Milo Baynes and the Goodness of Renées
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Rural pluralist and known adverb abuser. Delicious to biting insects.
Purveyor of GenX’s weakest posts.
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NC Piedmont.
Rural pluralist and known adverb abuser. Delicious to biting insects.
Purveyor of GenX’s weakest posts.
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immigration is a great thing, we need to say that - & take the fight to the nativists
my latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
my latest for @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
We Need to Get Off The Defensive About Immigration
Free movement is a fantastic thing, and we should say it.
www.liberalcurrents.com
Yes!
This should be near the top of any Democratic Party List of New Year’s Resolutions.
Immigration is good.
We should have lots of it.
It should be easy.
This should be near the top of any Democratic Party List of New Year’s Resolutions.
Immigration is good.
We should have lots of it.
It should be easy.
You know how when you have to switch health insurance companies and in early January your pharmacist tells you they’ve rejected paying for the drug that’s been controlling your chronic illness because you have to trial and fail (again) the cheaper treatment that doesn’t work?
This is that.
This is that.
Majority of the country now wants to abolish and/or dismantle ICE and yet Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. told the caucus the message had to be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity.
So pathetic and weak.
Once again it looks like Schumer is about to choke after getting a massive opportunity.
So pathetic and weak.
Senate Democrats plot strategy as DHS standoff deepens heading into shutdown week
Two sources who were on a Democratic caucus strategy call Sunday said Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told the group the message must be to “restrain, reform and restrict ICE.”
www.nbcnews.com
January 27, 2026 at 2:31 PM
You know how when you have to switch health insurance companies and in early January your pharmacist tells you they’ve rejected paying for the drug that’s been controlling your chronic illness because you have to trial and fail (again) the cheaper treatment that doesn’t work?
This is that.
This is that.
Absolute cinema.
January 27, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Absolute cinema.
And everyone knows it takes simultaneous critical hits to neutralize a standard +4 Legitimacy Emerald.
Schumer and Jeffries would both have to roll Nat 20s for each gem.
Schumer and Jeffries would both have to roll Nat 20s for each gem.
yes we live in a “democracy” but we can’t actually defund ICE because you see they were once bestowed the Legitimacy Emeralds
January 27, 2026 at 2:03 PM
And everyone knows it takes simultaneous critical hits to neutralize a standard +4 Legitimacy Emerald.
Schumer and Jeffries would both have to roll Nat 20s for each gem.
Schumer and Jeffries would both have to roll Nat 20s for each gem.
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to the extent that there is a “carrot” to trumpism it is the same carrot that slaveholders offered to lower class white men: “you can be an overseer”
January 26, 2026 at 2:43 PM
to the extent that there is a “carrot” to trumpism it is the same carrot that slaveholders offered to lower class white men: “you can be an overseer”
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yeah I loved Harry Potter! I was always a bookish child but my obsession with HP was genuinely life-changing! it made me teach myself English, which is basically why I'm here today! the movies still felt like chicken soup to me as an adult! and yet: fuck JK Rowling forever, this isn't hard lol
Lord preserve me from another round of “every single aspect of Harry Potter is bad and also perfectly encapsulates everything I dislike about my political enemies” discourse
January 27, 2026 at 12:12 PM
yeah I loved Harry Potter! I was always a bookish child but my obsession with HP was genuinely life-changing! it made me teach myself English, which is basically why I'm here today! the movies still felt like chicken soup to me as an adult! and yet: fuck JK Rowling forever, this isn't hard lol
As usual, proper heat and well packaged, from @radleybalko.bsky.social
A welcome modulation on the “Trump<->King George” and Declaration of Independence themed pieces that have been buzzing about.
A welcome modulation on the “Trump<->King George” and Declaration of Independence themed pieces that have been buzzing about.
New at The Watch:
I dug into archival witness accounts of the British siege of Boston prior to the American Revolution.
They are remarkably similar to what we're seeing in Minneapolis.
open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...
I dug into archival witness accounts of the British siege of Boston prior to the American Revolution.
They are remarkably similar to what we're seeing in Minneapolis.
open.substack.com/pub/radleyba...
Two cities under siege
Remarkably similar scenes from Boston and Minneapolis, 260 years apart, show a federal government betraying its founding principles.
open.substack.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:43 PM
As usual, proper heat and well packaged, from @radleybalko.bsky.social
A welcome modulation on the “Trump<->King George” and Declaration of Independence themed pieces that have been buzzing about.
A welcome modulation on the “Trump<->King George” and Declaration of Independence themed pieces that have been buzzing about.
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Now I want to know which CNN reporter or producer doesn't know the word "sycophant."
January 26, 2026 at 7:26 PM
Now I want to know which CNN reporter or producer doesn't know the word "sycophant."
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It's great that some GOP officials are pulling back from what the secret police are doing in Minneapolis. It's great that it is unpopular in polls. But under conditions of fascism, those are not the only incentives from which decisions will get made. 1/x
January 26, 2026 at 8:59 PM
It's great that some GOP officials are pulling back from what the secret police are doing in Minneapolis. It's great that it is unpopular in polls. But under conditions of fascism, those are not the only incentives from which decisions will get made. 1/x
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Fox has spent months trying to convince their audience that progressive Americans are violent and want them dead. Now that the state is killing them, the network is explaining why they deserved to die.
January 26, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Fox has spent months trying to convince their audience that progressive Americans are violent and want them dead. Now that the state is killing them, the network is explaining why they deserved to die.
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Every single time I try to adjust my priors and give 'AI' the benefit of the doubt, something else happens which shows everyone who is pushing this is doing so with reckless disregard for the potential harms or fully cognizant of what they're breaking.
January 26, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Every single time I try to adjust my priors and give 'AI' the benefit of the doubt, something else happens which shows everyone who is pushing this is doing so with reckless disregard for the potential harms or fully cognizant of what they're breaking.
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[stares directly into the camera]
![Ben Terris
@bterris
X.com
"[My father] had one problem," Trump said. "
He started getting, what do they call it?" He pointed to his forehead and looked to his press secretary for the word that escaped him.
"Alzheimer's," Leavitt said.
"Like an Alzheimer's thing," Trump said. "Well, I don't have it."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:drfb2pdjlnsqkfgsoellcahm/bafkreiddfjrkrizv6r5szmevc7gl3bgwmcoub2i7ondb7cpnnqslhsjtvi@jpeg)
January 26, 2026 at 3:30 PM
[stares directly into the camera]
Well put.
It’s like good verse — both true and overflowing with meaning.
It’s like good verse — both true and overflowing with meaning.
jesus tap dancing christ
Rahm Emanuel's “combination of policy talk, moral reflection and candid critiques of recent Democratic fixations is distinctive, and there’s impressive political savvy in what he foregrounds and how he frames it,” argues Frank Bruni.
January 26, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Well put.
It’s like good verse — both true and overflowing with meaning.
It’s like good verse — both true and overflowing with meaning.
In the name of ALL THE DEITIES, this must stop.
Quit trying to make Rahm a thing.
Rahm Emanuel is a combination of nothing but “bad” and “shit”.
Even children understand there’s no special alchemy there, just bad shit.
Quit trying to make Rahm a thing.
Rahm Emanuel is a combination of nothing but “bad” and “shit”.
Even children understand there’s no special alchemy there, just bad shit.
Rahm Emanuel's “combination of policy talk, moral reflection and candid critiques of recent Democratic fixations is distinctive, and there’s impressive political savvy in what he foregrounds and how he frames it,” argues Frank Bruni.
Opinion | Will Rahm Emanuel Run for President in 2028?
A Democratic insider with an outside chance at the White House
nyti.ms
January 26, 2026 at 6:05 PM
In the name of ALL THE DEITIES, this must stop.
Quit trying to make Rahm a thing.
Rahm Emanuel is a combination of nothing but “bad” and “shit”.
Even children understand there’s no special alchemy there, just bad shit.
Quit trying to make Rahm a thing.
Rahm Emanuel is a combination of nothing but “bad” and “shit”.
Even children understand there’s no special alchemy there, just bad shit.
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All the women will end up taking the fall.
January 26, 2026 at 5:58 PM
All the women will end up taking the fall.
We’re all learning and will make mistakes but there is a lot at stake in making this our collective mantra and statement of ideals.
you should not share a post that's a screenshot without a link to a news item. you should not share a post that's a video or picture without some kind of sourcing. we're in a new bad era and these are now basic practices.
... also photogs and journos gotta eat so share their work.
... also photogs and journos gotta eat so share their work.
January 26, 2026 at 4:53 PM
We’re all learning and will make mistakes but there is a lot at stake in making this our collective mantra and statement of ideals.
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January 26, 2026 at 3:01 AM
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UEFA should boycott over Greenland.
CONMEBOL should boycott over Venezuela.
CAF should boycott over USAID cuts.
Everyone should boycott because of ICE.
No one should come to the U.S. under Trump.
CONMEBOL should boycott over Venezuela.
CAF should boycott over USAID cuts.
Everyone should boycott because of ICE.
No one should come to the U.S. under Trump.
January 26, 2026 at 3:03 AM
UEFA should boycott over Greenland.
CONMEBOL should boycott over Venezuela.
CAF should boycott over USAID cuts.
Everyone should boycott because of ICE.
No one should come to the U.S. under Trump.
CONMEBOL should boycott over Venezuela.
CAF should boycott over USAID cuts.
Everyone should boycott because of ICE.
No one should come to the U.S. under Trump.
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You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.
January 24, 2026 at 9:22 PM
You could actually structure your moral code around the idea that law enforcement doesn't exist to execute people. You don't have to create perfect victim narratives, you can just refuse to accept that the state gets to kill people.
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I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage
January 26, 2026 at 2:13 AM
I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage
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If Nancy Mace was assaulted by a Biden supporter, it would be a week-long news cycle and every Democrat in Congress would be asked if they approve or disapprove
Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost Is Assaulted at Sundance Film Festival
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 9:19 PM
If Nancy Mace was assaulted by a Biden supporter, it would be a week-long news cycle and every Democrat in Congress would be asked if they approve or disapprove
Editors/pubs:
Will gladly whip up 1k-10k words on how I was TOTALLY WRONG for much of 2025 re: the short-term effect of tariffs on the consumer, supply chains, & corporate profits.
I won’t even blame anyone else or take potshots at “the left”, unless that’s something you really need.
Lemme know.
Will gladly whip up 1k-10k words on how I was TOTALLY WRONG for much of 2025 re: the short-term effect of tariffs on the consumer, supply chains, & corporate profits.
I won’t even blame anyone else or take potshots at “the left”, unless that’s something you really need.
Lemme know.
seems like the kind of piece that should contain an acknowledgement that other people saw what this guy missed but no that isn't how establishment media types roll so it's just open contempt for people who saw clearly when he did not. welcome to the party, you don't have to be a dick about it.
January 25, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Editors/pubs:
Will gladly whip up 1k-10k words on how I was TOTALLY WRONG for much of 2025 re: the short-term effect of tariffs on the consumer, supply chains, & corporate profits.
I won’t even blame anyone else or take potshots at “the left”, unless that’s something you really need.
Lemme know.
Will gladly whip up 1k-10k words on how I was TOTALLY WRONG for much of 2025 re: the short-term effect of tariffs on the consumer, supply chains, & corporate profits.
I won’t even blame anyone else or take potshots at “the left”, unless that’s something you really need.
Lemme know.
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a core premise of essentially every one of these pieces is "I am the first person to correctly identify Donald Trump as a fascist; everyone who thought the term applied to him before I did was a sloppy thinker"
yes yes you are the smartest boy the room, good job, please go away
yes yes you are the smartest boy the room, good job, please go away
January 25, 2026 at 7:46 PM
a core premise of essentially every one of these pieces is "I am the first person to correctly identify Donald Trump as a fascist; everyone who thought the term applied to him before I did was a sloppy thinker"
yes yes you are the smartest boy the room, good job, please go away
yes yes you are the smartest boy the room, good job, please go away
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seems like the kind of piece that should contain an acknowledgement that other people saw what this guy missed but no that isn't how establishment media types roll so it's just open contempt for people who saw clearly when he did not. welcome to the party, you don't have to be a dick about it.
January 25, 2026 at 7:41 PM
seems like the kind of piece that should contain an acknowledgement that other people saw what this guy missed but no that isn't how establishment media types roll so it's just open contempt for people who saw clearly when he did not. welcome to the party, you don't have to be a dick about it.