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That Melania sleeps alone?
And that he thinks terrorizing entire countries and destroying NATO (for Putin) is funny?
And that he thinks terrorizing entire countries and destroying NATO (for Putin) is funny?
January 20, 2026 at 1:07 PM
That Melania sleeps alone?
And that he thinks terrorizing entire countries and destroying NATO (for Putin) is funny?
And that he thinks terrorizing entire countries and destroying NATO (for Putin) is funny?
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Not the biggest crisis, but this "Board of Peace" nonsense being constituted as an international agreement that vests control in Trump personally even if he's no longer president is a striking example of something that's so facially illegitimate that it's inherently unconstitutional.
January 19, 2026 at 9:57 PM
Not the biggest crisis, but this "Board of Peace" nonsense being constituted as an international agreement that vests control in Trump personally even if he's no longer president is a striking example of something that's so facially illegitimate that it's inherently unconstitutional.
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January 20, 2026 at 12:41 PM
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Correct.
Fukuyama: Trump is a bully who wants to dominate everyone around him. Trying to placate him with concessions is a fool’s errand. He despises weakness.
As an American, I say to my European friends: do not back down. Appeasing Trump with flattery has failed and must stop.
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As an American, I say to my European friends: do not back down. Appeasing Trump with flattery has failed and must stop.
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January 19, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Correct.
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If history is a guide, next Trump will declare the Democratic party a domestic terrorist group, ban it, arrest Democratic elected officials and grassroots leaders. After all that is what Hitler did in 1933 to his political opponents.
January 20, 2026 at 12:51 PM
If history is a guide, next Trump will declare the Democratic party a domestic terrorist group, ban it, arrest Democratic elected officials and grassroots leaders. After all that is what Hitler did in 1933 to his political opponents.
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I’ve been worried a lot that this is right. Gold is skyrocketing in value because the world is losing faith in the role of US as guarantor/backstop of global economy open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
Ingots We Trust
Are soaring gold prices telling us something important?
open.substack.com
October 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I’ve been worried a lot that this is right. Gold is skyrocketing in value because the world is losing faith in the role of US as guarantor/backstop of global economy open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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One small thing I hope comes out of this nightmare is at least renaming the Department of Homeland Security. “Homeland” is not a word Americans use. It sounds like a translation from Heimatsicherheitsabteilung.
January 18, 2026 at 8:58 PM
One small thing I hope comes out of this nightmare is at least renaming the Department of Homeland Security. “Homeland” is not a word Americans use. It sounds like a translation from Heimatsicherheitsabteilung.
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On Greenland, and how the President has actually undermined American leverage.
January 19, 2026 at 5:46 PM
On Greenland, and how the President has actually undermined American leverage.
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KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?”
@pkrugman.bsky.social
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@pkrugman.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
January 20, 2026 at 12:11 PM
KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?”
@pkrugman.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
@pkrugman.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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i think it is simply true that for all intents and purposes stephen miller is the president of the united states
The Wrath of Stephen Miller
The man who turns President Trump’s most incendiary impulses into policy
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 8:06 PM
i think it is simply true that for all intents and purposes stephen miller is the president of the united states
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With “leaders” like Jeffries, who needs the repugnant opposition? Unfuckingbelievable.
#Voices4Victory #Pinks #ProudBlue
#Voices4Victory #Pinks #ProudBlue
Jeffries claims the charges against Cueller were "very thin" and says Trump's pardon was "exactly the right outcome"
January 19, 2026 at 10:55 PM
With “leaders” like Jeffries, who needs the repugnant opposition? Unfuckingbelievable.
#Voices4Victory #Pinks #ProudBlue
#Voices4Victory #Pinks #ProudBlue
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Outsiders need to understand that if you’re observing ICE it’s an inevitability you’ll get threatened like this eventually. They led me back to my house again today in a really scary situation, which I did at least record and can share later if there’s interest. But that’s less scary than this.
Pretty strong elsewhere (I'm in Hopkins). Got pulled over twice, guns drawn both times, to give me "final warnings" to stop following them.
January 19, 2026 at 8:25 PM
Outsiders need to understand that if you’re observing ICE it’s an inevitability you’ll get threatened like this eventually. They led me back to my house again today in a really scary situation, which I did at least record and can share later if there’s interest. But that’s less scary than this.
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Trump is paying more attention to Venezuela and Iran's problems, than America’s problems.. most of which he created.
January 19, 2026 at 6:45 PM
Trump is paying more attention to Venezuela and Iran's problems, than America’s problems.. most of which he created.
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January 20, 2026 at 11:56 AM
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this is legitimately an insane thing to think when looking at your child
January 20, 2026 at 12:32 AM
this is legitimately an insane thing to think when looking at your child
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I'm starting to think that, until he's finally gone, I should repost on a daily basis this 11,000+ word piece I published in @theatlantic.com about Donald Trump's serious psychiatric disorders to explain why, as a legal and constitutional matter, he was unfit for the presidency.
In the six-plus years since, every mental health professional I have come across has told me that my essay had it exactly right. I think every word of it has been proven right many times over.
Even today, he's still only going to get worse.
Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Even today, he's still only going to get worse.
Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Unfit for Office
Donald Trump’s narcissism makes it impossible for him to carry out the duties of the presidency in the way the Constitution requires.
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 1:38 PM
I'm starting to think that, until he's finally gone, I should repost on a daily basis this 11,000+ word piece I published in @theatlantic.com about Donald Trump's serious psychiatric disorders to explain why, as a legal and constitutional matter, he was unfit for the presidency.
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Harris will not run again in 2028.
No candidate who has lost a Presidential election in my lifetime, has ever run again - except Trump. Not Gore, Kerry, Romney, Hillary - nor will Harris run in 2028.
Keep trashing every other Democratic contender, and you can practice saying President Vance.
No candidate who has lost a Presidential election in my lifetime, has ever run again - except Trump. Not Gore, Kerry, Romney, Hillary - nor will Harris run in 2028.
Keep trashing every other Democratic contender, and you can practice saying President Vance.
January 20, 2026 at 7:42 AM
Harris will not run again in 2028.
No candidate who has lost a Presidential election in my lifetime, has ever run again - except Trump. Not Gore, Kerry, Romney, Hillary - nor will Harris run in 2028.
Keep trashing every other Democratic contender, and you can practice saying President Vance.
No candidate who has lost a Presidential election in my lifetime, has ever run again - except Trump. Not Gore, Kerry, Romney, Hillary - nor will Harris run in 2028.
Keep trashing every other Democratic contender, and you can practice saying President Vance.
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BREAKING: Former John McCain Advisor Mark Salter:
“He’s a madman, deranged by his insecurities and grievances and without a single good quality and he’s doing possibly irreparable harm to our security.”
Who agrees?
“He’s a madman, deranged by his insecurities and grievances and without a single good quality and he’s doing possibly irreparable harm to our security.”
Who agrees?
January 19, 2026 at 4:46 PM
BREAKING: Former John McCain Advisor Mark Salter:
“He’s a madman, deranged by his insecurities and grievances and without a single good quality and he’s doing possibly irreparable harm to our security.”
Who agrees?
“He’s a madman, deranged by his insecurities and grievances and without a single good quality and he’s doing possibly irreparable harm to our security.”
Who agrees?
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I fear for this country. Not because the president is a madman, but because the people who could stop him aren’t.
January 20, 2026 at 6:37 AM
I fear for this country. Not because the president is a madman, but because the people who could stop him aren’t.
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January 19, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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It might sound silly, but I mean it: The easiest and most potent way for Europe to hurt Trump this year is to once again use its cultural soft power and to threaten a boycott of the World Cup. It would become a completely meaningless event and would hurt him where he is most vulnerable - his vanity.
January 19, 2026 at 10:33 AM
It might sound silly, but I mean it: The easiest and most potent way for Europe to hurt Trump this year is to once again use its cultural soft power and to threaten a boycott of the World Cup. It would become a completely meaningless event and would hurt him where he is most vulnerable - his vanity.
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“We absolutely need to fucking impeach him and get him out of there, and then convict him. This motherfucker is completely and utterly unhinged. He’s creating the Fourth Reich. He’s as corrupt as corrupt can be. He’s immensely senile. He’s a psychopathic fascist war criminal, rapist, and pedophile.”
January 20, 2026 at 4:53 AM
“We absolutely need to fucking impeach him and get him out of there, and then convict him. This motherfucker is completely and utterly unhinged. He’s creating the Fourth Reich. He’s as corrupt as corrupt can be. He’s immensely senile. He’s a psychopathic fascist war criminal, rapist, and pedophile.”