Alex Schmidt
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listen to "Secretly Incredibly Fascinating" (a great podcast) every week!
listen to "Secretly Incredibly Fascinating" (a great podcast) every week!
the United Nations almost built its headquarters in South Dakota 🇺🇳🦬 www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8f9QNyq/
the United Nations almost built its headquarters in South Dakota 🇺🇳🦬 #history #UN #NYC @SecretlyIncrediblyFascinating
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January 21, 2026 at 9:18 PM
the United Nations almost built its headquarters in South Dakota 🇺🇳🦬 www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8f9QNyq/
H.G. Wells invented this kind of grey alien in the 1800s 👽 www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8fuhTxy/
H.G. Wells predicted humans will evolve into Grey aliens 👽 #history #scifi @SecretlyIncrediblyFascinating
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January 20, 2026 at 7:46 PM
H.G. Wells invented this kind of grey alien in the 1800s 👽 www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8fuhTxy/
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Let's remember that MLK was assassinated while in Memphis supporting African American sanitation workers who were, despite CNN's weird definition, actually members of the working class.
January 19, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Let's remember that MLK was assassinated while in Memphis supporting African American sanitation workers who were, despite CNN's weird definition, actually members of the working class.
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A new NYT video analysis by confirms that Renee Good's vehicle did not run over Jonathan Ross and did not strike him. It's possible that it brushed up against him, but that remains unclear. Ross should be under arrest. This is a gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...
Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments
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January 16, 2026 at 12:24 PM
A new NYT video analysis by confirms that Renee Good's vehicle did not run over Jonathan Ross and did not strike him. It's possible that it brushed up against him, but that remains unclear. Ross should be under arrest. This is a gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...
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This is actually a huge and underreported aspect of this situation. WE ALL HAVE SHIT TO DO. Got to work in the morning. Got to get our kids to school, if in fact the schools are open. Life was hard ALREADY and NOW we have to live with THIS taking all our valuable time, energy, and brain space.
January 15, 2026 at 4:13 PM
This is actually a huge and underreported aspect of this situation. WE ALL HAVE SHIT TO DO. Got to work in the morning. Got to get our kids to school, if in fact the schools are open. Life was hard ALREADY and NOW we have to live with THIS taking all our valuable time, energy, and brain space.
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I wrote about The Tantrum State and living in it. Personally I do not care for it very much. defector.com/fascists-are...
Fascists Are Pathetic | Defector
Two days before a shouting cluster of its agents surrounded the car of a Minneapolis mother and shot her to death last week, ICE was demanding answers from the Hilton hotel group on X.com. “Why did yo...
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January 15, 2026 at 2:33 PM
I wrote about The Tantrum State and living in it. Personally I do not care for it very much. defector.com/fascists-are...
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ICE officers tell media that the conduct in Minneapolis is part of a plan by Stephen Miller to provoke as much violence and death as possible—which in turn will be taken as pretext for more. “They’re essentially operating now in a resource constraint-free environment and doing very dangerous things”
Former members of ICE say recent violence is "by design"
"What has changed is there has been an encouragement from the top to be much more aggressive in enforcement."
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January 14, 2026 at 9:39 PM
ICE officers tell media that the conduct in Minneapolis is part of a plan by Stephen Miller to provoke as much violence and death as possible—which in turn will be taken as pretext for more. “They’re essentially operating now in a resource constraint-free environment and doing very dangerous things”
the U.S. and Canada = The Realm Of Giant Beavers 🦫 www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8fMEkRy/
the U.S. and Canada = The Realm Of Giant Beavers 🦫 #science #animals #IceAge @SecretlyIncrediblyFascinating
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January 14, 2026 at 4:44 AM
the U.S. and Canada = The Realm Of Giant Beavers 🦫 www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8fMEkRy/
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I don’t hate tall people, I just don’t think they should be allowed to play basketball. Think about the playing time they’re taking away from deserving smaller players. And it’s about safety, too. Do you want your son to get run over by some 6’8” testosterone-fueled monster? Not hate, just FAIRNESS.
January 14, 2026 at 1:22 AM
I don’t hate tall people, I just don’t think they should be allowed to play basketball. Think about the playing time they’re taking away from deserving smaller players. And it’s about safety, too. Do you want your son to get run over by some 6’8” testosterone-fueled monster? Not hate, just FAIRNESS.
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Shout out to all worker-owned media
Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a group of journalists grabbed it and are relaunching the food magazine as a worker-owned co-op. Love it. [gourmetmagazine.net]
Gourmet Magazine
Gourmet is a worker-owned publication about food and the people who make and consume it.
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January 13, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Shout out to all worker-owned media
there is a candle wax spill in the middle of The Scream 🎨😱 www.tiktok.com/t/ZTh2v7ftM/
there is a candle wax spill in the middle of The Scream 🎨😱 #art #history @SecretlyIncrediblyFascinating
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January 12, 2026 at 8:29 PM
there is a candle wax spill in the middle of The Scream 🎨😱 www.tiktok.com/t/ZTh2v7ftM/
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In response to a quote tweet of DHS that says “you guys killed an American citizen,” Greg Bovino replies: “Triggered much?”
January 12, 2026 at 4:41 PM
In response to a quote tweet of DHS that says “you guys killed an American citizen,” Greg Bovino replies: “Triggered much?”
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once again shoutout to every dipshit who insisted it was hysterical to talk about trump and white supremacy in the same breath www.rawstory.com/trump-267487...
Trump appalls with attack on Civil Rights Act: 'White people very badly treated'
Critics pounced on President Donald Trump Monday after he complained to the New York Times that the Civil Rights Act – the landmark 1964 legislation that outlawed racial discrimination – was “unfair i...
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January 12, 2026 at 2:51 PM
once again shoutout to every dipshit who insisted it was hysterical to talk about trump and white supremacy in the same breath www.rawstory.com/trump-267487...
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If you're a young person you have no idea how long we've all been listening to Small Government and Liberty stuff from the right. Nobody at all believed any of it lol
January 11, 2026 at 12:02 AM
If you're a young person you have no idea how long we've all been listening to Small Government and Liberty stuff from the right. Nobody at all believed any of it lol
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If you had predicted with precise accuracy any of our current top stories this week during the ‘24 election, it would have been dismissed as Trump Derangement Syndrome by most of the professional takesmiths.
January 10, 2026 at 3:43 PM
If you had predicted with precise accuracy any of our current top stories this week during the ‘24 election, it would have been dismissed as Trump Derangement Syndrome by most of the professional takesmiths.
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Holy fuck they actually did it
January 8, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Holy fuck they actually did it
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This is not the law.
January 8, 2026 at 6:59 PM
This is not the law.
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This is not the first time ICE has killed someone. Silverio Villegas González was killed by ICE in his car in Chicago just four months ago.
“.. In the last four months alone, immigration officers have fired on at least nine people in five states and Washington, D.C. All of the individuals targeted in those shootings were, like the woman killed on Wednesday, fired on while in their vehicles.”
@nytimes.com
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January 8, 2026 at 12:51 PM
This is not the first time ICE has killed someone. Silverio Villegas González was killed by ICE in his car in Chicago just four months ago.
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in addition to being depraved, i just got a vision of a 50-year-old rittenhouse still trying to dine on killing two people when he was 17
Kyle Rittenhouse was an honored guest at a 2024 gathering of Oregon Republican activists. This is the monstrously depraved tweet he sent tonight. These are the people who claim to be defending Christianity and “western civilization.”
January 8, 2026 at 3:43 PM
in addition to being depraved, i just got a vision of a 50-year-old rittenhouse still trying to dine on killing two people when he was 17
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New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
Inside ICE’s Tool to Monitor Phones in Entire Neighborhoods
404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or t...
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January 8, 2026 at 2:03 PM
New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
“This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...
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In line with the unspoken media doctrine of who counts as a "regular American" and who doesn't
I can’t get over all the journalists and centrist pundits who sneered that “Twitter isn’t real life” when it was full of weird leftists but now insist it’s a vital window into the public mood when the entire site is Nazis, illegal porn, bots, and Belarusians calling themselves “Iowa MAGA Farm Guy”
thinking about how long leftists were blamed for making twitter inhospitable for MPs who are refusing point blank to leave now it's full of nazis and child porn
January 8, 2026 at 4:08 PM
In line with the unspoken media doctrine of who counts as a "regular American" and who doesn't