Karl LaFong
@klafong.bsky.social
Screenwriter, storyteller, actor, and graphic artist. Reposts don't necessarily mean agreement. (he, him)
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People are DEMANDING that you oppose Trump's Gestapo and protect people from being shot in the face by their government.
Schumer as a major American metro is being brutally occupied by Trump goons: "The affordability crisis will be our focus throughout 2026 because that's what the American people are demanding"
January 15, 2026 at 4:54 PM
People are DEMANDING that you oppose Trump's Gestapo and protect people from being shot in the face by their government.
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Hi - I'm one of the American people.
What I'm demanding is that you focus on what it takes to protect American citizens from the "papers please" temu gestapo
What I'm demanding is that you focus on what it takes to protect American citizens from the "papers please" temu gestapo
Schumer as a major American metro is being brutally occupied by Trump goons: "The affordability crisis will be our focus throughout 2026 because that's what the American people are demanding"
January 15, 2026 at 10:16 PM
Hi - I'm one of the American people.
What I'm demanding is that you focus on what it takes to protect American citizens from the "papers please" temu gestapo
What I'm demanding is that you focus on what it takes to protect American citizens from the "papers please" temu gestapo
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This is hilarious and I applaud the hilarity. Let’s be honest. Probably best just close CBS News down now before it gets more embarrassing.
“Huge internal concern” among CBS staff over that “internal bleeding” story.
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...
![The network’s top editor, Bari Weiss, expressed a high level of interest in the story on an editorial call Wednesday morning, according to staffers who listened.
“There was big internal dissension about the ‘internal bleeding’ report here last night,” the CBS News staffer, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said . “It was viewed as a thinly-veiled, anonymous leak by [the Trump administration] to someone who’d carry it online.”
“Felt to many here like we were carrying water for the admin’s justifying of the shooting to keep our access to our sources,” said a second network staffer, who was also not authorized to comment.
In a statement, a CBS News sp](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:svawqo4jxobyyuqmixplvcux/bafkreigvikvydve32ejzqe7ijwv3vlp5mxxpltxkp4diooisa75bzkcbju@jpeg)
January 16, 2026 at 3:25 AM
This is hilarious and I applaud the hilarity. Let’s be honest. Probably best just close CBS News down now before it gets more embarrassing.
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In the grand scheme this is not the most important thing that happened today.
But "protesters eagerly sift through the equipment and papers left behind by the regime's routed elite security forces" historically happens at a much later stage of regime collapse than this.
But "protesters eagerly sift through the equipment and papers left behind by the regime's routed elite security forces" historically happens at a much later stage of regime collapse than this.
January 15, 2026 at 5:45 AM
In the grand scheme this is not the most important thing that happened today.
But "protesters eagerly sift through the equipment and papers left behind by the regime's routed elite security forces" historically happens at a much later stage of regime collapse than this.
But "protesters eagerly sift through the equipment and papers left behind by the regime's routed elite security forces" historically happens at a much later stage of regime collapse than this.
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In this context it is also worth noting that the quorum for both houses is 50%+1, wherever they may meet. If the Republicans and Trump's goons occupy the Capitol and refuse to seat a newly elected Democratic congress, they can just meet *literally anywhere,* meete quorum and be Congress.
here's what happens after house elections, which are conducted by each state and locality:
the state certifies the winner
the winners go to washington
they convene a new house
they choose a speaker
notice who isn't involved here? the president or the current speaker or the senate.
the state certifies the winner
the winners go to washington
they convene a new house
they choose a speaker
notice who isn't involved here? the president or the current speaker or the senate.
January 15, 2026 at 7:49 PM
In this context it is also worth noting that the quorum for both houses is 50%+1, wherever they may meet. If the Republicans and Trump's goons occupy the Capitol and refuse to seat a newly elected Democratic congress, they can just meet *literally anywhere,* meete quorum and be Congress.
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Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
That is what was relayed
January 15, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
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Really excellent big-picture overview from CNN about the escalating and horrifying violence of ICE -- complete with an actually good use of "Snowfall"-style mixed media.
We (read: I) complain a lot about the lack of context and vision in political media. This ain't that. www.cnn.com/interactive/...
