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Addendum to this: Trump tried the same weaponization in term 1, it failed because there was no evidence, Trumpists like Pirro and Bongino blamed the deep state, but now those same Trumpists are in charge and it’s still not working out.
An interesting case of "high on their own supply"— Trumpists apparently *believe* that weaponizing the DOJ easily gets you indictments and convictions, because they're committed to not believing that the investigations under Biden and Garland were valid and backed by lots of evidence.
January 17, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Addendum to this: Trump tried the same weaponization in term 1, it failed because there was no evidence, Trumpists like Pirro and Bongino blamed the deep state, but now those same Trumpists are in charge and it’s still not working out.
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Explicitly pro-Jan. 6 president.
January 17, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Explicitly pro-Jan. 6 president.
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2) “We” = total breakdown in the division between the White House and the president’s personal legal affairs.
1) Very bad sign that NYT, and not CBS, is breaking this.
1) Very bad sign that NYT, and not CBS, is breaking this.
NYT publishes audio of Karoline Leavitt threatening CBS over its Trump interview: “He said, ‘If it’s not out in full, we’ll sue your ass off.’” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/b...
‘We’ll Sue’: White House’s Warning to CBS Is Sign of a New Media Status Quo
www.nytimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 9:51 PM
2) “We” = total breakdown in the division between the White House and the president’s personal legal affairs.
1) Very bad sign that NYT, and not CBS, is breaking this.
1) Very bad sign that NYT, and not CBS, is breaking this.
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Your money could be better spent on helping families. Funding the DFL apparatus will likely send money to members who actually won’t support immigrants. Like when they stripped healthcare from immigrant adults or refused to advance Sen Fateh’s sanctuary bill.
January 18, 2026 at 3:55 PM
Your money could be better spent on helping families. Funding the DFL apparatus will likely send money to members who actually won’t support immigrants. Like when they stripped healthcare from immigrant adults or refused to advance Sen Fateh’s sanctuary bill.
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Don’t listen to this political strategist. There are literal families who are starving, people who do not have enough for rent, businesses with eviction letters, and neighbors who are hiding.
Help communities out instead and it will actually have an impact.
Help communities out instead and it will actually have an impact.
I've launched a campaign to raise money for the Democratic Party of Minnesota (@dfl.org) to help them combat ICE's lawless assault. MN Dem Chair Richard Carlbom joined me for the kickoff. Learn more, donate, and let's rally for the courageous people of Minnesota, together! 👇
bsky.app/profile/simo...
bsky.app/profile/simo...
We launched a new campaign to help the courageous people of Minnesota. Learn more and join us 👇
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/a-new-camp...
www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/a-new-camp...
January 18, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Don’t listen to this political strategist. There are literal families who are starving, people who do not have enough for rent, businesses with eviction letters, and neighbors who are hiding.
Help communities out instead and it will actually have an impact.
Help communities out instead and it will actually have an impact.
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increase the DFL's capacity to do what, vote yes on giving ICE more money? why would i or any other minnesotan give money to the DFL instead of directly to local families and organizations? the DFL's leadership won't even come to minneapolis. try fundraising for people who will actually help.
January 18, 2026 at 3:29 PM
increase the DFL's capacity to do what, vote yes on giving ICE more money? why would i or any other minnesotan give money to the DFL instead of directly to local families and organizations? the DFL's leadership won't even come to minneapolis. try fundraising for people who will actually help.
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“I’ve worked hard on my grift and I’d like everyone to be nice to me”
Simon the party you’re raising money for supports trump’s nominees (clear voting record), and voted to increase ICE’s funding. This is clearly a grift because the money you’re raising won’t be used to do what you say.
Simon the party you’re raising money for supports trump’s nominees (clear voting record), and voted to increase ICE’s funding. This is clearly a grift because the money you’re raising won’t be used to do what you say.
January 18, 2026 at 2:49 PM
“I’ve worked hard on my grift and I’d like everyone to be nice to me”
Simon the party you’re raising money for supports trump’s nominees (clear voting record), and voted to increase ICE’s funding. This is clearly a grift because the money you’re raising won’t be used to do what you say.
Simon the party you’re raising money for supports trump’s nominees (clear voting record), and voted to increase ICE’s funding. This is clearly a grift because the money you’re raising won’t be used to do what you say.
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I went on Substack to suggest to Simon Rosenberg that there might be some valid reasons for Minneapolis activists to be suspicious of Dem party fundraising. Ooof.
January 18, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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I’m disappointed to read this post from a sitting DNC Vice-Chair. Our communities are experiencing an invasion and a violation of human rights in MN.
South Minneapolis in particular has been the epicenter of this pain. Let’s contribute to actual fundraisers helping keep families afloat.
South Minneapolis in particular has been the epicenter of this pain. Let’s contribute to actual fundraisers helping keep families afloat.
