Holly
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Tillis calls out Trump’s advisers specifically, which some might interpret as an attempt to avoid holding Trump personally accountable.
To me it suggests that he knows Trump isn’t actually in charge, and is making that known.
To me it suggests that he knows Trump isn’t actually in charge, and is making that known.
Sen Tillis (R-NC): Trump is trying to end the independence of the Fed through blackmail. This must stop.
January 12, 2026 at 4:14 AM
Tillis calls out Trump’s advisers specifically, which some might interpret as an attempt to avoid holding Trump personally accountable.
To me it suggests that he knows Trump isn’t actually in charge, and is making that known.
To me it suggests that he knows Trump isn’t actually in charge, and is making that known.
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⚠️ Federal Reserve Chair:
• DOJ served the Fed subpoenas and is threatening criminal indictment.
• “The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of [the Fed] setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President.”
• DOJ served the Fed subpoenas and is threatening criminal indictment.
• “The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of [the Fed] setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President.”
Statement from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
Good evening. On Friday, the Department of Justice served the Federal Reserve with grand jury subpoenas, threatening a criminal indictment related to my testi
www.federalreserve.gov
January 12, 2026 at 12:46 AM
⚠️ Federal Reserve Chair:
• DOJ served the Fed subpoenas and is threatening criminal indictment.
• “The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of [the Fed] setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President.”
• DOJ served the Fed subpoenas and is threatening criminal indictment.
• “The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of [the Fed] setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President.”
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This headline is layers of misogyny deep.
January 11, 2026 at 10:31 PM
This headline is layers of misogyny deep.
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Woman wearing solid gold Rolex and carrying g Birkin bag on a federal government paycheck, all as she awards no-bid multimillion federal contracts to her henchmen, insists he is battling against "corruption." Hard to watch this with a straight face.
January 11, 2026 at 10:32 PM
Woman wearing solid gold Rolex and carrying g Birkin bag on a federal government paycheck, all as she awards no-bid multimillion federal contracts to her henchmen, insists he is battling against "corruption." Hard to watch this with a straight face.
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right out of the nazi handbook
January 11, 2026 at 10:24 PM
right out of the nazi handbook
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Seriously?
“More training” is how you fix workplace errors. It's not how you confront a fascist regime deploying masked men to abduct our immigrant neighbors, terrorize communities, and silence dissent.
Treating this as an issue of “professionalism” obscures the truth: the violence is the mission.
“More training” is how you fix workplace errors. It's not how you confront a fascist regime deploying masked men to abduct our immigrant neighbors, terrorize communities, and silence dissent.
Treating this as an issue of “professionalism” obscures the truth: the violence is the mission.
Chris Murphy: "The amount of training that's given to an ICE officer has been cut in half by this administration. The number of days of training they get are 47. You know why they get 47 days? As an homage to the vanity of POTUS. No wonder the number of violent incidents are going through the roof."
January 11, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Seriously?
“More training” is how you fix workplace errors. It's not how you confront a fascist regime deploying masked men to abduct our immigrant neighbors, terrorize communities, and silence dissent.
Treating this as an issue of “professionalism” obscures the truth: the violence is the mission.
“More training” is how you fix workplace errors. It's not how you confront a fascist regime deploying masked men to abduct our immigrant neighbors, terrorize communities, and silence dissent.
Treating this as an issue of “professionalism” obscures the truth: the violence is the mission.
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2024 seems like a lifetime ago but her books are so prescient that you’d think she wrote it yesterday. She is a wonderful writer, beautiful prose but frightening subject. You’ll wish you were reading fiction.
“Kendzior performs an important service by deftly differentiating the term ‘conspiracy theory’ from simple conspiracy — two terms often conflated by the powerful to shield themelves from accountability for their crimes.”
New review of THEY KNEW:
www.christopher-east.com/2025/12/26/n...
New review of THEY KNEW:
www.christopher-east.com/2025/12/26/n...
Nonfiction: They Knew by Sarah Kendzior – Christopher East
www.christopher-east.com
January 10, 2026 at 11:38 AM
2024 seems like a lifetime ago but her books are so prescient that you’d think she wrote it yesterday. She is a wonderful writer, beautiful prose but frightening subject. You’ll wish you were reading fiction.
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Joint statement by the leaders of Greenland’s political parties:
We are united as a people.
…
We do not want to be Americans. We do not want to be Danes. We want to be Greenlanders.
…
The future of Greenland must be decided by Greenlanders.
siumut.gl/inuiattut-at...
We are united as a people.
…
We do not want to be Americans. We do not want to be Danes. We want to be Greenlanders.
…
The future of Greenland must be decided by Greenlanders.
siumut.gl/inuiattut-at...
January 10, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Joint statement by the leaders of Greenland’s political parties:
We are united as a people.
…
We do not want to be Americans. We do not want to be Danes. We want to be Greenlanders.
…
The future of Greenland must be decided by Greenlanders.
siumut.gl/inuiattut-at...
