Sanho Tree
@sanho.bsky.social
Fellow, Inst. for Policy Studies. Ex-historian posting about drug policy, social justice, Ukraine, & such. Fighting culture wars since Pat Buchanan declared it in 1992. Professional border crosser. Interdisciplinary before it was cool. Personal account.
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Sanho Tree
@sanho.bsky.social
· Jan 3
Trump: "We're going to have our very large United States oil companies go in, spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken infrastructure and start making money for the country. And we are ready to stage a second and much larger attack if we need to do so."
I’ve been working full time to stop this war since last summer and the one scenario I feared the most is materializing — Trump is making a play for Venezuela’s oil. I’m not saying an insurgency will definitely form, but Trump’s ploy creates the perfect storm for an absolutely disastrous occupation.🧵
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Koh: I wish that Kristi Noem had as much passion for homeland security as she has passion for Corey Lewandowski.
February 14, 2026 at 3:34 AM
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NEW: Denver appears to be breaking ties with Flock, asking other companies to come run the city's network of surveillance cameras
February 14, 2026 at 3:34 AM
NEW: Denver appears to be breaking ties with Flock, asking other companies to come run the city's network of surveillance cameras
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The 2024 election had more disinformation distorting it than any other in history
February 14, 2026 at 3:34 AM
The 2024 election had more disinformation distorting it than any other in history
He claims he closed the border when he took office. Yet the migrants who were already here during the November election somehow “allowed” him to win?🙄
Trump: “The Democrats refuse to vote for Voter I.D., or Citizenship. The reason is very simple — They want to continue to cheat in Elections. This was not what our Founders desired … There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!“
February 13, 2026 at 10:56 PM
He claims he closed the border when he took office. Yet the migrants who were already here during the November election somehow “allowed” him to win?🙄
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Widespread voter fraud is not a thing.
Repeat after me: Widespread voter fraud is not a thing.
Analyzing hundreds of millions of votes, the number of genuine voter fraud cases identified is in the dozens. It’s nothing more than pretext for suppression. www.brookings.edu/articles/how...
Repeat after me: Widespread voter fraud is not a thing.
Analyzing hundreds of millions of votes, the number of genuine voter fraud cases identified is in the dozens. It’s nothing more than pretext for suppression. www.brookings.edu/articles/how...
February 13, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Widespread voter fraud is not a thing.
Repeat after me: Widespread voter fraud is not a thing.
Analyzing hundreds of millions of votes, the number of genuine voter fraud cases identified is in the dozens. It’s nothing more than pretext for suppression. www.brookings.edu/articles/how...
Repeat after me: Widespread voter fraud is not a thing.
Analyzing hundreds of millions of votes, the number of genuine voter fraud cases identified is in the dozens. It’s nothing more than pretext for suppression. www.brookings.edu/articles/how...
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michigan check in on your representative please
February 13, 2026 at 10:45 PM
michigan check in on your representative please
I want to see a broom fight.
CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF!
(I never post Olympic videos bc the IOC will hunt you down but I am taking that risk so that you can hear the Canadian curling cursing)
(I never post Olympic videos bc the IOC will hunt you down but I am taking that risk so that you can hear the Canadian curling cursing)
February 13, 2026 at 10:51 PM
I want to see a broom fight.
Whatever could Thomas Massie be worried about? Oh, right.
February 13, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Whatever could Thomas Massie be worried about? Oh, right.
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These are the people @globalaffairs.canada.ca shares our information with.
“The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police.”🤯
Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
February 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
These are the people @globalaffairs.canada.ca shares our information with.
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Drug policy lies are the key Trump uses unlock and misuse emergency powers to advance fascism. I wish the media would assign reporters to cover his drug war lies. Better yet, hire the great journalists who have spent years on these issues and are currently unemployed or underemployed!🧵
Of course the cartels are bad people. That’s not the question. The point is that nothing Trump proposed will reduce the flow of drugs because he constantly lies about how drugs are trafficked. He then gives a simplistic fantasy solution to a fictional scenario he invented. No grounding in reality.
I gave a presentation last month on the futility of stopping fentanyl at the border. My slide show on the myriad ways drugs are smuggled across the border begins at the 10-minute mark.
February 12, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Drug policy lies are the key Trump uses unlock and misuse emergency powers to advance fascism. I wish the media would assign reporters to cover his drug war lies. Better yet, hire the great journalists who have spent years on these issues and are currently unemployed or underemployed!🧵
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Trump began his campaign in 2015 by riding down his golden escalator to lie about migrants being the reason for the drug problems in the US. He knows better. He told the Miami Herald in 1990 that legalization was the only solution. How many wars can one man start w/drug lies before he’s called out?
The drug war has never just been about drugs. It's about demonizing the "other" and scapegoating a cornucopia of social ills on a marginalized groups. Watch this video I did with Bernie Sanders' office in 2018 and you can see how this tactic meshes with Nazi propaganda. #HolocaustRemembranceDay
Flirting with Fascism
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
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February 12, 2026 at 9:41 PM
Trump began his campaign in 2015 by riding down his golden escalator to lie about migrants being the reason for the drug problems in the US. He knows better. He told the Miami Herald in 1990 that legalization was the only solution. How many wars can one man start w/drug lies before he’s called out?
