Woke Zero (Original Recipe)
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Don’t mind me just tracing the gyres. Talk about politics a lot but mostly want to talk about Stevie Wonder and August Wilson. She stay in the hills, he stay in Atlanta, I pay for them both.
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Questions for Bluesky Holiday Edition!!
1) What was the last art work that changed your life (can be music, movie, tv, painting, anything)?
2) What was the last thing you changed your mind on, big or small, and why?
3) Give me a song to listen to! And I will write a 1-3 skeet review of it.
1) What was the last art work that changed your life (can be music, movie, tv, painting, anything)?
2) What was the last thing you changed your mind on, big or small, and why?
3) Give me a song to listen to! And I will write a 1-3 skeet review of it.
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This account is part of the RICO case esp if any of the money goes to DHS.
Marco Rubio: "The oil proceeds are being deposited into an account that ultimately will become a US Treasury blocked account here in the US. We will say 'this is what this money can be spent on.' They will submit to us a budget request -- 'we want to use the money on these things.'"
January 29, 2026 at 1:37 AM
This account is part of the RICO case esp if any of the money goes to DHS.
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this is a straightforward impeachable offense for trump, vance, rubio and every other person down the line who enabled it and the framers would have thought impeachment for it did not go nearly far enough
Marco Rubio: "The oil proceeds are being deposited into an account that ultimately will become a US Treasury blocked account here in the US. We will say 'this is what this money can be spent on.' They will submit to us a budget request -- 'we want to use the money on these things.'"
January 29, 2026 at 12:44 AM
this is a straightforward impeachable offense for trump, vance, rubio and every other person down the line who enabled it and the framers would have thought impeachment for it did not go nearly far enough
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This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom:
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
For all the fearmongering about capital flight from New York City, there’s an exodus few want to talk about: working people.
Sky-high rents and outrageous child care costs are already pushing families out of the city they keep running.
That’s what we have to change.
That’s what we have to change.
January 28, 2026 at 7:59 PM
This isn't mine, and I can't definitively find the original source. But I love this little bit of wisdom:
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
"If you're a fifteen-minute walk from a coffee shop, but the server there has to drive an hour to get to work, you don't live in a walkable city. You live in a theme park."
Watch whiteness mend itself with silent and implacable hatred!
January 28, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Watch whiteness mend itself with silent and implacable hatred!
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“What we are seeing is the weakness of strong states. Regimes that rely on repression face a challenge: The more force they deploy, the more they risk exposing their own brutality to politically persuadable observers. Overreach doesn’t just project strength; it also undermines legitimacy.” Gift link
Opinion | We’re Seeing the Weakness of a Strong State
www.nytimes.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:55 PM
“What we are seeing is the weakness of strong states. Regimes that rely on repression face a challenge: The more force they deploy, the more they risk exposing their own brutality to politically persuadable observers. Overreach doesn’t just project strength; it also undermines legitimacy.” Gift link
“I can’t be wrong, I went to Dartmouth” the most do you know who my dad is ass motherfuckers ever to lick a boot.
To give you a sense of how fundamentally unserious the Trump administration's leaders are, I give you this exchange between the head of DOJ Civil Rights and old-school conservative legal commentator Ed Whelan.
January 28, 2026 at 11:50 PM
“I can’t be wrong, I went to Dartmouth” the most do you know who my dad is ass motherfuckers ever to lick a boot.
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No one responsible for the formation of these agencies (DHS, ICE, CBP) and their orders sending squads of legit domestic terrorists onto our streets and into our neighborhoods should ever be allowed to experience another moment of peace or joy on this Earth.
Disabled man, 30, dies alone after his solo caregiver dad is detained by ICE
www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...
www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...
Disabled man, 30, dies alone after his solo caregiver dad is detained by ICE
Wael Tarabishi, a 30-year-old man with a rare condition, has sadly passed away mere weeks after 'his beloved father, primary caregiver and constant life companion' Maher Tarabishi was taken into ICE c...
www.mirror.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 8:49 PM
No one responsible for the formation of these agencies (DHS, ICE, CBP) and their orders sending squads of legit domestic terrorists onto our streets and into our neighborhoods should ever be allowed to experience another moment of peace or joy on this Earth.
I can’t believe they made that girl who posted you should kill your ICE agent husband delete. EYE am not saying that if you are married to an ICE agent you should kill him, BUT I am saying it is an extremely funny thing for a comedian to say.
January 28, 2026 at 8:46 PM
I can’t believe they made that girl who posted you should kill your ICE agent husband delete. EYE am not saying that if you are married to an ICE agent you should kill him, BUT I am saying it is an extremely funny thing for a comedian to say.
When Janelle James said “I forget Black people can be annoying too” whew… the wordiest of words.
January 28, 2026 at 8:40 PM
When Janelle James said “I forget Black people can be annoying too” whew… the wordiest of words.
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Between Schumer’s ask and Gallego’s, I’m backing Gallego’s.
(* gotta love how Fox editors seem to think this headline makes Gallego look bad.)
(* gotta love how Fox editors seem to think this headline makes Gallego look bad.)
January 28, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Between Schumer’s ask and Gallego’s, I’m backing Gallego’s.
(* gotta love how Fox editors seem to think this headline makes Gallego look bad.)
(* gotta love how Fox editors seem to think this headline makes Gallego look bad.)
Blacksky be on here making heterosexuality sound like HELL. THEE GHETTO. The white refrigerator of sexualities.
January 28, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Blacksky be on here making heterosexuality sound like HELL. THEE GHETTO. The white refrigerator of sexualities.
brb gonna go burn the reproducible image of body to satiate the god.
January 28, 2026 at 2:53 PM
brb gonna go burn the reproducible image of body to satiate the god.
