Pat Clark
@patclark8645.bsky.social
Polyglot journalist (name a country, I have probably worked for one of their media outlets); author of Donfire! (2016) and Trumplandia! (2017), available on Amazon. Get 'em today, you'll love 'em. Avocations: piano, art, literature and language exchange.
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Let’s see, Venezuela take over, and wanting to take Greenland and at home he’s storming states with shock troops. Clearly we have an idiot in office that will kill us all.
January 11, 2026 at 3:09 PM
Let’s see, Venezuela take over, and wanting to take Greenland and at home he’s storming states with shock troops. Clearly we have an idiot in office that will kill us all.
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WSJ identified 13 instances of agents firing at or into civilian vehicles since July, leaving 8 people shot with two confirmed dead. Only one civilian was armed—with a concealed weapon. This is happening so frequently that it appears to be an authorized tactic—
Videos Show How ICE Vehicle Stops Can Escalate to Shootings
A WSJ visual investigation found that the Minneapolis ICE killing is one of 13 incidents where federal immigration agents have used deadly force against civilians in vehicles since July.
www.wsj.com
January 10, 2026 at 8:13 PM
WSJ identified 13 instances of agents firing at or into civilian vehicles since July, leaving 8 people shot with two confirmed dead. Only one civilian was armed—with a concealed weapon. This is happening so frequently that it appears to be an authorized tactic—
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I think about this July 2024 threat from the head of the Heritage Foundation quite a lot these days.
January 11, 2026 at 4:36 PM
I think about this July 2024 threat from the head of the Heritage Foundation quite a lot these days.
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Gifford: This ridiculous rhetoric by the president—it’s going to impact every single American because it makes them lose faith in us.
That makes them less likely to travel here, buy American products, or invest here. This broken trust—the work of diplomacy—is very hard to build back.
That makes them less likely to travel here, buy American products, or invest here. This broken trust—the work of diplomacy—is very hard to build back.
January 10, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Gifford: This ridiculous rhetoric by the president—it’s going to impact every single American because it makes them lose faith in us.
That makes them less likely to travel here, buy American products, or invest here. This broken trust—the work of diplomacy—is very hard to build back.
That makes them less likely to travel here, buy American products, or invest here. This broken trust—the work of diplomacy—is very hard to build back.
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The destruction of NATO from the inside.
Some European officials suspect this is the real aim of the hardline MAGA faction. Since Congress won't allow Trump to exit NATO, occupying Greenland could force the Europeans to. If Trump wants to end NATO , this might be the most convenient way to do it.
Some European officials suspect this is the real aim of the hardline MAGA faction. Since Congress won't allow Trump to exit NATO, occupying Greenland could force the Europeans to. If Trump wants to end NATO , this might be the most convenient way to do it.
January 11, 2026 at 2:47 AM
The destruction of NATO from the inside.
Some European officials suspect this is the real aim of the hardline MAGA faction. Since Congress won't allow Trump to exit NATO, occupying Greenland could force the Europeans to. If Trump wants to end NATO , this might be the most convenient way to do it.
Some European officials suspect this is the real aim of the hardline MAGA faction. Since Congress won't allow Trump to exit NATO, occupying Greenland could force the Europeans to. If Trump wants to end NATO , this might be the most convenient way to do it.
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Ronald Reagan’s budget director.
January 11, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Ronald Reagan’s budget director.
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The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.
January 11, 2026 at 3:19 PM
The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.
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My husband asked me what I’d have talked to Mamdani about if we’d been able to go to his event at the Museum of the Moving Image and my answer had been public bathrooms, so I’m thrilled about this development! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/n...
Mamdani Announces Plan to Expand Public Bathroom Access in New York
www.nytimes.com
January 11, 2026 at 4:37 PM
My husband asked me what I’d have talked to Mamdani about if we’d been able to go to his event at the Museum of the Moving Image and my answer had been public bathrooms, so I’m thrilled about this development! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/n...
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Covering up documents about the covering up of documents. In response to our FOIA lawsuit, the FBI withheld all sorts of material related to its review and redaction of the Epstein files. Intriguingly, the FBI said it searched ‘client lists’ to locate documents.
