Ralston Elko
@necho.org
📍Chicago, IL
Stunned cacophony. Will never forget the Texan invasion.
Stunned cacophony. Will never forget the Texan invasion.
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Yes. You cannot, as a country, allow an invasion by an autocrat in hopes that democratic elections will eventually tople them peacefully.
January 14, 2026 at 11:39 PM
Yes. You cannot, as a country, allow an invasion by an autocrat in hopes that democratic elections will eventually tople them peacefully.
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i keep going back to 'why are we doing any of this.' it wouldve been so, so easy to not do this
January 14, 2026 at 11:36 PM
i keep going back to 'why are we doing any of this.' it wouldve been so, so easy to not do this
Wish louis rossman was here so i could at him
Small businesses shouldn’t have to navigate 6,000 regulations and rules to start and stay open in NYC. Today, I signed an executive order to cut the fines and fees small businesses pay and finally deliver relief.
January 14, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Wish louis rossman was here so i could at him
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🧵 The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.
January 14, 2026 at 4:43 PM
🧵 The autoworker at the Dearborn Truck Plant is a proud member of a strong and fighting union—the UAW. He believes in freedom of speech, a principle we wholeheartedly embrace, and we stand with our membership in protecting their voice on the job.
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They don't like Frey (or any Democrat, really) but they like Trump.
Jacob Frey told ICE agents to get the fuck out of Minneapolis, a hugely popular viral moment, and the media has been browbeating him over it ever since. Trump flipped a guy off and told him fuck you and it’s barely acknowledged.
January 14, 2026 at 3:17 PM
They don't like Frey (or any Democrat, really) but they like Trump.
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i think it was the dilbert future where he said you could manifest wishes into reality by writing them down repeatedly and high school me though “cool if true” and then never tried it
i’m sure there’s psycho stuff in there i’d have missed at the time, but scott adam’s old books probably inoculated me from ever having linkedin brain or respecting anyone who told me they had a black belt in six sigma
January 13, 2026 at 3:54 PM
i think it was the dilbert future where he said you could manifest wishes into reality by writing them down repeatedly and high school me though “cool if true” and then never tried it
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Given that its Trump, betting the former
so did trump leave scott adams hanging out to die or did he actually get whatever that experimental treatment he wanted and it failed?
January 13, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Given that its Trump, betting the former
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"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
A St. Paul resident says federal officers knocked on her door and asked her to identify Hmong and Asian households in her North End neighborhood last week.
ICE in St. Paul: Man roughly detained at gas station, Border Patrol chief jeered in Midway Target
Videos and photos show a prevalence of federal agents in St. Paul recently.
trib.al
January 13, 2026 at 10:37 PM
"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
"“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"
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/2 Anyway, America was never about everyone loving liberty; America was always about enough people loving liberty and being willing to defend it to keep down the people with totalitarian souls.
January 13, 2026 at 3:57 PM
/2 Anyway, America was never about everyone loving liberty; America was always about enough people loving liberty and being willing to defend it to keep down the people with totalitarian souls.
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Updated my friend in Gaza: "My city is safe right now. But Minneapolis has just shut down its schools after the federal secret police began raiding them. It is a conflict between federal authorities, who are fascist, and local ones, assaulted because they are liberal."
January 13, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Updated my friend in Gaza: "My city is safe right now. But Minneapolis has just shut down its schools after the federal secret police began raiding them. It is a conflict between federal authorities, who are fascist, and local ones, assaulted because they are liberal."
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Look you can even work kitchen table issues into your denunciation of tyranny.
AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.
January 13, 2026 at 2:07 AM
Look you can even work kitchen table issues into your denunciation of tyranny.
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I don’t know how to process that we did this. Every fucking day it’s that “are we the baddies” meme, except that it’s perfectly clear that we are, indeed, the baddies. I hate this. And I hate everyone who got us here.
Disguising yourself as a civilian in order to carry out a lethal attack is called perfidy and it’s one of the most serious of war crimes. The usual punishment is execution.
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:07 AM
I don’t know how to process that we did this. Every fucking day it’s that “are we the baddies” meme, except that it’s perfectly clear that we are, indeed, the baddies. I hate this. And I hate everyone who got us here.
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When you are being asked for your papers on the street you are under a police state.
This woman is harder than goddamn steel dealing with these goddamn thugs. I want her to be my neighbor.
January 12, 2026 at 11:19 PM
When you are being asked for your papers on the street you are under a police state.
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things off the top of my head that i can think of that conservatives have called tyranny
- health care subsidies
- seeing pronouns in an email
- being suspended from a social media platform
- pride month
- baking a cake for a same sex wedding
- legal rulings against donald trump
- EV benchmarks
- health care subsidies
- seeing pronouns in an email
- being suspended from a social media platform
- pride month
- baking a cake for a same sex wedding
- legal rulings against donald trump
- EV benchmarks
Trump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity.
(vid via Ford Fischer on X)
(vid via Ford Fischer on X)
January 12, 2026 at 9:51 PM
things off the top of my head that i can think of that conservatives have called tyranny
- health care subsidies
- seeing pronouns in an email
- being suspended from a social media platform
- pride month
- baking a cake for a same sex wedding
- legal rulings against donald trump
- EV benchmarks
- health care subsidies
- seeing pronouns in an email
- being suspended from a social media platform
- pride month
- baking a cake for a same sex wedding
- legal rulings against donald trump
- EV benchmarks
The federal government owes blue stetes restitution for this. Paid exclusively by red states.
We subsidize red states and they repay us by handing out tax abatements to steal employers and sending goon squads to make our citizens miserable. Fuck that and fuck them.
