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Colin Woodard
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Director, Nationhood Lab, @PellCenter.bsky.social - Salve Regina University. Author, American Nations, American Character, Union, Republic of Pirates, and others. www.colinwoodard.com and www.nationhoodlab.org

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Colin Strohn Woodard is an American journalist and writer known for his books American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America (2011), The Republic of Pirates (2007), and The Lobster Coast (2004), a cultural and environmental history of coastal Maine. He is known for his writing that examines how the historically distinct regional cultures of America shape its current politics, society and health status. .. more

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Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 14h
Hope not, but I can see a guy with universal celebrity recognition, a massive following, media savvy and fascistic politics beating Vance, Cruz and whoever for the GOP nomination and becoming the standard bearer of Trumpism.

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Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 14h
Being done in your name, America.
charlesornstein.bsky.social Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 14h
Such an important story: ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the U.S. and the fear of what comes next.
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The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
www.propublica.org

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Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 14h
Spoke to the @startribune.com about the regional cultural aspect of Trump's ICE attack on Minnesota. (Smaller scale campaign was happening here in Maine at the same time.) www.startribune.com/american-nat...
Burcum: To some, Minnesota’s fierce pushback against ICE was entirely predictable
"Kristi Noem and her flunkies may have expected a population that would cow before the masked, armed agents dispatched to Minnesota. Instead, the Twin Cities refuse to break," columnist Jill Burcum wr...
www.startribune.com

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Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 14h
Tucker Carlson could create a modified version.

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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 14h
Such an important story: ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the U.S. and the fear of what comes next.
@micarosenberg.bsky.social
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
www.propublica.org

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 15h
"TikTok’s Terms of Service now explicitly include tracking of location and citizenship status (among other identity markers, such as sex)." newrepublic.com/article/2059...
How TikTok 2.0 Became a Weapon for ICE
In just one week, the company has gone from being Gen Z’s preferred social media platform to a tool for spying on Americans and the suppression of information.
newrepublic.com

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 16h
This is what we’re doing to people. We are the bad guys.

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Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 1d
It’s a discipline for people too impatient to be historians and actually understand what’s going on. (Did I say that out loud?)

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Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 1d
Orwell’s Ministry of Puppies
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If you missed the ad for explicit surveillance technology the Confederacy would've absolutely loved
Search Party from Ring | Be A Hero In Your Neighborhood
YouTube video by Ring
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d
If you missed the ad for explicit surveillance technology the Confederacy would've absolutely loved
Search Party from Ring | Be A Hero In Your Neighborhood
YouTube video by Ring
youtu.be

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 2d
THIS 👇
volts.wtf David Roberts @volts.wtf · 2d
High-quality journalism is not a viable market product. If you want consistent high-quality journalism, you need some kind of subsidy.

ANY billionaire could set up the WaPo as a high-quality journalism outlet, accept that it's not going to make money, & simply subsidize it. Nothing stopping them.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d
NYT confirming MS NOW reporting:

Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop.

Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.
Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.
www.nytimes.com

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d
"The American media makes things that are abnormal seem normal. The European press doesn’t do that. So you’ll see when they report on Trump’s rambling Davos speech, they will say it made no sense. In the US press, you’ll just see excerpts and an attempt to sanitize it." — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social
Anne Applebaum on Trump's betrayal of Europe
"They’re bewildered we’ve allowed this to happen."
www.publicnotice.co

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 2d
ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d
Before The Washington Post layoffs came down, a group of wealthy D.C. locals approached CEO Will Lewis with a proposal.

@passantino.bsky.social has the details in his Saturday @status.news column: www.status.news/p/washington...

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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 2d
Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
www.pressherald.com

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Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 2d
"We have always been at war with Eastasia."
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d
Trump: I’m the least racist president you’ve had in a long time as far as I’m concerned.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 2d
The demise of the CIA World Factbook is “part of a broad war on information being waged by the Trump administration,” @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.
The Trump Administration’s War on Data
A series of recent steps have erased the shared facts that help uphold democracy.
bit.ly

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3d
Trump: I’m the least racist president you’ve had in a long time as far as I’m concerned.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3d
You may recall that in January of 2025, artist Ann Telnaes announced that she had quit The Washington Post after editors killed a cartoon that depicted owner Jeff Bezos, among others, genuflecting to Trump.

This cartoon feels even more relevant this week.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3d
VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.

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Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 3d
In case you were wondering if the regime had any regrets about detaining a five year old.... www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...
U.S. Seeks to Expedite Deportation of 5-Year-Old Liam Conejo Ramos
www.nytimes.com

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Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 3d
Every time I re-read Trump v. United States, it feels like getting hit in the head with a mallet.
The dissents’ positions in the end boil down to ignoring the Constitution’s separation of powers and the Court’s precedent and instead fear mongering on the basis of ex- treme hypotheticals about a future where the President “feels empowered to violate federal criminal law.” Post, at 18 (opinion of SOTOMAYOR, J.); see post, at 26, 29–30; post, at 8–9, 10, 12, 16, 20–21 (opinion of JACKSON, J.).

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 3d
1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

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Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 5d
Must you have gone with CBS as your link, though?

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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 5d
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 49m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

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Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 5d
Definitely. If the Marty Baron era Post still existed, a lot of readers would have cancelled their Times subscriptions. Now there's nowhere else to go for a national-scale newspaper of record.

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Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 5d
Marty Baron: "Loyal readers, livid as they saw owner Jeff Bezos betraying the values he was supposed to uphold, fled the Post. In truth, they were driven away."
benmullin.bsky.social Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 5d
A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

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Colin Woodard @colinwoodard.bsky.social · 5d
Bezos destroyed the Washington Post more than a year ago. This is just the inevitable end game.