Steven Palmer Peterson
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Our cover this week.
January 29, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Our cover this week.
Imagine. A nation actually treating bribes as bribes and punishing the perpetrators in accordance with the law.
The former president of South Korea’s wife, Kim Keon Hee, was sentenced Wednesday to one year and eight months in prison for accepting a Chanel handbag, tea and a diamond necklace from an influential church, in what the court found amounted to bribery.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
South Korea’s former first lady jailed for bribery ahead of husband’s verdict
Kim Keon Hee, the wife of former president Yoon Suk Yeol, was handed a 20-month sentence in a country where high-level prosecutions have become standard fare.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 29, 2026 at 1:40 PM
Imagine. A nation actually treating bribes as bribes and punishing the perpetrators in accordance with the law.
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On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers.
But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.
But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.
This was a minor story on London news this morning - but suspect is a real cautionary (and alarming) tale of an older man getting radicalised online.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sidcup man convicted aover explosive attack on Ulez camera
Kevin Rees's homemade bomb caused damage to vehicles and property including a child's bedroom.
www.bbc.co.uk
January 29, 2026 at 9:43 AM
On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers.
But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.
But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.
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Pretty sure he’s trying to hide the scar he got trying to steal a medallion off a woman in a bar fire in Nepal in the 1930s.
January 28, 2026 at 7:35 AM
Pretty sure he’s trying to hide the scar he got trying to steal a medallion off a woman in a bar fire in Nepal in the 1930s.
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rare to get such a clear glimpse into the mind of someone whose response to problems in his personal life was to blame black people
January 28, 2026 at 7:24 PM
rare to get such a clear glimpse into the mind of someone whose response to problems in his personal life was to blame black people
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An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.
January 29, 2026 at 3:20 AM
An entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.
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Lots of good points in here about pushing when you have the advantage, but also this key point, which essentially boils down to “You want our votes. You solve it.”
January 29, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Lots of good points in here about pushing when you have the advantage, but also this key point, which essentially boils down to “You want our votes. You solve it.”
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Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera.
Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
January 28, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera.
Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.
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“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”
January 28, 2026 at 5:46 AM
“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”
January 28, 2026 at 5:17 AM
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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...
