Jo
@jokar.bsky.social
☕️🍻🌳🖤🌷🗽 current: #PNW,
Bay Area born & raised
diehard #SFGiants fan 🌉, & other cool stuff.
Bay Area born & raised
diehard #SFGiants fan 🌉, & other cool stuff.
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Newsom is a homophobe and should be ignored. What a waste of space
Newsom: "He's an invasive species, Donald Trump. He took over the Republican Party. Lindsey Graham -- I mean, speaking of the kneepads. I'm sorry. This is tough stuff. I don't recognize these people any longer. You think what I'm saying about Trump is tough? How about what Graham said about Trump."
January 22, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Newsom is a homophobe and should be ignored. What a waste of space
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vaccine skepticism also opens the door to "alternative medicine" grifts
This is the core capitalist element of the anti-vaxx movement. It is an intrinsically capitalist movement. Why provide a preventative vaccine for little-to-no profit when you can earn thousands when they get shingles and hundreds of thousands when they later develop Alzheimer's?
January 22, 2026 at 7:30 PM
vaccine skepticism also opens the door to "alternative medicine" grifts
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“Look: Rome wasn’t burned in a day.”
Vance on the economy:
"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"
"You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"
January 22, 2026 at 7:04 PM
“Look: Rome wasn’t burned in a day.”
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It’s pretty troubling to see a masked federal agents openly promoting Trump campaign slogans while abducting someone off the street.
Suggests that at least some of these guys see themselves as *Trump’s* army.
Suggests that at least some of these guys see themselves as *Trump’s* army.
January 22, 2026 at 7:27 PM
It’s pretty troubling to see a masked federal agents openly promoting Trump campaign slogans while abducting someone off the street.
Suggests that at least some of these guys see themselves as *Trump’s* army.
Suggests that at least some of these guys see themselves as *Trump’s* army.
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we are being occupied by a volatile mix of fascist violence and adolescent male incompetence
submitted to me: a photo of a border patrol agent retching and spitting after they gassed themselves by mueller park in minneapolis yesterday
January 22, 2026 at 5:21 PM
we are being occupied by a volatile mix of fascist violence and adolescent male incompetence
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Deporting children with cancer.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.
ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.
ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.
January 22, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Deporting children with cancer.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.
ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.
ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.
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This is Minneapolis:
It’s -6°F (-21°C) & a dozen folks are keeping watch at elementary school drop off as federal agents circle all over our neighborhood, following some next level terrorizing they did in our neighborhood yesterday.
Some Somali moms bring hot tea and sambusas for our volunteers.
It’s -6°F (-21°C) & a dozen folks are keeping watch at elementary school drop off as federal agents circle all over our neighborhood, following some next level terrorizing they did in our neighborhood yesterday.
Some Somali moms bring hot tea and sambusas for our volunteers.
January 22, 2026 at 3:11 PM
This is Minneapolis:
It’s -6°F (-21°C) & a dozen folks are keeping watch at elementary school drop off as federal agents circle all over our neighborhood, following some next level terrorizing they did in our neighborhood yesterday.
Some Somali moms bring hot tea and sambusas for our volunteers.
It’s -6°F (-21°C) & a dozen folks are keeping watch at elementary school drop off as federal agents circle all over our neighborhood, following some next level terrorizing they did in our neighborhood yesterday.
Some Somali moms bring hot tea and sambusas for our volunteers.
Yah they’d actually have to do the work dismantling corruption with that demand. The affordability angle allows them to make grand speeches without any substantial policy to carry it out on their parts. Lazy Cowards don’t want to do the work!
with Abolish ICE, you can actually have a plan
January 22, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Yah they’d actually have to do the work dismantling corruption with that demand. The affordability angle allows them to make grand speeches without any substantial policy to carry it out on their parts. Lazy Cowards don’t want to do the work!
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I get why prominent Dems largely want to frontload talking about affordability, I do, but what’s the plan to hit the prices go down button; nobody can seem to find it
January 22, 2026 at 4:11 PM
I get why prominent Dems largely want to frontload talking about affordability, I do, but what’s the plan to hit the prices go down button; nobody can seem to find it
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I would gently suggest that the highly paid Congresspeople who are failing at their very easy jobs could perhaps talk about two things. I know how crazy that sounds, but these are crazy times.
People are waving around 50/50 polling on abolish ICE and in the same poll Trump’s is like 30 points under water on affordability. It’s not at all crazy for professional politicians to think there’s a bigger advantage in talking about the latter!
January 22, 2026 at 5:42 PM
I would gently suggest that the highly paid Congresspeople who are failing at their very easy jobs could perhaps talk about two things. I know how crazy that sounds, but these are crazy times.
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kind of looks like greenland
January 22, 2026 at 5:39 PM
kind of looks like greenland
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Please could I have a refund for my coup? It didn’t work, so I’d like to return it to the store.
President Trump’s pardon freed Jan. 6 rioters from prison. It also emboldened them to demand money from the government.
“You tell me why I shouldn’t be entitled to getting my money back,” Stacy Hager, a 62-year-old former warehouse supervisor, said. https://wapo.st/3LTL3R4
“You tell me why I shouldn’t be entitled to getting my money back,” Stacy Hager, a 62-year-old former warehouse supervisor, said. https://wapo.st/3LTL3R4
January 22, 2026 at 5:34 PM
Please could I have a refund for my coup? It didn’t work, so I’d like to return it to the store.
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Hey San Diegans, check out this fucker's hat.
submitted to me: a photo of a border patrol agent retching and spitting after they gassed themselves by mueller park in minneapolis yesterday
January 22, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Hey San Diegans, check out this fucker's hat.
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This is kind of freeing in a way, knowing that there’s no going back to normal. We can build something new, but it will require crushing republicans at every turn, not “working together”
There is no pre-Trump world to which we can return. That has all been washed away.
And there is no near future that is not defined by him and the cataclysm of his rule.
My latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/after-trump-...
And there is no near future that is not defined by him and the cataclysm of his rule.
My latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/after-trump-...
After Trump, the Flood
On the ending of things and the need for post-diluvian politics.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:27 PM
This is kind of freeing in a way, knowing that there’s no going back to normal. We can build something new, but it will require crushing republicans at every turn, not “working together”
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ICE agents detained a 5-year-old on his way home from school and used him as “bait” to knock on his front door to see if anyone was home, according to school officials in Minnesota.
The preschooler is one of at least four children from the same school district who have been detained this month.
The preschooler is one of at least four children from the same school district who have been detained this month.
ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy and used him as "bait"
The preschooler is one of at least four children from the same school district who have been detained this month, according to school officials.
www.motherjones.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:37 PM
ICE agents detained a 5-year-old on his way home from school and used him as “bait” to knock on his front door to see if anyone was home, according to school officials in Minnesota.
The preschooler is one of at least four children from the same school district who have been detained this month.
The preschooler is one of at least four children from the same school district who have been detained this month.
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Even among people who care about inequality, we've collectively been trained to think about only one dimension of systemic inequality at a time: class, race, gender, religion, etc.
But they're ALL interrelated & even inseparable. Recognizing that is powerful & helps knock down ALL the inequities.
But they're ALL interrelated & even inseparable. Recognizing that is powerful & helps knock down ALL the inequities.
"[F]ive companies—Amazon, AT&T, Home Depot, Microsoft, and Palantir—'helped ICE track, detain, and deport families' while they saved a total of $19 billion in annual corporate taxes."
CEOs "received an estimated $124 million in personal tax giveaways.”
#USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #Taxes
CEOs "received an estimated $124 million in personal tax giveaways.”
#USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing #Taxes
5 Top ICE 'Corporate Collaborators' Saved $19 Billion in Taxes Under Trump: Report
"While masked officers terrorize communities—smashing into cars, harassing citizens, and inflicting violence with impunity—Trump's corporate backers are laughing their way to the bank."
www.commondreams.org
January 22, 2026 at 5:33 PM
Even among people who care about inequality, we've collectively been trained to think about only one dimension of systemic inequality at a time: class, race, gender, religion, etc.
But they're ALL interrelated & even inseparable. Recognizing that is powerful & helps knock down ALL the inequities.
But they're ALL interrelated & even inseparable. Recognizing that is powerful & helps knock down ALL the inequities.
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Golden is thick as thieves with Rep. MGP.
January 22, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Golden is thick as thieves with Rep. MGP.
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One of the reasons I am so insistent that everyone remember that only 22% of the US population voted for Trump is that the Christian Nationalists want the myth of a mandate in circulation.
We need to reject it. They never had a mandate, and their coalition is shrinking.
We need to reject it. They never had a mandate, and their coalition is shrinking.
