Jason Ide
@jasonide.bsky.social
Latte-sipping leftie. TV professional. Gamer nerd.
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🚨BREAKING: ICE unleashes ONSLAUGHT of flash bang grenades and chemical ammunition at unarmed Minneapolis protesters in WAR-LIKE attack. Several protesters struck. Our reporter @zdroberts.bsky.social struck in the head.
"I got hit in the head really bad." LIVE NOW ⬇️
"I got hit in the head really bad." LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 15, 2026 at 3:15 AM
🚨BREAKING: ICE unleashes ONSLAUGHT of flash bang grenades and chemical ammunition at unarmed Minneapolis protesters in WAR-LIKE attack. Several protesters struck. Our reporter @zdroberts.bsky.social struck in the head.
"I got hit in the head really bad." LIVE NOW ⬇️
"I got hit in the head really bad." LIVE NOW ⬇️
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I keep seeing 3 likely outcomes in the next 5 years:
1) Trump succeeds in hemispheric dominance, NATO collapses, and we're back to 19th century regional Great Power imperialism
2) He fails, but USA cannot repair its schism and the Union dissolves → civil war
3) USA gets its shit together ASAP
1) Trump succeeds in hemispheric dominance, NATO collapses, and we're back to 19th century regional Great Power imperialism
2) He fails, but USA cannot repair its schism and the Union dissolves → civil war
3) USA gets its shit together ASAP
January 14, 2026 at 3:44 PM
I keep seeing 3 likely outcomes in the next 5 years:
1) Trump succeeds in hemispheric dominance, NATO collapses, and we're back to 19th century regional Great Power imperialism
2) He fails, but USA cannot repair its schism and the Union dissolves → civil war
3) USA gets its shit together ASAP
1) Trump succeeds in hemispheric dominance, NATO collapses, and we're back to 19th century regional Great Power imperialism
2) He fails, but USA cannot repair its schism and the Union dissolves → civil war
3) USA gets its shit together ASAP
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🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us.
WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️
WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 14, 2026 at 12:43 AM
🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us.
WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️
WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️
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I think forcing a website to shut down until the "Create revenge porn" switch is put in the "off" position is an acceptable form of government censorship
January 12, 2026 at 2:01 PM
I think forcing a website to shut down until the "Create revenge porn" switch is put in the "off" position is an acceptable form of government censorship
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So we’re all clear that Trump is escalating ICE raids so he can trigger retaliatory violence and then declare martial law to interfere with midterm elections, right?
January 12, 2026 at 3:14 AM
So we’re all clear that Trump is escalating ICE raids so he can trigger retaliatory violence and then declare martial law to interfere with midterm elections, right?
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the thing about “ICE needs training” is that Jonathan Ross was a ten year DHS vet and a firearms instructor
he’s the kind of guy they get training from
the whole institution is rotten, throw it out
he’s the kind of guy they get training from
the whole institution is rotten, throw it out
Democrats officially going all in on the mealy mouthed “ICE needs training” narrative.
No. ABOLISH ICE.
No. ABOLISH ICE.
WARNER: It used to take 5 to 6 months to get trained. They've now lowered the training period to 47 days. Why 47 days? Because Donald Trump's the 47th president. Tell me that's a rational approach
KERNEN: I'm not taking that bait
WARNER: Joe! You can't pick your facts
KERNEN: I'm not taking that bait
WARNER: Joe! You can't pick your facts
January 12, 2026 at 4:45 PM
the thing about “ICE needs training” is that Jonathan Ross was a ten year DHS vet and a firearms instructor
he’s the kind of guy they get training from
the whole institution is rotten, throw it out
he’s the kind of guy they get training from
the whole institution is rotten, throw it out
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I do not want to ever hear another US person call the French cowardly. They would have taken out the guillotine and burnt Paris to the ground by now.
January 12, 2026 at 12:01 AM
I do not want to ever hear another US person call the French cowardly. They would have taken out the guillotine and burnt Paris to the ground by now.
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What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
January 12, 2026 at 1:44 AM
What can history teach us about what happens when a populist strongman with an idiosyncratic taste for low interest rates undermines central bank independence?
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A lot of people avoid politics because it’s overwhelming and they don’t want to be hopelessly depressed. So they check out and then check back in when it’s time for a presidential election. This is how we got to where we are now. We won’t get out of it until this changes.
January 10, 2026 at 5:10 AM
A lot of people avoid politics because it’s overwhelming and they don’t want to be hopelessly depressed. So they check out and then check back in when it’s time for a presidential election. This is how we got to where we are now. We won’t get out of it until this changes.
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The goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.
January 10, 2026 at 6:22 PM
The goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.
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with HUGE content warning for graphic violent descriptions (no images or videos) in this article - this is a good summary of how what we're seeing on X isn't even the worst of it, with Grok.
www.wired.com/story/grok-i...
www.wired.com/story/grok-i...
