Andy Freeland
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Andy Freeland
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· Jun 11
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i'm going to spend the rest of my life figuring out how a small band of elites decided that acting as the global currency and primary military hegemon was gay and feminine coded
BREAKING: Europe may begin selling U.S. assets in response to a new conflict with the US, a move that could trigger a dollar collapse, per Bloomberg.
January 20, 2026 at 6:18 PM
i'm going to spend the rest of my life figuring out how a small band of elites decided that acting as the global currency and primary military hegemon was gay and feminine coded
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Congressional Democrats fundamentally do not understand how the new attention economy works. They're still playing to the editorial board of their local newspaper (that likely closed five years ago.)
Staring at a five-alarm fire, Democrats work up a good mouthful of spit.
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Democrats Support Bill That Would Give ICE $10 Billion
The party has few good options for restraining ICE, which is flush with cash thanks to the passage of President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.
www.huffpost.com
January 20, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Congressional Democrats fundamentally do not understand how the new attention economy works. They're still playing to the editorial board of their local newspaper (that likely closed five years ago.)
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the contrast between Zohran and, like, Karen Bass is pretty remarkable. Zohran has a clear vision of a more affordable and sustainable city and forcefully supports pro-housing polices as a key part of that vision.
Meanwhile, Karen Bass doesn’t seem to believe in anything in particular at all
Meanwhile, Karen Bass doesn’t seem to believe in anything in particular at all
January 20, 2026 at 1:24 AM
the contrast between Zohran and, like, Karen Bass is pretty remarkable. Zohran has a clear vision of a more affordable and sustainable city and forcefully supports pro-housing polices as a key part of that vision.
Meanwhile, Karen Bass doesn’t seem to believe in anything in particular at all
Meanwhile, Karen Bass doesn’t seem to believe in anything in particular at all
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Median Voters: Why won't those LAZY POLITICIANS get the homeless off our streets and into housing!? Do something!!
Also Median Voters: Why are those CROOKED POLITICIANS putting homeless in housing near me without years of community input?! Stop doing that!!
Also Median Voters: Why are those CROOKED POLITICIANS putting homeless in housing near me without years of community input?! Stop doing that!!
January 19, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Median Voters: Why won't those LAZY POLITICIANS get the homeless off our streets and into housing!? Do something!!
Also Median Voters: Why are those CROOKED POLITICIANS putting homeless in housing near me without years of community input?! Stop doing that!!
Also Median Voters: Why are those CROOKED POLITICIANS putting homeless in housing near me without years of community input?! Stop doing that!!
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Lots of Americans really want Community Boards that vote on every Official Application for Neighborhood Residence.
Median Voters: Why won't those LAZY POLITICIANS get the homeless off our streets and into housing!? Do something!!
Also Median Voters: Why are those CROOKED POLITICIANS putting homeless in housing near me without years of community input?! Stop doing that!!
Also Median Voters: Why are those CROOKED POLITICIANS putting homeless in housing near me without years of community input?! Stop doing that!!
January 20, 2026 at 10:29 PM
Lots of Americans really want Community Boards that vote on every Official Application for Neighborhood Residence.
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More American public figures should be making statements like this, IMO. Making clear that when the Trump regime acts belligerently toward European democracies, a great many Americans are on the side of the European democracies.
Don't back down, Europe: youtu.be/SS5Ep3LTqnE
Europe: Don't Back Down
YouTube video by Frankly Fukuyama
youtu.be
January 20, 2026 at 10:05 PM
More American public figures should be making statements like this, IMO. Making clear that when the Trump regime acts belligerently toward European democracies, a great many Americans are on the side of the European democracies.
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Amy thinking of who matters most, her primary constituents, the police.
Today I talked with police chiefs from across the metro area. This isn’t just happening in Mpls and St. Paul. The 3000 ICE agents are in the suburbs and across our state. The surge is disrupting the work of local law enforcement.
January 20, 2026 at 10:55 PM
Amy thinking of who matters most, her primary constituents, the police.
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the western alliance was born in the fires of the most catastrophic conflict in the history of the world. republicans are spitting on the graves of the dead. these men and women are human filth.
Genuinely insane we are living in a world where the Danish have to deploy a battlegroup to protect themselves against America. Makes my blood turn molten, honestly
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January 20, 2026 at 10:32 PM
the western alliance was born in the fires of the most catastrophic conflict in the history of the world. republicans are spitting on the graves of the dead. these men and women are human filth.
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trump getting his feelings hurt by european leaders is the culmination of this new type of guy that emerged in the last decade or so: guy who goes out of his way to be a huge asshole who then gets really offended when the people he's being an asshole to don't like him
January 20, 2026 at 7:54 PM
trump getting his feelings hurt by european leaders is the culmination of this new type of guy that emerged in the last decade or so: guy who goes out of his way to be a huge asshole who then gets really offended when the people he's being an asshole to don't like him
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I dream of a day I don't have see any of these coke heads in the news anymore
This is so funny after the incessant ads from Palantir about empowering, not replacing the American worker.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Palantir CEO Says AI to Make Large-Scale Immigration Obsolete
Artificial intelligence will displace so many jobs that it will eliminate the need for mass immigration, according to Palantir Technologies Inc. Chief Executive Officer Alex Karp.
www.bloomberg.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:08 AM
I dream of a day I don't have see any of these coke heads in the news anymore
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If you fast forward like 100 years how are historians going to interpret America destroying the world order it had created for its own benefit? We are burning it down and no one can even articulate a policy goal, and maybe not even an ideological goal.
I generally wouldn't recommend watching a 30 minute speech at the World Economic Forum. But it's wild, watching the post-war global order break down in real time today. A strong speech of world historic importance, but a portend of some very dark times to come.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE98...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE98...
Davos LIVE: Canadian PM Mark Carney speaks at World Economic Forum
YouTube video by Associated Press
www.youtube.com
January 21, 2026 at 1:15 AM
If you fast forward like 100 years how are historians going to interpret America destroying the world order it had created for its own benefit? We are burning it down and no one can even articulate a policy goal, and maybe not even an ideological goal.
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jd vance would sell his *own* children for a percocet if he thought it would get him closer to the presidency
NEW: JD Vance supported US strikes on Iran this week and reasoned that Trump had to enforce his own red line, per sources. It was a surprise role reversal for a politician who built his identity on opposing Middle East wars with a loose connection to core US interests
January 18, 2026 at 1:21 AM
jd vance would sell his *own* children for a percocet if he thought it would get him closer to the presidency
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Child abuse is a central plank in the conservative platform, because physical mastery of the weak is how they establish dominance, their only value. It's not just something a lot of conservatives do, it is part of being a conservative.
About the ICE agent who fatally shot a man on New Year’s Eve while off-duty:
A court document "says the ICE agent allegedly whipped his sons with a belt, made homophobic slurs and racist remarks about Black and Latino people and brought a gun to a youth sports game."
A court document "says the ICE agent allegedly whipped his sons with a belt, made homophobic slurs and racist remarks about Black and Latino people and brought a gun to a youth sports game."
ICE agent believed responsible for L.A. killing accused of child abuse, racism in court filings
A court filing made public this week claims that a federal immigration agent thought to have shot and killed a Los Angeles man on New Year's Eve was previously accused of child abuse and making racist...
www.latimes.com
January 17, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Child abuse is a central plank in the conservative platform, because physical mastery of the weak is how they establish dominance, their only value. It's not just something a lot of conservatives do, it is part of being a conservative.
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US government's policy toward the Big 3 automakers—encouraging them to invest in massive, US-only SUVs & trucks, now encouraging them to underinvest in EVs—has reinforced their global irrelevance.
Ford sold 33% fewer vehicles worldwide in 2024 than 2015! GM sold 40% fewer vehicles!
Ford sold 33% fewer vehicles worldwide in 2024 than 2015! GM sold 40% fewer vehicles!
January 15, 2026 at 8:03 PM
US government's policy toward the Big 3 automakers—encouraging them to invest in massive, US-only SUVs & trucks, now encouraging them to underinvest in EVs—has reinforced their global irrelevance.
Ford sold 33% fewer vehicles worldwide in 2024 than 2015! GM sold 40% fewer vehicles!
Ford sold 33% fewer vehicles worldwide in 2024 than 2015! GM sold 40% fewer vehicles!
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It’s always fun when your transit agency hates density
Metro legislative staff says they want to delay SB79 applying to L.A. - to work things out. Hahn says that doesn't solve any problems... says a lot of SB79 opposition is due to misinformation.
January 15, 2026 at 8:45 PM
It’s always fun when your transit agency hates density
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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.
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
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.
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The Make-A-Wish President
Grinning like a 5-year old getting his participation trophy at the post-season T-ball pizza party.
January 16, 2026 at 2:28 AM
The Make-A-Wish President
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you know, its funny, but america is (was?) really at the height of its imperial power in the period preceding the trump era. its just that ruling the world doesnt get these guys hard unless they get to murder people
"Like an elderly man whose powers are failing, the Habsburg Monarchy sought to recover its youth by a display of vitality...internal action had come to nothing; action in foreign affairs had to take its place."
January 15, 2026 at 3:25 AM
you know, its funny, but america is (was?) really at the height of its imperial power in the period preceding the trump era. its just that ruling the world doesnt get these guys hard unless they get to murder people
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The complicated reality is there are 3 things happening simultaneously:
-Trump preternaturally understands the ebb and flow of the media and does perform for it
-His inner circle is in a mad dash to turn the US into a fascist ethnostate
-Like all authoritarian regimes, they're grossly incompetent
-Trump preternaturally understands the ebb and flow of the media and does perform for it
-His inner circle is in a mad dash to turn the US into a fascist ethnostate
-Like all authoritarian regimes, they're grossly incompetent
Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.
January 15, 2026 at 3:39 AM
The complicated reality is there are 3 things happening simultaneously:
-Trump preternaturally understands the ebb and flow of the media and does perform for it
-His inner circle is in a mad dash to turn the US into a fascist ethnostate
-Like all authoritarian regimes, they're grossly incompetent
-Trump preternaturally understands the ebb and flow of the media and does perform for it
-His inner circle is in a mad dash to turn the US into a fascist ethnostate
-Like all authoritarian regimes, they're grossly incompetent
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looks like donald trump used the military to do a smash and grab for his personal benefit
Seizure ... by whom? If we're asserting that the money is safer in Qatar than the US, that suggests that it is being protected because Qatar has something the US lacks — presumably a lack of accountability to American courts and Congress. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
January 15, 2026 at 4:01 AM
looks like donald trump used the military to do a smash and grab for his personal benefit
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The Trump admin has suspended basically all long-term immigration from Africa, even citizens' spouses, high-skilled immigrants, etc. Only reason they're exempting the Central African Republic, Kenya, etc is to maintain plausible deniability that this isn't race-based for SCOTUS
In the last six months, the administration has dropped three different, overlapping immigration bans based on national origin, each time more extreme and arbitrary than the last. As you can see these bans impact countries in every region of the world.
cato.org/blog/new-ban...
cato.org/blog/new-ban...
January 15, 2026 at 3:54 AM
The Trump admin has suspended basically all long-term immigration from Africa, even citizens' spouses, high-skilled immigrants, etc. Only reason they're exempting the Central African Republic, Kenya, etc is to maintain plausible deniability that this isn't race-based for SCOTUS
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One of the main things I appreciate about LA is that going anywhere, at any time, in any way, is a horrifying ordeal
January 15, 2026 at 1:57 AM
One of the main things I appreciate about LA is that going anywhere, at any time, in any way, is a horrifying ordeal
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i don't want the unpopular geriatric rapist criminal president to start world war 3
January 14, 2026 at 8:54 PM
i don't want the unpopular geriatric rapist criminal president to start world war 3
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i think we need to jail company executives that say/do things like this
January 14, 2026 at 9:34 PM
i think we need to jail company executives that say/do things like this
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This. I am done returning to the status quo of what got us here. I want universal healthcare. I want a maximum wage tied to the minimum wage. I want omnipresent, cheap public transit and walkable neighborhoods. I want Supreme Court and police reform, and I want the rich to pay their fair share.
We need to pick up this Overton Window and throw it as far as we can. Stop waiting for shit to “be popular” and start advocating for what is transparently right.
January 14, 2026 at 4:08 PM
This. I am done returning to the status quo of what got us here. I want universal healthcare. I want a maximum wage tied to the minimum wage. I want omnipresent, cheap public transit and walkable neighborhoods. I want Supreme Court and police reform, and I want the rich to pay their fair share.