Here’s What FBI, DOJ Hid From Its Epstein Files Review
In response to our FOIA lawsuit, the FBI withheld all sorts of material related to its review and redaction of the Epstein files. Intriguingly, the FBI said it searched ‘client lists’ to locate docume...
www.bloomberg.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Covering up documents about the covering up of documents. In response to our FOIA lawsuit, the FBI withheld all sorts of material related to its review and redaction of the Epstein files. Intriguingly, the FBI said it searched ‘client lists’ to locate documents.
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What does it mean when Vladimir Putin is allowed to pick the entire US senior diplomatic and national security team, and then brags openly about having done it? Jack Hopkins goes there.
Putin Didn’t “Choose” Witkoff. He Engineered Him.
The psychological profiling playbook behind a preferred envoy-and why “Come alone, no CIA” is the tell.
open.substack.com
December 24, 2025 at 10:48 PM
What does it mean when Vladimir Putin is allowed to pick the entire US senior diplomatic and national security team, and then brags openly about having done it? Jack Hopkins goes there.
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CBS News is now being managed by a team of fringe right editorial writers with no meaningful experience as actual journalists and an instinctive revulsion for serious journalistic standards and practices.
Two of the four signers of this letter to CBS News staff — Weiss and Rubenstein — are conservative oped writers who have done little, if any, actual news reporting in their careers.
It’d be like having a sophomore biology major telling a cardiologist how to do a heart transplant.
It’d be like having a sophomore biology major telling a cardiologist how to do a heart transplant.
December 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
CBS News is now being managed by a team of fringe right editorial writers with no meaningful experience as actual journalists and an instinctive revulsion for serious journalistic standards and practices.
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Donald Trump's name appears on a newly released Epstein file in which a purported victim makes allegations about a newborn baby being murdered and dumped in Lake Michigan, linking the homicide directly to Trump.
Newly released Epstein file links Trump to murdered newborn baby dumped in Lake Michigan
Donald Trump's name appears on a newly released Epstein file in which a purported victim makes allegations about a newborn baby being murdered and dumped in Lake Michigan.The Justice Department releas...
www.rawstory.com
December 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Donald Trump's name appears on a newly released Epstein file in which a purported victim makes allegations about a newborn baby being murdered and dumped in Lake Michigan, linking the homicide directly to Trump.
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I've been saying this for some time. Curtis Yarvin is the least original public thinker since Adrian Vermeule. Yarvin is retreaded Aleksandr Dugin. Vermeule is Carl Schmitt in translation. And they're linked, too. Dugin bases everything on the writings of Ivan Ilyin—one of Carl Schmitt's students
Amazing the degree to which the philosophy of tech fascism seems to come straight from Alexandr Dugin—Vladimir Putin's version of Curtis Yarvin.
"Antichrist" theme, "multipolarity," democracy as "global dictator"
They should be paying him royalties, if they aren't already.
From 2009:
"Antichrist" theme, "multipolarity," democracy as "global dictator"
They should be paying him royalties, if they aren't already.
From 2009:
December 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I've been saying this for some time. Curtis Yarvin is the least original public thinker since Adrian Vermeule. Yarvin is retreaded Aleksandr Dugin. Vermeule is Carl Schmitt in translation. And they're linked, too. Dugin bases everything on the writings of Ivan Ilyin—one of Carl Schmitt's students
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What’s the going rate for a Trump pardon? Pardon-seekers have offered success fees of as much as $6 million to lobbyists close to Trump if they can secure clemency.
Inside the New Fast Track to a Presidential Pardon
Even some of the president’s closest advisers have been surprised by a number of the recent series of pardons.
www.wsj.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:01 AM
What’s the going rate for a Trump pardon? Pardon-seekers have offered success fees of as much as $6 million to lobbyists close to Trump if they can secure clemency.
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The Chinese general who defied orders to lead his troops into Tiananmen Square and crush the 1989 student protesters said during his trial (a video of which was just released) that he refused because he did not want to become “a sinner in history."
Rare footage from trial of Chinese general who defied Tiananmen crackdown order leaked online
Video shows Gen Xu Qinxian explaining why he refused to deploy troops to crush 1989 student-led demonstrations
www.theguardian.com
December 25, 2025 at 4:08 AM
The Chinese general who defied orders to lead his troops into Tiananmen Square and crush the 1989 student protesters said during his trial (a video of which was just released) that he refused because he did not want to become “a sinner in history."
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The true meaning of Donald Trump this Christmas: he's the ultimate get out of jail free card. No matter what you did.
December 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
The true meaning of Donald Trump this Christmas: he's the ultimate get out of jail free card. No matter what you did.
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For thirty years the victims of Opus Dei have sought justice from the Vatican, including the suppression of this criminal cult. As Opus Dei exercises more power in America today than any time in its history, dominating the Supreme Court, the wait continues.
Las víctimas del Opus Dei recelan de los nuevos estatutos que tiene que avalar el Papa: "El engaño continúa"
Los relatos en vivo de las mujeres sometidas a servidumbre en la Argentina, América Latina y Europa reunidos en una cumbre en Buenos Aires han llegado al entorno del Leon XIV. La decisión sobre el fut...
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December 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
For thirty years the victims of Opus Dei have sought justice from the Vatican, including the suppression of this criminal cult. As Opus Dei exercises more power in America today than any time in its history, dominating the Supreme Court, the wait continues.
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On Christmas Day, Putin launches a massive aerial assault on Ukraine but on the ground faces humiliating reversals as Russian positions on the front collapse. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Christmas humiliation for Putin as Ukraine takes control of Kupyansk
It comes after Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, remarkably said in his Christmas message that he hopes the dictator dies.
www.dailymail.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
On Christmas Day, Putin launches a massive aerial assault on Ukraine but on the ground faces humiliating reversals as Russian positions on the front collapse. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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ICE refuses to accept hospital record confirmation of her birth in the US, puts her in a black hole in Texas. www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/ne...
Maryland woman moved to ICE detention facility in Texas as lawyer seeks to prove U.S. citizenship
A 22-year-old woman is now being detained at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Texas, after initially being held in Louisiana.
www.cbsnews.com
December 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
ICE refuses to accept hospital record confirmation of her birth in the US, puts her in a black hole in Texas. www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/ne...
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In response to Pope Leo's request for a Christmas pause in the harassment of immigrants, the White House speaks through Stephen Miller.
December 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
In response to Pope Leo's request for a Christmas pause in the harassment of immigrants, the White House speaks through Stephen Miller.
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It's a new pastime among MAGA Republicans: spreading malicious lies about foreign students, in the apparent hope they will be murdered. Like a parlor game for the age of Trump. And those who participate enjoy it immensely and never have a word of regret for what they do. Moral depravity, defined.
Government Officials Once Stopped False Accusations After Violence. Now, Some Join In.
www.nytimes.com
December 25, 2025 at 8:47 PM
It's a new pastime among MAGA Republicans: spreading malicious lies about foreign students, in the apparent hope they will be murdered. Like a parlor game for the age of Trump. And those who participate enjoy it immensely and never have a word of regret for what they do. Moral depravity, defined.
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Expressing thanks for Trump's sanction measures against their critics in Germany and elsewhere in Europe, representatives of Germany's Nazi party, the AfD, are traveling to Washington for meetings with senior Republicans and Republican donors, Tagesschau reports. www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...
AfD-Abgeordnete reisen zu Republikaner-Treffen nach Washington
Die neue US-Sicherheitsstrategie sucht die Nähe zu rechten Kräften in Europa. Nun reisen mehrere AfD-Abgeordnete zu einem wichtigen Netzwerk-Treffen der Republikaner.
www.tagesschau.de
December 25, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Expressing thanks for Trump's sanction measures against their critics in Germany and elsewhere in Europe, representatives of Germany's Nazi party, the AfD, are traveling to Washington for meetings with senior Republicans and Republican donors, Tagesschau reports. www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...
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Trump starts his Christmas celebration by demanding that Larry Ellison "put Stephen Colbert to sleep," which sounds like a death sentence.
December 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Trump starts his Christmas celebration by demanding that Larry Ellison "put Stephen Colbert to sleep," which sounds like a death sentence.