witlessdesign.bsky.social
@witlessdesign.bsky.social
Just out here trying to be a positive part of the world.
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sauvignon bloc
January 12, 2026 at 4:17 AM
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This is your regular reminder that authoritarianism is just domestic abuse writ large.
ICE agent screaming a threat: "Did you not learn from what just happened?"
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January 12, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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At long last, we have created the tyrannical king from the classic declaration
January 12, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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Maybe the most fascinating belief among the billionaire class, especially the Silicon Valley set, has been their confidence that if they blow up the specific conditions and institutions that put them on top, they will certainly come out even higher on top
Congratulations to all the bankers, hedge-fund managers, private-equity honchos, tech titans, corporate executives and op-ed writers for backing the man who will do more to undermine the system that made them insanely wealthy than any other presidential candidate in their lifetimes.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the US central bank had been served grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department threatening a criminal indictment, a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks on the Fed.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
January 12, 2026 at 3:14 AM
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I also send my kid to a school that values social justice and teaches students about current events.

Do I deserve to get shot in the face, too?

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January 12, 2026 at 4:32 AM
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🚨BREAKING: Our cameraman Jon Farina was just struck in the leg by a flash bang ICE fired at unarmed protesters in Minneapolis. "My leg is hurting!"

ICE also fired pepper balls and tear gas. This is happening in AMERICA. LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 12, 2026 at 1:14 AM
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Will be interesting to see who suddenly cares about the president’s weaponization of the Justice Department now that it might threaten their bottom line $$$
January 12, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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I do not think anybody is prepared for how quickly and how thoroughly things we've taken for granted our whole lives could change
Look, you may think the Mail is probably exaggerating but the news side of Telegraph is legit: if Euros are considering this, there's smoke
European Union preparing sanctions on US companies if President Trump rejects EU proposal to deploy European military force to Greenland as an alternative to US control.-Telegraph
January 11, 2026 at 3:02 AM
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Rep. Ilhan Omar: Trump administration trying to provoke Minneapolis residents. "...I think the ultimate goal of [DHS Secretary] Kristi Noem and President Trump is to agitate people enough where they are able to invoke the Insurrection Act to declare martial law." www.commondreams.org/news/ilhan-o...
Omar Warns Trump Aims to Provoke Enough Agitation in Minnesota So He Can Declare 'Martial Law' | Common Dreams
"There is no other justifiable way to describe what is taking place in Minneapolis at this moment," said the Minnesota Democrat.
www.commondreams.org
January 12, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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this is a five alarm Fucking With The Money fire and between this and the Greenland threats the rich assholes might want to wake up and realize this dude is going to cost them way more than any wealth tax will
January 12, 2026 at 1:10 AM
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The nation only survives if there js a subsequent election that leads to a new administration that then throws so many people in jail from this administration and builds new guard rails so aggressive they resemble a labyrinth protecting the notion of a representative democracy without a king.
January 12, 2026 at 2:25 AM
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At last night’s candlelight vigil for Renee Nicole Good, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire announced he had asked the clergy of the diocese to get their affairs in order and to make sure they have their wills written ...,
January 11, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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text for sane people who hate watching videos
January 12, 2026 at 2:27 AM
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Greg Bovino has officially kicked off door-to-door raids. ICE/CBP goons are seen blocking an entire block, while Bovino and his Gestapo personally go door-to-door. (St. Paul, MN. January 11, 2026)
January 11, 2026 at 9:10 PM
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The chair of the fed ripping off his shirt and yelling "you know where to find me, bitch" while very clearly signaling to The Money that Trump is breaking The Money

can I have a precedented time again? I've been good
January 12, 2026 at 12:55 AM
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Hard to overstate what a remarkable statement this is from a Republican senator — even a retiring one — accusing thte Trump White House of weaponizing DOJ to control the Fed:

"It is now the independence and credibility of the Department of Justice that are in question."
January 12, 2026 at 2:13 AM
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A favorite sign from today's NYC protest march
January 11, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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Yeah. The financial class (especially the billionaires) were all in a tizzy with claims of hyperinflation when Biden was President, but Trump trying to create the single thing most likely to blow up inflation—a politicized central bank juicing interest rates—produces crickets.
What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
January 12, 2026 at 2:16 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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The total capture of the DOJ, seemingly with very little pushback or resistance, is one of the most striking examples of the capitulation of American elites in the face of authoritarianism. It’s been less than a year, and federal prosecutions or investigations are already completely discredited.
This is just one more example of a much broader pattern: The Department of Justice targeting Trump's political enemies with made-up accusations of wrong-doing.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
January 12, 2026 at 2:15 AM
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Forget DoJ independence. The DoJ not only takes orders from the President (which is by itself an insane scandal), they take NAKEDLY ILLEGAL orders from the President.
The total capture of the DOJ, seemingly with very little pushback or resistance, is one of the most striking examples of the capitulation of American elites in the face of authoritarianism. It’s been less than a year, and federal prosecutions or investigations are already completely discredited.
This is just one more example of a much broader pattern: The Department of Justice targeting Trump's political enemies with made-up accusations of wrong-doing.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/11/u...
January 12, 2026 at 2:37 AM
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Some countries that have prosecuted or threatened to prosecute central bankers for the purpose of political intimidation or punishment for monetary policy decisions: Argentina, Russia, Turkey, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.
January 12, 2026 at 2:01 AM
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some of these guys feel that they're showing remarkable restraint by passing up murders they're entitled to commit
ICE agent screaming a threat: "Did you not learn from what just happened?"
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January 12, 2026 at 2:35 AM
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people will say the framers never could have predicted this, but that's not true at all, they absolutely *did* expect someone like trump, they thought congress would *stop* him, and they thought they made that clear
January 12, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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The anti government militias were never anti government, they just hate Black people.
January 11, 2026 at 5:21 PM