The Scorpio King 🏳️🌈 🦂👑
@arcoar.bsky.social
Beaver Stater born on the bayou. He/Him. Attorney at Love and professor of chit-chattin.
I treat horses good and I'm friendly to strangers. 🖖
I treat horses good and I'm friendly to strangers. 🖖
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the opposition is just so inadequate it is maddening. it will literally drive you insane thinking about it for more than 2 seconds. imagine looking at all this shit and thinking the best you can do is some fucking small ball complaint about the g-d price of eggs. jesus h christ.
January 20, 2026 at 8:00 PM
the opposition is just so inadequate it is maddening. it will literally drive you insane thinking about it for more than 2 seconds. imagine looking at all this shit and thinking the best you can do is some fucking small ball complaint about the g-d price of eggs. jesus h christ.
If you asked me, “what kind of work do you think Brett Ratner is able to find these days?” I’d probably crack some joke like, “I don’t know, making PR movies for Melania Trump?” so yeah, no big surprise.
Melania has a documentary — and to nobody's surprise, it's backed by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos and directed by serial abuser Brett Ratner. In this week's American Freakshow, @ninaburleigh.bsky.social takes a deep dive into the bizarre project and Melania herself.
Melania the Movie
“Quiet Piggy”
www.americanfreakshow.news
January 20, 2026 at 8:16 PM
If you asked me, “what kind of work do you think Brett Ratner is able to find these days?” I’d probably crack some joke like, “I don’t know, making PR movies for Melania Trump?” so yeah, no big surprise.
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What's remarkable is not just that Trump is so loathsome and narcissistic that he doesn't care when an innocent woman is killed in a protest unless and until he finds out that her dad was a fan of his ... it's that he's so disregulated he *can't help but say so out loud*.
Trump: "ICE is gonna be too rough with somebody. They're gonna make a mistake sometimes. I felt horribly when I was told the young woman had the tragedy. But when I learned her father is - I hope he still is, but I don't know - was a tremendous Trump fan. It's terrible. It's so sad. It just happens"
January 20, 2026 at 8:12 PM
What's remarkable is not just that Trump is so loathsome and narcissistic that he doesn't care when an innocent woman is killed in a protest unless and until he finds out that her dad was a fan of his ... it's that he's so disregulated he *can't help but say so out loud*.
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Hi journalists. This is not a 'crackdown', a word that means strict punishment of illegal behavior.
The term is mass exclusion.
The US Administration's policy is mass exclusion of people it deems undesirable: native birthright citizens of immigrants, and half of all people immigrating lawfully.
The term is mass exclusion.
The US Administration's policy is mass exclusion of people it deems undesirable: native birthright citizens of immigrants, and half of all people immigrating lawfully.
New research concludes the Trump administration’s policies will reduce **legal** immigration to the United States by 33% to 50% over four years.
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
Trump And Miller Slashing Legal Immigration By 33% To 50%
New research concludes the Trump administration’s policies will reduce legal immigration to the United States by 33% to 50% over four years.
www.forbes.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Hi journalists. This is not a 'crackdown', a word that means strict punishment of illegal behavior.
The term is mass exclusion.
The US Administration's policy is mass exclusion of people it deems undesirable: native birthright citizens of immigrants, and half of all people immigrating lawfully.
The term is mass exclusion.
The US Administration's policy is mass exclusion of people it deems undesirable: native birthright citizens of immigrants, and half of all people immigrating lawfully.
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Kinda funny that Trump thinks "asylum" means other countries send people from insane asylums, and a) this is real life, not a ham-handed Idiocracy-type satire, b) he has surely been corrected several times but is incapable of updating his priors, & c) most media politely agree not to mention it.
January 19, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Kinda funny that Trump thinks "asylum" means other countries send people from insane asylums, and a) this is real life, not a ham-handed Idiocracy-type satire, b) he has surely been corrected several times but is incapable of updating his priors, & c) most media politely agree not to mention it.
