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What I do not think the Washington understands is that it’s not Trump in himself that’s discrediting us to the allies. Every now and then in a democracy, the people elect a turd. It’s that the Constitution gives them a Mad King Removal button and they are too cowardly and cynical to press it.
March 28, 2025 at 3:07 AM
What I do not think the Washington understands is that it’s not Trump in himself that’s discrediting us to the allies. Every now and then in a democracy, the people elect a turd. It’s that the Constitution gives them a Mad King Removal button and they are too cowardly and cynical to press it.
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The photos from a UN fact finding mission to northern Gaza which were part of a diplomatic cable suppressed by the US Ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, have been released by Drop Site News. These are the genocidal conditions in Gaza that Lew specifically tried to hide from the White House and public.
Look at the photos. The thing I heard often working on the USAID Gaza response from our partners in Gaza was the field of dead bodies - men, women, children - that fanned out around IDF checkpoints in the Netzarim corridor. Shot by IDF soldiers for no reason (unless "for fun" counts as a reason).
U.S. Envoys Refused to Report "Apocalyptic" Conditions in Gaza. Exclusive Photos Show the Reality They Suppressed
The U.S. embassy in Jerusalem suppressed a February 2024 report on northern Gaza because it “lacked balance.” These photos from the UN fact finding trip are visual evidence of the conditions.
www.dropsitenews.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:34 PM
The photos from a UN fact finding mission to northern Gaza which were part of a diplomatic cable suppressed by the US Ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, have been released by Drop Site News. These are the genocidal conditions in Gaza that Lew specifically tried to hide from the White House and public.
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Anyone can go on Google Earth and see images of Gaza from as recently as December 2024.
On my last day employed at USAID, I wrote briefly on these images, and noted an Israeli F-15 strike fighter was captured flying directly over the location of Biden's ill-fated "humanitarian pier."
On my last day employed at USAID, I wrote briefly on these images, and noted an Israeli F-15 strike fighter was captured flying directly over the location of Biden's ill-fated "humanitarian pier."
February 2, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Anyone can go on Google Earth and see images of Gaza from as recently as December 2024.
On my last day employed at USAID, I wrote briefly on these images, and noted an Israeli F-15 strike fighter was captured flying directly over the location of Biden's ill-fated "humanitarian pier."
On my last day employed at USAID, I wrote briefly on these images, and noted an Israeli F-15 strike fighter was captured flying directly over the location of Biden's ill-fated "humanitarian pier."
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they gave back liam and his dad because somebody took a really well-framed picture and then put it in the newspaper until people got mad enough they couldn’t hold out
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shutting out a guy who brings newspaper reporters to the atrocity seems kind of stupid huh
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shutting out a guy who brings newspaper reporters to the atrocity seems kind of stupid huh
February 2, 2026 at 2:08 AM
they gave back liam and his dad because somebody took a really well-framed picture and then put it in the newspaper until people got mad enough they couldn’t hold out
so
shutting out a guy who brings newspaper reporters to the atrocity seems kind of stupid huh
so
shutting out a guy who brings newspaper reporters to the atrocity seems kind of stupid huh
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No political scientists in the Epstein files, multiple economists. These are facts.
January 31, 2026 at 10:48 PM
No political scientists in the Epstein files, multiple economists. These are facts.
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For all the discussion of doxxing federal agents, there’s essentially no discussion of how those agents are taking steps that attach severe punitive measures that stretch across wide swaths of the federal bureaucracy against people acting lawfully.
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:42 PM
For all the discussion of doxxing federal agents, there’s essentially no discussion of how those agents are taking steps that attach severe punitive measures that stretch across wide swaths of the federal bureaucracy against people acting lawfully.
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“There’s a huge opportunity here if Trump acts in a way he has never acted and shows mental faculties he has never demonstrated having” is a very popular genre of think piece
November 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
“There’s a huge opportunity here if Trump acts in a way he has never acted and shows mental faculties he has never demonstrated having” is a very popular genre of think piece
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Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
January 24, 2026 at 7:01 PM
Federal law enforcement agents shot and killed a man in Minneapolis on Jan. 24 according to local police officials. DHS told Fox News that the man was “armed with a gun”. A video of the shooting appears to show that a gun was taken from the man before the first shot was fired. x.com/BillMelugin_...
