Theseus, His Sails Unfurled
@essencewarden.bsky.social
It's Mike. I wish I only talked about tabletop games, writing, and comic books (and tea), but politics keep happening. I like He/Him, and I like She/Her, and I don't like Twitter anymore.
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the Bluesky Poasts at dawn looking for an angry fix
dragging themselves through the Bluesky Poasts at dawn looking for an angry fix
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it has been basically a sixty year project to destroy newspapers and access to factual information and we’re at the end game now. they’re all dead.
i mean we’re still gonna win, i’m not a crying baby, but the destruction of objective facts is kind of a bummer.
i mean we’re still gonna win, i’m not a crying baby, but the destruction of objective facts is kind of a bummer.
January 24, 2026 at 8:02 AM
it has been basically a sixty year project to destroy newspapers and access to factual information and we’re at the end game now. they’re all dead.
i mean we’re still gonna win, i’m not a crying baby, but the destruction of objective facts is kind of a bummer.
i mean we’re still gonna win, i’m not a crying baby, but the destruction of objective facts is kind of a bummer.
My obituary will be crazy if they actually print it
I am 100% writing one of those ones that's like "Here's all the things that were unseemly or illegal/actionable to say while I was alive."
I am 100% writing one of those ones that's like "Here's all the things that were unseemly or illegal/actionable to say while I was alive."
January 24, 2026 at 3:46 AM
My obituary will be crazy if they actually print it
I am 100% writing one of those ones that's like "Here's all the things that were unseemly or illegal/actionable to say while I was alive."
I am 100% writing one of those ones that's like "Here's all the things that were unseemly or illegal/actionable to say while I was alive."
Hey delete this app
According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes
According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.
www.wired.com
January 24, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Hey delete this app
My grandma thought the Starburst candy "Let Loose the Juice" ads were pro-OJ.
I loved her. But that sucked and was stupid.
I loved her. But that sucked and was stupid.
CNN: DHS officials have come to FEMA staff and told them to limit the use of the word ice…they are worried that by posting something like, watch out for the ice, that it's going to become a meme….
January 24, 2026 at 1:32 AM
My grandma thought the Starburst candy "Let Loose the Juice" ads were pro-OJ.
I loved her. But that sucked and was stupid.
I loved her. But that sucked and was stupid.
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Today we marched together in below zero weather. Thanks to the thousands and thousands of Minnesotans who turned out to stand up and speak out. ICE OUT.
January 23, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Today we marched together in below zero weather. Thanks to the thousands and thousands of Minnesotans who turned out to stand up and speak out. ICE OUT.
Wow fuck this
Breaking NYT:
The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.
The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.
F.B.I. Agent Who Tried to Investigate ICE Officer in Shooting Resigns
www.nytimes.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Wow fuck this
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this photo. minneapolis. 💜
📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
January 23, 2026 at 10:04 PM
this photo. minneapolis. 💜
📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
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Big the kids are all alright moment for me today. I spoke to some high school students and heard them:
Rail against AI art ("Creepy!")
Call out US media bias
Describe ICE agents as losers
Rail against AI art ("Creepy!")
Call out US media bias
Describe ICE agents as losers
January 23, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Big the kids are all alright moment for me today. I spoke to some high school students and heard them:
Rail against AI art ("Creepy!")
Call out US media bias
Describe ICE agents as losers
Rail against AI art ("Creepy!")
Call out US media bias
Describe ICE agents as losers
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🚨"The Ku Klux Klan used to call themselves the invisible empire, and they wore masks, and they used to raid immigrant communities—much like ICE is right now," -one of THOUSANDS of Minneapolis ICE protesters marching in -10 degrees as part of statewide generals strike. LIVE NOW⬇️
January 23, 2026 at 9:39 PM
🚨"The Ku Klux Klan used to call themselves the invisible empire, and they wore masks, and they used to raid immigrant communities—much like ICE is right now," -one of THOUSANDS of Minneapolis ICE protesters marching in -10 degrees as part of statewide generals strike. LIVE NOW⬇️
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one of the fastest ways to get me to dismiss you as an even vaguely serious person: being an American who sneers at NATO
January 23, 2026 at 5:42 PM
one of the fastest ways to get me to dismiss you as an even vaguely serious person: being an American who sneers at NATO
Whatever article called them the Evil Keystone Kops was right. Jesus fucking Christ.
ICE just crashed a car at my intersection (due to their own shitty driving) and immediately got out and tear gassed observers.
January 23, 2026 at 7:56 PM
Whatever article called them the Evil Keystone Kops was right. Jesus fucking Christ.
More unforgivable evil.
Not sure about you folks, but for me, talking about something (rather than just RTing it) helps me remember.
We need to remember as many of these affronts to humanity as we can.
Not sure about you folks, but for me, talking about something (rather than just RTing it) helps me remember.
We need to remember as many of these affronts to humanity as we can.
The parents of a 7 year old, all of whom are in the process of applying for asylum, took their daughter to the ER when her nose wouldn't stop bleeding. ICE picked them up near the hospital and they are now in detention in Texas, presumably awaiting deportation. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...
ICE detains family seeking emergency care for child at Portland hospital
The Venezuelan parents and their 7-year-old daughter entered the U.S. legally.
www.oregonlive.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:35 PM
More unforgivable evil.
