Americans want to believe in America.
our history is the Trail of Tears, yes. it is also the March for Freedom.
our history is the Trail of Tears, yes. it is also the March for Freedom.
January 22, 2026 at 3:05 PM
"America was always evil" is a logical and rhetorical dead end. it concedes everything to our opponents. it allows them to take the mantle of our nation - and let's be frank here, most Americans want to believe in America.
our history is the Trail of Tears, yes. it is also the March for Freedom.
our history is the Trail of Tears, yes. it is also the March for Freedom.
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we built monuments to MLK and buried our honored dead on a traitor's plantation.
we established three national parks which ensure we never forget our illegal imprisonment of Japanese-Americans.
our nation has done great wrongs. time and again, brave Americans have stood up to end them.
we established three national parks which ensure we never forget our illegal imprisonment of Japanese-Americans.
our nation has done great wrongs. time and again, brave Americans have stood up to end them.
January 22, 2026 at 3:01 PM
we built monuments to MLK and buried our honored dead on a traitor's plantation.
we established three national parks which ensure we never forget our illegal imprisonment of Japanese-Americans.
our nation has done great wrongs. time and again, brave Americans have stood up to end them.
we established three national parks which ensure we never forget our illegal imprisonment of Japanese-Americans.
our nation has done great wrongs. time and again, brave Americans have stood up to end them.
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yes and Americans defeated every single one of those homegrown evils. we've done it before and we can do it again.
we should appeal to the better angels of our nature, to the aspirational goals embodied in our Constitution - while memorializing the evils of our past.
we should appeal to the better angels of our nature, to the aspirational goals embodied in our Constitution - while memorializing the evils of our past.
I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow
January 22, 2026 at 2:56 PM
yes and Americans defeated every single one of those homegrown evils. we've done it before and we can do it again.
we should appeal to the better angels of our nature, to the aspirational goals embodied in our Constitution - while memorializing the evils of our past.
we should appeal to the better angels of our nature, to the aspirational goals embodied in our Constitution - while memorializing the evils of our past.
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Fascism hinges on convincing ppl the world is all monsters so we have to be the most monstrous to survive. Beating Trumpism depends on forcefully refuting Trumps argument that we are as monstrous a ppl & a place as he says we are. So yeah "we are better than this" is pretty fucking key to that fight
January 22, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Fascism hinges on convincing ppl the world is all monsters so we have to be the most monstrous to survive. Beating Trumpism depends on forcefully refuting Trumps argument that we are as monstrous a ppl & a place as he says we are. So yeah "we are better than this" is pretty fucking key to that fight
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Ben Luhmann, who filmed this, is one of the two high schoolers from a conservative Christian family I rode along with in Chicago when they were searching for ICE agents there.
When I asked him how his faith informed his efforts to document ICE/DHS, he told me this. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...
When I asked him how his faith informed his efforts to document ICE/DHS, he told me this. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...
January 22, 2026 at 2:14 AM
Ben Luhmann, who filmed this, is one of the two high schoolers from a conservative Christian family I rode along with in Chicago when they were searching for ICE agents there.
When I asked him how his faith informed his efforts to document ICE/DHS, he told me this. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...
When I asked him how his faith informed his efforts to document ICE/DHS, he told me this. religionnews.com/2025/11/25/h...
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Only took me a few weeks but here is a list of books to introduce one to all things military. My latest⬇️
January 21, 2026 at 10:11 PM
Only took me a few weeks but here is a list of books to introduce one to all things military. My latest⬇️
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"It is not mainline liberalism that has lost adherents; it’s everyone else. Across the world the center-right has disappeared, virtually overnight. ... One could say the same of libertarianism." www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-d...
Liberalism Did Not Fail, Conservatism Did
We are moving from an ideologically multipolar world, to a bipolar one.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 20, 2026 at 6:50 PM
"It is not mainline liberalism that has lost adherents; it’s everyone else. Across the world the center-right has disappeared, virtually overnight. ... One could say the same of libertarianism." www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-d...
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ICE must be reined in, and unfortunately, neither a CR nor a shutdown would do anything to restrain it, because, thanks to Republicans, ICE is now sitting on a massive slush fund it can tap whether or not we pass a funding bill.
My full statement on the DHS funding bill.
My full statement on the DHS funding bill.
January 20, 2026 at 2:29 PM
ICE must be reined in, and unfortunately, neither a CR nor a shutdown would do anything to restrain it, because, thanks to Republicans, ICE is now sitting on a massive slush fund it can tap whether or not we pass a funding bill.
My full statement on the DHS funding bill.
My full statement on the DHS funding bill.
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People who claimed that both sides and sat out the election or voted third party effectively decided that to them the lives of, to date, 757,314 people, mostly children, were not worth saving.
"To date, 757,314 people – the majority children – have died from the funding cuts, according to ImpactCounter, which tracks the effect of USAID cuts via sophisticated modelling tools. That is 88 deaths every hour."
One Year Later: The Effect of US 'Chainsaw' on Global Health healthpolicy-watch.news/the-human-co...
January 21, 2026 at 1:41 AM
People who claimed that both sides and sat out the election or voted third party effectively decided that to them the lives of, to date, 757,314 people, mostly children, were not worth saving.
