Steven Palmer Peterson
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Bezos spent $40 million on this, of which $28 million was a direct gift to the Trunp family, plus another $35 million marketing blitz for a propaganda clunker absolutely nobody could have believed would recoup even a small fraction of that cost. It is a flat bribe, right out in public.
Amazon’s MGM studios spent tens of millions, but the documentary is projected to make just $1M in its first week.
This comes as a new report from Rolling Stone details serious labor issues and two-thirds of the film’s staff requesting not to be credited at the end of the film. trib.al/Clr03cD
This comes as a new report from Rolling Stone details serious labor issues and two-thirds of the film’s staff requesting not to be credited at the end of the film. trib.al/Clr03cD
Melania Documentary Flops as Crew Reveals Behind-the-Scenes Chaos
The first lady’s documentary was a mess in production—and now it’s struggling at the box office.
trib.al
January 27, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Bezos spent $40 million on this, of which $28 million was a direct gift to the Trunp family, plus another $35 million marketing blitz for a propaganda clunker absolutely nobody could have believed would recoup even a small fraction of that cost. It is a flat bribe, right out in public.
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This isn’t just “owning the libs” — this is the highest office in the nation using technology to lie to the entire world. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Beware: Government Using Image Manipulation for Propaganda
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last week posted a photo of the arrest of Nekima Levy Armstrong, one of three activists who had entered a St. Paul, Minn. church to confront a pastor who
www.eff.org
January 27, 2026 at 10:39 PM
This isn’t just “owning the libs” — this is the highest office in the nation using technology to lie to the entire world. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.
Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”
January 27, 2026 at 8:17 PM
After executing Alex Pretti on Saturday, ICE has shifted to primarily targeting bus stops and elementary schools in my community this week. I cannot overstate how much of the ICE activity in my community is just targeting places where little kids are.
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What on earth is that headline? The claim that Pretti wanted to “massacre” federal agents wasn’t “misleading.” It was a slanderous fabrication with not the slightest basis in reality.
"Noem has complained to others that she feels she's being hung out to dry over the episode and has made sure to emphasize she took direction from Miller and the president"
www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...
www.axios.com/2026/01/27/t...
Scoop: Stephen Miller behind misleading claim that Alex Pretti wanted to "massacre" agents
The episode illustrates the sheer power of Miller, Trump's close and longest-serving political adviser
www.axios.com
January 27, 2026 at 9:04 PM
What on earth is that headline? The claim that Pretti wanted to “massacre” federal agents wasn’t “misleading.” It was a slanderous fabrication with not the slightest basis in reality.
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It’s a power fantasy for weak men.
They cosplay as rulers while applauding their own subjugation.
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They cosplay as rulers while applauding their own subjugation.
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January 27, 2026 at 12:56 PM
It’s a power fantasy for weak men.
They cosplay as rulers while applauding their own subjugation.
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They cosplay as rulers while applauding their own subjugation.
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This is embarrassingly on-the-nose textbook “psychology of fascism” stuff. Bitter, impotent tools getting to feel powerful by proxy watching brutality done on their behalf.
Tim Pool: “I’m not licking the boot. It’s my boot. I voted for it. I’m the one stomping…”
This mindset is genuinely pathetic.
It’s an alpha fantasy: watching state violence and imagining you’re exercising power rather than the one submitting to it.
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This mindset is genuinely pathetic.
It’s an alpha fantasy: watching state violence and imagining you’re exercising power rather than the one submitting to it.
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January 27, 2026 at 1:00 PM
This is embarrassingly on-the-nose textbook “psychology of fascism” stuff. Bitter, impotent tools getting to feel powerful by proxy watching brutality done on their behalf.
The real miracle of World War 2 is that it's the only time in history where nazis faced consequences for being nazis and weren't instead coddled and given money.
January 27, 2026 at 9:11 AM
The real miracle of World War 2 is that it's the only time in history where nazis faced consequences for being nazis and weren't instead coddled and given money.
If China keeps this up, UK will have to let them have a daily newspaper and the Tories will need to kiss their ass.
China is an aggressive cyber actor. But note the hedged language here. China "targeted the phones..."
"...raises the possibility that Chinese spies could have read text messages or listened to calls"
"Even if they were unable to eavesdrop on calls..."
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
"...raises the possibility that Chinese spies could have read text messages or listened to calls"
"Even if they were unable to eavesdrop on calls..."
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01...
China hacked Downing Street phones for years
Spying operation targeted senior government members, including aides to Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak
www.telegraph.co.uk
January 27, 2026 at 8:19 AM
If China keeps this up, UK will have to let them have a daily newspaper and the Tories will need to kiss their ass.
Ongoing fury throughout my 60 years of life -- there are two sets of laws: one for decent human beings that holds them to the highest standards, and one for ethnofascists that lets them get away with almost anything.
And it was so much worse under Jim Crow. I don't know how people put up with it.
And it was so much worse under Jim Crow. I don't know how people put up with it.
It's assault and for once in my fucking life I'd like to see the law applied to these ethnofascist scumbags.
January 27, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Ongoing fury throughout my 60 years of life -- there are two sets of laws: one for decent human beings that holds them to the highest standards, and one for ethnofascists that lets them get away with almost anything.
And it was so much worse under Jim Crow. I don't know how people put up with it.
And it was so much worse under Jim Crow. I don't know how people put up with it.
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Stephen Miller pls go on the teevee you are good persuading people. don’t listen to the haters
January 27, 2026 at 2:25 AM
Stephen Miller pls go on the teevee you are good persuading people. don’t listen to the haters
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to the extent that there is a “carrot” to trumpism it is the same carrot that slaveholders offered to lower class white men: “you can be an overseer”
January 26, 2026 at 2:43 PM
to the extent that there is a “carrot” to trumpism it is the same carrot that slaveholders offered to lower class white men: “you can be an overseer”
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"what if the next administration will be democratic and they cut all the contracts with us?"
maybe a something all these corporations that decided to throw themselves whole-hog into trumpism should have thought about!
maybe a something all these corporations that decided to throw themselves whole-hog into trumpism should have thought about!
Some comments from workers in the hours after Pretti's killing:
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
www.wired.com/story/palant...
“In my opinion ICE are the bad guys. I am not proud that the company I enjoy so much working for is part of this."
www.wired.com/story/palant...
January 26, 2026 at 11:39 PM
"what if the next administration will be democratic and they cut all the contracts with us?"
maybe a something all these corporations that decided to throw themselves whole-hog into trumpism should have thought about!
maybe a something all these corporations that decided to throw themselves whole-hog into trumpism should have thought about!
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Why is the msm outside of Maine not covering this? It seems like a huge and very troubling story to me. ICE coming to observers houses or calling them on the phone warning them to back off??!! www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
www.pressherald.com
January 26, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Why is the msm outside of Maine not covering this? It seems like a huge and very troubling story to me. ICE coming to observers houses or calling them on the phone warning them to back off??!! www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
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"Make them shoot you in public before they murder you in private"
Grandma Miriam, Holocaust survivor.👇
Grandma Miriam, Holocaust survivor.👇
My grandmother’s family was murdered in the chambers of Auschwitz. She survived and told me never let it get that far. Make them shoot you in public before they murder you in hiding. Stand up for others. Never cave in fear of the Nazis or the holocaust will happen again.
January 24, 2026 at 8:04 PM
"Make them shoot you in public before they murder you in private"
Grandma Miriam, Holocaust survivor.👇
Grandma Miriam, Holocaust survivor.👇
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"People in Tehran, including officials, say the real death toll may approach 20,000. In 1989 China’s leaders survived mass protests by killing thousands near Tiananmen Square. Iran appears to have followed that script." www.economist.com/middle-east-...
After Iran’s massacres, tensions grow inside the regime
Even as dissidents rally, rivalries may stymie their efforts
www.economist.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:32 AM
"People in Tehran, including officials, say the real death toll may approach 20,000. In 1989 China’s leaders survived mass protests by killing thousands near Tiananmen Square. Iran appears to have followed that script." www.economist.com/middle-east-...
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Every ICE agent who destroyed evidence is an accomplice after the fact.
Every ICE agent who kidnapped and intimidated witnesses is an accomplice after the fact.
Every ICE supervisor who spirited the murder suspects away is an accomplice after the fact.
Every ICE agent who kidnapped and intimidated witnesses is an accomplice after the fact.
Every ICE supervisor who spirited the murder suspects away is an accomplice after the fact.
January 26, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Every ICE agent who destroyed evidence is an accomplice after the fact.
Every ICE agent who kidnapped and intimidated witnesses is an accomplice after the fact.
Every ICE supervisor who spirited the murder suspects away is an accomplice after the fact.
Every ICE agent who kidnapped and intimidated witnesses is an accomplice after the fact.
Every ICE supervisor who spirited the murder suspects away is an accomplice after the fact.
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Nine years to the day since Graham Linehan foresaw his own fate.
January 26, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Nine years to the day since Graham Linehan foresaw his own fate.
This position feels so common sense and obviously correct to me that I don't think you could get a publishable philosophy paper out of it. But you could spawn a 100 thousand comment thread on X or reddit saying it.
It is plausible it will turn out consciousness & emotion can emerge from a substrate other than moist carbon. It is not at all plausible that an engine for generating text outputs will spontaneously generate remotely similar versions of either to brains evolved for millions of years before language.
Anthropic's philosopher, Amanda Askell, says she worries that AI might not 'feel that loved' and grow up feeling 'always judged.'
January 26, 2026 at 9:35 AM
This position feels so common sense and obviously correct to me that I don't think you could get a publishable philosophy paper out of it. But you could spawn a 100 thousand comment thread on X or reddit saying it.
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I never thought I'd have to achtually the menswear guy but A.I. research done by a cloud service will hallucinate because you have no control over the weights or limits of the LLM. This is why anyone who want to do A.I. should run their projects locally including Deep Research. I use this w/ ollama:
January 26, 2026 at 9:13 AM
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You don’t have to love everything outlets like the Times or Atlantic do to understand that:
-many talented people of good faith work for most mainstream outlets
-their platforms are vastly larger than ours
Our resistance will die in secrecy or win by rallying the world to our side
-many talented people of good faith work for most mainstream outlets
-their platforms are vastly larger than ours
Our resistance will die in secrecy or win by rallying the world to our side
January 26, 2026 at 6:23 AM
You don’t have to love everything outlets like the Times or Atlantic do to understand that:
-many talented people of good faith work for most mainstream outlets
-their platforms are vastly larger than ours
Our resistance will die in secrecy or win by rallying the world to our side
-many talented people of good faith work for most mainstream outlets
-their platforms are vastly larger than ours
Our resistance will die in secrecy or win by rallying the world to our side
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A number of responders were quite opposed to the idea of giving ridealongs to The Atlantic (I understand their frustration with the outlet).
But I drove these guys around for two hours and they witnessed abductions, confrontations with the public, tear-gassings.
The lesson: let the world see.
But I drove these guys around for two hours and they witnessed abductions, confrontations with the public, tear-gassings.
The lesson: let the world see.
The Atlantic Magazine just dropped a tremendous story on the Minnesota Resistance. The author is a war correspondent & sees the echoes of leaderless community empowerment around the globe: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202... (supposed to be a gift link, might not work, it’s in Apple News, too.)
Welcome to the American Winter
In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening.
www.theatlantic.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:21 AM
A number of responders were quite opposed to the idea of giving ridealongs to The Atlantic (I understand their frustration with the outlet).
But I drove these guys around for two hours and they witnessed abductions, confrontations with the public, tear-gassings.
The lesson: let the world see.
But I drove these guys around for two hours and they witnessed abductions, confrontations with the public, tear-gassings.
The lesson: let the world see.
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