Zachary
@zmamo2.bsky.social
Californian
Economist by training
Analytics by profession
Economist by training
Analytics by profession
Evil
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 10, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Evil
You work for the American people.
No, we are not.
No, we are not.
February 10, 2026 at 7:25 PM
You work for the American people.
No, we are not.
No, we are not.
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I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
February 9, 2026 at 2:11 AM
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
February 9, 2026 at 3:00 AM
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You mean the 5 year old citizens you took healthcare from…
or food stamps…
or heating assistance….
or their immigrant friends/families/neighbors…..
They do this because they want to terrorize out groups, not because they care about citizens.
or food stamps…
or heating assistance….
or their immigrant friends/families/neighbors…..
They do this because they want to terrorize out groups, not because they care about citizens.
Gonzales on Liam Ramos and his family: "They're not gonna qualify for asylum. So what do you do with all the people that go through the process and do not qualify for asylum? You deport them. I understand that 5-year-old and it breaks my heart. I also think, what about that 5-year-old US citizen?"
February 8, 2026 at 6:35 PM
You mean the 5 year old citizens you took healthcare from…
or food stamps…
or heating assistance….
or their immigrant friends/families/neighbors…..
They do this because they want to terrorize out groups, not because they care about citizens.
or food stamps…
or heating assistance….
or their immigrant friends/families/neighbors…..
They do this because they want to terrorize out groups, not because they care about citizens.
The media really lacks object permanence when it comes to Trump in all regards
The reason I’m not writing about Trump’s racist post is because I see no value in repeating what I’ve been saying for nearly two decades about the man. Here’s a piece I wrote for CNN in 2011.
www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION...
www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION...
It's not about his birth, it's about his race
I will not click on the link to view the long form of President Obama's birth certificate. I will not participate in this final humiliation -- in the president's reluctant acquiescence in this ongoing...
www.cnn.com
February 7, 2026 at 6:59 PM
The media really lacks object permanence when it comes to Trump in all regards
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Yeah it's a 75 million dollar bribe
Amazon paid $40 million to acquire the documentary, and is spending $35 million more to promote it. n.pr/4a84qhs
'Melania' is Amazon's airbrushed and astronomically pricey portrait of the First Lady
Amazon paid $40 million to acquire the documentary, and is spending $35 million more to promote it.
n.pr
January 31, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Yeah it's a 75 million dollar bribe
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"When that man is dead and gone"
A protest song about *checks notes* Adolf Hitler recorded eight years ago that Youtube randomly is recommending to people this week for no reason whatsoever 👀
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDkh...
A protest song about *checks notes* Adolf Hitler recorded eight years ago that Youtube randomly is recommending to people this week for no reason whatsoever 👀
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDkh...
When that Man is Dead and Gone (1941) - Protest song against Hitler (Live Take)
YouTube video by Lizzy & the Triggermen
www.youtube.com
January 30, 2026 at 5:22 PM
"When that man is dead and gone"
A protest song about *checks notes* Adolf Hitler recorded eight years ago that Youtube randomly is recommending to people this week for no reason whatsoever 👀
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDkh...
A protest song about *checks notes* Adolf Hitler recorded eight years ago that Youtube randomly is recommending to people this week for no reason whatsoever 👀
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDkh...
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Just going to note, yet again, that our entire National Conversation™️ about Congress & ICE is about What Democrats Must Do, while the actual people in Congress - all of whom are Republicans - who can really Do Something are getting Total Free Passes from the media & the online commentariat. Focus.
I'm also going to keep banging the drum that in Washington could end almost all of this immediately, by fulfilling their oaths & caucusing with the Democrats, & we should stop giving them every day & laser focus on that:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Again, I’m going to keep banging the drum that the fact we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is not only a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations & poses a massive threat to national security & world order but also should immediately end this presidency.
January 30, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Just going to note, yet again, that our entire National Conversation™️ about Congress & ICE is about What Democrats Must Do, while the actual people in Congress - all of whom are Republicans - who can really Do Something are getting Total Free Passes from the media & the online commentariat. Focus.
How is this byline even a reasonable question at this point? How is any of this soft pedaling of authoritarianism reasonable!?
Just looks around….OF COURSE HE IS.
Just looks around….OF COURSE HE IS.
"The most disturbing possibility is that the president is creating a militia which answers only to himself ... Abroad, from El Salvador to the Philippines, would-be despots often turn the army and the police against their people in the name of keeping order." www.economist.com/leaders/2026...
ICE’s impunity is a formula for more violence
Is America’s president building his own paramilitary militia?
www.economist.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:23 PM
How is this byline even a reasonable question at this point? How is any of this soft pedaling of authoritarianism reasonable!?
Just looks around….OF COURSE HE IS.
Just looks around….OF COURSE HE IS.
This is effectively nothing. None of this is verifiable or enforceable in any way.
