Rodrigo Saldaña Zárate
@rodrigosz0.bsky.social
Yes, I came over from twitter.
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Hegseth endorses one of the most prominent Christian nationalists who has suggested women shouldn't be allowed to vote. Once upon a time this would be a controversy. Nowadays, it's just Tuesday.
Doug Wilson was the preacher today at the latest monthly Christian worship at the Pentagon. My report:
publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/doug-wilso...
publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/doug-wilso...
Doug Wilson Preaches at Pentagon, Compares Services to Day of Pentecost
Controversial Christian Nationalist preacher Doug Wilson stood at a podium inside the Pentagon on Tuesday as the guest preacher for the latest monthly Christian worship service held there for leaders ...
publicwitness.wordandway.org
February 18, 2026 at 2:25 AM
Hegseth endorses one of the most prominent Christian nationalists who has suggested women shouldn't be allowed to vote. Once upon a time this would be a controversy. Nowadays, it's just Tuesday.
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Prediction market traders are “seeking alpha” by buying TV antennas for a millisecond of speed, timing the Super Bowl national anthem rehearsal in person and uncovering not-yet-public press releases hiding in the HTML of websites. Anything for an edge!
www.npr.org/2026/02/17/n...
www.npr.org/2026/02/17/n...
TV antennas and Super Bowl rehearsals: How prediction market traders seek an edge
As prediction markets boom, competition is heating up. So traders go the extra mile for a fraction-of-a-second advantage or to sleuth out information nobody else has. It can lead to a huge payday.
www.npr.org
February 17, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Prediction market traders are “seeking alpha” by buying TV antennas for a millisecond of speed, timing the Super Bowl national anthem rehearsal in person and uncovering not-yet-public press releases hiding in the HTML of websites. Anything for an edge!
www.npr.org/2026/02/17/n...
www.npr.org/2026/02/17/n...
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Democracy dies in lies! We don’t have a voter fraud problem. We have a voter suppression problem. Try to earn our votes rather than trying to make it harder for voters! #votingrights.
The SAVE Act includes restrictive documentation requirements that could falsely block eligible voters from the ballot box.
Legislation should remove barriers to access—not build them.
Tell Congress to vote NO: https://civilrights.quorum.us/campaign/155074/
Legislation should remove barriers to access—not build them.
Tell Congress to vote NO: https://civilrights.quorum.us/campaign/155074/
February 18, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Democracy dies in lies! We don’t have a voter fraud problem. We have a voter suppression problem. Try to earn our votes rather than trying to make it harder for voters! #votingrights.
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The way that Noem and Hegseth treat members of the service is, were we looking at another country, would be the kind of thing that might fuel a coup.
Or at least leading military to defy, oh, say orders to interfere with elections: www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
Or at least leading military to defy, oh, say orders to interfere with elections: www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
Noem's use of Coast Guard resources strains her relationship with the military branch, sources say
Some early decisions by the homeland security secretary, including to divert Coast Guard resources from a search-and-rescue mission to the deportation of immigrants, set the tone early.
www.nbcnews.com
February 18, 2026 at 5:02 AM
The way that Noem and Hegseth treat members of the service is, were we looking at another country, would be the kind of thing that might fuel a coup.
Or at least leading military to defy, oh, say orders to interfere with elections: www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
Or at least leading military to defy, oh, say orders to interfere with elections: www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
The process of 'normalization' compounds in unexpected ways. Ironically though, what the elites fear most is not realizing we've reached any "point of no return" but the slippery slope of "okay, we all agree this one thing went too far, but what if this other thing went too far, too?".
February 18, 2026 at 3:12 AM
The process of 'normalization' compounds in unexpected ways. Ironically though, what the elites fear most is not realizing we've reached any "point of no return" but the slippery slope of "okay, we all agree this one thing went too far, but what if this other thing went too far, too?".
Sometimes evil is indistinguishable from greed meeting weaponized incompetence.
