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Eldritch Millennial
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North American Bearded Dad. History. Teacher. Baltimore. Orioles. BLM. Nicest of the damned. Fight fascism.
GLI History Teacher of the Year, MD ‘25
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shaenon.bsky.social
This is Alanis Morissette levels of not understanding irony. Your pro-sex-creep school getting sex creeps isn't "truth is stranger than fiction," it's the obvious outcome. What's next, acting surprised that everyone is white?
January 17, 2026 at 3:11 AM
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waldo.net
The double pardon really gives away the game. Adriana Camberos started her second round of fraud just weeks after her first pardon. She was charged, convicted, imprisoned…and pardoned again. Trump supporters are permitted unlimited crimes, while the rest of us can get beaten by the secret police.
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14h
President Trump quietly issued clemency grants this week, including to a California woman he had pardoned once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC.
Trump Sets Fraudster Free From Prison for a Second Time
The president issued a raft of clemency grants this week, including pardoning a woman he had given relief to once before and a man whose daughter had donated millions to a Trump super PAC.
nyti.ms
January 16, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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esqueer.net
This is one of the most irresponsible things I've seen someone in the trans community do. Absolutely disgusting that Tara Knight faked claims about getting a letter from the FBI and then forged a letter with AI when journalists tried to verify.

theneedlenews.com/alleged-fbi-...
Rumors of FBI letters threatening trans public figures center on an AI-generated document
It is not impossible for the FBI to do what has been claimed. It is still irresponsible to spread panic among marginalized people through rumors without evidence.
theneedlenews.com
January 17, 2026 at 3:04 AM
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bdproctor.bsky.social
It took decades of not only violence but--and here I want to put most of my emphasis--*widespread moderate complacency and acceptance* for the violence and fraud to start tipping elections
January 15, 2026 at 8:26 PM
bmorebaker42.bsky.social
January 17, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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djamiempls.meatjacker.social
🙃

This FB post is public.
My husband was kidnapped tonight by ICE. He is a born and raised Willmar, Minnesotan. Officers rushed his car. He gave his ID and complied. Without running his license, he was thrown in a vehicle and taken. They must have finally ran his ID 1/4 mile down the road, because they pulled in a parking lot, uncuffed him, threw him out of the car and threw his ID at him and took off. He then had to walk back to his car to drive back to work. This is wrong. This is terrifying. This is completely unjust. I am full of rage and terror. This must stop. ICE does not care what you look like. They are taking everyone and asking questions after kidnapping. Stay safe people. Protect your loved ones to the best of your abilities.
January 16, 2026 at 11:24 PM
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captainambivalent.com
Hey let’s just all award ourselves one
A shopping search result for a 2.25” nobel peace prize pin only $4.99
January 17, 2026 at 12:08 AM
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albertburneko.bsky.social
finally, an opposing force these gestapo losers can handle: schoolchildren
chebutykin.bsky.social Melissa Kaercher @chebutykin.bsky.social · 11h
ICE/CBP is following school busses now.

My husband (a school bus driver) was just in an urgent all-hands meeting about it this afternoon.
January 17, 2026 at 12:09 AM
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seamas.bsky.social
pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things
Tweet exchange in which a photo of Anne Hathaway is posted by @TheRoyalSerf, to which user @VvSchweetz24 replies "@grok...do your thing. @Grok replies: Anne Hathaway isn't Jewish; she was raised Catholic but left the church. She married Adam Shulman (who is Jewish) in 2012 and celebrates Jewish holidays with their kids. SHe's played Jewish roles, like in "Armageddon Time."
January 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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katzish.bsky.social
Same with DOGE — it’s so weird when people are Iike “gosh it failed to meet its goal of government efficiency” rather than “looks like its real goal was to steal data while breaking federal agencies and ending support for black and brown people abroad”
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 11h
Decent story but infuriating that this is still being cast as a good-faith institution that failed to achieve its lofty goals rather than a fundamentally cynical right-wing project.

Look what Bari Weiss is doing to CBS! Why would you assume her goal here was any different?
January 16, 2026 at 11:56 PM
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robertsilverman.bsky.social
Sorry , but most white voters can't acknowledge trans rights, or the rights of people of color, or out of control policing.

