Laura Lindamood
@talkingbird.bsky.social
I love DC, drinks outside with friends, journalism, snoozing. #dcstatehood #momsdemand
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For some reason, very few people these days will stand up and say it, but: the US federal bureaucracy is one of the great wonders of the world, staffed with incredibly diligent people who do their jobs well and care deeply.
Trump's destruction of the federal apparaus was a historic crime.
Trump's destruction of the federal apparaus was a historic crime.
The Purged
Donald Trump’s destruction of the civil service is a tragedy not just for the roughly 300,000 workers who have been discarded, but for an entire nation.
www.theatlantic.com
January 18, 2026 at 7:17 PM
For some reason, very few people these days will stand up and say it, but: the US federal bureaucracy is one of the great wonders of the world, staffed with incredibly diligent people who do their jobs well and care deeply.
Trump's destruction of the federal apparaus was a historic crime.
Trump's destruction of the federal apparaus was a historic crime.
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Truly banana pants insane. Every time a federal law enforcement official shoots anyone it should be investigated fully (investigations dont nessacary mean they will be charged, that is why you investigate!). This is the bare minimum for a functioning society instead of a dictatorship
BREAM: Is the FBI investigating the ICE agent who shot Renee Good?
BLANCHE: What happened has been reviewed by millions of Americans bc it was recorded. We investigate when it's appropriate. That is not the case here. We are not going to bow to pressure. So no, we are not investigating.
BLANCHE: What happened has been reviewed by millions of Americans bc it was recorded. We investigate when it's appropriate. That is not the case here. We are not going to bow to pressure. So no, we are not investigating.
January 19, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Truly banana pants insane. Every time a federal law enforcement official shoots anyone it should be investigated fully (investigations dont nessacary mean they will be charged, that is why you investigate!). This is the bare minimum for a functioning society instead of a dictatorship
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Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.
January 18, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.
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Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week.
ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.
ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.
January 18, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week.
ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.
ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.
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That there’s not a massive, credible, instant, bipartisan impeachment/25th Amendment move over these senseless and destructive Greenland threats is a sign of how broken our politics are — and especially how broken the Republican Party is.
It's really impossible to overstate how much *everyone* is watching the US threats towards Greenland, not just Europe. If you want to break not just NATO but Five Eyes and maybe our Asian defense alliances too, taking Greenland is how you do it.
Forcibly annexing Greenland would be a strategic catastrophe—for Europe, for Canada, and perhaps most especially for the United States itself.
My latest in @foreignpolicy.com on how we're all sleep-walking into a disaster: foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/06/g...
My latest in @foreignpolicy.com on how we're all sleep-walking into a disaster: foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/06/g...
January 7, 2026 at 9:51 AM
That there’s not a massive, credible, instant, bipartisan impeachment/25th Amendment move over these senseless and destructive Greenland threats is a sign of how broken our politics are — and especially how broken the Republican Party is.
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Russia loves Trump’s message on Greenland, as Putin has openly said. It is worth asking whether this was a Russian idea. It certainly divides and could destroy NATO, and it distracts from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
January 17, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Russia loves Trump’s message on Greenland, as Putin has openly said. It is worth asking whether this was a Russian idea. It certainly divides and could destroy NATO, and it distracts from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
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Really, really important for any stories about this to make two things abundantly clear:
-The Guard are not doing anything in DC
-There was never any justification for the Guard being deployed to DC
-The Guard are not doing anything in DC
-There was never any justification for the Guard being deployed to DC
January 16, 2026 at 10:53 PM
Really, really important for any stories about this to make two things abundantly clear:
-The Guard are not doing anything in DC
-There was never any justification for the Guard being deployed to DC
-The Guard are not doing anything in DC
-There was never any justification for the Guard being deployed to DC
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Same with DOGE — it’s so weird when people are Iike “gosh it failed to meet its goal of government efficiency” rather than “looks like its real goal was to steal data while breaking federal agencies and ending support for black and brown people abroad”
Decent story but infuriating that this is still being cast as a good-faith institution that failed to achieve its lofty goals rather than a fundamentally cynical right-wing project.
Look what Bari Weiss is doing to CBS! Why would you assume her goal here was any different?
Look what Bari Weiss is doing to CBS! Why would you assume her goal here was any different?
