@bejust.bsky.social
Inspired by diversity in nature, creativity in all forms, and seekers of truth and freedom. "...The best way to dislodge evil is to make energetic progress in the good."
The I Ching, Book of Changes
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The I Ching, Book of Changes
Retweets are not an endorsement.
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Why can people watch the same video footage—and see different things?
I took a deep dive on the psychology of video evidence and eyewitness accounts: www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
I took a deep dive on the psychology of video evidence and eyewitness accounts: www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
Video evidence and eye witness accounts: The science behind why people see different things
Why can people watch the same video footage and see different things? Neuroscience can help explain
www.scientificamerican.com
January 26, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Why can people watch the same video footage—and see different things?
I took a deep dive on the psychology of video evidence and eyewitness accounts: www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
I took a deep dive on the psychology of video evidence and eyewitness accounts: www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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A message to the media: stop calling it a "healthcare crisis." Call it the "Republican healthcare crisis." Stop calling it an "immigration debate." Call it "Republican terror and violence." Be accurate. #FundHealthcareStopICE
January 26, 2026 at 10:52 PM
A message to the media: stop calling it a "healthcare crisis." Call it the "Republican healthcare crisis." Stop calling it an "immigration debate." Call it "Republican terror and violence." Be accurate. #FundHealthcareStopICE
It's as if they don't know who owns the company (Peter Thiel) and what he publically acknowledges he stands for. "Freedom & democracy are incompatible." Or, his view that women being able to vote precipitated what he views as 'the decline of America'. They need to pay a lot more attention.
It’s always funny when palantir employees discover that they work at palantir
Palantir employees are pressing company leadership over its work for ICE in internal company Slacks obtained by @wired.com
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
"In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
Scoop from @makenakelly.bsky.social
January 26, 2026 at 11:18 PM
It's as if they don't know who owns the company (Peter Thiel) and what he publically acknowledges he stands for. "Freedom & democracy are incompatible." Or, his view that women being able to vote precipitated what he views as 'the decline of America'. They need to pay a lot more attention.
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They were always lying hypocrites. Always.
I’m trying to understand Republicans’ latest interpretation of the 2nd Amendment. You can now be executed by federal agents if you possess a firearm? Even after you are disarmed? I’m just trying to keep your position straight on this “shall not be infringed” stuff.
January 25, 2026 at 7:10 AM
They were always lying hypocrites. Always.
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We raised the alarm at 5 days. Now it’s 15 days of digital blackout in Iran.
For over two weeks, severe internet restrictions have cut journalists and the public off during nationwide protests.
We call on Iranian authorities to immediately restore full and stable internet access
For over two weeks, severe internet restrictions have cut journalists and the public off during nationwide protests.
We call on Iranian authorities to immediately restore full and stable internet access
January 23, 2026 at 2:06 PM
We raised the alarm at 5 days. Now it’s 15 days of digital blackout in Iran.
For over two weeks, severe internet restrictions have cut journalists and the public off during nationwide protests.
We call on Iranian authorities to immediately restore full and stable internet access
For over two weeks, severe internet restrictions have cut journalists and the public off during nationwide protests.
We call on Iranian authorities to immediately restore full and stable internet access
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Bipartisan is a good thing when we’re talking about something like an infrastructure bill. But more funding for ICE abuse with our tax dollars shouldn’t have a single Democrat’s name on it.
THIS IS WHAT PLAYING “BOTH SIDES” LOOKS LIKE.
THIS IS WHAT PLAYING “BOTH SIDES” LOOKS LIKE.
January 26, 2026 at 3:59 PM
Bipartisan is a good thing when we’re talking about something like an infrastructure bill. But more funding for ICE abuse with our tax dollars shouldn’t have a single Democrat’s name on it.
THIS IS WHAT PLAYING “BOTH SIDES” LOOKS LIKE.
THIS IS WHAT PLAYING “BOTH SIDES” LOOKS LIKE.
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AAUP President Todd Wolfson on the killing of Alex Pretti:
"This moment demands a unified, bold, and powerful response from the labor movement. We are uniting across sectors to organize, mobilize, and wield our full collective power to confront ICE."
Full statement:
"This moment demands a unified, bold, and powerful response from the labor movement. We are uniting across sectors to organize, mobilize, and wield our full collective power to confront ICE."
