John Wallach
@jmwallach.bsky.social
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
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lmao at whoever released the 60 Minutes CECOT segment. Brave or stupid, either way I approve.
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Watching my neighbors to the north throw grist in the wheels of fascism as only Midwesterners can
January 17, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Watching my neighbors to the north throw grist in the wheels of fascism as only Midwesterners can
Shockingly the first amendment doesn't apply to other countries.
banning a site/app what is this china we are quitting on democracy and free speech that quickly
January 18, 2026 at 3:18 PM
Shockingly the first amendment doesn't apply to other countries.
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He’s talking about how this stuff is reaching into the real observer networks and I do really think we need to identify the accounts doing this and then shun them completely
I don’t have time nor inclination to think much about this right now but in the last 12 hours or so a ton of people in the left of this site have suddenly been attacking me, including with carefully edited screenshots of old tweets, and I’m pretty confused what’s happening.
January 18, 2026 at 3:01 PM
He’s talking about how this stuff is reaching into the real observer networks and I do really think we need to identify the accounts doing this and then shun them completely
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I keep seeing the take that Republicans will rally when the right wing “machine” kicks into gear but people said that about Venezuela and we’ve only seen a modest bump in support
Yes this is an awful poll but if they actually go through with it we all know that Republican number is going up to 90% after the right-wing machine kicks into gear
it's more or less impossible to find issues that poll this badly and he's decided to make it a major, public priority www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-tru...
January 18, 2026 at 3:04 PM
I keep seeing the take that Republicans will rally when the right wing “machine” kicks into gear but people said that about Venezuela and we’ve only seen a modest bump in support
It is revealing how much they hate someone doing what they say they would do.
You cannot trust the people doing this, you cannot share them, because they have proven that when given the opportunity they will do harm with their posts as best as they are able
January 18, 2026 at 3:04 PM
It is revealing how much they hate someone doing what they say they would do.
"Tell 'em what democracy means, Bill!" I shout as an apparition of 2003 me looks on with a look of shock and disbelief.
The only constitutional amendment MAGA judges like is the Second Amendment, and as soon as citizens try to bear arms in a place ICE has invaded, the MAGA judges will turn against that too.
Judge Kacsmaryk rejects challenge by West Texas A&M University's LGBQT club to drag show ban, saying the First Amendment doesn't protect "self-expression in all forms, and certainly not the libertine 'expressive conduct' absolutism envisioned" by the group. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
January 18, 2026 at 1:30 PM
"Tell 'em what democracy means, Bill!" I shout as an apparition of 2003 me looks on with a look of shock and disbelief.
Can't see when you refuse to look.
I wonder how long it will take the media to catch on to the fact that ICE’s recruiting spree has effectively deputized every white supremacist hate group out there.
January 18, 2026 at 9:32 AM
Can't see when you refuse to look.
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Going even further back: In 1835's A Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation, likely the earliest racist dystopian novel, you can see this argument very explicitly. In its dystopian future, everyone fights their "natural instincts" in order to live in an integrated society.
This is correct
I've seen this exact belief expressed innumerable times in white supremacist rhetoric, literature, and social spaces
It's not a new belief either. It's depicted in The Turner Diaries & well before that.
I've seen this exact belief expressed innumerable times in white supremacist rhetoric, literature, and social spaces
It's not a new belief either. It's depicted in The Turner Diaries & well before that.
A big part of the current right wing belief system is that everyone is actually just as bigoted as they are, and are only pretending not to be as a public performance ("virtue signalling").
They genuinely thought once they started doing open racism, everyone would join in
They genuinely thought once they started doing open racism, everyone would join in
January 18, 2026 at 3:18 AM
Going even further back: In 1835's A Sojourn in the City of Amalgamation, likely the earliest racist dystopian novel, you can see this argument very explicitly. In its dystopian future, everyone fights their "natural instincts" in order to live in an integrated society.
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What step of Niemoller is it when they come for the furries
Outside of the Bishop Henry Whipple Building in Minneapolis a person dancing in a fox costume is arrested by the MPD. Protests have been consistent outside of this building since the ramped up ICE presence.
January 18, 2026 at 4:54 AM
What step of Niemoller is it when they come for the furries
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Same people who think atheists must be going around committing violent crimes all the time because we don't have the threat of Hell stopping us. They're so bewildered when we tell them that we do precisely as much violent crime as we want--which is none.
ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.”
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.
January 18, 2026 at 5:33 AM
Same people who think atheists must be going around committing violent crimes all the time because we don't have the threat of Hell stopping us. They're so bewildered when we tell them that we do precisely as much violent crime as we want--which is none.
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An animated graphic showing wingbeats of different birds. This one is so beautiful.
Image: Eleanor Lutz
tabletopwhale.com/2014/09/29/f...
Image: Eleanor Lutz
tabletopwhale.com/2014/09/29/f...
January 16, 2026 at 3:15 AM
An animated graphic showing wingbeats of different birds. This one is so beautiful.
Image: Eleanor Lutz
tabletopwhale.com/2014/09/29/f...
Image: Eleanor Lutz
tabletopwhale.com/2014/09/29/f...
Why does anyone think Newsom makes it out of the SC primary?
it remains nuts to me that the argument for Newsom is that he's inevitable while he's not even the polling favorite
January 18, 2026 at 5:06 AM
Why does anyone think Newsom makes it out of the SC primary?
Are we sure none of these guys are Soviet sleeper agents?
How sad is this? The CDC closed its FOIA office, so this story could only be published because a Danish journalist provided Rolling Stone with the documents, after obtaining them through a freedom of information request to the University of Southern Denmark
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
HHS Gave a $1.6 Million Grant to a Controversial Vaccine Study. These Emails Show How That Happened
Two Danish researchers faced accusations of “questionable research practices” as RFK Jr.’s top appointees made their study a “funding priority.”
www.rollingstone.com
January 18, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Are we sure none of these guys are Soviet sleeper agents?
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Men’s homeliness epidemic
January 17, 2026 at 6:53 PM
Men’s homeliness epidemic
Every accusation is a confession part Graham's number
About those paid protesters…. Apparently DHS/iCE and/or Hennepin County Sheriffs office are planting paid instigators among protestors. Sorry, but from Twitter.
January 18, 2026 at 4:48 AM
Every accusation is a confession part Graham's number
The provisional government wants a word with you.
January 18, 2026 at 4:30 AM
The provisional government wants a word with you.
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Whatever’s in these Epstein Files (and we have some idea) must be really bad.
January 18, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Whatever’s in these Epstein Files (and we have some idea) must be really bad.
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“They’re starting to resist more. We’re gonna end up shooting some of them.” — leaked ICE footage
January 18, 2026 at 2:05 AM
“They’re starting to resist more. We’re gonna end up shooting some of them.” — leaked ICE footage
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absolutely fucking phenomenal news for people who want to live in a better world, that there are people running this stupid goddamn website whose grand takeaway from the will stancil follows the gestapo around in a honda fit side plot is "wow that guy sucks and he's annoying"
fucking children
fucking children
January 18, 2026 at 4:11 AM
absolutely fucking phenomenal news for people who want to live in a better world, that there are people running this stupid goddamn website whose grand takeaway from the will stancil follows the gestapo around in a honda fit side plot is "wow that guy sucks and he's annoying"
fucking children
fucking children
Car alarms are terrorism!
People in Minnesota are now using their key fobs to trigger their car alarms from the safety of their homes when they see ICE walking around.
January 18, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Car alarms are terrorism!
What a fucking disgrace to America this man is.
Judge Kacsmaryk rejects challenge by West Texas A&M University's LGBQT club to drag show ban, saying the First Amendment doesn't protect "self-expression in all forms, and certainly not the libertine 'expressive conduct' absolutism envisioned" by the group. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #168 in Spectrum WT v. Wendler (N.D. Tex., 2:23-cv-00048) – CourtListener.com
FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW (Ordered by Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk on 1/17/2026) (vls)
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January 18, 2026 at 3:45 AM
What a fucking disgrace to America this man is.
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In the words of Frank Zappa, Kacsmaryk can "bend up and smell my anal vapors."
Judge Kacsmaryk rejects challenge by West Texas A&M University's LGBQT club to drag show ban, saying the First Amendment doesn't protect "self-expression in all forms, and certainly not the libertine 'expressive conduct' absolutism envisioned" by the group. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #168 in Spectrum WT v. Wendler (N.D. Tex., 2:23-cv-00048) – CourtListener.com
FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW (Ordered by Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk on 1/17/2026) (vls)
storage.courtlistener.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:37 AM
In the words of Frank Zappa, Kacsmaryk can "bend up and smell my anal vapors."
You can tell your brother is an internist when
January 18, 2026 at 3:42 AM
You can tell your brother is an internist when
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Middle finger mask guy welcomes ICE agents back to HQ.
Whipple Federal Building,
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
01/17/26
Whipple Federal Building,
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
01/17/26
January 18, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Middle finger mask guy welcomes ICE agents back to HQ.
Whipple Federal Building,
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
01/17/26
Whipple Federal Building,
Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota
01/17/26