January 16, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Same with DOGE — it’s so weird when people are Iike “gosh it failed to meet its goal of government efficiency” rather than “looks like its real goal was to steal data while breaking federal agencies and ending support for black and brown people abroad”
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'There’s only one way to stand up to a radical occupation by armed thugs, & the people of Minneapolis are already engaged in it. They are activated & in no mood to back down. They are not weighing the political considerations and whether their behavior will tick polling in one direction or another.'
What a People-Powered Movement Looks Like - The American Prospect
The bravery of citizens in Minneapolis is the only kind of resistance to occupation that has a chance of working.
prospect.org
January 16, 2026 at 9:00 PM
'There’s only one way to stand up to a radical occupation by armed thugs, & the people of Minneapolis are already engaged in it. They are activated & in no mood to back down. They are not weighing the political considerations and whether their behavior will tick polling in one direction or another.'
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Not "why was the tear gas in the toddler's neighborhood" but "why was the toddler in the tear gas's neighborhood"
NEWSMAX host Carl Higbie: “This 6 month old who unfortunately got tear gassed by ICE… That sucks 🤷🏼 , but why was a 6 month old near tear gas in the first place?”
The live there Carl, you soulless puppet
The live there Carl, you soulless puppet
January 16, 2026 at 6:42 PM
Not "why was the tear gas in the toddler's neighborhood" but "why was the toddler in the tear gas's neighborhood"
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This shouldn't require saying, but we highlight polls at a time like this because 1) it's heartening to see the American people rejecting fascism, which inspires more to join; and 2) because Ds are under pressure from certain quarters NOT to engage, so we need to let them know what the people want.
January 15, 2026 at 10:43 PM
This shouldn't require saying, but we highlight polls at a time like this because 1) it's heartening to see the American people rejecting fascism, which inspires more to join; and 2) because Ds are under pressure from certain quarters NOT to engage, so we need to let them know what the people want.
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ICE: We proudly murdered a woman, and we are going to continue to terrorize your communities.
America: Uh, please don't do that.
ICE: Oh, you want more? OK, here you go.
Republicans: Americans deserve to have their skulls cracked for being insurgent!
America: Uh, please don't do that.
ICE: Oh, you want more? OK, here you go.
Republicans: Americans deserve to have their skulls cracked for being insurgent!
January 15, 2026 at 8:43 PM
ICE: We proudly murdered a woman, and we are going to continue to terrorize your communities.
America: Uh, please don't do that.
ICE: Oh, you want more? OK, here you go.
Republicans: Americans deserve to have their skulls cracked for being insurgent!
America: Uh, please don't do that.
ICE: Oh, you want more? OK, here you go.
Republicans: Americans deserve to have their skulls cracked for being insurgent!
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The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for an ICE agent to do this to a 21-year-old kid, who was only protesting because another ICE agent killed a mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors
January 15, 2026 at 8:23 PM
The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for an ICE agent to do this to a 21-year-old kid, who was only protesting because another ICE agent killed a mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors
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This was the illegal home invasion caught on video where ICE did not have a judicial warrant and entered anyway over resident objections.
Good example of the kind of people ICE is extrajudicially targeting. www.minnpost.com/public-safet...
Attorney: No proper warrant for Minneapolis man's arrest in home
The arrest of Garrison Gibson came in a city increasingly on edge after an immigration agent shot and killed Renee Good last week.
www.minnpost.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:11 PM
This was the illegal home invasion caught on video where ICE did not have a judicial warrant and entered anyway over resident objections.
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This is where it is going. This is what Stephen Miller is pushing to Trump. The only reason it has not happened yet is that the violence is obviously coming from state actors. There is no insurrection to control. But we are one incident away from Trump sending in the military.
January 15, 2026 at 1:12 PM
This is where it is going. This is what Stephen Miller is pushing to Trump. The only reason it has not happened yet is that the violence is obviously coming from state actors. There is no insurrection to control. But we are one incident away from Trump sending in the military.
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🔥 From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social : “This is nuts. What the fuck is going on? I’ve never protested in my life… they tell you it’s immigrants — it’s fucking anybody. They’re just trying to scare people. I’m not paid to be here. I have to work in the morning. This is wrong.”
January 15, 2026 at 1:59 PM
🔥 From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social : “This is nuts. What the fuck is going on? I’ve never protested in my life… they tell you it’s immigrants — it’s fucking anybody. They’re just trying to scare people. I’m not paid to be here. I have to work in the morning. This is wrong.”