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iirc during the most severe parts of the draconian lockdown - like, actual lockdown - in China, Chinese people also used 义勇军进行曲 lyrics and the government actually *did* end up censoring the national anthem lyrics for a little bit
You know, a way the Hong Kong protesters got out of censorship laws was by using the lyrics of the Chinese anthem against them...
"arise, scatter our enemies, and make them fall! Confound their politics, frustrate their knavish tricks"
"arise, scatter our enemies, and make them fall! Confound their politics, frustrate their knavish tricks"
January 24, 2026 at 6:07 AM
iirc during the most severe parts of the draconian lockdown - like, actual lockdown - in China, Chinese people also used 义勇军进行曲 lyrics and the government actually *did* end up censoring the national anthem lyrics for a little bit
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Everyone loves the TV show “Heated Rivalry,” but we’ve got the real thing! Rivals-turned-wives Caroline Ouelette, 4x Team Canada Olympian, & Julie Chu, 4x Team USA Olympian, on dating the enemy & why they kept their relationship on the DL until after they retired.
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January 19, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Everyone loves the TV show “Heated Rivalry,” but we’ve got the real thing! Rivals-turned-wives Caroline Ouelette, 4x Team Canada Olympian, & Julie Chu, 4x Team USA Olympian, on dating the enemy & why they kept their relationship on the DL until after they retired.
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A thing that might not be clear from the outside is that while everyone here is engaged in this fight, ICE’s use of dystopian technology means that you essentially have to pick a lane between observing ICE and doing mutual aid. They are tracking observers’ cars, and taking pictures of their faces.
January 22, 2026 at 5:59 AM
A thing that might not be clear from the outside is that while everyone here is engaged in this fight, ICE’s use of dystopian technology means that you essentially have to pick a lane between observing ICE and doing mutual aid. They are tracking observers’ cars, and taking pictures of their faces.
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Coming up over the next two months! Taiwanese History 101 is a reading group for Taiwanese diaspora, students, people new to Taiwan, and others who want to learn about Taiwanese history to better understand Taiwanese politics and civil society today
www.facebook.com/events/16106...
www.facebook.com/events/16106...
January 20, 2026 at 6:28 AM
Coming up over the next two months! Taiwanese History 101 is a reading group for Taiwanese diaspora, students, people new to Taiwan, and others who want to learn about Taiwanese history to better understand Taiwanese politics and civil society today
www.facebook.com/events/16106...
www.facebook.com/events/16106...
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Trump says he’s adding a 10% tariff to all the countries that sent troops to defend Greenland against an American invasion, increasing to 25% in June if he’s not allowed to buy Greenland.
“This is a very dangerous situation for the Safety, Security, and Survival of our Planet.”
“This is a very dangerous situation for the Safety, Security, and Survival of our Planet.”
January 17, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Trump says he’s adding a 10% tariff to all the countries that sent troops to defend Greenland against an American invasion, increasing to 25% in June if he’s not allowed to buy Greenland.
“This is a very dangerous situation for the Safety, Security, and Survival of our Planet.”
“This is a very dangerous situation for the Safety, Security, and Survival of our Planet.”
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My current belief of the utility of AI is basically that it is, in general, a strong advantage (think lever) for the people who gain the practical experience to understand its quirks. In general, SME + AI >> SME. In particular, AI needs to be understand not as an information source, but a *doer*.
Yes. I think AI gives advantage to two subgroups of the set of people who are "good at decomposing a task to its component requirements". People who are very good at decomposing and involved in cross-functional work, and high level SMEs who are good enough at decomposing working in their expertise.
January 9, 2026 at 7:12 PM
My current belief of the utility of AI is basically that it is, in general, a strong advantage (think lever) for the people who gain the practical experience to understand its quirks. In general, SME + AI >> SME. In particular, AI needs to be understand not as an information source, but a *doer*.
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I mean, good, but man, we are really inching towards, it huh.
January 14, 2026 at 10:24 PM
I mean, good, but man, we are really inching towards, it huh.
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And to be clear, this is not some obscure piece of local history. This is literally what Fort Snelling is known for. It is not a reach to say that it might be the one thing many locals could tell you about Fort Snelling.
This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.
ictnews.org/news/north-c...
