Andy Harris
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That gum I like will come back in style. Former co-host of the OFR Farm Report Podcast, follow @ofrsports.bsky.social for my Braves baseball thoughts, such as they are. ⚾️
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If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.
What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
At this rate over 100 people will die while in ICE custody in 2026.
January 18, 2026 at 7:26 PM
At this rate over 100 people will die while in ICE custody in 2026.
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i was talking with someone in the twin cities about how it’s not even accurate to call them protesters. they’re literally just people protecting their city from TERRORISTS.
Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week.
ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.
ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.
January 18, 2026 at 4:39 PM
i was talking with someone in the twin cities about how it’s not even accurate to call them protesters. they’re literally just people protecting their city from TERRORISTS.
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For some reason, very few people these days will stand up and say it, but: the US federal bureaucracy is one of the great wonders of the world, staffed with incredibly diligent people who do their jobs well and care deeply.
Trump's destruction of the federal apparaus was a historic crime.
Trump's destruction of the federal apparaus was a historic crime.
The Purged
Donald Trump’s destruction of the civil service is a tragedy not just for the roughly 300,000 workers who have been discarded, but for an entire nation.
www.theatlantic.com
January 18, 2026 at 7:17 PM
For some reason, very few people these days will stand up and say it, but: the US federal bureaucracy is one of the great wonders of the world, staffed with incredibly diligent people who do their jobs well and care deeply.
Trump's destruction of the federal apparaus was a historic crime.
Trump's destruction of the federal apparaus was a historic crime.
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DHS said in October that "comparing ICE day-in and day-out to the Nazi gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences."
After I found one of their lawyers for ICE is a racist and a self-described fascist who has praised Hitler, there have been no consequences.
After I found one of their lawyers for ICE is a racist and a self-described fascist who has praised Hitler, there have been no consequences.
January 18, 2026 at 3:50 PM
DHS said in October that "comparing ICE day-in and day-out to the Nazi gestapo, the Secret Police, and slave patrols has consequences."
After I found one of their lawyers for ICE is a racist and a self-described fascist who has praised Hitler, there have been no consequences.
After I found one of their lawyers for ICE is a racist and a self-described fascist who has praised Hitler, there have been no consequences.
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you too can look like a bog man who was pulled out of a bog and left to dry and then put back in a different, shittier bog
January 17, 2026 at 5:15 PM
you too can look like a bog man who was pulled out of a bog and left to dry and then put back in a different, shittier bog
Best #StarTrek pilots:
1. The Emissary, DS9
2. The Vulcan Hello, DIS
3. Kids These Days, SA
4. Broken Bow, ENT
5. Where No Man Has Gone Before, TOS
6. Remembrance, PIC
7. Second Contact, LD
8. Caretaker, VOY
9. Lost and Found, PRO
10. Beyond the Farthest Star, TAS
11. Encounter at Farpoint, TNG
1. The Emissary, DS9
2. The Vulcan Hello, DIS
3. Kids These Days, SA
4. Broken Bow, ENT
5. Where No Man Has Gone Before, TOS
6. Remembrance, PIC
7. Second Contact, LD
8. Caretaker, VOY
9. Lost and Found, PRO
10. Beyond the Farthest Star, TAS
11. Encounter at Farpoint, TNG
January 17, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Best #StarTrek pilots:
1. The Emissary, DS9
2. The Vulcan Hello, DIS
3. Kids These Days, SA
4. Broken Bow, ENT
5. Where No Man Has Gone Before, TOS
6. Remembrance, PIC
7. Second Contact, LD
8. Caretaker, VOY
9. Lost and Found, PRO
10. Beyond the Farthest Star, TAS
11. Encounter at Farpoint, TNG
1. The Emissary, DS9
2. The Vulcan Hello, DIS
3. Kids These Days, SA
4. Broken Bow, ENT
5. Where No Man Has Gone Before, TOS
6. Remembrance, PIC
7. Second Contact, LD
8. Caretaker, VOY
9. Lost and Found, PRO
10. Beyond the Farthest Star, TAS
11. Encounter at Farpoint, TNG
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Mischief Toys is a plaintiff in the lawsuit against the Trump administration seeking to hold his tariffs unconstitutional 🤔🤔🤔
January 17, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Mischief Toys is a plaintiff in the lawsuit against the Trump administration seeking to hold his tariffs unconstitutional 🤔🤔🤔
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Radical Republicans ca. 1871: We’re sending federal troops into states in order to curb the power of white supremacy
Radical Republicans ca. 2026: We’re sending federal troops into states in order to advance the cause of white supremacy
Radical Republicans ca. 2026: We’re sending federal troops into states in order to advance the cause of white supremacy
it's easy to start an investigation of walz and frey. indictments & convictions are orders of magnitude harder. but the goal is what's important and it's nothing that breaking the power of the states which is the only brake on trump's attempted tyranny
Watch What They’re Doing: Trump Threatens to Make War on the States talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/watch...
