Serious Talk
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Lawyer ⚖️, Floridian🐊, Exhausted Citizen
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For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL:
When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.
When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.
January 27, 2026 at 1:41 AM
For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL:
When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.
When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.
@democrats.org This is just the beginning. You don't get to fake amnesia and vote for DHS funding now. Two Americans and many of our immigrant neighbors are still dead. Others brutalized and separated from loved ones. Our 1A and 2A rights have been thrown in the trash. Impeach and remove them all!
BREAKING: The Border Patrol's Greg Bovino has been ousted from his role of "Commander at Large"—and Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski could be next to lose their jobs, sources tell @nickmiroff.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
January 27, 2026 at 1:58 AM
@democrats.org This is just the beginning. You don't get to fake amnesia and vote for DHS funding now. Two Americans and many of our immigrant neighbors are still dead. Others brutalized and separated from loved ones. Our 1A and 2A rights have been thrown in the trash. Impeach and remove them all!
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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
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if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
January 27, 2026 at 1:07 AM
if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
This is a must-read. The most unqualified, greedy, vain people are being given important positions and destroying our institutions. Each anecdote about their "leadership" is worst than the last. *Gift article*
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Inside Kash Patel’s F.B.I.: Meltdowns, Chaos, Vendettas (Gift Article)
Forty-five current and former employees on the changes they say are undermining the agency and making America less safe.
www.nytimes.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:43 AM
This is a must-read. The most unqualified, greedy, vain people are being given important positions and destroying our institutions. Each anecdote about their "leadership" is worst than the last. *Gift article*
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This is the absolute bare minimum. His lies and the atrocities he and his goons have committed against the people of the United States should not be rewarded with retirement benefits. He's floating off on a parachute. Multiple people are still dead and brutalized without accountability.
BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Gregory Bovino Gets Demoted
The Border Patrol chief was the public face of a traveling immigration crackdown on cities governed by Democrats.
www.theatlantic.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:37 AM
This is the absolute bare minimum. His lies and the atrocities he and his goons have committed against the people of the United States should not be rewarded with retirement benefits. He's floating off on a parachute. Multiple people are still dead and brutalized without accountability.
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CNN calling Tom Homan "well respected" and "not as hardline as Bovino" is an interesting choice. The dude took a $50,000 bribe in a fucking Cava bag and says all the same fascist shit as Bovino and Noem.
January 26, 2026 at 4:04 PM
CNN calling Tom Homan "well respected" and "not as hardline as Bovino" is an interesting choice. The dude took a $50,000 bribe in a fucking Cava bag and says all the same fascist shit as Bovino and Noem.
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Our VA Secretary wants all of his employees who serve our nation’s veterans to understand that if masked federal agents execute you on the streets in cold blood, he will not give a damn about you and will use your death as an opportunity to spread propaganda for the President.
January 26, 2026 at 9:21 PM
Our VA Secretary wants all of his employees who serve our nation’s veterans to understand that if masked federal agents execute you on the streets in cold blood, he will not give a damn about you and will use your death as an opportunity to spread propaganda for the President.
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“Abolish ICE” - ICE www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...
January 26, 2026 at 1:00 PM
“Abolish ICE” - ICE www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/u...
Where is Alex Pretti's cell phone?
January 26, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Where is Alex Pretti's cell phone?
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If Nancy Mace was assaulted by a Biden supporter, it would be a week-long news cycle and every Democrat in Congress would be asked if they approve or disapprove
Rep. Maxwell Alejandro Frost Is Assaulted at Sundance Film Festival
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2026 at 9:19 PM
If Nancy Mace was assaulted by a Biden supporter, it would be a week-long news cycle and every Democrat in Congress would be asked if they approve or disapprove
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Kristi Noem and her department’s latest attempt to mislead the American public regarding the brutal and unjustified killing of Alex Pretti is deeply shameful, and she must be impeached and removed from office immediately.
