Stephanie Allen
@socalstephanie.bsky.social
GenX // Californian // mom to a blind dog // backyard gardener
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum, bitches
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum, bitches
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The lede is how his death reduces the GOP majority, not who he was as a person or even how he died, unexpectedly. That’s paragraphs down the page. That should’ve been at the end or omitted entirely.
This what Trump’s done to us. He’s reduced everyone to a number that either serves or protests him.
This what Trump’s done to us. He’s reduced everyone to a number that either serves or protests him.
January 6, 2026 at 3:55 PM
The lede is how his death reduces the GOP majority, not who he was as a person or even how he died, unexpectedly. That’s paragraphs down the page. That should’ve been at the end or omitted entirely.
This what Trump’s done to us. He’s reduced everyone to a number that either serves or protests him.
This what Trump’s done to us. He’s reduced everyone to a number that either serves or protests him.
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Good piece and there’s another oligarch parallel:
Trump is carving up the media — CNN, CBS, TikTok — and handing it over to oligarchs.
Trump is carving up the media — CNN, CBS, TikTok — and handing it over to oligarchs.
Trump just said "all" of Venezuela's oil must be made accessible to US oil companies. Trump wants to emulate Putin's model: Authoritarian, expansionist rulers carving up their regions and distributing the spoils of conquest to friendly oligarchs. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2049...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2049...
Trump Blurts Out Dark Truth about Venezuela Plan—and about MAGA Voters
To some critics, it’s about plunder. To others, it’s about hemispheric hegemony. Actually, it’s about both.
newrepublic.com
January 6, 2026 at 1:17 PM
Good piece and there’s another oligarch parallel:
Trump is carving up the media — CNN, CBS, TikTok — and handing it over to oligarchs.
Trump is carving up the media — CNN, CBS, TikTok — and handing it over to oligarchs.
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Old maps are new again:
“Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia”
“Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia”
January 6, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Old maps are new again:
“Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia”
“Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia”
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“Trump appears to envision something like a “hegemonic carve-up” that also gives regional MAGA-friendly oligarchies a major stake in our “share” of that tripartite division’s spoils.” Spot-on from @gregsargent.bsky.social
Get in losers, we’re doing Scramble for Africa 2.0
Get in losers, we’re doing Scramble for Africa 2.0
Trump just said "all" of Venezuela's oil must be made accessible to US oil companies. Trump wants to emulate Putin's model: Authoritarian, expansionist rulers carving up their regions and distributing the spoils of conquest to friendly oligarchs. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2049...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2049...
Trump Blurts Out Dark Truth about Venezuela Plan—and about MAGA Voters
To some critics, it’s about plunder. To others, it’s about hemispheric hegemony. Actually, it’s about both.
newrepublic.com
January 6, 2026 at 2:44 PM
“Trump appears to envision something like a “hegemonic carve-up” that also gives regional MAGA-friendly oligarchies a major stake in our “share” of that tripartite division’s spoils.” Spot-on from @gregsargent.bsky.social
Get in losers, we’re doing Scramble for Africa 2.0
Get in losers, we’re doing Scramble for Africa 2.0
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The highest rate on record.
It staggers me that no-one in public health seems to be acknowledging that immune dysregulation caused by prior SARS-CoV-2 infection is likely a significant factor in this, and the implications of this concept going forward.
abcnews.go.com/Health/flu-a...
It staggers me that no-one in public health seems to be acknowledging that immune dysregulation caused by prior SARS-CoV-2 infection is likely a significant factor in this, and the implications of this concept going forward.
abcnews.go.com/Health/flu-a...
Flu-like illness activity now at highest rate on record, new CDC data shows
Flu activity is continuing to climb across the U.S. as hospitalizations rise, updated data from the CDC shows.
abcnews.go.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:08 PM
The highest rate on record.
It staggers me that no-one in public health seems to be acknowledging that immune dysregulation caused by prior SARS-CoV-2 infection is likely a significant factor in this, and the implications of this concept going forward.
abcnews.go.com/Health/flu-a...
It staggers me that no-one in public health seems to be acknowledging that immune dysregulation caused by prior SARS-CoV-2 infection is likely a significant factor in this, and the implications of this concept going forward.
abcnews.go.com/Health/flu-a...
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Extreme contradictions are inherent to MAGA, it encourages people to believe whatever feels best with no critical thinking, even when ideas are incompatible.