Not sure about you folks, but for me, talking about something (rather than just RTing it) helps me remember.
We need to remember as many of these affronts to humanity as we can.
Not sure about you folks, but for me, talking about something (rather than just RTing it) helps me remember.
We need to remember as many of these affronts to humanity as we can.
Document it all. Never forgive. Never forget.
January 23, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Document it all. Never forgive. Never forget.
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happening at the same time
January 23, 2026 at 5:50 PM
happening at the same time
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They really are dropping any pretense that ICE is about immigration.
Once you're saying ICE has absolute power over not only undocumented people but anyone they engage, you're openly admitting these are meant to be shock troops for the mad king
Once you're saying ICE has absolute power over not only undocumented people but anyone they engage, you're openly admitting these are meant to be shock troops for the mad king
When an ICE agent confronts you is "when your due process ends," says the member of Congress from the largest border district.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 23, 2026 at 5:10 PM
They really are dropping any pretense that ICE is about immigration.
Once you're saying ICE has absolute power over not only undocumented people but anyone they engage, you're openly admitting these are meant to be shock troops for the mad king
Once you're saying ICE has absolute power over not only undocumented people but anyone they engage, you're openly admitting these are meant to be shock troops for the mad king
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The GOP is a fascist political party and needs to be removed from as many positions of power as possible.
When an ICE agent confronts you is "when your due process ends," says the member of Congress from the largest border district.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 23, 2026 at 5:10 PM
The GOP is a fascist political party and needs to be removed from as many positions of power as possible.
Their persecutors deserve to suffer hell on earth.
As clergy pray, arrests begin
January 23, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Their persecutors deserve to suffer hell on earth.
I've seen some people use Facebook DMs like it was Signal, and ... fuckin No, don't ever do that, ever.
the feds are scraping all your social media data
if you didn't already know, now you know
if you didn't already know, now you know
One of the exhibits contains a rather useful document from ICE that's labeled "confidential" about how they collect information on social media. There's a section on scraping. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 23, 2026 at 5:04 PM
I've seen some people use Facebook DMs like it was Signal, and ... fuckin No, don't ever do that, ever.
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This is a 16-year old girl who was carrying documentation and was pulled over with her documented friend, also 16. This is what they did to both.
January 23, 2026 at 2:14 PM
This is a 16-year old girl who was carrying documentation and was pulled over with her documented friend, also 16. This is what they did to both.
There's a concept in Congress that people don't seem to know about: votes almost never happen in a vacuum
The leaders get the endgame number. Then members sometimes vote the other way so they can have it on record for their weird constituency
Like how Collins and Murkowksi never break ties
The leaders get the endgame number. Then members sometimes vote the other way so they can have it on record for their weird constituency
Like how Collins and Murkowksi never break ties
January 23, 2026 at 1:48 PM
There's a concept in Congress that people don't seem to know about: votes almost never happen in a vacuum
The leaders get the endgame number. Then members sometimes vote the other way so they can have it on record for their weird constituency
Like how Collins and Murkowksi never break ties
The leaders get the endgame number. Then members sometimes vote the other way so they can have it on record for their weird constituency
Like how Collins and Murkowksi never break ties
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Speaking of institutionalized racism- I can't neatly convey how alienating it is for society to have elected a bunch of 15 year old neo nazi trolls who are going out of their way to dehumanize and delegitimize Americans of Color whenever possible.
January 23, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Speaking of institutionalized racism- I can't neatly convey how alienating it is for society to have elected a bunch of 15 year old neo nazi trolls who are going out of their way to dehumanize and delegitimize Americans of Color whenever possible.
I hope no one even hatewatches this coalesced stink of a program.
“It’s going horrendously. I don’t mean there have been a few minor speed bumps; I mean the bus is pancaked, Wile E. Coyote–style, against the side of the mountain.“ www.theringer.com/2026/01/21/m...
The Five Farcical Principles of the ‘CBS Evening News’
Tony Dokoupil and Bari Weiss’s new broadcast has been one debacle after another. Let's try to make sense of it all, with or without whiskey.
www.theringer.com
January 23, 2026 at 12:34 PM
I hope no one even hatewatches this coalesced stink of a program.
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A post-by-post dissection of the Nazi and neo-Nazi tropes used in U.S. government social media accounts. By @alibreland.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com.
The Trump Administration Is Publishing a Stream of Nazi Propaganda
Government social-media managers have transformed official feeds.
www.theatlantic.com
January 23, 2026 at 3:42 AM
A post-by-post dissection of the Nazi and neo-Nazi tropes used in U.S. government social media accounts. By @alibreland.bsky.social in @theatlantic.com.
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straightway upon the ship’s getting out of sight of land, his insanity broke out in a freshet
January 23, 2026 at 3:47 AM
straightway upon the ship’s getting out of sight of land, his insanity broke out in a freshet
Someone paid these people to kill us
And just like that, the US has left the World Health Organization.
Link goes to the official announcement—lies pretending to justify a decision that will kill countless numbers—from people too stupid to even include a proper twittercard.
www.hhs.gov/press-room/u...
Link goes to the official announcement—lies pretending to justify a decision that will kill countless numbers—from people too stupid to even include a proper twittercard.
www.hhs.gov/press-room/u...
January 23, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Someone paid these people to kill us