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"I'm in the horns of this dilemma, and my opponents won't let me out."
"Oh my, what's the dilemma?"
"Well, either I need to invade Greenland and destroy NATO, or not do that."
"Hmmm. But.. "
"WHY AM I NOT BEING GIVEN AN OFF RAMP"
"Oh my, what's the dilemma?"
"Well, either I need to invade Greenland and destroy NATO, or not do that."
"Hmmm. But.. "
"WHY AM I NOT BEING GIVEN AN OFF RAMP"
January 19, 2026 at 9:11 PM
"I'm in the horns of this dilemma, and my opponents won't let me out."
"Oh my, what's the dilemma?"
"Well, either I need to invade Greenland and destroy NATO, or not do that."
"Hmmm. But.. "
"WHY AM I NOT BEING GIVEN AN OFF RAMP"
"Oh my, what's the dilemma?"
"Well, either I need to invade Greenland and destroy NATO, or not do that."
"Hmmm. But.. "
"WHY AM I NOT BEING GIVEN AN OFF RAMP"
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I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
Opinion | In Minneapolis, I Glimpsed a Civil War
www.nytimes.com
January 19, 2026 at 12:56 PM
I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
This letter is real???? God in heaven.
Friendship over with Stephen Miller now Horrific Necktie is Trump's best friend
January 19, 2026 at 6:01 PM
This letter is real???? God in heaven.
Similar to how the Administration is trying every legal angle under the sun to defund or cut grants to “blue state” social programs — with no real response from their governors.
it feels like the country is already at war and only one side is fighting to maim and kill.
January 19, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Similar to how the Administration is trying every legal angle under the sun to defund or cut grants to “blue state” social programs — with no real response from their governors.
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NYT gift link for an article written by a foreign correspondent who's reported on countless wars: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
January 19, 2026 at 5:04 PM
NYT gift link for an article written by a foreign correspondent who's reported on countless wars: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...
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"Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial 'outside agitator' idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."
www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...
www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...
January 19, 2026 at 4:34 PM
"Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial 'outside agitator' idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds."
www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...
www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen...
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Norwegian PM Støre says Trump repeatedly raises—complains about, pleads for, and demands—the Nobel Peace Prize every time they meet. Støre gives same answer each time: decision is made independently by Norwegian Nobel Committee, with no role for Norwegian gov—a concept Trump appears unable to grasp.
January 18, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Norwegian PM Støre says Trump repeatedly raises—complains about, pleads for, and demands—the Nobel Peace Prize every time they meet. Støre gives same answer each time: decision is made independently by Norwegian Nobel Committee, with no role for Norwegian gov—a concept Trump appears unable to grasp.
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This is a very smart framing.
Respectfully, I am going to whisper to some of our white comrades a truth that should be more widely known: You definitely have some ancestors to be proud of, ancestors who refused white supremacy, and poured out their lives in many of these struggles over time.
Time to claim your true history.
Time to claim your true history.
January 18, 2026 at 8:34 AM
This is a very smart framing.
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Oh hey friends, if you’re a Verizon customer and they are trying to give you the $20 desire for the outage the other day, DO NOT TAKE IT. You don’t have to even call them. Get onto the web chat, type in “agent”, tell them the outage affected your work, and say you’ve been a customer for X years.
January 17, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Oh hey friends, if you’re a Verizon customer and they are trying to give you the $20 desire for the outage the other day, DO NOT TAKE IT. You don’t have to even call them. Get onto the web chat, type in “agent”, tell them the outage affected your work, and say you’ve been a customer for X years.
If only there had been some warning, some way to know before Election Day! Ah well. I guess hindsight is 50/50!!
Pollster: 58% of Americans say Trump's second term has been a failure. A year into term number two, Trump's numbers look worse than any other president. Trump is even worse than George W. Bush after Katrina and a long period in the Iraq War. This is really, really bad.
January 18, 2026 at 6:48 PM
If only there had been some warning, some way to know before Election Day! Ah well. I guess hindsight is 50/50!!
With love for Chris and his work, the full context matters here. The whole hotel is closing temporarily, “due to heightened public safely concerns.” Insulates the franchise from political blowback and expresses a valid concern other businesses probably have.
ICE agents at a hotel in St. Paul woke up this morning to news that they’re getting kicked out of their hotel today at noon.
January 18, 2026 at 5:00 PM
With love for Chris and his work, the full context matters here. The whole hotel is closing temporarily, “due to heightened public safely concerns.” Insulates the franchise from political blowback and expresses a valid concern other businesses probably have.
