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jesseltaylor.bsky.social
Average Sunday show interview:

OFFICIAL: we are going to dip enemies of the state into acid vats

HOST: how will you pay for it?

OFFICIAL: tariffs

HOST: critics say tariffs don't generate acid vat money

OFFICIAL: tariffs have generated more money than has ever existed

HOST: thank u for ur time
January 18, 2026 at 3:53 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
Nuanced take: I think it's really important to give *normal citizens* who supported Trump and off-ramp and *professional writers, pundits and politicians* who supported Trump should have to wear it like a scarlet letter for the rest of their lives
blank.org Doctor Memory @blank.org · 1d
This is aggravating, because on the one hand I think it's really important to give fascists an off-ramp and positive reinforcement when they use it...

...on the other hand, FUCK that guy, in particular.
January 18, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.
mayor.nyc.gov Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 1d
Stay warm, stay safe New York.
January 18, 2026 at 10:47 PM
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austinkocher.com
Senator Tina Smith says that she has received reports that another person died in ICE custody today. If true, it would mark the 7th ICE detention death of 2026 and the second public reporting today. It is only January 18th.
smith.senate.gov Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 23h
Hearing reports that a man taken by ICE in Minneapolis died in federal custody.
January 19, 2026 at 2:09 AM
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digthatdata.bsky.social
trump only cares when it hits him personally. they should sanction trump directly.

you wanna see results: close his scottish golf course.
January 19, 2026 at 5:19 AM
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mckay4senate.bsky.social
Monday you can fall apart

Tuesday, Wednesday, break my heart

Thursday doesn’t even start

Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil
January 17, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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albertocairo.com
Whenever I encounter these focus group reports I keep repeating to myself, “this level of casual cruelty, proud malice, and deep ignorance can't be that representative, can it?” but it's probably wishful thinking on my part.
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 5d
Despite years of "economic anxiety" discourse, the core drivers of Trump support have always been bigotry and misinformation.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
January 14, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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thecom.bsky.social
I live an hour outside Minneapolis and the local Facebook pages are all just conservatives bitching that their favorite cheap buffet restaurants don’t want their workers kidnapped. They feel entitled to treats and want the employees to suffer at the same time. It’s casual cruelty, nothing else.
January 15, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
The deck is stacked in about 10 different ways to give extra power and money to rural areas, but it's never enough. Right wing propaganda continues to tell them they are out upon victims powerless against the mighty cities.
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4d
Stage 5 pundit-brain is watching an innocent woman being killed by agents of the state and going, "hmm this says a lot about the urban-rural divide in America."
January 15, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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mcopelov.bsky.social
Unprecedented presidency-ending corruption for anyone from Truman to Obama.
financialtimes.com Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3d
The deal has kick-started the president’s controversial plan to sell up to 50mn barrels of Venezuelan oil, with more sales expected in the ‘coming days and weeks’. ft.trib.al/a2pf6om
January 16, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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stevanzetti.bsky.social
BREAKING: James Rodden, an ICE prosecutor who the Observer identified last year as the operator of an X account that posted “America is a White nation," “‘Migrants’ are all criminals,” and apparent praise of Adolf Hitler, appeared to be back at work Tuesday.