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I would be hard-pressed to name a more feckless, embarrassing political body in history than the Senate Democratic caucus. Just utterly useless in this moment.
“Give us a chance to give [Trump] a way out of this that comes to the right ending. … I don’t know if that’s possible.” - @durbin.senate.gov to Danes in Europe.
Can the Senate Dems sound any more limp, facile and impotent to Europeans across the Atlantic?
Can the Senate Dems sound any more limp, facile and impotent to Europeans across the Atlantic?
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“COPENHAGEN, Denmark — A bipartisan group of lawmakers who traveled here on an urgent mission to reassure Danish leaders amid President Donald Trump’s escalating threats to acquire Greenland had a straightforward message.
In an interview between high-level meetings, Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin summed it up this way: “Give us a chance to give [Trump] a way out of this that comes to the right ending.”
Durbin added: “I don’t know if that’s possible.”
The four-decade veteran of Congress, who’s been on dozens of CODELs, wasn’t just referring to Trump’s apparent determination to take over the Danish territory at all costs, or Republicans’ hesitation to openly defy him. Durbin was giving a sobering assessment of Congress as a supposedly coequal branch of government.
Over the span of several decades and under the leadership of both parties, lawmakers have ceded their authority to the executive branch on everything from war powers to tariffs to the power of the purse. Hill leaders have prioritized avoiding politically difficult votes or been slow to react – or done nothing – as presidents repeatedly pushed the limits of their own power at the expense of Congress.
“It’s not just this moment or this president,” said Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.), who co-led the delegation. “What makes this moment so hard is, if Congress can’t stand up in the face of something where there is no strategic value and lots of strategic harm…is Congress really willing to exert its authority at all?”
That’s what made this particular CODEL so uniquely difficult — and surreal.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cf26plxwia7dxpm6plry3sj2/bafkreibjseyx4567lbf33ldoqqe66czitqhdzl7ppsi4s3swrfyo6dtwsu@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 6:21 PM
I would be hard-pressed to name a more feckless, embarrassing political body in history than the Senate Democratic caucus. Just utterly useless in this moment.
I just found out I’m on a blocklist called “drama” and honestly, I’m flattered. I would have expected “vanilla” before that.
January 19, 2026 at 10:00 AM
I just found out I’m on a blocklist called “drama” and honestly, I’m flattered. I would have expected “vanilla” before that.
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Not headline news. No real fuss by Democratic leaders. No calls to censure. No pushback. No questions asked of GOP leadership by the press.
Just totally accepted anti-Muslim bigotry across the board.
Just totally accepted anti-Muslim bigotry across the board.
January 19, 2026 at 5:15 AM
Not headline news. No real fuss by Democratic leaders. No calls to censure. No pushback. No questions asked of GOP leadership by the press.
Just totally accepted anti-Muslim bigotry across the board.
Just totally accepted anti-Muslim bigotry across the board.
How is Adam Jentleson’s strategy here meaningfully different than what Keir Starmer has tried in the UK to historically abysmal poll results?
This isn't a left-right ideological issue. But it blows me away that anyone who is actually anti-Trump would think running back Joe Biden/Merrick Garland 2.0 will work the second time. No political party can tolerate a very large, armed secret police force committed to murdering its voters.
January 19, 2026 at 9:00 AM
How is Adam Jentleson’s strategy here meaningfully different than what Keir Starmer has tried in the UK to historically abysmal poll results?
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Can’t improve things by perpetuating the lie that immigrants are a threat. Have to take on that lie directly, siding with the pro-immigration American majority.
“But if we get rid of ICE, who will stop the rampaging hordes of scary foreigners?” isn’t good politics. It’s ceding the issue to liars.
“But if we get rid of ICE, who will stop the rampaging hordes of scary foreigners?” isn’t good politics. It’s ceding the issue to liars.
January 18, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Can’t improve things by perpetuating the lie that immigrants are a threat. Have to take on that lie directly, siding with the pro-immigration American majority.