I work with state parties every single day. There are only a handful of national leaders who actually raise real money for the year organizing state parties do--Ken Martin (dnc chair), Simon Rosenberg (Hopium), Sen. Warren and Actblue. Come for Simon and you come for all of us.
I'm not interested in arguing with the good people of Minnesota, on the front lines, doing the hard work of protecting our democracy. I've worked hard to bring your bravery and courage to the world in recent weeks on Hopium.
But attacks like this are false, defamatory, and need to end. 1/
But attacks like this are false, defamatory, and need to end. 1/
January 18, 2026 at 8:16 PM
I’m disappointed to read this post from a sitting DNC Vice-Chair. Our communities are experiencing an invasion and a violation of human rights in MN.
South Minneapolis in particular has been the epicenter of this pain. Let’s contribute to actual fundraisers helping keep families afloat.
South Minneapolis in particular has been the epicenter of this pain. Let’s contribute to actual fundraisers helping keep families afloat.
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Fundamentally this administration's problem is that it doesn't know how to deal with ordinary people who have real moral convictions, in part because they don't believe those people exist. They're strongest when they can just bully feckless elites.
For that matter, I'm having a hard time coming up with a good end game for them *in* Minneapolis. They're not going to be able to stop the demonstrations, but any sort of withdrawal while the demonstrations are ongoing looks like defeat, no matter how they spin it.
January 16, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Fundamentally this administration's problem is that it doesn't know how to deal with ordinary people who have real moral convictions, in part because they don't believe those people exist. They're strongest when they can just bully feckless elites.
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“Did the ice agents check her pulse” seems like an important question whose answer is incredibly damning either way.
Holy shit.
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Live Updates: Newly Released Records Detail Chaos During Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:56 PM
“Did the ice agents check her pulse” seems like an important question whose answer is incredibly damning either way.
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Peter Pomerantsev called his book about the information environment of Putin's Russia "Nothing is True & Everything is Possible" to convey how important turning it into an unnavigable morass of lies was to consolidating autocracy there, precisely because it made cynicism the main rational response
I've increasingly come to view cynicism as the seedbed of totalitarianism, both because it can paralyze the opposition and because it implicitly validates the might-makes-right ethic of the authoritarian.
i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.
January 16, 2026 at 8:29 PM
Peter Pomerantsev called his book about the information environment of Putin's Russia "Nothing is True & Everything is Possible" to convey how important turning it into an unnavigable morass of lies was to consolidating autocracy there, precisely because it made cynicism the main rational response
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When this is all over someone should tally up the amount of money and FTE hours this administration has spent on patently frivolous, no-win criminal investigations.
DOJ investigating Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over alleged conspiracy to impede immigration agents www.cbsnews.com/news/justice...
DOJ investigating Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over alleged conspiracy to impede immigration agents
Federal prosecutors are investigating Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for allegedly impeding immigration agents, sources told CBS News, an extraordinary escalation in the Trum...
www.cbsnews.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:28 PM
When this is all over someone should tally up the amount of money and FTE hours this administration has spent on patently frivolous, no-win criminal investigations.
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"Instead of retreating into facile cynicism about the safety net and regulatory state, people on the left should be trying to occupy the bureaucracy at the state, local, and...federal level"
Really excellent piece by @resnikoff.bsky.social
dissentmagazine.org/article/the-....
Really excellent piece by @resnikoff.bsky.social
dissentmagazine.org/article/the-....
The Left Needs Bureaucrats - Dissent Magazine
After MAGA, the left will need to be ready with a theory of how to rebuild the federal administrative state—not as it was before Trump, but as something better.
dissentmagazine.org
January 17, 2026 at 2:02 AM
"Instead of retreating into facile cynicism about the safety net and regulatory state, people on the left should be trying to occupy the bureaucracy at the state, local, and...federal level"
Really excellent piece by @resnikoff.bsky.social
dissentmagazine.org/article/the-....
Really excellent piece by @resnikoff.bsky.social
dissentmagazine.org/article/the-....
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Springsteen dedicated “The Promised Land” to the “memory of slain Minneapolis woman Renee Good, decrying the ‘Gestapo tactics’ that he said have resulted in a climate where citizens can be ‘murdered for exercising your American right to protest.’” variety.com/2026/music/n...
Bruce Springsteen Dedicates ‘Promised Land’ to Renee Good, Decries ‘Gestapo Tactics’ Leading to Citizens Being ‘Murdered’: ‘ICE Should Get the F— Out of Minneapolis’
Bruce Springsteen dedicated 'The Promised Land' to Renee Good, decried 'Gestapo tactics' and said 'ICE should get the f--- out of Minneapolis.'
variety.com
January 18, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Springsteen dedicated “The Promised Land” to the “memory of slain Minneapolis woman Renee Good, decrying the ‘Gestapo tactics’ that he said have resulted in a climate where citizens can be ‘murdered for exercising your American right to protest.’” variety.com/2026/music/n...
