@davethedude.bsky.social
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every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
January 30, 2026 at 11:58 PM
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
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Louis Brandeis got here first and best, in 1927: “If there be a time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence”.
January 31, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Louis Brandeis got here first and best, in 1927: “If there be a time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence”.
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I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.
January 30, 2026 at 4:46 PM
I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.
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Strongly recommend people spend the house listening to my brilliant friend, Jessica Zweng, an immigrant rights attorney in the trenches for the past 2 decades.
She breaks down how ICE and CBP are part of a deliberate, violent, well-funded structure that behaves exactly as designed.
She breaks down how ICE and CBP are part of a deliberate, violent, well-funded structure that behaves exactly as designed.
The Violence Is the Point: How ICE & CBP Are Designed to Harm and Kill
Immigration enforcement has always upheld white supremacy & forged by weaponizing law enforcement against undesirable immigrants. Now, the monster has been unleashed against white Americans.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
Immigration enforcement has always upheld white supremacy & forged by weaponizing law enforcement against undesirable immigrants. Now, the monster has been unleashed against white Americans.
open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
January 28, 2026 at 5:15 AM
Strongly recommend people spend the house listening to my brilliant friend, Jessica Zweng, an immigrant rights attorney in the trenches for the past 2 decades.
She breaks down how ICE and CBP are part of a deliberate, violent, well-funded structure that behaves exactly as designed.
She breaks down how ICE and CBP are part of a deliberate, violent, well-funded structure that behaves exactly as designed.
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January 25, 2026 at 10:07 PM
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This is a very good and tough interview by @kristenwelker.bsky.social of the execrable Todd Blanche on @meetthepress.com
Also very tough (online) home page display by @nytimes.com
Change in MSM tone.
Seriously worth watching the whole segment.
www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...
Also very tough (online) home page display by @nytimes.com
Change in MSM tone.
Seriously worth watching the whole segment.
www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...
Todd Blanche says federal agents ‘acting humanely’ amid public outcry: Full interview
In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche says the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis resident by a border control agent would have “never happened” if there was...
www.nbcnews.com
January 25, 2026 at 4:15 PM
This is a very good and tough interview by @kristenwelker.bsky.social of the execrable Todd Blanche on @meetthepress.com
Also very tough (online) home page display by @nytimes.com
Change in MSM tone.
Seriously worth watching the whole segment.
www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...
Also very tough (online) home page display by @nytimes.com
Change in MSM tone.
Seriously worth watching the whole segment.
www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...
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🎤 “My immigrant neighbors bring beauty and love into my community. ICE and unaccountable masked agents have NO place here.
You know what should be in our communities? Good paying jobs that keep a roof over our heads, feed our families, and help us follow our dreams.”
You know what should be in our communities? Good paying jobs that keep a roof over our heads, feed our families, and help us follow our dreams.”
January 24, 2026 at 5:41 PM
🎤 “My immigrant neighbors bring beauty and love into my community. ICE and unaccountable masked agents have NO place here.
You know what should be in our communities? Good paying jobs that keep a roof over our heads, feed our families, and help us follow our dreams.”
You know what should be in our communities? Good paying jobs that keep a roof over our heads, feed our families, and help us follow our dreams.”
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I hope that Democrats realize what’s happening in Minnesota is also a dry run for what the regime has planned for the midterms.
January 24, 2026 at 5:59 PM
I hope that Democrats realize what’s happening in Minnesota is also a dry run for what the regime has planned for the midterms.
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Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.
January 25, 2026 at 12:46 AM
Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.
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They think they can provoke us into abandoning our values. They are wrong. We will keep the peace. We will secure justice for our neighbors. And we will see this occupation end.
January 25, 2026 at 1:17 AM
They think they can provoke us into abandoning our values. They are wrong. We will keep the peace. We will secure justice for our neighbors. And we will see this occupation end.
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From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now):
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
January 24, 2026 at 5:07 PM
From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now):
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
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@crof.bsky.social: At first, Mark Carney’s 2021 book “Value(s): Building a Better World for All” seems like an attempt to portray capitalism with a human face.
But after his Davos speech, it also offers glimpses of how he intends to build a resilient Canada next door to a collapsing power.
But after his Davos speech, it also offers glimpses of how he intends to build a resilient Canada next door to a collapsing power.
What Carney’s Davos Speech Reveals about the Future | The Tyee
And why Canadians should get ready for a spring election.
thetyee.ca
January 22, 2026 at 4:24 PM
@crof.bsky.social: At first, Mark Carney’s 2021 book “Value(s): Building a Better World for All” seems like an attempt to portray capitalism with a human face.
But after his Davos speech, it also offers glimpses of how he intends to build a resilient Canada next door to a collapsing power.
But after his Davos speech, it also offers glimpses of how he intends to build a resilient Canada next door to a collapsing power.
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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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At least four leaders of a Justice Department unit that investigates police killings have resigned in protest over the administration’s handling of the fatal shooting of a motorist in Minneapolis by an ICE officer, @carolleonnig.bsky.social and Ken Dilanian report. www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...
A new spate of Justice Department officials quit because their section didn't want to probe Renee Good's shooting
At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good.
www.ms.now
January 13, 2026 at 5:03 PM
At least four leaders of a Justice Department unit that investigates police killings have resigned in protest over the administration’s handling of the fatal shooting of a motorist in Minneapolis by an ICE officer, @carolleonnig.bsky.social and Ken Dilanian report. www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...
