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Defending liberal democracy against authoritarianism in the U.S. and around the world.
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Trump's Offensive Against the Fed Chair Is About Acquiring Limitless Power for Retribution
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Trump's Offensive Against the Fed Chair Is About Acquiring Limitless Power for Retribution
He wants to be the king of America who can do anything to anyone who dares to challenge him
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January 14, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Trump's Offensive Against the Fed Chair Is About Acquiring Limitless Power for Retribution
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I made the case for abolishing ICE after ICE agent, Jonathan Ross, shot Renee Good, a mom dropping off her toddler at school, three times in the face after she smiled at him and tried to drive away.
You'll never guess what Trump and Vance did next.
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You'll never guess what Trump and Vance did next.
www.theunpopulist.net/p/abolish-ic...
Abolish ICE: It Is a Threat to Americans’ Safety and Freedom
The agent who killed Renee Good should face the same accountability as the migrant who killed Laken Riley
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January 13, 2026 at 4:49 PM
I made the case for abolishing ICE after ICE agent, Jonathan Ross, shot Renee Good, a mom dropping off her toddler at school, three times in the face after she smiled at him and tried to drive away.
You'll never guess what Trump and Vance did next.
www.theunpopulist.net/p/abolish-ic...
You'll never guess what Trump and Vance did next.
www.theunpopulist.net/p/abolish-ic...
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Legitimate functions can be assigned to other agencies. "Abolishing ICE is becoming more popular, with 43% of Americans supporting the idea, an eight-year high, according to one tracking poll. The agency’s approval rating now is at -13, compared to +16 about a year ago." [@shikhadalmia.bsky.social]
Abolish ICE: It Is a Threat to Americans’ Safety and Freedom
The agent who killed Renee Good should face the same accountability as the migrant who killed Laken Riley
www.theunpopulist.net
January 13, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Legitimate functions can be assigned to other agencies. "Abolishing ICE is becoming more popular, with 43% of Americans supporting the idea, an eight-year high, according to one tracking poll. The agency’s approval rating now is at -13, compared to +16 about a year ago." [@shikhadalmia.bsky.social]
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“ICE was spawned 23 years ago…But now that Trump has turned it into a rights-trampling, rogue agency that shoots first and asks questions later, as the killing of Renee Good, an American citizen and a mother of three, demonstrates, it deserves to be shut down.”
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Abolish ICE: It Is a Threat to Americans’ Safety and Freedom
The agent who killed Renee Good should face the same accountability as the migrant who killed Laken Riley
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January 13, 2026 at 7:15 PM
“ICE was spawned 23 years ago…But now that Trump has turned it into a rights-trampling, rogue agency that shoots first and asks questions later, as the killing of Renee Good, an American citizen and a mother of three, demonstrates, it deserves to be shut down.”
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"ICE can’t be reformed. It needs to be dismantled."
🧵- Abolish ICE is the only serious, realistic solution. It's been rotten from its Bush-era start and is now entirely irredeemable just on basic good government grounds. You can't fix a lawless paramilitary force of brutal goons.
🧵- Abolish ICE is the only serious, realistic solution. It's been rotten from its Bush-era start and is now entirely irredeemable just on basic good government grounds. You can't fix a lawless paramilitary force of brutal goons.
I made the case for abolishing ICE after ICE agent, Jonathan Ross, shot Renee Good, a mom dropping off her toddler at school, three times in the face after she smiled at him and tried to drive away.
You'll never guess what Trump and Vance did next.
www.theunpopulist.net/p/abolish-ic...
You'll never guess what Trump and Vance did next.
www.theunpopulist.net/p/abolish-ic...
Abolish ICE: It Is a Threat to Americans’ Safety and Freedom
The agent who killed Renee Good should face the same accountability as the migrant who killed Laken Riley
www.theunpopulist.net
January 13, 2026 at 6:51 PM
"ICE can’t be reformed. It needs to be dismantled."