(Here: “Our country rules, we should conquer Central America,” “Central Americans are criminals, and shouldn’t be part of our country”
(Here: “Our country rules, we should conquer Central America,” “Central Americans are criminals, and shouldn’t be part of our country”
so these guys who have been whipping their base up into a frenzy terrified of latin immigrants for like fifty years suddenly want to make all of central and south america part of the us
January 6, 2026 at 2:13 PM
Extreme contradictions are inherent to MAGA, it encourages people to believe whatever feels best with no critical thinking, even when ideas are incompatible.
(Here: “Our country rules, we should conquer Central America,” “Central Americans are criminals, and shouldn’t be part of our country”
(Here: “Our country rules, we should conquer Central America,” “Central Americans are criminals, and shouldn’t be part of our country”
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Had Democrats committed themselves to reducing the political power of law enforcement (and not funding them), we might not be here. Instead, both parties built up the law enforcement baronial class, an unaccountable law enforcement force that does what it wants, when it wants, how it wants.
January 6, 2026 at 1:55 PM
Had Democrats committed themselves to reducing the political power of law enforcement (and not funding them), we might not be here. Instead, both parties built up the law enforcement baronial class, an unaccountable law enforcement force that does what it wants, when it wants, how it wants.
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The Trump administration sued two California cities on Monday, seeking to block local laws that restrict natural gas infrastructure and appliances in new construction.
US sues two California cities over limits on gas in new buildings
The Trump administration sued two California cities on Monday, seeking to block local laws that restrict natural gas infrastructure and appliances in new construction.
reut.rs
January 6, 2026 at 2:20 AM
The Trump administration sued two California cities on Monday, seeking to block local laws that restrict natural gas infrastructure and appliances in new construction.
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IMO the argument is that you can make things into big enough deals that it matters. Khanna found Massey and found survivors and made the Epstein Files the gigantic story it should be. Only then did establishment Dems come along. You can, in fact, make things into big hairy deals if you do it right.
if you want the Senate to do something, Senate Republicans must do something.
People are dunking on this but I'm not really sure what plays Schumer has other than to try to peel off Rs.
People are dunking on this but I'm not really sure what plays Schumer has other than to try to peel off Rs.
Schumer: "Republicans must -- if there was ever a time, they must step up to the plate. This is the time. And if they don't, they're gonna feel the heat from their constituents."
January 6, 2026 at 1:24 AM
IMO the argument is that you can make things into big enough deals that it matters. Khanna found Massey and found survivors and made the Epstein Files the gigantic story it should be. Only then did establishment Dems come along. You can, in fact, make things into big hairy deals if you do it right.
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One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
30 years ago they were like we have to ban song lyrics for the children but it’s full steam ahead for the here’s how to do drugs until you die machine
“ChatGPT started coaching Sam on how to take drugs, recover from them and plan further binges. It gave him specific doses of illegal substances, and in one chat, it wrote, ‘Hell yes—let’s go full trippy mode’”
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
January 6, 2026 at 1:37 AM
One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.
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Watched the America250 projection on the Washington Monument tonight. Mentioned: Columbus, Ford, Edison, Lewis & Clark, both World Wars, AI. Not mentioned: The Civil War, Lincoln, Native Americans, immigration, slavery, race, civil rights, MLK, Vietnam, or any woman.
January 6, 2026 at 12:50 AM
Watched the America250 projection on the Washington Monument tonight. Mentioned: Columbus, Ford, Edison, Lewis & Clark, both World Wars, AI. Not mentioned: The Civil War, Lincoln, Native Americans, immigration, slavery, race, civil rights, MLK, Vietnam, or any woman.
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OUT: Helping you pay for health care.
IN: Helping oil companies pay for their infrastructure in a foreign country.
IN: Helping oil companies pay for their infrastructure in a foreign country.
January 6, 2026 at 12:14 AM
OUT: Helping you pay for health care.
IN: Helping oil companies pay for their infrastructure in a foreign country.
IN: Helping oil companies pay for their infrastructure in a foreign country.
Awfully shrill for a super power.
MILLER: The US is using its military to secure our interests unapologetically in our hemisphere. We're a superpower. It's absurd we'd allow a nation in our backyard to become a supplier of resources to our adversaries
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
TAPPER: Sovereign countries shouldn't be able to do what they want?
M: *yells*
January 6, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Awfully shrill for a super power.
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Solar and wind is an expensive boondoggle, which is why we should spend billions rehabilitating infrastructure in a failed states with active left wing militias so we can get shitty oil refiners don't want
January 5, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Solar and wind is an expensive boondoggle, which is why we should spend billions rehabilitating infrastructure in a failed states with active left wing militias so we can get shitty oil refiners don't want
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These fucking psychopaths are going to destroy NATO. I swear to fucking god.
TAPPER: Can you rule out the US is going to take Greenland by force?
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
MILLER: Greenland should be part of the US. By what right does Denmark assert control over Greenland? The US is the power of NATO
T: So force is on the table?
M: Nobody is gonna fight the US militarily over future of Greenland
January 5, 2026 at 11:37 PM
These fucking psychopaths are going to destroy NATO. I swear to fucking god.
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Update: someone dug into the wallets connected the the wallet used here and found that it was connected to an ENS domain called Stevencharles.sol
Steve Witkoff's middle name is Charles
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_W...
Steve Witkoff's middle name is Charles
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_W...
January 5, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Update: someone dug into the wallets connected the the wallet used here and found that it was connected to an ENS domain called Stevencharles.sol
Steve Witkoff's middle name is Charles
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_W...
Steve Witkoff's middle name is Charles
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_W...
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It was a law enforcement operation so Senate Judiciary Committee members were ... excluded from the briefing:
January 5, 2026 at 10:44 PM
It was a law enforcement operation so Senate Judiciary Committee members were ... excluded from the briefing:
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A reminder that, in the midst of everything else, the Trump administration is an incredible combination of entitlement and sloppiness.
DOJ: "We were too busy invading Venezuela to address your court order, Chief Judge Boasberg."
Boasberg: "You didn't even follow the rules in filing this request."
DOJ: "We were too busy invading Venezuela to address your court order, Chief Judge Boasberg."
Boasberg: "You didn't even follow the rules in filing this request."
January 5, 2026 at 8:02 PM
A reminder that, in the midst of everything else, the Trump administration is an incredible combination of entitlement and sloppiness.
DOJ: "We were too busy invading Venezuela to address your court order, Chief Judge Boasberg."
Boasberg: "You didn't even follow the rules in filing this request."
DOJ: "We were too busy invading Venezuela to address your court order, Chief Judge Boasberg."
Boasberg: "You didn't even follow the rules in filing this request."
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Is Dissolved After 58 Years Of Service
www.huffpost.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:00 PM
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
Who would Jesus merk?
What in the Monty Python is happening in this county.
What in the Monty Python is happening in this county.
Pete Hegseth: "There is an inherent dignity involved in crafting useful, powerful and lethal things. There's a reason Jesus was a carpenter and not a politician, right?"
January 5, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Who would Jesus merk?
What in the Monty Python is happening in this county.
What in the Monty Python is happening in this county.
I say this again: a friend is now preparing for a 4th liver cancer surgery. He is young, has a lovely wife and two young daughter and because of his Hepatitis status, he is likely ineligible for a transplant.
RFKJ is sentencing children to entirely avoidable misery and yes, early deaths.
RFKJ is sentencing children to entirely avoidable misery and yes, early deaths.
🚨 Make Children Dead Again: RFK Jr. removes 6 diseases from vaccine schedule
acasignups.net/26/01/05/mak...
acasignups.net/26/01/05/mak...
Make Children Dead Again: RFK Jr. removes 6 diseases from vaccine schedule
Presented without comment. via Chelsea Cirruzzo and Helen Branswell of STAT News: WASHINGTON — Federal health officials are unilaterally reducing the number of recommended pediatric immunizations in r...
acasignups.net
January 5, 2026 at 8:59 PM
I say this again: a friend is now preparing for a 4th liver cancer surgery. He is young, has a lovely wife and two young daughter and because of his Hepatitis status, he is likely ineligible for a transplant.
RFKJ is sentencing children to entirely avoidable misery and yes, early deaths.
RFKJ is sentencing children to entirely avoidable misery and yes, early deaths.
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If this happened to a conservative organizer, Republicans would make her a hero, a household name and a congressional candidate.
Elected Democrats just pretend it isn't happening.
Elected Democrats just pretend it isn't happening.
January 5, 2026 at 4:29 PM
If this happened to a conservative organizer, Republicans would make her a hero, a household name and a congressional candidate.
Elected Democrats just pretend it isn't happening.
Elected Democrats just pretend it isn't happening.
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What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
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Walz: "We've got conspiracy theorists, right-wing YouTubers, breaking into our daycares, demanding access to our children. We've got the president demonizing our Somali neighbors and wrongfully confiscating funds that Minnesotans rely on. It's disgusting and it's dangerous."
January 5, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Walz: "We've got conspiracy theorists, right-wing YouTubers, breaking into our daycares, demanding access to our children. We've got the president demonizing our Somali neighbors and wrongfully confiscating funds that Minnesotans rely on. It's disgusting and it's dangerous."
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Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession
January 5, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession