@tistenes.bsky.social
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Because these words cannot be repeated enough:
“The Constitution is worth saving, the rule of law is worth saving, democracy is worth saving, but these things can and will be lost if everyone waits around for someone else.” --Timothy D. Snyder
“The Constitution is worth saving, the rule of law is worth saving, democracy is worth saving, but these things can and will be lost if everyone waits around for someone else.” --Timothy D. Snyder
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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 3:54 AM
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"I would love to go shopping tomorrow with my DOGE dividends. I'm going shopping with my tariff dividend... I love this new health care plan, which costs nothing."
Point is, there are two Trumps.
What he says: Populist giveaways
What he does: Tax cuts straight from the Republican country club.
Point is, there are two Trumps.
What he says: Populist giveaways
What he does: Tax cuts straight from the Republican country club.
January 10, 2026 at 1:51 PM
"I would love to go shopping tomorrow with my DOGE dividends. I'm going shopping with my tariff dividend... I love this new health care plan, which costs nothing."
Point is, there are two Trumps.
What he says: Populist giveaways
What he does: Tax cuts straight from the Republican country club.
Point is, there are two Trumps.
What he says: Populist giveaways
What he does: Tax cuts straight from the Republican country club.
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This is not a man who has situational awareness on the mood of the country.
Marco Rubio hands Trump a note that was meant to be private and then Trump reads it aloud
January 9, 2026 at 8:45 PM
This is not a man who has situational awareness on the mood of the country.
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NBC News has obtained what appears to be the cellphone video filmed by the ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.
January 9, 2026 at 8:01 PM
NBC News has obtained what appears to be the cellphone video filmed by the ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis.
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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. -- U.S. Const. amend. I.
Rep. Roger Williams: "People need to quit demonstrating, quit yelling at law enforcement, challenging law enforcement, and begin to get civil."
January 9, 2026 at 2:03 PM
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. -- U.S. Const. amend. I.
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We're at the "Don't go out in public if you have brown skin because you might be murdered or kidnapped" stage of white supremacist fascism.
Minneapolis City Council member Jason Chavez: "Many of our immigrants neighbors are picked up simply by moving their cars. Help your neighbors take out the trash, because there are many reports of neighbors being kidnapped when they're taking their trash out."
January 9, 2026 at 3:28 PM
We're at the "Don't go out in public if you have brown skin because you might be murdered or kidnapped" stage of white supremacist fascism.
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Officer 1: “Get out of the car!”
<simultaneously>
Officer 2: “Get out of here!”
The confusion is not surprising. The shooting officer had his phone out too.
This deserves a clear and fair investigation
<simultaneously>
Officer 2: “Get out of here!”
The confusion is not surprising. The shooting officer had his phone out too.
This deserves a clear and fair investigation
January 9, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Officer 1: “Get out of the car!”
<simultaneously>
Officer 2: “Get out of here!”
The confusion is not surprising. The shooting officer had his phone out too.
This deserves a clear and fair investigation
<simultaneously>
Officer 2: “Get out of here!”
The confusion is not surprising. The shooting officer had his phone out too.
This deserves a clear and fair investigation
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Pieced together the surveillance video, including the new angle dropped by CNN (added slow-motion), and the condition of the officer after Renee Good was shot. What do you observe?
Vehicles were able to drive around her with plenty of clearance.
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Vehicles were able to drive around her with plenty of clearance.
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January 9, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Pieced together the surveillance video, including the new angle dropped by CNN (added slow-motion), and the condition of the officer after Renee Good was shot. What do you observe?
Vehicles were able to drive around her with plenty of clearance.
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Vehicles were able to drive around her with plenty of clearance.
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Well, we are, indeed building a community. Although this moment is terrifying, it seems to me we are also coming together as we always must before we change the country dramatically for the better. Fingers crossed.
January 9, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Well, we are, indeed building a community. Although this moment is terrifying, it seems to me we are also coming together as we always must before we change the country dramatically for the better. Fingers crossed.
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The first two ¶¶s of @seamushughes.bsky.social's Courtwatch today.
www.courtwatch.news/p/158-the-ex...
www.courtwatch.news/p/158-the-ex...
January 9, 2026 at 11:55 AM
The first two ¶¶s of @seamushughes.bsky.social's Courtwatch today.
www.courtwatch.news/p/158-the-ex...
www.courtwatch.news/p/158-the-ex...
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This is what people on Fox are like. People watch Fox because they like this.
Jesse Watters highlights that Renee Nicole Good, the woman killed by ICE, had "pronouns in her bio" and "leaves behind a lesbian partner and a child from a previous marriage"
January 8, 2026 at 4:30 AM
This is what people on Fox are like. People watch Fox because they like this.
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Congratulations to John Roberts bsky.app/profile/larr...
Isn't there a word for a leader who thinks there are no meaningful legal constraints on his or her power and that "My own morality. My own mind" is "the only thing that can stop me"?
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/u...
Trump Lays Out a Vision of Power Restrained Only by ‘My Own Morality’
www.nytimes.com
January 8, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Congratulations to John Roberts bsky.app/profile/larr...
