Jim Corbelli
@jmidnight.bsky.social
Ex-lawyer, decent musician, dog lover, Cal alum living in the Lost Sierra. Warriors and Giants will get me through this. Or not. Probably not.
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It really pays to remind ourselves frequently that this whole immigration "crisis" is made up out of whole cloth. There was no emergency,danger or problem, only a demagogue stirring up racist grievances for political advantage.
February 7, 2026 at 3:38 AM
It really pays to remind ourselves frequently that this whole immigration "crisis" is made up out of whole cloth. There was no emergency,danger or problem, only a demagogue stirring up racist grievances for political advantage.
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abolition is abolition is abolition. it is not reform. it is not bodycams. you’ve seen these offerings before & how they solely function to curtail a burgeoning movement of highly motivated people getting organized.
build from lessons of the past, don’t disparage them to neutralize yourself.
build from lessons of the past, don’t disparage them to neutralize yourself.
February 7, 2026 at 4:37 AM
abolition is abolition is abolition. it is not reform. it is not bodycams. you’ve seen these offerings before & how they solely function to curtail a burgeoning movement of highly motivated people getting organized.
build from lessons of the past, don’t disparage them to neutralize yourself.
build from lessons of the past, don’t disparage them to neutralize yourself.
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We need to worry about every Election Commission Director in every State- Im afraid, maga is now the law of the Land.
October 12, 2025 at 12:34 AM
We need to worry about every Election Commission Director in every State- Im afraid, maga is now the law of the Land.
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“Is it fair to ask the American people to pay for that?”
TRUMP: “I’m giving 100% to charity.”
P.S. - No he isn’t
P.P.S. - He thinks we are all idiots
TRUMP: “I’m giving 100% to charity.”
P.S. - No he isn’t
P.P.S. - He thinks we are all idiots
February 7, 2026 at 3:14 AM
“Is it fair to ask the American people to pay for that?”
TRUMP: “I’m giving 100% to charity.”
P.S. - No he isn’t
P.P.S. - He thinks we are all idiots
TRUMP: “I’m giving 100% to charity.”
P.S. - No he isn’t
P.P.S. - He thinks we are all idiots
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Ha ha ha. Trump is required to not ever start a charity in the state of New York because he actually stole money from his own charity. He is a fraud.
www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
Donald Trump is ordered to pay $2 million for charity fraud
It's the final settlement in a case the president vowed never to settle.
www.motherjones.com
February 7, 2026 at 5:23 AM
Ha ha ha. Trump is required to not ever start a charity in the state of New York because he actually stole money from his own charity. He is a fraud.
www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
www.motherjones.com/politics/201...
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Laws without enforcement are just words strung together.
Authoritarian state capture vs diplomacy: WSJ shows a foreign security chief secretly buying 49% of Trump’s crypto company for $500M and then getting Oval Office access, AI‑chip concessions, and a pardon for a close ally.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company
$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips.
www.wsj.com
February 1, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Laws without enforcement are just words strung together.
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Enterprise traitor cars, sold us out to ICE and gave them 1000 vehicles.
1000 murder wagons provided by an american company to an organization breaking all laws and murdering innocent americans..
Lets turn enterprise vehicles into flaming cybertrrucks
youtu.be/0IegVGk7x_g?...
1000 murder wagons provided by an american company to an organization breaking all laws and murdering innocent americans..
Lets turn enterprise vehicles into flaming cybertrrucks
youtu.be/0IegVGk7x_g?...
U.S. Gen Z Protesters Are Adopting International Resistance Tactics
YouTube video by AJ+
youtu.be
January 31, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Enterprise traitor cars, sold us out to ICE and gave them 1000 vehicles.
1000 murder wagons provided by an american company to an organization breaking all laws and murdering innocent americans..
Lets turn enterprise vehicles into flaming cybertrrucks
youtu.be/0IegVGk7x_g?...
1000 murder wagons provided by an american company to an organization breaking all laws and murdering innocent americans..
Lets turn enterprise vehicles into flaming cybertrrucks
youtu.be/0IegVGk7x_g?...
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One of a million plus reasons I adore my wife is as she read Hillbilly Elegy, she - from a white working class Ohio Cincinnati area family - said to me like: I grew up poorer than jd Vance and I don’t think immigration is a disease 😂
I think those were exactly the words my wife and I yelled at the screen when we revisited the awful movie before the election.
February 6, 2026 at 11:02 PM
One of a million plus reasons I adore my wife is as she read Hillbilly Elegy, she - from a white working class Ohio Cincinnati area family - said to me like: I grew up poorer than jd Vance and I don’t think immigration is a disease 😂
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2/ Here are the CBC announcers watching & LISTENING to the Vance booing in real-time: bsky.app/profile/jule...
Vice President JD Vance gets roundly booed at the opening ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics. "Those are a lot of boos for him, whistling jeering," says the presenter. US athletes receive a warm welcome from fans, though.
February 6, 2026 at 11:02 PM
2/ Here are the CBC announcers watching & LISTENING to the Vance booing in real-time: bsky.app/profile/jule...
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HOLD UP. This headline from the @wsj.com is dead wrong - No one at the actual opening ceremonies thinks the US team was being booed. Come on! The CBC broadcasters & people in the stadium are all crystal clear that JD VANCE WAS BEING BOOED, not the team.
February 6, 2026 at 10:59 PM
HOLD UP. This headline from the @wsj.com is dead wrong - No one at the actual opening ceremonies thinks the US team was being booed. Come on! The CBC broadcasters & people in the stadium are all crystal clear that JD VANCE WAS BEING BOOED, not the team.
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Let’s be honest: in many of these winter Olympic “sports”, the snow is doing most of the work. An unexpected thaw would expose these so-called athletes for the frauds they are
February 6, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Let’s be honest: in many of these winter Olympic “sports”, the snow is doing most of the work. An unexpected thaw would expose these so-called athletes for the frauds they are
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We're traumatizing thousands of kids for life. The people behind this are monsters.
This is Maria, a 6-year-old detained by ICE last year.
She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again.
Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/
She began to unravel soon after arriving at a detention center in Texas, wetting the bed after years without accidents, crying through the night and begging to breastfeed again.
Most of all, she wanted to be reunited with her cat, Milo. 1/
February 6, 2026 at 8:54 PM
We're traumatizing thousands of kids for life. The people behind this are monsters.
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The President of the United States is racist in deed and word. Legacy media has whitewashed and normalized his racism for decades. POTUS is now even posting Obamas-as-apes videos.
Not calling out racism enables racism.
“Normalization warriors are central to fascist creep”.
-Jason Stanley
Not calling out racism enables racism.
“Normalization warriors are central to fascist creep”.
-Jason Stanley
An example of the mental and linguistic gymnastics influential journalists/editors use to whitewash Trump’s obvious racism is typified by this 2022 master class by Maggie Haberman.
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youtu.be/jtdNDWv0Q8A
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youtu.be/jtdNDWv0Q8A
Haberman is Trump Racist?
YouTube video by Misc MAD videos
youtu.be
February 6, 2026 at 9:18 PM
The President of the United States is racist in deed and word. Legacy media has whitewashed and normalized his racism for decades. POTUS is now even posting Obamas-as-apes videos.
Not calling out racism enables racism.
“Normalization warriors are central to fascist creep”.
-Jason Stanley
Not calling out racism enables racism.
“Normalization warriors are central to fascist creep”.
-Jason Stanley
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NATO is splintering. Ukraine is burning. Iran is unstable.
And Pete Hegseth is going to war with… the Boy Scouts.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
And Pete Hegseth is going to war with… the Boy Scouts.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
Pete Hegseth’s Latest Enemy: Scouting America
While global conflicts rage and alliances fray, the Pentagon’s leadership has found time to target Scouting America for admitting girls and confronting its past.
open.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:56 PM
NATO is splintering. Ukraine is burning. Iran is unstable.
And Pete Hegseth is going to war with… the Boy Scouts.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
And Pete Hegseth is going to war with… the Boy Scouts.
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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1. deregulate everything and destroy all regulators so nothing functions in the public interest under the pretense this "aids innovation" and "empowers entrepreneurs"
2. blame poor people and minorities when nothing works
2. blame poor people and minorities when nothing works
Nashville is furious about power outages. Republicans say ‘woke’ is to blame.
As Nashville’s utility company struggled to recover from a catastrophic ice storm and its Democratic mayor ordered a review, some conservatives attacked diversity training.
www.nbcnews.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:51 PM
1. deregulate everything and destroy all regulators so nothing functions in the public interest under the pretense this "aids innovation" and "empowers entrepreneurs"
2. blame poor people and minorities when nothing works
2. blame poor people and minorities when nothing works
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The people whose names literally show up thousands of times in the Epstein files want you to think a 5-year-old refugee and star kindergarten student is the problem with this country rather than the white pedophiles in charge of it who keep stealing American money and assaulting American children
February 6, 2026 at 5:23 AM
The people whose names literally show up thousands of times in the Epstein files want you to think a 5-year-old refugee and star kindergarten student is the problem with this country rather than the white pedophiles in charge of it who keep stealing American money and assaulting American children
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TRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trump‘s Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer.
(I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)
(I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)
February 6, 2026 at 4:20 AM
TRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trump‘s Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer.
(I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)
(I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)
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Only the W-2 filing PMC's pay taxes.
We found that Jeff Bezos paid *zero* taxes in 2007 and 2011.
In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children.
This is how he did it (published 2021):
In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children.
This is how he did it (published 2021):
The Secret IRS Files: Trove of Never-Before-Seen Records Reveal How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax
ProPublica has obtained a vast cache of IRS information showing how billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk and Warren Buffett pay little in income tax compared to their massive wealth — sometimes, ev...
www.propublica.org
February 6, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Only the W-2 filing PMC's pay taxes.
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I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside.
What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?
I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?
I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
February 6, 2026 at 2:35 AM
I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside.
What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?
I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there?
I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.
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GOP Rep Lauren Boebert is again claiming credit for spending projects in her district after voting against them. In 2024, she told me she'd vote no even if she was the deciding vote.
February 6, 2026 at 2:06 AM
GOP Rep Lauren Boebert is again claiming credit for spending projects in her district after voting against them. In 2024, she told me she'd vote no even if she was the deciding vote.
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One would hope that media outlets eventually understood that many of their readership woes stem from having no standards for conservatives.
But the reality is that management prioritizes right-wing propaganda over profits, so they're not going to change.
But the reality is that management prioritizes right-wing propaganda over profits, so they're not going to change.
👀 Apparently, Ross Douthat invited Seth Harp to debate him on Douthat's "Interesting Times" NYT podcast. Harp says that the episode was recorded, Douthat got crushed, and RD/NYT decided not to publish it.
What? x.com/sethharpesq/...
What? x.com/sethharpesq/...
February 6, 2026 at 2:42 AM
One would hope that media outlets eventually understood that many of their readership woes stem from having no standards for conservatives.
But the reality is that management prioritizes right-wing propaganda over profits, so they're not going to change.
But the reality is that management prioritizes right-wing propaganda over profits, so they're not going to change.
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For those who don't know, Luttig was once considered the intellectual heir to Scalia. He was about as conservative a judge as you could find...
Luttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.
February 6, 2026 at 1:32 AM
For those who don't know, Luttig was once considered the intellectual heir to Scalia. He was about as conservative a judge as you could find...
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The other aspect of this that does not get much attention:
There is a deep grief within all of us women every single time we watch men refuse to hold other men accountable. And it happens over and over and over again, right in front of us. A constant refrain of “we don’t care about you”
There is a deep grief within all of us women every single time we watch men refuse to hold other men accountable. And it happens over and over and over again, right in front of us. A constant refrain of “we don’t care about you”
the Epstein files are really devastating because they remind me of how many girls and women miss out on professional opportunities, mentorship and careers because of how many powerful, rich and influential men only view girls and women — and interactions with them — through the lens of sex
February 5, 2026 at 11:36 PM
The other aspect of this that does not get much attention:
There is a deep grief within all of us women every single time we watch men refuse to hold other men accountable. And it happens over and over and over again, right in front of us. A constant refrain of “we don’t care about you”
There is a deep grief within all of us women every single time we watch men refuse to hold other men accountable. And it happens over and over and over again, right in front of us. A constant refrain of “we don’t care about you”
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Everything you’re hearing from the Trump administration is a lie. Today was one of the most active days in Northeast since the entire Operation Metro Surge began.
Nothing is changing on the ground in Minneapolis, no matter what headlines Trump and Homan try to create.
Nothing is changing on the ground in Minneapolis, no matter what headlines Trump and Homan try to create.
February 5, 2026 at 11:22 PM
Everything you’re hearing from the Trump administration is a lie. Today was one of the most active days in Northeast since the entire Operation Metro Surge began.
Nothing is changing on the ground in Minneapolis, no matter what headlines Trump and Homan try to create.
Nothing is changing on the ground in Minneapolis, no matter what headlines Trump and Homan try to create.
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🚨 Elon Musk’s gutting of USAID has fueled an estimated death toll that’s about to surpass 800,000—including 530,000 children.
That’s 88 deaths every hour.
Meanwhile, the federal deficit is the largest it's been since the COVID-era stimulus, with no reduction in sight.
That’s 88 deaths every hour.
Meanwhile, the federal deficit is the largest it's been since the COVID-era stimulus, with no reduction in sight.
February 5, 2026 at 8:52 PM
🚨 Elon Musk’s gutting of USAID has fueled an estimated death toll that’s about to surpass 800,000—including 530,000 children.
That’s 88 deaths every hour.
Meanwhile, the federal deficit is the largest it's been since the COVID-era stimulus, with no reduction in sight.
That’s 88 deaths every hour.
Meanwhile, the federal deficit is the largest it's been since the COVID-era stimulus, with no reduction in sight.