Rob Rankin
@robrankin.bsky.social
composer | professor U of Utah and UVU |
husband (@maxecoleman.bsky.social) | chicago cubs fan | occasional writer of words (http://robrankin.substack.com)
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husband (@maxecoleman.bsky.social) | chicago cubs fan | occasional writer of words (http://robrankin.substack.com)
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From @theathletic.com: Indiana won its first college football national championship, finishing the season undefeated with a 27-21 win over Miami. nyti.ms/49Q0Icb
Indiana completes one of sport’s most astonishing turnarounds with first national title
Indiana wins the national championship and breaks college football in the process.
nyti.ms
January 20, 2026 at 4:41 AM
From @theathletic.com: Indiana won its first college football national championship, finishing the season undefeated with a 27-21 win over Miami. nyti.ms/49Q0Icb
Very proud IU grad over here! Go Hoosiers!!
January 20, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Very proud IU grad over here! Go Hoosiers!!
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We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
Footage shows Danish troops arriving in Greenland as part of a new military deployment. Among the personnel who landed on the island is Major General Peter H. Boysen, Chief of the Danish Army Command. #Greenland
January 19, 2026 at 10:59 PM
We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.
Some especially timely thoughts from MLK’s Letter from Birmingham Jail, reprinted in the *essential* @libraryofamerica.bsky.social two volume set of Civil Rights journalism
January 19, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Some especially timely thoughts from MLK’s Letter from Birmingham Jail, reprinted in the *essential* @libraryofamerica.bsky.social two volume set of Civil Rights journalism
Given how this cult works, there should be three descriptions of a GOP member of congress: (R-[State]-[Are They Retiring]). The *only* ones even remotely speaking up against Trump are retiring or are not seeking reelection.
Rep Don Bacon (R-NE) says he anticipates that Trump will be impeached if he invades Greenland. omaha.com/news/local/g...
Rep. Don Bacon says House could impeach Trump if U.S. invades Greenland
Rep. Don Bacon tells The World-Herald that there would be GOP support for an impeachment of Donald Trump if the U.S. invaded Greenland.
omaha.com
January 15, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Given how this cult works, there should be three descriptions of a GOP member of congress: (R-[State]-[Are They Retiring]). The *only* ones even remotely speaking up against Trump are retiring or are not seeking reelection.
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They are burning synagogues again in the US. "A fire heavily damaged Mississippi’s largest synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship in northeast Jackson that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights." mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
Predawn fire reduces parts of Mississippi's largest synagogue to charred ruins - Mississippi Today
A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights...
mississippitoday.org
January 11, 2026 at 4:33 AM
They are burning synagogues again in the US. "A fire heavily damaged Mississippi’s largest synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship in northeast Jackson that the Ku Klux Klan bombed in 1967 because the rabbi supported civil rights." mississippitoday.org/2026/01/10/f...
The obvious problem with this “we all need to live with each other” rhetoric is that one side’s sole ideology is the expulsion of an entire sector of society because they don’t want to live with them.
New CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil closing the broadcast from MN last night.
January 9, 2026 at 1:30 PM
The obvious problem with this “we all need to live with each other” rhetoric is that one side’s sole ideology is the expulsion of an entire sector of society because they don’t want to live with them.
There seems to be this belief that if Trump is throwing out the entire post-WWII order, there must be SOME rational or ideological reason behind it, when in reality we are taking Greenland because Fred Trump never told his son he loved him.
Please everyone stop writing articles about "defense" or "economic" reasons to occupy Greenland, that's all irrelevant
January 9, 2026 at 11:11 AM
There seems to be this belief that if Trump is throwing out the entire post-WWII order, there must be SOME rational or ideological reason behind it, when in reality we are taking Greenland because Fred Trump never told his son he loved him.
This is just adorable. An 18 year old Anton Webern.
January 8, 2026 at 12:17 AM
This is just adorable. An 18 year old Anton Webern.
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"Maybe we're at the McCarthy moment — do you have no decency? We have someone dead in their car for no reason whatsoever"
MN Gov. Tim Walz speaks at press conference after the fatal shooting of a 37 year-old woman, U.S. citizen by ICE in Minneapolis.
www.ms.now/news/federal...
MN Gov. Tim Walz speaks at press conference after the fatal shooting of a 37 year-old woman, U.S. citizen by ICE in Minneapolis.
www.ms.now/news/federal...
January 7, 2026 at 9:11 PM
"Maybe we're at the McCarthy moment — do you have no decency? We have someone dead in their car for no reason whatsoever"
MN Gov. Tim Walz speaks at press conference after the fatal shooting of a 37 year-old woman, U.S. citizen by ICE in Minneapolis.
www.ms.now/news/federal...
MN Gov. Tim Walz speaks at press conference after the fatal shooting of a 37 year-old woman, U.S. citizen by ICE in Minneapolis.
www.ms.now/news/federal...
Teaching with this view never gets old
January 7, 2026 at 2:49 PM
Teaching with this view never gets old
The serious report this fifth anniversary of Jan. 6th deserves @pbsnews.org: www.youtube.com/watch?v=klgj...
5 years later, the fight over how Jan. 6 is remembered continues
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
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January 7, 2026 at 1:44 AM
The serious report this fifth anniversary of Jan. 6th deserves @pbsnews.org: www.youtube.com/watch?v=klgj...
It’s like clock work:
1) Liberals who pay attention claim that the latest Trump admin action is fascistic.
2) Fox News and GOP congressmen take a day to dismiss it as insane.
3) Trump admin puts out a social media image that 100% confirms part 1.
1) Liberals who pay attention claim that the latest Trump admin action is fascistic.
2) Fox News and GOP congressmen take a day to dismiss it as insane.
3) Trump admin puts out a social media image that 100% confirms part 1.
Oh so it doesn't count as a war, which you guys claimed to be against, if you don't cross the Atlantic
January 6, 2026 at 12:26 AM
It’s like clock work:
1) Liberals who pay attention claim that the latest Trump admin action is fascistic.
2) Fox News and GOP congressmen take a day to dismiss it as insane.
3) Trump admin puts out a social media image that 100% confirms part 1.
1) Liberals who pay attention claim that the latest Trump admin action is fascistic.
2) Fox News and GOP congressmen take a day to dismiss it as insane.
3) Trump admin puts out a social media image that 100% confirms part 1.
As a reminder, Trump spread a false story in the wake of the Asheville floods that Doug Emhoff was bulldozing homes to make way for a lithium mine. This led to Asheville residents getting into conflicts with FEMA workers.
Every accusation is a confession.
Every accusation is a confession.
A high-ranking official in the Interior Department is drawing scrutiny from ethics experts because she failed to disclose her family’s financial interest in the nation’s largest lithium mine that had been approved by her agency, according to state and federal records.
The Trump Administration Approved a Big Lithium Mine. A Top Official’s Husband Profited.
Karen Budd-Falen, the No. 3 at the Interior Department, didn’t disclose a $3.5 million water-rights contract between her husband and the developers of a Nevada mine, records show.
nyti.ms
January 3, 2026 at 8:17 PM
As a reminder, Trump spread a false story in the wake of the Asheville floods that Doug Emhoff was bulldozing homes to make way for a lithium mine. This led to Asheville residents getting into conflicts with FEMA workers.
Every accusation is a confession.
Every accusation is a confession.
It’s Iraq with truth serum
Trump just now: “We’re going to get the oil flowing the way it should be.”
January 3, 2026 at 5:19 PM
It’s Iraq with truth serum
Kind of shocked this press conference isn’t being accompanied by a sick electric guitar
January 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Kind of shocked this press conference isn’t being accompanied by a sick electric guitar
“Hello darkness my old friend”
January 3, 2026 at 4:52 PM
“Hello darkness my old friend”
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Trump: "We are going to run the country." What does that possibly mean?
January 3, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Trump: "We are going to run the country." What does that possibly mean?
The television news coverage in the US right now is the pretty pathetic (John Bolton on MS NOW). The only substantive coverage happening right now is on @en.france24.com
www.youtube.com/live/Ap-UM1O...
www.youtube.com/live/Ap-UM1O...
FRANCE 24 English – LIVE – International Breaking News & Top stories - 24/7 stream • FRANCE 24
YouTube video by FRANCE 24 English
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January 3, 2026 at 2:52 PM
The television news coverage in the US right now is the pretty pathetic (John Bolton on MS NOW). The only substantive coverage happening right now is on @en.france24.com
www.youtube.com/live/Ap-UM1O...
www.youtube.com/live/Ap-UM1O...
Entering the second quarter of the 21st century and hearing national security pundits speak about the “day after plan.” Everything old is new again!
January 3, 2026 at 1:24 PM
Entering the second quarter of the 21st century and hearing national security pundits speak about the “day after plan.” Everything old is new again!
This tarnishes the one month legacy of the FIFA Peace Prize
January 3, 2026 at 12:48 PM
This tarnishes the one month legacy of the FIFA Peace Prize
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So, the President has gone to war with a foreign country and kidnapped its leader because… why?
January 3, 2026 at 9:46 AM
So, the President has gone to war with a foreign country and kidnapped its leader because… why?