James A. Robichaux
@jamesrobichaux.bsky.social
I am working to purge the dishonest and destructive mythologies of Monetarism and taxpayerism from people's brains.
You can read my essays on those subjects here:
https://jamesarobichaux.substack.com/
You can read my essays on those subjects here:
https://jamesarobichaux.substack.com/
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You cannot "rein in" or "reform" evil. You must confront and eliminate it.
Redacting Epstein files to cover up their prominent role in child trafficking, assault and abuse and now eliminating kids' letters for same reason.
Redacting Epstein files to cover up their prominent role in child trafficking, assault and abuse and now eliminating kids' letters for same reason.
“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.
Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.
www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 18, 2026 at 1:15 AM
You cannot "rein in" or "reform" evil. You must confront and eliminate it.
Redacting Epstein files to cover up their prominent role in child trafficking, assault and abuse and now eliminating kids' letters for same reason.
Redacting Epstein files to cover up their prominent role in child trafficking, assault and abuse and now eliminating kids' letters for same reason.
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Someone tell Hillary that this is her husband’s legacy too
February 17, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Someone tell Hillary that this is her husband’s legacy too
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The concentration camps will not only be for immigrants, documented or otherwise. They already aren't.
They won't only be for brown and Black people.
The targets will keep expanding. It will not end.
The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.
They won't only be for brown and Black people.
The targets will keep expanding. It will not end.
The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.
February 17, 2026 at 10:49 PM
The concentration camps will not only be for immigrants, documented or otherwise. They already aren't.
They won't only be for brown and Black people.
The targets will keep expanding. It will not end.
The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.
They won't only be for brown and Black people.
The targets will keep expanding. It will not end.
The only way it will is if we stop it. Both in and out of the system. There is no other way.
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Also, Jesse Jackson loudly stood up for gay people at a very serious moment when hate and fear against us was at its peak in the AIDS crisis. This was a real risk but the right thing to do. And it’s a reason I despise modern Democrats who waffle and hedge on trans rights. BE MORE JESSE JACKSON ⭐
Jesse Jackson was an early and ardent supporter of gay rights. In fact, on July 17, 1984 at the DNC in San Fransisco, the first speech EVER at a national political convention calling for gay rights was delivered by none other than Rev. Jackson himself.
February 17, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Also, Jesse Jackson loudly stood up for gay people at a very serious moment when hate and fear against us was at its peak in the AIDS crisis. This was a real risk but the right thing to do. And it’s a reason I despise modern Democrats who waffle and hedge on trans rights. BE MORE JESSE JACKSON ⭐
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"The Rainbow includes lesbians and gays. No
American citizen ought be denied equal protection from the law. All of us must be tolerant and understanding as the fears and anxieties of the rejected and the party leadership express themselves in many different ways."
American citizen ought be denied equal protection from the law. All of us must be tolerant and understanding as the fears and anxieties of the rejected and the party leadership express themselves in many different ways."
Jesse Jackson was an early and ardent supporter of gay rights. In fact, on July 17, 1984 at the DNC in San Fransisco, the first speech EVER at a national political convention calling for gay rights was delivered by none other than Rev. Jackson himself.
February 17, 2026 at 3:43 PM
"The Rainbow includes lesbians and gays. No
American citizen ought be denied equal protection from the law. All of us must be tolerant and understanding as the fears and anxieties of the rejected and the party leadership express themselves in many different ways."
American citizen ought be denied equal protection from the law. All of us must be tolerant and understanding as the fears and anxieties of the rejected and the party leadership express themselves in many different ways."
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Grappling with the sheer scope of this man’s legacy is nearly impossible.
Jesse Jackson was an early and ardent supporter of gay rights. In fact, on July 17, 1984 at the DNC in San Fransisco, the first speech EVER at a national political convention calling for gay rights was delivered by none other than Rev. Jackson himself.
February 17, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Grappling with the sheer scope of this man’s legacy is nearly impossible.
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⚠️ For the first time, the Trump administration is seeking to convict anti-ICE protesters on charges related to domestic terrorism.
Federal prosecutors have characterized the protest as an “antifa attack.”
The trial for nine of the defendants starts TODAY:
Federal prosecutors have characterized the protest as an “antifa attack.”
The trial for nine of the defendants starts TODAY:
Trump wants to prosecute anti-fascists as terrorists. This Texas trial will test his power.
A July 4 shooting at an ICE detention center could change the way the federal government prosecutes activists.
www.ms.now
February 17, 2026 at 4:21 PM
⚠️ For the first time, the Trump administration is seeking to convict anti-ICE protesters on charges related to domestic terrorism.
Federal prosecutors have characterized the protest as an “antifa attack.”
The trial for nine of the defendants starts TODAY:
Federal prosecutors have characterized the protest as an “antifa attack.”
The trial for nine of the defendants starts TODAY:
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I used to require students in my speechwriting course to study this. Masterful.
I remember my mom watching Jesse Jackson’s 1988 Democratic National Convention speech from our living room television, cheering him on as he spoke. I learned she voted for Jackson in that primary.
May his memory forever be a blessing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RCA...
May his memory forever be a blessing.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RCA...
Jesse Jackson 1988 Democratic National Convention Speech
YouTube video by C-SPAN
www.youtube.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:22 PM
I used to require students in my speechwriting course to study this. Masterful.
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Jesse Jackson's presidential campaigns of 1984 and 1988 set out the blueprint for a multiracial populist campaign for president.
@jamellebouie.net's piece from 2016 shows how Jackson's legacy could prevail with someone like AOC in 2028 or 2032.
He'll be missed, but his ideas will live on.
@jamellebouie.net's piece from 2016 shows how Jackson's legacy could prevail with someone like AOC in 2028 or 2032.
He'll be missed, but his ideas will live on.
Demoralized Democrats Have a Road Map for Success in Trump’s America. It Was Written by Jesse Jackson.
Jesse Jackson first ran for president during the national farm bust of the early 1980s. Debt for farmers had exploded from $85 billion in 1976 to $216 ...
www.slate.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Jesse Jackson's presidential campaigns of 1984 and 1988 set out the blueprint for a multiracial populist campaign for president.
@jamellebouie.net's piece from 2016 shows how Jackson's legacy could prevail with someone like AOC in 2028 or 2032.
He'll be missed, but his ideas will live on.
@jamellebouie.net's piece from 2016 shows how Jackson's legacy could prevail with someone like AOC in 2028 or 2032.
He'll be missed, but his ideas will live on.
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"One of the best takeaways those of us on the left or the center can hold is that tariffs, the annihilation of the safety net, aggressive tax cuts, and all of their other fiscal policies are not about enrichment as an end unto itself: they’re about impoverishment as a means to reinforce hierarchy."
The Pain Is the Plan
MAGA is actively seeking to immiserate the country in order to cement their power over the rest of us.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 17, 2026 at 11:01 AM
"One of the best takeaways those of us on the left or the center can hold is that tariffs, the annihilation of the safety net, aggressive tax cuts, and all of their other fiscal policies are not about enrichment as an end unto itself: they’re about impoverishment as a means to reinforce hierarchy."
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If anyone wants an example of the kind of stuff I wish more Democrats would do when it comes to defending trans rights, look no further than this from @jayapal.house.gov
My Trans Bill of Rights protects the freedom for all trans people to live as their full, authentic selves. It’s time to get this passed!
February 16, 2026 at 9:16 PM
If anyone wants an example of the kind of stuff I wish more Democrats would do when it comes to defending trans rights, look no further than this from @jayapal.house.gov
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"Creeley and Glennon said they never anticipated their work being used to justify repression."
Just.... what?
Just.... what?
February 16, 2026 at 3:04 PM
"Creeley and Glennon said they never anticipated their work being used to justify repression."
Just.... what?
Just.... what?
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Elimination of emissions standards was one of the pretty clear policy stakes of the 2024 election and it received about 1% as much coverage as whether Tim Walz retiring from the national guard after 21 years was cowardly.
“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups…
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
“Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Elimination of emissions standards was one of the pretty clear policy stakes of the 2024 election and it received about 1% as much coverage as whether Tim Walz retiring from the national guard after 21 years was cowardly.
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Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre: “I was trafficked to a lot of types of different men — billionaires, royalty… he used me as a form of blackmail so these people would owe him favors.”
February 15, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre: “I was trafficked to a lot of types of different men — billionaires, royalty… he used me as a form of blackmail so these people would owe him favors.”
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OK. It was The Smoking Gun. They deserved for me to remember their name. I plead getting older.
I bring them up because what they published shows what was publicly know about Jeffrey Epstein and when, which is important to evaluate the character of the people dealing with him in the 2010s.
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I bring them up because what they published shows what was publicly know about Jeffrey Epstein and when, which is important to evaluate the character of the people dealing with him in the 2010s.
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Trying to remember that small online journalistic outlet that used to publish primary documents, often leaked, that was one of the first to publish the police reports from the early 2000s Jeffrey Epstein investigation.
February 16, 2026 at 2:52 AM
OK. It was The Smoking Gun. They deserved for me to remember their name. I plead getting older.
I bring them up because what they published shows what was publicly know about Jeffrey Epstein and when, which is important to evaluate the character of the people dealing with him in the 2010s.
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I bring them up because what they published shows what was publicly know about Jeffrey Epstein and when, which is important to evaluate the character of the people dealing with him in the 2010s.
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/2 Anyway, this is what the Smoking Gun was reporting TWENTY YEARS AGO in 2006. It was horrifying then and it’s still horrifying and it unequivocally shows child abuse.
www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/se...
www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/se...
Billionaire In Palm Beach Sex Scandal
JULY 26--Prepare to take a shower after reading this remarkably sleazy probable cause affidavit filed in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier who was arrested Sunday for soliciting s
www.thesmokinggun.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:53 AM
/2 Anyway, this is what the Smoking Gun was reporting TWENTY YEARS AGO in 2006. It was horrifying then and it’s still horrifying and it unequivocally shows child abuse.
www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/se...
www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/se...
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I met Brianna Wu in person during gamergate. I was a new assistant professor at the time, she was speaking in our game dev major. For years I considered her, if not a friend, at least a colleague. When she came out as trans I extended support to her. Our exchange was...not... what I expected...
You have to be a complete sociopath devoid of a soul to say something like this about fellow human beings. This is a sickness and Brianna is rotten to her core.
February 16, 2026 at 5:06 AM
I met Brianna Wu in person during gamergate. I was a new assistant professor at the time, she was speaking in our game dev major. For years I considered her, if not a friend, at least a colleague. When she came out as trans I extended support to her. Our exchange was...not... what I expected...
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While MLPS was a victory, moral and tangibly, for ICE resisters, don't call it 'a retreat.' The dystopia is just getting started
Thousands of new agents. 150 new offices in every state. And the nationwide gulag archipelago. The fight has just begun
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Thousands of new agents. 150 new offices in every state. And the nationwide gulag archipelago. The fight has just begun
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
No, ICE isn’t ‘retreating.’ It’s loading up to invade your town. | Will Bunch
A much-hyped ICE pullback from Minneapolis is a blip in a looming nationwide surge of arrests, concentration camps.
www.inquirer.com
February 15, 2026 at 6:25 PM
While MLPS was a victory, moral and tangibly, for ICE resisters, don't call it 'a retreat.' The dystopia is just getting started
Thousands of new agents. 150 new offices in every state. And the nationwide gulag archipelago. The fight has just begun
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Thousands of new agents. 150 new offices in every state. And the nationwide gulag archipelago. The fight has just begun
My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
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If you are selling blood products to pay for food, I’m not sure you meet the definition on middle class.
I don’t think the US has a middle class left. Just the rich and then the desperate.
I don’t think the US has a middle class left. Just the rich and then the desperate.
February 16, 2026 at 7:27 AM
If you are selling blood products to pay for food, I’m not sure you meet the definition on middle class.
I don’t think the US has a middle class left. Just the rich and then the desperate.
I don’t think the US has a middle class left. Just the rich and then the desperate.
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“Both Good and Pretti were engaged in the task that democracies assign to citizens: that of paying close attention to the workings of power. If the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, a country that inflicts the ultimate punishment on those who dare to be vigilant can no longer be free.”
"The Crime of Witness" by Fintan O’Toole in @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social
"The videos that expose the administration’s mendacity about its own use of extreme violence against peaceful dissent are themselves products of the courage to show up [and] see for yourself."
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
"The videos that expose the administration’s mendacity about its own use of extreme violence against peaceful dissent are themselves products of the courage to show up [and] see for yourself."
www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
February 16, 2026 at 7:09 AM
“Both Good and Pretti were engaged in the task that democracies assign to citizens: that of paying close attention to the workings of power. If the price of liberty is eternal vigilance, a country that inflicts the ultimate punishment on those who dare to be vigilant can no longer be free.”
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Robin Williams on Trump in 2012: And he owns all these beauty pageants.
Miss America, Miss Universe. Isn't that a bit like Michael Vick owning a series of pet stores? It's a f-cking catch and release program for him.
This is a man who said, 'My daughter is hot.'
Miss America, Miss Universe. Isn't that a bit like Michael Vick owning a series of pet stores? It's a f-cking catch and release program for him.
This is a man who said, 'My daughter is hot.'
February 16, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Robin Williams on Trump in 2012: And he owns all these beauty pageants.
Miss America, Miss Universe. Isn't that a bit like Michael Vick owning a series of pet stores? It's a f-cking catch and release program for him.
This is a man who said, 'My daughter is hot.'
Miss America, Miss Universe. Isn't that a bit like Michael Vick owning a series of pet stores? It's a f-cking catch and release program for him.
This is a man who said, 'My daughter is hot.'
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Republicans do not see children as human beings. They are property, existing to absorb male rage and lust, sources of amusement and objects to bear the brunt of men's fragility and dysregulation.
UTAH - Wasatch County Republican Party Chair David Johnson arrested for allegedly “waterboarding” a teen girl for not cleaning her room.
She also had bruising, and says he did it to other kids. Released on $10,000 bail.
Full: www.abc4.com/news/crimes-...
She also had bruising, and says he did it to other kids. Released on $10,000 bail.
Full: www.abc4.com/news/crimes-...
February 16, 2026 at 8:06 AM
Republicans do not see children as human beings. They are property, existing to absorb male rage and lust, sources of amusement and objects to bear the brunt of men's fragility and dysregulation.
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I would point out once again that Friday night Krewe D'etat rolled floats with explicit and intentional homophobic, misogynistic, and anti-immigrant messages. None of their floats were stopped and no elected person has commented. Because that parade of blue bloods is too politically important
February 16, 2026 at 4:31 AM
I would point out once again that Friday night Krewe D'etat rolled floats with explicit and intentional homophobic, misogynistic, and anti-immigrant messages. None of their floats were stopped and no elected person has commented. Because that parade of blue bloods is too politically important
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60 cases of measles in Enfield, all unvaccinated, 1 in 5 hospitalised
Well done anti-vaxers, slow clap 👏
64.3% of five-year-olds in Enfield are vaccinated, 95% is needed to prevent outbreaks
Measles is 6 x more infectious than Covid
Well done anti-vaxers, slow clap 👏
64.3% of five-year-olds in Enfield are vaccinated, 95% is needed to prevent outbreaks
Measles is 6 x more infectious than Covid
Fast-spreading measles outbreak takes hold among under-10s in north London
UK Health Security Agency urges parents in Enfield to get their children vaccinated as Easter holiday travels approach
www.theguardian.com
February 16, 2026 at 4:59 AM
60 cases of measles in Enfield, all unvaccinated, 1 in 5 hospitalised
Well done anti-vaxers, slow clap 👏
64.3% of five-year-olds in Enfield are vaccinated, 95% is needed to prevent outbreaks
Measles is 6 x more infectious than Covid
Well done anti-vaxers, slow clap 👏
64.3% of five-year-olds in Enfield are vaccinated, 95% is needed to prevent outbreaks
Measles is 6 x more infectious than Covid