Rob Fellows
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Rob Fellows
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We got the concert we needed at First Ave this afternoon.
Bruce Springsteen and Tom Morello Rouse Anti-Fascist Fervor at First Ave - Racket
Fists were pumped, tears were cried, and "fuck" was shouted at the anti-ICE rally we all needed.
racketmn.com
January 31, 2026 at 2:41 AM
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Minnesota National Guard members have arrived at a federal building and were directed to distribute donuts, coffee, and hot chocolate to anti-ICE protesters. Guard members were issued reflective vests so they would not be mistaken for federal agents.
January 25, 2026 at 8:55 PM
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In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
January 23, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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There is a precedent for a person getting someone else's Nobel Prize. In 1943, the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun, gave his Nobel Prize in literature to Joseph Goebbels uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295...
Knut Hamsun
Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920, Knut Hamsun (1859–1952) was a towering figure of Norwegian letters. He was also a Nazi sympathizer and supp...
uwapress.uw.edu
January 16, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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Good lord
WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.

“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
January 5, 2026 at 3:45 AM
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like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”
uhhh yeah I can see why these childcare properties weren't eager to let in some rando dudes asking "where are the kids?"
January 1, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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Tesla shareholders approved Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay package.

Meanwhile, millions of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, can't afford to feed their families, and struggle with cuts to the safety net made to finance tax cuts for the super-rich.

American capitalism is off the rails.
November 7, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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September 26, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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It just keeps getting better.
August 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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The muted market reaction to The Crazy doesn't tell you much about what will happen. Markets almost *never* react in advance to large but only potential disruptions. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-arent-...
Why Aren’t Markets Freaking Out?
Of Trump, Keynes and Wile E. Coyote
paulkrugman.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Hopefully this is at the top of every democratic leader's reading list today.
August 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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The guy Trump picked to lead the office that’s now investigating Jack Smith:

— said Niki Haley is ineligible to be president
— has neo-Nazi ties
— was Andrew Tate’s lawyer
— 2x Claremont fellow
— wrote for Gateway Pundit
— called for Pence to be hanged
— called for secession after 2020 election
Paul Ingrassia (lawyer) - Wikipedia
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August 2, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Stephen Miller: "Torture is a celebration of human life and dignity."
Leaked video shows the current White House Chief of Staff at 17, describing the torture of iraqis in gruesome detail as the group erupts in laughter.
July 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Concentrate in a camp, you say?
July 8, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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"we are pleased to announce that three months after we ordered a thousand FBI agents to drop everything and sift through truckloads of new Epstein files, we have determined that the files don't exist"
July 7, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Congestion pricing by the # ‘s 6 months in:
* 67k fewer drivers entering zone daily
* Delays in Holland Tunnel down 65%
* Traffic deaths down 32% so far in 2025
* $500m projected this year for MTA capital improvements
* B’way attendance +12%
* Subway ridership +7%

So yes this program is a SUCCESS.
July 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
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That's insane. I mean everyone knows that's insane – right?
With this budget, ICE alone would have nearly as large a detention operation as all 50 states' prison systems combined. Bigger budget than the Marine Corps. Police-state levels of spending
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:

- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
June 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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In effect, the Supreme Court ruled that only it could decide issues on a national level. And then, with thousands and thousands of people waiting in limbo for resolution of many legally disputed Trump orders, the justices went on summer vacation, not to return until October.
June 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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The national security and cybersecurity impacts of this Trump-Musk fallout are out of this world. Musk and the DOGE boys have their tentacles all up in just about every system that supports US government function…
June 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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During the pandemic, the US implemented the most effective social welfare policies in our history -- programs that worked because they were big enough, simple, and universal. And then we withdrew them. This remains imo the central economic-policy story of our times. davisvanguard.org/2025/05/3hou...
May 29, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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With Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 demonstrating a certain level of capability related to bioweapons, Steven Adler warns that without some kind of international agreement and action, a freely downloadable “DeepSeek for bioweapons,” may become available to anyone who wishes to cause mass harm.
Are We Ready for a ‘DeepSeek for Bioweapons’?
Anthropic’s Claude 4 is a warning sign: AI that can help build bioweapons is coming, and could be widely available soon.
www.lawfaremedia.org
May 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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thanks to the Harvard Gazette for giving me the opportunity to go all in on advice for the one guy wondering how to keep his guards loyal after the Event news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Hey, you, hold onto your humanity. You’ll thank me later. — Harvard Gazette
Columnist and alum Alexandra Petri offers a little advice for the graduates — or, at least, for one of them (you know who you are).
news.harvard.edu
May 29, 2025 at 5:07 PM
If Democrats ever retake the government they will need to figure out how to course correct a corrupt Supreme Court. The Constitution's words are clear enough; but the court's been packed by Federalists who've reinterpreted them to mean the opposite.
May 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM