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lol wait what holy shit that’s … alright gang you know what I’m gonna say it’s with a heavy heart we must call and *thank* our reps for doing the job they’re supposed to do
👀 Every Senate Democrat + Collins and Murkowski just voted for the Bernie Sanders amendment to repeal the $75 billion in additional ICE funding under Trump’s “big beautiful bill.” The measure failed 49-51.
January 30, 2026 at 11:10 PM
lol wait what holy shit that’s … alright gang you know what I’m gonna say it’s with a heavy heart we must call and *thank* our reps for doing the job they’re supposed to do
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It is no coincidence that we’re seeing a rise in fascism about fifty years after integration of elite universities.
That’s how long it took for that initial fraternity cohort to gain access to the most powerful roles in our society.
That’s how long it took for that initial fraternity cohort to gain access to the most powerful roles in our society.
January 30, 2026 at 11:44 PM
It is no coincidence that we’re seeing a rise in fascism about fifty years after integration of elite universities.
That’s how long it took for that initial fraternity cohort to gain access to the most powerful roles in our society.
That’s how long it took for that initial fraternity cohort to gain access to the most powerful roles in our society.
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This is genuinely important.
The White House seems MOST concerned with suppressing any evidence that Melania fucked Epstein before he passed her to Donald.
They could have redacted ALL women as a way to suppress that.
The White House seems MOST concerned with suppressing any evidence that Melania fucked Epstein before he passed her to Donald.
They could have redacted ALL women as a way to suppress that.
January 30, 2026 at 11:57 PM
This is genuinely important.
The White House seems MOST concerned with suppressing any evidence that Melania fucked Epstein before he passed her to Donald.
They could have redacted ALL women as a way to suppress that.
The White House seems MOST concerned with suppressing any evidence that Melania fucked Epstein before he passed her to Donald.
They could have redacted ALL women as a way to suppress that.
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COLBERT: “.. Do not compare ICE or the border patrol to the Nazis. .. The Nazis were willing to show their faces.”
@colbertlateshow.bsky.social
@colbertlateshow.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 10:52 PM
COLBERT: “.. Do not compare ICE or the border patrol to the Nazis. .. The Nazis were willing to show their faces.”
@colbertlateshow.bsky.social
@colbertlateshow.bsky.social
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friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there
January 29, 2026 at 9:34 PM
friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there
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Trump: "I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people who own homes."
January 29, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Trump: "I don't want to drive housing prices down. I want to drive housing prices up for people who own homes."
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"Every good thing you have in your life is the product of someone else's struggle."
This is a very powerful video from comedian Josh Johnson. Not just because what he says that's meaningful. But because it shows an emerging trend that high profile people have finally started speaking up, despite concerns it might alienate their followers.
It is time to choose sides.
It is time to choose sides.
January 29, 2026 at 5:28 PM
"Every good thing you have in your life is the product of someone else's struggle."
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More than a year in this has mostly gone as I feared, and in some ways has been worse. But there have been two contrasting surprises:
-- The speed and breadth of institutional capitulation
-- The courage, ferocity, and resolution of regular people
Our strength isn't our institutions. It's us.
-- The speed and breadth of institutional capitulation
-- The courage, ferocity, and resolution of regular people
Our strength isn't our institutions. It's us.
January 29, 2026 at 3:09 PM
More than a year in this has mostly gone as I feared, and in some ways has been worse. But there have been two contrasting surprises:
-- The speed and breadth of institutional capitulation
-- The courage, ferocity, and resolution of regular people
Our strength isn't our institutions. It's us.
-- The speed and breadth of institutional capitulation
-- The courage, ferocity, and resolution of regular people
Our strength isn't our institutions. It's us.
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New at Can We Still Govern: Here is one thing I wish more people understood about government. There is a lot of rent-seeking by private vendors in our social safety net. Trump's policies will make this worse.
@lukef.bsky.social breaks it down. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...
@lukef.bsky.social breaks it down. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...
The Means-Testing Industrial Complex
The vendors getting rich from putting administrative burdens on the poor
donmoynihan.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:07 PM
New at Can We Still Govern: Here is one thing I wish more people understood about government. There is a lot of rent-seeking by private vendors in our social safety net. Trump's policies will make this worse.