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The problem with "we should simply reform ICE" isn't even that it's wrong, it's that it's completely unresponsive to the reality of the situation. What happens if you pass a law that agents can't mask and they ignore you? What if we already have a law on the books saying you can't murder people?
January 18, 2026 at 8:51 PM
The problem with "we should simply reform ICE" isn't even that it's wrong, it's that it's completely unresponsive to the reality of the situation. What happens if you pass a law that agents can't mask and they ignore you? What if we already have a law on the books saying you can't murder people?
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"Before you say “Those people are just hypocrites,” it’s more than that. This isn’t just it’s-ok-when-my-side-does-it partisanship. The people who used to be so worked up about the dangers of government tyranny are not just silent right now, they’re positively gleeful about what’s happening."
As actual “jackbooted government thugs” wage war on an American city, the people who spent decades warning about government tyranny aren’t just silent. They’re stoked.
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/what-happe...
paulwaldman.substack.com/p/what-happe...
What Happened to the "Don't Tread On Me" Conservatives?
Guess what, they never cared about individual rights or had a problem with state violence. It just depends on who's on the receiving end.
paulwaldman.substack.com
January 18, 2026 at 8:52 PM
"Before you say “Those people are just hypocrites,” it’s more than that. This isn’t just it’s-ok-when-my-side-does-it partisanship. The people who used to be so worked up about the dangers of government tyranny are not just silent right now, they’re positively gleeful about what’s happening."
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Losing my mind at the Dems with their billionaire backers and powerful friends who have come up with the brilliant strategy that the party should adopt the policy positions of the avg MAGA voter — apparently ignoring that independents and swing voters even exist. Is this what $40 million gets you??
January 18, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Losing my mind at the Dems with their billionaire backers and powerful friends who have come up with the brilliant strategy that the party should adopt the policy positions of the avg MAGA voter — apparently ignoring that independents and swing voters even exist. Is this what $40 million gets you??
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The guy who got me my job in Japan had a Japanese wife and two kids.
There was so much red tape between him and becoming a citizen with a spouse visa he decided it was easier to maintain his work visa.
They eventually moved to Canada because it was easier for her and the kids to become Canadians
There was so much red tape between him and becoming a citizen with a spouse visa he decided it was easier to maintain his work visa.
They eventually moved to Canada because it was easier for her and the kids to become Canadians
Writing for Nikkei, Sophia University professor Kariya Takehiko makes an obvious point: Japan can't afford xenophobic immigration policies when it's increasingly dependent on foreign labor. Even CURRENT immigration rates won't meet the demand for workers.
January 18, 2026 at 9:47 PM
The guy who got me my job in Japan had a Japanese wife and two kids.
There was so much red tape between him and becoming a citizen with a spouse visa he decided it was easier to maintain his work visa.
They eventually moved to Canada because it was easier for her and the kids to become Canadians
There was so much red tape between him and becoming a citizen with a spouse visa he decided it was easier to maintain his work visa.
They eventually moved to Canada because it was easier for her and the kids to become Canadians
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Rest in peace Victor Manuel Diaz. He was a Latino immigrant kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis. He died in ICE custody at Camp East Montana, Texas while facing deportation.
We have unjust immigration system that continues to take the lives of our neighbors while tearing families apart. 1/
We have unjust immigration system that continues to take the lives of our neighbors while tearing families apart. 1/
January 18, 2026 at 8:52 PM
Rest in peace Victor Manuel Diaz. He was a Latino immigrant kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis. He died in ICE custody at Camp East Montana, Texas while facing deportation.
We have unjust immigration system that continues to take the lives of our neighbors while tearing families apart. 1/
We have unjust immigration system that continues to take the lives of our neighbors while tearing families apart. 1/
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eBird removed this photo BUT I'M NOT LETTING IT DIE!!
January 18, 2026 at 5:59 PM
eBird removed this photo BUT I'M NOT LETTING IT DIE!!
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I won't be streaming today, but can I recommend the start of several legendary Henemimi streams that are finally uploading to my youtube: youtu.be/YnySpFAXIE4?...
Can A Childhood Game really be THAT Hard?! [Frogger: He's Back #1]
YouTube video by henemimi
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January 18, 2026 at 8:44 PM
I won't be streaming today, but can I recommend the start of several legendary Henemimi streams that are finally uploading to my youtube: youtu.be/YnySpFAXIE4?...
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americans, please: do not take the bait by resisting ICE yourselves. just give the democrats $20. they will give it to ICE so they can train more guys
January 18, 2026 at 9:15 PM
americans, please: do not take the bait by resisting ICE yourselves. just give the democrats $20. they will give it to ICE so they can train more guys