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And let’s not forget that Trump’s lies about drugs are how he justified using emergency powers to start his tariff wars — which have been essentially normalized now. How many wars will he start by lying about drug policy before the media and politicians take this issue seriously?🧵
What emergency is Trump invoking in order to justify these tariffs? There’s no fentanyl coming from these countries. Because that’s the only way the Executive Branch can impose an emergency tariff. Otherwise the power belongs to Congress.
February 12, 2026 at 9:31 PM
And let’s not forget that Trump’s lies about drugs are how he justified using emergency powers to start his tariff wars — which have been essentially normalized now. How many wars will he start by lying about drug policy before the media and politicians take this issue seriously?🧵
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First they lied about fentanyl in Venezuela so they could murder fishermen, invade the country, arrest the head of state, steal the oil, and topple Cuba. Then they lied about a Mexican drug drone to cover up their own incompetence. They always lie about drugs to seize more power and start more wars.
How a party balloon led the government to shut down a Texas airport
The sudden and unprecedented Tuesday closure of El Paso’s airspace stemmed from border officials firing a high-energy laser at what they believed to be a cartel drone, according to reports. But, it tu...
www.independent.co.uk
February 12, 2026 at 9:25 PM
First they lied about fentanyl in Venezuela so they could murder fishermen, invade the country, arrest the head of state, steal the oil, and topple Cuba. Then they lied about a Mexican drug drone to cover up their own incompetence. They always lie about drugs to seize more power and start more wars.
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There's a real "let's do everything they told us we couldn't" thing going on at Meta now. The facial recognition glasses bring to mind an old story I haven't seen mentioned today: Facebook built a feature like this a decade ago and didn't release it www.businessinsider.com/facebook-bui...
February 13, 2026 at 4:51 PM
There's a real "let's do everything they told us we couldn't" thing going on at Meta now. The facial recognition glasses bring to mind an old story I haven't seen mentioned today: Facebook built a feature like this a decade ago and didn't release it www.businessinsider.com/facebook-bui...
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Damn. They weren't lying when they said they were going after the worst of the worst. They just meant recruiting them for jobs
“The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police.”🤯
Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
February 13, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Damn. They weren't lying when they said they were going after the worst of the worst. They just meant recruiting them for jobs
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DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law. They are tear-gassing schools, killing American citizens, and disappearing legal immigrants. Democrats shouldn’t fund an out of control ICE.
February 13, 2026 at 4:53 PM
DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law. They are tear-gassing schools, killing American citizens, and disappearing legal immigrants. Democrats shouldn’t fund an out of control ICE.
I'm quoted in this piece by @kiransidhu41.bsky.social. Sometimes I wonder if the cartels themselves didn't write this deeply problematic new law that creates an incredibly profitable illicit economy.
Mexico’s Vape Prohibition Is Already Biting - Filter
A mandate to ban nicotine vapes was enshrined in Mexico’s constitution in early 2025—a step described as “essential” by President ...
filtermag.org
February 13, 2026 at 4:30 PM
I'm quoted in this piece by @kiransidhu41.bsky.social. Sometimes I wonder if the cartels themselves didn't write this deeply problematic new law that creates an incredibly profitable illicit economy.
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CBP is a problem agency with problem people.
“The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police.”🤯
Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
February 13, 2026 at 2:24 PM
CBP is a problem agency with problem people.
From the same people trying to destroy prominent universities on trumped up charges of antisemitism:
Current state of things: One Fox News host casually declares that Epstein’s money comes from “Jewish billionaires” and a “Jewish banking family,” another responds that he was a “sex rabbi.” www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jes...
February 13, 2026 at 4:13 PM
From the same people trying to destroy prominent universities on trumped up charges of antisemitism:
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On the left is the ICE concentration camp near El Paso. On the right is an industrial chicken farm in Maryland. Do you know what happens when bird flu breaks out in the latter complex? Remember that Anne Frank died from typhus in a concentration camp, not poison gas.
February 13, 2026 at 1:58 PM
On the left is the ICE concentration camp near El Paso. On the right is an industrial chicken farm in Maryland. Do you know what happens when bird flu breaks out in the latter complex? Remember that Anne Frank died from typhus in a concentration camp, not poison gas.
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... an amount traditionally referred to as "The Full Rizzo"
“The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police.”🤯
Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
February 13, 2026 at 2:44 PM
... an amount traditionally referred to as "The Full Rizzo"
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More evidence that CBP is bigger, more violent, & more criminal than anyone they’ve picked up
“The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police.”🤯
Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
February 13, 2026 at 2:38 PM
More evidence that CBP is bigger, more violent, & more criminal than anyone they’ve picked up
“The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police.”🤯
Criminality is so rampant inside CBP that it has seen one of its own agents or officers arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005.
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
February 13, 2026 at 2:14 PM
“The population of CBP agents and officers who have been arrested would make it roughly the nation’s fourth largest police department — equal to the size of the entire Philadelphia police.”🤯
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Not sure if Man United owner Jim Ratcliffe will see this being as he literally migrated to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK, but we wanted to put this up outside the stadium anyway….
📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way
📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way
February 13, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Not sure if Man United owner Jim Ratcliffe will see this being as he literally migrated to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK, but we wanted to put this up outside the stadium anyway….
📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way
📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way