We (read: I) complain a lot about the lack of context and vision in political media. This ain't that. www.cnn.com/interactive/...
How DHS is turbocharging its immigration crackdown
www.cnn.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Really excellent big-picture overview from CNN about the escalating and horrifying violence of ICE -- complete with an actually good use of "Snowfall"-style mixed media.
We (read: I) complain a lot about the lack of context and vision in political media. This ain't that. www.cnn.com/interactive/...
We (read: I) complain a lot about the lack of context and vision in political media. This ain't that. www.cnn.com/interactive/...
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🚨BREAKING: ICE/DHS agents launch flash bang grenades and tear gas at unarmed Minneapolis protesters in front of the federal building.
"We have a constitutional right to assemble here! You are committing treason!" protester screams amidst cloud of tear gas. LIVE NOW ⬇️
"We have a constitutional right to assemble here! You are committing treason!" protester screams amidst cloud of tear gas. LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 15, 2026 at 7:23 PM
🚨BREAKING: ICE/DHS agents launch flash bang grenades and tear gas at unarmed Minneapolis protesters in front of the federal building.
"We have a constitutional right to assemble here! You are committing treason!" protester screams amidst cloud of tear gas. LIVE NOW ⬇️
"We have a constitutional right to assemble here! You are committing treason!" protester screams amidst cloud of tear gas. LIVE NOW ⬇️
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just actually looked at the image properly here and it is wild how all the ICE tacticool LARP dipshits are lined up perfectly in a row
"What ICE is learning—at least to the extent that any of these bestial freaks are capable of reason—is that violently suppressing dissent is a tricky business." prospect.org/2026/01/15/t...
Trump’s Ethnic Cleansing Campaign in Minneapolis - The American Prospect
There are reportedly about 3,000 federal immigration officers running riot in Minneapolis. They have been captured on video beating, gassing, and pepper-spraying bystanders and kidnapping people off t...
prospect.org
January 15, 2026 at 7:56 PM
just actually looked at the image properly here and it is wild how all the ICE tacticool LARP dipshits are lined up perfectly in a row
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Elon Musk’s Grok ‘Undressing’ Problem Isn’t Fixed
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Elon Musk’s Grok ‘Undressing’ Problem Isn’t Fixed
X has placed more restrictions on Grok’s ability to generate explicit AI images, but tests show that the updates have created a patchwork of limitations that fail to fully address the issue.
www.wired.com
January 15, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Elon Musk’s Grok ‘Undressing’ Problem Isn’t Fixed
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
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A single federal agent with a long gun just walked through the crowd, slipped on the ice on his way under the police tape.
Dropped his loaded clip.
Dropped his loaded clip.
January 15, 2026 at 2:39 AM
A single federal agent with a long gun just walked through the crowd, slipped on the ice on his way under the police tape.
Dropped his loaded clip.
Dropped his loaded clip.
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The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for an ICE agent to do this to a 21-year-old kid, who was only protesting because another ICE agent killed a mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors
January 15, 2026 at 8:23 PM
The Trump-Vance administration just used your taxes to pay for an ICE agent to do this to a 21-year-old kid, who was only protesting because another ICE agent killed a mother of three, who was only there because ICE agents are kidnapping your neighbors
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It’s even more embarrassing than I imagined.
January 16, 2026 at 2:33 AM
It’s even more embarrassing than I imagined.
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These people genuinely don't understand that non American people speak English and watch American news
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says the Danes agreed to form a working group to discuss the surrender of Greenland to Trump. "No we didn't" says the Danish foreign minister, indeed "there will be no discussion of turnover." www.berlingske.dk/indland/det-...
Det Hvide Hus: Arbejdsgruppe skal drøfte »erhvervelsen af Grønland« – Løkke afviser
Onsdagens møde og NATO-allieredes styrker i Grønland ændrer ikke Trumps ambitioner om, at USA skal erhverve Grønland, lyder det torsdag aften fra Det Hvide Hus.
www.berlingske.dk
January 16, 2026 at 4:55 AM
These people genuinely don't understand that non American people speak English and watch American news
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A big part of why the Right is furious at White women right now is because they're increasingly using their Whiteness as shield and a weapon and it's honestly fucking great.
