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"That would leave only the proposed $10b of 2026 funding for ICE and $6b for the Border Patrol unappropriated. Good. There’s no reason to appropriate any of it. The less new funding that goes to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol, the better."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Good Bunny. Bad Super Bowl. Defund ICE.
Political lessons from the wide world of sports. And music.
open.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:56 PM
"That would leave only the proposed $10b of 2026 funding for ICE and $6b for the Border Patrol unappropriated. Good. There’s no reason to appropriate any of it. The less new funding that goes to Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol, the better."
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth
February 7, 2026 at 2:20 PM
this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth
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February 4, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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college application help is my go-to example for how American guanxi works - in its most powerful form, it can't be a simple market transaction, but still grows out of business and power relationships
well here's one news story about the thing I've been obsessively tweeting about for days (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
Epstein Helped Woody Allen’s Daughter Get Into College, Emails Show
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:33 AM
college application help is my go-to example for how American guanxi works - in its most powerful form, it can't be a simple market transaction, but still grows out of business and power relationships
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"no human is illegal on stolen land" is a stupid slogan because of the stolen land part. indigenous peoples, whatever that means, also don't have a right to deny the legal protections of citizenship to foreigners
February 3, 2026 at 4:05 PM
"no human is illegal on stolen land" is a stupid slogan because of the stolen land part. indigenous peoples, whatever that means, also don't have a right to deny the legal protections of citizenship to foreigners
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Ugh. The main anti-ICE group in Washington which has 44k followers on Facebook and has been going around to communities promoting classes is now promoting this anti-whistle nonsense for "harm reduction" reasons as well.
February 3, 2026 at 7:18 AM
Ugh. The main anti-ICE group in Washington which has 44k followers on Facebook and has been going around to communities promoting classes is now promoting this anti-whistle nonsense for "harm reduction" reasons as well.
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this particular line is maybe the best statement of purpose i have seen for those of us who want a more militant opposition to this administration
“Let us be clear: we want the power of the state. We wish to hold the criminals of the regime accountable. We wish to seize back the public funds looted by Trump and his cronies. We wish to undo the damage he has done to the government. More than any of that we wish to rebuild.”
From Powerlessness to Power
We will not achieve any of our ultimate goals without exercising state power, and the most effective way to take state power is through nonviolent but confrontational resistance.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:34 PM
this particular line is maybe the best statement of purpose i have seen for those of us who want a more militant opposition to this administration
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July 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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Most gloves are nowhere near good enough for the temperatures of tear gas grenades.
February 2, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Most gloves are nowhere near good enough for the temperatures of tear gas grenades.
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Am I positive that video shows the president shitting himself on camera? No.
Do I think we should spend an entire week debating it? Oh yes.
Do I think we should spend an entire week debating it? Oh yes.
February 1, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Am I positive that video shows the president shitting himself on camera? No.
Do I think we should spend an entire week debating it? Oh yes.
Do I think we should spend an entire week debating it? Oh yes.
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It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.
But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
January 31, 2026 at 12:41 AM
It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.
But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
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I’m so glad you went. I had many people ask me - “is it safe? Should I leave my phone and ID at home? Do I need an exit strategy?”
We’re building this bizarre and paranoid civic culture based almost entirely on miasmatic online fear endlessly feeding itself. Selma marchers didn’t even mask!
We’re building this bizarre and paranoid civic culture based almost entirely on miasmatic online fear endlessly feeding itself. Selma marchers didn’t even mask!
Online security theater posting made me really afraid about having my phone or showing my face before going to a no kings protest and then when I got there it was a great time and my mom was taking pictures of everything lol. I felt ridiculous because I almost didn’t go people made it sound so risky
January 30, 2026 at 4:33 PM
I’m so glad you went. I had many people ask me - “is it safe? Should I leave my phone and ID at home? Do I need an exit strategy?”
We’re building this bizarre and paranoid civic culture based almost entirely on miasmatic online fear endlessly feeding itself. Selma marchers didn’t even mask!
We’re building this bizarre and paranoid civic culture based almost entirely on miasmatic online fear endlessly feeding itself. Selma marchers didn’t even mask!
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“There’s a grand conspiracy to deny us our natural utopia” is a fundamentally reactionary worldview that’s thoroughly infected the online left.
Yes, every culture has common joys, but almost all of them have the common tradition of torturing people to death.
Yes, every culture has common joys, but almost all of them have the common tradition of torturing people to death.
I think about this post a lot.
January 30, 2026 at 4:35 AM
“There’s a grand conspiracy to deny us our natural utopia” is a fundamentally reactionary worldview that’s thoroughly infected the online left.
Yes, every culture has common joys, but almost all of them have the common tradition of torturing people to death.
Yes, every culture has common joys, but almost all of them have the common tradition of torturing people to death.
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Warnock: "You can't ask me to be an accomplice to the killing of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. It's to make a butchery of my conscience."
January 28, 2026 at 5:53 PM
Warnock: "You can't ask me to be an accomplice to the killing of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. It's to make a butchery of my conscience."
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The Great Khan senses weakness, he sees the beginnings of retreat and moves to press his advantage.
Sending Tom Homan to Minnesota is like pouring gasoline on a fire.
The chaos is the point — let’s stop sending Trump officials in and start sending Trump’s agents home.
The chaos is the point — let’s stop sending Trump officials in and start sending Trump’s agents home.
Live updates: Top Border Patrol official Bovino expected to leave Minneapolis as Trump sends Homan to the state | CNN
Tom Homan is headed to Minnesota after the fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in an encounter Saturday with federal agents deepened outrage over the Trump administration’s surge, part of its nati...
www.cnn.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:14 PM
The Great Khan senses weakness, he sees the beginnings of retreat and moves to press his advantage.
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the U.S. autocratic state is far, far less consolidated than the South Korean one was. that the South Koreans still beat - eventually - their dictatorship should be an inspiration to Americans that they can do the same against a much weaker opponent at present.
January 26, 2026 at 4:53 AM
the U.S. autocratic state is far, far less consolidated than the South Korean one was. that the South Koreans still beat - eventually - their dictatorship should be an inspiration to Americans that they can do the same against a much weaker opponent at present.
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Live footage of Hannah Arendt's dichotomy between violence and power.
This administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
January 25, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Live footage of Hannah Arendt's dichotomy between violence and power.
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Even if a situation ultimately escalates to civil war, non-violence is a crucial tactic for determining the state of affairs when the war starts. Political sentiment is no less important when a civil war breaks out and non violence is very effective at changing it.
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 8:29 PM
Even if a situation ultimately escalates to civil war, non-violence is a crucial tactic for determining the state of affairs when the war starts. Political sentiment is no less important when a civil war breaks out and non violence is very effective at changing it.
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i'm struck by how, in the west, it is obvious to western leftists that nationalism builds itself by conjuring up an imagined past--german romantics going on about the battle of the Teutoberg Forest--a past that is idyllic, unifying, utopian--before all those horrible foreigners messed things up--
January 23, 2026 at 7:04 PM
i'm struck by how, in the west, it is obvious to western leftists that nationalism builds itself by conjuring up an imagined past--german romantics going on about the battle of the Teutoberg Forest--a past that is idyllic, unifying, utopian--before all those horrible foreigners messed things up--
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It is committing a nationalist fallacy to say “this is what America is.” America has no objective definition. It is, as Benedict Anderson says, an imagined community and *we* get to decide what defines it.
It should be clear why we should want to define it by its highest ideals.
It should be clear why we should want to define it by its highest ideals.
I very much disagree with @whstancil.bsky.social on this - how are you going to oppose ICE and the Trump administration if you don't understand that this *is* indeed who you are as a nation and that what we're seeing today is the culmination of a long history of American violence? 1/
People who say this are clearly speaking aspirationally about a shared American creed they hold dear. “Have you heard of the Trail of Tears?” is not a very helpful response, because they probably have and the priority right now is moral opposition to fascism and not fake-educating each other.
January 23, 2026 at 9:03 AM
It is committing a nationalist fallacy to say “this is what America is.” America has no objective definition. It is, as Benedict Anderson says, an imagined community and *we* get to decide what defines it.
It should be clear why we should want to define it by its highest ideals.
It should be clear why we should want to define it by its highest ideals.
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I think within a generation we're going to see the kind of backlash to vices like gambling that made the Victorians, well, Victorian.
Been reading Atkinson’s series on the Revolutionary War (which everyone should read) and he notes how when the war with the colonies broke out, Great Britain also found itself overwhelmed with the popularity of gambling on everything to the point of gamblers taking out life insurance on other people
i feel like the on-going polymarketization of life isn't going to end well
January 23, 2026 at 2:42 AM
I think within a generation we're going to see the kind of backlash to vices like gambling that made the Victorians, well, Victorian.
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i am begging people to understand that "America is ontologically white supremacist" is also the neo-Nazi point of view
stop endorsing their world view
stop endorsing their world view
January 22, 2026 at 2:43 PM
i am begging people to understand that "America is ontologically white supremacist" is also the neo-Nazi point of view
stop endorsing their world view
stop endorsing their world view
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state-sponsored child trafficking
This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.
January 21, 2026 at 11:25 PM
state-sponsored child trafficking