ndweiss
@11tulips.bsky.social
Democrat. Jezebel. Oxford commie. Enigma wrapped in bacon.
Politics, common sense, appreciator of outliers.
Ph.D., Nordic stuff. Espoused.
The gods are indifferent.
Think for yourself.
Politics, common sense, appreciator of outliers.
Ph.D., Nordic stuff. Espoused.
The gods are indifferent.
Think for yourself.
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Gunther Fehlinger, chairman of the Austria Committee for NATO Enlargement, to United States: "If you take it, we will take every single base of the US from Aviano to Ramstein, from Romania to all the other military bases, will be confiscated and you will lost it." "If you go extreme, we go extreme"
January 6, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Gunther Fehlinger, chairman of the Austria Committee for NATO Enlargement, to United States: "If you take it, we will take every single base of the US from Aviano to Ramstein, from Romania to all the other military bases, will be confiscated and you will lost it." "If you go extreme, we go extreme"
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As with many things these days, I'm surprised this isn't getting more news coverage than it is.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Shut Down After 58 Years Due to Trump Eliminating Funding
variety.com/2026/tv/news...
Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Shut Down After 58 Years Due to Trump Eliminating Funding
variety.com/2026/tv/news...
Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Shut Down After 58 Years Due to Trump Eliminating Funding
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting's board voted to close the organization after 58 years after the Trump Administration ended funding.
variety.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:55 PM
As with many things these days, I'm surprised this isn't getting more news coverage than it is.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Shut Down After 58 Years Due to Trump Eliminating Funding
variety.com/2026/tv/news...
Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Shut Down After 58 Years Due to Trump Eliminating Funding
variety.com/2026/tv/news...
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We desperately need better Democrats. JFC, this is pathetic.
Democratic Senator Jack Reed calls the Venezuela operation "well conceived and courageously executed."
January 5, 2026 at 8:04 PM
We desperately need better Democrats. JFC, this is pathetic.
Tiff is smart. Thread.
“There is no floor. There is no act so extreme that it reliably triggers consequences. Republicans in Congress have demonstrated…that they are unwilling to enforce the Constitution, the rule of law, or even their own oversight powers when doing so might inconvenience Trump./1
“There is no floor. There is no act so extreme that it reliably triggers consequences. Republicans in Congress have demonstrated…that they are unwilling to enforce the Constitution, the rule of law, or even their own oversight powers when doing so might inconvenience Trump./1
My latest on this do nothing Congress and the consequences thereof..
open.substack.com/pub/tiffsave...
open.substack.com/pub/tiffsave...
What Happens When Nothing Has Consequences
It is remarkable - almost admirable, in a neurological case-study sense - how Trump’s supporters can contort reality so that every action, no matter how reckless or unlawful, is rebranded as a tender,...
open.substack.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Tiff is smart. Thread.
“There is no floor. There is no act so extreme that it reliably triggers consequences. Republicans in Congress have demonstrated…that they are unwilling to enforce the Constitution, the rule of law, or even their own oversight powers when doing so might inconvenience Trump./1
“There is no floor. There is no act so extreme that it reliably triggers consequences. Republicans in Congress have demonstrated…that they are unwilling to enforce the Constitution, the rule of law, or even their own oversight powers when doing so might inconvenience Trump./1
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What the fuck
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 5:51 PM
What the fuck
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My latest Stack that I just posted is around the same topic - the do nothingness that leads to acceptance & how Maga reframes Trump to make him acceptable. I don’t know how to frame nor do I know how we get out of it without a violent overhaul of everything we grew up knowing or thinking we knew.
January 5, 2026 at 5:00 PM
My latest Stack that I just posted is around the same topic - the do nothingness that leads to acceptance & how Maga reframes Trump to make him acceptable. I don’t know how to frame nor do I know how we get out of it without a violent overhaul of everything we grew up knowing or thinking we knew.
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2/…patriotic feelings -embarrassing pandering to provincialism.
• “We respect tradition, but we also believe in the future.”
‘believe in the future’ =meaningless high school essay vacuity.
More to say, but to wrap up - these are pitifully dumbed-down crumbs of rhetoric 4 the dumbed-down masses.
• “We respect tradition, but we also believe in the future.”
‘believe in the future’ =meaningless high school essay vacuity.
More to say, but to wrap up - these are pitifully dumbed-down crumbs of rhetoric 4 the dumbed-down masses.
January 5, 2026 at 1:33 PM
2/…patriotic feelings -embarrassing pandering to provincialism.
• “We respect tradition, but we also believe in the future.”
‘believe in the future’ =meaningless high school essay vacuity.
More to say, but to wrap up - these are pitifully dumbed-down crumbs of rhetoric 4 the dumbed-down masses.
• “We respect tradition, but we also believe in the future.”
‘believe in the future’ =meaningless high school essay vacuity.
More to say, but to wrap up - these are pitifully dumbed-down crumbs of rhetoric 4 the dumbed-down masses.