Grok Is Generating Sexual Content Far More Graphic Than What's on X
A WIRED review of outputs hosted on Grok’s official website shows it’s being used to create violent sexual images and videos, as well as content that includes apparent minors.
www.wired.com
January 9, 2026 at 8:56 AM
with HUGE content warning for graphic violent descriptions (no images or videos) in this article - this is a good summary of how what we're seeing on X isn't even the worst of it, with Grok.
www.wired.com/story/grok-i...
www.wired.com/story/grok-i...
Man, Andor was just So. Fucking. On. Point.
January 9, 2026 at 9:08 AM
Man, Andor was just So. Fucking. On. Point.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - conservatives' favourite book
For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies
January 8, 2026 at 11:11 PM
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - conservatives' favourite book
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this bears repeating:
Grok is bad because it's creating NONCONSENSUAL sexual images of real people.
Not because sex is icky and should be scrubbed from the Internet.
The distinction is crucial at a moment when dangerous censorship legislation is bipartisan and widely misunderstood
Grok is bad because it's creating NONCONSENSUAL sexual images of real people.
Not because sex is icky and should be scrubbed from the Internet.
The distinction is crucial at a moment when dangerous censorship legislation is bipartisan and widely misunderstood
January 7, 2026 at 1:35 PM
this bears repeating:
Grok is bad because it's creating NONCONSENSUAL sexual images of real people.
Not because sex is icky and should be scrubbed from the Internet.
The distinction is crucial at a moment when dangerous censorship legislation is bipartisan and widely misunderstood
Grok is bad because it's creating NONCONSENSUAL sexual images of real people.
Not because sex is icky and should be scrubbed from the Internet.
The distinction is crucial at a moment when dangerous censorship legislation is bipartisan and widely misunderstood
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Experts don’t lose public debates because they’re wrong. They lose because they’re hard to hear.
In energy, complexity without a clear takeaway gets ignored. Simpler, louder stories take its place.
My latest piece is about starting with clarity and then layering nuance.
medium.com/@jan.rosenow...
In energy, complexity without a clear takeaway gets ignored. Simpler, louder stories take its place.
My latest piece is about starting with clarity and then layering nuance.
medium.com/@jan.rosenow...
If you can’t be simple, you will be ignored
This title is an oversimplification. That is deliberate. In a world shaped by shrinking attention spans, overflowing news cycles, and…
medium.com
January 7, 2026 at 5:44 PM
Experts don’t lose public debates because they’re wrong. They lose because they’re hard to hear.
In energy, complexity without a clear takeaway gets ignored. Simpler, louder stories take its place.
My latest piece is about starting with clarity and then layering nuance.
medium.com/@jan.rosenow...
In energy, complexity without a clear takeaway gets ignored. Simpler, louder stories take its place.
My latest piece is about starting with clarity and then layering nuance.
medium.com/@jan.rosenow...
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People here in the USA will be walking into gas chambers saying, "keep talking about the Epstein files" as if there isn't any sort of other thing to do.
January 7, 2026 at 3:39 PM
People here in the USA will be walking into gas chambers saying, "keep talking about the Epstein files" as if there isn't any sort of other thing to do.
What's wild about this shooting in Minneapolis is the video is widely available, you can see for yourself exactly how she is steering away from the officers like she's about to drive away from them, and yet all the propagandists are out there still lying through their teeth.
Like... We can see it!
Like... We can see it!
January 8, 2026 at 5:20 AM
What's wild about this shooting in Minneapolis is the video is widely available, you can see for yourself exactly how she is steering away from the officers like she's about to drive away from them, and yet all the propagandists are out there still lying through their teeth.
Like... We can see it!
Like... We can see it!
Armed communist militias in Venezuela are stopping people and searching their phones for anyone supporting the US kidnapping of Maduro.
So all that talk about freedom and the celebrating expats was probably quite premature.
The Yanks haven't changed anything except who's earning money off the oil
So all that talk about freedom and the celebrating expats was probably quite premature.
The Yanks haven't changed anything except who's earning money off the oil
January 7, 2026 at 1:54 AM
Armed communist militias in Venezuela are stopping people and searching their phones for anyone supporting the US kidnapping of Maduro.
So all that talk about freedom and the celebrating expats was probably quite premature.
The Yanks haven't changed anything except who's earning money off the oil
So all that talk about freedom and the celebrating expats was probably quite premature.
The Yanks haven't changed anything except who's earning money off the oil
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A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 5:54 PM
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
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"Venezuelans at celebration parties in Miami could not believe it, insisting that Trump had misspoken. His plan appears to be for Venezuela to remain under the day-to-day rule of a senior chavista, with its democratically elected leaders excluded and its wealth controlled by American corporations."
Donald Trump wants to run Venezuela, and dominate the western hemisphere
Snatching Nicolás Maduro and attempting to take control of Venezuela and its oil is an extraordinary display of the new “Donroe doctrine”
www.economist.com
January 4, 2026 at 1:01 PM
"Venezuelans at celebration parties in Miami could not believe it, insisting that Trump had misspoken. His plan appears to be for Venezuela to remain under the day-to-day rule of a senior chavista, with its democratically elected leaders excluded and its wealth controlled by American corporations."