Sherman Van Buren
@shermanvanburen.bsky.social
Grievance politics account (My grievance is with the GOP)
DarkWoke-YIMBY-Brahmin Left-New Atheist-Longism
Bisexual + GreyRo + He/Him
You don't fw Huey Long like I fw Huey Long
Enjoyer of history, politics, indie games, and anime
JB Pritzker 2028
DarkWoke-YIMBY-Brahmin Left-New Atheist-Longism
Bisexual + GreyRo + He/Him
You don't fw Huey Long like I fw Huey Long
Enjoyer of history, politics, indie games, and anime
JB Pritzker 2028
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Trump lied about immigrants in 2016 too. He then defeated an official from the administration that holds the deportation record.
If migration caused Trump's reelection (I don't think it did), it wasn't b/c of migrants. It was b/c mainstream, centrist outlets amplified fearmongering about migrants.
If migration caused Trump's reelection (I don't think it did), it wasn't b/c of migrants. It was b/c mainstream, centrist outlets amplified fearmongering about migrants.
Not going to read them all because jesus fucking christ but this is nasty work from Friedersdorf
February 12, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Trump lied about immigrants in 2016 too. He then defeated an official from the administration that holds the deportation record.
If migration caused Trump's reelection (I don't think it did), it wasn't b/c of migrants. It was b/c mainstream, centrist outlets amplified fearmongering about migrants.
If migration caused Trump's reelection (I don't think it did), it wasn't b/c of migrants. It was b/c mainstream, centrist outlets amplified fearmongering about migrants.
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i believe in confiscatory policy targeting assets of every single person with the trump surname not because i think we can use it to pay for healthcare or pay down the debt or whatever, but because they stole it and it doesn’t belong to them
i can remember how in the 80s and the 90s, imelda marcos’ shoe collection was a shorthand for comically naked thievery and corruption and now we have a first family who literally shat in golden toilets
one of the things that’s harder to see while we are in it, but will jump off the page at future historians, is how deeply corrupt *the entire trump family* is, and how they abused and and manipulated every lever of the federal government they could grab to steal everything that isn’t nailed down
February 12, 2026 at 9:31 PM
i believe in confiscatory policy targeting assets of every single person with the trump surname not because i think we can use it to pay for healthcare or pay down the debt or whatever, but because they stole it and it doesn’t belong to them
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"ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency" is not the type of thing you say if you're winning the argument
Homan: "ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency. We're not out scouring the streets to disappear people or deny people their civil rights or due process."
February 12, 2026 at 3:11 PM
"ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency" is not the type of thing you say if you're winning the argument
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I think that the US is lucky in that when voters finally cocked it up and elected EXACTLY the kind of piece of shit that the framers spent oceans of ink and forests worth of the yellow crinkly paper warning about, he turned out to be almost uniquely bad at anything besides conning the guillible.
February 9, 2026 at 9:37 PM
I think that the US is lucky in that when voters finally cocked it up and elected EXACTLY the kind of piece of shit that the framers spent oceans of ink and forests worth of the yellow crinkly paper warning about, he turned out to be almost uniquely bad at anything besides conning the guillible.
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Unlimited jihad on all sports gambling apps
February 9, 2026 at 12:28 AM
Unlimited jihad on all sports gambling apps
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this kinda shit from incumbents republicans is so funny BRO YOU COULD PASS A NATIONAL GERRYMANDERING BAN RIGHT NOW but they don't want that, they want republicans to gerrymander and democrats to roll over
February 7, 2026 at 3:18 AM
this kinda shit from incumbents republicans is so funny BRO YOU COULD PASS A NATIONAL GERRYMANDERING BAN RIGHT NOW but they don't want that, they want republicans to gerrymander and democrats to roll over
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Yeah ok these guys are getting slowly radicalized in real time.
COONS: Joe, it's same rules NYPD follows. Do you see roving bands of NYPD w/ masks using bear spray on people?
KERNEN: You lost the election! That doesn't give you right to shut down govt
C: I have to fight for the core value of our democracy, including law enforcement that doesn't murder citizens
KERNEN: You lost the election! That doesn't give you right to shut down govt
C: I have to fight for the core value of our democracy, including law enforcement that doesn't murder citizens
February 6, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Yeah ok these guys are getting slowly radicalized in real time.
