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One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
January 25, 2026 at 10:39 PM
One of the best things I’ve read in a while:
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The Nazi SA - Sturmabteilung, or Storm Troopers - were often recruited from the dregs of society: barely literate failures incapable of holding down a job and only fit for murder and terror. The scum of Germany. Hitler gave them free rein to vent their rage on their betters. Sound familiar, America?
January 24, 2026 at 5:42 PM
The Nazi SA - Sturmabteilung, or Storm Troopers - were often recruited from the dregs of society: barely literate failures incapable of holding down a job and only fit for murder and terror. The scum of Germany. Hitler gave them free rein to vent their rage on their betters. Sound familiar, America?
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How you doing today? You okay? It was a rough one for a lot of us. There's nothing wrong with you if you're anxious, angry, depressed, or just confused. There's no reason you should be good at this. This is not in any way normal or acceptable.
Be as kind to yourself as you can
Be as kind to yourself as you can
January 25, 2026 at 3:33 PM
How you doing today? You okay? It was a rough one for a lot of us. There's nothing wrong with you if you're anxious, angry, depressed, or just confused. There's no reason you should be good at this. This is not in any way normal or acceptable.
Be as kind to yourself as you can
Be as kind to yourself as you can
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Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed.
www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure
The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.
www.startribune.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed.
www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
www.startribune.com/detained-by-...
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This is why they can't believe older people rely on Medicaid. "Have you tried liquidating some of your assets first" yeah okay
The Trump administration's idea of a "mom and pop" investor is a hypothetical couple that owns 5-12 investment properties.
Bessent: "Someone, maybe your parents for their retirement have bought 5, 10, 12 homes."
January 21, 2026 at 12:44 AM
This is why they can't believe older people rely on Medicaid. "Have you tried liquidating some of your assets first" yeah okay
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The other 23% are in congress.
January 21, 2026 at 1:08 AM
The other 23% are in congress.
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The Cheers oral history in Vanity Fair (I believe) had it as the last TV series written by people who didn't grow up watching television. I've never forgotten that.
"If you watch an episode of Cheers, you might hear references to foreign filmmakers, to classical musicians, to Russian novelists. The level of assumed knowledge back then was far greater; now, TV is rarely adventurous in its allusions."
TV brain rot: The real reason television shows are getting stupider www.the-independent.com/arts-enterta...
January 21, 2026 at 1:08 AM
The Cheers oral history in Vanity Fair (I believe) had it as the last TV series written by people who didn't grow up watching television. I've never forgotten that.
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school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history
January 20, 2026 at 4:10 PM
school being canceled because the president sent armed thugs to harass and imprison the populace for voting against him should be the biggest domestic scandal in american history
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I cannot emphasize how much “be the news” is the opposite of what I was taught about how to be a good journalist and strikes me as an excellent way to churn out elite solipsism that has nothing to do with the public interest and everything to do with self promotion www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...
‘We Need to Be the News’: Inside Bari Weiss’s Bumpy Revamp at CBS
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:59 PM
I cannot emphasize how much “be the news” is the opposite of what I was taught about how to be a good journalist and strikes me as an excellent way to churn out elite solipsism that has nothing to do with the public interest and everything to do with self promotion www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/b...
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I didn’t realise until I read this that I “measure my life in cats” from my childhood kitten, to my parents cat I was afraid would be gone before I came home from abroad (he wasn’t), to the cat we got when we moved in together,up to the current rescues my teens have grown up with & all between ❤️
January 14, 2026 at 1:04 PM
I didn’t realise until I read this that I “measure my life in cats” from my childhood kitten, to my parents cat I was afraid would be gone before I came home from abroad (he wasn’t), to the cat we got when we moved in together,up to the current rescues my teens have grown up with & all between ❤️
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We are now 26 days beyond the statutory deadline for the full release of the Epstein files
January 14, 2026 at 1:14 PM
We are now 26 days beyond the statutory deadline for the full release of the Epstein files
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A+ column here:
My Stop the Presses newsletter calls for more aggressive action by the media to be "radically truthful" and defeat the liars:
/ Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform.
/ Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks.
/ Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.
/ Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform.
/ Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks.
/ Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.
How to build a radically truthful news outlet
The old ways don’t work. Time to declare war on the liars.
www.stopthepresses.news
January 13, 2026 at 12:32 PM
A+ column here:
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My Stop the Presses newsletter calls for more aggressive action by the media to be "radically truthful" and defeat the liars:
/ Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform.
/ Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks.
/ Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.
/ Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform.
/ Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks.
/ Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.
How to build a radically truthful news outlet
The old ways don’t work. Time to declare war on the liars.
www.stopthepresses.news
January 12, 2026 at 5:21 PM
My Stop the Presses newsletter calls for more aggressive action by the media to be "radically truthful" and defeat the liars:
/ Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform.
/ Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks.
/ Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.
/ Correct *every* lie uttered on your platform.
/ Put Trump's remarks on tape delay for proper fact checks.
/ Cut off liars in mid-interview and ban them from your airwaves.
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It's actually a good thing that previously apolitical normies are finally getting angry and starting to speak out. We need the numbers in the streets and at the polls.
If your response to them is "no, fuck you, too late," then you don't actually care about stopping Trump. You're just preening.
If your response to them is "no, fuck you, too late," then you don't actually care about stopping Trump. You're just preening.
January 11, 2026 at 7:49 PM
It's actually a good thing that previously apolitical normies are finally getting angry and starting to speak out. We need the numbers in the streets and at the polls.
If your response to them is "no, fuck you, too late," then you don't actually care about stopping Trump. You're just preening.
If your response to them is "no, fuck you, too late," then you don't actually care about stopping Trump. You're just preening.
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Maybe call this "The Food Desert Expansion Act"
RFK Jr: "One of the things we're doing is Brooke Rollins is requiring that any facility, and store that accepts food stamps will have to double the amount of whole food that is now available to recipients. So that will change the marketplace around the country."
January 11, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Maybe call this "The Food Desert Expansion Act"
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There is no attitude for which legacy journalists are more often rewarded by their bosses than "Everybody needs to calm down." It is a preening announcement that you are the adult in the room, immune from emotion or overreaction or "hysteria." And it is the worst imaginable priority for this era. >
January 11, 2026 at 5:23 PM
There is no attitude for which legacy journalists are more often rewarded by their bosses than "Everybody needs to calm down." It is a preening announcement that you are the adult in the room, immune from emotion or overreaction or "hysteria." And it is the worst imaginable priority for this era. >
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There are good journalists out there who grasp that we are living in an emergency moment, at the mercy of serial liars, bigots, and government thugs. They are steady. They are clear-eyed. They understand what is needed. And they have been right exponentially more often than the "calm down" crew.
January 11, 2026 at 5:26 PM
There are good journalists out there who grasp that we are living in an emergency moment, at the mercy of serial liars, bigots, and government thugs. They are steady. They are clear-eyed. They understand what is needed. And they have been right exponentially more often than the "calm down" crew.
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YES YES YES YES YES welcome ‘em back welcome ‘em in we’ve all been dummies about something
It's actually a good thing that previously apolitical normies are finally getting angry and starting to speak out. We need the numbers in the streets and at the polls.
If your response to them is "no, fuck you, too late," then you don't actually care about stopping Trump. You're just preening.
If your response to them is "no, fuck you, too late," then you don't actually care about stopping Trump. You're just preening.
January 11, 2026 at 8:45 PM
YES YES YES YES YES welcome ‘em back welcome ‘em in we’ve all been dummies about something
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“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” ~ Frederick Douglass
ICE continues to exist because endurance has been mistaken for consent.
ICE continues to exist because endurance has been mistaken for consent.
January 11, 2026 at 7:13 PM
“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” ~ Frederick Douglass
ICE continues to exist because endurance has been mistaken for consent.
ICE continues to exist because endurance has been mistaken for consent.
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Hi @forwardblue.bsky.social No Kings 3 planning is ongoing. You are hurting our coalition-building by sending texts like this-it confuses partners who see them & think we've made decisions without consulting them.
Please reach out to discuss what to do with the money you've raised for No Kings.
Please reach out to discuss what to do with the money you've raised for No Kings.
January 9, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Hi @forwardblue.bsky.social No Kings 3 planning is ongoing. You are hurting our coalition-building by sending texts like this-it confuses partners who see them & think we've made decisions without consulting them.
Please reach out to discuss what to do with the money you've raised for No Kings.
Please reach out to discuss what to do with the money you've raised for No Kings.
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Ok, I couldn't stop thinking about this. Apologies to the literally dozens of people I've lifted from... I want to do a fully credited version, but I'm sitting here sobbing and, well, maybe you'll feel some release, too.
January 9, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Ok, I couldn't stop thinking about this. Apologies to the literally dozens of people I've lifted from... I want to do a fully credited version, but I'm sitting here sobbing and, well, maybe you'll feel some release, too.
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We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
Just days into 2026, the killing of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good by a federal immigration officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has sparked protests around the US.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
If you’re planning to protest, here’s how to safeguard your digital security.
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance
Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy if you plan to protest.
www.wired.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:35 PM
We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.
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“Can a journalist tell the truth about January 6 without consequences? Increasingly it depends on which media company the journalist works for.”
COMMENTARY: It seems an increasing number of Americans, including elected leaders and journalists, are afraid to tell the truth about what happened on January 6. That's dangerous.
January 7, 2026 at 3:56 AM
“Can a journalist tell the truth about January 6 without consequences? Increasingly it depends on which media company the journalist works for.”