Victor Von Doomscroll
@redderbeanpaste.bsky.social
I look at politics in China and the United States. I will also yell about my cats and video games here. This is a private social media account
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A Crabby Guide to Politics
Guides, explainers and salty takes on American and Global Politics. No nonsense, except when there is. Crabby because I'm from Maryland
the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io
Ok I’ve been picking up some followers so let me do an intro
I am an accounting student that used to work in international affairs. I freelance write and run a newsletter that is proudly not on substack on American and international politics the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io
I am an accounting student that used to work in international affairs. I freelance write and run a newsletter that is proudly not on substack on American and international politics the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io
Go away Mr vice president
How's your non-violent working Mr Gandhi stancil? They will kill each and everyone of you right if they had the chance and you will still be writing Kumbaya.
Observers have been working day and night to protect these neighborhoods from ICE, make the streets safe so kids can go to school and people can go to their jobs. Burning down the street undoes all our work. The people setting fires haven’t been putting in long hours watching plates or doors.
January 25, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Go away Mr vice president
Damn that’s crazy. Anyway let me get some butter cookies to go with this cup of coffee I’m having
It's become clear that Avatar: Fire and Ash won’t come close to matching the enormous amount of money Avatar 1 and 2 made, so some superfans are calling on each other to return to the theater for a repeat viewing — although others aren't thrilled with the idea. https://t.co/8oo36f6fOg
January 25, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Damn that’s crazy. Anyway let me get some butter cookies to go with this cup of coffee I’m having
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pleading with the richest man in the world for him to let you continue covering international news is so fucking grim
Washpost foreign correspondents plead with Bezos to keep the overseas bureaus alive.
January 25, 2026 at 5:56 PM
pleading with the richest man in the world for him to let you continue covering international news is so fucking grim
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani Holds Press Conference with NYCEM
YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office
www.youtube.com
January 25, 2026 at 6:54 PM
My snow activity is seeing if water from a filter is actually better coffee water than tap
January 25, 2026 at 7:01 PM
My snow activity is seeing if water from a filter is actually better coffee water than tap
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US sports commentators when talking about US players: “her great grandmother is from a small county in Alabama where she ran the school and baked pies for the entire church on Sundays”
When talking about foreign players: “she’s from… over there. Did you know that they speak English over there too?”
When talking about foreign players: “she’s from… over there. Did you know that they speak English over there too?”
January 25, 2026 at 6:58 PM
US sports commentators when talking about US players: “her great grandmother is from a small county in Alabama where she ran the school and baked pies for the entire church on Sundays”
When talking about foreign players: “she’s from… over there. Did you know that they speak English over there too?”
When talking about foreign players: “she’s from… over there. Did you know that they speak English over there too?”
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so I guess in Mamdani's press conference, he told everyone to stay home and take a nap or maybe check out Heated Rivalry because the it's available to anyone with a library card right now from the NY public library.
WELCOME TO THE CULTURE.
WELCOME TO THE CULTURE.
January 25, 2026 at 6:52 PM
so I guess in Mamdani's press conference, he told everyone to stay home and take a nap or maybe check out Heated Rivalry because the it's available to anyone with a library card right now from the NY public library.
WELCOME TO THE CULTURE.
WELCOME TO THE CULTURE.
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Sooo, I had an adventure last night. I thought I was in the clear on frozen pipes but no, and one burst. So, I'll have to repair that, too.
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January 24, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Sooo, I had an adventure last night. I thought I was in the clear on frozen pipes but no, and one burst. So, I'll have to repair that, too.
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All the anti-war and anti-occupation protestors were right. All the far leftists were right. All the “woke scolds” and your friend who’s “too woke” were right. They were somehow even more right than they may have realized at the time. But really, it was always obvious they were right.
January 25, 2026 at 4:59 PM
All the anti-war and anti-occupation protestors were right. All the far leftists were right. All the “woke scolds” and your friend who’s “too woke” were right. They were somehow even more right than they may have realized at the time. But really, it was always obvious they were right.
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“or whatever” is the most chilling shit when talking about two paramilitary executions
Good question Congressman
Let's see. Would we rather live with our hard-working immigrant neighbors or masked thugs who are murdering our friends? Hard choice.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Let's see. Would we rather live with our hard-working immigrant neighbors or masked thugs who are murdering our friends? Hard choice.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 25, 2026 at 5:51 PM
“or whatever” is the most chilling shit when talking about two paramilitary executions
It’s so nice to see as an immigrant that these people are still playing parlor games with our existence
Thesis: ICE is un-American and the Minneapolis protestors are real Americans.
Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror.
Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.
Antithesis: Ackshually ICE is operating in a long American tradition of racist terror.
Synthesis: Minneapolis is now the epicenter of a clash between two distinct but historically grounded American political traditions.
January 25, 2026 at 5:50 PM
It’s so nice to see as an immigrant that these people are still playing parlor games with our existence
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MAGA: ICE just needs training!
Dem: Cops just need training!
MAGA: We're only going after the criminals! (Proceeds to spend 85% of budget doing quota policing against non-violent people🤡)
Dem: We're only going after violent criminals! (Proceeds to spend 85% of budget quota arresting Black folk🤡)
Dem: Cops just need training!
