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In case any of y’all are wondering how cold it has been around here ❄️ 😕
January 28, 2026 at 5:42 AM
In case any of y’all are wondering how cold it has been around here ❄️ 😕
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it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”
The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.
January 28, 2026 at 12:23 AM
it is the same playbook everywhere. “vote for us! we will make you great again by punishing the people you hate! do not pay attention to the fact that we’re also shoveling your money into the pockets of the uber wealthy and building a giant boot to step on your face too (preferably forever)”
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it’s about to get weird
Holy shit, there's an open carry #2A protest of ICE happening in Douglas County Colorado -- a very wealthy and very red suburb county of Denver. (I lived there for 16 years.) The Trump Administration pissing off committed gun owners sufficiently for them to join the protests against ICE is wild.
January 28, 2026 at 4:09 AM
it’s about to get weird
These tools, reportedly deployed across Minneapolis, were not created in America, but in Israel... the citizens of Minnesota have, as American taxpayers, subsidized an occupation overseas that is effectively a laboratory for their own.
Ta-Nehisi Coates: With the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, "Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact—the culture war is an actual war"
“The Homeland” Is War on America: The Blood-and-Soil Nationalism That Killed Renee Good and Alex Pretti
In the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Trump has clarified an inconvenient fact: the culture war is an actual war.
www.vanityfair.com
January 26, 2026 at 7:57 PM
These tools, reportedly deployed across Minneapolis, were not created in America, but in Israel... the citizens of Minnesota have, as American taxpayers, subsidized an occupation overseas that is effectively a laboratory for their own.
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so bari definitely got the heads up that noem is being shitcanned, right?
January 26, 2026 at 5:51 PM
so bari definitely got the heads up that noem is being shitcanned, right?
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NEW: State election officials are condemning Attorney General Pam Bondi for blackmailing Minnesota by suggesting the administration would withdraw ICE if the state hands over its unredacted voter data.
An expert said the proposal is “laying the groundwork to try to interfere with the election.”
An expert said the proposal is “laying the groundwork to try to interfere with the election.”
‘All-out assault on our democracy:’ Bondi’s Minnesota blackmail letter draws righteous fury from state election leaders
“This isn't leadership. This is blackmail," Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said. "This is the way organized crime works."
www.democracydocket.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:06 PM
NEW: State election officials are condemning Attorney General Pam Bondi for blackmailing Minnesota by suggesting the administration would withdraw ICE if the state hands over its unredacted voter data.
An expert said the proposal is “laying the groundwork to try to interfere with the election.”
An expert said the proposal is “laying the groundwork to try to interfere with the election.”
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Other folks have already noted much of this, but I think the MAGA 'theory of victory' here is:
1) DHS provocations trigger a riot or attack on agents which
2) Leads to widespread civil unrest in many 'blue' cities so that
3) Trump can invoke the insurrection act and send in the troops...
1) DHS provocations trigger a riot or attack on agents which
2) Leads to widespread civil unrest in many 'blue' cities so that
3) Trump can invoke the insurrection act and send in the troops...
Curious if anyone has a plausible theory of victory for the administration if it were to invoke the Insurrection Act.
How does the administration "win" in such a scenario?
Best I can tell, it is magical thinking by a certain somebody at the White House, but maybe I'm missing something.
How does the administration "win" in such a scenario?
Best I can tell, it is magical thinking by a certain somebody at the White House, but maybe I'm missing something.
January 25, 2026 at 10:51 PM
Other folks have already noted much of this, but I think the MAGA 'theory of victory' here is:
1) DHS provocations trigger a riot or attack on agents which
2) Leads to widespread civil unrest in many 'blue' cities so that
3) Trump can invoke the insurrection act and send in the troops...
1) DHS provocations trigger a riot or attack on agents which
2) Leads to widespread civil unrest in many 'blue' cities so that
3) Trump can invoke the insurrection act and send in the troops...
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People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.
January 25, 2026 at 11:00 PM
People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.
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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 5:20 PM
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
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This is what I just shared. Someone else had shared it here, earlier. bsky.app/profile/annh...
My friend wrote this about Alex. She was his last nursing student. He taught her lessons we all need right now.
Jessica Hauser
I was Alex Pretti’s final nursing student. He was my friend and my nursing mentor. For the past four months, I stood shoulder to shoulder with him during my capstone preceptorship at the Minneapolis.....
www.facebook.com
January 26, 2026 at 12:37 AM
This is what I just shared. Someone else had shared it here, earlier. bsky.app/profile/annh...
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We have reached the point where a judge literally has to order federal law enforcement officials not to destroy or mess with evidence from a homicide scene.
BREAKING: Judge Tostrud -- a Trump appointee — has quickly granted a restraining order, barring the administration from "destroying or altering evidence" taken from today's shooting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 25, 2026 at 5:32 AM
We have reached the point where a judge literally has to order federal law enforcement officials not to destroy or mess with evidence from a homicide scene.
It's weird that I've thought about fascism so much in my life and now I'm finally living in it
January 25, 2026 at 2:10 PM
It's weird that I've thought about fascism so much in my life and now I'm finally living in it
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... the US imprisons the most people on the planet NOT because their prisoner labor is wanted in order to turn a profit, but because it is NOT wanted, because these populations are now surplus. Unwanted. and as all peoples faced with the contradictions of somehow surviving on the margins,...
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July 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
... the US imprisons the most people on the planet NOT because their prisoner labor is wanted in order to turn a profit, but because it is NOT wanted, because these populations are now surplus. Unwanted. and as all peoples faced with the contradictions of somehow surviving on the margins,...
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The ICE detention budget is larger than the total budget for USAID used to be. The ICE detention budget increase is larger than cuts in education or for SNAP in the BBB. It is larger than cuts to NIH, CDC and cancer research combined.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Trump’s Big Bill Is Building a Big Police State
Meanwhile, the Democratic Party’s floundering over immigration leaves it without an opposition strategy.
www.thenation.com
July 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The ICE detention budget is larger than the total budget for USAID used to be. The ICE detention budget increase is larger than cuts in education or for SNAP in the BBB. It is larger than cuts to NIH, CDC and cancer research combined.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The state of Indiana believes my child is old enough at the age of 15 to be married to an adult over the age of 21, but is not even remotely old enough, by 3 full years, to know what his own gender is
June 28, 2025 at 4:12 PM
The state of Indiana believes my child is old enough at the age of 15 to be married to an adult over the age of 21, but is not even remotely old enough, by 3 full years, to know what his own gender is
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I think much of the tech right’s turn to eugenics can be explained by their psychic refusal to accept that their massive wealth is the product of historical luck (being in SV at a time when investment money was cheap & abundant) and an insistence that it was instead a product of inherent supremacy.
That Peter Thiel is pretty dumb shouldn't be surprising. No reason to think someone who got rich basically being lucky (right place, right time) during early tech boom and then exploiting IRA tax loopholes should have anything intelligent to say about politics, philosophy, or anything else.
June 28, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I think much of the tech right’s turn to eugenics can be explained by their psychic refusal to accept that their massive wealth is the product of historical luck (being in SV at a time when investment money was cheap & abundant) and an insistence that it was instead a product of inherent supremacy.
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East Africa has been playing the long game and I for one think it's beautiful
Like Barack Obama Sr. got axed because he was too close to Tom Mboya and got on Jomo Kenyatta's bad side and Kamala's granddad was hanging out with Kenneth Kaunda. We're all living in Season 64 of anti-colonial nationalist East Africa Game of Thrones.
If I had a nickel for every 21st century presidential candidate with close family members who served as highly educated bureaucrats in early post-colonial 1960s East African governments, I'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice
June 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
East Africa has been playing the long game and I for one think it's beautiful
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For those in the know this is just as big as Cuomo’s concession
June 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
For those in the know this is just as big as Cuomo’s concession
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A story that got less attention was the incredibly cynical primary of my amazing Councilwoman—the first Muslim woman ever elected to the NYC Council—by a billionaire, corporate-backed candidate also lobbing gross accusations of antisemitism. Anyway, the challenger got trounced. Hell yea.
Thank you, Brooklyn! Getting to represent the neighborhoods that raised me is the greatest privilege of my life.
June 25, 2025 at 3:11 AM
A story that got less attention was the incredibly cynical primary of my amazing Councilwoman—the first Muslim woman ever elected to the NYC Council—by a billionaire, corporate-backed candidate also lobbing gross accusations of antisemitism. Anyway, the challenger got trounced. Hell yea.
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June 25, 2025 at 12:59 PM
fantastic blog www.forever-wars.com/this-is-the-...
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This is tough night for Andrew Cuomo, but at least he'll now have more time for his first love, defending war criminals
June 25, 2025 at 2:21 AM
This is tough night for Andrew Cuomo, but at least he'll now have more time for his first love, defending war criminals
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this is not an exaggeration
May 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
this is not an exaggeration