Hinkydink
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It is not safe to live in, visit, or share a planet with my country. Boycott us. Good luck, everyone.
It is not safe to live in, visit, or share a planet with my country. Boycott us. Good luck, everyone.
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Hinkydink
@hinkydink.bsky.social
· Aug 24
Avatar backstory: from Long-Haired Hare (1949), a Looney Tunes short.
Photo #1: Bugs dresses as a bobby-soxer to trick his opera-singer nemesis into signing an autograph with a stick of dynamite. Reminds me of...
Photo #2: I can hear Chuck Jones laughing from here.
Photo #1: Bugs dresses as a bobby-soxer to trick his opera-singer nemesis into signing an autograph with a stick of dynamite. Reminds me of...
Photo #2: I can hear Chuck Jones laughing from here.
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I refuse to die until I get to see Stephen Miller humiliated as publicly and devastatingly as possible. It is the most important thing in the world to me.
January 27, 2026 at 12:24 AM
I refuse to die until I get to see Stephen Miller humiliated as publicly and devastatingly as possible. It is the most important thing in the world to me.
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And that's not even incorrect! Mr President sir, your most wet, serpent-like vizier has wrecked your approve/disapprove numbers on the only issue where they were actually positive. He is trying to wreck your legacy sir! Think of the Ballroom
January 27, 2026 at 1:38 AM
And that's not even incorrect! Mr President sir, your most wet, serpent-like vizier has wrecked your approve/disapprove numbers on the only issue where they were actually positive. He is trying to wreck your legacy sir! Think of the Ballroom
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Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 26, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Every last one of them will find their chosen profession has become an irredeemable slur from which they will never find rescue or relief.
January 26, 2026 at 7:32 PM
Every last one of them will find their chosen profession has become an irredeemable slur from which they will never find rescue or relief.
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Stephen Miller and Russ Vought are the two pure ideologues driving the agendas of white nationalism and destroying public services, respectively. They need to be the top political targets. Saying “Kristi Noem must resign” is a sideshow. Prosecute the whole cabinet later, sure, but please focus now.
January 26, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Stephen Miller and Russ Vought are the two pure ideologues driving the agendas of white nationalism and destroying public services, respectively. They need to be the top political targets. Saying “Kristi Noem must resign” is a sideshow. Prosecute the whole cabinet later, sure, but please focus now.
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Fox did big purges of the more credible (for fox) reporters after the 2020 election and replaced them a bunch of gop campaign/trump admin types, Sean Hannity’s longtime exec producer runs the digital operation.
Then there’s…this. This is a news article, not an op ed. I reviewed Fox’s December 2019-March 2020 COVID coverage in their online news section and it didn’t throw in shit like this, even since then they’ve deteriorated
January 26, 2026 at 1:51 PM
Fox did big purges of the more credible (for fox) reporters after the 2020 election and replaced them a bunch of gop campaign/trump admin types, Sean Hannity’s longtime exec producer runs the digital operation.
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My general metaphor is this: America has an angel on one shoulder that says, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal with certain inalienable rights'; and a devil on the other shoulder that says, 'Whites only.'
Liberalism should always be talking in terms of patriotism and flag and the American revolution. We should wrap ourselves in the flag because we are the only movement in America that truly embraces the IDEALS enunciated by the founders. FREEDOM. LIBERTY. That’s left, not right.
Looks like we get to reclaim this flag! I’m glad about that because it always looked cool.
January 26, 2026 at 1:12 PM
My general metaphor is this: America has an angel on one shoulder that says, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal with certain inalienable rights'; and a devil on the other shoulder that says, 'Whites only.'
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They sure as shit voted for a reinforcement of dominant racial hierarchies, they were just confused where they were on the fucking chart
Did anyone actually vote to have masked Federal agents hold US citizens down and shoot them in the back?
January 26, 2026 at 1:23 PM
They sure as shit voted for a reinforcement of dominant racial hierarchies, they were just confused where they were on the fucking chart
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This March 1965 Herblock cartoon about police violence against civil rights activists has added relevance today.
January 26, 2026 at 1:08 PM
This March 1965 Herblock cartoon about police violence against civil rights activists has added relevance today.
