Michael Stanford
@halfagain.bsky.social
DSP guy, Capitals, City, Basketball, and a wide range of shallower interest takes from the greater DMV.
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We stand outside our children’s schools united in trying to keep lawless armed masked federal paramilitaries from disappearing our kids classmates or their parents and teachers. They are brutalizing constitutional observers. Anyone who is not white is threatened. This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
January 22, 2026 at 2:26 AM
We stand outside our children’s schools united in trying to keep lawless armed masked federal paramilitaries from disappearing our kids classmates or their parents and teachers. They are brutalizing constitutional observers. Anyone who is not white is threatened. This is an ethnic cleansing campaign
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Respectfully, look at this fucking bullshit that we’re dealing with, not a single person here has “taken the bait.” We have born witness as little kids are used as bait and neighbors are kidnapped on our streets. A mad dipshit is going to invoke the Insurrection Act regardless and you are blaming us
Violence only helps Trump & may provide him an excuse to further trample our rights by invoking the Insurrection Act.
January 22, 2026 at 2:22 AM
Respectfully, look at this fucking bullshit that we’re dealing with, not a single person here has “taken the bait.” We have born witness as little kids are used as bait and neighbors are kidnapped on our streets. A mad dipshit is going to invoke the Insurrection Act regardless and you are blaming us
Vancouver getting some pretty serious home cooking from the refs tonight.
January 22, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Vancouver getting some pretty serious home cooking from the refs tonight.
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One of the things I’m really struggling with about what’s going on in Minnesota is that if you describe what’s going on in plain, factual ways to someone who’s not paying close attention you sound completely, bugfuck crazy
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 1:03 AM
One of the things I’m really struggling with about what’s going on in Minnesota is that if you describe what’s going on in plain, factual ways to someone who’s not paying close attention you sound completely, bugfuck crazy
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There is no redeeming this, no amount of training that can fix the rot at the heart of this institution. Any Democratic official that votes to give this agency a penny is betraying our country.
Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."
January 22, 2026 at 12:52 AM
There is no redeeming this, no amount of training that can fix the rot at the heart of this institution. Any Democratic official that votes to give this agency a penny is betraying our country.
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His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 11:27 PM
His name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.
I think they’re seriously considering it and UEFA and FIFA have a long running Cold War that makes it a lot more likely.
As a soccer fan, it would be disappointing. As a citizen, I definitely get it.
As a soccer fan, it would be disappointing. As a citizen, I definitely get it.
Europeans aren't boycotting the World Cup yet because that would hurt them more than it would hurt him, right?
January 21, 2026 at 6:12 PM
I think they’re seriously considering it and UEFA and FIFA have a long running Cold War that makes it a lot more likely.
As a soccer fan, it would be disappointing. As a citizen, I definitely get it.
As a soccer fan, it would be disappointing. As a citizen, I definitely get it.
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Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.
His not being impeached by the end of the business day as a result of this threat is as much a problem as the threat itself. It’s not just Trump that the world has to worry about, it’s a GOP that supports him and Democrats who suck their thumbs and refuse to even discuss pushing to remove him
January 21, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.
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They need all protestors to be paid operatives because they cannot abide the possibility that somewhere in the world, people sincerely believe in standing up for others. It isn’t enough that they’ve chased all moral virtue from their own hearts. They want a world where no virtue exists in anyone.
Trump on Renee Good: "When she was shot, there was another woman that was screaming 'Shame. Shame Shame Shame.' So loud. Like a professional opera singer. She was so loud. And so professional. She wasn't a woman that was hurt like, 'Oh my heart is injured.' She was a professional."
January 21, 2026 at 12:44 AM
They need all protestors to be paid operatives because they cannot abide the possibility that somewhere in the world, people sincerely believe in standing up for others. It isn’t enough that they’ve chased all moral virtue from their own hearts. They want a world where no virtue exists in anyone.
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One of the first things Trump did in Feb. 2017 was set up an office in DHS to *exclusively* publicize crimes committed by immigrants — just as the Nazis used Der Stürmer to publish a special section only highlighting “Jewish crimes.”
See this article from 2017:
www.thewrap.com/der-sturmer-...
See this article from 2017:
www.thewrap.com/der-sturmer-...
December 31, 2025 at 3:10 AM
One of the first things Trump did in Feb. 2017 was set up an office in DHS to *exclusively* publicize crimes committed by immigrants — just as the Nazis used Der Stürmer to publish a special section only highlighting “Jewish crimes.”
See this article from 2017:
www.thewrap.com/der-sturmer-...
See this article from 2017:
www.thewrap.com/der-sturmer-...
Trump can only take your dignity if you give it to him, but once he gets that foot in the door he’s going to keep taking and taking.
The price always rises.
This is the only correct course of action and makes armed conflict less likely, not more.
The price always rises.
This is the only correct course of action and makes armed conflict less likely, not more.
January 20, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Trump can only take your dignity if you give it to him, but once he gets that foot in the door he’s going to keep taking and taking.
The price always rises.
This is the only correct course of action and makes armed conflict less likely, not more.
The price always rises.
This is the only correct course of action and makes armed conflict less likely, not more.
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I think a lot of Americans are unprepared for how insanely bad things will get if Trump actually goes for this, but conversely a lot of people on here are underrating how fast things will get memory holed and smoothed over if there’s a climb down
January 20, 2026 at 3:31 PM
I think a lot of Americans are unprepared for how insanely bad things will get if Trump actually goes for this, but conversely a lot of people on here are underrating how fast things will get memory holed and smoothed over if there’s a climb down
At some point you hit a critical level of right wing propaganda saturation and this happens. Fox News, AM radio, the Daily Wire, The Federalist, Twitter, Sinclair Broadcasting, are all explicitly right wing propaganda apparatus and they’re *everywhere*.
