#retaliate
People need to realize that critical mass means their database is essentially worthless. They can't arrest everyone, but if people hide and shy away, it's easier for them to retaliate.
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January 23, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Hey, @jnbarrot.bsky.social , @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu, @kajakallas.bsky.social, did you forget that @thierrybreton.bsky.social and four others has unjustly been deprived of their visas for the USA ?

Are you tolerating this ? Seriously ?

Wouldn’t it be a good idea to retaliate ?
January 23, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Tons of bug fixes 🥳 taken care of in this latest release of Bluesky! This is the REAL Twitter clone that ACTUALLY works. I hate Threads, because it’s okay for straight white men to say that MY lifestyle is morally corrupt, mentally unstable, and more… but if I retaliate in DEFENSE, banned. No more!
January 23, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Trump’s threats to retaliate if EU countries start selling off U.S. treasuries in response to Trump aggression on Greenland is a toothless threat. We may be able to retaliate, but our economy will tank if it happens — is Trump really willing to tank the American economy to steal Greenland?
January 23, 2026 at 9:25 PM
To be clear @rbreich.bsky.social "bullies" include powerful corporations who retaliate when workers exercises their constitutional and civil rights. Even with union support, state agencies can undermine assertion of those rights. Fed Gov is no longer a sure partner either.
January 23, 2026 at 9:08 PM
Oakland City Council member, Ken Houston, caught staging an illegal dump to discredit Mayor Lee and right wing think tanks and Rupert Murdoch are coming to retaliate against Bay Area alternative media but you wouldn’t know it by the local press.

DLD cuts through the spin so you don’t have to.
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Pushing Back Against Corruption in Oakland
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January 23, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Hennepin County Sheriff’s Office orders crowd to disperse at Whipple Building ICE is trying to fire us up so that we we retaliate back come with force we cannot do that, that is exactly what he wants. We can protest, but we cannot be throwing things at them that just gives them a reason to attack.
January 23, 2026 at 8:17 PM
It indeed should, though as @ianbremmer.com put it the other day, for that to happen it will be essential for Europe to jettison its instinct to accommodate and de-escalate, and instead opt to deter and retaliate. www.ft.com/content/fe36... @johnthornhill.bsky.social @financialtimes.com
Thanks Donald, Europe will take it from here
The continent must strive to disentangle itself from the US
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January 23, 2026 at 7:56 PM
They desperately want someone to retaliate so pedo king can declare martial law. Hold the line…. May not win every battle, but we will win the war.
January 23, 2026 at 7:56 PM
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Trump pressures DOJ to retaliate against critics like Jack Smith, repeating a pattern of failed vindictive prosecutions that still cause harm. The remedy is early pushback and eventual accountability for those abusing power.

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Prosecutor condemns Trump‘s edict to Bondi against Jack Smith
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January 23, 2026 at 7:50 PM
I'm sure he's devastated and will not retaliate if he wants to, feels the need...
January 23, 2026 at 7:32 PM
learned this the hard way as a kid when playing Rome: Total War

accidentally blockaded a Greek Cities port, they immediately sent an army to retaliate, and i got my shit pushed in by a bunch of hoplites
January 23, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Was interviewed about @mark-carney.bsky.social's speech at Davos It was the kind of speech that can change the course of history Most falter when faced w/ abusers who #bully, #gaslight, and retaliate but not #Carney There may come a day, but today is not that day www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/vid...
January 23, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Retaliate. Ask them if they mean 1, 2, 3 or Chanel 4.
January 23, 2026 at 6:53 PM
His problem is that he can’t retaliate against everyone. Europe, Japan and China could crash the stock market tomorrow.
January 23, 2026 at 6:24 PM
You should remove. They will retaliate
January 23, 2026 at 6:18 PM
PM Carney definitely needs to retaliate by forming a "No Trumps Club"
January 23, 2026 at 5:24 PM
I’m all for the next president to retaliate on red states. There has to be punishment.
January 23, 2026 at 5:17 PM
He’s so mentally unfit, rejecting his presidential obligations to this country. He’s literally using the military, DOJ, and homeland security to enrich himself and retaliate against anyone he dislikes. Where is Congress? Did they get fired? Are we still paying their salaries?
January 23, 2026 at 5:07 PM
How can it be said that I shouldn't have access to my stolen assets and settlement Money because people are afraid I'm going to retaliate because of there hellish acts of terrorism done to my mom&I, kids, others,because sin doesn't want me to make this a better world.

I tell you how I want to help
January 23, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Gee willikers boys and girls! DJT is upset that all his sabre rattling has prompted foreign countries to either take, or threaten to end their investments in Treasuries. Now he has to retaliate. "Trade wars are easy to win." said DJT.
Wharton must have been selling degrees when he went there!
January 23, 2026 at 4:25 PM
But then we lose presence in our own Embassy in the US - they would retaliate

He still needs to be called in
January 23, 2026 at 4:11 PM
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January 23, 2026 at 3:59 PM
There's also some squaring to do between "people are to some extent responsible of their political choices or lack thereof" and "there is no reasonable way to economically, politically, socially or militarily retaliate against shitty govts without them distributing the cost to their populations"
January 23, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Making an heroic batch of potato soup, soda bread, & baked apples to share with neighbors weathering the cold snap. They’ll retaliate w/brownies.
🤔 @Ianfjanssen.bsky.social: “So, a potlatch custom...”
🤨 Me: “Mutual-aid-by-carbohydrate…?”
🧐History: “How civilizations survive.”
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Tom Waits - "Come On Up To The House"
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January 23, 2026 at 3:25 PM