@gerardvila.bsky.social
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Decades of social science and health research show that curtailing access to safe abortions does not reduce abortions; it just makes them more dangerous. The Trump Administration’s new rules to "promote families and human flourishing” will increase that needless suffering and death.
New Foreign Aid Rules Will Threaten Lives
The Trump Administration is expanding foreign aid restrictions on abortion, transgender health care, and DEI initiatives.
progressive.org
February 6, 2026 at 3:35 AM
Decades of social science and health research show that curtailing access to safe abortions does not reduce abortions; it just makes them more dangerous. The Trump Administration’s new rules to "promote families and human flourishing” will increase that needless suffering and death.
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To my American friends
I think you need to know what's going on beyond your borders
Your Ambassador in Poland (arguably one of your biggest allies in Europe) just had his pants pulled down by the Polish Prime Minister after having a meltdown in a public about a nomination form
Not a good look
I think you need to know what's going on beyond your borders
Your Ambassador in Poland (arguably one of your biggest allies in Europe) just had his pants pulled down by the Polish Prime Minister after having a meltdown in a public about a nomination form
Not a good look
February 6, 2026 at 5:23 AM
To my American friends
I think you need to know what's going on beyond your borders
Your Ambassador in Poland (arguably one of your biggest allies in Europe) just had his pants pulled down by the Polish Prime Minister after having a meltdown in a public about a nomination form
Not a good look
I think you need to know what's going on beyond your borders
Your Ambassador in Poland (arguably one of your biggest allies in Europe) just had his pants pulled down by the Polish Prime Minister after having a meltdown in a public about a nomination form
Not a good look
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Democracy dies in billionaire hands. [Cartoon by Michael de Adder]
February 5, 2026 at 4:11 PM
Democracy dies in billionaire hands. [Cartoon by Michael de Adder]
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Sacking The Washington Post probably has Bezos high-fiving his yachted authoritarian friends, all thinking they’re noble Centurions putting a knife into some loudmouth Senator under cover of darkness and saving Rome in the process.
They fail to appreciate that they actually wrecked an aqueduct.
They fail to appreciate that they actually wrecked an aqueduct.
February 4, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Sacking The Washington Post probably has Bezos high-fiving his yachted authoritarian friends, all thinking they’re noble Centurions putting a knife into some loudmouth Senator under cover of darkness and saving Rome in the process.
They fail to appreciate that they actually wrecked an aqueduct.
They fail to appreciate that they actually wrecked an aqueduct.
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A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot.
"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."
"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."
ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social
"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."
"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."
ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social
January 28, 2026 at 7:09 PM
A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot.
"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."
"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."
ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social
"They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets."
"They had the professional demeanor of criminals."
ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social
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After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
January 27, 2026 at 9:30 PM
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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Before president goofballs took his oath last january, I told my wife
The telling time will be when the death squads murder people in the streets; would the administration allow the networks to air uncut footage.
I didn't see the smart phone as the giant killer it is in this war.
but it sure is.
The telling time will be when the death squads murder people in the streets; would the administration allow the networks to air uncut footage.
I didn't see the smart phone as the giant killer it is in this war.
but it sure is.
January 26, 2026 at 9:43 PM
Before president goofballs took his oath last january, I told my wife
The telling time will be when the death squads murder people in the streets; would the administration allow the networks to air uncut footage.
I didn't see the smart phone as the giant killer it is in this war.
but it sure is.
The telling time will be when the death squads murder people in the streets; would the administration allow the networks to air uncut footage.
I didn't see the smart phone as the giant killer it is in this war.
but it sure is.
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Anyone going to a protest now (hell, even just observing; not protesting) has done the math: they're there with the understanding that they might be killed.
It literally did not occur to ICE that their victims might have courage.
It literally did not occur to ICE that their victims might have courage.
January 26, 2026 at 9:00 PM
Anyone going to a protest now (hell, even just observing; not protesting) has done the math: they're there with the understanding that they might be killed.
It literally did not occur to ICE that their victims might have courage.
It literally did not occur to ICE that their victims might have courage.
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January 26, 2026 at 12:48 PM
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Seeing the US government flail in trying to frame these as anything but executions by incompetent trigger happy goons makes me feel like I owe an apology to the FSB morons I mocked for trying to stage an apartment as a Ukrainian terror plot but planting a copy of The Sims III instead of 3 SIM cards.
January 26, 2026 at 10:04 AM
Seeing the US government flail in trying to frame these as anything but executions by incompetent trigger happy goons makes me feel like I owe an apology to the FSB morons I mocked for trying to stage an apartment as a Ukrainian terror plot but planting a copy of The Sims III instead of 3 SIM cards.
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10/ This all means we have a situation where the President of the United States can relentlessly, ceaselessly and at least somewhat costlessly trigger one crisis response after another all over the world at the tapping of his thumbs.
That's why everyone looks so tired.
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That's why everyone looks so tired.
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January 24, 2026 at 1:58 PM
10/ This all means we have a situation where the President of the United States can relentlessly, ceaselessly and at least somewhat costlessly trigger one crisis response after another all over the world at the tapping of his thumbs.
That's why everyone looks so tired.
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That's why everyone looks so tired.
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Holland’s Christianity is something pure and ethereal. The medieval Church was the biggest landowner in Europe. It was a multinational corporation, the biggest the world had ever seen. You simply can’t separate the ideas from that commercial worldliness.
January 23, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Holland’s Christianity is something pure and ethereal. The medieval Church was the biggest landowner in Europe. It was a multinational corporation, the biggest the world had ever seen. You simply can’t separate the ideas from that commercial worldliness.
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FUCK. NO.
source: actual experience living in dictatorships (unlike the delusional, traitorous lunatics cheering him on)
source: actual experience living in dictatorships (unlike the delusional, traitorous lunatics cheering him on)
January 21, 2026 at 7:13 PM
FUCK. NO.
source: actual experience living in dictatorships (unlike the delusional, traitorous lunatics cheering him on)
source: actual experience living in dictatorships (unlike the delusional, traitorous lunatics cheering him on)
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With his denunciation of ICE violence in Minneapolis, Bruce Springsteen has once again proven himself to be as critical and questioning and angry and, yes, patriotic as the times require.
https://bit.ly/3LVbjuj
https://bit.ly/3LVbjuj
Springsteen Defends the Promised Land Against ICE's "Gestapo Tactics"
Mourning for Renee Nicole Good, the singer decried the Trump administration and the threat to freedom posed by "heavily armed masked federal troops invading an American city."
bit.ly
January 20, 2026 at 4:28 PM
With his denunciation of ICE violence in Minneapolis, Bruce Springsteen has once again proven himself to be as critical and questioning and angry and, yes, patriotic as the times require.
https://bit.ly/3LVbjuj
https://bit.ly/3LVbjuj
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Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask:
"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
January 19, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask:
"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
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"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
—The Declaration of Independence
—The Declaration of Independence
January 18, 2026 at 9:01 PM
"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."
—The Declaration of Independence
—The Declaration of Independence
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Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.
Game on.
January 18, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Deutsche Bank here with the good stuff.
Game on.
Game on.
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Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
January 18, 2026 at 9:03 PM
Pew Research Institute (2023):
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.
• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants
• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants
• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.
And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."
It's *not* about immigration.