MAGA: We're only going after the criminals! (Proceeds to spend 85% of budget doing quota policing against non-violent people🤡)
Dem: We're only going after violent criminals! (Proceeds to spend 85% of budget quota arresting Black folk🤡)
January 25, 2026 at 5:45 AM
MAGA: ICE just needs training!
Dem: Cops just need training!
MAGA: We're only going after the criminals! (Proceeds to spend 85% of budget doing quota policing against non-violent people🤡)
Dem: We're only going after violent criminals! (Proceeds to spend 85% of budget quota arresting Black folk🤡)
Dem: Cops just need training!
MAGA: We're only going after the criminals! (Proceeds to spend 85% of budget doing quota policing against non-violent people🤡)
Dem: We're only going after violent criminals! (Proceeds to spend 85% of budget quota arresting Black folk🤡)
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Keep hearing about people getting on planes to come here
THEY'RE SNATCHING PEOPLE IN YOUR AREA TOO
THEY'RE SNATCHING PEOPLE IN YOUR AREA TOO
January 25, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Keep hearing about people getting on planes to come here
THEY'RE SNATCHING PEOPLE IN YOUR AREA TOO
THEY'RE SNATCHING PEOPLE IN YOUR AREA TOO
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this has been one of my favorite poems for a long time.
January 25, 2026 at 5:12 PM
this has been one of my favorite poems for a long time.
Building a cat igloo with snow and colored ice blocks
YouTube video by louiswildlife
youtu.be
January 25, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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"How could they lie like that so brazenly??""
Because you let them.
FOR DECADES
About people you didn't care about.
Because you let them.
FOR DECADES
About people you didn't care about.
January 25, 2026 at 4:28 PM
"How could they lie like that so brazenly??""
Because you let them.
FOR DECADES
About people you didn't care about.
Because you let them.
FOR DECADES
About people you didn't care about.
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All across this great nation dads are standing at the window with their hands on their hips going “it’s coming down real fast”
January 25, 2026 at 4:24 PM
All across this great nation dads are standing at the window with their hands on their hips going “it’s coming down real fast”
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![• Cruz says he told Trump: "Mr. President, if we get to November of [2026] and people's 401(k)s are down 30% and prices are up 10-20% at the supermarket, we're going to go into Election Day, face a bloodbath."
• 'You're going to lose the House, you're going to lose the Senate, you're going to spend the next two years being impeached every single week."
Trump's response, according to Cruz:
"F**k you, Ted."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ux34natbhxube3xgdu3rhf45/bafkreigcu6eh2bqb2dyzxuwmwzaeqafrdtnaraj4fvwxd4dfmobe7nitra@jpeg)
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i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.”
Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
January 25, 2026 at 3:02 PM
i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
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the smartest thing to do right now would be to make a show of disciplining some ICE agents and quietly pull back from minneapolis. the president offers his condolences and maybe even makes a direct donation to the family. you fire bovino and replace him with someone more quietly depraved, etc.
January 25, 2026 at 3:02 PM
the smartest thing to do right now would be to make a show of disciplining some ICE agents and quietly pull back from minneapolis. the president offers his condolences and maybe even makes a direct donation to the family. you fire bovino and replace him with someone more quietly depraved, etc.
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ICE is murdering people in the street and the Times’ resident conservatives are droning on about the totalitarian threats to speech coming from the campuses and “managerial illiberalism.”
They’ve been stale for a while, but this focus is embarrassing as a tyrannical state kills people.
They’ve been stale for a while, but this focus is embarrassing as a tyrannical state kills people.
January 25, 2026 at 2:37 PM
ICE is murdering people in the street and the Times’ resident conservatives are droning on about the totalitarian threats to speech coming from the campuses and “managerial illiberalism.”
They’ve been stale for a while, but this focus is embarrassing as a tyrannical state kills people.
They’ve been stale for a while, but this focus is embarrassing as a tyrannical state kills people.
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Remarkable that they'd put it in writing like this but ICE is very clearly a mob enforcement racket
Pam Bondi's conditions for Minnesota: 1) give us all your state data on your food programs, including SNAP 2) repeal all your sanctuary policies in the state (since it has led to "so much crime and violence") and 3) hand over your state voting rolls. Letter here: www.fox9.com/news/minneap...
Minneapolis shooting: AG Pam Bondi gives Gov. Walz conditions for ICE to leave Minnesota
www.fox9.com
January 25, 2026 at 3:59 AM
Remarkable that they'd put it in writing like this but ICE is very clearly a mob enforcement racket
Yup. This idea that lynching is fine but not for certain people is an old rot we need to purge
Too many people are ready to put the victim's lives under a microscope instead of demanding the state answer for the crime of murdering people. I know anti Blackness is at the root of this poisonous tree, but I want people to let go of the idea that an agent of the state has the right to execute
January 25, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Yup. This idea that lynching is fine but not for certain people is an old rot we need to purge
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Too many people are ready to put the victim's lives under a microscope instead of demanding the state answer for the crime of murdering people. I know anti Blackness is at the root of this poisonous tree, but I want people to let go of the idea that an agent of the state has the right to execute
January 25, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Too many people are ready to put the victim's lives under a microscope instead of demanding the state answer for the crime of murdering people. I know anti Blackness is at the root of this poisonous tree, but I want people to let go of the idea that an agent of the state has the right to execute