We are united as a people.
…
We do not want to be Americans. We do not want to be Danes. We want to be Greenlanders.
…
The future of Greenland must be decided by Greenlanders.
siumut.gl/inuiattut-at...
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"Being on the 'right side of history' is romanticized. It often means you were wronged and people cared too late."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-invaders
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-invaders
January 10, 2026 at 3:40 PM
"Being on the 'right side of history' is romanticized. It often means you were wronged and people cared too late."
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-invaders
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-invaders
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Article link: thehobbledehoy.com/2020/11/05/h...
How Sarah Kendzior Became the Prophet of Flyover Country
Sarah Kendzior is writing. It’s March 29, and the St. Louis-based scholar of despots and demagogues is absorbed in her notebook. A tumble of dark blonde hair rests in a pile on her shoulder, …
thehobbledehoy.com
January 10, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Article link: thehobbledehoy.com/2020/11/05/h...
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“It’s a perfect example of the sort of patriotic trust that, in Kendzior’s view, is hastening America’s fall to brutalism and autocracy. When she takes the podium after Kristol, she is biting in her opinion of America’s institutions, presented by Kristol as a bulwark...”
A long record of truth…
A long record of truth…
January 10, 2026 at 6:15 PM
“It’s a perfect example of the sort of patriotic trust that, in Kendzior’s view, is hastening America’s fall to brutalism and autocracy. When she takes the podium after Kristol, she is biting in her opinion of America’s institutions, presented by Kristol as a bulwark...”
A long record of truth…
A long record of truth…
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It's important to know who said what and when because 1) it shows who to trust in terms of analysis 2) it shows potential targets of the state who to trust in terms of protection.
If they had power and didn't take Epstein or ICE seriously before 2025, they're bullshitting now. And that's dangerous.
If they had power and didn't take Epstein or ICE seriously before 2025, they're bullshitting now. And that's dangerous.
January 10, 2026 at 3:06 PM
It's important to know who said what and when because 1) it shows who to trust in terms of analysis 2) it shows potential targets of the state who to trust in terms of protection.
If they had power and didn't take Epstein or ICE seriously before 2025, they're bullshitting now. And that's dangerous.
If they had power and didn't take Epstein or ICE seriously before 2025, they're bullshitting now. And that's dangerous.
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Is there a history of the "Abolish ICE" movement and the political response? What I recall is a principled stance against ICE being mocked in scathing ways by the "Vote Blue No Matter Who (Gets Killed)" crowd.
Who were the same people who blew off Epstein and insisted the DOJ would get Trump.
Who were the same people who blew off Epstein and insisted the DOJ would get Trump.
January 10, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Is there a history of the "Abolish ICE" movement and the political response? What I recall is a principled stance against ICE being mocked in scathing ways by the "Vote Blue No Matter Who (Gets Killed)" crowd.
Who were the same people who blew off Epstein and insisted the DOJ would get Trump.
Who were the same people who blew off Epstein and insisted the DOJ would get Trump.
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"When bad times come, then I'll get whatever I want.”
"You know what solves it? When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell and everything is a disaster. Then you'll have a [laughs], you know, you'll have riots to go back to where we used to be when we were great."
"You know what solves it? When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell and everything is a disaster. Then you'll have a [laughs], you know, you'll have riots to go back to where we used to be when we were great."
![Chapter heading: THEORIES OF CONSPIRACY
Page 25
… self-described fatalist who had long expressed his desire for destruction?
"When bad times come, then I'll get whatever I want," he told Barbara Walters in a 1980s interview. In 2014, he told Fox News, "You know what solves it? When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell and everything is a disaster. Then you'll have a [laughs], you know, you'll have riots to go back to where we used to be when we were great." Trump's initial reaction to 9/11 was that the collapse of the World Trade Center made his own buildings look taller.' Trump's initial reaction to the 2008 economic collapse was joy at his potential to profit."!
"Life is what you do while you're waiting to die," Trump, then a real estate tycoon filing for bankruptcy, told Playboy magazine in 1990. "You know, it is all a rather sad situation."
"Life?" the interviewer asked. "Or death?"
"Both. We're here and we live our 60, 70, or 80 years and we're gone.
You win, you win, and in the end, it doesn't mean a hell of a lot. But it is something to do—to keep you interested."!2
Mass death did not mean a lot to Trump, but it kept him interested, and it was a rather sad situation. Trump's lifelong penchant for annihilation set the tone of the administration. But it was put into action by more skillful bureaucrats, who saw in the chaos an opportunity for grift](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:fbrpboqe5jxnjiqb7af2c7vz/bafkreiccrpvofha4bnhg54v25oyzs5tskxvyjqgr7rikuxq3ukje57ih3m@jpeg)
January 10, 2026 at 8:55 PM
"When bad times come, then I'll get whatever I want.”
"You know what solves it? When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell and everything is a disaster. Then you'll have a [laughs], you know, you'll have riots to go back to where we used to be when we were great."