SCHUMER says Democrats are “united” behind three DHS reforms
1/ End roving patrols; tighten the rules on warrants and require ICE to coordinate with local authorities.
2/ Enforce accountability; a uniform code of conduct.
3/ Require masks off, body cameras on, agents carry ID.
1/ End roving patrols; tighten the rules on warrants and require ICE to coordinate with local authorities.
2/ Enforce accountability; a uniform code of conduct.
3/ Require masks off, body cameras on, agents carry ID.
January 28, 2026 at 8:45 PM
This is effectively nothing. None of this is verifiable or enforceable in any way.
Bout time we start seeing the gun nuts out protesting tyranny.
Holy shit, there's an open carry #2A protest of ICE happening in Douglas County Colorado -- a very wealthy and very red suburb county of Denver. (I lived there for 16 years.) The Trump Administration pissing off committed gun owners sufficiently for them to join the protests against ICE is wild.
January 28, 2026 at 3:56 AM
Bout time we start seeing the gun nuts out protesting tyranny.
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Compare Ilhan Omar to the cowardly white men of the GOP...
Toughest congressperson in America rears back for a punch, and refuses to cut short townhall, after asshole sprays her with something.
January 28, 2026 at 3:10 AM
Compare Ilhan Omar to the cowardly white men of the GOP...
Camps where the government concentrates undesirables and abnormally large numbers of them die… if only there were words for such things.
January 28, 2026 at 2:59 AM
Camps where the government concentrates undesirables and abnormally large numbers of them die… if only there were words for such things.
This is fucking bad ass….
January 28, 2026 at 2:46 AM
This is fucking bad ass….
He’s right though….
The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
Tim Walz condemned for comparing Minnesota children to Anne Frank
The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
bit.ly
January 28, 2026 at 2:43 AM
He’s right though….
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"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 27, 2026 at 1:11 PM
"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."
And boom goes the MAGA political coalition. Racism l, economic anxiety and guns have fueled them for a long time time and all three are collapsing.
Trump: "With that being said, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that. But it's just a very unfortunate incident."
January 27, 2026 at 5:49 PM
And boom goes the MAGA political coalition. Racism l, economic anxiety and guns have fueled them for a long time time and all three are collapsing.
Every Dem should be hammering this relentlessly.
Corporate America should be sweating any and all cooperation with a lawless administration.
Corporate America should be sweating any and all cooperation with a lawless administration.
"what if the next administration will be democratic and they cut all the contracts with us?"
maybe a something all these corporations that decided to throw themselves whole-hog into trumpism should have thought about!
maybe a something all these corporations that decided to throw themselves whole-hog into trumpism should have thought about!
Some comments from workers in the hours after Pretti's killing:
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
www.wired.com/story/palant...
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
www.wired.com/story/palant...
January 26, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Every Dem should be hammering this relentlessly.
Corporate America should be sweating any and all cooperation with a lawless administration.
Corporate America should be sweating any and all cooperation with a lawless administration.
I am concerned that they will likely do a lot to try to interfere with the election and the seating of a new Congress , but we are a continent spanning, well armed country founded on revolution with an almost religious zeal for individualism.
strange to me that a lot of people on this website simultaneously agree that the administration is run by incompetents who struggle to carry out their agenda without major political blowback AND that they’ll pull off a complex and sophisticated effort to rig elections and prevent defeat in November
January 25, 2026 at 7:41 PM
I am concerned that they will likely do a lot to try to interfere with the election and the seating of a new Congress , but we are a continent spanning, well armed country founded on revolution with an almost religious zeal for individualism.
It’s always been Fascism.
Some just preferred to debate the topic rather than accept the fact.
Some just preferred to debate the topic rather than accept the fact.
Interesting
January 25, 2026 at 7:04 PM
It’s always been Fascism.
Some just preferred to debate the topic rather than accept the fact.
Some just preferred to debate the topic rather than accept the fact.
“One way out….”
we are being offered a straightforward deal: serfdom or death
January 25, 2026 at 5:36 PM
“One way out….”
You cannot, by definition, have a country founded by War that is subservient to law enforcement.
Attorney General Pam Bondi: "Our country was founded on law enforcement"
Bondi: "It's extremely organized. The signs they have are all matching, they're well written. And look at what's happening today. How did these people go out & get gas masks? These protesters. Would you know how to walk out on the street and buy a gas mask? Think about that. We're not gonna have it"
January 25, 2026 at 4:39 PM
You cannot, by definition, have a country founded by War that is subservient to law enforcement.
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Maybe instead of identifying specific ICE agents who do particularly heinous things, we could just penalize everyone who was on payroll at the agency starting by a certain date.
January 24, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Maybe instead of identifying specific ICE agents who do particularly heinous things, we could just penalize everyone who was on payroll at the agency starting by a certain date.