Ah we're at the street-battling cadres in support of the paramilitaries stage
🚨 SAC!: Yesterday, legal observers at the Sacramento anti-ICE camp were attacked with bats and bear spray by a parade of MAGA pro-Trump supporters.
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January 20, 2026 at 4:57 PM
At some point you hit a critical level of right wing propaganda saturation and this happens. Fox News, AM radio, the Daily Wire, The Federalist, Twitter, Sinclair Broadcasting, are all explicitly right wing propaganda apparatus and they’re *everywhere*.
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Again on my "trust fund kids" hobbyhorse: Trump & co have never understood that American power was not exclusively a matter of having the economic & military ability to bully people, but about much of the rest of the world viewing that power as providing net benefits.
In a speech to the World Economic Forum, Mark Carney says middle powers such as Canada must accept that the rules-based international order is effectively dead, and great power rivalry with is here to stay. Key excerpt:
January 20, 2026 at 4:10 PM
Again on my "trust fund kids" hobbyhorse: Trump & co have never understood that American power was not exclusively a matter of having the economic & military ability to bully people, but about much of the rest of the world viewing that power as providing net benefits.
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and so what Carney is describing as the current rupture is the exploitation of those gaps in ways that cease to benefit the large majority of nations and, at best, only benefit the great power now exploiting them (and my guess is he'd say the net gains of this kind of competition are negative)
January 20, 2026 at 4:08 PM
and so what Carney is describing as the current rupture is the exploitation of those gaps in ways that cease to benefit the large majority of nations and, at best, only benefit the great power now exploiting them (and my guess is he'd say the net gains of this kind of competition are negative)
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Two minute warning for Supreme Court opinions.
January 20, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Two minute warning for Supreme Court opinions.
It’s so strange, as soon as other conferences started paying their players the SEC’s comparative advantage disappeared, I wonder how that happened
a man with a mustache wearing a black hat and a blue shirt
ALT: a man with a mustache wearing a black hat and a blue shirt
media.tenor.com
January 20, 2026 at 1:22 PM
It’s so strange, as soon as other conferences started paying their players the SEC’s comparative advantage disappeared, I wonder how that happened
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Republicans have made a documented effort to mislead these communities with well funded, highly localized Spanish language propaganda campaigns in recent years, which, as is usually the case when mainstream reporters try to tease out a segment of the electorate's thinking, simply isn't mentioned
To Their Shock, Cubans in Florida Are Being Deported in Record Numbers
www.nytimes.com
January 20, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Republicans have made a documented effort to mislead these communities with well funded, highly localized Spanish language propaganda campaigns in recent years, which, as is usually the case when mainstream reporters try to tease out a segment of the electorate's thinking, simply isn't mentioned
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Be smart: insiders say the president is only attempting to start WW3 with our closest allies to distract from bad optics brought on by the sacking of Minneapolis, which is a distraction from him breaking the law by refusing to disclose the extent of his involvement in the pedophile ring, which is a
January 20, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Be smart: insiders say the president is only attempting to start WW3 with our closest allies to distract from bad optics brought on by the sacking of Minneapolis, which is a distraction from him breaking the law by refusing to disclose the extent of his involvement in the pedophile ring, which is a
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Like, if Dems value the Atlantic alliance, they’d better (1) speak the f–– up for it, (2) make clear the pendency of consequences if Republicans break our treaty obligations to upend it, and (3) show at least the level of concern as they do about the price of eggs.
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 19, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Like, if Dems value the Atlantic alliance, they’d better (1) speak the f–– up for it, (2) make clear the pendency of consequences if Republicans break our treaty obligations to upend it, and (3) show at least the level of concern as they do about the price of eggs.
You can’t see it on this camera angle, but it sure looks like 14 gets pushed off pretty hard, no other reason for him to stumble to the front of the end zone like that.
January 19, 2026 at 2:46 AM
You can’t see it on this camera angle, but it sure looks like 14 gets pushed off pretty hard, no other reason for him to stumble to the front of the end zone like that.
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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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Missed this a few days ago:
Two U.S. citizens grabbed by ICE say there were cells reserved for Americans.
Also, they weren’t given medical attention or allowed to go to the bathroom.
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
Two U.S. citizens grabbed by ICE say there were cells reserved for Americans.
Also, they weren’t given medical attention or allowed to go to the bathroom.
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
January 18, 2026 at 10:06 PM
Missed this a few days ago:
Two U.S. citizens grabbed by ICE say there were cells reserved for Americans.
Also, they weren’t given medical attention or allowed to go to the bathroom.
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
Two U.S. citizens grabbed by ICE say there were cells reserved for Americans.
Also, they weren’t given medical attention or allowed to go to the bathroom.
abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...
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Nuanced take: I think it's really important to give *normal citizens* who supported Trump and off-ramp and *professional writers, pundits and politicians* who supported Trump should have to wear it like a scarlet letter for the rest of their lives
This is aggravating, because on the one hand I think it's really important to give fascists an off-ramp and positive reinforcement when they use it...
...on the other hand, FUCK that guy, in particular.
...on the other hand, FUCK that guy, in particular.
January 18, 2026 at 8:30 PM
Nuanced take: I think it's really important to give *normal citizens* who supported Trump and off-ramp and *professional writers, pundits and politicians* who supported Trump should have to wear it like a scarlet letter for the rest of their lives