Andrew Scott Waugh
@aswaugh.bsky.social
Political Science PhD (UCSD ‘13), Data Science Bureaucrat (Oregon DHS), Union Member (SEIU), Mediocre Golfer (16 Handicap), Dad (‘25)
Reasoning backwards from a conclusion comes in many names and forms. I like “sophistry” myself.
She also seems deeply hostile to any systemic analyses of racial inequality/racism and the racial justice movements of the 2010s.
I don't think this is accurate. Weiss is extremely committed to violent zionism and the dehumanization of Palestinians. that core hatred fuels her embrace of the MAGA right and of other fascist bigotries.
January 27, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Reasoning backwards from a conclusion comes in many names and forms. I like “sophistry” myself.
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It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.
January 27, 2026 at 1:58 PM
It's not quite the most pressing issue at the moment, but the American people absolutely have a right to know the names of the federal officials who shot and killed a man peacefully protesting, who was on his knees, prone in the street when they shot him in the back.
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You can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history
January 27, 2026 at 2:11 AM
You can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history
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It's called the Yglesias-Schumer Strategy™
People are telling me that, when Trump is in deep trouble on his signature issue, and the majority has moved so far left they now adopt the 'radical' position of abolishing ICE, the savvy play for Schumer is to immediately find the quickest and easiest compromise that will save the GOP.
I disagree.
I disagree.
Trump's job approval on immigration has gotten 2x worse since January 4, sliding from -5 to -10 in under a month. Now at a new low.
The president has also taken a pretty big hit across pollsters on deportations, mostly over the last 2 weeks gelliottmorris.com/data
The president has also taken a pretty big hit across pollsters on deportations, mostly over the last 2 weeks gelliottmorris.com/data
January 27, 2026 at 3:59 AM
It's called the Yglesias-Schumer Strategy™
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It's hilarious that they're pretending Tom Homan is some kind of voice of calm and reason. He looks and sounds like someone who would be hitting Dick Tracy's knees with a hammer
January 27, 2026 at 5:10 AM
It's hilarious that they're pretending Tom Homan is some kind of voice of calm and reason. He looks and sounds like someone who would be hitting Dick Tracy's knees with a hammer
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Honored that in his last days of fame and fortune at CBP the disgraced Gregory Bovino chose to attack, among others, me.
January 27, 2026 at 2:25 AM
Honored that in his last days of fame and fortune at CBP the disgraced Gregory Bovino chose to attack, among others, me.
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While glad to see Bovino humbled, I really don’t have any higher opinion of Homan—a cruel, cold, corrupt, calculating bureaucrat who’s devoted more of his career to mass deportation than almost anyone. He’s the architect of child separation.
January 27, 2026 at 2:07 AM
While glad to see Bovino humbled, I really don’t have any higher opinion of Homan—a cruel, cold, corrupt, calculating bureaucrat who’s devoted more of his career to mass deportation than almost anyone. He’s the architect of child separation.
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Okay I think I've mapped out ICE politics as of Monday night
January 27, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Okay I think I've mapped out ICE politics as of Monday night
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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
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"House Democrats should get themselves to Minneapolis. Immediately. They should be on the street themselves, cameras out and recording, observing and putting their bodies on the line."
Our Gettysburg Moment
The stakes in Minneapolis are higher than even the participants may realize.
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January 27, 2026 at 2:30 AM
"House Democrats should get themselves to Minneapolis. Immediately. They should be on the street themselves, cameras out and recording, observing and putting their bodies on the line."
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Greg Bovino sadly filling one steamer trunk after another with elaborate fashy overcoats, the teargas canisters he always has bouncing around on him like labubus, and dozens of "chest-belts." They will be shipped ahead of him as he prepares to return to his home, which is a men's size 10 boot.
January 27, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Greg Bovino sadly filling one steamer trunk after another with elaborate fashy overcoats, the teargas canisters he always has bouncing around on him like labubus, and dozens of "chest-belts." They will be shipped ahead of him as he prepares to return to his home, which is a men's size 10 boot.
No secret police. No black site prisons. No concentration camps.
Reports from Whipple Detention Center in MN are alarming: overcrowding, people shackled, denied medical care, and limited access to food.
And now, they are blocking members of Congress from visiting ICE facilities to hide these inhumane conditions.
So we're back in court.
And now, they are blocking members of Congress from visiting ICE facilities to hide these inhumane conditions.
So we're back in court.
January 27, 2026 at 12:24 AM
No secret police. No black site prisons. No concentration camps.
Honestly these are pretty reasonable expectations!
I have numerous complaints about Ro Khanna, but he took his ass to Minneapolis and seems genuinely pissed off and that’s what I want to see from every Democrat in Congress right now
"Pam Bondi needs to be impeached or resign. Not just because she's failed to release the Epstein files...but to blame Renee Good? It's just shameful! The agent should be arrested and prosecuted! We have an administration where there is elite impunity," -Rep. @rokhanna.bsky.social tells us
January 27, 2026 at 12:13 AM
Honestly these are pretty reasonable expectations!
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BILLY BRAGG - CITY OF HEROES
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January 26, 2026 at 10:42 PM
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Congress passed a law to release ALL the Epstein Files by last month.
AG Bondi is defying Congress and violating federal law by withholding millions of documents.
