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Keith Pishnery
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The axe forgets but the tree remembers
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We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

Louis D. Brandeis
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🌊 NEW ARTORR VIDEO 🌊

In early 2020, Lucasfilm hired Tony Gilroy to write a spy thriller about #RogueOne's Cassian #Andor. What Gilroy wrote instead was radical; a story about tyranny, revolution and sacrifice.

please share or repost, I'd super appreciate it!! ❤️
youtu.be/6HLS_SQbWR4?...
January 19, 2026 at 11:22 PM
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I will never get over the fact that the Republican Party chose as its standard-bearer, and this country elected as its President, quite possibly the worst human being on the planet.
Trump: "ICE is gonna be too rough with somebody. They're gonna make a mistake sometimes. I felt horribly when I was told the young woman had the tragedy. But when I learned her father is - I hope he still is, but I don't know - was a tremendous Trump fan. It's terrible. It's so sad. It just happens"
January 20, 2026 at 7:52 PM
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good thread
I genuinely think one thing that trips up folks on the left is that they can't imagine not sharing certain core values. Lemme explain. Here's an intuition pump:

Say you're in negotiations with counterparty X. And there are two possible deals on the table ...
January 19, 2026 at 8:22 PM
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we are not a serious country.

we are a wealthy country. we are a large country. we are a powerful country. we are a dangerous country.

but we are not a serious country.
January 19, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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ICE Nazis visit a Mexican restaurant in St. Paul in hope of ordering food and kidnapping some restaurant workers, but get met with resistance from EVERYONE inside, only to get their fascist asses thrown out. 🙌🇺🇸💪👏✊️👇
January 15, 2026 at 11:23 PM
is there like a Fascist Fashion store this guy shops at?
Greg Bovino was seen earlier today at the Minneapolis ICE facility dressed in a very nazi-inspired outfit. They don’t even hide anymore.
January 17, 2026 at 9:40 PM
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Hey but look. You have less money in your pocket but at least the acolyte didn’t get a second season
January 17, 2026 at 8:13 PM
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"Buried within the kind of crony capitalist network that has propelled Trump’s imperialism is something far stranger, and far darker, than simply seizing Greenland’s resources for financial gain."

@cjcmichel.bsky.social on the Network State and Greenland.

newrepublic.com/article/2051...
The Oligarchs Pushing for Conquest in Greenland
Trump’s fixation on filching the island territory from Denmark may seem like the demented ravings of a mad king. But to a cohort of plutocrat weirdos, it makes perfect sense.
newrepublic.com
January 17, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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The Virginia legislature today passed four constitutional amendments, all by day 3 of 2026 session:

—protect abortion rights
—repeal the same-sex marriage ban
—allow mid-decade redistricting
—greatly expand voting rights restoration.

These will all go to 2026 referendums.
January 16, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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The entry to the Mexican restaurant (Don Julio) in my hometown of Forest Lake MN that closed as a result of ICE has become a shrine. Two-thirds of voters in Forest Lake supported Trump in 2024.
January 16, 2026 at 7:05 PM
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Holy shit.

Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.”

www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
Live Updates: Newly Released Records Detail Chaos During Fatal ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:43 AM
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NEW: Jonathan Ross, the ICE thug who murdered Renee Good, was NOT TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL according to police reports. He was taken to the Federal Building. He was NOT INJURED. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
January 16, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Congress should be doing nothing but hearings on ICE overreach.
January 16, 2026 at 5:09 PM
This whole interview treats the documentary director like a hostile witness. It's pretty gross. All they seem to want is some sort of confirmation that the writers messed up stuff...obviously the interviewer was big mad about the finale so it's pretty unprofessional to me.
January 16, 2026 at 3:58 PM
As a lifelong Star Wars fan, the high water mark is without a doubt Andor, and Kennedy made it happen against all odds. Filoni wouldn’t have done that (*I adore Rebels*). We are in for years of goofy callbacks and nonsensical connections in a tiny little galaxy dominated by Skywalkers.
Regarding Kathleen Kennedy, I don't think much of most of the work she did on Disney Star Wars. I'm also capable of looking at the past several years of Marvel and Pixar and Disney "live action" and figuring out that the common denominator of suck is not Kathleen Kennedy.
January 16, 2026 at 1:22 PM
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just a comprehensive failure to meet the moment
January 16, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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There are places where Trump, as president, has broad freedom of action. And there are places where Trump, as president, has been able to act unilaterally because the main point of opposition, Congress (and SCOTUS), support his program. (1/?)
January 15, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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There's a lot wrong here, but I just can't get over the Beltway belief that Democrats have to be "laser-focused" on affordability issues and affordability alone.
Just got this forwarded. Here are the talking points Schumer's team just emailed out to their allies TODAY - this afternoon.

The words "Minnesota" or "ICE" don't appear anywhere here.
January 15, 2026 at 11:25 PM
There’s already a term for this: “Trial balloon”
Lots of Trump’s remarks are what I think of as “threesome jokes.” As in “Ha ha, of course I wasn’t serious about having a threesome with your friend. Unless you’re into it, in which case, how about Saturday?”
Q: Americans for generations have fought and died for democracy. Are you saying the president finds the idea of canceling elections funny?

LEAVITT: Where you in the room? Only someone like you would take that so seriously
January 15, 2026 at 7:30 PM
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when I was working for a crazy person they would wrong-rock me - the whole "bring me a rock. no, not that rock" thing. they'd say "have you planned for this? well what if I suggest something totally nuts happens? have you planned for that?" and there was no satisfying him

lot of that right now.
January 15, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.
January 15, 2026 at 3:37 AM
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i am watching ken burns american revolution right now and this is literally what every letter from the era they read sounds like
Posts from Minneapolis residents read like they'll be read in voiceover in a Ken Burns-like doc one day
January 15, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?
Trump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article — and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning — he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms.
www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...
January 15, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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More information from the guy whose car had smoke grenades and other stuff thrown in it. The baby's heart stopped and EMS was called to the scene. Yeah, ICE may have almost killed a 6 month old baby yesterday
January 15, 2026 at 2:54 PM
if people could get paid to protest, there would be a lot more protesters...
"You're seeing a lot of paid protesters" -- Rep. Mike Haridopolos's attempt to defend ICE's tactics in Minneapolis during a CNN panel discussion this morning did not go well. Bad used car salesman vibes.
January 15, 2026 at 2:09 PM