Lynn_archivist
@archivistlynn.bsky.social
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Since taking office a year ago, Trump and his family have inflated their personal wealth by nearly $2 billion.
An estimated $1.3 billion of that has come from his burgeoning crypto grifts, which could put the rest of us at severe economic risk. https://youtu.be/gpCxV-cRY4o?si=hv3qQImBGP_XgwSA
An estimated $1.3 billion of that has come from his burgeoning crypto grifts, which could put the rest of us at severe economic risk. https://youtu.be/gpCxV-cRY4o?si=hv3qQImBGP_XgwSA
Trump's Crypto Corruption, Explained
Trump's crypto corruption is off the charts.Here's how the president's latest grift could endanger our democracy and cra
youtu.be
January 21, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Since taking office a year ago, Trump and his family have inflated their personal wealth by nearly $2 billion.
An estimated $1.3 billion of that has come from his burgeoning crypto grifts, which could put the rest of us at severe economic risk. https://youtu.be/gpCxV-cRY4o?si=hv3qQImBGP_XgwSA
An estimated $1.3 billion of that has come from his burgeoning crypto grifts, which could put the rest of us at severe economic risk. https://youtu.be/gpCxV-cRY4o?si=hv3qQImBGP_XgwSA
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“A world of fortresses will be poorer, more fragile, and less sustainable.”
This is a good speech by @mark-carney.bsky.social . I hope many Canadians AND Americans will read it. #cdnpoli
This is a good speech by @mark-carney.bsky.social . I hope many Canadians AND Americans will read it. #cdnpoli
Carney's speech is brilliant. Here is a transcript. I suspect we will be feeling some serious pain in Canada shortly from the reaction
open.substack.com/pub/paulwell...
open.substack.com/pub/paulwell...
The Carney doctrine
Open comment thread on the PM's Davos speech
open.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:01 PM
“A world of fortresses will be poorer, more fragile, and less sustainable.”
This is a good speech by @mark-carney.bsky.social . I hope many Canadians AND Americans will read it. #cdnpoli
This is a good speech by @mark-carney.bsky.social . I hope many Canadians AND Americans will read it. #cdnpoli
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"In 1910, the richest 0.00001 percent of Americans owned wealth equivalent to 4 percent of U.S. national income. Today, that number has risen to 12 percent. The wealth and power of oligarchs far exceed their Gilded Age peak."
Standing up to Trump’s Imperial Blackmail on Greenland
If the European Union wants to stop the imperial ambitions of the man in the White House, it will have to do more than protest. It will have to innovate—and that means targeting America’s oligarchs.
gzucman.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 10:09 AM
"In 1910, the richest 0.00001 percent of Americans owned wealth equivalent to 4 percent of U.S. national income. Today, that number has risen to 12 percent. The wealth and power of oligarchs far exceed their Gilded Age peak."
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I think there is some information in there that isn't familiar to a lot of people. Including that the US is currently holding three times as many people in immigration detention as were detained in the entire Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939—six years into the Third Reich.
January 20, 2026 at 3:43 AM
I think there is some information in there that isn't familiar to a lot of people. Including that the US is currently holding three times as many people in immigration detention as were detained in the entire Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939—six years into the Third Reich.
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For those saying “oh but the cabinet are all sycophants.” Yes. We know.
It’s called PRESSURE. You pressure the system until something gives. Micro cracks in the wall until some bricks start to come loose.
It’s called PRESSURE. You pressure the system until something gives. Micro cracks in the wall until some bricks start to come loose.
The 25th Amendment must be invoked by the cabinet. I’m all for pressuring them. Congressional Dems should lead the charge. Not on Bluesky or Threads. Let’s do it.
Invoke the 25th Amendment.
January 19, 2026 at 10:58 PM
For those saying “oh but the cabinet are all sycophants.” Yes. We know.
It’s called PRESSURE. You pressure the system until something gives. Micro cracks in the wall until some bricks start to come loose.
It’s called PRESSURE. You pressure the system until something gives. Micro cracks in the wall until some bricks start to come loose.