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This is the dynamic across most of America: Liberal cities generate revenue, which state governments then transfer to benefit conservative rural areas, whose residents despite city-dwellers and consistently vote to harm them. But politicians endlessly pander to rural voters and demonize cities.
Another critical piece of missing context in this story: tax dollars flow from the MSP metro to rural Minnesota. People in the city subsidize the lifestyles of people living in the country minnesotareformer.com/2023/12/04/t...
January 15, 2026 at 3:48 PM
This is the dynamic across most of America: Liberal cities generate revenue, which state governments then transfer to benefit conservative rural areas, whose residents despite city-dwellers and consistently vote to harm them. But politicians endlessly pander to rural voters and demonize cities.
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"we're doing targeted enforcement"
*shoots random mother in the face*
*violently kidnaps woman going to the doctor*
*flash bangs car with 6 children headed home*
*shoots random mother in the face*
*violently kidnaps woman going to the doctor*
*flash bangs car with 6 children headed home*
Kristi Noem: "If anything doesn't change with Gov. Walz, I don't anticipate that the streets will get any safer or more peaceful"
January 15, 2026 at 3:46 PM
"we're doing targeted enforcement"
*shoots random mother in the face*
*violently kidnaps woman going to the doctor*
*flash bangs car with 6 children headed home*
*shoots random mother in the face*
*violently kidnaps woman going to the doctor*
*flash bangs car with 6 children headed home*
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Hey, @amyklobuchar.com and @smith.senate.gov: I'm not a senator, but if ICE thugs were rampaging through the major city in my state, I might try to impede Senate business as usual and try to bring everything to a halt until I could get answers or force some votes.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Democrats Appear Ready to Duck a Key Fight on ICE
Top Senate Democrats are focused on other priorities in the government funding fight.
open.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Hey, @amyklobuchar.com and @smith.senate.gov: I'm not a senator, but if ICE thugs were rampaging through the major city in my state, I might try to impede Senate business as usual and try to bring everything to a halt until I could get answers or force some votes.
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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How about reaching out to witnesses?
January 15, 2026 at 3:06 AM
How about reaching out to witnesses?
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Like Musk’s purchase of Twitter, the disastrous fall in revenue and success will be far outweighed by their destroying a powerful media outlet that once held powerful people to account.
The ROI is not only about profits.
The ROI is not only about profits.
I can guarantee you an increase in CBS rating if you let me launch just one show: "Randomly Selected Members of the Audience Kick Tony Dokoupil in the Nuts"
January 15, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Like Musk’s purchase of Twitter, the disastrous fall in revenue and success will be far outweighed by their destroying a powerful media outlet that once held powerful people to account.
The ROI is not only about profits.
The ROI is not only about profits.
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This is how far you have to scroll on the NYTimes homepage to get any coverage of what's going on day-to-day in an occupied American city where schools are closing because the government is checking the papers of all brown or Asian people then brutalizing, imprisoning or killing them.
January 15, 2026 at 12:58 AM
This is how far you have to scroll on the NYTimes homepage to get any coverage of what's going on day-to-day in an occupied American city where schools are closing because the government is checking the papers of all brown or Asian people then brutalizing, imprisoning or killing them.
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It’s a lawless totalitarian occupation of an American city.
I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness.
You could be next.
You could be next.
January 14, 2026 at 4:54 PM
It’s a lawless totalitarian occupation of an American city.
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These barbarians are destroying everything that makes society work. Kids can't go to school, patients can't go to the hospital. We are, in effect, paying them to wreck the basic infrastructure of the country
ICE's "presence is terrifying medical staff and raising concerns about patient care, according to five nurses at HCMC hospital in Minneapolis who asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing their jobs."
Via reporter @ericazurek.bsky.social www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Via reporter @ericazurek.bsky.social www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
ICE agents appear at Twin Cities hospitals, alarming health care workers
Health care workers in the Twin Cities report that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are entering hospitals with detained individuals, leaving some medical staff terrified and concerned ...
www.mprnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 4:28 PM
These barbarians are destroying everything that makes society work. Kids can't go to school, patients can't go to the hospital. We are, in effect, paying them to wreck the basic infrastructure of the country
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Yeah man all my friends in Minnesota are buying high viz vests and forming human chains at class dismissals because ICE is targeting and tear gassing schools. I wonder why parents would want information about that.
January 14, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Yeah man all my friends in Minnesota are buying high viz vests and forming human chains at class dismissals because ICE is targeting and tear gassing schools. I wonder why parents would want information about that.