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"It dawned on her that he was talking about the Muzak."
Hang Jeff Davis from a sour-apple tree.
Hang Jeff Davis from a sour-apple tree.
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Three House Republicans could make this end.
But other than Massie (who is a loon but consistent & principled) they’re all cowards
But other than Massie (who is a loon but consistent & principled) they’re all cowards
January 15, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Three House Republicans could make this end.
But other than Massie (who is a loon but consistent & principled) they’re all cowards
But other than Massie (who is a loon but consistent & principled) they’re all cowards
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looks like donald trump used the military to do a smash and grab for his personal benefit
Seizure ... by whom? If we're asserting that the money is safer in Qatar than the US, that suggests that it is being protected because Qatar has something the US lacks — presumably a lack of accountability to American courts and Congress. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
January 15, 2026 at 4:01 AM
looks like donald trump used the military to do a smash and grab for his personal benefit
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no one:
the president of the united states: they wont stop checking me for brain damage
the president of the united states: they wont stop checking me for brain damage
January 14, 2026 at 9:09 PM
no one:
the president of the united states: they wont stop checking me for brain damage
the president of the united states: they wont stop checking me for brain damage
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Denmark, Sweden, Norway, France, Germany, and the UK are sending troops to Greenland as a trip wire force to deter an American invasion
Senate Republicans have to stop this fucking madness and every military officer needs to disobey orders to fire on allied personnel or to invade allied territory
Senate Republicans have to stop this fucking madness and every military officer needs to disobey orders to fire on allied personnel or to invade allied territory
Denmark confirms an expanded, more permanent Danish and NATO military presence in and around Greenland, beginning today. Deployments span land, sea, and air, including protection of critical infrastructure, fighter jets, and naval operations. Sweden has committed forces; other NATO allies may follow
January 14, 2026 at 11:59 PM
Denmark, Sweden, Norway, France, Germany, and the UK are sending troops to Greenland as a trip wire force to deter an American invasion
Senate Republicans have to stop this fucking madness and every military officer needs to disobey orders to fire on allied personnel or to invade allied territory
Senate Republicans have to stop this fucking madness and every military officer needs to disobey orders to fire on allied personnel or to invade allied territory
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This is another reason why robust prosecutions of lawbreakers in the Trump administration will be important: to signal to allies and partners (and domestic audiences) that MAGA isn't going to return every 4 to 8 years.
You do that by putting a bunch of people in prison forever.
You do that by putting a bunch of people in prison forever.
January 15, 2026 at 12:20 AM
This is another reason why robust prosecutions of lawbreakers in the Trump administration will be important: to signal to allies and partners (and domestic audiences) that MAGA isn't going to return every 4 to 8 years.
You do that by putting a bunch of people in prison forever.
You do that by putting a bunch of people in prison forever.
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Think you have to retire the phrase “immigration crackdown” when every major violent spectacle — at least those the news is choosing to highlight — involve US citizens screaming “Check my ID!”
As the Trump administration escalates its immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, arrests and aggressive tactics by ICE and the Border Patrol, many seen on viral videos, have intensified the frustration and fear among residents, business owners and immigrant workers. trib.al/zVm2mk5
January 13, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Think you have to retire the phrase “immigration crackdown” when every major violent spectacle — at least those the news is choosing to highlight — involve US citizens screaming “Check my ID!”
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The Departed (2006)
January 13, 2026 at 5:43 PM
The Departed (2006)
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Old man Trump sundowning is giving us a lot of unvarnished truths I’ll grant him that
Q: "Do you believe that deadly force was necessary?"
Trump: "It was highly disrespectful of law enforcement. The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement…Law enforcement should not be in a position where they have to put up with this stuff."
Trump: "It was highly disrespectful of law enforcement. The woman and her friend were highly disrespectful of law enforcement…Law enforcement should not be in a position where they have to put up with this stuff."
January 13, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Old man Trump sundowning is giving us a lot of unvarnished truths I’ll grant him that
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perfidy (concealing a military object as a civilian object like Hegseth apparently did) is both morally abhorrent and also puts EVERYONE in danger because it erodes existing and pretty-dang-effective norms around “don’t shoot at civilian aircraft.”