"You know what solves it? When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell and everything is a disaster. Then you'll have a [laughs], you know, you'll have riots to go back to where we used to be when we were great."
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We have to be clear about what the Trump Administration is doing: They are taking basic American virtues and freedoms — the ability to speak truth to power and freely — and turning them into crimes. We must see through this.
January 11, 2026 at 1:43 AM
We have to be clear about what the Trump Administration is doing: They are taking basic American virtues and freedoms — the ability to speak truth to power and freely — and turning them into crimes. We must see through this.
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Good parliamentarian, terrible politician. That describes about 40% of elected Dems, and the only difference for most of the other 60% is that they're not good parliamentarians.
January 11, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Good parliamentarian, terrible politician. That describes about 40% of elected Dems, and the only difference for most of the other 60% is that they're not good parliamentarians.
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We are heartened to see that for the first time in 12 years, the U.S bishops issued a joint statement addressing the current situation impacting immigrants in our nation.
We thank Pope Leo for leading the way and them for lending their voice to the voiceless and for standing up for human dignity.
We thank Pope Leo for leading the way and them for lending their voice to the voiceless and for standing up for human dignity.
January 10, 2026 at 5:37 PM
We are heartened to see that for the first time in 12 years, the U.S bishops issued a joint statement addressing the current situation impacting immigrants in our nation.
We thank Pope Leo for leading the way and them for lending their voice to the voiceless and for standing up for human dignity.
We thank Pope Leo for leading the way and them for lending their voice to the voiceless and for standing up for human dignity.
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They want us to stop using the words fascism and Nazism and racism because there is a reason those words exist and they are the reason
January 11, 2026 at 1:08 AM
They want us to stop using the words fascism and Nazism and racism because there is a reason those words exist and they are the reason
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Just an endless series of illegal bullshit
NEWS: A day after the Minneapolis shooting, Secretary Noem quietly signed a new policy barring congressional visits to ICE facilities without a week's advance notice. That policy change led to three MN Dems being blocked from accessing an ICE facility today. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...
January 11, 2026 at 3:33 AM
Just an endless series of illegal bullshit
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Treaties are federal law. As a signatory to the 1949 NATO treaty, the U.S. is barred by law from attacking another NATO member. Therefore, an order to draw up plans to attack Greenland is an illegal one. Military leaders are obligated to disobey illegal orders.
Lawyers correct me if I'm wrong.
Lawyers correct me if I'm wrong.
Cool, cool.
"According to sources, Trump has asked Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) to prepare the invasion plan, but it is being resisted by the joint chiefs of staff on the grounds that it would be illegal - and not be supported by Congress."
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
"According to sources, Trump has asked Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) to prepare the invasion plan, but it is being resisted by the joint chiefs of staff on the grounds that it would be illegal - and not be supported by Congress."
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
Trump 'orders US army chiefs to draw up plan to invade Greenland'
Donald Trump has ordered his special forces commanders to draw up a plan for the invasion of Greenland - but is being resisted by senior military figures, The Mail on Sunday has learned.
www.dailymail.co.uk
January 11, 2026 at 3:42 AM
Treaties are federal law. As a signatory to the 1949 NATO treaty, the U.S. is barred by law from attacking another NATO member. Therefore, an order to draw up plans to attack Greenland is an illegal one. Military leaders are obligated to disobey illegal orders.
Lawyers correct me if I'm wrong.
Lawyers correct me if I'm wrong.
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All of this going down during the 250th anniversary year of America is a degree of cringey writing that would be roundly mocked were it a novel published in an alternative timeline.
January 10, 2026 at 11:03 PM
All of this going down during the 250th anniversary year of America is a degree of cringey writing that would be roundly mocked were it a novel published in an alternative timeline.
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North Carolina just published a law requiring public syllabi and this is literally what it’s for
So maga youtuber shitcunts in New Hampshire can feed it all into a fucking ChatGPT prompt and sue somebody
library book bans on steroids
It is going to destroy so many courses and careers in higher ed
So maga youtuber shitcunts in New Hampshire can feed it all into a fucking ChatGPT prompt and sue somebody
library book bans on steroids
It is going to destroy so many courses and careers in higher ed
Remember what I've previously said about the intersections of fascism, disinformation, misinformation, & propaganda, all exacerbated by LLM-type "AI"? Add in this push to have university syllabi deemed public so that ideologically motivated parties can target them & LLM's can "evaluate" them, and… 😬
January 10, 2026 at 7:52 PM
North Carolina just published a law requiring public syllabi and this is literally what it’s for
So maga youtuber shitcunts in New Hampshire can feed it all into a fucking ChatGPT prompt and sue somebody
library book bans on steroids
It is going to destroy so many courses and careers in higher ed
So maga youtuber shitcunts in New Hampshire can feed it all into a fucking ChatGPT prompt and sue somebody
library book bans on steroids
It is going to destroy so many courses and careers in higher ed