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I like how he says it’s the “most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House”, implying there were less racist things.
February 6, 2026 at 3:15 PM
I like how he says it’s the “most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House”, implying there were less racist things.
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“Praying it was fake”
Listen to yourself, man
Listen to yourself, man
February 6, 2026 at 3:16 PM
“Praying it was fake”
Listen to yourself, man
Listen to yourself, man
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I know a lot of people operate off the assumption all unions are good and should be regarded as such at all times but they are in fact very different depending on their leadership and membership.
Teamsters back Greg Abbott as unions split endorsements in governor's race
The state’s largest labor group, the Texas AFL-CIO, is backing Democrat Gina Hinojosa.
www.houstonchronicle.com
February 5, 2026 at 12:11 PM
I know a lot of people operate off the assumption all unions are good and should be regarded as such at all times but they are in fact very different depending on their leadership and membership.
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If “politics is about state violence” makes you fascist, then every political tendency that’s actually exercised meaningful control over anything is fascist lol.
Stancilite proving he's a Fascist.
Politics is establishing, contesting, controlling, or using the state’s monopoly on the use of violence to make people do things they do not want to do. Rest is noise.
February 4, 2026 at 9:05 PM
If “politics is about state violence” makes you fascist, then every political tendency that’s actually exercised meaningful control over anything is fascist lol.
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Homan is smarter than Bovino (no real feat, there). He understands that if he does stuff that signals that we’re in the denouement of the crisis, media will move on. But brutality with observers is escalating, ICE is still omnipresent. Little sign on the ground that it’s over
February 4, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Homan is smarter than Bovino (no real feat, there). He understands that if he does stuff that signals that we’re in the denouement of the crisis, media will move on. But brutality with observers is escalating, ICE is still omnipresent. Little sign on the ground that it’s over
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There would be a whole lot of people opposed to minors getting cosmetic surgery if they knew about it. But there wasn't a billion dollar campaign involving an entire political party, several billionaires, and dozens of think tanks pushing it.
February 4, 2026 at 2:56 AM
There would be a whole lot of people opposed to minors getting cosmetic surgery if they knew about it. But there wasn't a billion dollar campaign involving an entire political party, several billionaires, and dozens of think tanks pushing it.
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😐
Dr Oz on rural healthcare: "There's no question about it, whether you want it or not -- the best way to help some of these communities is gonna be AI-based avatars"
February 2, 2026 at 11:52 PM
😐
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Predicting that this week we’ll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since they’re starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.
February 2, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Predicting that this week we’ll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since they’re starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.
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it’s difficult to overstate how much the next generation of Republicans is worse
we’re seeing a little of it bleed into the current admin with their social media interns but basically every young person actively engaged in Republican politics is a psychotic freak who should be exiled from society
we’re seeing a little of it bleed into the current admin with their social media interns but basically every young person actively engaged in Republican politics is a psychotic freak who should be exiled from society
University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
dailyillini.com/news-stories...
‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illini
In a post that included a graphic of a presumed officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE."
dailyillini.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:08 PM
it’s difficult to overstate how much the next generation of Republicans is worse
we’re seeing a little of it bleed into the current admin with their social media interns but basically every young person actively engaged in Republican politics is a psychotic freak who should be exiled from society
we’re seeing a little of it bleed into the current admin with their social media interns but basically every young person actively engaged in Republican politics is a psychotic freak who should be exiled from society
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Gabbard, Hegseth, RFK are not only the worst appointees for their respective portfolios but they're also in close competition for the worst cabinet appointee ever
making tulsi gabbard DNI is itself a watergate level scandal
Exclusive: A U.S. official has alleged wrongdoing by U.S. spy chief Tulsi Gabbard in a complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to people familiar with the matter.
February 2, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Gabbard, Hegseth, RFK are not only the worst appointees for their respective portfolios but they're also in close competition for the worst cabinet appointee ever
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I’m so old I remember when A. Specter was haunting the Republican Party.
"I'm not on the ballot" is the spectre haunting the Republican Party.
Q: In Texas, a Democrat won a special election in an area you won by 17 points. Your reaction?
TRUMP: I don't know. I didn't hear about it. Somebody ran -- where?