But if there's no one to blame, I'm pretty sure EVERYONE is to blame.
But if there's no one to blame, I'm pretty sure EVERYONE is to blame.
February 18, 2026 at 1:40 AM
Sometimes evil is indistinguishable from greed meeting weaponized incompetence.
But if there's no one to blame, I'm pretty sure EVERYONE is to blame.
But if there's no one to blame, I'm pretty sure EVERYONE is to blame.
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Also, idk guys immigrantjustice.org/press-releas...
February 15, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Also, idk guys immigrantjustice.org/press-releas...
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OK, confess, who are the people who clapped for this?
Hillary Clinton: "More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this first year of Trump's second term."
February 18, 2026 at 12:55 AM
OK, confess, who are the people who clapped for this?
We're the more efficient fascists, by Ezra Klein.
Hillary Clinton: "More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this first year of Trump's second term."
February 18, 2026 at 12:52 AM
We're the more efficient fascists, by Ezra Klein.
community note: the same user that makes hours long video essays also apologized for her "naivete" helping sanewash JK Rowling's transphobia.
community note: this user did a collab with hillary clinton
This thought experiment where the DNC chooses a candidate based on a negotiation with progressive commentators is fiction. I’m engaging with the grim reality of the American electorate. Look who they just put into office again. No one’s waiting on my permission to run.
February 18, 2026 at 12:50 AM
community note: the same user that makes hours long video essays also apologized for her "naivete" helping sanewash JK Rowling's transphobia.
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Hillary saying “my husband and Barack Obama deported more people” really isn’t good messaging and a prime example of why she needs to just step away.
February 16, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Hillary saying “my husband and Barack Obama deported more people” really isn’t good messaging and a prime example of why she needs to just step away.
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reminder: you don't hate The New York Times enough, you just think you do
February 16, 2026 at 7:34 PM
reminder: you don't hate The New York Times enough, you just think you do
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This is a stark departure from common practice in journalism. Looks like an attempt to punish AOC for having the temerity to talk overseas. If the NY Times quoted everyone like this – not cleaning up stammers, repeated words and "um" – its quotations would look much different. They'd be a mess.
February 16, 2026 at 7:24 PM
This is a stark departure from common practice in journalism. Looks like an attempt to punish AOC for having the temerity to talk overseas. If the NY Times quoted everyone like this – not cleaning up stammers, repeated words and "um" – its quotations would look much different. They'd be a mess.
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"Alexandria claims to be '36 years young', making her born in the antiquated era of the 1900s. Veteran of a time when smartphones were rare and many of us were forced to use older technology such as pay phones to make urgent calls, she hardly looks her true age, but it often shows in her verbiage."
February 17, 2026 at 2:50 AM
"Alexandria claims to be '36 years young', making her born in the antiquated era of the 1900s. Veteran of a time when smartphones were rare and many of us were forced to use older technology such as pay phones to make urgent calls, she hardly looks her true age, but it often shows in her verbiage."
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This is embarrassing, @nytimes.com . If you are going to do quotes at the mic, stop sanewashing the president and put his quotes in the paper and on x, the everything app.
February 16, 2026 at 7:14 PM
This is embarrassing, @nytimes.com . If you are going to do quotes at the mic, stop sanewashing the president and put his quotes in the paper and on x, the everything app.
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Calling it now: the US political media's treatment of AOC is going to make their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore look like a model of balance and discretion.
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 7:38 PM
Calling it now: the US political media's treatment of AOC is going to make their treatment of Hillary Clinton or Al Gore look like a model of balance and discretion.
Why would AOC make Trump stumble so often?
Absolutely enraging headline.
There's another world leader who has a lot more power and actually stumbles quite a bit more than AOC. Really curious why the Times doesn't frame his comments as having "some stumbles" as well!
There's another world leader who has a lot more power and actually stumbles quite a bit more than AOC. Really curious why the Times doesn't frame his comments as having "some stumbles" as well!
