Christophe ✨
@chrxstxphx.bsky.social
Numbers nerd. Generative AI tinkerer.
The democratic backsliding happens slowly then suddenly.
Respect to these prosecutors for resisting.
Respect to these prosecutors for resisting.
These are absolutely monstrous people
"Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior DOJ officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent"
"Mr. Thompson’s resignation came after senior DOJ officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent"
3 Prosecutors Quit After Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:52 PM
The democratic backsliding happens slowly then suddenly.
Respect to these prosecutors for resisting.
Respect to these prosecutors for resisting.
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This dirty org needs to be dismantled for many reasons archive.is/2025.07.03-0...
January 11, 2026 at 7:38 AM
This dirty org needs to be dismantled for many reasons archive.is/2025.07.03-0...
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So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact.
When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end
When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end
January 8, 2026 at 9:13 PM
So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact.
When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end
When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end
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The implication is severe: careless responding on MTurk isn’t rare noise; it’s systematic enough to flip the sign of relationships and generate results that are the opposite of what they really are.
Wow; this is pretty damning.
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Wow; this is pretty damning.
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
January 8, 2026 at 8:49 PM
The implication is severe: careless responding on MTurk isn’t rare noise; it’s systematic enough to flip the sign of relationships and generate results that are the opposite of what they really are.
Wow; this is pretty damning.
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
Wow; this is pretty damning.
link.springer.com/article/10.3...
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Update: As of January 7, The Trace has identified 28 incidents, including 14 shootings, in which federal agents shot someone or held them at gunpoint during an immigration enforcement action under Trump’s crackdown. At least four people have been killed and five others have been injured.
How Many People Have Been Shot in ICE Raids?
The Trace is tracking gun incidents connected to Trump’s immigration crackdown. Know of one? Please be in touch.
www.thetrace.org
January 7, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Update: As of January 7, The Trace has identified 28 incidents, including 14 shootings, in which federal agents shot someone or held them at gunpoint during an immigration enforcement action under Trump’s crackdown. At least four people have been killed and five others have been injured.
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Jack Smith Deposition quotes
December 31, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Jack Smith Deposition quotes
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During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.
January 4, 2026 at 2:36 AM
During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.
It is extremely troubling that the migration minister in Sweden has a son who is a white supremacist. It is even more so, when the minister in question has adopted the far right position of wanting to weaken the rule of law by revoking permanent residency status. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Swedish minister reveals teenage son linked to extremist groups
Forssell says he will not resign over the issue and that his son has severed all ties with the groups.
www.bbc.com
December 31, 2025 at 10:35 AM
It is extremely troubling that the migration minister in Sweden has a son who is a white supremacist. It is even more so, when the minister in question has adopted the far right position of wanting to weaken the rule of law by revoking permanent residency status. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Amazing piece
As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:
Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS
Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked
www.forever-wars.com
December 30, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Amazing piece
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Trump: "We have a fool at the Federal Reserve. I mean, Biden reappointed him. It's too bad. You would have thought he wouldn't have done that."
(Jerome Powell was appointed by Trump)
(Jerome Powell was appointed by Trump)
December 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Trump: "We have a fool at the Federal Reserve. I mean, Biden reappointed him. It's too bad. You would have thought he wouldn't have done that."
(Jerome Powell was appointed by Trump)
(Jerome Powell was appointed by Trump)
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I wrote about this claim forever ago when he made it on Joe Rogan's show:
December 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I wrote about this claim forever ago when he made it on Joe Rogan's show:
Well-written piece, important and horrifying
So I have the cover story in next month's TNR.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol.
They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.
Trump’s Immigration Nightmare: It Is Happening Here
With astonishing speed, the administration has toppled the most cherished pillars of a free society. And the experts agree: It’s all going to get much, much worse.
newrepublic.com
December 24, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Well-written piece, important and horrifying
What I never understood, is what Tegnell hoped to achieve with the inadequacy of the pandemic response? Now we’re seeing his brownstone maffia buddies populate high ranking positions in the Trump/RFKjr health department, continuing to set the stage for even more death and suffering, but why??
December 17, 2025 at 9:10 AM
What I never understood, is what Tegnell hoped to achieve with the inadequacy of the pandemic response? Now we’re seeing his brownstone maffia buddies populate high ranking positions in the Trump/RFKjr health department, continuing to set the stage for even more death and suffering, but why??
This is what happens when you let malevolent or deeply incompetent people into power. I’m especially looking at you, honorary doctor at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social , Martin ”death cult” Kulldorff
December 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is what happens when you let malevolent or deeply incompetent people into power. I’m especially looking at you, honorary doctor at @umeauniversitet.bsky.social , Martin ”death cult” Kulldorff
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More absurdities from the NYT headline writer. No, Tina Peter was charged, tried and convicted for election fraud—not for being a "denier." And there is no "legal controversy," the Constitution is clear. There is a president seeking to exercise totalitarian powers.