January 25, 2026 at 10:56 PM
Kristi Noem and her department’s latest attempt to mislead the American public regarding the brutal and unjustified killing of Alex Pretti is deeply shameful, and she must be impeached and removed from office immediately.
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Walz: "We're no longer having a political debate. We're having a moral debate."
January 25, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Walz: "We're no longer having a political debate. We're having a moral debate."
Why is this elf on the television every time I turn it on?
January 25, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Why is this elf on the television every time I turn it on?
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These monsters have worked for decades to create an America in which it's perfectly okay for civilians to walk around with a loaded weapon, and now they're saying if you have a gun at a protest, the state can murder you.
BARTIROMO: There is outrage across the country that there is another killing. Someone is dead at the hands of Border Patrol. What can you tell us?
KASH PATEL: You do not get to attack law enforcement officials in this country without any repercussions. We not messing around.
KASH PATEL: You do not get to attack law enforcement officials in this country without any repercussions. We not messing around.
January 25, 2026 at 3:50 PM
These monsters have worked for decades to create an America in which it's perfectly okay for civilians to walk around with a loaded weapon, and now they're saying if you have a gun at a protest, the state can murder you.
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So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.
Media: do not lead with the false government framing of what happened
January 25, 2026 at 12:05 AM
So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.
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Dems should introduce legislation now defunding ICE and CBP operations in Minnesota, so they have to leave the state. One sentence bill. Demand an immediate vote. Maybe refuse to vote for cloture on any funding bills (or other bills) until a vote. Make the GOP Congress break w/ Trump or own it all.
January 25, 2026 at 1:47 PM
Dems should introduce legislation now defunding ICE and CBP operations in Minnesota, so they have to leave the state. One sentence bill. Demand an immediate vote. Maybe refuse to vote for cloture on any funding bills (or other bills) until a vote. Make the GOP Congress break w/ Trump or own it all.
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Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.
Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win
How's your non-violent working Mr Gandhi stancil? They will kill each and everyone of you right if they had the chance and you will still be writing Kumbaya.
January 24, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.
Great. Will Senate Democrats also stop voting for any of the cretins Trump nominates to a post? When we say don't vote for anything, we mean anything. If it weren't for Rubio, Hegseth, and the DHS nominees, hundreds of people would be alive today, including Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included.
January 25, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Great. Will Senate Democrats also stop voting for any of the cretins Trump nominates to a post? When we say don't vote for anything, we mean anything. If it weren't for Rubio, Hegseth, and the DHS nominees, hundreds of people would be alive today, including Renee Good and Alex Pretti.
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If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
January 24, 2026 at 8:29 PM
If you're living somewhere outside the USA, one thing you can do is pressure your leaders to boycott World Cup and Olympic events here.
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Looking forward to the Pretti Good Act which will dismantle ICE forever.
January 24, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Looking forward to the Pretti Good Act which will dismantle ICE forever.
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Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win
How's your non-violent working Mr Gandhi stancil? They will kill each and everyone of you right if they had the chance and you will still be writing Kumbaya.
Observers have been working day and night to protect these neighborhoods from ICE, make the streets safe so kids can go to school and people can go to their jobs. Burning down the street undoes all our work. The people setting fires haven’t been putting in long hours watching plates or doors.
January 24, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Do you honestly think people in the civil rights movement and other nonviolent movements faced no violence themselves? They practiced nonviolence because it works, because the oppressor wants a shooting war, which is the war it will win
After having been caught in multiple lies under oath, Greg Bovino would be on any local prosecutor's Brady/"Do Not Use" list and probably the subject of an IA investigation. Yet, the federal government continues to give him authority and make him their spokesman using our hard earned money.
January 24, 2026 at 10:26 PM
After having been caught in multiple lies under oath, Greg Bovino would be on any local prosecutor's Brady/"Do Not Use" list and probably the subject of an IA investigation. Yet, the federal government continues to give him authority and make him their spokesman using our hard earned money.
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another. . .
January 24, 2026 at 7:43 PM
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another. . .