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CBS current credo is the distilled nonsense.
• “We work for you.”
Should work for the ideal of objective truth & fact.
•”We report on the world as it is.”
Will you report on our mad president?
• “We respect you.” Patronizing bs. Respect facts, please.
• “We love America.” If you have to assert +
• “We work for you.”
Should work for the ideal of objective truth & fact.
•”We report on the world as it is.”
Will you report on our mad president?
• “We respect you.” Patronizing bs. Respect facts, please.
• “We love America.” If you have to assert +
January 5, 2026 at 1:33 PM
CBS current credo is the distilled nonsense.
• “We work for you.”
Should work for the ideal of objective truth & fact.
•”We report on the world as it is.”
Will you report on our mad president?
• “We respect you.” Patronizing bs. Respect facts, please.
• “We love America.” If you have to assert +
• “We work for you.”
Should work for the ideal of objective truth & fact.
•”We report on the world as it is.”
Will you report on our mad president?
• “We respect you.” Patronizing bs. Respect facts, please.
• “We love America.” If you have to assert +
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This is a bitter loss.
January 5, 2026 at 3:12 PM
This is a bitter loss.
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It is at the front of my mind when I wake up.
We are saturated in grief.
We are saturated in grief.
January 5, 2026 at 2:44 PM
It is at the front of my mind when I wake up.
We are saturated in grief.
We are saturated in grief.
How bloody sad.
Tim Walz, Democrats' 2024 VP candidate, won't run for a third term as Minnesota governor
apnews.com/article/tim-...
Tim Walz, Democrats' 2024 VP candidate, won't run for a third term as Minnesota governor
apnews.com/article/tim-...
Tim Walz, Democrats' 2024 VP candidate, won't run for a third term as Minnesota governor
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is ending his bid for a third term as governor less than four months after launching a reelection campaign.
apnews.com
January 5, 2026 at 2:18 PM
How bloody sad.
Tim Walz, Democrats' 2024 VP candidate, won't run for a third term as Minnesota governor
apnews.com/article/tim-...
Tim Walz, Democrats' 2024 VP candidate, won't run for a third term as Minnesota governor
apnews.com/article/tim-...
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Nothing could be more clear. We are the new Nazis. We let this happen and voted for this monster and now deserve pariah nation status. Midterms won't fix this. Unless it is burned to the ground we never come back from this. It will never be the same again. There is no redemption for this.
January 5, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Nothing could be more clear. We are the new Nazis. We let this happen and voted for this monster and now deserve pariah nation status. Midterms won't fix this. Unless it is burned to the ground we never come back from this. It will never be the same again. There is no redemption for this.
🎯 Read this: Thread. The Trump machine has reshaped American character.
The tragic fact is that the US is inured to mass death.
The steady drumbeat of gun deaths in the US adds up to a number greater than all the military deaths in all US Wars. School shootings are now routine. No actions result.
/1
The steady drumbeat of gun deaths in the US adds up to a number greater than all the military deaths in all US Wars. School shootings are now routine. No actions result.
/1
The death toll is now 80? I know the pandemic made life cheap amid mass death, but 80 dead is staggering
January 5, 2026 at 12:57 PM
🎯 Read this: Thread. The Trump machine has reshaped American character.
⭐️ How shall I frame my deepening grief?
“Good“ Americans now shrug at cruelty, mass shootings, violent racism, sex assaults, group hate, government corruption.
Deportation doom squads.
Murders on the high seas. War.
What’s left? Our sickness is painful.
The Overton Window is on wheels.
“Good“ Americans now shrug at cruelty, mass shootings, violent racism, sex assaults, group hate, government corruption.
Deportation doom squads.
Murders on the high seas. War.
What’s left? Our sickness is painful.
The Overton Window is on wheels.
January 5, 2026 at 12:50 PM
⭐️ How shall I frame my deepening grief?
“Good“ Americans now shrug at cruelty, mass shootings, violent racism, sex assaults, group hate, government corruption.
Deportation doom squads.
Murders on the high seas. War.
What’s left? Our sickness is painful.
The Overton Window is on wheels.
“Good“ Americans now shrug at cruelty, mass shootings, violent racism, sex assaults, group hate, government corruption.
Deportation doom squads.
Murders on the high seas. War.
What’s left? Our sickness is painful.
The Overton Window is on wheels.
⭐️⭐️⭐️
Sad to say, on behalf of all decent, sane Americans who oppose Trump & MAGA with every bone in our bodies, that this type of anti-American sentiment is going to sweep across the globe, deservedly so. ❤️🩹🤕😢
NOW: Anti-America protests all across Paris, France.
📷 Spencer Hakimian©️
NOW: Anti-America protests all across Paris, France.
📷 Spencer Hakimian©️
January 5, 2026 at 2:43 AM
⭐️⭐️⭐️
There it is. Now MSM can accelerate in normalizing the tyranny of government-inflicted terrorism.