“But if we get rid of ICE, who will stop the rampaging hordes of scary foreigners?” isn’t good politics. It’s ceding the issue to liars.
“But if we get rid of ICE, who will stop the rampaging hordes of scary foreigners?” isn’t good politics. It’s ceding the issue to liars.
This is such a great demonstration of how Democratic leadership has become the proverbial frog in boiling water, oblivious to just how extreme things have become. The president is threatening to go to war with *NATO*. And Dems just plug it into their kitchen table messaging machine.
“we might go to war with Europe over Greenland” is not normal behavior and cannot be slotted into normal political rhetoric by people who would like to reestablish normal political relations with Europe someday
i feel like Americans don't get the level of eye-rolling this is getting from Europe
January 19, 2026 at 7:50 AM
This is such a great demonstration of how Democratic leadership has become the proverbial frog in boiling water, oblivious to just how extreme things have become. The president is threatening to go to war with *NATO*. And Dems just plug it into their kitchen table messaging machine.
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ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
January 19, 2026 at 5:41 AM
ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.
Please don’t bring your imaginary friends into this. We’re already dealing with a president who is fucking bonkers.
OK I laughed at this part
January 19, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Please don’t bring your imaginary friends into this. We’re already dealing with a president who is fucking bonkers.
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this Greenland shit is fucking insane. it’s fucking insane. the fact that anyone is humoring him is fucking insane. the biggest problem in the world today is that nobody is taking the president seriously for the fucking psychopath he is. this isn’t all some fucking joke
![NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreie7itpptx3xbxhpsnlaqmwk752h7pcrion5ija2apksljtax2adx4@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 5:53 AM
this Greenland shit is fucking insane. it’s fucking insane. the fact that anyone is humoring him is fucking insane. the biggest problem in the world today is that nobody is taking the president seriously for the fucking psychopath he is. this isn’t all some fucking joke
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Multi-layered “look what you made me do” lie.
Because Norway didn’t give a him prize (it doesn’t decide winners) for ending wars (he didn’t end) the US won’t be peaceful anymore (bombing multiple countries) and will take Greenland (part of Denmark, not Norway) to stop Russia (it’d help Russia).
Because Norway didn’t give a him prize (it doesn’t decide winners) for ending wars (he didn’t end) the US won’t be peaceful anymore (bombing multiple countries) and will take Greenland (part of Denmark, not Norway) to stop Russia (it’d help Russia).
January 19, 2026 at 5:36 AM
Multi-layered “look what you made me do” lie.
Because Norway didn’t give a him prize (it doesn’t decide winners) for ending wars (he didn’t end) the US won’t be peaceful anymore (bombing multiple countries) and will take Greenland (part of Denmark, not Norway) to stop Russia (it’d help Russia).
Because Norway didn’t give a him prize (it doesn’t decide winners) for ending wars (he didn’t end) the US won’t be peaceful anymore (bombing multiple countries) and will take Greenland (part of Denmark, not Norway) to stop Russia (it’d help Russia).
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americans, please: do not take the bait by resisting ICE yourselves. just give the democrats $20. they will give it to ICE so they can train more guys
January 18, 2026 at 9:15 PM
americans, please: do not take the bait by resisting ICE yourselves. just give the democrats $20. they will give it to ICE so they can train more guys
Every mainstream news outlet will still talk about “taking Greenland” like the result of some rational policy calculus, even if a big mistake. Meanwhile anyone with senses can tell it’s the act of an unhinged monster. Like the omnipotent child sending family to the cornfield in the Twilight Zone.
January 19, 2026 at 5:24 AM
Every mainstream news outlet will still talk about “taking Greenland” like the result of some rational policy calculus, even if a big mistake. Meanwhile anyone with senses can tell it’s the act of an unhinged monster. Like the omnipotent child sending family to the cornfield in the Twilight Zone.
