Wishfulthinking
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#Democracy💙
#USConstitution🇺🇸 #Christian🙏 #ProRights🌊 #SlavaUkraine🇺🇦#UTLonghorns🤘
#USConstitution🇺🇸 #Christian🙏 #ProRights🌊 #SlavaUkraine🇺🇦#UTLonghorns🤘
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Her ignorance is on display yet again.
Katie Miller Gets Blunt History Lesson After Throwing Tantrum Over Basic Tenet Of American Democracy
www.comicsands.com
February 1, 2026 at 5:36 AM
Her ignorance is on display yet again.
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What's most amazing about this is the fact that the WSJ needed a “study” to figure it out.
February 1, 2026 at 3:33 AM
What's most amazing about this is the fact that the WSJ needed a “study” to figure it out.
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A sworn FBI tip alleges Donald Donald Trump threatened to “disappear” a girl and have her family killed—testimony given under penalty of perjury, not a tweet. Democracy demands scrutiny of power; silence protects predators. Law, not intimidation, must rule. #EpsteinFiles #AccountabilityNow
Witness told FBI Trump threatened to ‘disappear’ girl and have her ‘whole family killed’
Under penalty of perjury, a witness told the FBI back in 2016 that they had “personally witnessed” President Donald Trump threaten to “disappear” a girl and have her entire family killed, according to...
www.rawstory.com
January 31, 2026 at 7:13 PM
A sworn FBI tip alleges Donald Donald Trump threatened to “disappear” a girl and have her family killed—testimony given under penalty of perjury, not a tweet. Democracy demands scrutiny of power; silence protects predators. Law, not intimidation, must rule. #EpsteinFiles #AccountabilityNow
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“Less than two weeks before Jeffrey Epstein’s death in jail, his lawyers and Manhattan federal prosecutors met and discussed his potential cooperation, several documents within a cache of newly released investigative files state.” #EpsteinFiles
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Epstein lawyers discussed possibility of cooperation with prosecutors days before his death, files reveal
Less than two weeks before convicted abuser was found dead, lawyers met with Manhattan federal prosecutors
www.theguardian.com
January 31, 2026 at 7:07 PM
“Less than two weeks before Jeffrey Epstein’s death in jail, his lawyers and Manhattan federal prosecutors met and discussed his potential cooperation, several documents within a cache of newly released investigative files state.” #EpsteinFiles
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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European powers and the United States could have stopped russian terrorists from causing a blackout in Ukraine very easily. They chose not to.
It’s -12 C in Kyiv now. Russians are executing a Kholodomor (genocide by freezing cold) and the West is their accomplice.
It’s -12 C in Kyiv now. Russians are executing a Kholodomor (genocide by freezing cold) and the West is their accomplice.
January 31, 2026 at 6:55 PM
European powers and the United States could have stopped russian terrorists from causing a blackout in Ukraine very easily. They chose not to.
It’s -12 C in Kyiv now. Russians are executing a Kholodomor (genocide by freezing cold) and the West is their accomplice.
It’s -12 C in Kyiv now. Russians are executing a Kholodomor (genocide by freezing cold) and the West is their accomplice.
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It's no surprise why the US is "backsliding" fast: Putin is desperate in Ukraine and needs help.
Trump's problem is, he picked a tough speed. It works to go slower and gradually erode rights, as in Orban's Hungary. Or faster, to dominate and cause terror, as in Hitler's Germany. In between is hard.
Trump's problem is, he picked a tough speed. It works to go slower and gradually erode rights, as in Orban's Hungary. Or faster, to dominate and cause terror, as in Hitler's Germany. In between is hard.
New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries.
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...
January 31, 2026 at 6:15 PM
It's no surprise why the US is "backsliding" fast: Putin is desperate in Ukraine and needs help.
Trump's problem is, he picked a tough speed. It works to go slower and gradually erode rights, as in Orban's Hungary. Or faster, to dominate and cause terror, as in Hitler's Germany. In between is hard.
Trump's problem is, he picked a tough speed. It works to go slower and gradually erode rights, as in Orban's Hungary. Or faster, to dominate and cause terror, as in Hitler's Germany. In between is hard.
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🇺🇦💪This is Ukraine. In a difficult moment, without light, heating or water, people came out to be together. We will never give up.
January 31, 2026 at 6:53 PM
🇺🇦💪This is Ukraine. In a difficult moment, without light, heating or water, people came out to be together. We will never give up.
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❗️In the 🇷🇺Samara Duma, a local politician called for an immediate end to the war against Ukraine.
69-year-old Grigoriy Yeremeyev urged the deputies to “share with Putin the responsibility for the failure of the SVO.” He also stated that “the goals of the SVO are, in principle,
69-year-old Grigoriy Yeremeyev urged the deputies to “share with Putin the responsibility for the failure of the SVO.” He also stated that “the goals of the SVO are, in principle,
January 31, 2026 at 7:10 PM
❗️In the 🇷🇺Samara Duma, a local politician called for an immediate end to the war against Ukraine.
69-year-old Grigoriy Yeremeyev urged the deputies to “share with Putin the responsibility for the failure of the SVO.” He also stated that “the goals of the SVO are, in principle,
69-year-old Grigoriy Yeremeyev urged the deputies to “share with Putin the responsibility for the failure of the SVO.” He also stated that “the goals of the SVO are, in principle,
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🇺🇦🇪🇺 Zelenskyy: Ending Aid to Ukraine Creates Risk of New War in Europe
❗️ He explained that some security guarantees are directly linked to European institutions, and there is no certainty yet that the sides are close to a final agreement.
Read more 👀
theukrainianreview.info/zelenskyy-en...
❗️ He explained that some security guarantees are directly linked to European institutions, and there is no certainty yet that the sides are close to a final agreement.
Read more 👀
theukrainianreview.info/zelenskyy-en...
Zelenskyy: Ending Aid to Ukraine Creates Risk of New War in Europe
Ending support for Ukraine in its war against Russia could lead to further aggression by Moscow against other European countries. Ukrainian President Volodymyr
theukrainianreview.info
January 31, 2026 at 7:14 PM
🇺🇦🇪🇺 Zelenskyy: Ending Aid to Ukraine Creates Risk of New War in Europe
❗️ He explained that some security guarantees are directly linked to European institutions, and there is no certainty yet that the sides are close to a final agreement.
Read more 👀
theukrainianreview.info/zelenskyy-en...
❗️ He explained that some security guarantees are directly linked to European institutions, and there is no certainty yet that the sides are close to a final agreement.
Read more 👀
theukrainianreview.info/zelenskyy-en...
January 31, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Call & write your Senators. Defund & abolish ICE. Consider defund DHS. Require Miller & Noem step down.
January 29, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Call & write your Senators. Defund & abolish ICE. Consider defund DHS. Require Miller & Noem step down.
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Tom Homan is lying again. He insinuates that stopping undocumented people at the border is saving American lives from #fentanyl overdoses.
Dishonest. Nearly all fentanyl is smuggled by U.S. citizens, as I explained @newrepublic.com. @dceiver.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1786...
Dishonest. Nearly all fentanyl is smuggled by U.S. citizens, as I explained @newrepublic.com. @dceiver.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1786...
How the Media Falls for the Right’s Fentanyl Lies
The migrants being demonized for the drugs coming over the border aren’t responsible for the crisis, but you’d never know that from the news.
newrepublic.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Tom Homan is lying again. He insinuates that stopping undocumented people at the border is saving American lives from #fentanyl overdoses.
Dishonest. Nearly all fentanyl is smuggled by U.S. citizens, as I explained @newrepublic.com. @dceiver.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1786...
Dishonest. Nearly all fentanyl is smuggled by U.S. citizens, as I explained @newrepublic.com. @dceiver.bsky.social newrepublic.com/article/1786...
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social @senategop.govpeeps.us @housedemocrats.bsky.social @houserepublicans.bsky.social
The only reason Homan is there is to rachet up Trump's agenda
Just another snake
Call Your Senators 202 224-3121
BLOCK ICE FUNDING
Just another snake
Call Your Senators 202 224-3121
BLOCK ICE FUNDING
This is the improvement over Bovino?
Keep the pressure on Senators - call yours and tell them to block ICE funding- call 202-224-3121 or text "sign PUZXNZ" to 50409 to get letter, fax, or email sent
Keep the pressure on Senators - call yours and tell them to block ICE funding- call 202-224-3121 or text "sign PUZXNZ" to 50409 to get letter, fax, or email sent
January 29, 2026 at 4:13 PM
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At the most fundamental level, the Trump admin is still treating peaceful protesters as the aggressors and the heavily armed government militias as the victims, even though Homan, Miller, Noem, Trump have spent months torquing them into a frenzy of hate and telling them they can act with impunity.
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 2:52 PM
At the most fundamental level, the Trump admin is still treating peaceful protesters as the aggressors and the heavily armed government militias as the victims, even though Homan, Miller, Noem, Trump have spent months torquing them into a frenzy of hate and telling them they can act with impunity.
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This is the escalation cycle I've been talking about for months, one Homan can't pretend DHS is not part of.
DHS adopts aggressive tactics and arrest quotas, the community responds angrily, agents mask up and DHS deploys more, the response gets bigger/angrier, agents get more aggressive, etc...
DHS adopts aggressive tactics and arrest quotas, the community responds angrily, agents mask up and DHS deploys more, the response gets bigger/angrier, agents get more aggressive, etc...
CNN: How did we get to a place where we had Bovino having Border Patrol agents stopping citizens in interior of the country, asking them ID, creating fear? Who made the decisions to allow this kind of operation to proceed?
HOMAN: The reason for the massive deployment is bc of the threats & violence
HOMAN: The reason for the massive deployment is bc of the threats & violence
January 29, 2026 at 3:24 PM
This is the escalation cycle I've been talking about for months, one Homan can't pretend DHS is not part of.
DHS adopts aggressive tactics and arrest quotas, the community responds angrily, agents mask up and DHS deploys more, the response gets bigger/angrier, agents get more aggressive, etc...
DHS adopts aggressive tactics and arrest quotas, the community responds angrily, agents mask up and DHS deploys more, the response gets bigger/angrier, agents get more aggressive, etc...
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"In theater" is a nice touch for describing Minneapolis. Worth noting the people involved, from Trump to Miller to Noem to Homan to Bovino to the majority of ICE and CBP goons, have never served in the military. They're playing out a war fantasy, dressing up in army costumes, like incredible losers.
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
January 29, 2026 at 3:51 PM
"In theater" is a nice touch for describing Minneapolis. Worth noting the people involved, from Trump to Miller to Noem to Homan to Bovino to the majority of ICE and CBP goons, have never served in the military. They're playing out a war fantasy, dressing up in army costumes, like incredible losers.
Homan just called Steven Miller brilliant the other day. Require Miller & Noem step down. Abolish ICE. Consider defunding DHS. @senatedemocrats.bsky.social @senategop.govpeeps.us @houserepublicans.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social
"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me."
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
--Homan in February
"Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely."
-- Tom Homan in March
"I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room"
-- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman
Homan: "I begged for the last two months on TV for the rhetoric to stop. I said in March -- if the rhetoric doesn't stop, there is gonna be bloodshed. And there has been. I wish I wasn't right. I don't want to see anybody die."
January 29, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Homan just called Steven Miller brilliant the other day. Require Miller & Noem step down. Abolish ICE. Consider defunding DHS. @senatedemocrats.bsky.social @senategop.govpeeps.us @houserepublicans.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social @senategop.govpeeps.us @houserepublicans.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social ICE is acting like mercenaries. No more funding for ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish DHS. Border Patrol at borders. States can handle deportation like they did under Obama, Biden & previous admins
Any lingering hope that Homan was in any way a better front for all this has predictably evaporated.
There is only one responsible, starting position now: abolish ICE.
Until then, a plague on all their houses.
There is only one responsible, starting position now: abolish ICE.
Until then, a plague on all their houses.
CNN: How did we get to a place where we had Bovino having Border Patrol agents stopping citizens in interior of the country, asking them ID, creating fear? Who made the decisions to allow this kind of operation to proceed?
HOMAN: The reason for the massive deployment is bc of the threats & violence
HOMAN: The reason for the massive deployment is bc of the threats & violence
January 29, 2026 at 4:08 PM
@senatedemocrats.bsky.social @senategop.govpeeps.us @houserepublicans.bsky.social @housedemocrats.bsky.social ICE is acting like mercenaries. No more funding for ICE. Abolish ICE. Abolish DHS. Border Patrol at borders. States can handle deportation like they did under Obama, Biden & previous admins
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Republicans shrugged while children were murdered in schools for years. But one protester with a gun? Suddenly guns are evil.
January 28, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Republicans shrugged while children were murdered in schools for years. But one protester with a gun? Suddenly guns are evil.
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Neo-Nazis busted as part of plot to create paramilitary team to take out 'high-value targets,' FBI says www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
Neo-Nazis busted as part of plot to create paramilitary team to take out 'high-value targets,' FBI says
2 white supremacist linked to a neo-Nazi group in Tenn., now face federal charges, accused of attempting to create a unit capable of taking out "high-value targets," according court documents
www.newschannel5.com
January 29, 2026 at 3:19 AM
Neo-Nazis busted as part of plot to create paramilitary team to take out 'high-value targets,' FBI says www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...
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“The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth…
And once truth is gone, they can build an empire of lies…
Just keep repeating the facts.
Stop giving equal time to lies.”
Garry Kasparov
bsky.app/profile/garr...
And once truth is gone, they can build an empire of lies…
Just keep repeating the facts.
Stop giving equal time to lies.”
Garry Kasparov
bsky.app/profile/garr...
January 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
“The point of modern propaganda isn’t only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth…
And once truth is gone, they can build an empire of lies…
Just keep repeating the facts.
Stop giving equal time to lies.”
Garry Kasparov
bsky.app/profile/garr...
And once truth is gone, they can build an empire of lies…
Just keep repeating the facts.
Stop giving equal time to lies.”
Garry Kasparov
bsky.app/profile/garr...