And please list the "radical solutions" that were even *proposed*—let alone enacted—by effing JOE BIDEN, NANCY PELOSI & CHUCK SCHUMER

I'M NOT MAD. I THINK IT'S FUNNY, REALLY
January 16, 2026 at 10:06 PM
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robertsilverman.bsky.social
what the hell is this revisionist nonsense? This *did not happen*—except in the minds of the far-right. You're buying their bad faith bullshit. MAGA called for and now is building a white ethnostate b/c *they are white nationalists*. That's what they do. FFS
January 16, 2026 at 10:01 PM
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thehousered.bsky.social C.M. Lewis @thehousered.bsky.social · 12h
every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO

this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
January 16, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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gwill2k.bsky.social
1945: 320,000 United Auto workers

1946:

174,000 electric workers

93,000 meatpackers

750,000 steel workers (largest ever)

340,000 coal miners

250,000 railroad workers

120,000 miners, rail and steel workers

The AFL-CIO merged the next year after Taft-Hartley passed over Truman’s veto.
thehousered.bsky.social C.M. Lewis @thehousered.bsky.social · 12h
every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO

this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
January 16, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
Jimmy Kimmel offers to let Trump have one of his trophies if he will pull ICE out of Minneapolis.
January 16, 2026 at 1:12 PM
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heylookitsruth.bsky.social
ICE detained people while waiting in line at a food pantry.

Again, ICE DETAINED PEOPLE WHILE WAITING IN LINE AT A FOOD PANTRY.
ICE detained people waiting at a food pantry, Salvation Army says
A foodbank in New Jersey cautioned its partners to have a plan in place in case of an ICE raid.
www.nj.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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drewmcweeny.com
The answer to Shapiro should have been, "Yes, we said it, and we meant it. There is no excuse for the way ICE is conducting itself, and we should defund the entire agency."

But, no, gargle his balls, Gavin. You fucking spineless toad.
January 16, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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chadbourn.bsky.social
Trump: “I may put a tariff on countries if they don't go along with Greenland because we need Greenland for national security.”

Trade war incoming!

