Jeff Stout
@tischdad.bsky.social
Dad first. Mortgage Broker. author of The Credit Games. I like travel, good food, and kind people.
I am seeing a side of Ken Jennings here that I did not know existed. Well spoken, Ken. And thank you. 👊🏻
This kind of thing does point out a real ethical dilemma: block or mute?
January 11, 2026 at 3:30 AM
I am seeing a side of Ken Jennings here that I did not know existed. Well spoken, Ken. And thank you. 👊🏻
Trump administration: we are going after the worst of the worst. Reality: a bunch of goons terrorizing Americans to apprehend a Door Dash woman. What has happened to the country I grew up in?
Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.
From the minnesota community on Reddit: ST. PAUL, MN: A sobbing resident calls 911 as federal agents force their way into her home to chase down a DoorDash driver who was just trying to deliver food.
Explore this post and more from the minnesota community
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January 10, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Trump administration: we are going after the worst of the worst. Reality: a bunch of goons terrorizing Americans to apprehend a Door Dash woman. What has happened to the country I grew up in?
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January 10, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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whats missing from all the coverage is that the president is using the military to harass, brutalize and punish areas of the country that didnt vote for him
January 10, 2026 at 2:37 PM
whats missing from all the coverage is that the president is using the military to harass, brutalize and punish areas of the country that didnt vote for him
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Amy Klobuchar: "There are now more ICE agents in Minnesota than there are police officers combined in Minneapolis and St. Paul. So they are outnumbering our own local police officers out on the streets."
January 10, 2026 at 2:17 AM
Amy Klobuchar: "There are now more ICE agents in Minnesota than there are police officers combined in Minneapolis and St. Paul. So they are outnumbering our own local police officers out on the streets."
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DHS Releases Watchlist Of Mothers Driving Cars https://theonion.com/dhs-releases-watchlist-of-mothers-driving-cars/
January 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
DHS Releases Watchlist Of Mothers Driving Cars https://theonion.com/dhs-releases-watchlist-of-mothers-driving-cars/
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For 248 years the streets of America didn’t feature a roving masked federal kidnapping squad that might send you a Central American death camp or just murder you themselves, but getting rid of it now is some impossible lefty fantasy that professional Democrats lamentably must struggle against.
Classic Democratic no-win. All of them voted against the OBAA, which supercharged ICE funding and hiring. But they won't say they'd "abolish ICE" so they'll get yelled at (mostly by people who'll vote for them in the midterms after threatening not to).
Top Democrats decline to say if they would rein in ICE after Minnesota shooting
January 9, 2026 at 2:50 AM
For 248 years the streets of America didn’t feature a roving masked federal kidnapping squad that might send you a Central American death camp or just murder you themselves, but getting rid of it now is some impossible lefty fantasy that professional Democrats lamentably must struggle against.
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Clear-eyed, fact-based, and written to explain to normies. No “both sidesing.” No “Trump officials disagree.”
No gaslighting that what we can see with our own eyes might not be true.
This is journalism. Well done, @people.com
No gaslighting that what we can see with our own eyes might not be true.
This is journalism. Well done, @people.com
January 8, 2026 at 11:28 PM
Clear-eyed, fact-based, and written to explain to normies. No “both sidesing.” No “Trump officials disagree.”
No gaslighting that what we can see with our own eyes might not be true.
This is journalism. Well done, @people.com
No gaslighting that what we can see with our own eyes might not be true.
This is journalism. Well done, @people.com
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those ICE fuckers also swarmed my neighborhood high school today, taking a few people and pepper spraying students, per @mprnews.org: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
January 7, 2026 at 11:31 PM
those ICE fuckers also swarmed my neighborhood high school today, taking a few people and pepper spraying students, per @mprnews.org: www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
These goons are out of control.
This is what they’re doing to our children now, after he incited all of this. Roosevelt high school today after ice murdered Renee Good
January 8, 2026 at 10:53 AM
These goons are out of control.
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"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
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surreal times
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Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
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January 7, 2026 at 10:36 AM
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
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surreal times
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Worth noting indeed.
Worth noting: ABC World News Tonight offered a full report on the J6 anniversary, including one rioter’s tearful apology to police, a statement from Pence and a note that the WH website today repeated “the lie” that the election was stolen.
NBC Nightly News didn’t cover the anniversary at all
NBC Nightly News didn’t cover the anniversary at all
Tonight on the CBS Evening News, the 5-year anniversary of January 6 got 15 seconds of coverage 25 minutes into the show. The only pictures shown: Pardoned “defendants” marching through DC as Dokoupil said Trump accused Dems of “failing to prevent” J6 while “Jeffries accused Trump of “whitewashing.”
January 7, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Worth noting indeed.
Good to know.