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Kyiv tonight: no electricity, no water, freezing cold.
"Darkness all around – but not within us. We will endure." said the author of this photo, Yan Dobronosov.
"Darkness all around – but not within us. We will endure." said the author of this photo, Yan Dobronosov.
January 20, 2026 at 2:55 AM
Kyiv tonight: no electricity, no water, freezing cold.
"Darkness all around – but not within us. We will endure." said the author of this photo, Yan Dobronosov.
"Darkness all around – but not within us. We will endure." said the author of this photo, Yan Dobronosov.
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I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
January 20, 2026 at 1:57 AM
I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place
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Kyiv is under attack.
First, the power went out.
Now, the heating too.
-12 °C outside.
I want the world to know what russia does.
First, the power went out.
Now, the heating too.
-12 °C outside.
I want the world to know what russia does.
January 20, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Kyiv is under attack.
First, the power went out.
Now, the heating too.
-12 °C outside.
I want the world to know what russia does.
First, the power went out.
Now, the heating too.
-12 °C outside.
I want the world to know what russia does.
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our country would be a lot better if people realized Republican voters in Red states simply like their states being backwards, approve of Republicans keeping it that way, and would rather bomb churches than give healthcare to a single brown person
January 19, 2026 at 2:21 AM
our country would be a lot better if people realized Republican voters in Red states simply like their states being backwards, approve of Republicans keeping it that way, and would rather bomb churches than give healthcare to a single brown person
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I spent all of 2024 watching this site in particular scream at Biden & then Harris that it was tantamount to blackmail to emphasize Trump being a fascist/threat to democracy, that they had to "give ppl something to vote for besides just being anti-Trump" & that voters cared more about prices anyways
You want to know why Chuck Schumer is talking about affordability & not Trump being a fascist? It's because we already tried talking about him being a fascist *& everyone ignored us*.
A big part of why we are at where we are is that much of the world, the press, foreign leaders, a big hunk of US voters, simply refused to believe it when Democrats said Trump would be as bad as he is.
January 19, 2026 at 8:38 PM
I spent all of 2024 watching this site in particular scream at Biden & then Harris that it was tantamount to blackmail to emphasize Trump being a fascist/threat to democracy, that they had to "give ppl something to vote for besides just being anti-Trump" & that voters cared more about prices anyways
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You want to know why Chuck Schumer is talking about affordability & not Trump being a fascist? It's because we already tried talking about him being a fascist *& everyone ignored us*.
A big part of why we are at where we are is that much of the world, the press, foreign leaders, a big hunk of US voters, simply refused to believe it when Democrats said Trump would be as bad as he is.
January 19, 2026 at 8:30 PM
You want to know why Chuck Schumer is talking about affordability & not Trump being a fascist? It's because we already tried talking about him being a fascist *& everyone ignored us*.
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I saw someone who previously mentioned that they would immediately flee to Canada if shit got serious here arguing that any kind of retaliation by Europe over Greenland (or Canada) is tantamount to collective punishment
i don't think this works when one side is unilaterally trying to annex territory
January 19, 2026 at 6:28 PM
I saw someone who previously mentioned that they would immediately flee to Canada if shit got serious here arguing that any kind of retaliation by Europe over Greenland (or Canada) is tantamount to collective punishment
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If this administration hadn't seemingly completely forgotten about the ongoing conventional war in Ukraine we could have spent the last year ruthlessly euthanizing whatever was left of Russian State capacity and made this entire point moot.
Whatever Arctic expeditionary capability the Russians had died in the mud in Ukraine. Aside from Russian boomers, the main threat in the Arctic comes from PRC and Russian subversive activities. Cable sabotage, espionage, land purchases and general shenanigans. NATO has largely woken up to this.
January 19, 2026 at 5:05 PM
If this administration hadn't seemingly completely forgotten about the ongoing conventional war in Ukraine we could have spent the last year ruthlessly euthanizing whatever was left of Russian State capacity and made this entire point moot.
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The bar for conviction in the senate was set so high that it is functionally impossible, esp in our current political environment. Instead of acknowledging this structural issue in our democracy, some ppl like to ignore it in order to pretend that it could happen if Ds just want it hard enough.
January 19, 2026 at 4:45 PM
The bar for conviction in the senate was set so high that it is functionally impossible, esp in our current political environment. Instead of acknowledging this structural issue in our democracy, some ppl like to ignore it in order to pretend that it could happen if Ds just want it hard enough.
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i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals
January 19, 2026 at 3:05 PM
i think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals
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There is also just a level of online unreality in play here, people have spent years shadowboxing completely fictional versions of Stancil, and are genuinely surprised that he has the beliefs and principles that he has always said he has.
the Stancil thing really does drive home how much greater import some people place on having a completely correct billfold of opinions than actually doing something worthwhile in real life
January 18, 2026 at 6:19 AM
There is also just a level of online unreality in play here, people have spent years shadowboxing completely fictional versions of Stancil, and are genuinely surprised that he has the beliefs and principles that he has always said he has.
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🎨 I turned them into dogs
January 18, 2026 at 12:58 AM
🎨 I turned them into dogs