February 18, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Why would AOC make Trump stumble so often?
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"The cruelty will continue until billionaire morale improves" is the next horizon of leftist critique.
You heard it here first.
Also, if you somehow found this looking for validation, you're not alone, we may be looking at full-decoupling from the crisis indicators and the two economies, as a whole.
You heard it here first.
Also, if you somehow found this looking for validation, you're not alone, we may be looking at full-decoupling from the crisis indicators and the two economies, as a whole.
February 17, 2026 at 9:32 PM
"The cruelty will continue until billionaire morale improves" is the next horizon of leftist critique.
You heard it here first.
Also, if you somehow found this looking for validation, you're not alone, we may be looking at full-decoupling from the crisis indicators and the two economies, as a whole.
You heard it here first.
Also, if you somehow found this looking for validation, you're not alone, we may be looking at full-decoupling from the crisis indicators and the two economies, as a whole.
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Reupping this today
A Dem that runs as pro trans gets a SIXTY ONE POINT BUMP WITH DEM VOTERS and a NINE POINT BUMP WITH INDIES over ones that go silent.
The failure to get this is a prior beliefs/incentives problem but it's also a research problem. The current establishment's understanding of voters is utterly cooked.
The failure to get this is a prior beliefs/incentives problem but it's also a research problem. The current establishment's understanding of voters is utterly cooked.
Relevant to that is another finding in the poll. A theoretical officeholder that speaks up about these issues is preferred by:
ICE raids D+72 I+40
Trans D+61 I+9
Gaza genocide D+33 I-24
Guessing that Gaza one was a question wording effect, but if you're running a a Dem, those are your voters.
ICE raids D+72 I+40
Trans D+61 I+9
Gaza genocide D+33 I-24
Guessing that Gaza one was a question wording effect, but if you're running a a Dem, those are your voters.
February 17, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Reupping this today
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Wanted to share the Workplace Justice Lab's latest piece on the story behind the story of the Minneapolis occupation through the eyes of our close partners in organizing, government and small business.
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The Stories Behind the Stories
Email from Workplace Justice Lab The impact, organizing response and lessons on the Minneapolis ICE siege The Month in Review: Minneapolis by Janice Fine This month’s newsletter focuses on the ICE
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February 16, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Wanted to share the Workplace Justice Lab's latest piece on the story behind the story of the Minneapolis occupation through the eyes of our close partners in organizing, government and small business.
conta.cc/3O8RFvL
conta.cc/3O8RFvL
I find it interesting that amid a small sea of "far leftists" and " commentators" complaining that @aoc.bsky.social isn't leftist enough, only @hasanabirepeater.bsky.social is willing to say "@mattduss.bsky.social is wrong".
Does no one else know where her foreign policy takes come from? I doubt it.
Does no one else know where her foreign policy takes come from? I doubt it.
February 17, 2026 at 10:19 AM
I find it interesting that amid a small sea of "far leftists" and " commentators" complaining that @aoc.bsky.social isn't leftist enough, only @hasanabirepeater.bsky.social is willing to say "@mattduss.bsky.social is wrong".
Does no one else know where her foreign policy takes come from? I doubt it.
Does no one else know where her foreign policy takes come from? I doubt it.
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If Rubio gave a speech to Europe in 1941, he wouldn’t mention that the Germans invaded France.
In a speech at the Munich Security Conference, US Secretary of State Rubio emphasized the importance of cooperation between Europe and the United States. In a conciliatory tone, he spoke about the shared history of the US and Europe and how transatlantic values were born.
February 14, 2026 at 2:29 PM
If Rubio gave a speech to Europe in 1941, he wouldn’t mention that the Germans invaded France.
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This year at the Munich Security Conference vs. Last year at the Munich Security Conference
February 15, 2026 at 1:04 PM
This year at the Munich Security Conference vs. Last year at the Munich Security Conference