We subsidize red states and they repay us by handing out tax abatements to steal employers and sending goon squads to make our citizens miserable. Fuck that and fuck them.
Frey: "Florida & Texas & Utah are Republican states. The reason that Minnesota & Minneapolis are being targeted is because you've got a Democratic governor, a Democratic attorney general, and Democratic mayors. We are doing everything possible to keep our cities safe through this unprecedented time"
January 12, 2026 at 10:43 PM
The federal government owes blue stetes restitution for this. Paid exclusively by red states.
We subsidize red states and they repay us by handing out tax abatements to steal employers and sending goon squads to make our citizens miserable. Fuck that and fuck them.
We subsidize red states and they repay us by handing out tax abatements to steal employers and sending goon squads to make our citizens miserable. Fuck that and fuck them.
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Someone asked me today why ICE always runs when you follow them, when they're the ones with guns and armor and squads and massive trucks, and honestly -
The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion.
The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion.
January 12, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Someone asked me today why ICE always runs when you follow them, when they're the ones with guns and armor and squads and massive trucks, and honestly -
The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion.
The wicked flee when no man pursueth; but the righteous are bold as a lion.
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"You're white. Don't you see what a great deal this is for us whites?"
A lot of us are disgusted. We weren't waiting to drop the mask, this is how we really are. It's not going to get better from here.
A lot of us are disgusted. We weren't waiting to drop the mask, this is how we really are. It's not going to get better from here.
January 12, 2026 at 8:53 PM
"You're white. Don't you see what a great deal this is for us whites?"
A lot of us are disgusted. We weren't waiting to drop the mask, this is how we really are. It's not going to get better from here.
A lot of us are disgusted. We weren't waiting to drop the mask, this is how we really are. It's not going to get better from here.
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deposing a foreign ruler and spending tens of billions of dollars on oil subsidies so we can put American frackers out of business, just in time for EVs to permanently collapse oil demand. that's the Trump business touch alright
January 12, 2026 at 2:57 PM
deposing a foreign ruler and spending tens of billions of dollars on oil subsidies so we can put American frackers out of business, just in time for EVs to permanently collapse oil demand. that's the Trump business touch alright
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Related to this, if the next president is a Democrat, they shouldn't ask for the gifts back. Hire the plane reposessor to take the plane. Freeze any bank account that might have a gift in it. Send in the FBI to get the gold bars. Etc.
I’ll say it for the millionth time but we need to make section 1983 apply to federal officers because Bivens is useless and need to get rid of prosecutorial immunity. These people should be financially ruined at the very least for these bullshit investigations.
January 12, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Related to this, if the next president is a Democrat, they shouldn't ask for the gifts back. Hire the plane reposessor to take the plane. Freeze any bank account that might have a gift in it. Send in the FBI to get the gold bars. Etc.
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Also, the guy who killed someone dropped an F bomb. So the only difference between him and Frey is killing someone.
WELKER: Do you bear any responsibility to bring down the temperature?
FREY: Of course. But I dropped an F bomb and they killed somebody. I think the killing somebody is the inflammatory element here and not the F bomb.
FREY: Of course. But I dropped an F bomb and they killed somebody. I think the killing somebody is the inflammatory element here and not the F bomb.
January 11, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Also, the guy who killed someone dropped an F bomb. So the only difference between him and Frey is killing someone.
Why doesnt trump have a responsibility to obey the law what the fuck is this shit. Turnip is responsible for all of this and everyone assumes it all away
WELKER: Do you bear any responsibility to bring down the temperature?
FREY: Of course. But I dropped an F bomb and they killed somebody. I think the killing somebody is the inflammatory element here and not the F bomb.
FREY: Of course. But I dropped an F bomb and they killed somebody. I think the killing somebody is the inflammatory element here and not the F bomb.
January 12, 2026 at 7:40 AM
Why doesnt trump have a responsibility to obey the law what the fuck is this shit. Turnip is responsible for all of this and everyone assumes it all away
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I don’t see how this country survives until 2029 unless Trump is impeached and removed. This level of lawless malice is not sustainable. What fresh horrors await us this week?
January 12, 2026 at 4:39 AM
I don’t see how this country survives until 2029 unless Trump is impeached and removed. This level of lawless malice is not sustainable. What fresh horrors await us this week?
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Congratulations to all the bankers, hedge-fund managers, private-equity honchos, tech titans, corporate executives and op-ed writers for backing the man who will do more to undermine the system that made them insanely wealthy than any other presidential candidate in their lifetimes.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the US central bank had been served grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department threatening a criminal indictment, a dramatic escalation of the Trump administration’s attacks on the Fed.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Fed Served With DOJ Subpoenas, Powell Vows to Stand Firm
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the US central bank had been served grand jury subpoenas from the Justice Department threatening a criminal indictment, a dramatic escalation of the Trump admi...
www.bloomberg.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Congratulations to all the bankers, hedge-fund managers, private-equity honchos, tech titans, corporate executives and op-ed writers for backing the man who will do more to undermine the system that made them insanely wealthy than any other presidential candidate in their lifetimes.
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In this clip from a longer interview, she says while she was in detention, agents called Renee Good a “lesbian b*tch.”
This video belongs to @statuscoupnews.bsky.social and I’ll take it down if they want me to.
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This video belongs to @statuscoupnews.bsky.social and I’ll take it down if they want me to.
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January 12, 2026 at 2:46 AM
In this clip from a longer interview, she says while she was in detention, agents called Renee Good a “lesbian b*tch.”
This video belongs to @statuscoupnews.bsky.social and I’ll take it down if they want me to.
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This video belongs to @statuscoupnews.bsky.social and I’ll take it down if they want me to.
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