Bondi needs to release the files NOW and deliver the accountability the survivors deserve.
AG Bondi is defying Congress and violating federal law by withholding millions of documents.
Bondi needs to release the files NOW and deliver the accountability the survivors deserve.
January 26, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Congress passed a law to release ALL the Epstein Files by last month.
AG Bondi is defying Congress and violating federal law by withholding millions of documents.
Bondi needs to release the files NOW and deliver the accountability the survivors deserve.
AG Bondi is defying Congress and violating federal law by withholding millions of documents.
Bondi needs to release the files NOW and deliver the accountability the survivors deserve.
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Weird that hiring away a few checked-out Tory alcoholics from British dailies and emphasizing op eds about Why Your Boss Deserves A Tax Cut didn't deliver better results but what can you do? What, at the end of the day, can you do?
Jeff Bezos is putting the Washington Post into hospice: defector.com/jeff-bezos-i...
Jeff Bezos Is Putting The Washington Post Into Hospice | Defector
The Washington Post’s suicide-by-1,000-cuts business plan is going swimmingly. Word of the most recent act of self-harm came with a New York Times report on Friday on an internal memo informing the…
defector.com
January 26, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Weird that hiring away a few checked-out Tory alcoholics from British dailies and emphasizing op eds about Why Your Boss Deserves A Tax Cut didn't deliver better results but what can you do? What, at the end of the day, can you do?
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Homan to MN, Trump speaks with Walz, Leavitt marginally distances Trump from Noem—all show Trump’s feeling a little heat. But these gestures mean as much as Putin suggesting he’s changed and wants peace with Ukraine.
Don’t fall for it.
Insist: ICE and CBP off the streets of Minnesota.
Don’t fall for it.
Insist: ICE and CBP off the streets of Minnesota.
January 26, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Homan to MN, Trump speaks with Walz, Leavitt marginally distances Trump from Noem—all show Trump’s feeling a little heat. But these gestures mean as much as Putin suggesting he’s changed and wants peace with Ukraine.
Don’t fall for it.
Insist: ICE and CBP off the streets of Minnesota.
Don’t fall for it.
Insist: ICE and CBP off the streets of Minnesota.
No secret police.
Naming someone is not doxxing. They aren’t undercover. They aren’t intelligence agents overseas. This is outrageous - we are supposed to be a free Republic and these people want an authoritarian police state. Lawsuits should be filed & ranking Dems in Congress should act.
January 26, 2026 at 8:25 PM
No secret police.
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No member of the GOP is required to continue complicity. At any moment, they are free to simply walk away. Or, even better, start speaking out against it.
Attorney Chris Madel said he is ending his campaign for Minnesota governor because of the national GOP’s “retribution” on his state, referring to ICE operations that he described as an “unmitigated disaster.”
https://wapo.st/45v8Ayo
https://wapo.st/45v8Ayo
January 26, 2026 at 6:47 PM
No member of the GOP is required to continue complicity. At any moment, they are free to simply walk away. Or, even better, start speaking out against it.
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NEW: State election officials are condemning Attorney General Pam Bondi for blackmailing Minnesota by suggesting the administration would withdraw ICE if the state hands over its unredacted voter data.
An expert said the proposal is “laying the groundwork to try to interfere with the election.”
An expert said the proposal is “laying the groundwork to try to interfere with the election.”
‘All-out assault on our democracy:’ Bondi’s Minnesota blackmail letter draws righteous fury from state election leaders
“This isn't leadership. This is blackmail," Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes said. "This is the way organized crime works."
www.democracydocket.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:06 PM
NEW: State election officials are condemning Attorney General Pam Bondi for blackmailing Minnesota by suggesting the administration would withdraw ICE if the state hands over its unredacted voter data.
An expert said the proposal is “laying the groundwork to try to interfere with the election.”
An expert said the proposal is “laying the groundwork to try to interfere with the election.”
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I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...
MAGA military geniuses are talking about Minnesota protestors like they are the Iraqi insurgency, the Taliban, and the Viet Cong all rolled into one.
January 26, 2026 at 6:12 PM
I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...
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Walz: "If it was the intention of Donald Trump to make an example of Minnesota, then I'm damn proud of the example that the world is seeing"
January 25, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Walz: "If it was the intention of Donald Trump to make an example of Minnesota, then I'm damn proud of the example that the world is seeing"
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The government’s lies need to be called out and legacy media are not doing that. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
The Government is Lying about ICE and the Press Needs to Say That
America's top news outlets must do more than say the administration "rushed to judgment" and that government statements don't match the video
open.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:34 PM
The government’s lies need to be called out and legacy media are not doing that. My latest: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
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How many years have we been watching gun nuts open carry semiautomatic rifles into, like, a Dunkin' Donuts as a statement against government control? And they're now silent over a citizen being murdered by federal agents and then blamed for legally carrying a firearm?
January 26, 2026 at 5:49 PM
How many years have we been watching gun nuts open carry semiautomatic rifles into, like, a Dunkin' Donuts as a statement against government control? And they're now silent over a citizen being murdered by federal agents and then blamed for legally carrying a firearm?
She flies with her own wings, baby!
January 26, 2026 at 6:32 PM
She flies with her own wings, baby!