Does he really think people are so scared of tariffs? Probably, as he clearly doesn’t understand what they are.
January 16, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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atrupar.com
damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis
January 16, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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ryanjreilly.com
A former federal agent after watching the New York Times breakdown of the ICE shooting:
I watched it, that actually makes it much worse. He never should have been in front of the SUV. We are trained do not get in front of a vehicle like that, there’s only bad outcomes. Also, his video clearly shows she was not surreptitiously reaching for any objects within the vehicles drivers compartment, so the only defense for the agent would be that she was trying to run him over, which clearly isn’t the case, as emphasized by the fact that his legs were out of the way. The video also shows the SUV was moving so slowly that even in icy conditions he should’ve just moved out of the way. In the department of justice we are prohibited from using deadly force purely to prevent escape. Bad shoot all around
January 16, 2026 at 8:16 PM
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ositanwanevu.com
Apropos of nothing, let's check in with how things are going at Bari Weiss's free speech university. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Most people didn’t think much of it when the university dean, Ben Crocker, called a student named Dan into his office on Monday, Sept. 9, the first day of classes. But at 7:44 in the evening, they received an email from three administrators saying that Dan had been removed from campus, “transported to his home out of state,” and barred from further access to the university. The nature of the allegations concerned, at their core, a pair of charged statements Dan allegedly made that would be familiar to any Title IX officer. The first was a general statement implying that UATX girls carried themselves physically in a way that invited sexual assault. The second was a suggestion to a specific female student that she had carried herself in a way that invited sexual assault. Dan had already been the subject of some negative attention on campus because of provocative statements he’d made in a UATX-based Discord “introductions” chat. These included a challenge — “If I catch any of you guys in my stuff, I’ll kill you” — which was a reference to the 1981 movie “Stripes” and likely misunderstood by fellow students. In another exchange, a discussion of transgender issues, Dan expressed reservations about hormone treatment and said that he couldn’t wait “to play devil’s advocate for legalizing pedophilia.” Between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m., Crocker visited the dorms, where he hosted a meeting on the roof to discuss the issue with students. Crocker’s message was that Dan’s conduct had been evaluated to be a “credible threat” — a phrase that would be repeated by the administration many times over the following days. Crocker then faced what one student attendee recalled as a “firing squad” of questions. Some students said that Dan had seemed off, but others saw his hasty removal as an example of the very cancel culture to which UATX was supposed to be the antithesis. Several students noted a lack of diversity. Consistent with its emphasis on “merit-based admissions,” UATX doesn’t publish demographic data. The students with whom I spoke said their classmates — and the college’s leadership — were overwhelmingly white, disproportionately came from wealthy families and had an overrepresentation of apparent neurodivergence. They found ideological diversity to be particularly lacking. “I didn’t realize exactly how conservative it would be,” one current student told me. “You know, when I hear free speech and open debate and all that jazz, I assumed that there was going to be a more equal amount of political views, and there wasn’t.” Classes weren’t as innovative as most students expected. “Year one was exceptionally boring,” the student said. “They did great books, they just didn’t do it in a great way,” said another student, who lamented the amount of memorization required. “I thought we were going to be intensely debating,” he said. Several students shared course syllabi with me. Most are easy enough to imagine being offered on any campus — with the notable exception of math and science. “The math classes go over algebra you learned in ninth grade,” a student told me. “There was just nothing there.” He described the offering as “schizophrenic” and described a class he’d taken at University of Texas at Austin as “exponentially more important.” Indeed, the syllabus I reviewed for a class called “Intellectual Foundations of Science II” covered a range of topics unusual for a science class including “The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.” A student who’d taken the course shared a slide with me on “ensoulment” — the principally religious question of when a soul enters the human body — and said that the class had been told that IVF but not abortion could be consistent with the Catholic belief about ensoulment. The poor quality of the science offerings had bothered Heying and Pinker. “Others thought I was the token liberal,” Heying told me, “but I came to understand myself as the token scientist.” In an email, Pinker wrote, “They should have hired a widely esteemed scientist and proven program builder to set up their science division.” Another surprising similarity with other colleges stemmed directly from Dan’s expulsion: The students feared cancellation. “At any moment a frivolous Title IX complaint could be filed against you,” a former student told me. “I’ve never felt my speech was so chilled as it was in the classroom at UATX.” During the many conversations I had reporting this story, two questions came up more than any other. The first: Where was Bari Weiss? Many of the people I interviewed told me about internal conversations and shared internal emails. Weiss, who remains on the board of trustees, was almost never present in the conversations as they were related to me, and while I saw many emails on which Kanelos and Ferguson were copied, I never saw any including Weiss. speaks onstage during an event in New York City, on Nov. 19, 2024. | Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Free Press One person I spoke to, who was present during the early planning stages, told me that Weiss was “very elusive” and almost never present in person. This was ironic since UATX was closely associated with Weiss — a bust of whom now resides in the school library. Weiss, meanwhile, has only risen further during the Trump 2.0 era and is now editor-in-chief of CBS News, where she has been criticized as genuflecting to the Trump administration. A spokesperson for CBS News did not respond to a request for comment from Weiss. One former member of the development team told me that they would routinely ask prospective donors how they got to know UATX. “Eighty percent of the time, the answer was Bari Weiss,” they said. “It was very often referred to as Bari Weiss’ University, or Bari Weiss’ University Project, or Bari Weiss’ University of Austin.” For several people, this was a source of resentment. “I don’t care whether she wants to pretend this is all gone now — she is the reason that this place exists. She was huge, she was held in such high regard, she had such an enormous impact,” the former staffer said. “I want her to be held to account,” she added. “I’m pissed.”
January 16, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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juliedicaro.bsky.social
Dear Legacy Media -

ICE’s invasion of Minneapolis is not a “crackdown,” which implies lawlessness by citizens. It’s an authoritarian takeover of a US city by federal troops with zero compunction about violating the Constitution or local laws.
January 16, 2026 at 8:23 PM
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normcharlatan.bsky.social
They are canceling youth sports across the city in Minneapolis this weekend because lawless masked armed federal paramilitaries are targeting the children and families.
walkingminnesota.com Moth @walkingminnesota.com · 1d
Minneapolis Parks and Recreation has canceled youth sports because ICE is terrorizing our community
Minneapolis Park & Recreation Board This is a communication from Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board: MPRB Youth Athletics Families, Considering the alarming federal immigration enforcement activities currently taking place in and around Minneapolis and after hearing from families and teams, a decision has been made to cancel all MPRB youth athletics games and practices scheduled for Friday, Jan. 16 through Sunday, Jan. 18. All cancelled games will be rescheduled for a later date. This impacts youth athletics only. We are cancelling out of an abundance of caution for youth athletic families, officials and MPRB staff. We will reevaluate on Sunday evening and share an update early next week. Thank you for your understanding.
January 16, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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vanhollen.senate.gov
In May, I told Rubio that locking up students for exercising their free speech rights was outrageous & unlawful. He scoffed.

Now, a judge has said he & others engaged in an “unconstitutional conspiracy” to take away those rights.

We must defend our freedoms at every turn.
January 16, 2026 at 8:25 PM