1. Hundreds of corps that pledged to stop donating to members of Congress who voted to overturn the election on 1/6/21 have broken their promise over the last 5 years
But we've identified 10 promise keepers:
Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
Eversource Energy
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft
But we've identified 10 promise keepers:
Farmers
Airbnb
Expedia
Nike
Clorox
Eversource Energy
Holland & Hart
Qurate
Whirlpool
Lyft
Five years later, these 10 corporations still aren’t funding election deniers
Five years ago today, on January 6, 2021, a violent mob stormed the Capitol building.
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January 6, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Good to know.
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NEW: Donald Trump told Morning Joe that the difference between the invasion of Iraq and Venezuela is that “We're going to keep the oil"
January 6, 2026 at 1:53 PM
NEW: Donald Trump told Morning Joe that the difference between the invasion of Iraq and Venezuela is that “We're going to keep the oil"
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“Putin envisions a world in which a small group of imperialists loot their portions of the globe as they see fit. Trump has been envious of this model for a long time. He’s implementing it himself in the Western hemisphere.”
-an expert on global oligarchy, to me 3/
newrepublic.com/article/2049...
-an expert on global oligarchy, to me 3/
newrepublic.com/article/2049...
January 6, 2026 at 12:18 PM
“Putin envisions a world in which a small group of imperialists loot their portions of the globe as they see fit. Trump has been envious of this model for a long time. He’s implementing it himself in the Western hemisphere.”
-an expert on global oligarchy, to me 3/
newrepublic.com/article/2049...
-an expert on global oligarchy, to me 3/
newrepublic.com/article/2049...
Remind me what happened in 1991.
Another clear case of the hell unleashed on a nation's citizenry when a government aligns with Russia.
Around the time Poland escaped the decades of decay that Moscow's grip entailed, Venezuela embraced the Russian world.
- Poland now a $1 trillion economy.
- Venezuela back to 1930's
Around the time Poland escaped the decades of decay that Moscow's grip entailed, Venezuela embraced the Russian world.
- Poland now a $1 trillion economy.
- Venezuela back to 1930's
January 4, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Remind me what happened in 1991.
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"Look, your stupid healthcare supplements were just spent invading a sovereign country without provocation and kidnapping its president to distract you from that Epstein problem. You're welcome!"
January 4, 2026 at 6:28 PM
"Look, your stupid healthcare supplements were just spent invading a sovereign country without provocation and kidnapping its president to distract you from that Epstein problem. You're welcome!"
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The truth in all of this is that oil companies have steered the United States into more wars, burned through more taxpayer money, and gotten more people and more Americans killed in the last 80 years than America’s worst enemies could possibly ever dream.
The idea that Trump-MAGA are "anti-interventionist" is based on a confused reading of their hatred of multilateralism and international law and institutions. I argued this during Iran bombing debate (h/t @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social and @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social):
newrepublic.com/article/1969...
newrepublic.com/article/1969...
January 4, 2026 at 6:26 PM
The truth in all of this is that oil companies have steered the United States into more wars, burned through more taxpayer money, and gotten more people and more Americans killed in the last 80 years than America’s worst enemies could possibly ever dream.
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Every single leader has sworn to protect their country’s constitution.
Please name one country whose constitution does not mention sovereignty.
That sovereignty is protected by UN Charter globally.
Charter gone—sovereignty determined by mighty power leading to violation of the initial pledge.
Please name one country whose constitution does not mention sovereignty.
That sovereignty is protected by UN Charter globally.
Charter gone—sovereignty determined by mighty power leading to violation of the initial pledge.
January 4, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Every single leader has sworn to protect their country’s constitution.
Please name one country whose constitution does not mention sovereignty.
That sovereignty is protected by UN Charter globally.
Charter gone—sovereignty determined by mighty power leading to violation of the initial pledge.
Please name one country whose constitution does not mention sovereignty.
That sovereignty is protected by UN Charter globally.
Charter gone—sovereignty determined by mighty power leading to violation of the initial pledge.
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In his 2019 memoir The Threat, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe quotes first-term Trump saying Venezuela was “the country we should be going to war with, they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.”
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Trump's Venezuela Attack: It’s All About the Oil, Stupid!
Here are five times Donald Trump himself admitted that illegally attacking Venezuela and toppling Nicolás Maduro was aimed at seizing the country’s massive oil reserves.
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January 3, 2026 at 1:53 PM
In his 2019 memoir The Threat, former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe quotes first-term Trump saying Venezuela was “the country we should be going to war with, they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.”
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Go ahead, New York Times Pitchbot, try to beat this one.
January 3, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Go ahead, New York Times Pitchbot, try to beat this one.
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Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.
January 3, 2026 at 9:43 AM
Im seeing discussions about consultations with congress, authorizations of force etc. I have to say this transcends any of what I would call sub constitutional technicalities. The president has gone to war with a foreign power and, it seems, kidnapped a foreign head of state on the basis of nothing.