January 17, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Radical Republicans ca. 1871: We’re sending federal troops into states in order to curb the power of white supremacy
Radical Republicans ca. 2026: We’re sending federal troops into states in order to advance the cause of white supremacy
Radical Republicans ca. 2026: We’re sending federal troops into states in order to advance the cause of white supremacy
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Another data point indicating that Polymarket is not a “prediction market” but a public persuasion operation—here it spreads disinformation about Minnesota and DHS signals boosts the disinformation:
January 16, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Another data point indicating that Polymarket is not a “prediction market” but a public persuasion operation—here it spreads disinformation about Minnesota and DHS signals boosts the disinformation:
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every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
January 16, 2026 at 9:24 PM
every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
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The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”
January 16, 2026 at 5:16 PM
The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”
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Its very telling here is that his "do your own research" examples are consumer goods, like cars or baby carriages. The MAHA movement is a consumption movement, one that prefers yelp reviews rather than science evaluating their products.
HHS Secretary RFK Jr: "This idea that you should trust the experts, a good mother doesn't do that"
January 15, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Its very telling here is that his "do your own research" examples are consumer goods, like cars or baby carriages. The MAHA movement is a consumption movement, one that prefers yelp reviews rather than science evaluating their products.
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Headline
First paragraph
Last sentence
There's burying the lede, and then there's burying the lede in a lead-lined coffin at the bottom of the ocean.
First paragraph
Last sentence
There's burying the lede, and then there's burying the lede in a lead-lined coffin at the bottom of the ocean.
January 15, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Headline
First paragraph
Last sentence
There's burying the lede, and then there's burying the lede in a lead-lined coffin at the bottom of the ocean.
First paragraph
Last sentence
There's burying the lede, and then there's burying the lede in a lead-lined coffin at the bottom of the ocean.
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Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning.
I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.
I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.
January 15, 2026 at 1:05 AM
Saint Paul schools will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare for optional online learning.
I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.
I’ve seen schools close for snow, for pandemic, for natural disaster. I’ve never seen schools close because of threat from our own government.
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Maybe @cnn.com should be airing this video instead of copaganda
“They chased him, he got home and when we closed the door they shot him.”
MN orgs/electeds say👇🏽this is the family calling the police with ICE outside, after a man was shot in the leg with a pregnant woman & child inside
Different than DHS’ shovel story: www.instagram.com/reel/DThEdD8...
MN orgs/electeds say👇🏽this is the family calling the police with ICE outside, after a man was shot in the leg with a pregnant woman & child inside
Different than DHS’ shovel story: www.instagram.com/reel/DThEdD8...
January 15, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Maybe @cnn.com should be airing this video instead of copaganda
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Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
That is what was relayed
January 15, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Non-protesting dad just trying to hustle his kids, as young as 6mo, out of the neighborhood. ICE threw a flash-bang INTO HIS car, all 6 kids in the hospital now.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
If anyone wondered how things turn against occupying armies there's a case study playing out in front of you.