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Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask:
"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
January 19, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask:
"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
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2026 is going to be a very dark year for US foreign policy, where everything that was built over many decades by leaders for collective security is torn apart by one madman, but only because people in his own party remain silent.
January 19, 2026 at 12:04 PM
2026 is going to be a very dark year for US foreign policy, where everything that was built over many decades by leaders for collective security is torn apart by one madman, but only because people in his own party remain silent.
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Four attorneys told ABC News they have been denied access to their clients at the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, where they are being held, which they say would violate 5th & 6th Amendment rights to due process & the right to consult with counsel. abcnews.go.com/US/lawyers-a...
Lawyers allege Dept. of Homeland Security is denying legal counsel to Minnesota detainees
Four attorneys told ABC News they have been denied access to their clients at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, where they are being held.
abcnews.go.com
January 19, 2026 at 7:02 AM
Four attorneys told ABC News they have been denied access to their clients at the Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis, where they are being held, which they say would violate 5th & 6th Amendment rights to due process & the right to consult with counsel. abcnews.go.com/US/lawyers-a...
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Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
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If the basic project is expanding and straightening the American empire, everything this administration has done - destroy soft power, wreck alliances, abandon shared ideals, withdraw for the intl institutions America built, and general erratic behavior - will have the opposite effect.
Bessent on Greenland: "Peace through strength. Make it part of the US and there will not be a conflict because the US right now, we're the hottest country in the world, we're the strongest country in the world. Europeans project weakness. The US projects strength."
January 18, 2026 at 2:53 PM
If the basic project is expanding and straightening the American empire, everything this administration has done - destroy soft power, wreck alliances, abandon shared ideals, withdraw for the intl institutions America built, and general erratic behavior - will have the opposite effect.
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Kleptocracy. Single-party rule. Corrupt courts. Quasi-legal vigilante militias organized around racial grievance.
The Trump presidency has basically taken the Jim Crow-era southern state governance model and scaled it to the federal-level for modern times
The Trump presidency has basically taken the Jim Crow-era southern state governance model and scaled it to the federal-level for modern times
January 18, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Kleptocracy. Single-party rule. Corrupt courts. Quasi-legal vigilante militias organized around racial grievance.
The Trump presidency has basically taken the Jim Crow-era southern state governance model and scaled it to the federal-level for modern times
The Trump presidency has basically taken the Jim Crow-era southern state governance model and scaled it to the federal-level for modern times
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A terrible day.
The U.S. government vs. the free world.
The U.S. government vs. the free world.
January 17, 2026 at 11:54 PM
A terrible day.
The U.S. government vs. the free world.
The U.S. government vs. the free world.
Gift link in the thread. Useful and eye opening.
January 18, 2026 at 2:06 PM
Gift link in the thread. Useful and eye opening.
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Would you like to support the Mass Center for the Book (home of the Massachusetts Book Awards!) AND get a personalized Valentine from an author? Bid here on Valentines from Geraldine Brooks, Elizabeth Kolbert, Grace Lin, and more--including me! event.auctria.com/a9c1c01f-744...
a cartoon of snoopy holding a pair of scissors and a can of soda .
Alt: Snoopy cuts a valentine out of red paper, then holds it up to show a bemused Charlie Brown and Sally.
media.tenor.com
January 16, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Would you like to support the Mass Center for the Book (home of the Massachusetts Book Awards!) AND get a personalized Valentine from an author? Bid here on Valentines from Geraldine Brooks, Elizabeth Kolbert, Grace Lin, and more--including me! event.auctria.com/a9c1c01f-744...
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⚡️ Kharkiv is under attack. Russian strikes hit critical infrastructure in the city’s Industrialnyi district, injuring one person, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said.
January 17, 2026 at 1:47 PM
⚡️ Kharkiv is under attack. Russian strikes hit critical infrastructure in the city’s Industrialnyi district, injuring one person, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said.
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Do any Republicans in Congress care about Trump grabbing oil from Venezuela, handing it off to his megadonors to sell on the international market to whoever, depositing the proceeds in foreign bank accounts, then spending the money however he sees fit with no input from Congress?