January 13, 2026 at 1:09 AM
perfidy (concealing a military object as a civilian object like Hegseth apparently did) is both morally abhorrent and also puts EVERYONE in danger because it erodes existing and pretty-dang-effective norms around “don’t shoot at civilian aircraft.”
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Continues to enrage me that so far zero mainstream journalists have written a story about straight up, zero quibbles, white supremacist Nazi propaganda being posted *daily* by multiple, official, US Government accounts. Just fucking crickets.
A recent Department of Labor post uses a slogan similar to the Nazi propaganda slogan "One People, One Empire, One Leader”
January 12, 2026 at 8:59 PM
Continues to enrage me that so far zero mainstream journalists have written a story about straight up, zero quibbles, white supremacist Nazi propaganda being posted *daily* by multiple, official, US Government accounts. Just fucking crickets.
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The Church Committee's investigation into the crimes of the intelligence community is about as good a model as we have for the kind of investigation into the crimes of ICE and other agencies. This is really a must-read for understanding our own moment.
With MLK day approaching, worth reading what the official Senate investigation found about surveillance, sabotage, and blackmail as part of the FBI's "war" on Martin Luther King.
"No holds were barred. We have used [similar] techniques against Soviet agents...This is a rough, tough business."
"No holds were barred. We have used [similar] techniques against Soviet agents...This is a rough, tough business."
The Church Committee Report: Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation Into the National Security State
Revelations from the Bombshell 1970s Investigation Into the National Security State
bookshop.org
January 11, 2026 at 6:48 PM
The Church Committee's investigation into the crimes of the intelligence community is about as good a model as we have for the kind of investigation into the crimes of ICE and other agencies. This is really a must-read for understanding our own moment.
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“Psychologically important for me” didn’t make it into the NYT’s original story?!
Original sane washed edition, left, transcript which reveals it is even more a confession of psychological illness than NYT tried to sane wash, right.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
January 12, 2026 at 6:24 PM
“Psychologically important for me” didn’t make it into the NYT’s original story?!
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Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute
Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...
Elon Musk Just Endorsed Blatant White Nationalism And the Silence is Deafening
On Thursday morning Elon Musk retweeted (with a ‘100%’ endorsement) a post declaring that:
If white men become a minority, we will be slaughtered. Remember, if non-Whites openly hate White men while...
religiondispatches.org
January 9, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute
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Honestly, these stories (and the fact that they are stories) are the distillation of Law Enforcement Baronial Class. Someone did a thing that you didn't like and this is escalated to an Official Announcement.
By the way this press release you’d think the LASD deputy got attacked by a barista. Instead, it’s about someone allegedly drawing a pig on the deputy’s cup.
January 12, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Honestly, these stories (and the fact that they are stories) are the distillation of Law Enforcement Baronial Class. Someone did a thing that you didn't like and this is escalated to an Official Announcement.
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Important video. These guys are rattled. They can't go anywhere, they can't get anything done. They killed someone and it just got worse. They don't have any other intellectual or law-enforcement tools. They don't know what to do.
ICE agent screaming a threat: "Did you not learn from what just happened?"
www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...
www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...
January 12, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Important video. These guys are rattled. They can't go anywhere, they can't get anything done. They killed someone and it just got worse. They don't have any other intellectual or law-enforcement tools. They don't know what to do.
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The pudding brain death watch doesn't just make him more erratic, it radicalizes the inner circle faster as they all rush to get done all their most insane dystopian wishlist items because they know the clock's ticking.
January 11, 2026 at 3:53 AM
The pudding brain death watch doesn't just make him more erratic, it radicalizes the inner circle faster as they all rush to get done all their most insane dystopian wishlist items because they know the clock's ticking.
