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Mulejail

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Many of his family members fought with the Allied forces against the Germans in World War II, and “I learned from them very early that what one does with Nazis is kill them,” he said at a 2023 conference on antinuclear activism in Johannesburg. “I am not a pacifist.”

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

Holy hell, what an obituary

Renfrew Christie Dies at 76; Sabotaged Racist Regime’s Nuclear Program

www.nytimes.com

January 15, 2026 at 7:01 PM

Mulejail

@mulejail.bsky.social

Well you can't shovel snow with a pitchfork.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: Do you believe there any cases in Minnesota where ICE agents have gone too far?

KRISTI NOEM: Our ICE agents are following the law and running their operations according to training. Last night what we saw was 3 individuals weaponize shovels and brooms and attack an ICE officer

January 15, 2026 at 3:38 PM

Mulejail

@mulejail.bsky.social

Now's the time I put on this old thing.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2sF8LIgLAEc&pp=0gcJCTIBo7VqN5tD

Old & In The Way "Land of the Navajo"

YouTube video by EagleWatcher

m.youtube.com

January 15, 2026 at 3:17 AM

Mulejail

@mulejail.bsky.social

AKA a bruise

CBS News @cbsnews.com · 3d

BREAKING: The ICE agent who fatally shot Renee Good last week in Minneapolis, Jonathan Ross, suffered internal bleeding to the torso following the incident, according to two U.S. officials briefed on his medical condition.

ICE agent who shot Renee Good suffered internal bleeding, officials say

Jonathan Ross, who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis last week, suffered internal bleeding after the incident, two officials said, though it's not clear how extensive the bleeding was.

cbsn.ws

January 14, 2026 at 7:26 PM

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jamelle

@jamellebouie.net

“the lust for mud” is great. terrific piece.

Osita Nwanevu @ositanwanevu.com · 3d

I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

America, JD Vance tells us, is merely a nation like many others ⁠– a “homeland”, he said upon accepting his nomination to the vice-presidency, for “people with a shared history and a common future”. That’s a vision of American identity that would have described bands of cavepeople in skins just as well or better. Stephen Miller’s proleptic defense of seizing Greenland last week suggests the Trumpists themselves know this. “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he declared. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”

Miller’s laws are the laws of animals. It is true, obviously, that high ideals have long been deployed to obscure or justify predation, here and elsewhere. But Miller’s stance and the stance of the administration is that there aren’t, actually, any high ideals worth pursuing or even pretending to – that the human being, in itself, is nothing so much ⁠and that we are, fundamentally and forever, primitives.

Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization – western or any kind – they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud. The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late – neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil.

It was evil – the standpoint that only might matters, that human morality, and our sense of reality itself, must yield to the turfism of the primates with the biggest clubs – that ginned up the propaganda that provoked an act of terrorism against our legislature and the policemen defending it five years ago.

It is evil that undergirds pronouncements from the same voices responsible for that attack, in defense of the man who shot Renee Nicole Good, that those who disobey the commands of law enforcement, however unsound or unjust, deserve summary execution – that implies, as Fox’s Jesse Watters and others have, that Good’s killing was of trivial significance because she was a lesbian “with pronouns in her bio”.

It is evil that sends innocent men to foreign gulags, evil that condemns hundreds of thousands of destitute people abroad to death without a moment’s discussion or debate about what the country they had depended on might owe them, or the furnishing of alternative arrangements for their wellbeing.

The gutting of USAID remains this administration’s worst and least surprising offense against the human conscience – a president who rejects the idea that we might have obligations to all within our society can’t be expected to wonder or worry about whether we have obligations to those outside of it. This is also why, after all the noise and nonsense about the need to depose the Maduro regime, the Venezuelan people are now being told that regime will be left in mostly in place for as long as it takes to secure and extract the country’s resources on our terms – that Venezuela will not see democracy unless and until it is profitable for the United States.

Democracy has always been a useless abstraction to those who deny we have basic human entitlements – for those who believe, instead, that the idea of human liberty is a luxury for those wealthy and powerful enough to consider themselves our betters rather than the birthright of all.

As many who’ve taken to the streets in protest have noted, the Trump administration’s assaults on liberty here at home are the kinds of abuses that spurred the revolution we will commemorate this year. But no grand revolution is in the offing this time around. The only just and plausible recourse for our situation is politics – understood not merely as the contest to win any given set of elections but as the broader fight to forge a republic that honors and strengthens our humanity. The American project must and will succeed. Its enemies stand for too little. Our lives are worth too much.

January 14, 2026 at 4:01 PM

Mulejail

@mulejail.bsky.social

On West Coast Straussianism and the Imperial Presidency crookedtimber.org/2026/01/13/o...

On West Coast Straussianism and the Imperial Presidency — Crooked Timber

crookedtimber.org

January 14, 2026 at 12:20 AM

Mulejail

@mulejail.bsky.social

Oh dear. Russ Latino is experiencing more than a Kiffin thing.

January 13, 2026 at 1:33 AM

Mulejail

@mulejail.bsky.social

So who wrote Revelations Russ Latino?

Candace Owens?
Nick Fuentes?
Billy Graham?

Lemme look at the SovComm files. I'll find another co-author.

And WTF is this website he got into?

onepurpose.us/demo

Russ Latino tweet about synagogue arson.

January 12, 2026 at 9:59 PM

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Mueller, She Wrote

@muellershewrote.com

“Which is why we are posthumously indicting Paul Revere.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Rep. Pete Sessions: "This protesting that goes on -- honking of horns, obstructing federal law enforcement -- should not be tolerated ... I stand completely with the administration on this effort."

January 12, 2026 at 3:55 PM

Mulejail

@mulejail.bsky.social

Proof that video games warped their youth... and their adulthood.

And look at all those Target shoppers Soros payed!!
twitter.com/FordFischer/...

NOW: Border Patrol Commander Greg Bovino hounded by activists and shoppers protesting his presence as he and a federal agent caravan leave a Target in St Paul, Minnesota for a restroom break.

January 11, 2026 at 11:41 PM

Mulejail

@mulejail.bsky.social

Rahm Emanuel being retweeted by a British white nationalist hired by Phil Bryant who espouses "remigration" ...among other things.

Not a guy I'm voting for.

January 11, 2026 at 10:51 PM

Mulejail

@mulejail.bsky.social

Accelerating Deterioration in Manufacturing Employment, Post-“Liberation Day” econbrowser.com/archives/202...

Accelerating Deterioration in Manufacturing Employment, Post-“Liberation Day” | Econbrowser

econbrowser.com

January 9, 2026 at 9:52 PM

Mulejail

@mulejail.bsky.social

The Average Effective Tariff Rate thru October econbrowser.com/archives/202...

The Average Effective Tariff Rate thru October | Econbrowser

econbrowser.com

January 9, 2026 at 9:51 PM

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Menzie Chinn

@mchinn.bsky.social

Avg effective tariff rate thru Oct #EconSky
econbrowser.com/archives/202...

January 9, 2026 at 8:41 PM

Mulejail

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So Maganolia Tribunal ace writer Kimberly Ross delivers her opinion.

So her narrative is:

Blocking the road?
Execution
Purposely trying to agitate?
Execution
Ignoring officer's command?
Execution
Attempting to flee?
Execution

Apparently the agent has no agency.

January 9, 2026 at 8:23 PM

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."

surreal times

dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous

Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

dailynous.com

January 7, 2026 at 10:36 AM

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Marc Elias

@marcelias.bsky.social

Big Law isn’t just sitting out the fight against DOJ lawsuits. They have virtually disappeared from the fight for voting rights and free and fair elections altogether. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/big-...