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i say this as someone with at least a mild background in cybersecurity — tiktok is now trump/fedgov spyware. you need to delete your account and app ASAP. just because the app isn‘t open doesn’t mean they won’t be harvesting your personal data to target you. queer folx get the fuck off that app
January 26, 2026 at 4:19 AM
i say this as someone with at least a mild background in cybersecurity — tiktok is now trump/fedgov spyware. you need to delete your account and app ASAP. just because the app isn‘t open doesn’t mean they won’t be harvesting your personal data to target you. queer folx get the fuck off that app
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In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram
January 25, 2026 at 10:21 PM
In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram
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“you seem to be getting radicalized by this”
you mean the government executing peaceful protesters and then lying about it and trying to destroy the evidence? yeah a bit
you mean the government executing peaceful protesters and then lying about it and trying to destroy the evidence? yeah a bit
January 25, 2026 at 5:19 PM
“you seem to be getting radicalized by this”
you mean the government executing peaceful protesters and then lying about it and trying to destroy the evidence? yeah a bit
you mean the government executing peaceful protesters and then lying about it and trying to destroy the evidence? yeah a bit
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So much of this regime's playbook recycles Kremlin tactics and rhetoric.
Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.”
Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
January 25, 2026 at 4:41 PM
So much of this regime's playbook recycles Kremlin tactics and rhetoric.
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DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:
January 25, 2026 at 4:27 PM
DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:
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i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
Putin pioneered this. No opposition is legitimate. Regular, decent, “ordinary” people cannot possibly be against us because only we represent “the real people.”
Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
Tell-tale sign of authoritarianism.
January 25, 2026 at 3:02 PM
i think this attitude — that all opposition is illegitimate and nothing we do can be questioned— is probably pervasive in the white house and helps explain why they keep making terrible political choices
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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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The guy that runs the Reddit where people post about patting their cat on the butt like bongos has put his foot down
January 25, 2026 at 12:44 AM
The guy that runs the Reddit where people post about patting their cat on the butt like bongos has put his foot down
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I know it’s controversial but I will always side with “why should we change the idealistic symbols, they’re the ones who suck.”
Minnesotans are showing the soul of the United States to the world.
January 25, 2026 at 12:25 AM
I know it’s controversial but I will always side with “why should we change the idealistic symbols, they’re the ones who suck.”
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Solidarity, particularly across race and class, is Kryptonite for authoritarian regimes. They can only thrive when their us v. them framing is adopted by society at large, and they join as active or passive collaborators with the regime. So the only response they have is to raise the cost of unity
They are telling us in unequivocal terms that if you show solidarity with immigrants who are in the literal crosshairs of Trump/MAGA, you're risking a death sentence.
newrepublic.com/article/2055...
newrepublic.com/article/2055...
January 24, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Solidarity, particularly across race and class, is Kryptonite for authoritarian regimes. They can only thrive when their us v. them framing is adopted by society at large, and they join as active or passive collaborators with the regime. So the only response they have is to raise the cost of unity
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the nyt style section vs. der spiegel
January 24, 2026 at 11:20 PM
the nyt style section vs. der spiegel
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I would be very surprised if a full accounting in the future didn't reveal more than one mass grave at the detention centers. If they're behaving this way in public, what's happening out of sight must be many times more brutal.
Imagine what’s happening in the camps.
Imagine how much they’d be lying about what happened without all the videos showing it from multiple angles.
January 24, 2026 at 11:43 PM
I would be very surprised if a full accounting in the future didn't reveal more than one mass grave at the detention centers. If they're behaving this way in public, what's happening out of sight must be many times more brutal.
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If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
January 24, 2026 at 8:29 PM
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
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I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says that the victim was a 37-year-old white man and US citizen with no criminal record and that he was a legally permitted gun owner.
January 24, 2026 at 6:29 PM
I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
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Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin.
Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
January 24, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Alex Pretti, the man killed by federal agents today in Minneapolis, appears to have been a registered nurse, an athlete, a son and a brother, with ties to Colorado and Wisconsin.
Here is a photo he used for several accounts.
Here is a photo he used for several accounts.