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Why is Tulsi Gabbard on the team? Because while she pretends to care about Yemenis or Venezuelans or whatever, she’ll throw all of them under the bus called “childhood famine mortality” if she can bring down NATO in the process. This is what her fan club - right & left - has always wanted
January 11, 2026 at 4:04 AM
Why is Tulsi Gabbard on the team? Because while she pretends to care about Yemenis or Venezuelans or whatever, she’ll throw all of them under the bus called “childhood famine mortality” if she can bring down NATO in the process. This is what her fan club - right & left - has always wanted
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Someone whose purpose is to destroy NATO
“Who in the United States of America wants a war between the United States and Europe … over GREENLAND??”
I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.
January 11, 2026 at 4:02 AM
Someone whose purpose is to destroy NATO
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He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
January 9, 2026 at 11:25 PM
He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.
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The epistemic closure the right achieved in 2016 that led them here is the same thing that will destroy them. The only question is how many of us they'll kill before their inevitable catharsis breaks them.
I just straight up cannot wrap my head around the fact that they think this is working out for them. This isnt even just different planets its straight up different universes.
January 9, 2026 at 7:08 PM
The epistemic closure the right achieved in 2016 that led them here is the same thing that will destroy them. The only question is how many of us they'll kill before their inevitable catharsis breaks them.
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I also need to highlight someone else’s contribution to the Magfest museum this year: a slew of Japanese keitai with games on them! These were staples of Japanese gaming pre-smartphone, and it’s rad to see them presented here on their original hardware.
January 8, 2026 at 3:30 PM
I also need to highlight someone else’s contribution to the Magfest museum this year: a slew of Japanese keitai with games on them! These were staples of Japanese gaming pre-smartphone, and it’s rad to see them presented here on their original hardware.
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Important to remember: When Border Patrol shot a woman 5 times they claimed she had rammed them, they claimed she drove herself to the hospital, they charged a guy w putting out a gang hit on Bovino
All lies. DOJ couldn’t make any cases.
All charges dropped.
All lies. DOJ couldn’t make any cases.
All charges dropped.
Amazing. As they’re lying about this shooting they’re forced to admit they were lying about the previous shooting
Feds pull back on gang accusations against man charged in alleged Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino murder-for-hire plot
Federal prosecutors acknowledged for the first time Wednesday they have no direct evidence that a Chicago man accused of putting a bounty on the head of Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino is actual…
www.chicagotribune.com
January 8, 2026 at 12:03 AM
Important to remember: When Border Patrol shot a woman 5 times they claimed she had rammed them, they claimed she drove herself to the hospital, they charged a guy w putting out a gang hit on Bovino
All lies. DOJ couldn’t make any cases.
All charges dropped.
All lies. DOJ couldn’t make any cases.
All charges dropped.
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One thing I didn't fully appreciate until I sat on a jury and reviewed body cam footage for myself, is how cops yell contradictory instructions at people like "Don't move" "Put your hands up" "Get the fuck out of here" "Keep your hands where I can see them" etc. all screamed at your face with guns
January 7, 2026 at 10:57 PM
One thing I didn't fully appreciate until I sat on a jury and reviewed body cam footage for myself, is how cops yell contradictory instructions at people like "Don't move" "Put your hands up" "Get the fuck out of here" "Keep your hands where I can see them" etc. all screamed at your face with guns
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ive been thinking for a bit now that the real value of no kings is that its been a dress rehearsal for getting record breaking numbers of people in the streets, which is what we're going to need to do after the dems win the midterms if they try to do a self-coup
this is why i'm like fairly convinced that post-Democratic victory this midterms is going to be the Yoon moment because like, he's cooked his brain even harder than Yoon did
it’s a good thing that the president thinks the Deep State was trying to assassinate him. he’s not being paranoid and this helps us all feel that he will wield unchecked power responsibly
January 6, 2026 at 6:44 PM
ive been thinking for a bit now that the real value of no kings is that its been a dress rehearsal for getting record breaking numbers of people in the streets, which is what we're going to need to do after the dems win the midterms if they try to do a self-coup
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Was also struck by this passage in the article - feels like the Times is trying to project a kind of world weary cynicism that normalizes what’s happening because what kind of rube would expect any different
January 6, 2026 at 2:56 AM
Was also struck by this passage in the article - feels like the Times is trying to project a kind of world weary cynicism that normalizes what’s happening because what kind of rube would expect any different