Samsquanch
@chrislage.bsky.social
- If a friend asks for help, you help them. 🙏
- Be more Dude 🥃, less Walter 🤬.
- Carry Hitchens’ 🤨 & Occam’s 🧐razors.
- Fascists can fuck off.🫸🖕
- Be more Dude 🥃, less Walter 🤬.
- Carry Hitchens’ 🤨 & Occam’s 🧐razors.
- Fascists can fuck off.🫸🖕
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These are the acts of a fascist regime. We must stop them.
Rep. Magaziner: "A family of US citizens who were out to get groceries…Your agents sprayed pepper spray out of their vehicle and into the driver's side window…Is it proper procedure to aim pepper spray into the window of a moving vehicle?"
CBP Comm'r: "We try to avoid that."
CBP Comm'r: "We try to avoid that."
February 10, 2026 at 5:58 PM
These are the acts of a fascist regime. We must stop them.
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Border czar Tom Homan in resurfaced Fox News interview: "We need a judicial warrant for a search"
Border Czar Tom Homan in resurfaced Fox interview: “We need a judicial warrant for a search”
www.mediamatters.org
February 6, 2026 at 2:38 PM
Border czar Tom Homan in resurfaced Fox News interview: "We need a judicial warrant for a search"
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RIP poet Maxine Kumin, died this day 2014.
"We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story."
"Cherish your wilderness."
"I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach."
"We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story."
"Cherish your wilderness."
"I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach."
February 6, 2026 at 2:24 PM
RIP poet Maxine Kumin, died this day 2014.
"We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story."
"Cherish your wilderness."
"I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach."
"We are, each of us, our own prisoner. We are locked up in our own story."
"Cherish your wilderness."
"I'm going home the old way with a light hand on the reins making the long approach."
It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
February 6, 2026 at 12:57 PM
It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood.
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February 4, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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Here’s a useful reminder of what our federal courts SHOULD be doing to uphold our constitutional traditions:
Annotating the Judge’s Decision in the Case of Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-Year-Old Detained by ICE (Gift Article)
Our critic annotates the barbed wordplay of a decision challenging the Trump administration’s theory of executive power.
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Here’s a useful reminder of what our federal courts SHOULD be doing to uphold our constitutional traditions:
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In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
February 2, 2026 at 5:10 PM
In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is 2 or 3 days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
snyder.substack.com/p/ethnic-cle...
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This is ok tho
January 24, 2026 at 7:32 PM
This is ok tho
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ICE is just Proud Boy domestic terrorists equipped and deputized by the lawless thug in the tacky, gilded Oval Office.
January 24, 2026 at 3:26 PM
ICE is just Proud Boy domestic terrorists equipped and deputized by the lawless thug in the tacky, gilded Oval Office.
Listen to Mark Carney, “The powerful have their power. But we have something too: the capacity to stop pretending, to name realities, to build our strength at home, and to act together.”
January 21, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Listen to Mark Carney, “The powerful have their power. But we have something too: the capacity to stop pretending, to name realities, to build our strength at home, and to act together.”
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It is in no way “law enforcement” to beat up an American 10th grader and steal and sell his possessions.
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
January 14, 2026 at 8:32 PM
It is in no way “law enforcement” to beat up an American 10th grader and steal and sell his possessions.
Is 1984 the plan then? Asking for a friend.
January 4, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Is 1984 the plan then? Asking for a friend.
“If a task asks that you—with your unique lived conscious experience—be present, then substituting generative AI content for your own is machinal bypass.”
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
The “machinal bypass” and how we’re using AI to avoid ourselves | PNAS
The “machinal bypass” and how we’re using AI to avoid ourselves
www.pnas.org
December 21, 2025 at 1:21 PM
“If a task asks that you—with your unique lived conscious experience—be present, then substituting generative AI content for your own is machinal bypass.”
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
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A study in Nature analyzes 154 genomes from 21 animal phyla and reconstructs ancestral adaptations to life on land across 11 distinct events, providing strong evidence of convergent genomic evolution and repeated terrestrial colonization in the animal kingdom. go.nature.com/4pHIwYF 🧪 #evolution
December 6, 2025 at 2:25 AM
A study in Nature analyzes 154 genomes from 21 animal phyla and reconstructs ancestral adaptations to life on land across 11 distinct events, providing strong evidence of convergent genomic evolution and repeated terrestrial colonization in the animal kingdom. go.nature.com/4pHIwYF 🧪 #evolution
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“The only people who get angry when hearing service members being told to ignore illegal orders are people who intend to issue illegal orders.”
November 30, 2025 at 7:58 PM
“The only people who get angry when hearing service members being told to ignore illegal orders are people who intend to issue illegal orders.”
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Marilyn Whirlwind. ICE accosted Marilyn Whirlwind.
They've got to go.
They've got to go.
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Marilyn Whirlwind. ICE accosted Marilyn Whirlwind.
They've got to go.
They've got to go.
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"We can take it for granted that Trump and his advisors would greet a terrorist attack as an obvious chance to blame their chosen enemies, advance their project of authoritarian regime change, and distract from their own perilous follies. (1/2)
Some common sense to remember in a trying time.
Originally written in April 2025
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...
Originally written in April 2025
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...
The Next Terrorist Attack
And What Comes After (Updated)
snyder.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 2:19 AM
"We can take it for granted that Trump and his advisors would greet a terrorist attack as an obvious chance to blame their chosen enemies, advance their project of authoritarian regime change, and distract from their own perilous follies. (1/2)
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There was a time when the United States looked down its nose at the countries in South America for being lawless banana republics. Who's the banana republic now, bitches?
November 25, 2025 at 11:56 PM
There was a time when the United States looked down its nose at the countries in South America for being lawless banana republics. Who's the banana republic now, bitches?
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I'm blessing your timeline with this image, because I know that you will have occasion to use it, and more frequently than any of us would like to admit. Use it responsibly, friends.
November 25, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I'm blessing your timeline with this image, because I know that you will have occasion to use it, and more frequently than any of us would like to admit. Use it responsibly, friends.
They love each other. Lord, you can see it's true. - Robert Hunter
November 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
They love each other. Lord, you can see it's true. - Robert Hunter
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Illegal and shameful and just how police behave in authoritarian regimes. And also wildly unpopular and not the country Americans want.
"After federal immigration officers in Charlotte saw a man taking photos of them, they chased him nearly 2 miles down a main road and made plans to “smash” into him, video played in court Thursday showed. They broke his window, charged him with a federal felony and accused him of assaulting them."
ICE video shows officers planned to ‘smash’ into Charlotte man filming Border Patrol
Immigration agents had a 12-pack of Modelos in their car while making arrests, Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez told investigators.
www.charlotteobserver.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Illegal and shameful and just how police behave in authoritarian regimes. And also wildly unpopular and not the country Americans want.