Q: In Texas
TRUMP: I'm not involved. You mean I won by 17, and this person lost? Things like that happen. I'm not on the ballot
TRUMP: I don't know. I didn't hear about it. Somebody ran -- where?
Q: In Texas
TRUMP: I'm not involved. You mean I won by 17, and this person lost? Things like that happen. I'm not on the ballot
February 1, 2026 at 6:36 PM
I’m so old I remember when A. Specter was haunting the Republican Party.
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There's a new review of "American Populist: Huey Long of Louisiana," the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year, in The New Criterion!
Check it out here: https://bit.ly/4bx3d5L
Check it out here: https://bit.ly/4bx3d5L
“Long shot,” by William Anthony Hay.
William Anthony Hay on “American Populist: Huey Long of Louisiana,” by Thomas Patterson.
bit.ly
January 29, 2026 at 9:38 PM
There's a new review of "American Populist: Huey Long of Louisiana," the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year, in The New Criterion!
Check it out here: https://bit.ly/4bx3d5L
Check it out here: https://bit.ly/4bx3d5L
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I’ll forgive a lot from MGP because the plausible alternative to her in that district is a literal Nazi. Very high WAR.
January 29, 2026 at 1:03 AM
I’ll forgive a lot from MGP because the plausible alternative to her in that district is a literal Nazi. Very high WAR.
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As wild as this sounds, I really do think “president connected to notorious pedophile sex trafficker, corrupting law enforcement to cover it up, now in explicit violation of a specifically tailored law,” while easily impeachable in its own, is at most the fourth worst scandal this week.
4) And they STILL haven’t released the Epstein files.
Of the biggest scandals in US history just this week, I think I’d rank them:
1) Federal paramilitaries invade US city based on racist lies, murder US citizens
2) Slush fund for the president from stolen foreign resources held in Qatar
3) Whatever FBI and DNI are doing re: 2020 election in Georgia
1) Federal paramilitaries invade US city based on racist lies, murder US citizens
2) Slush fund for the president from stolen foreign resources held in Qatar
3) Whatever FBI and DNI are doing re: 2020 election in Georgia
January 29, 2026 at 3:23 AM
As wild as this sounds, I really do think “president connected to notorious pedophile sex trafficker, corrupting law enforcement to cover it up, now in explicit violation of a specifically tailored law,” while easily impeachable in its own, is at most the fourth worst scandal this week.
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“.. the hearing suggests the real possibility that Trump will be unable to construct anything in the East Wing’s place, leaving just an empty site ..
Destruction followed by stagnation seems to be something of an MO ..”
@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Destruction followed by stagnation seems to be something of an MO ..”
@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
January 29, 2026 at 12:00 AM
“.. the hearing suggests the real possibility that Trump will be unable to construct anything in the East Wing’s place, leaving just an empty site ..
Destruction followed by stagnation seems to be something of an MO ..”
@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Destruction followed by stagnation seems to be something of an MO ..”
@theatlantic.com
www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
January 28, 2026 at 11:38 PM
I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
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Since we published this, Pam Bondi's X account has started posting mugshots of Minnesotans arrested for impeding ICE/CBP. Sharing a defendant's photo publicly in this way is forbidden under DOJ rules
ICE and CBP are at the head of Trump's campaign to terrorize Minnesotans. But the Justice Department is not far behind.
ICE’s No. 1 Ally
The Department of Justice has rushed to shield federal agents from accountability and launched needless criminal investigations into Minnesota officials and residents.
www.theatlantic.com
January 28, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Since we published this, Pam Bondi's X account has started posting mugshots of Minnesotans arrested for impeding ICE/CBP. Sharing a defendant's photo publicly in this way is forbidden under DOJ rules
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Unless we see real change in how ICE/CBP operates, it is too soon to declare one more phantom Trump pivot
I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that Trump is "pivoting" and "deescalating" on his ICE raids. The threshold is this: As long as the military occupations and the treatment of US cities as enemy territory continue, there's no pivot. ICE out. 1/
(New piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
(New piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
Donald Trump Is Frightened
Trump wants to appear eager to minimize out-of-control clashes between government militias and protesters. But he doesn’t want to stop the things causing those clashes in the first place.
newrepublic.com
January 28, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Unless we see real change in how ICE/CBP operates, it is too soon to declare one more phantom Trump pivot