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2026 is going to be a very dark year for US foreign policy, where everything that was built over many decades by leaders for collective security is torn apart by one madman, but only because people in his own party remain silent.
January 19, 2026 at 12:04 PM
2026 is going to be a very dark year for US foreign policy, where everything that was built over many decades by leaders for collective security is torn apart by one madman, but only because people in his own party remain silent.
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Americans' economic and political pains mainly stem from unprecedented concentration of our wealth, a few dozen mega-billionaires control 12%.
They buy a lot of politicians, media outlets, & influencers to distract from their power by blaming our pain on immigrants, DEI, women's careers...
They buy a lot of politicians, media outlets, & influencers to distract from their power by blaming our pain on immigrants, DEI, women's careers...
Gabriel Zucman on the shocking concentration of extreme wealth in the United States….
gzucman.substack.com?r=nle0&utm_c...
gzucman.substack.com?r=nle0&utm_c...
January 19, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Americans' economic and political pains mainly stem from unprecedented concentration of our wealth, a few dozen mega-billionaires control 12%.
They buy a lot of politicians, media outlets, & influencers to distract from their power by blaming our pain on immigrants, DEI, women's careers...
They buy a lot of politicians, media outlets, & influencers to distract from their power by blaming our pain on immigrants, DEI, women's careers...
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January 19, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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Let this radicalize you.
January 19, 2026 at 5:53 AM
Let this radicalize you.
“What do you mean there’s another day?!”
The parents’ mantra on holiday weekends.
The parents’ mantra on holiday weekends.
January 19, 2026 at 1:53 AM
“What do you mean there’s another day?!”
The parents’ mantra on holiday weekends.
The parents’ mantra on holiday weekends.
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This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all
January 18, 2026 at 12:44 PM
This opens up wider questions about how far the UK and Canada in the 5 eyes intel sharing framework as well as other former allies of the United States can still provide the Americans with any sensitive intelligence information at all
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How it started/how it's going
January 18, 2026 at 3:08 PM
How it started/how it's going
Sometimes I feel my patriotism slipping, but a 50 year old guy just walked past me at the pool wearing a too-small Stars and Stripes USA Speedo.
Bless you, sir, and bless the United States of America!
Bless you, sir, and bless the United States of America!
January 17, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Sometimes I feel my patriotism slipping, but a 50 year old guy just walked past me at the pool wearing a too-small Stars and Stripes USA Speedo.
Bless you, sir, and bless the United States of America!
Bless you, sir, and bless the United States of America!
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Ohio GOP U.S. Sen. Jon Husted has taken at least $75,000 in campaign contributions from Centene, including more than $29,000 after the company paid $88.3 million to settle allegations that it had fraudulently extracted tens of millions from Ohio Medicaid ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/16/h...
Husted took thousands from company that paid Ohio $88 million to settle Medicaid fraud allegations • Ohio Capital Journal
U.S. Sen. Jon Husted says fraud is a reason he's against ACA insurance subsidies. But a big contributor allegedly defrauded Ohio Medicaid.
ohiocapitaljournal.com
January 17, 2026 at 1:30 PM
Ohio GOP U.S. Sen. Jon Husted has taken at least $75,000 in campaign contributions from Centene, including more than $29,000 after the company paid $88.3 million to settle allegations that it had fraudulently extracted tens of millions from Ohio Medicaid ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/16/h...
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You're paying for this.
Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs.
Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.
Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs.
Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.
CNN airs a compilation of escalating ICE aggression towards peaceful protesters.
January 16, 2026 at 9:52 PM
You're paying for this.
Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs.
Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.
Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs.
Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.
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The Hmong community in America is here predominantly because they were our allies in the Vietnam War, and we lost so they had to leave their homes and move here.
Seeing reports that ICE agents in Minnesota are targeting Hmong. As a Viet we know the Hmong as allies and also a culture that promotes rugged individualism loyalty. I sincerely hope that the ICE agents going after them eat shit.
January 17, 2026 at 1:14 AM
The Hmong community in America is here predominantly because they were our allies in the Vietnam War, and we lost so they had to leave their homes and move here.
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ICE raids are not the first time this was made explicit. I think people downplay how much Jim Crow was not just about controlling Black people but it was also about controlling white people. If you thought racism was dumb and acted that way you could end up with a bomb in your home
Just keep coming back to the fact that keeping people in a constant state of terror is a form of mass disablement and essential to the eugenic project that is the United States.
January 17, 2026 at 6:08 AM
ICE raids are not the first time this was made explicit. I think people downplay how much Jim Crow was not just about controlling Black people but it was also about controlling white people. If you thought racism was dumb and acted that way you could end up with a bomb in your home
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January 17, 2026 at 6:26 AM
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I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
January 17, 2026 at 4:28 AM
I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
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I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.