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The AP source is almost certainly a federal official and should be presumed to be lying
BREAKING: A federal officer shot a person in the leg after being attacked with a shovel during a Minneapolis arrest, an AP source says.
Federal officer shoots person in leg after being attacked during Minneapolis arrest, AP source says
A federal officer has shot a person in the leg in Minneapolis after being attacked with a shovel during an arrest Wednesday.
bit.ly
January 15, 2026 at 3:20 AM
The AP source is almost certainly a federal official and should be presumed to be lying
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my friend was maced by ICE agents outside of the coffee shop where I do my homework. she was just standing there filming them and they maced her directly in the eyes and fled the scene. our communities are being terrorized.
January 15, 2026 at 2:17 AM
my friend was maced by ICE agents outside of the coffee shop where I do my homework. she was just standing there filming them and they maced her directly in the eyes and fled the scene. our communities are being terrorized.
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The complicated reality is there are 3 things happening simultaneously:
-Trump preternaturally understands the ebb and flow of the media and does perform for it
-His inner circle is in a mad dash to turn the US into a fascist ethnostate
-Like all authoritarian regimes, they're grossly incompetent
-Trump preternaturally understands the ebb and flow of the media and does perform for it
-His inner circle is in a mad dash to turn the US into a fascist ethnostate
-Like all authoritarian regimes, they're grossly incompetent
Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.
January 15, 2026 at 3:39 AM
The complicated reality is there are 3 things happening simultaneously:
-Trump preternaturally understands the ebb and flow of the media and does perform for it
-His inner circle is in a mad dash to turn the US into a fascist ethnostate
-Like all authoritarian regimes, they're grossly incompetent
-Trump preternaturally understands the ebb and flow of the media and does perform for it
-His inner circle is in a mad dash to turn the US into a fascist ethnostate
-Like all authoritarian regimes, they're grossly incompetent
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RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
![You’ve got super fans pausing and zooming in on individuals frames of your documentary. One allegedly shows one of the Duffers with a ChatGPT tab open on their computer. In your presence, what did they use ChatGPT for?
I mean, are we even sure they had ChatGPT open?
I’m personally not, but the internet seems sure.
Well, there’s a lot of chatter where [social media users] are like, “We don’t really know, but we’re assuming.” But to me it’s like, doesn’t everybody have it open, to just do quick research?
I do.
How can you possibly write a storyline with 19 characters and use ChatGPT, I don’t even understand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7t2urmt3i33jl6tjgiolio6g/bafkreidw2tmcr2ayq74oqmjm5pn2tdox6hlxnpqevhuqqj6oa7nsslx3oi@jpeg)
January 13, 2026 at 8:45 PM
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open 'just to do quick research'
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Three of the Ogala Lakota men who were taken by ICE are being held at a former concentration camp.
ICE has no jurisdiction over Native Americans.
They’re not breaking any laws. There’s nowhere to deport them to. They were here first.
They’ve been kidnapped.
ICE has no jurisdiction over Native Americans.
They’re not breaking any laws. There’s nowhere to deport them to. They were here first.
They’ve been kidnapped.
Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT
The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars
ictnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Three of the Ogala Lakota men who were taken by ICE are being held at a former concentration camp.
ICE has no jurisdiction over Native Americans.
They’re not breaking any laws. There’s nowhere to deport them to. They were here first.
They’ve been kidnapped.
ICE has no jurisdiction over Native Americans.
They’re not breaking any laws. There’s nowhere to deport them to. They were here first.
They’ve been kidnapped.
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There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it.
We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics.
What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.
We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics.
What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.
FDA deletes warning on bogus autism therapies touted by RFK Jr.‘s allies
The agency used to warn of chelation, used by RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine ally David Geier.
arstechnica.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:30 AM
There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it.
We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics.
What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.
We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics.
What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.
@baseball-reference.com, I am a subscriber. Why should I be subjected to ads on Immaculate Grid?
January 14, 2026 at 12:55 AM
@baseball-reference.com, I am a subscriber. Why should I be subjected to ads on Immaculate Grid?