tobago2.bsky.social
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Let's be clear. Donald Trump will indict the Fed Chair, kidnap foreign leaders and kill American citizens in MN if it distracts you from asking WTF is in the Epstein files because HIS BASE doesn't like pedophiles. None of this is normal. But everything he does is from weakness right now.
January 12, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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It is shameful that we have to talk about the President of the United States this way. But it is who he is. He is behaving exactly the way you would expect a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist who was granted immunity by John Roberts to behave. Know your enemy.
January 12, 2026 at 1:46 AM
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This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.
Jerome Powell: "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."
January 12, 2026 at 1:45 AM
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“Sometimes public service requires standing firm in the face of threats, which is what this unambiguously is”

How did the banker dude get here before the leaders of every self-mythologizing media organization or even Congress
January 12, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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Alllllllllllllllll of this.
Read the whole damn thread.
White and nonblack people can’t mentally grasp how evil the Unite States is and has been because they don’t have an understanding of how deeply evil chattel slavery was.
January 10, 2026 at 3:53 PM
What exactly is ICE purpose at this point?
January 10, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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they've got Raffi calling for regime change. something has shifted.
January 9, 2026 at 6:07 PM
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January 10, 2026 at 1:05 PM
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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
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In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.
January 9, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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Great day to have functioning eyes and a working brain
January 7, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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In functioning democracies, ministers resign all the time, under threat of a no confidence vote in the parliament. We have a system where legislative confirmation totally fails ex ante to screen out wildly unqualified people, & ex post accountability depends on a toothless extraordinary measure.
Impeach Kristi Noem.
As you evaluate this from Kristi Noem, remember that when a federal agent shot a woman in Chicago last year, DHS's initial version of events was full of lies that fell apart under subsequent scrutiny:

newrepublic.com/article/2019...
January 7, 2026 at 7:35 PM
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Yuse got it all wrong, officer, I didn't rob da bank, I'm just controlling its cash flow for a while. Da bank guy I pointed my gun at agreed to it nice an square.
CNBC: Is there a narrative in Venezuela that you are stealing their oil?

CHRIS WRIGHT: That's untrue. We're just controlled the flow of revenues from their oil
January 7, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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Do not let the failures of prosecution post January 6th happen again. Every second you do not charge this person is a second the massive propaganda apparatus around the federal government will use to create a fog of lies to get him off. Arrest him immediately for killing an American citizen.
January 7, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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Abolish ICE
January 7, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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“Illegal, reckless, Deeply corrupt” 🎯
January 3, 2026 at 10:38 PM
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Among the many reasons you don’t kidnap a foreign head of state at gunpoint even if you have the capability, is that it sparks consequences you can neither control nor anticipate.
January 3, 2026 at 10:27 AM
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Can't help but feel like this is one of the reasons why the Constitution says If a dude in office does an insurrection, don't let that motherfucker hold office again

Bc clearly they cannot be trusted with power & control over the levers of government, & they do not care about democratic constraints
January 3, 2026 at 2:31 PM
All the time.
January 3, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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DOD: Well, we must have some kind of Phase V plans around here somewhere. We are a Department of War.

[spots moldy-old dog-eared messy file folder behind the file drawer]

[reads] Iraqi Coalition Provisional Authority

See? What did I tell you. We’ve got everything we need.
January 3, 2026 at 6:14 PM
So, a “Special Operation”, but dumber?
January 3, 2026 at 9:27 PM
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In our name, with our money, ostensibly for oil, but mostly because we have a president who's addicted to power and attention and needs to deflect from being friends with the world’s most famous pedophile. Shame on these fucking monsters who run my country. They need out.
January 3, 2026 at 7:28 AM
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This is the "testing the waters" phase of the playbook. The GOP ecosystem targets groups like Somalis, Haitians, and trans people specifically because they've calculated that the average person's passive disapproval won't ever turn into active defense. They're exploiting public apathy.
i'm really having a hard time getting past the "surely we can all agree that Somalis are worse than trash" thing. this feels new and very bad
January 2, 2026 at 6:32 PM