I can’t prove this and I don’t know how I’d go about trying, but, it feels like weather forecasts got really, really good for a few years and then suddenly much worse
January 18, 2026 at 1:45 PM
I can’t prove this and I don’t know how I’d go about trying, but, it feels like weather forecasts got really, really good for a few years and then suddenly much worse
On the one hand the “anti-woke” crusade and attending moral panic were wildly overblown and really did turn out to be stalking horses for authoritarianism. On the other, the left really does have a problem with purity politics, which repels moderates and dilutes our own power.
the Stancil thing really does drive home how much greater import some people place on having a completely correct billfold of opinions than actually doing something worthwhile in real life
January 18, 2026 at 6:24 AM
On the one hand the “anti-woke” crusade and attending moral panic were wildly overblown and really did turn out to be stalking horses for authoritarianism. On the other, the left really does have a problem with purity politics, which repels moderates and dilutes our own power.
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This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality
A few days ago, Fox News was whining about ICE agents getting heckled at a Mexican restaurant in Minneapolis.
Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
ICE agents ate at a Minnesota Mexican restaurant before arresting staff
Immigration law enforcement agents reportedly followed employees out of the restaurant after they closed for the evening
www.independent.co.uk
January 18, 2026 at 2:14 AM
This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality
America’s allies are explicitly planning for a future without us as a partner, much less a hegemon.
The Canada-China relationship has been distant and uncertain for nearly a decade.
We’re changing that, with a new strategic partnership that benefits the people of both our nations.
We’re changing that, with a new strategic partnership that benefits the people of both our nations.
January 17, 2026 at 10:08 PM
America’s allies are explicitly planning for a future without us as a partner, much less a hegemon.
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This is actually the really simple story of the collapse of American democracy. You can explain America’s constitutional collapse in a single coherent sentence:
The Founders assumed that Members of Congress would jealously and zealously guard the powers and prerogatives of their branch of government against the grasping of an overweening Executive, and instead we got this supine GOP majority that yearns to lick the boot.
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.
January 17, 2026 at 7:39 PM
This is actually the really simple story of the collapse of American democracy. You can explain America’s constitutional collapse in a single coherent sentence:
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🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The mirage of AI deregulation
One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Tr...
www.science.org
January 15, 2026 at 7:23 PM
🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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This makes me feel more patriotic than the national anthem ever could
January 16, 2026 at 5:28 PM
This makes me feel more patriotic than the national anthem ever could
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"They found ideological diversity to be particularly lacking. 'I didn’t realize exactly how conservative it would be.... You know, when I hear free speech and open debate and all that jazz, I assumed that there was going to be a more equal amount of political views, and there wasn’t.'"
Apropos of nothing, let's check in with how things are going at Bari Weiss's free speech university. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
January 17, 2026 at 3:12 AM
"They found ideological diversity to be particularly lacking. 'I didn’t realize exactly how conservative it would be.... You know, when I hear free speech and open debate and all that jazz, I assumed that there was going to be a more equal amount of political views, and there wasn’t.'"
Me trying to convince the baby to give me her water bottle so I can refill it
a man with long hair and a beard is saying i 'm trying to help you
ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is saying i 'm trying to help you
media.tenor.com
January 17, 2026 at 1:57 AM
Me trying to convince the baby to give me her water bottle so I can refill it
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It's great to see the term Reconstruction gain currency for what we need to do next. When we use it, we mean ambitious institutional transformations to shore us up for the future. When people like Larry Summers use it, I assume they're using it in the historically accurate sense of Republican rule
January 15, 2026 at 9:01 PM
It's great to see the term Reconstruction gain currency for what we need to do next. When we use it, we mean ambitious institutional transformations to shore us up for the future. When people like Larry Summers use it, I assume they're using it in the historically accurate sense of Republican rule
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🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide.
He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
January 15, 2026 at 11:03 PM
🚨WHOA. The El Paso Medical Examiner says it will rule the death of a 55-year-old Cuban man at ICE's "Camp East Montana" tent camp as a homicide.
He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
He was allegedly choked to death by a guard during a "struggle" after he refused to enter a housing unit without his medications.
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To the people out of state who keep saying “why won’t the local cops stop ICE” you need to understand that ICE is overwhelmingly the largest force on the ground in Minneapolis. They outnumber Minneapolis cops four to one. They’re more likely to stop the cops than the other way around
The Star Tribune had an insane graphic about the presence of immigration enforcement in Minneapolis. There are more immigration officers in the metro right now than local police officers.
January 15, 2026 at 12:25 PM
To the people out of state who keep saying “why won’t the local cops stop ICE” you need to understand that ICE is overwhelmingly the largest force on the ground in Minneapolis. They outnumber Minneapolis cops four to one. They’re more likely to stop the cops than the other way around