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Adam Weinstein
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Producer, All In with Chris Hayes.
Your affable newsroom curmudgeon.
Ex-Floridian. Catskill climber. Philly fan.
Go Navy. Beat Army.
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usapolling.bsky.social
Net-Approval For Taking Greenland By Force:

🔴 All: -72%

🔴 Democrats: -94%
🔴 Independents: -80%
🔴 Republicans: -40%

🔴 Black: -86%
🔴 White: -70%
🔴 Hispanic: -66%

🔴 Women: -78%
🔴 Men: -66%

YouGov / Jan 16, 2026
January 20, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy
Frodo: I wish so much unbelievably stupid shit had not happened in my time Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times. This is all exceptionally stupid, though
January 19, 2026 at 8:04 PM
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christopherbell.bsky.social
imagine if you took all the city's meat and put it in a freezer
January 19, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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radleybalko.bsky.social
At about the 35-second mark the officer says "IF YOU FUCKING MOVE I'LL FUCKING TASE YOU," followed immediately by "GET OUT OF THE FUCKING CAR RIGHT NOW."

Which contradictory order are you supposed to follow, knowing that either could get you tased? Or worse?

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petrep.bsky.social America Is Divided @petrep.bsky.social · 18h
'"YOUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK"', has a WHOLE new meaning under #Trumpism. 🗽
January 19, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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sarahjeong.bsky.social
i just feel like america has no business starting fights with the country that makes ozempic
January 19, 2026 at 8:05 AM
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katz.theracket.news
Tfw the dog won’t wag
Quinnipiac poll: Nearly 9 in 10 U.S. voters oppose taking Greenland by military force Q: Would you support or oppose the United States trying to take Greenland by military force? Note: Totals may not equal 100% because of rounding. Source: Jan. 8-12, 2026, Quinnipiac poll of 1,133 registered voters with a margin of error of +/- 3.7 percentage points. Error margins are larger among subgroups. Support Don't know/No answer • Oppose Registered voters 86% Republicans 23% 68% Democrats 95% Independents 94%
January 19, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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patrickiber.bsky.social
A passage from the 1943 OSS psychological assessment of Hitler, for your holiday mo(u)rning www.cia.gov/readingroom/...
PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND RECONSTRUCTION The world has come to know Adolph Hitler for his insatiable greed for power, his ruthlessness, cruelty and utter lack of feeling, his contempt for established institutions and his lack of moral restraints. In the course of relatively few years he has contrived to usurp such tre- mendous power that a few veiled threats, accusations or insinuations were sufficient to make the world tremble. In open defiance of treaties he occupied huge territories and conquered millions of people without even firing a shot. When the world became tired of being frightened and concluded that it was all a bluff, he initiated the most brutal and deva- stating war in history - a war which, for a time, threatened the com- plete destruction of our civilization. Human life and human suffering seem to leave this individual completely untouched as he plunges along the course he believes he was predestined to take. Earlier in his career the world had watched him with amuse- ment. Many people refused to take him seriously on the grounds that "he could not possibly last." As one action after another met with amaz- ing success and the measure of the man became more obvious, this amusement was transformed into incredulousness. To most people, it seemed inconceivable that such things could actually happen in our mod- ern civilization. Hitler, the leader of these activities, became generally regarded as a madman, if not inhuman. Such a judgment, concerning the nature of our enemy, may be satisfactory to the man in the street. It gives him a feeling of satisfaction to pigeon-hole an incomprehensible individual in one category or another and having classified him in this way, he feels that the problem is solved. All we need to do is to eliminate the madman from the scene of activities, replace him with a sane indivi- dual, and the world will again return to a normal and peaceful state of affairs. This naive view, however, is wholly inadequate for those who are delegated to conduct the war against Germany or for those who will be delegated to deal with the situation when the war is over. They can- not content themselves with simply regarding Hitler as a personal devil and condemning him to an Eternal Hell in order that the remainder of the world may live in peace and quiet. They will realize that the madness of the Fuehrer has become the madness of a nation, if not of a large part of the continent. They will realize that these are not wholly the actions of a single individual but that a reciprocal relationship exists between the Fuehrer and the people and that the madness of the one stimulates and flows into the other and vice versa. It was not only Hitler, the madman, who created German madness, but German madness which created Hitler. Having created him as its spokesman and leader, it has been carried along by his momentum, perhaps far beyond the point where it was originally prepared to go. Nevertheless, it continues to follow his lead in spite of the fact that it must be obvious to all intelligent people now that his path leads to inevitable destruction. From a scientific point of view, therefore, we are forced to con- sider Hitler, the Fuehrer, not as a personal devil, wicked as his actions and philosophy may be, but as the expression of a state of mind existing in millions of people, not only in Germany but, to a smaller degree, in all civilized countries. To remove Hitler may be a necessary first step, but it would not be the cure. It would be analogous to removing a chancre without treating the underlying disease. If similar eruptions are to be prevented in the future, we cannot content ourselves with simply remov- ing the overt manifestations of the disease. On the contrary, we must ferret out and seek to correct the underlying factors which produced the unwelcome phenomenon. We must discover the psychological streams which nourish this destructive state of mind in order that we may divert them into channels which will permit a further evolution of our form of civilization.
January 19, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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davejorgenson.bsky.social
This 1943 U.S. Army film warned about fascism in America
January 19, 2026 at 3:08 PM
adamweinstein.bsky.social
Started rereading Red Storm Rising, and man does it hit different in the 21st century
January 19, 2026 at 3:14 PM
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chanda.blacksky.app
MLK was only 39 when he was killed. Growing up, I thought that was old. But I’m 43 now and I’m stunned by the burden he shouldered at such a young age. I’m also a lot more aware of how hard it is, at any age, to carry the hopes and dreams of an oppressed people on your shoulders, as so many do.
January 19, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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scalzi.com
Good morning. What a deeply embarrassing day to be a US citizen, on so many levels.
January 19, 2026 at 1:34 PM
adamweinstein.bsky.social
The sun isn't all the way up in the sky and it's already an MLK Day for the history books
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h
Rep. Andy Ogles on Fox Business: "They're libtards in a blue city ... if the libtards are gonna side with lawlessness, that's on them"
January 19, 2026 at 3:03 PM
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paulkelleher.net
"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly."

-- MLK Jr., "Letter from a Birmingham Jail"
gallantdimwit.bsky.social floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 1d
Minneapolis and Saint Paul have basically mobilized into a war economy of mutual aid and non-violent defense. I’ve never seen anything like it, even during Covid. People who barely vote are guarding their schools from ICE and doing the shopping for neighbors in hiding.
jenniferpetitt.bsky.social Jennifer Petitt @jenniferpetitt.bsky.social · 1d
This is so smart. I’m so impressed with all the different ways you’re helping your neighbors.
January 19, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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internethippo.bsky.social
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Oh my god you want me to find "evidence" before putting someone in jail? Every time?? Do you have any idea how long that would take
January 19, 2026 at 3:55 AM
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jasongarcia.bsky.social
New: Florida lawmakers pocketed lots of last-minute cash from from billionaires pushing privatized public schools, a giant landowner looking to rezone its land, and a former governor who is profiting off propaganda masquerading as education:

jasongarcia.substack.com/p/one-billio...
One billionaire just gave $2 million to Republican leaders in the Florida Legislature
A recap of the first week of the Florida Legislature's 2026 session, plus a preview of week two.
jasongarcia.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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self.agency
this is the same dual loyalty slander used against jewish americans
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h
DOJ Senior Adviser Alina Habba on Jacob Frey: "We have a mayor who's a Somali sympathizer who we've seen dancing around on stage with their flag instead of an American flag"
January 19, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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smotus.bsky.social
David Brooks: This is a war on blue states
Bill Kristol: Abolish ICE
Springsteen: ICE is the Gestapo
Dems in Congress: Let’s talk body cams and QR codes
January 19, 2026 at 11:34 AM
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kjephd.bsky.social
Reminds me of one of my favorite memes:
Five panel meme arranged vertically. The first shows a grey haired mustachioed man saying "socialism never works." The next panel has a younger man wearing a hat saying, "Norway is socialist and they're doing great." The third panel has the mustachioed man apparently yelling, "They're not socialist they're capitalist countries with strong welfare policies." The third panel shows the hatted man throwing a chair and apparently yelling, "then let's adopt those policies!" The final panel has the mustachioed man yelling back, "No, that's socialism."
January 19, 2026 at 12:17 AM
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nateraymond.bsky.social
Judge Kacsmaryk rejects challenge by West Texas A&M University's LGBQT club to drag show ban, saying the First Amendment doesn't protect "self-expression in all forms, and certainly not the libertine 'expressive conduct' absolutism envisioned" by the group. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #168 in Spectrum WT v. Wendler (N.D. Tex., 2:23-cv-00048) – CourtListener.com
FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW (Ordered by Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk on 1/17/2026) (vls)
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January 18, 2026 at 2:51 AM
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kleinman.bsky.social
Verbal assault or, as it's legally known, "not assault"
paleofuture.bsky.social Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d
"We've seen over a thousand percent increase in assaults on ICE officers, 8,000 verbal assaults on them...."
January 18, 2026 at 9:57 PM
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kurtandersen.bsky.social
Very good piece by @mashagessen.bsky.social, the author of Surviving Autocracy, who left Russia in 2013 as the authoritarian hammer really started coming down, and moved to the United States. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...
January 19, 2026 at 3:43 AM
adamweinstein.bsky.social
I can't believe that crazy TD meant nothing lol
January 19, 2026 at 3:03 AM
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cjzero.bsky.social
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT
January 19, 2026 at 2:37 AM
adamweinstein.bsky.social
Is the Rams offensive coordinator auditioning for the Miami job or what
January 19, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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patrickwyman.bsky.social
This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality
radleybalko.bsky.social Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2d
A few days ago, Fox News was whining about ICE agents getting heckled at a Mexican restaurant in Minneapolis.

Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
ICE agents ate at a Minnesota Mexican restaurant before arresting staff
Immigration law enforcement agents reportedly followed employees out of the restaurant after they closed for the evening
www.independent.co.uk
January 18, 2026 at 2:14 AM