December 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
More absurdities from the NYT headline writer. No, Tina Peter was charged, tried and convicted for election fraud—not for being a "denier." And there is no "legal controversy," the Constitution is clear. There is a president seeking to exercise totalitarian powers.
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Trump's MAGA affiliated European resistance appears largely to be something strung together and funded by the Russian intelligence services. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
How Trump’s Maga allies are cultivating a European ‘resistance’
Drinks parties with the Russians and scathing criticism of centrist governments could morph into Cold War-esque interference across the Continent
www.thetimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Trump's MAGA affiliated European resistance appears largely to be something strung together and funded by the Russian intelligence services. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
A little bit of history repeating… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua...
December 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
A little bit of history repeating… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiqua...
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“How did American democracy backslide?”
“Two ways: gradually, then suddenly”
Trump is the culmination of GOP trends that have been accelerating since at least Ford’s pardon, then Reagan’s rogue pre-presidency foreign policy & Iran-Contra, through everything in the GWB admin. All of it unpunished.
“Two ways: gradually, then suddenly”
Trump is the culmination of GOP trends that have been accelerating since at least Ford’s pardon, then Reagan’s rogue pre-presidency foreign policy & Iran-Contra, through everything in the GWB admin. All of it unpunished.
Trump and Co. haven’t been dismantling US institutions just this year, they’ve been doing it since 2017.
America has been democratic backsliding into authoritarianism for nearly a decade. Much of what we see now builds on what they did in term 1 and advanced in the interim.
But too many denied it.
America has been democratic backsliding into authoritarianism for nearly a decade. Much of what we see now builds on what they did in term 1 and advanced in the interim.
But too many denied it.
One theme here is the speed of American institutional collapse.
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
“It took Erdoğan 15 years to do what Trump did in 100 days. If [Americans] do not accept the fact that this is a long game, and it will be brutal, I think you won’t have the patience and stamina to bear it.”
December 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
“How did American democracy backslide?”
“Two ways: gradually, then suddenly”
Trump is the culmination of GOP trends that have been accelerating since at least Ford’s pardon, then Reagan’s rogue pre-presidency foreign policy & Iran-Contra, through everything in the GWB admin. All of it unpunished.
“Two ways: gradually, then suddenly”
Trump is the culmination of GOP trends that have been accelerating since at least Ford’s pardon, then Reagan’s rogue pre-presidency foreign policy & Iran-Contra, through everything in the GWB admin. All of it unpunished.
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The Great Barrington Declaration was a bloody disaster. One of the greatest human follies of the modern age.
Sheer arrogance and cynicism.
Sheer arrogance and cynicism.
A study on 1.7 million people in Hong Kong shows superior hybrid immunity to Covid in people who got vaccinated before infection vs. people who got infected first. "Our findings are a direct rebuttal to arguments for natural immunity," the authors write. doi.org/10.1016/j.va...
Redirecting
doi.org
December 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The Great Barrington Declaration was a bloody disaster. One of the greatest human follies of the modern age.
Sheer arrogance and cynicism.
Sheer arrogance and cynicism.
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And yet, he did, so
GOP Rep. Don Bacon: "I don't think Secretary Hegseth would be foolish enough to make this decision to say, 'Kill everybody. Kill the survivors,' because that's a clear violation of the law of war."
November 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
And yet, he did, so
Just goes to show the extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean has nothing to do with drugs.
This article lays out just how clear the case was against Juan Orlando Hernández, the former Honduran president convicted of trafficking cociane to the US was. He primised ro “shove cocaine up the nose of gringos”
Trump promises to pardon him. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
Trump promises to pardon him. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...
The Ex-President Whom Trump Plans to Pardon Flooded America With Cocaine
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Just goes to show the extrajudicial killings in the Caribbean has nothing to do with drugs.
Very tragic and entirely expected. Now watch the fascists use this in their hate propaganda, regardless of circumstances, in three… two… one…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Two National Guard members have been shot in Washington, D.C., and their condition isn't known, AP source says.
November 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Very tragic and entirely expected. Now watch the fascists use this in their hate propaganda, regardless of circumstances, in three… two… one…
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Calling them the “Seditious Six” & branding their statements “despicable” before review is textbook definition of prejudgment. No panel, judge, or reviewing authority can claim neutrality once the SECDEF declares the accused guilty. This looks like the procedures used in dictatorships, not the US.
November 24, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Calling them the “Seditious Six” & branding their statements “despicable” before review is textbook definition of prejudgment. No panel, judge, or reviewing authority can claim neutrality once the SECDEF declares the accused guilty. This looks like the procedures used in dictatorships, not the US.
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The "peace president."
Really looks like the United States is about to launch a regime change war against Venezuela with:
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
-No casus belli
-No authorization from Congress
-No allies or international support
-No plan for a post-Maduro Venezuela
-No preparation for any sort of stabilization or containment of the fallout
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The "peace president."