@lukef.bsky.social breaks it down. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...
@lukef.bsky.social breaks it down. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-means-...
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god bless none of this is true for the vast, vast majority of Chinese workers.
Then they should deliver China's employelment benefits with it.
Your vacation days follow you throughout your career.
The company is required to pay for your 5 mandatory social insurances: medical maternity, retirement, unemployment, and workplace injury.
You get a House fund.
etc
Your vacation days follow you throughout your career.
The company is required to pay for your 5 mandatory social insurances: medical maternity, retirement, unemployment, and workplace injury.
You get a House fund.
etc
January 29, 2026 at 2:43 PM
god bless none of this is true for the vast, vast majority of Chinese workers.
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me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
Best gas masks
“How did these people go out and get gas masks?” AG Bondi asked.
www.theverge.com
January 29, 2026 at 2:25 PM
me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
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Lower income whites with no post-high school education slowly come to the realization that Donald Trump is not their friend. This is the core of the MAGA movement.
January 28, 2026 at 7:17 PM
Lower income whites with no post-high school education slowly come to the realization that Donald Trump is not their friend. This is the core of the MAGA movement.
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Recent ICE goon pepper spraying someone in the face up close reminded me of this from Occupy at UC Davis. School chancellor Linda Katehi only faced repercussions years later for spending resources to try and get this scrubbed from the internet.
January 28, 2026 at 7:47 PM
Recent ICE goon pepper spraying someone in the face up close reminded me of this from Occupy at UC Davis. School chancellor Linda Katehi only faced repercussions years later for spending resources to try and get this scrubbed from the internet.
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Once again, I ask how the math of other currencies replacing the dollar is going to go so long as neither 🇪🇺 nor 🇨🇳 is willing to do any of the things required to actually replace the dollar:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
ECB Would Need To Act If Euro Keeps Gaining, Says Austria’s C Bank Gov – FT
January 28, 2026 at 6:44 AM
Once again, I ask how the math of other currencies replacing the dollar is going to go so long as neither 🇪🇺 nor 🇨🇳 is willing to do any of the things required to actually replace the dollar:
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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we've got Schumer calling for Miller's head, folks
we're dragging them kicking and screaming in the right direction, keep it up
we're dragging them kicking and screaming in the right direction, keep it up
Schumer calls for Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to be removed from their jobs.
January 28, 2026 at 7:26 PM
we've got Schumer calling for Miller's head, folks
we're dragging them kicking and screaming in the right direction, keep it up
we're dragging them kicking and screaming in the right direction, keep it up
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I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
the heartening silver lining in this awful situation is that the urban school district at the center of the SC county where most of these measles cases are occuring has not been affected because most district 7 schools are 95% immunized. the firewall is holding!
Holy moly this chart: Cumulative US measles cases
January 28, 2026 at 5:00 PM
the heartening silver lining in this awful situation is that the urban school district at the center of the SC county where most of these measles cases are occuring has not been affected because most district 7 schools are 95% immunized. the firewall is holding!
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For anyone so inclined, my advice is that it's time to start a whip list of Senate Dems demanding that Miller go.
There’s a deep rot to the core of this administration and Stephen Miller is one of the most dangerous people in the country right now.
Noem’s got to go, but so does he.
Noem’s got to go, but so does he.
SCOOP: Trump aide Stephen Miller behind misleading claim that slain Minn. protester wanted to "massacre" agents
January 28, 2026 at 3:29 PM
For anyone so inclined, my advice is that it's time to start a whip list of Senate Dems demanding that Miller go.
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Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.
January 28, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.
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Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., rolls out his demand for supporting a DHS appropriations bill: fire Stephen Miller
January 28, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., rolls out his demand for supporting a DHS appropriations bill: fire Stephen Miller
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Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
January 27, 2026 at 1:06 PM
Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt
The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
Tim Walz condemned for comparing Minnesota children to Anne Frank
The Minnesota governor is getting widespread criticism for comparing children dealing with immigration enforcement to Holocaust victim Anne Frank.
bit.ly
January 28, 2026 at 2:37 AM
my grandmother, an Auschwitz survivor, was Anne Frank’s neighbor in Amsterdam, and Oma thinks this comparison is perfectly apt
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Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.