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I was super excited about this year's holiday hat because it featured the old iconography. This was the system in place when I moved to Portland in 95.
January 19, 2026 at 3:11 AM
I was super excited about this year's holiday hat because it featured the old iconography. This was the system in place when I moved to Portland in 95.
If Dems win with current leadership, as is likely given material conditions, they will claim vindication for their cowardly ideas and approach. And they will be further emboldened to acquiesce to Trump’s most violent and fascistic moves. Even if we win, we are likely to lose. We are in real danger.
Schumer and Jeffries must step down from leadership if we have any hope to reform this country.
They are all part of the same club. They work for the corporate donors and all they want is restoration.
They won't fight b/c it's not in their interest.
It's so clear and yet still...
They are all part of the same club. They work for the corporate donors and all they want is restoration.
They won't fight b/c it's not in their interest.
It's so clear and yet still...
January 19, 2026 at 5:05 AM
If Dems win with current leadership, as is likely given material conditions, they will claim vindication for their cowardly ideas and approach. And they will be further emboldened to acquiesce to Trump’s most violent and fascistic moves. Even if we win, we are likely to lose. We are in real danger.
“Der Führer is obsessed with building these expensive concentration camps! He’s wasting your tax dollars on that instead of making the trains run on time, like he promised!” —The leaders of the current Democratic Party if they were in 1930s’ Germany.
January 19, 2026 at 4:58 AM
“Der Führer is obsessed with building these expensive concentration camps! He’s wasting your tax dollars on that instead of making the trains run on time, like he promised!” —The leaders of the current Democratic Party if they were in 1930s’ Germany.
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The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
But Americans who want to save the alliance with Europe must have no illusions about how bad a condition this transatlantic partnership is in.
January 18, 2026 at 10:05 PM
The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
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It may be that Americans (and especially their leaders) have known the comfort of peace for so long that almost nothing could provoke them into appropriately fight fascism and war. Entry into WW2 took a lot, but the U.S. might have shaken off even Pearl Harbor if these people had been in charge.
Even Neville Chamberlain had the guts in him to form a war cabinet
NEW: In this interview, Chuck Schumer describes the "five buckets" Dems think are key to their possibly winning a Senate majority in 2026: housing, "the high price of food [and] food monopolies playing a major role there," electricity, "the high cost of childcare," and health care.
January 19, 2026 at 4:36 AM
It may be that Americans (and especially their leaders) have known the comfort of peace for so long that almost nothing could provoke them into appropriately fight fascism and war. Entry into WW2 took a lot, but the U.S. might have shaken off even Pearl Harbor if these people had been in charge.
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ICE is seriously going to be Gaza all over again for Democrats isn’t it. They’re going to try it again, insisting if they just don’t talk about it then it’s not actually an issue that matters to millions of voters.
NEW: In this interview, Chuck Schumer describes the "five buckets" Dems think are key to their possibly winning a Senate majority in 2026: housing, "the high price of food [and] food monopolies playing a major role there," electricity, "the high cost of childcare," and health care.
Zero Chucks Left to Give
Chuck Schumer now sees a path back to the majority. Can he manage his way through it?
www.thebulwark.com
January 19, 2026 at 2:29 AM
ICE is seriously going to be Gaza all over again for Democrats isn’t it. They’re going to try it again, insisting if they just don’t talk about it then it’s not actually an issue that matters to millions of voters.
I like Bernie Sanders and would have much preferred him to our last three nominees. But he’s human, and like almost all of our leaders, far past retirement age. Even a great politician won’t be suited for every time period, and as this kind of post shows, he is not the man for the moment.
i feel like Americans don't get the level of eye-rolling this is getting from Europe
January 19, 2026 at 4:28 AM
I like Bernie Sanders and would have much preferred him to our last three nominees. But he’s human, and like almost all of our leaders, far past retirement age. Even a great politician won’t be suited for every time period, and as this kind of post shows, he is not the man for the moment.