January 15, 2026 at 10:06 PM
A big part of why the Right is furious at White women right now is because they're increasingly using their Whiteness as shield and a weapon and it's honestly fucking great.
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The administration is staffed by an endless parade of of degenerates, perverts, criminals, and scammers; and if you maintain an account on X the Everything App you’re regularly introduced to new ones you had no idea existed!
January 16, 2026 at 2:02 AM
The administration is staffed by an endless parade of of degenerates, perverts, criminals, and scammers; and if you maintain an account on X the Everything App you’re regularly introduced to new ones you had no idea existed!
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State-sanctioned rape was the inevitable product of the climate of anti-trans contempt promoted by Sulzberger’s nyt and eagerly adopted by the WH
@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jan 14 Prospect: After moving to weaken Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) safety protections for transgender inmates, Trump admin has now removed similar protections at multiple ICE detention centers as well as halted all GAC care for detainees.
ICE Deletes Rape Protection for Trans Immigrants - The American Prospect
The agency this month altered more contracts with private prison companies to remove care and protection measures it took advocates years to win.
prospect.org
January 15, 2026 at 7:12 AM
State-sanctioned rape was the inevitable product of the climate of anti-trans contempt promoted by Sulzberger’s nyt and eagerly adopted by the WH
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the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained
January 15, 2026 at 7:22 AM
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He really is doing all of it.
January 15, 2026 at 4:36 AM
He really is doing all of it.
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Demonstrators apparently retrieved from the cars belonging to ICE these "challenge coins" that ICE mercenaries receive when they carry out arrests.
This one is decorated with a skull wearing a crown.
ICE mercenaries serve king death. They are evil incarnate.
This one is decorated with a skull wearing a crown.
ICE mercenaries serve king death. They are evil incarnate.
January 15, 2026 at 5:20 AM
Demonstrators apparently retrieved from the cars belonging to ICE these "challenge coins" that ICE mercenaries receive when they carry out arrests.
This one is decorated with a skull wearing a crown.
ICE mercenaries serve king death. They are evil incarnate.
This one is decorated with a skull wearing a crown.
ICE mercenaries serve king death. They are evil incarnate.
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BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.
January 15, 2026 at 6:44 AM
BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.
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New poll from Navigator also with an incredible result; the largest drop in support for ICE since June was actually among *Republicans*, 25% of which now say they have an unfavorable opinion of the agency.
January 15, 2026 at 10:31 PM
New poll from Navigator also with an incredible result; the largest drop in support for ICE since June was actually among *Republicans*, 25% of which now say they have an unfavorable opinion of the agency.
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I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
January 16, 2026 at 12:17 AM
I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.”
Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.
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Its meaningful that they called the bitch a fucking liar with zero hesitation
I don’t think the cabal really understands the depth of rage here
I don’t think the cabal really understands the depth of rage here
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says the Danes agreed to form a working group to discuss the surrender of Greenland to Trump. "No we didn't" says the Danish foreign minister, indeed "there will be no discussion of turnover." www.berlingske.dk/indland/det-...
Det Hvide Hus: Arbejdsgruppe skal drøfte »erhvervelsen af Grønland« – Løkke afviser
Onsdagens møde og NATO-allieredes styrker i Grønland ændrer ikke Trumps ambitioner om, at USA skal erhverve Grønland, lyder det torsdag aften fra Det Hvide Hus.
www.berlingske.dk
January 16, 2026 at 3:11 AM
Its meaningful that they called the bitch a fucking liar with zero hesitation
I don’t think the cabal really understands the depth of rage here
I don’t think the cabal really understands the depth of rage here
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Keep an eye out for the possibility Trump pardons Maduro in exchange ("I would like you to do us a favor, though, because our country has been through a lot...") for an "admission" he fixed the 2020 election.
digbysblog.net/2026/01/15/i...
digbysblog.net/2026/01/15/i...
digbysblog.net
January 15, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Keep an eye out for the possibility Trump pardons Maduro in exchange ("I would like you to do us a favor, though, because our country has been through a lot...") for an "admission" he fixed the 2020 election.
digbysblog.net/2026/01/15/i...
digbysblog.net/2026/01/15/i...