🧵- Abolish ICE is the only serious, realistic solution. It's been rotten from its Bush-era start and is now entirely irredeemable just on basic good government grounds. You can't fix a lawless paramilitary force of brutal goons.
🧵- Abolish ICE is the only serious, realistic solution. It's been rotten from its Bush-era start and is now entirely irredeemable just on basic good government grounds. You can't fix a lawless paramilitary force of brutal goons.
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"The country badly needs a Good Act abolishing ICE."
With that well-phrased sentence, @shikhadalmia.bsky.social wraps up her compelling essay on the highly toxic ICE, which has been toxified even further with Border Patrol personnel.
Read and share widely:
www.theunpopulist.net/p/abolish-ic...
With that well-phrased sentence, @shikhadalmia.bsky.social wraps up her compelling essay on the highly toxic ICE, which has been toxified even further with Border Patrol personnel.
Read and share widely:
www.theunpopulist.net/p/abolish-ic...
Abolish ICE: It Is a Threat to Americans’ Safety and Freedom
The agent who killed Renee Good should face the same accountability as the migrant who killed Laken Riley
www.theunpopulist.net
January 13, 2026 at 5:49 PM
"The country badly needs a Good Act abolishing ICE."
With that well-phrased sentence, @shikhadalmia.bsky.social wraps up her compelling essay on the highly toxic ICE, which has been toxified even further with Border Patrol personnel.
Read and share widely:
www.theunpopulist.net/p/abolish-ic...
With that well-phrased sentence, @shikhadalmia.bsky.social wraps up her compelling essay on the highly toxic ICE, which has been toxified even further with Border Patrol personnel.
Read and share widely:
www.theunpopulist.net/p/abolish-ic...
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Come for the discussion about ICE lawlessness, stay for the cameo appearance of Bill Clinton’s laws that keep on giving (derogatory), IIRIRA and AEDPA 😘
I made the case for abolishing ICE after ICE agent, Jonathan Ross, shot Renee Good, a mom dropping off her toddler at school, three times in the face after she smiled at him and tried to drive away.
You'll never guess what Trump and Vance did next.
www.theunpopulist.net/p/abolish-ic...
You'll never guess what Trump and Vance did next.
www.theunpopulist.net/p/abolish-ic...
Abolish ICE: It Is a Threat to Americans’ Safety and Freedom
The agent who killed Renee Good should face the same accountability as the migrant who killed Laken Riley
www.theunpopulist.net
January 13, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Come for the discussion about ICE lawlessness, stay for the cameo appearance of Bill Clinton’s laws that keep on giving (derogatory), IIRIRA and AEDPA 😘
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Important 🧵
I made the case for abolishing ICE after ICE agent, Jonathan Ross, shot Renee Good, a mom dropping off her toddler at school, three times in the face after she smiled at him and tried to drive away.
You'll never guess what Trump and Vance did next.
www.theunpopulist.net/p/abolish-ic...
You'll never guess what Trump and Vance did next.
www.theunpopulist.net/p/abolish-ic...
Abolish ICE: It Is a Threat to Americans’ Safety and Freedom
The agent who killed Renee Good should face the same accountability as the migrant who killed Laken Riley
www.theunpopulist.net
January 13, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Important 🧵
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"The likely result of removing Maduro is either continued but somewhat destabilized authoritarianism under mostly the same people, or chaotic instability that undermines democratization or any of the Trump administration’s stated goals."
Easy to see coming. If anything, that makes it even worse.
Easy to see coming. If anything, that makes it even worse.
Trump Is Ensuring That His Venezuela Attack Has No Upside for Anyone
Venezuelan democracy, America, and the world are all going to lose
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January 13, 2026 at 4:48 PM
"The likely result of removing Maduro is either continued but somewhat destabilized authoritarianism under mostly the same people, or chaotic instability that undermines democratization or any of the Trump administration’s stated goals."