Full statement:
AAUP President on the Killing of Alex Pretti: “This Moment Demands A Powerful Response from the Labor Movement”
AAUP President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to the shooting of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday, January 24.
www.aaup.org
January 25, 2026 at 9:42 PM
AAUP President Todd Wolfson on the killing of Alex Pretti:
"This moment demands a unified, bold, and powerful response from the labor movement. We are uniting across sectors to organize, mobilize, and wield our full collective power to confront ICE."
Full statement:
"This moment demands a unified, bold, and powerful response from the labor movement. We are uniting across sectors to organize, mobilize, and wield our full collective power to confront ICE."
Full statement:
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This weekend I watched Nuremberg (2025), which ends with a shattering quote from RG Collingwood: "The only clue to what man can do is what man has done."
January 26, 2026 at 7:45 AM
This weekend I watched Nuremberg (2025), which ends with a shattering quote from RG Collingwood: "The only clue to what man can do is what man has done."
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Thank you, @andycraig.bsky.social. The sadism and brutality and state-sponsored terror and murder we're seeing in Minneapolis now has its roots in an actual set of ideas harbored by Stephen Miller, which we tried to dig deeply into here:
Good stuff from @gregsargent.bsky.social.
I think we tend to overemphasize, esp. w/ Trump's mush-brain at the top, that their fascism is a kind of purely id-driven emotional impulse. But it's a real ideology w/ real theorists and tenets. Miller isn't an evil genius, but he has a real evil worldview
I think we tend to overemphasize, esp. w/ Trump's mush-brain at the top, that their fascism is a kind of purely id-driven emotional impulse. But it's a real ideology w/ real theorists and tenets. Miller isn't an evil genius, but he has a real evil worldview
The Dark Ideology Behind Stephen Miller's Immigration Crusade: Part II
He believes immigration threatens Western civilization itself, echoing the same xenophobia once directed at his own ancestors
www.theunpopulist.net
January 25, 2026 at 1:23 PM
Thank you, @andycraig.bsky.social. The sadism and brutality and state-sponsored terror and murder we're seeing in Minneapolis now has its roots in an actual set of ideas harbored by Stephen Miller, which we tried to dig deeply into here:
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When serving in Moscow, and travelling extensively to all 10 secret nuclear cities, I heard countless first-hand accounts of the deliberate cruelty and callous indifference to life that characterized the former Soviet Union.
At that time, I never guessed that the USA would adopt the Soviet model.
At that time, I never guessed that the USA would adopt the Soviet model.
January 25, 2026 at 8:13 PM
When serving in Moscow, and travelling extensively to all 10 secret nuclear cities, I heard countless first-hand accounts of the deliberate cruelty and callous indifference to life that characterized the former Soviet Union.
At that time, I never guessed that the USA would adopt the Soviet model.
At that time, I never guessed that the USA would adopt the Soviet model.
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This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
TincherSealedWitnessDec012426.PDF
www.documentcloud.org
January 25, 2026 at 2:43 PM
This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror.
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Yet again, agree 100% w @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
Senate Dems needn’t come to agreement on everything right now. That’s a path to the lowest common denominator. They simply have to agree to filibuster DHS approps. As to which of a host of anti-brutality and anti-authoritarian proposals to advance, let a thousand flowers bloom.
January 25, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Yet again, agree 100% w @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social
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just amazing work by my colleagues at @wsj.com - a frame by frame analysis of the shooting
incredible that some continue to rationalize this
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
incredible that some continue to rationalize this
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
Videos Contradict U.S. Account of Minneapolis Shooting by Federal Agents
See how immigration officers escalated a fatal confrontation on Saturday.
www.wsj.com
January 25, 2026 at 6:10 PM
just amazing work by my colleagues at @wsj.com - a frame by frame analysis of the shooting
incredible that some continue to rationalize this
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
incredible that some continue to rationalize this
www.wsj.com/us-news/vide...
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A bit of my own personal history about a government policy of murdering innocent civilians to keep the rest of the population to scared to resist and thus under control.
January 25, 2026 at 6:27 PM
A bit of my own personal history about a government policy of murdering innocent civilians to keep the rest of the population to scared to resist and thus under control.
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I realize from comments that many, maybe most, don’t know that “who’s paying for it?” has always meant in rightwing speech “the Jews.” Not those they deem “good Jews,” like Miller, but “the Jews” who are at heart of Great Replacement Theory since it was called Protocols of Elders of Zion.