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Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT
The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars
ictnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 10:54 PM
And to be clear, this is not some obscure piece of local history. This is literally what Fort Snelling is known for. It is not a reach to say that it might be the one thing many locals could tell you about Fort Snelling.
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Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.
"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.
January 14, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.
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Paper Cuts: A fascinating look by CMP researcher Dalia Parete at the closure of dozens more newspapers at the outset of 2026 — and how it signals the final fizzling out of China’s once-vibrant metropolitan print media sector. chinamediaproject.org/2026/01/07/p...
Paper Cuts - China Media Project
The closure of dozens more newspapers signals the final fizzling of China's once-vibrant metropolitan print media sector at the outset in 2026.
chinamediaproject.org
January 7, 2026 at 4:57 AM
Paper Cuts: A fascinating look by CMP researcher Dalia Parete at the closure of dozens more newspapers at the outset of 2026 — and how it signals the final fizzling out of China’s once-vibrant metropolitan print media sector. chinamediaproject.org/2026/01/07/p...
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I'm currently reading Kristin Downey's excellent The Woman Behind the New Deal. At the head of the Labor Dept (where immigration was housed) Perkins was a strong voice for Jewish refugees, creatively navigating and subverting the limits imposed by a strongly anti-refugee Congress and State Dept ...
1/ I recently wrote about Frances Perkins—FDR’s Labor Secretary and first woman cabinet member. She is best known as the architect of the New Deal but she had a lesser-known achievement:
She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵
She dismantled her era’s version of ICE.🧵
January 14, 2026 at 5:37 AM
I'm currently reading Kristin Downey's excellent The Woman Behind the New Deal. At the head of the Labor Dept (where immigration was housed) Perkins was a strong voice for Jewish refugees, creatively navigating and subverting the limits imposed by a strongly anti-refugee Congress and State Dept ...
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To be clear: members of the US Congress are carrying out lawful functions, backed by a Court order that they are not to be prevented in so doing, and ICE are drawing weapons on them to prevent them.
They are, in other words, threatening to shoot US legislators for acting lawfully.
They are, in other words, threatening to shoot US legislators for acting lawfully.
JUST NOW: Huge mass of agents in a standoff, weapons drawn as Reps. Ilhan Omar, Angie Craig, and Kelly Morrison attempt to conduct congressional oversight at the Whipple Building, which has been HQ for thousands of ICE agents.
@zeteo.com
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January 10, 2026 at 6:29 PM
To be clear: members of the US Congress are carrying out lawful functions, backed by a Court order that they are not to be prevented in so doing, and ICE are drawing weapons on them to prevent them.
They are, in other words, threatening to shoot US legislators for acting lawfully.
They are, in other words, threatening to shoot US legislators for acting lawfully.
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if anyone needs to know this, by the way, the correct way to deal with cops here is to just not move once they become belligerent. just hold still and say "i don't understand" until they calm down or cuff you.
losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
January 8, 2026 at 5:56 PM
if anyone needs to know this, by the way, the correct way to deal with cops here is to just not move once they become belligerent. just hold still and say "i don't understand" until they calm down or cuff you.
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I think we are seeing that the government does believe it has the right to murder US citizens as it sees fit.
If they didn’t, it’d be pretty simple to sacrifice this one agent and go back to kidnapping.
If they didn’t, it’d be pretty simple to sacrifice this one agent and go back to kidnapping.
January 7, 2026 at 9:07 PM
I think we are seeing that the government does believe it has the right to murder US citizens as it sees fit.
If they didn’t, it’d be pretty simple to sacrifice this one agent and go back to kidnapping.
If they didn’t, it’d be pretty simple to sacrifice this one agent and go back to kidnapping.
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On July 22, 1950 a little known FSO on the State Department policy planning staff named George Butler wrote a 24 point memo almost describing verbatim every inflection point in the Korean War in the coming months. So why did his insights have so little influence over policy? My first piece of 2026⬇️
George H. Butler and the Limits of Being Right
The 38th Parallel Paper and the Failure of Strategic Restraint in Korea
secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:06 PM
On July 22, 1950 a little known FSO on the State Department policy planning staff named George Butler wrote a 24 point memo almost describing verbatim every inflection point in the Korean War in the coming months. So why did his insights have so little influence over policy? My first piece of 2026⬇️