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I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that Trump is "pivoting" and "deescalating" on his ICE raids. The threshold is this: As long as the military occupations and the treatment of US cities as enemy territory continue, there's no pivot. ICE out. 1/
(New piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
(New piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
Donald Trump Is Frightened
Trump wants to appear eager to minimize out-of-control clashes between government militias and protesters. But he doesn’t want to stop the things causing those clashes in the first place.
newrepublic.com
January 28, 2026 at 12:40 PM
I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that Trump is "pivoting" and "deescalating" on his ICE raids. The threshold is this: As long as the military occupations and the treatment of US cities as enemy territory continue, there's no pivot. ICE out. 1/
(New piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
(New piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2057...
“Scoops of ideas” is incredible. A self-refuting phrase bc the act of calling it that proves that no new idea has ever or will ever enter your head.
January 28, 2026 at 1:53 PM
“Scoops of ideas” is incredible. A self-refuting phrase bc the act of calling it that proves that no new idea has ever or will ever enter your head.
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Thrilled to have galleys of my book in hand! Final corrections & index pending. Please consider preordering, gifting, & teaching. Via the archive, interviews & more I show how the crisis we face now reflects failure to listen & act on the democracy Black folks have envisioned, but we still can.
January 28, 2026 at 1:31 PM
Thrilled to have galleys of my book in hand! Final corrections & index pending. Please consider preordering, gifting, & teaching. Via the archive, interviews & more I show how the crisis we face now reflects failure to listen & act on the democracy Black folks have envisioned, but we still can.
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After 20+ years of saying Democrats were coming for your guns it’s going to be Trump who is coming for your guns and to get rid of the second amendment. This is what a wannabe dictator does. He can’t have the people he controls have guns. They could fight back if they do. Wake up MAGA.
January 27, 2026 at 6:59 PM
After 20+ years of saying Democrats were coming for your guns it’s going to be Trump who is coming for your guns and to get rid of the second amendment. This is what a wannabe dictator does. He can’t have the people he controls have guns. They could fight back if they do. Wake up MAGA.
Still, I wonder if “guys we told you all this shit would happen and it did, while everything they say will happen when we’re in power is a lie” could somehow be leveraged to improve trust for Dems among voters. Probably not. But I wonder.
The last year has done a great job naturally adjudicating the debate between “you can change public opinion on an issue by highlighting the negative parts of public policy and administrative action on said issue” vs “nuh uh”
January 28, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Still, I wonder if “guys we told you all this shit would happen and it did, while everything they say will happen when we’re in power is a lie” could somehow be leveraged to improve trust for Dems among voters. Probably not. But I wonder.
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If I were the liberal equivalent of Alex Jones I’d spend months discussing how Trumps immediate statement after the attack on Ilan Omar was to discuss how someone might fake an assassination attempt to elicit sympathy.
January 28, 2026 at 1:44 PM
If I were the liberal equivalent of Alex Jones I’d spend months discussing how Trumps immediate statement after the attack on Ilan Omar was to discuss how someone might fake an assassination attempt to elicit sympathy.
Translation: my billionaires just yanked my leash so somebody tell his billionaires to do the same so I don’t realize I am on the leash of a series of billionaires!
Trump: "Surprisingly, Mayor Frey just stated that, “Mpls does not, and will not, enforce Federal Immigration Laws" ... Could somebody in his inner sanctum please explain that this statement is a very serious violation of the Law, and that he is PLAYING WITH FIRE!"
January 28, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Translation: my billionaires just yanked my leash so somebody tell his billionaires to do the same so I don’t realize I am on the leash of a series of billionaires!
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My @washingtonmonthly.com column today chronicles Trump's 5-decade history of advocating for an "unshackled" police and violence against protesters & immigrants washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/28/b...
The paper & video trail is long. Let's take a look...
The paper & video trail is long. Let's take a look...
Don’t Make Bovino the Fall Guy for the Violence Trump Long Craved
The White House is scapegoating Greg Bovino for killings in Minnesota. But Trump has spent years urging police brutality and mob violence.
washingtonmonthly.com
January 28, 2026 at 1:38 PM
My @washingtonmonthly.com column today chronicles Trump's 5-decade history of advocating for an "unshackled" police and violence against protesters & immigrants washingtonmonthly.com/2026/01/28/b...
The paper & video trail is long. Let's take a look...
The paper & video trail is long. Let's take a look...
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Just saw this, and it makes me wonder how you think you should still be in the United States Senate — let alone a Democrat — if you’re going to follow up the first two paragraphs with the third.
This is a dead child, and your response sounds like Al Gore talking about Reinventing Government.
This is a dead child, and your response sounds like Al Gore talking about Reinventing Government.
Anadith Danay Reyes Álvarez died in government custody.
She had sickle cell and congenital heart disease but couldn’t access timely and adequate medical care.
We need to reform immigration detention.
She had sickle cell and congenital heart disease but couldn’t access timely and adequate medical care.
We need to reform immigration detention.
January 28, 2026 at 6:44 AM
Just saw this, and it makes me wonder how you think you should still be in the United States Senate — let alone a Democrat — if you’re going to follow up the first two paragraphs with the third.
This is a dead child, and your response sounds like Al Gore talking about Reinventing Government.
This is a dead child, and your response sounds like Al Gore talking about Reinventing Government.
You think Zeus is the mightiest of the gods bc the prefrontal cortex is the mightiest part of the brain?
January 28, 2026 at 6:45 AM
You think Zeus is the mightiest of the gods bc the prefrontal cortex is the mightiest part of the brain?
The Love of Whiteness: Notes Toward A Practical Guide To Birthing America
January 28, 2026 at 6:23 AM
The Love of Whiteness: Notes Toward A Practical Guide To Birthing America