Thomas Dukes ❌👑
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Thomas Dukes ❌👑
@thdukes.bsky.social
· Nov 16
“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” - Hannah Arendt
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We have cleaned up the crime scene and blocked a local investigation and hidden the perpetrator and invaded the state and that is how you know that we are acting in good faith and that everything was the victim’s fault.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Noem Says ‘Hundreds More’ Agents Will Be Sent to Minnesota Over ‘Corruption’
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2026 at 5:55 PM
We have cleaned up the crime scene and blocked a local investigation and hidden the perpetrator and invaded the state and that is how you know that we are acting in good faith and that everything was the victim’s fault.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
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No, @nytimes.com (www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/m...), experts do NOT agree emissions reductions aren't adequate to prevent 2C warming.
You're using a false premise (see climateactiontracker.org/press/releas...) to justify potentially dangerous interventions (which take pressure off decarbonization)
You're using a false premise (see climateactiontracker.org/press/releas...) to justify potentially dangerous interventions (which take pressure off decarbonization)
January 11, 2026 at 3:34 AM
No, @nytimes.com (www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/m...), experts do NOT agree emissions reductions aren't adequate to prevent 2C warming.
You're using a false premise (see climateactiontracker.org/press/releas...) to justify potentially dangerous interventions (which take pressure off decarbonization)
You're using a false premise (see climateactiontracker.org/press/releas...) to justify potentially dangerous interventions (which take pressure off decarbonization)
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Yes, that does say it all.
January 11, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Yes, that does say it all.
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Frey: "There is deep mistrust because so many of the things that we are hearing are not true. Obviously people can come to different conclusions, but when there is debate about baseline facts like, for instance, did the ICE agent get run over? Guys, the answer is no. It didn't happen."
January 11, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Frey: "There is deep mistrust because so many of the things that we are hearing are not true. Obviously people can come to different conclusions, but when there is debate about baseline facts like, for instance, did the ICE agent get run over? Guys, the answer is no. It didn't happen."
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WELKER: Where is that $50,000? Did you keep it?
HOMAN: I didn't take $50k from anybody & that's a question for the FBI. Bottom line I did nothing illegal.
WELKER: But was there $50k in the bag?
HOMAN: I'm not addressing it
WELKER: But did you keep the money?
HOMAN: $50k is ridiculous
HOMAN: I didn't take $50k from anybody & that's a question for the FBI. Bottom line I did nothing illegal.
WELKER: But was there $50k in the bag?
HOMAN: I'm not addressing it
WELKER: But did you keep the money?
HOMAN: $50k is ridiculous
January 11, 2026 at 3:12 PM
WELKER: Where is that $50,000? Did you keep it?
HOMAN: I didn't take $50k from anybody & that's a question for the FBI. Bottom line I did nothing illegal.
WELKER: But was there $50k in the bag?
HOMAN: I'm not addressing it
WELKER: But did you keep the money?
HOMAN: $50k is ridiculous
HOMAN: I didn't take $50k from anybody & that's a question for the FBI. Bottom line I did nothing illegal.
WELKER: But was there $50k in the bag?
HOMAN: I'm not addressing it
WELKER: But did you keep the money?
HOMAN: $50k is ridiculous
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Tapper to Noem: "I just showed you video of people attacking law enforcement officers on J6. Trump pardoned them all. You said Trump is enforcing all the laws equally. That's just not true. There's a different standard for LEOs being attacked if they're being attacked by Trump supporters."
January 11, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Tapper to Noem: "I just showed you video of people attacking law enforcement officers on J6. Trump pardoned them all. You said Trump is enforcing all the laws equally. That's just not true. There's a different standard for LEOs being attacked if they're being attacked by Trump supporters."
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The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.
January 11, 2026 at 3:19 PM
The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.
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TAPPER: Does your rhetoric need to change?
FREY: I said this was a federal agent recklessly using power that ended up in somebody dying because that was a federal agent recklessly using power that ended up in somebody dying. I got two eyes.
FREY: I said this was a federal agent recklessly using power that ended up in somebody dying because that was a federal agent recklessly using power that ended up in somebody dying. I got two eyes.