He’s turned the presidency into the world’s largest ATM machine.
January 17, 2026 at 1:26 AM
I genuinely don't understood how America took the emoluments clause -- the common-sense bar on a president using his powers to line his own pockets, a law children can understand -- and just said, nah, that doesn't apply for our Very Special Boy.
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Fraud is a serious crime that merits laying siege to an entire city and collectively punishing every immigrant from Somalia.
It's also a crime for which you can be pardoned and relieved of compensating your victims, so long as some of the money you stole finds its way to the president.
It's also a crime for which you can be pardoned and relieved of compensating your victims, so long as some of the money you stole finds its way to the president.
Trump Sets Fraudster Free From Prison for a Second Time
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Fraud is a serious crime that merits laying siege to an entire city and collectively punishing every immigrant from Somalia.
It's also a crime for which you can be pardoned and relieved of compensating your victims, so long as some of the money you stole finds its way to the president.
It's also a crime for which you can be pardoned and relieved of compensating your victims, so long as some of the money you stole finds its way to the president.
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If you knee a defenseless person in the face so many times your buddy has to tell you to stop kneeing him in the face and then you knee him in the face again, you are a bad person.
More unaccountable thuggery, via the AP Twitter account. After being screamed at not to knee him in the face, the agent...knees him in the face again. See for yourself
January 16, 2026 at 11:55 PM
If you knee a defenseless person in the face so many times your buddy has to tell you to stop kneeing him in the face and then you knee him in the face again, you are a bad person.
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Something I desperately need everyone to understand is that the entire modern conservative movement, from Buckley to Trump and from the Heritage Foundation to the Federalist Society, exists as a direct backlash to the Warren Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Ed.
www.ms.now/opinion/segr...
www.ms.now/opinion/segr...
New Hampshire Republican defiant after ‘segregated schools’ leak
New Hampshire state Rep. Kristin Noble, who chairs a House education committee, seems to have promoted “segregated schools” in a Signal chat.
www.ms.now
January 16, 2026 at 3:19 PM
Something I desperately need everyone to understand is that the entire modern conservative movement, from Buckley to Trump and from the Heritage Foundation to the Federalist Society, exists as a direct backlash to the Warren Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Ed.
www.ms.now/opinion/segr...
www.ms.now/opinion/segr...
Dear fellow Ohioans:
Fish Cop is not qualified to hold elected office, either. Send her fucking packing.
Fish Cop is not qualified to hold elected office, either. Send her fucking packing.
Fish cop on the move
January 16, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Dear fellow Ohioans:
Fish Cop is not qualified to hold elected office, either. Send her fucking packing.
Fish Cop is not qualified to hold elected office, either. Send her fucking packing.
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Destiny Jackson said her 6-mo-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness following the ICE attack. She performed CPR on her baby while others poured milk on her other children in an effort to neutralize the tear gas. Three of children, including the baby, were then taken to the hospital
North Minneapolis ICE shooting: Children hospitalized after flash bang, tear gas hits van
A family was caught in clashes between protesters and law enforcement during protests in north Minneapolis, leading to three of their six children, including a 6-month-old baby, being hospitalized.
www.fox9.com
January 16, 2026 at 2:21 PM
Destiny Jackson said her 6-mo-old infant stopped breathing and lost consciousness following the ICE attack. She performed CPR on her baby while others poured milk on her other children in an effort to neutralize the tear gas. Three of children, including the baby, were then taken to the hospital
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Holy shit.
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Live Updates: Newly Released Records Detail Chaos During Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:43 AM
Holy shit.
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
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If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.
Newport co-ed cheerleading team is at center of Trump transgender athlete crackdownTrump admin focuses on swimming, cheerleading in Maine transgender athlete probes
The U.S. Department of Education announced a slew of Title IX-related investigations this week that include 2 school districts in Maine.
www.pressherald.com
January 16, 2026 at 1:09 AM
If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.
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A homicide in a camp where members of politically disfavored ethnic groups are concentrated.
"a colossal makeshift tent encampment on the Mexican border"
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
January 16, 2026 at 12:16 AM
A homicide in a camp where members of politically disfavored ethnic groups are concentrated.
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We're getting breaking word that Trump is a huge bitch.
January 15, 2026 at 10:17 PM
We're getting breaking word that Trump is a huge bitch.
Me, taking my child to swimming lessons: I hope he doesn’t get so good at swimming that I have to get up really early to take him to practices and meets.
My child: /routinely forgets to close mouth when it goes underwater
My child: /routinely forgets to close mouth when it goes underwater
January 15, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Me, taking my child to swimming lessons: I hope he doesn’t get so good at swimming that I have to get up really early to take him to practices and meets.
My child: /routinely forgets to close mouth when it goes underwater
My child: /routinely forgets to close mouth when it goes underwater