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"They drag people out of their houses at any hour of the day and night…families are torn apart. Men, women, & children separated…children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
- Anne Frank, 1942
- Anne Frank, 1942
January 13, 2026 at 5:18 PM
"They drag people out of their houses at any hour of the day and night…families are torn apart. Men, women, & children separated…children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”
- Anne Frank, 1942
- Anne Frank, 1942
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Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
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Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
January 8, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
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The works of Plato are now being banned at schools in the United States.
Tell me again how censorship is a European problem? 🤔
Tell me again how censorship is a European problem? 🤔
Plato Has Been Censored; What Next?
PEN America condemns and calls absurd Texas A&M censoring Plato readings and discussions related to race and gender
pen.org
January 8, 2026 at 9:34 AM
The works of Plato are now being banned at schools in the United States.
Tell me again how censorship is a European problem? 🤔
Tell me again how censorship is a European problem? 🤔
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Trump’s Greenland idea isn’t just absurd, it’s dangerous. It risks destroying NATO, empowers China and Russia, and drags the U.S. back toward 19th-century imperial thinking. We have to stop this, as I told @stephruhle.bsky.social
January 7, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Trump’s Greenland idea isn’t just absurd, it’s dangerous. It risks destroying NATO, empowers China and Russia, and drags the U.S. back toward 19th-century imperial thinking. We have to stop this, as I told @stephruhle.bsky.social
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Jan 6th rioter: “You can't gaslight me. I was there — I saw the officers being pepper sprayed. I watched one of them fall down & hit his head & his back — So don't be telling me it wasn't violent. Don't come to me with that ever again”
January 6, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Jan 6th rioter: “You can't gaslight me. I was there — I saw the officers being pepper sprayed. I watched one of them fall down & hit his head & his back — So don't be telling me it wasn't violent. Don't come to me with that ever again”
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I’m going to be taking a break from Bluesky for a while.
There’s a lot of good here but increasingly this place just makes me sad and angry and, increasingly, foul tempered and mean. It’s not good for me or anyone else.
I’ll check DMs occasionally but otherwise I’ll be away for a bit. Take care.
There’s a lot of good here but increasingly this place just makes me sad and angry and, increasingly, foul tempered and mean. It’s not good for me or anyone else.
I’ll check DMs occasionally but otherwise I’ll be away for a bit. Take care.
January 5, 2026 at 9:09 PM
I’m going to be taking a break from Bluesky for a while.
There’s a lot of good here but increasingly this place just makes me sad and angry and, increasingly, foul tempered and mean. It’s not good for me or anyone else.
I’ll check DMs occasionally but otherwise I’ll be away for a bit. Take care.
There’s a lot of good here but increasingly this place just makes me sad and angry and, increasingly, foul tempered and mean. It’s not good for me or anyone else.
I’ll check DMs occasionally but otherwise I’ll be away for a bit. Take care.
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Five years ago today, we named specific Coloradans who stoked election rigging claims and tried to overthrow the election.
“What those Coloradans did, leading up to today’s insurrection, is on them. Whether the rest of us on Colorado remember what they did, is on us.”
This aired Jan 6, 2021.
“What those Coloradans did, leading up to today’s insurrection, is on them. Whether the rest of us on Colorado remember what they did, is on us.”
This aired Jan 6, 2021.
January 6, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Five years ago today, we named specific Coloradans who stoked election rigging claims and tried to overthrow the election.
“What those Coloradans did, leading up to today’s insurrection, is on them. Whether the rest of us on Colorado remember what they did, is on us.”
This aired Jan 6, 2021.
“What those Coloradans did, leading up to today’s insurrection, is on them. Whether the rest of us on Colorado remember what they did, is on us.”
This aired Jan 6, 2021.
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Americans are struggling just to get by.
Yet Trump is focused on toppling foreign regimes.
Spending billions of taxpayer dollars overseas won't make rent, groceries, or health care more affordable.
Yet Trump is focused on toppling foreign regimes.
Spending billions of taxpayer dollars overseas won't make rent, groceries, or health care more affordable.
January 5, 2026 at 10:28 PM
Americans are struggling just to get by.
Yet Trump is focused on toppling foreign regimes.
Spending billions of taxpayer dollars overseas won't make rent, groceries, or health care more affordable.
Yet Trump is focused on toppling foreign regimes.
Spending billions of taxpayer dollars overseas won't make rent, groceries, or health care more affordable.
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Rubio: "If I lived in Havana in the government, I'd be concerned"
January 3, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Rubio: "If I lived in Havana in the government, I'd be concerned"
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The US ran a war game during Trump 1.0 to assess what Maduro’s fall might unleash. It found that chaos and violence would likely erupt as military units, rival political factions and even jungle-based guerrilla groups jockeyed for control. @michaelcrowley.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
U.S. Ran a War Game on Ousting Maduro. Venezuela Fell Into Chaos.
www.nytimes.com
January 3, 2026 at 5:34 PM
The US ran a war game during Trump 1.0 to assess what Maduro’s fall might unleash. It found that chaos and violence would likely erupt as military units, rival political factions and even jungle-based guerrilla groups jockeyed for control. @michaelcrowley.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...