www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...
ICE Prosecutor Who Runs Racist X Account Returns to Dallas Immigration Court
James Rodden, who the Observer identified last year as the operator of the account that routinely posted hateful statements, appeared to be back at work Tuesday.
www.texasobserver.org
January 14, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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ositanwanevu.com
I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
America, JD Vance tells us, is merely a nation like many others ⁠– a “homeland”, he said upon accepting his nomination to the vice-presidency, for “people with a shared history and a common future”. That’s a vision of American identity that would have described bands of cavepeople in skins just as well or better. Stephen Miller’s proleptic defense of seizing Greenland last week suggests the Trumpists themselves know this. “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he declared. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” Miller’s laws are the laws of animals. It is true, obviously, that high ideals have long been deployed to obscure or justify predation, here and elsewhere. But Miller’s stance and the stance of the administration is that there aren’t, actually, any high ideals worth pursuing or even pretending to – that the human being, in itself, is nothing so much ⁠and that we are, fundamentally and forever, primitives. Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization – western or any kind – they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud. The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late – neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil. It was evil – the standpoint that only might matters, that human morality, and our sense of reality itself, must yield to the turfism of the primates with the biggest clubs – that ginned up the propaganda that provoked an act of terrorism against our legislature and the policemen defending it five years ago. It is evil that undergirds pronouncements from the same voices responsible for that attack, in defense of the man who shot Renee Nicole Good, that those who disobey the commands of law enforcement, however unsound or unjust, deserve summary execution – that implies, as Fox’s Jesse Watters and others have, that Good’s killing was of trivial significance because she was a lesbian “with pronouns in her bio”. It is evil that sends innocent men to foreign gulags, evil that condemns hundreds of thousands of destitute people abroad to death without a moment’s discussion or debate about what the country they had depended on might owe them, or the furnishing of alternative arrangements for their wellbeing. The gutting of USAID remains this administration’s worst and least surprising offense against the human conscience – a president who rejects the idea that we might have obligations to all within our society can’t be expected to wonder or worry about whether we have obligations to those outside of it. This is also why, after all the noise and nonsense about the need to depose the Maduro regime, the Venezuelan people are now being told that regime will be left in mostly in place for as long as it takes to secure and extract the country’s resources on our terms – that Venezuela will not see democracy unless and until it is profitable for the United States. Democracy has always been a useless abstraction to those who deny we have basic human entitlements – for those who believe, instead, that the idea of human liberty is a luxury for those wealthy and powerful enough to consider themselves our betters rather than the birthright of all. As many who’ve taken to the streets in protest have noted, the Trump administration’s assaults on liberty here at home are the kinds of abuses that spurred the revolution we will commemorate this year. But no grand revolution is in the offing this time around. The only just and plausible recourse for our situation is politics – understood not merely as the contest to win any given set of elections but as the broader fight to forge a republic that honors and strengthens our humanity. The American project must and will succeed. Its enemies stand for too little. Our lives are worth too much.
January 14, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Trump is selling seized Venezuelan oil and putting the cash in a bank account in Qatar. Nothing to see here. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
January 14, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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atrupar.com
Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"
January 15, 2026 at 2:17 AM
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irhottakes.bsky.social
I think the disconnect between Atlantic elites is that Americans think Donald Trump is a kid getting to drive a monster truck for Make A Wish and Europeans and Canadians think Donald Trump is the president of the United States.
January 14, 2026 at 11:59 PM
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stevevladeck.bsky.social
It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.

If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
January 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM
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aniceburrito.bsky.social
Government accounts just post like this now and that’s how policy is made
An old tweet of mine from 2021 saying “We used to have Gingerbread Men in this country. Nowadays all we have is Gingerbread Them. Retweet if you support nuclear war with China”
January 12, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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jamellebouie.net
January 13, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
NO YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT IS HAPPENING YOU DENSE JACKASS

ICE doesn’t have bad training! ICE has been sent here to incite violence against my community, and they’re obeying because the culture is irreparably twisted!! The agency must be reduced to rubble!
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d
Q: Is it your posture to put restrictions on ICE as a condition for funding DHS?

JEFFRIES: Renee Good should be alive. There was no justification. There are common sense measures that need to put in place so ICE can conduct itself in manner at least consistent w/ every other law enforcement agency
January 13, 2026 at 5:14 AM
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whstancil.bsky.social
Close one
January 13, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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proptermalone.bsky.social
some of these guys feel that they're showing remarkable restraint by passing up murders they're entitled to commit
wedge.live Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 7d
ICE agent screaming a threat: "Did you not learn from what just happened?"
www.reddit.com/r/Minneapoli...
January 12, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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quoproquid.bsky.social
depressing but this increasingly just the lesson for every single servant and every aspect of american life
January 12, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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nbeaudrot.bsky.social
Related to this, if the next president is a Democrat, they shouldn't ask for the gifts back. Hire the plane reposessor to take the plane. Freeze any bank account that might have a gift in it. Send in the FBI to get the gold bars. Etc.
wertwhile.bsky.social Joel Wertheimer @wertwhile.bsky.social · 7d
I’ll say it for the millionth time but we need to make section 1983 apply to federal officers because Bivens is useless and need to get rid of prosecutorial immunity. These people should be financially ruined at the very least for these bullshit investigations.
January 12, 2026 at 1:14 AM
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January 11, 2026 at 1:43 PM
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benlorber8.bsky.social
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...
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 5:15 PM