Brad Takei
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Official keeper of The Way of the Takei & the luckiest guy in the world, because my job is to manage the career of the wonderful George Takei.
Slipping approval, energized voters, strong poll leads. These are a few of my favorite things. 👏
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January 25, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Slipping approval, energized voters, strong poll leads. These are a few of my favorite things. 👏
Reality doesn’t need to be sugarcoated. It needs to be reported.
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January 24, 2026 at 3:47 PM
Reality doesn’t need to be sugarcoated. It needs to be reported.
Trump backs off Greenland threats in Davos. New leak shows ICE claiming power to enter homes without court warrants. Jack Smith testified Trump knowingly drove Jan 6 and broke the law.
Trump TACOs on Greenland. Secret ICE memo leaked. Jack Smith testifies.
Trump TACOS As He Retracts Greenland Threats
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January 23, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Trump backs off Greenland threats in Davos. New leak shows ICE claiming power to enter homes without court warrants. Jack Smith testified Trump knowingly drove Jan 6 and broke the law.
Trump may have chickened out on Greenland, but the damage didn’t magically disappear with the retreat.
Trump Chickened Out On Greenland, But The Threat He Poses Keeps Rising
The costs this time may prove far greater than a volatile stock market and higher consumer prices
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January 23, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Trump may have chickened out on Greenland, but the damage didn’t magically disappear with the retreat.
Johnson’s selective blindness strikes again.
Mike Johnson tells me that he hasn’t seen Trump saying in Davos “what we have gotten out of NATO is nothing”
January 22, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Johnson’s selective blindness strikes again.
A presidency fueled by conspiracy, not competence.
January 22, 2026 at 6:27 PM
A presidency fueled by conspiracy, not competence.
A perfect picture of health.
January 22, 2026 at 4:56 PM
A perfect picture of health.
Unfit and unsafe.
No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.
January 22, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Unfit and unsafe.
Anyone who says they need to act like a dictator is telling you exactly who they are.
"Usually they say, 'He's a horrible dictator-type person.' But sometimes you need a dictator."
As I have always said, he is at his most honest when he is at his most malevolent and depraved.
As I have always said, he is at his most honest when he is at his most malevolent and depraved.
January 22, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Anyone who says they need to act like a dictator is telling you exactly who they are.
Trump just backed off his most unhinged Greenland threats. So, we're good, right? Tomorrow, Todd Beeton explores why this may not be just another TACO moment. And yesterday, Jay Kuo looked at how Trump is already messing with November's elections.
This Week In The Big Picture
After his “Liberation Day” tariffs caused the markets to tank last year, Donald Trump backed away from his most damaging trade threats and was swiftly dubbed “TACO”: Trump Always Chickens Out.
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January 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Trump just backed off his most unhinged Greenland threats. So, we're good, right? Tomorrow, Todd Beeton explores why this may not be just another TACO moment. And yesterday, Jay Kuo looked at how Trump is already messing with November's elections.
They really do think we're that dumb.
Interesting exchange between a NewsNation reporter and the White House press secretary re Iceland.
January 21, 2026 at 9:18 PM
They really do think we're that dumb.
He brings up the Nobel Prize more often than the people who are actually awarded it.
Trump: "I should've gotten the Nobel Prize for each war, but I don't say that. I saved millions & millions of people. And don't let anybody tell you Norway doesn't control the shots, ok? It's in Norway. It's a joke. They lost such prestige. That's why I have such respect for what Maria did."
January 21, 2026 at 7:34 PM
He brings up the Nobel Prize more often than the people who are actually awarded it.
NATO didn’t need a savior. It needed a president who understood alliances instead of threatening them.
January 21, 2026 at 7:11 PM
NATO didn’t need a savior. It needed a president who understood alliances instead of threatening them.
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And tonight all the main news broadcasts in america will not even mention that their president is unhinged, demented and clearly unfit to lead anything at all. They are so afraid of the truth.
January 21, 2026 at 2:34 PM
And tonight all the main news broadcasts in america will not even mention that their president is unhinged, demented and clearly unfit to lead anything at all. They are so afraid of the truth.
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The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.
January 21, 2026 at 2:26 PM
The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.
Donald Trump is already working to rig the November elections in the GOP's favor. Trump knows the results will determine how much he is able to accomplish in his second term, and he will go to any lengths to hold onto congressional control. But will he be successful?
Trump Is Screwing with the Midterms. Will He Succeed?
Trump’s efforts to steal the midterms have hit a wall of legal resistance. So what’s his next play?
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January 20, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Donald Trump is already working to rig the November elections in the GOP's favor. Trump knows the results will determine how much he is able to accomplish in his second term, and he will go to any lengths to hold onto congressional control. But will he be successful?
This isn’t alarmism. It’s reality.
I keep seeing posts stating that ICE cannot enter your home or a private business without a judicial warrant. While that is legally correct, in reality ICE routinely violates the law by forcing their way in, often by smashing down doors, before violently assaulting people.
Trumpism is fascism.
Trumpism is fascism.
January 20, 2026 at 6:44 PM
This isn’t alarmism. It’s reality.
We have a deeply unwell man in office indulging his imperialistic fantasies.
January 20, 2026 at 5:39 PM
We have a deeply unwell man in office indulging his imperialistic fantasies.
What a totally subtle and not-at-all transparent attempt to escalate with wildly exaggerated comparisons.
Rep. Keith Self on anti-ICE protesters who disrupted a church service in the Twin Cities: "I compare them to Hamas who live-streamed the attack in Israel that killed hundreds of people. They want to instill terror."
January 20, 2026 at 4:34 PM
What a totally subtle and not-at-all transparent attempt to escalate with wildly exaggerated comparisons.
A year into Trump’s second term, the numbers are brutal: collapsing approval, mass protests, and Americans turning hard against ICE. Todd Beeton explains what changed.
Trump Backlash Is Fueling A Leftward Culture Shift
Trump's disastrous immigration crackdown will go down as a self-own for the ages
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January 19, 2026 at 9:30 PM
A year into Trump’s second term, the numbers are brutal: collapsing approval, mass protests, and Americans turning hard against ICE. Todd Beeton explains what changed.
Change is coming in more ways than one.
Our Wins Of The Week
In the wake of the murder of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent last week, the Trump administration tried to gaslight the nation into thinking she was a “domestic terrorist.”
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January 18, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Change is coming in more ways than one.
There’s a lot happening every day, but not all of it deserves your attention. This is a good filter.
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The Big Picture provides a deep dive into the cultural, political, and societal issues shaping our world today, from a variety of unique perspectives. Click to read The Big Picture, a Substack…
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January 17, 2026 at 11:51 PM
There’s a lot happening every day, but not all of it deserves your attention. This is a good filter.
Trump threatens the Insurrection Act to quash Minnesota protests. Kristi Noem says carry your papers. Jerome Powell warns the Fed is under attack. And a Nobel Peace Prize becomes a prop.
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January 16, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Trump threatens the Insurrection Act to quash Minnesota protests. Kristi Noem says carry your papers. Jerome Powell warns the Fed is under attack. And a Nobel Peace Prize becomes a prop.
Trump’s approval is collapsing under the weight of his failures.
New polling has Trump’s approval at record lows.
According to CNN, the president is deeply underwater on multiple key issues:
Economy: -21%
Tariffs: -25%
Health Care: -27%
According to CNN, the president is deeply underwater on multiple key issues:
Economy: -21%
Tariffs: -25%
Health Care: -27%
January 16, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Trump’s approval is collapsing under the weight of his failures.
Congrats on the participation trophy, I guess.
January 16, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Congrats on the participation trophy, I guess.