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🇺🇸 MINNEAPOLIS VETERAN: "They are terrorizing the population, in Afghanistan we never wore masks.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )
January 8, 2026 at 9:16 PM
🇺🇸 MINNEAPOLIS VETERAN: "They are terrorizing the population, in Afghanistan we never wore masks.” (From @statuscoupnews.bsky.social )
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The more the administration tries to lie to us, the more we’re going to come together and fight back. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
Live with Steve Vladeck
A difficult day
open.substack.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:36 AM
The more the administration tries to lie to us, the more we’re going to come together and fight back. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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So, this happened today. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
January 8, 2026 at 12:53 AM
So, this happened today. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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this was also consensus opinion for center-right types after george floyd’s murder five years ago. the state media apparatus will be working overtime the next few weeks to reprogram them
Really worth watching this interview with a bystander who witnessed the ICE shooting in Minneapolis: "I'm pretty right-leaning. But seeing this, this is not how we're supposed to be doing things in America.”
January 8, 2026 at 12:17 AM
this was also consensus opinion for center-right types after george floyd’s murder five years ago. the state media apparatus will be working overtime the next few weeks to reprogram them
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After the indefensible shooting of Renee Nicole Good, ICE agents refused to let a physician treat her at the scene. She was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
HuffPost has obtained a video of a physician trying to give medical care to the woman shot and killed by ICE goons today, and not being allowed to go near her. The ICE agents claim there are medics on site, but witnesses scream that there are no medics present
January 7, 2026 at 11:22 PM
After the indefensible shooting of Renee Nicole Good, ICE agents refused to let a physician treat her at the scene. She was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
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So the US taxpayer will spend billions of dollars to make the Venezuelan regime even more repressive so that it can protect American oil companies who won’t actually do anything except themselves receive billions more dollars of taxpayer subsidies. MAGA
January 6, 2026 at 8:20 PM
So the US taxpayer will spend billions of dollars to make the Venezuelan regime even more repressive so that it can protect American oil companies who won’t actually do anything except themselves receive billions more dollars of taxpayer subsidies. MAGA
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“Far from making us more powerful, the pursuit of American dominance will make us weaker, eventually leaving us with no sphere, and no influence, at all,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues:
Trump’s ‘American Dominance’ May Leave Us With Nothing
The president’s moves in Venezuela foretell a new global system.
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January 7, 2026 at 1:30 PM
“Far from making us more powerful, the pursuit of American dominance will make us weaker, eventually leaving us with no sphere, and no influence, at all,” @anneapplebaum.bsky.social argues:
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This is purpura fulminans, a severe complication of meningitis (which as of today is no longer on our universal vaccine schedule)
Micro clots & bleeding into the skin cause skin & tissue death. It’s more common in kids & associated with 20-70% mortality.
Those who survive often lose limbs.
Micro clots & bleeding into the skin cause skin & tissue death. It’s more common in kids & associated with 20-70% mortality.
Those who survive often lose limbs.
January 6, 2026 at 1:35 AM
This is purpura fulminans, a severe complication of meningitis (which as of today is no longer on our universal vaccine schedule)
Micro clots & bleeding into the skin cause skin & tissue death. It’s more common in kids & associated with 20-70% mortality.
Those who survive often lose limbs.
Micro clots & bleeding into the skin cause skin & tissue death. It’s more common in kids & associated with 20-70% mortality.
Those who survive often lose limbs.
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Trump is weak at home, and he can be stopped – so long as the domestic political logic of foreign intervention is recognized and turned against him. This act of war is about regime change in the United States. It only succeeds if Americans allow it to do so.
snyder.substack.com/p/venezuela-...
snyder.substack.com/p/venezuela-...
Venezuela: The Precedents
And America: The Future
snyder.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:03 PM
Trump is weak at home, and he can be stopped – so long as the domestic political logic of foreign intervention is recognized and turned against him. This act of war is about regime change in the United States. It only succeeds if Americans allow it to do so.
snyder.substack.com/p/venezuela-...
snyder.substack.com/p/venezuela-...
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Congress can’t keep calling itself a coequal branch while acting like a spectator. If it won’t defend its constitutional role, this president will gladly take it.
January 4, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Congress can’t keep calling itself a coequal branch while acting like a spectator. If it won’t defend its constitutional role, this president will gladly take it.
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“The legacy media continues to cite the herculean task of reviewing and producing these records as an excuse for why the DOJ failed to meet Congress’s 30-day deadline.”
“The obvious truth is that Trump does not want these files released.” www.democracydocket.com/opinion/for-...
“The obvious truth is that Trump does not want these files released.” www.democracydocket.com/opinion/for-...
For Trump, the Epstein Cover-Up Beats the Truth
As one of her first acts as Attorney General, Pam Bondi wrote a letter to the new head of the FBI, Kash Patel, demanding that the “full and complete Epstein files” be delivered to her office by the ne...
www.democracydocket.com
January 4, 2026 at 4:29 PM
“The legacy media continues to cite the herculean task of reviewing and producing these records as an excuse for why the DOJ failed to meet Congress’s 30-day deadline.”
“The obvious truth is that Trump does not want these files released.” www.democracydocket.com/opinion/for-...
“The obvious truth is that Trump does not want these files released.” www.democracydocket.com/opinion/for-...