Easy to see coming. If anything, that makes it even worse.
Easy to see coming. If anything, that makes it even worse.
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By moi at @theunpopulist.net: "When an agency uses the massive infusion of American taxpayers’ dollars to kill Americans in the name of saving Americans, it has lost all legitimacy." open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...
Abolish ICE: It Is a Threat to Americans’ Safety and Freedom
The agent who killed Renee Good should face the same accountability as the migrant who killed Laken Riley
open.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 3:24 PM
By moi at @theunpopulist.net: "When an agency uses the massive infusion of American taxpayers’ dollars to kill Americans in the name of saving Americans, it has lost all legitimacy." open.substack.com/pub/theunpop...
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Jim Jordan spent two years interviewing dozens of Google, Meta, and Amazon executives specifically seeking evidence of government coercion. Every single witness contradicted his censorship claims.
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No, There Never Was a Biden Censorship-Industrial Complex
The real threat to free speech is MAGA officials using this conspiracy to justify their own censorship
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January 12, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Jim Jordan spent two years interviewing dozens of Google, Meta, and Amazon executives specifically seeking evidence of government coercion. Every single witness contradicted his censorship claims.
@noupside.bsky.social
@noupside.bsky.social
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January 13, 2026 at 3:18 PM
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Putin came to power through regular constitutional procedure in 1999. Within months he raided independent media, within years he caged the richest man in Russia, and by 2003 he'd rigged parliament to remove all pro-democracy parties.
'Appeasing an Aggressor Never Leads to Peace': Vladimir Kara-Murza
The brave Russian dissident who Putin poisoned and imprisoned stood tall and condemned tyrants, emphasizing that gatherings like LibCon2025 are essential to defeating them
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January 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Putin came to power through regular constitutional procedure in 1999. Within months he raided independent media, within years he caged the richest man in Russia, and by 2003 he'd rigged parliament to remove all pro-democracy parties.
Obama's Charleston eulogy was heart-wrenching and hard-hitting—calling out racism, advocating for removing the Confederate flag, pushing criminal justice reform. But he offered ideas to change hearts and minds, not punishment and retribution.
Other Presidents Tried to Heal America After Political Violence—Trump Is Dividing It
The contrast between their and his behavior is a measure of America's moral descent
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January 13, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Obama's Charleston eulogy was heart-wrenching and hard-hitting—calling out racism, advocating for removing the Confederate flag, pushing criminal justice reform. But he offered ideas to change hearts and minds, not punishment and retribution.
Trump conjures threats, whips up fear, voices resentments, blames sinister forces, then offers himself as vindication—and we liberals were woefully unprepared for its power.
Why Is the American Experiment in Trouble? Simple: A Demagogue Has Ignited the ‘Dark Passions’ of the People
Liberalism’s real failure is that it assumes far too sunny a view of human nature, three recent books suggest
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January 13, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Trump conjures threats, whips up fear, voices resentments, blames sinister forces, then offers himself as vindication—and we liberals were woefully unprepared for its power.
Hegseth lists "electing Obama" among the left's dirty tricks—despite Obama winning a greater share of both popular and electoral votes than Trump did in either election.
Hegseth’s Hatred of Americans Makes Him Unfit for Office but a Perfect Fit for Trump
The secretary is a Christian nationalist who wants to eliminate those who don’t agree with his totalitarian vision
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January 13, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Hegseth lists "electing Obama" among the left's dirty tricks—despite Obama winning a greater share of both popular and electoral votes than Trump did in either election.
After other constitutional crises—FDR breaking the two-term norm, Nixon's Watergate abuses—we reformed our institutions accordingly. This is the business of self-government at its core.
The UnPopulist Launches ‘The Reconstruction Agenda’
Liberals need to start planning for a post-authoritarian future and rebuilding stronger institutions that a rogue president can’t so easily take over and weaponize again
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January 12, 2026 at 10:28 PM
After other constitutional crises—FDR breaking the two-term norm, Nixon's Watergate abuses—we reformed our institutions accordingly. This is the business of self-government at its core.
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"The question is not whether to fund or shut down *the* government—it’s whether to fund or shut down *this* government. There is no abstract, apolitical entity called 'the government' that exists separate from the regime currently in charge."
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I only ask how much more anyone would want to see before deciding on maximal obstruction against this administration
January 12, 2026 at 4:17 PM
"The question is not whether to fund or shut down *the* government—it’s whether to fund or shut down *this* government. There is no abstract, apolitical entity called 'the government' that exists separate from the regime currently in charge."
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They featured an email I sent. I asked Twitter to refund us when a grad student mistakenly 1-click subscribed to a pricey service. Twitter said no, so I said we’d tell scholars of their bad customer service. Jordan et al said it showed enormous influence of scholars, tho Twitter never gave us the $.
Jim Jordan spent two years interviewing dozens of Google, Meta, and Amazon executives specifically seeking evidence of government coercion. Every single witness contradicted his censorship claims.
@noupside.bsky.social
@noupside.bsky.social
No, There Never Was a Biden Censorship-Industrial Complex
The real threat to free speech is MAGA officials using this conspiracy to justify their own censorship
www.theunpopulist.net
January 12, 2026 at 12:24 AM
They featured an email I sent. I asked Twitter to refund us when a grad student mistakenly 1-click subscribed to a pricey service. Twitter said no, so I said we’d tell scholars of their bad customer service. Jordan et al said it showed enormous influence of scholars, tho Twitter never gave us the $.
Jim Jordan spent two years interviewing dozens of Google, Meta, and Amazon executives specifically seeking evidence of government coercion. Every single witness contradicted his censorship claims.
@noupside.bsky.social
@noupside.bsky.social
No, There Never Was a Biden Censorship-Industrial Complex
The real threat to free speech is MAGA officials using this conspiracy to justify their own censorship
www.theunpopulist.net
January 12, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Jim Jordan spent two years interviewing dozens of Google, Meta, and Amazon executives specifically seeking evidence of government coercion. Every single witness contradicted his censorship claims.
@noupside.bsky.social
@noupside.bsky.social
Authoritarianism is an instinct, a yearning for control, hierarchy, and simplicity. It manifests in different costumes but always tells the same story: trust the strongman, fear the outsider, silence the dissenter.
@joshuaeakle.com
@projectliberal.org
@joshuaeakle.com
@projectliberal.org
Liberalism Is a Bold Force That Ends Corrupt, Oppressive, and Arbitrary Hierarchies
It doesn't defend the status quo, it upends it
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January 11, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Authoritarianism is an instinct, a yearning for control, hierarchy, and simplicity. It manifests in different costumes but always tells the same story: trust the strongman, fear the outsider, silence the dissenter.
@joshuaeakle.com
@projectliberal.org
@joshuaeakle.com
@projectliberal.org
A 35-year-old state official praising slavery. White House nominees spouting race science. This isn't youthful indiscretion—it's calculated extremism with institutional cover.
The Alt-Right to Heritage Foundation Pipeline: a 10-Year Journey
Extremist rot goes up and down on the right
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January 11, 2026 at 9:00 PM
A 35-year-old state official praising slavery. White House nominees spouting race science. This isn't youthful indiscretion—it's calculated extremism with institutional cover.
Take a genuine but minor editorial error, blow it out of proportion, demand billions in damages, and claim victimhood. Meanwhile, Trump's actual insurrection gets memory-holed.
Trump Goes After the BBC for Telling True Lies About His Insurrection
He and the U.K. right are making bad faith attacks on the broadcaster to extract a heavy price for a small editorial error
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January 11, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Take a genuine but minor editorial error, blow it out of proportion, demand billions in damages, and claim victimhood. Meanwhile, Trump's actual insurrection gets memory-holed.