January 16, 2026 at 12:55 PM
Do any Republicans in Congress care about Trump grabbing oil from Venezuela, handing it off to his megadonors to sell on the international market to whoever, depositing the proceeds in foreign bank accounts, then spending the money however he sees fit with no input from Congress?
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"We’re actually seeing new super PACs being established. One of them has already committed to spending $100 million in the midterms. And we’re seeing politicians and candidates speaking very frankly about wanting to install pro-crypto candidates"
more here:
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
more here:
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
How Crypto Is Used for Political Corruption
This new source of money is giving the administration unprecedented new powers.
www.theatlantic.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:32 PM
"We’re actually seeing new super PACs being established. One of them has already committed to spending $100 million in the midterms. And we’re seeing politicians and candidates speaking very frankly about wanting to install pro-crypto candidates"
more here:
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
more here:
www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
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NEW: In 4 days, records of Trump’s first term will become publicly available via NARA.
Trump’s gatekeeper to the archives is Deputy AG Todd Blanche — a vestige of days as Trump’s personal lawyer. Now a watchdog group is urging him to relinquish that role
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Trump’s gatekeeper to the archives is Deputy AG Todd Blanche — a vestige of days as Trump’s personal lawyer. Now a watchdog group is urging him to relinquish that role
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Watchdog group urges Blanche to step aside as Trump’s records gatekeeper
The deputy attorney general is also Trump’s representative to the National Archives.
www.politico.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:58 AM
NEW: In 4 days, records of Trump’s first term will become publicly available via NARA.
Trump’s gatekeeper to the archives is Deputy AG Todd Blanche — a vestige of days as Trump’s personal lawyer. Now a watchdog group is urging him to relinquish that role
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
Trump’s gatekeeper to the archives is Deputy AG Todd Blanche — a vestige of days as Trump’s personal lawyer. Now a watchdog group is urging him to relinquish that role
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
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I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
January 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
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Excellent instructional video pass it on
January 13, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Excellent instructional video pass it on
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There is something all of us can do to rein in ICE's reign of terror. The Department of Homeland Security is currently funded only through January 30, and the new funding bill is vulnerable.
Please read more via this link and call your reps today. All hands on deck.
indivisible.org/campaign/how...
Please read more via this link and call your reps today. All hands on deck.
indivisible.org/campaign/how...
How to Rein in ICE–NOW
indivisible.org
January 15, 2026 at 6:25 PM
There is something all of us can do to rein in ICE's reign of terror. The Department of Homeland Security is currently funded only through January 30, and the new funding bill is vulnerable.
Please read more via this link and call your reps today. All hands on deck.
indivisible.org/campaign/how...
Please read more via this link and call your reps today. All hands on deck.
indivisible.org/campaign/how...
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Flaws in how 17 models of headphones and speakers use Google’s one-tap Fast Pair Bluetooth protocol have left devices open to eavesdroppers and stalkers. www.wired.com/story/google...
Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking
Flaws in how 17 models of headphones and speakers use Google’s one-tap Fast Pair Bluetooth protocol have left devices open to eavesdroppers and stalkers.
www.wired.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:03 PM
Flaws in how 17 models of headphones and speakers use Google’s one-tap Fast Pair Bluetooth protocol have left devices open to eavesdroppers and stalkers. www.wired.com/story/google...
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Tonight's immediately impeachable latest crime
The main bank account holding revenue from the Venezuelan oil sales is located in Qatar.
“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
“There is no basis in law for a president to set up an offshore account that he controls so that he can sell assets seized by the American military,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
www.semafor.com/article/01/1...
Exclusive: US gets first $500 million Venezuelan oil deal, holding some proceeds in Qatar
The details shared with Semafor mark an initial milestone in the administration’s plan following the ouster of Nicolás Maduro.
www.semafor.com
January 15, 2026 at 6:19 AM
Tonight's immediately impeachable latest crime
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.....unless they're Americans....
January 14, 2026 at 9:34 PM
.....unless they're Americans....
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ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms
January 14, 2026 at 1:09 PM
ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms