Toddcop
@tcop.bsky.social
Pragmatic former journalist, passionate about the good fight, empty nester, and now an expat.
What the unholy flying F is this.
The US Department of Homeland Security has taken its holiday-themed campaign for mass deportations to a whole new low with an AI-generated video that turns Santa Claus into an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent.
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December 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
What the unholy flying F is this.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
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December 22, 2025 at 10:46 PM
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
So these draconian restrictions are all about saving money for trans people??
in isolation this honestly sounds like he's railing against inflation
Dr Oz: "The creation of a penis costs on average in America $150,000 per child ... if you add testicles, that's extra"
December 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
So these draconian restrictions are all about saving money for trans people??
How do you prepare for war when you’re American and were raised to believe it happens somewhere else? Spoiler: not with bunkers or bravado. I tried to think it through.
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Preparing For War With Russia
How do you prepare for war when you’re not a soldier, not a strategist, and not supposed to be thinking about war at all?
Europe is quietly recalibrating for conflict that won’t look like tanks or in...
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December 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
How do you prepare for war when you’re American and were raised to believe it happens somewhere else? Spoiler: not with bunkers or bravado. I tried to think it through.
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You mean it wasn't quality father/son time? #NoProfessionalEditor
A 19-year-old man accused of stabbing his father 13 times, allegedly for revenge, has been charged. https://ow.ly/nMmY50XKU61
Man accused of stabbing father 13 times, hoping he would die
A 19-year-old man is facing a charge of attempted murder for allegedly stabbing his father multiple times.
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December 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
You mean it wasn't quality father/son time? #NoProfessionalEditor
Benjamin Franklin warned that trading liberty for a little temporary safety leaves a nation with neither. Turns out the old guy was subtweeting the future.
"Kneel too quickly and you forget how to stand"
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"Kneel too quickly and you forget how to stand"
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Kneel too quickly and you forget how to stand
Drawing from Franklin’s own writings and warnings, this imagined letter confronts America’s authoritarian slide — a Congress that yields, a Court that bends, and a nation mistaking zealotry for virtue...
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December 11, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Benjamin Franklin warned that trading liberty for a little temporary safety leaves a nation with neither. Turns out the old guy was subtweeting the future.
"Kneel too quickly and you forget how to stand"
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"Kneel too quickly and you forget how to stand"
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It's not seditious or treasonous to suggest Trump is sleepy and getting old.
Only a sleepy, old man who's out of it would say so.
Only a sleepy, old man who's out of it would say so.
Trump objects to reports about his obvious aging, saying “it’s seditious, perhaps even treasonous, for The New York Times, and others, to consistently do FAKE reports in order to libel and demean ‘THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.’“
It isn’t. And the reports aren’t fake.
It isn’t. And the reports aren’t fake.
December 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
It's not seditious or treasonous to suggest Trump is sleepy and getting old.
Only a sleepy, old man who's out of it would say so.
Only a sleepy, old man who's out of it would say so.
Trump’s bigotry is crossing the Atlantic, but he’s biting off way more than he can handle. Europe’s strongmen may cheer, yet the terrain is far less forgiving.
New column: Trump’s Bigotry Sets Sail for Europe
New column: Trump’s Bigotry Sets Sail for Europe
The Atlantic Crossing of Trump Bigotry
America is now exporting Trumpism, but Europe’s political systems can resist a Trump-style takeover. As the White House courts far-right parties, Britain and the EU show why structure—not character—is...
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December 7, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Trump’s bigotry is crossing the Atlantic, but he’s biting off way more than he can handle. Europe’s strongmen may cheer, yet the terrain is far less forgiving.
New column: Trump’s Bigotry Sets Sail for Europe
New column: Trump’s Bigotry Sets Sail for Europe
I guess integrity is a bridge too far.
So he’s saying when he was a podcaster he was being paid to lie and invent conspiracies for his listeners but now he has to tell the truth.
December 6, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I guess integrity is a bridge too far.
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37% of Republicans can go fuck themselves.
December 4, 2025 at 9:55 PM
37% of Republicans can go fuck themselves.
This is what an abject failure of leadership looks like: ego over ethics, loyalty over integrity, theatrics over responsibility.
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Honor Is the Firewall. Trump Is Lighting It on Fire
Honor is supposed to guide the military. Trump wants the military to only serve him. That’s how a republic slides into a reality show with guns.
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December 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
This is what an abject failure of leadership looks like: ego over ethics, loyalty over integrity, theatrics over responsibility.
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Watching the UK budget as an American is like settling into a prestige drama about governing, then flipping back to our channel where the whole storyline boils down to one question: who are we punishing this week?
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Two Democracies, Zero Overlap
Britain spent the week debating tax thresholds.America spent it debating whether the military should execute people on command. Call it a tale of two democracies — one runs on policy, the other on pur...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Watching the UK budget as an American is like settling into a prestige drama about governing, then flipping back to our channel where the whole storyline boils down to one question: who are we punishing this week?
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Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
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November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
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Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
November 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Homeland Security doesn’t grasp the fact that the first Thanksgiving was about making “room at the table” for European “invaders.”
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The latest evidence that America is becoming a land of idiots:
November 27, 2025 at 7:18 AM
The latest evidence that America is becoming a land of idiots:
Europe once sent its people to America for a better life. Now Americans are pouring into Europe — and the continent has questions.
Europe’s New Migrant Crisis Has an American Accent
Americans are fleeing the chaos at home, and Europe is feeling the strain. Housing markets, newsrooms, and foreign policy are all buckling under a surge of U.S. escapees — and the backlash is already ...
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November 16, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Europe once sent its people to America for a better life. Now Americans are pouring into Europe — and the continent has questions.
America doesn’t need cleaner politics—it needs more contenders in the ring. Democracy only works when everyone’s willing to get dirty.
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The Mud Fight America Needs
America’s two-party system isn’t stability—it’s stagnation. When only two sides are flinging mud, nobody learns, and nothing moves. Multiparty democracies thrive on negotiation, not loyalty tests.
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November 5, 2025 at 12:29 PM
America doesn’t need cleaner politics—it needs more contenders in the ring. Democracy only works when everyone’s willing to get dirty.
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Maybe the American navy can learn how to do something more than blowing things up.
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Portugal: Narco-sub carrying 1.7 tonnes of cocaine seized in Atlantic
The semi-submersible vessel was bound for various European countries, officials say.
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November 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Maybe the American navy can learn how to do something more than blowing things up.
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Weird. It’s one of the things I love about Portland. #StayWeirdPortland
November 3, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Weird. It’s one of the things I love about Portland. #StayWeirdPortland
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"We are watching a runaway freight train here, folks, to wit the renovation and complete bastardization of the White House to fit the aesthetic of the game show host from Queens."
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Trump Remodels Lincoln Bathroom To Reflect Mar-a-Lago Gaudy
We are watching a runaway freight train here, folks, to wit the renovation and complete bastardization of the White House to fit the aesthetic of the game show host from Queens. Yes, what you see
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October 31, 2025 at 8:23 PM
"We are watching a runaway freight train here, folks, to wit the renovation and complete bastardization of the White House to fit the aesthetic of the game show host from Queens."
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Every church should be doing this, and if your church isn’t, you’re at the wrong church.
October 31, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Every church should be doing this, and if your church isn’t, you’re at the wrong church.