Q: You pulled the National Guard out of Portland--
TRUMP: We did. And do you know that Portland, we got it down to almost no crime? We're allowed to go back in, but we'll go back in when the crime starts. We may use the Insurrection Act
TRUMP: We did. And do you know that Portland, we got it down to almost no crime? We're allowed to go back in, but we'll go back in when the crime starts. We may use the Insurrection Act
January 5, 2026 at 1:14 AM
There it is. Now MSM can accelerate in normalizing the tyranny of government-inflicted terrorism.
Big love! Buffalo 🦬 🦬🦬
January 5, 2026 at 1:09 AM
Big love! Buffalo 🦬 🦬🦬
Getting sick & experiencing dementia to own the Libs, though
Oh, just get vaccinated (part 5,000)
"Many shots seem to have “off-target” benefits, such as lowering the risk of dementia, studies have found." (gift article)
"Many shots seem to have “off-target” benefits, such as lowering the risk of dementia, studies have found." (gift article)
Vaccines Are Helping Older People More Than We Knew
www.nytimes.com
January 5, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Getting sick & experiencing dementia to own the Libs, though
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Probably the bartender at Mar-A-Lago. Assuming she’s got a nice ass, anyway.
mastodon.social/@real...
mastodon.social/@real...
January 5, 2026 at 12:27 AM
Probably the bartender at Mar-A-Lago. Assuming she’s got a nice ass, anyway.
mastodon.social/@real...
mastodon.social/@real...
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Sure wish our legacy media could internalize this and make some changes. Very good commentary, thread.
So many in media are ill-equipped to interview officials about what’s happening because they begin with the presumption of legitimacy and don’t know enough about history or U.S. foreign policy to foment intelligent pushback and hold officials accountable.
January 5, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Sure wish our legacy media could internalize this and make some changes. Very good commentary, thread.
Thread. “…Who are we to decide when leadership most go…
Who are we to believe we have rights to a sovereign nation’s resources.?”
Who are we to believe we have rights to a sovereign nation’s resources.?”
So many in media are ill-equipped to interview officials about what’s happening because they begin with the presumption of legitimacy and don’t know enough about history or U.S. foreign policy to foment intelligent pushback and hold officials accountable.
January 5, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Thread. “…Who are we to decide when leadership most go…
Who are we to believe we have rights to a sovereign nation’s resources.?”
Who are we to believe we have rights to a sovereign nation’s resources.?”
Read this: Southern accents sound unintelligent.
“I knew what the accent was supposed to convey: sweet… simpleminded.
[In NYC], the bellhop at our hotel laughed when my mom & I spoke…
I decided: No one was going to know I was from the South from my voice alone.”
“I knew what the accent was supposed to convey: sweet… simpleminded.
[In NYC], the bellhop at our hotel laughed when my mom & I spoke…
I decided: No one was going to know I was from the South from my voice alone.”
“Young people are losing their southern accents. By the end of my life, there may be no one left who speaks like my father outside the hollers and the one-horse towns,” Annie Joy Williams writes:
The Last Days of the Southern Drawl
By the end of my life, there may be no one left who speaks like my father outside the hollers and the one-horse towns.
bit.ly
January 5, 2026 at 12:33 AM
Read this: Southern accents sound unintelligent.
“I knew what the accent was supposed to convey: sweet… simpleminded.
[In NYC], the bellhop at our hotel laughed when my mom & I spoke…
I decided: No one was going to know I was from the South from my voice alone.”
“I knew what the accent was supposed to convey: sweet… simpleminded.
[In NYC], the bellhop at our hotel laughed when my mom & I spoke…
I decided: No one was going to know I was from the South from my voice alone.”
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Well, we’re officially a rogue nation.
God help the country whose people are being held hostage by a mad leader whom the vast majority disdain, fearful elected legislators & weak, unimaginative opposition party ‘leadership’.
God help the country whose people are being held hostage by a mad leader whom the vast majority disdain, fearful elected legislators & weak, unimaginative opposition party ‘leadership’.
January 4, 2026 at 3:43 PM
Well, we’re officially a rogue nation.
God help the country whose people are being held hostage by a mad leader whom the vast majority disdain, fearful elected legislators & weak, unimaginative opposition party ‘leadership’.
God help the country whose people are being held hostage by a mad leader whom the vast majority disdain, fearful elected legislators & weak, unimaginative opposition party ‘leadership’.
Highly recommend this thread. We must resist the creeping ugliness of this administration, no matter where it happens.
I’ve been working full time to stop this war since last summer and the one scenario I feared the most is materializing — Trump is making a play for Venezuela’s oil. I’m not saying an insurgency will definitely form, but Trump’s ploy creates the perfect storm for an absolutely disastrous occupation.🧵
Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."
January 5, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Highly recommend this thread. We must resist the creeping ugliness of this administration, no matter where it happens.