January 11, 2026 at 2:34 PM
TAPPER: Does your rhetoric need to change?
FREY: I said this was a federal agent recklessly using power that ended up in somebody dying because that was a federal agent recklessly using power that ended up in somebody dying. I got two eyes.
FREY: I said this was a federal agent recklessly using power that ended up in somebody dying because that was a federal agent recklessly using power that ended up in somebody dying. I got two eyes.
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An investigation by that noted lefty rag the Wall Street Journal has found that using vehicles to box people in and then shooting them when they try to leave is a deliberate, repeat tactic by ICE.
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings
A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.
www.wsj.com
January 11, 2026 at 12:00 AM
An investigation by that noted lefty rag the Wall Street Journal has found that using vehicles to box people in and then shooting them when they try to leave is a deliberate, repeat tactic by ICE.
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
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The Plot to Enslave America.
This slowdown in the labor market was precisely the outcome that the oligarchs who brought trump back into power were trying to engineer.
The thing they hated about the Biden economy wasn't $50 burrito taxis, but 3% unemployment
This slowdown in the labor market was precisely the outcome that the oligarchs who brought trump back into power were trying to engineer.
The thing they hated about the Biden economy wasn't $50 burrito taxis, but 3% unemployment
NEW from me:
Job growth has been functionally zero over the last five months, as the US sinks from a “low hire, low fire” labor market to a “no hire” one.
That slowdown is hitting young & low income workers the hardest 🧵
www.apricitas.io/p/the-no-hir...
Job growth has been functionally zero over the last five months, as the US sinks from a “low hire, low fire” labor market to a “no hire” one.
That slowdown is hitting young & low income workers the hardest 🧵
www.apricitas.io/p/the-no-hir...
The 'No Hire' Economy
US Job Growth has Zeroed Out as Hiring Rates Sink, Hitting Young & Low Income Workers the Hardest
www.apricitas.io
January 11, 2026 at 3:27 PM
The Plot to Enslave America.
This slowdown in the labor market was precisely the outcome that the oligarchs who brought trump back into power were trying to engineer.
The thing they hated about the Biden economy wasn't $50 burrito taxis, but 3% unemployment
This slowdown in the labor market was precisely the outcome that the oligarchs who brought trump back into power were trying to engineer.
The thing they hated about the Biden economy wasn't $50 burrito taxis, but 3% unemployment
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Ronald Reagan’s budget director.
January 11, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Ronald Reagan’s budget director.
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The military alliance is yet to issue a public statement asserting the territorial integrity of the Arctic island and kingdom of Denmark ft.trib.al/Ku974sr
January 11, 2026 at 12:21 PM
The military alliance is yet to issue a public statement asserting the territorial integrity of the Arctic island and kingdom of Denmark ft.trib.al/Ku974sr
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This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
January 11, 2026 at 4:55 AM
This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
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Native Americans are getting caught up in Trump’s racist goon squad invasion…
January 10, 2026 at 2:45 AM
Native Americans are getting caught up in Trump’s racist goon squad invasion…
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Stephen Miller's Big Shift: Mother-Shooting Goons Replace VA Nurses and Psychologists
www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/11/s...
www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/11/s...
Stephen Miller's Big Shift: Mother-Shooting Goons Replace VA Nurses and Psychologists - emptywheel
Donald Trump is taking services away from veterans, and then hiring them to invade blue cities as if they were Fallujah.
www.emptywheel.net
January 11, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Stephen Miller's Big Shift: Mother-Shooting Goons Replace VA Nurses and Psychologists
www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/11/s...
www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/11/s...
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11 January 1942 | Dutch Jewish boy Simon Benjamins was born in Groningen.
In 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz together with his mother Branca, brother Marcus and sister Lea. They were all murdered in a gas chamber.
In 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz together with his mother Branca, brother Marcus and sister Lea. They were all murdered in a gas chamber.
January 11, 2026 at 12:00 PM
11 January 1942 | Dutch Jewish boy Simon Benjamins was born in Groningen.
In 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz together with his mother Branca, brother Marcus and sister Lea. They were all murdered in a gas chamber.
In 1942 he was deported to #Auschwitz together with his mother Branca, brother Marcus and sister Lea. They were all murdered in a gas chamber.
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The whole world is being reorganized on the basis of phony, obsequious, boot-licking of this dangerously stupid, unbalanced, old man. It's obscene.
"Under the 'Compromise Scenario', Denmark would agree to give Trump full military access to Greenland and deny access to Russia and China."
This is the status quo. We've had it since before Trump was born. It's the most open-ended "put whatever you want here" deal we have for any foreign territory.
This is the status quo. We've had it since before Trump was born. It's the most open-ended "put whatever you want here" deal we have for any foreign territory.
I think we’re at the Rubicon.
Who knows, of course, but it feels like what happens over the next few weeks will define the rest of our lives.
Who knows, of course, but it feels like what happens over the next few weeks will define the rest of our lives.
January 11, 2026 at 5:06 AM
The whole world is being reorganized on the basis of phony, obsequious, boot-licking of this dangerously stupid, unbalanced, old man. It's obscene.
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In light of what happened to Renee Good, I thought it important to reiterate my grandmother's advice.
My grandmother’s family was murdered in the chambers of Auschwitz. She survived and told me never let it get that far. Make them shoot you in public before they murder you in hiding. Stand up for others. Never cave in fear of the Nazis or the holocaust will happen again.
January 10, 2026 at 7:16 PM
In light of what happened to Renee Good, I thought it important to reiterate my grandmother's advice.
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More neo-Nazi content by DHS.
I said white supremacist talking points would go mainstream by 2025, and I hoped I was wrong.
Here we are.
I said white supremacist talking points would go mainstream by 2025, and I hoped I was wrong.
Here we are.
January 11, 2026 at 1:44 AM
More neo-Nazi content by DHS.
I said white supremacist talking points would go mainstream by 2025, and I hoped I was wrong.
Here we are.
I said white supremacist talking points would go mainstream by 2025, and I hoped I was wrong.
Here we are.
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Montana is removing its numerical water quality standards for nutrients and shifting back to narrative standards, a move that environmental groups say will allow polluters to sully lakes and rivers throughout the state.
‘We’re basically slitting our own throat’: Montana rolls back water-quality standards - High Country News
The EPA approved Montana’s weaker standards for nutrient pollution during the government shutdown.
buff.ly
January 11, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Montana is removing its numerical water quality standards for nutrients and shifting back to narrative standards, a move that environmental groups say will allow polluters to sully lakes and rivers throughout the state.
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Liberals say that Iranians are protesting because they want democracy. They're wrong—Iranians are protesting because want a republic.
January 11, 2026 at 2:42 AM
Liberals say that Iranians are protesting because they want democracy. They're wrong—Iranians are protesting because want a republic.
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Has anyone seen Jeffries or Schumer at a protest or rally this weekend?
In Minneapolis?
At a #IceOutForGood @indivisible.org rally?
The minimum requirement for democratic leaders right now is to be out in the streets with the people who are under attack.
In Minneapolis?
At a #IceOutForGood @indivisible.org rally?
The minimum requirement for democratic leaders right now is to be out in the streets with the people who are under attack.
January 11, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Has anyone seen Jeffries or Schumer at a protest or rally this weekend?
In Minneapolis?
At a #IceOutForGood @indivisible.org rally?
The minimum requirement for democratic leaders right now is to be out in the streets with the people who are under attack.
In Minneapolis?
At a #IceOutForGood @indivisible.org rally?
The minimum requirement for democratic leaders right now is to be out in the streets with the people who are under attack.
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RIP Bob Weir
January 11, 2026 at 2:58 AM
RIP Bob Weir
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If only the founders had written down their thoughts on whether or not America should be a "Christian nation" if only
January 11, 2026 at 3:03 AM
If only the founders had written down their thoughts on whether or not America should be a "Christian nation" if only
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The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
January 10, 2026 at 9:15 AM
The Norwegian Nobel Prize committee has been forced to make a statement, declaring that the prize cannot be transferred.
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become
It's hard even to comprehend how stupid this has become