The new NYT poll finds Trump 17 points underwater on immigration, and the nonwhite and young voters who went to Trump in 2024 have snapped back to Dems
It's almost as if 2024 might not have represented a seismic cultural realignment on immigration after all, despite 1,000 NYT op eds to the contrary
It's almost as if 2024 might not have represented a seismic cultural realignment on immigration after all, despite 1,000 NYT op eds to the contrary
January 22, 2026 at 5:17 PM
One of the reasons I am so insistent that everyone remember that only 22% of the US population voted for Trump is that the Christian Nationalists want the myth of a mandate in circulation.
We need to reject it. They never had a mandate, and their coalition is shrinking.
We need to reject it. They never had a mandate, and their coalition is shrinking.
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Dude is rapidly deteriorating mentally and physically and his opposition still won't stand up to him.
January 22, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Dude is rapidly deteriorating mentally and physically and his opposition still won't stand up to him.
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congress knows what's happening in them detention camps. it's the same thing happening in prisons and at the concentration camps at the border y'all stopped talking about when biden was elected.
January 22, 2026 at 3:05 PM
congress knows what's happening in them detention camps. it's the same thing happening in prisons and at the concentration camps at the border y'all stopped talking about when biden was elected.
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Biden had kids, infants, appearing in immigration court with no lawyers, no parents, and no hope of being treated like a human being. No one wanted to hear about it, let alone try to stop it while a Democrat was in the White House. ICE is a bipartisan monster for the last 25 years, not just now.
January 22, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Biden had kids, infants, appearing in immigration court with no lawyers, no parents, and no hope of being treated like a human being. No one wanted to hear about it, let alone try to stop it while a Democrat was in the White House. ICE is a bipartisan monster for the last 25 years, not just now.
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I understand the impulse to distance yourself from American history. I do. But the atrocities are the actual normal for many communities. And until we confront them as part of a baseline societal flaw and address why they keep happening, they will not stop. They will just continue to shift targets
Those atrocities were un-American, too. Why do the evil-doers get to decide what the fundamental American values are? Let's define them ourselves.
I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow
January 22, 2026 at 1:06 PM
I understand the impulse to distance yourself from American history. I do. But the atrocities are the actual normal for many communities. And until we confront them as part of a baseline societal flaw and address why they keep happening, they will not stop. They will just continue to shift targets
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Media failure
Media failure
Media failure!
Some of it is not caring if it doesn't happen to them.
But when people believe incorrect facts about pub affairs, this is a FAILURE of our media environment.
And it's no surprise: Murdoch's Fox has spent decades actively trying to lie about this.
Media failure
Media failure!
Some of it is not caring if it doesn't happen to them.
But when people believe incorrect facts about pub affairs, this is a FAILURE of our media environment.
And it's no surprise: Murdoch's Fox has spent decades actively trying to lie about this.
Noticing a trend from my Facebook feed: Lots of Republicans/conservatives in cities subjected to Trump's occupations (L.A., Minneapolis, Charlotte, Chicago) are angry and turning radically anti-ICE.
But Republicans/conservatives everywhere else don't believe them.
But Republicans/conservatives everywhere else don't believe them.
January 22, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Media failure
Media failure
Media failure!
Some of it is not caring if it doesn't happen to them.
But when people believe incorrect facts about pub affairs, this is a FAILURE of our media environment.
And it's no surprise: Murdoch's Fox has spent decades actively trying to lie about this.
Media failure
Media failure!
Some of it is not caring if it doesn't happen to them.
But when people believe incorrect facts about pub affairs, this is a FAILURE of our media environment.
And it's no surprise: Murdoch's Fox has spent decades actively trying to lie about this.
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So, Dem leadership in Congress WON'T whip votes to try to prevent ICE from getting money to rape, murder, and kidnap, but they WILL whip votes to prevent the Clinton's from being held in contempt for refusing to answer the question "why were you so close to that pedophile empire?"
January 22, 2026 at 6:20 AM
So, Dem leadership in Congress WON'T whip votes to try to prevent ICE from getting money to rape, murder, and kidnap, but they WILL whip votes to prevent the Clinton's from being held in contempt for refusing to answer the question "why were you so close to that pedophile empire?"
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"get rid of these baby-snatchimg freaks" is so simple and so universally appealing, and our ossified so-called representatives can't even bring themselves to say it
January 22, 2026 at 2:23 AM
"get rid of these baby-snatchimg freaks" is so simple and so universally appealing, and our ossified so-called representatives can't even bring themselves to say it