James O'Keefe says he's never seen anything so organized as the anti-ICE movement, observers--he seems to think this term is code--everywhere he goes. Who is paying for it??? he demands to know. It's like he can't even imagine people caring for one another.
January 25, 2026 at 7:18 PM
I realize from comments that many, maybe most, don’t know that “who’s paying for it?” has always meant in rightwing speech “the Jews.” Not those they deem “good Jews,” like Miller, but “the Jews” who are at heart of Great Replacement Theory since it was called Protocols of Elders of Zion.
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Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands….
Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those
Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those
January 25, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Reporter: You received a letter from AG Pam Bondi making several demands….
Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those
Walz: I would just give a pro tip to the AG. There's 2 million documents in the Epstein files we're still waiting on. Go ahead and work on those
"The records – which also show politicization, reckless haste, disregard for public health, and contempt for rigorous science – are part of more than 68,000 pages of records obtained by Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)..."
Terrible, slapdash work to undercut decades of careful scientific research on emissions and their threat to our health and the planet. www.edf.org/media/newly-...
Newly Disclosed Records Show Trump Administration’s Unlawful Actions Related to Secretly Formed “Climate Working Group”
The records are part of more than 68,000 pages of records obtained by EDF and the Union of Concerned Scientists as as the result of a lawsuit.
www.edf.org
January 25, 2026 at 5:47 PM
"The records – which also show politicization, reckless haste, disregard for public health, and contempt for rigorous science – are part of more than 68,000 pages of records obtained by Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS)..."
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Special Sunday edition of the Reliable Sources newsletter:
Imagine, for a moment, that there was no video of Alex Pretti's death. No video of Pretti reacting when a federal agent pushed a woman to the ground. Just the accounts of Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller. 🔗 cnn.it/3M76LRH
Imagine, for a moment, that there was no video of Alex Pretti's death. No video of Pretti reacting when a federal agent pushed a woman to the ground. Just the accounts of Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller. 🔗 cnn.it/3M76LRH
January 25, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Special Sunday edition of the Reliable Sources newsletter:
Imagine, for a moment, that there was no video of Alex Pretti's death. No video of Pretti reacting when a federal agent pushed a woman to the ground. Just the accounts of Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller. 🔗 cnn.it/3M76LRH
Imagine, for a moment, that there was no video of Alex Pretti's death. No video of Pretti reacting when a federal agent pushed a woman to the ground. Just the accounts of Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller. 🔗 cnn.it/3M76LRH
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It is important to read writers like M. Gessen. They teach Americans what many are still having trouble grasping.
This is not just an unhinged president and untrained agency. Not “bad politics.” Not random.
It is a systemic approach followed by authoritarians the world over as they grasp power.
This is not just an unhinged president and untrained agency. Not “bad politics.” Not random.
It is a systemic approach followed by authoritarians the world over as they grasp power.
Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:18 PM
It is important to read writers like M. Gessen. They teach Americans what many are still having trouble grasping.
This is not just an unhinged president and untrained agency. Not “bad politics.” Not random.
It is a systemic approach followed by authoritarians the world over as they grasp power.
This is not just an unhinged president and untrained agency. Not “bad politics.” Not random.
It is a systemic approach followed by authoritarians the world over as they grasp power.
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The term martyr means “witness.” The man was murdered for bearing witness, literally bearing it, not arms but a camera. Murdered for seeing.
January 24, 2026 at 9:45 PM
The term martyr means “witness.” The man was murdered for bearing witness, literally bearing it, not arms but a camera. Murdered for seeing.
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The pigeon toes. The earnest crossing guard hand. The way his other arm, holding the camera, is tucked into his side. The way he stands before the threat, looking over his shoulder at the wellbeing of another. The brown, the beige, the hat. One humble soul. Here is another Tiananmen Square.
We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun
January 24, 2026 at 9:53 PM
The pigeon toes. The earnest crossing guard hand. The way his other arm, holding the camera, is tucked into his side. The way he stands before the threat, looking over his shoulder at the wellbeing of another. The brown, the beige, the hat. One humble soul. Here is another Tiananmen Square.
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Russia loves Trump’s message on Greenland, as Putin has openly said. It is worth asking whether this was a Russian idea. It certainly divides and could destroy NATO, and it distracts from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
January 17, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Russia loves Trump’s message on Greenland, as Putin has openly said. It is worth asking whether this was a Russian idea. It certainly divides and could destroy NATO, and it distracts from Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.