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Please help if you can. She tragically lost her young son & is disabled by severe Long COVID. 💔 She is in legit need. Any amount, no matter how small would be appreciated. 🙏🏻 #IPV #StopIPV #DV
#Covid #LongCovid
#CovidIsntOver #WomenInCrisis
#Filicide
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It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.
Trump: "They're paid agitators and insurrectionists. Nobody talks about the fact that $19 billion at a minimum is missing in Minnesota, given to a large degree by Somalians. They've taken it. Somalians. A lot of very low IQ people."
January 20, 2026 at 11:50 PM
It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.
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Breaking news: The Trump administration acknowledged for the first time that members of the U.S. DOGE Service accessed and shared sensitive Social Security data without the awareness of agency officials, months after a whistleblower raised concerns.
Trump administration admits DOGE accessed personal Social Security data
A DOGE employee signed an agreement to share Social Security data with the aim of overturning election results in certain states, according to a new court filing.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 21, 2026 at 12:09 AM
Breaking news: The Trump administration acknowledged for the first time that members of the U.S. DOGE Service accessed and shared sensitive Social Security data without the awareness of agency officials, months after a whistleblower raised concerns.
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"Publicly available information suggests that several [Canadian soldiers] are deployed within units that have been carrying out some of Mr Trump’s most controversial orders."
So that's great. And unsurprising. And something that should've been addressed months ago.
Go along to get along, indeed.
So that's great. And unsurprising. And something that should've been addressed months ago.
Go along to get along, indeed.
It’s not just McBride.
I’m not sure the public realizes how deeply the 🇨🇦 + 🇺🇸 military integrated.
So if CAF are carrying out Trump’s orders on exchange - what happens if there’s a conflict between the two country’s interests?
My latest in The Economist: www.economist.com/the-americas...
I’m not sure the public realizes how deeply the 🇨🇦 + 🇺🇸 military integrated.
So if CAF are carrying out Trump’s orders on exchange - what happens if there’s a conflict between the two country’s interests?
My latest in The Economist: www.economist.com/the-americas...
January 21, 2026 at 12:23 AM
"Publicly available information suggests that several [Canadian soldiers] are deployed within units that have been carrying out some of Mr Trump’s most controversial orders."
So that's great. And unsurprising. And something that should've been addressed months ago.
Go along to get along, indeed.
So that's great. And unsurprising. And something that should've been addressed months ago.
Go along to get along, indeed.
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I have covered many Trump rallies, speeches, and pressers over the past decade.
This still felt extraordinary and weird. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...
This still felt extraordinary and weird. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...
Trump Marks First Year In Office With Unhinged Racist Rant Targeting ‘Very Low IQ’ Somalis
President Donald Trump spent the first anniversary of his second term on...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 20, 2026 at 11:47 PM
I have covered many Trump rallies, speeches, and pressers over the past decade.
This still felt extraordinary and weird. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...
This still felt extraordinary and weird. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...
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Quite the statement from the Prime Minister of Poland
January 20, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Quite the statement from the Prime Minister of Poland
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Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech today is one of the most insightful, albeit sobering, political speeches in a long time. Carney tells it as it is: "If you're not at the table you'll be on the menu."
Well worth finding the time to watch: www.youtube.com/live/dE981Z_...
Well worth finding the time to watch: www.youtube.com/live/dE981Z_...
Davos LIVE: Canadian PM Mark Carney speaks at World Economic Forum
YouTube video by Associated Press
www.youtube.com
January 20, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's speech today is one of the most insightful, albeit sobering, political speeches in a long time. Carney tells it as it is: "If you're not at the table you'll be on the menu."
Well worth finding the time to watch: www.youtube.com/live/dE981Z_...
Well worth finding the time to watch: www.youtube.com/live/dE981Z_...
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A good question. How do we respond to threats to Canadian sovereignty?
🗳️ Democratically - tell our leaders we want a world that respect sovereignty, ours and others
💵 Realistically - we prepare for economic consequences
✊ Safely - we learn about nonviolence www.scienceforpeace.org/post/defendi...
🗳️ Democratically - tell our leaders we want a world that respect sovereignty, ours and others
💵 Realistically - we prepare for economic consequences
✊ Safely - we learn about nonviolence www.scienceforpeace.org/post/defendi...
January 20, 2026 at 3:10 PM
A good question. How do we respond to threats to Canadian sovereignty?
🗳️ Democratically - tell our leaders we want a world that respect sovereignty, ours and others
💵 Realistically - we prepare for economic consequences
✊ Safely - we learn about nonviolence www.scienceforpeace.org/post/defendi...
🗳️ Democratically - tell our leaders we want a world that respect sovereignty, ours and others
💵 Realistically - we prepare for economic consequences
✊ Safely - we learn about nonviolence www.scienceforpeace.org/post/defendi...
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“…There is some information in there that isn't familiar to a lot of people. Including that the US is currently holding three times as many people in immigration detention as were detained in the entire Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939—six years into the Third Reich.”
I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.
Into the abyss
The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
January 20, 2026 at 3:45 AM
“…There is some information in there that isn't familiar to a lot of people. Including that the US is currently holding three times as many people in immigration detention as were detained in the entire Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939—six years into the Third Reich.”
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It's nuts that 42 percent of Americans still view Trump favourably, but it's just as nuts that figures such as Maddow trumpet this as evidence that America has turned on him.
January 20, 2026 at 4:14 AM
It's nuts that 42 percent of Americans still view Trump favourably, but it's just as nuts that figures such as Maddow trumpet this as evidence that America has turned on him.
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🚨"I'm a nurse...my brown patients are choosing to stop chemo because they do not want to be abducted." -ICE protester tells JT Cestkowski about sick Minnesotans foregoing cancer treatment because of ICE terror. LIVE NOW ⬇️
January 19, 2026 at 11:12 PM
🚨"I'm a nurse...my brown patients are choosing to stop chemo because they do not want to be abducted." -ICE protester tells JT Cestkowski about sick Minnesotans foregoing cancer treatment because of ICE terror. LIVE NOW ⬇️
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Just carry your documentation and you’ll be fine”.
“Just comply and you don’t have to worry”.
Dulce Morales was detained for 25 days despite having proof she’s a US citizen.
She’s finally out of the camp but must wear an ankle bracelet.
You can’t “comply” with fascists.
“Just comply and you don’t have to worry”.
Dulce Morales was detained for 25 days despite having proof she’s a US citizen.
She’s finally out of the camp but must wear an ankle bracelet.
You can’t “comply” with fascists.
Maryland woman who says she is US citizen finally released from ICE custody
Dulce Consuelo Díaz Morales was held for 25 days even after attorneys said they presented ICE with US birth certificate
www.theguardian.com
January 20, 2026 at 5:14 AM
Just carry your documentation and you’ll be fine”.
“Just comply and you don’t have to worry”.
Dulce Morales was detained for 25 days despite having proof she’s a US citizen.
She’s finally out of the camp but must wear an ankle bracelet.
You can’t “comply” with fascists.
“Just comply and you don’t have to worry”.
Dulce Morales was detained for 25 days despite having proof she’s a US citizen.
She’s finally out of the camp but must wear an ankle bracelet.
You can’t “comply” with fascists.
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If you want to see the “mainstreaming of hate” in 2026, look at the videos of Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate partying to “Heil Hitler” in Miami this past weekend. This isn’t fringe. It’s the cultural vanguard of the MAGA machine. I break down how the pipeline to extremism was built in my latest piece.
Trump, Vance, and the Mainstreaming of Far-Right Hate
The betrayal behind the rhetoric of safety
andrewweinstein.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 9:47 PM
If you want to see the “mainstreaming of hate” in 2026, look at the videos of Nick Fuentes and Andrew Tate partying to “Heil Hitler” in Miami this past weekend. This isn’t fringe. It’s the cultural vanguard of the MAGA machine. I break down how the pipeline to extremism was built in my latest piece.
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Once again, the fact that we are betraying the Danes & have betrayed the Canadians - quite, literally, the closest of our closest treaty allies - this way is a national shanda that should have immediately ended this presidency a year ago & should immediately end it now.
I think a good strategy for your non-leftist social media presence (ie everywhere but here) is to give this photo - the remains of Danish soldiers returning in coffins after being killed in America's war in Afghanistan - as wide an audience as possible. Remind people who we're betraying
January 20, 2026 at 5:56 AM
Once again, the fact that we are betraying the Danes & have betrayed the Canadians - quite, literally, the closest of our closest treaty allies - this way is a national shanda that should have immediately ended this presidency a year ago & should immediately end it now.
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Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland.
There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.
And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
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There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.
And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
1/
January 20, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Compare & contrast. This is Trump’s demand for Greenland. And this is Hitler’s for the Sudetenland.
There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.
And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
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There is no difference. The language. The unstoppable need to dominate. The megalomania. It’s the same.
And Keir Starmer’s response is appeasement. We are in that moment.
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I think there is some information in there that isn't familiar to a lot of people. Including that the US is currently holding three times as many people in immigration detention as were detained in the entire Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939—six years into the Third Reich.
January 20, 2026 at 3:43 AM
I think there is some information in there that isn't familiar to a lot of people. Including that the US is currently holding three times as many people in immigration detention as were detained in the entire Nazi concentration camp system in spring 1939—six years into the Third Reich.
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"The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards."
is a line that is both timeless and nails the predicament of the crisis we face in this precise moment.
is a line that is both timeless and nails the predicament of the crisis we face in this precise moment.
I wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.
Into the abyss
The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards.
degenerateart.beehiiv.com
January 20, 2026 at 10:38 AM
"The correct response to Dachau was not better training for the guards."
is a line that is both timeless and nails the predicament of the crisis we face in this precise moment.
is a line that is both timeless and nails the predicament of the crisis we face in this precise moment.
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"Battalions of armed federal agents are moving thru neighborhoods, transit hubs, malls & parking lots & staging near churches, mosques & schools. Strangers w/guns have metastasized in spaces where daily life should be routine & safe... like a military occupation."
www.startribune.com/editorial-mi...
www.startribune.com/editorial-mi...
January 20, 2026 at 10:54 AM
"Battalions of armed federal agents are moving thru neighborhoods, transit hubs, malls & parking lots & staging near churches, mosques & schools. Strangers w/guns have metastasized in spaces where daily life should be routine & safe... like a military occupation."
www.startribune.com/editorial-mi...
www.startribune.com/editorial-mi...
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Trump-Musk want to annex Canada, Greenland & Panama. Not only for the minerals, but to create a Technocracy based on Musk's family fantasy lore. See links.
Putin & Trump are all in w/Musk because it dovetails with Trump's Napoleonic fantasy & Putin's imperialism.
Technate map below. Look familiar?
Putin & Trump are all in w/Musk because it dovetails with Trump's Napoleonic fantasy & Putin's imperialism.
Technate map below. Look familiar?
January 20, 2026 at 7:04 AM
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Trump posts an image depicting Canada and Greenland as part of the United States
January 20, 2026 at 6:09 AM
Trump posts an image depicting Canada and Greenland as part of the United States
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Weird criticism to level at a play about a historical time period in which every single female stage role was performed by a person with a penis
Personally if I was Anne Boleyn I’d be far more upset that someone made a musical about my head getting cut off
January 19, 2026 at 11:01 PM
Weird criticism to level at a play about a historical time period in which every single female stage role was performed by a person with a penis
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Four GOP Senators.
At most four Repubs in the House.
Together they could stop nearly all the mad-king's rampages. They would be known to history as Profiles in Courage. They might/would lose the next election. But people have sacrificed a lot more, for a lot less.
At most four Repubs in the House.
Together they could stop nearly all the mad-king's rampages. They would be known to history as Profiles in Courage. They might/would lose the next election. But people have sacrificed a lot more, for a lot less.
I can't repeat this enough.
I've said this before and I'll say it again.
It would only take a tiny handful of Republican Congress members or senators to stop the slide of America toward authoritarian fascism, but nope. They're all in.
It would only take a tiny handful of Republican Congress members or senators to stop the slide of America toward authoritarian fascism, but nope. They're all in.
January 17, 2026 at 8:41 PM
Four GOP Senators.
At most four Repubs in the House.
Together they could stop nearly all the mad-king's rampages. They would be known to history as Profiles in Courage. They might/would lose the next election. But people have sacrificed a lot more, for a lot less.
At most four Repubs in the House.
Together they could stop nearly all the mad-king's rampages. They would be known to history as Profiles in Courage. They might/would lose the next election. But people have sacrificed a lot more, for a lot less.
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When Miller said that ICE agents had immunity I didn’t realize that meant they could kill people and not even be investigated.
He wasn’t investigated and cleared.
He was whisked away and defended.
They’re telling every ICE agent they can kill people and get away with it.
He wasn’t investigated and cleared.
He was whisked away and defended.
They’re telling every ICE agent they can kill people and get away with it.
January 18, 2026 at 8:58 PM
When Miller said that ICE agents had immunity I didn’t realize that meant they could kill people and not even be investigated.
He wasn’t investigated and cleared.
He was whisked away and defended.
They’re telling every ICE agent they can kill people and get away with it.
He wasn’t investigated and cleared.
He was whisked away and defended.
They’re telling every ICE agent they can kill people and get away with it.
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Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.