Ralston Elko
@necho.org
📍Chicago, IL
Stunned cacophony. Will never forget the Texan invasion.
Stunned cacophony. Will never forget the Texan invasion.
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Given how much Trump is fighting against the release of the Epstein files, he's likely not just in them: he's probably a main character.
January 17, 2026 at 6:50 PM
Given how much Trump is fighting against the release of the Epstein files, he's likely not just in them: he's probably a main character.
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Why is the Treasury Secretary talking about this?
WELKER: Is military action on the table?
BESSENT: I believe the Europeans will understand that the best outcome is for the US to receive control of Greenland
BESSENT: I believe the Europeans will understand that the best outcome is for the US to receive control of Greenland
January 18, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Why is the Treasury Secretary talking about this?
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I think that this is correct. I think a lot, though, about how attacks on NYC and DC were interpreted by Americans throughout this enormous country as attacks on them ... which coexists today with the deep hatred of the actual people who live in NYC and DC
I've long said that one of the reasons some Americans went so deep into the sadism and cruelty of Gitmo, dark sites and torture after 9/11 was because they were ashamed of how scared they were that day, and how visible to the world that fear was, both of which were unacceptable to US self-image.
So, one of the things I'm trying to get across in this next book, on a really deep level level, is how the nation could never have got this way--where any frightened cop gets to kill anyone--is because of political choices made after 9/11: to become, as I put it, a "bedwetter nation."
January 10, 2026 at 12:26 AM
I think that this is correct. I think a lot, though, about how attacks on NYC and DC were interpreted by Americans throughout this enormous country as attacks on them ... which coexists today with the deep hatred of the actual people who live in NYC and DC
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This is tremendously interesting! Two countries which worry about national unity, security, and morality at a very high level.
Malaysia and Indonesia have become the first countries to block Grok. The ban in Indonesia appears to be triggered specifically by a "bikini deepfake" controversy involving non-consensual sexualized images (sometimes of minors).
Malaysia and Indonesia become the first countries to block Musk’s Grok over sexualized AI images
Malaysia and Indonesia have blocked access to Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok over its misuse to generate explicit images.
apnews.com
January 14, 2026 at 3:51 AM
This is tremendously interesting! Two countries which worry about national unity, security, and morality at a very high level.
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This is all — all of it — downstream of malapportionment in democratic systems.
The world over, most people vote with their feet by moving to big multicultural cities. And the left-behind rural populations — in big, empty, and declining constituencies — use their vote to complain about it.
The world over, most people vote with their feet by moving to big multicultural cities. And the left-behind rural populations — in big, empty, and declining constituencies — use their vote to complain about it.
I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
January 17, 2026 at 12:16 PM
This is all — all of it — downstream of malapportionment in democratic systems.
The world over, most people vote with their feet by moving to big multicultural cities. And the left-behind rural populations — in big, empty, and declining constituencies — use their vote to complain about it.
The world over, most people vote with their feet by moving to big multicultural cities. And the left-behind rural populations — in big, empty, and declining constituencies — use their vote to complain about it.
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I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
January 17, 2026 at 4:28 AM
I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
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Loyalty to the in-group is the only form of accountability in communities that succumb to disordered discourse.
Loyalty seems to dominate other values, such as broader compassion, honesty, or obeying laws.
@bellingcat.com CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMR-...
Loyalty seems to dominate other values, such as broader compassion, honesty, or obeying laws.
@bellingcat.com CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMR-...
Bellingcat CEO Eliot Higgins on how loyalty equals accountability in disordered discourse networks
YouTube video by Cambridge Disinformation Summit
www.youtube.com
January 18, 2026 at 8:06 AM
Loyalty to the in-group is the only form of accountability in communities that succumb to disordered discourse.
Loyalty seems to dominate other values, such as broader compassion, honesty, or obeying laws.
@bellingcat.com CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMR-...
Loyalty seems to dominate other values, such as broader compassion, honesty, or obeying laws.
@bellingcat.com CEO @eliothiggins.bsky.social.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMR-...
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We should go back to pre-Gingrich immigration rules. Why should people need a lawyer to come here?
January 18, 2026 at 1:15 AM
We should go back to pre-Gingrich immigration rules. Why should people need a lawyer to come here?
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"we don't want people thinking Democrats are for open borders" I am! who gives a shit!!! my life has been immeasurably improved by the presence of immigrants in my community, regardless of their status, there is literally no downside there! why would I give a shit!!!!
January 17, 2026 at 10:08 PM
"we don't want people thinking Democrats are for open borders" I am! who gives a shit!!! my life has been immeasurably improved by the presence of immigrants in my community, regardless of their status, there is literally no downside there! why would I give a shit!!!!
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Not just here, but all over the world, people have actual problems to take care of and lives to lead, and they end up spending so much time and energy just dealing with the damage Trump needlessly causes every day. It's exhausting.
Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now.
Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations.
Source: dr.dk
Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations.
Source: dr.dk
January 17, 2026 at 9:10 PM
Not just here, but all over the world, people have actual problems to take care of and lives to lead, and they end up spending so much time and energy just dealing with the damage Trump needlessly causes every day. It's exhausting.
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How it started ... How it's going
January 17, 2026 at 9:58 PM
How it started ... How it's going
Agreed. You endorsed this and you need to make republicans get rid of the cause of it.
January 17, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Agreed. You endorsed this and you need to make republicans get rid of the cause of it.
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The double pardon really gives away the game. Adriana Camberos started her second round of fraud just weeks after her first pardon. She was charged, convicted, imprisoned…and pardoned again. Trump supporters are permitted unlimited crimes, while the rest of us can get beaten by the secret police.
President Trump quietly issued clemency grants this week, including to a California woman he had pardoned once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC.
Trump Sets Fraudster Free From Prison for a Second Time
The president issued a raft of clemency grants this week, including pardoning a woman he had given relief to once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC.
nyti.ms
January 16, 2026 at 7:42 PM
The double pardon really gives away the game. Adriana Camberos started her second round of fraud just weeks after her first pardon. She was charged, convicted, imprisoned…and pardoned again. Trump supporters are permitted unlimited crimes, while the rest of us can get beaten by the secret police.
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It is fight today or fight later from a worse position.
January 17, 2026 at 5:36 PM
It is fight today or fight later from a worse position.
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Well, we could start by seizing his golf courses?
January 17, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Well, we could start by seizing his golf courses?
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Put more eloquently:
I would like to think the Mad King proclaiming “I will continue to illegally raise taxes on the American people until the NATO alliance collapses” would be the type of statement to cause Congress to act, but I’m not sure there’s any red line the GOP Congress has anymore.
Trump says he'll impose a 10% tariff (rising to 25% in June) on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland, because they've sent people to Greenland, until the US can buy Greenland.
January 17, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Put more eloquently:
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we will punch American consumers in the dick until our NATO allies join us in our madness. Brilliant strategy sir.
Trump says on Feb 1 he will impose a 10% tariff “on any and all goods sent” to US from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, UK, Netherlands, & Finland, increasing to 25% June 1 “until such time as a Deal is reached for the Complete and Total purchase of Greenland.”
January 17, 2026 at 5:36 PM
we will punch American consumers in the dick until our NATO allies join us in our madness. Brilliant strategy sir.
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Trump is the first president who is actually as corrupt as the cynical public assumes all politicians are, so when you describe impeachable offenses they assume it’s business as usual.
January 17, 2026 at 2:16 AM
Trump is the first president who is actually as corrupt as the cynical public assumes all politicians are, so when you describe impeachable offenses they assume it’s business as usual.
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Americans yearn to pay 15 dollars for a box of pasta so Trump can have Greenland for some unclear reason
January 17, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Americans yearn to pay 15 dollars for a box of pasta so Trump can have Greenland for some unclear reason
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this alone is worth an impeachment tbh
REPORTER: Do you commit to not militarily engaging NATO partners?
TRUMP: I don't talk about that
REPORTER: You're not willing to commit to not attacking a NATO partner?
TRUMP: I don't talk about that
REPORTER: You're not willing to commit to not attacking a NATO partner?
January 17, 2026 at 4:04 PM
this alone is worth an impeachment tbh
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It’s amazing watching the U.S. cede the global auto market to China. We’re 24–36 months away from utter devastation in U.S. vehicle exports, because both automakers and the U.S. are scared of EVs, because a dozen petroleum executives have a whole political party at their beck and call.
December 31, 2024 at 7:29 PM
It’s amazing watching the U.S. cede the global auto market to China. We’re 24–36 months away from utter devastation in U.S. vehicle exports, because both automakers and the U.S. are scared of EVs, because a dozen petroleum executives have a whole political party at their beck and call.
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I don’t think this stuff is recoverable. I think these are the crucial four years where we just cede all basically all green tech production to China.
January 16, 2026 at 2:58 PM
I don’t think this stuff is recoverable. I think these are the crucial four years where we just cede all basically all green tech production to China.
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Once you realize their fantasy is putting down a slave rebellion rather than being a part of one it makes more sense
December 19, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Once you realize their fantasy is putting down a slave rebellion rather than being a part of one it makes more sense
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I think about this picture at least three times a day
January 16, 2026 at 12:00 AM
I think about this picture at least three times a day
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the nobel peace prize is basically meaningless if you haven’t taken it by force.
January 16, 2026 at 2:41 PM
the nobel peace prize is basically meaningless if you haven’t taken it by force.