@its-tessa-j.bsky.social
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A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 PM
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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It's 2026, please stop following and reposting viral "resistance" accounts that do absolutely nothing and instead follow people who offer real, palpable steps on how to help your friends and neighbors.
Here's a good starter pack via @gregpak.net go.bsky.app/6DoVMhY
Here's a good starter pack via @gregpak.net go.bsky.app/6DoVMhY
January 25, 2026 at 2:25 PM
It's 2026, please stop following and reposting viral "resistance" accounts that do absolutely nothing and instead follow people who offer real, palpable steps on how to help your friends and neighbors.
Here's a good starter pack via @gregpak.net go.bsky.app/6DoVMhY
Here's a good starter pack via @gregpak.net go.bsky.app/6DoVMhY
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LOUDER
AND IN THE REPLIES TO EVERY FUNDRAISING TEXT I GET FROM NOW ON
“do you support the abolition and prosecution of ICE” is my new stock reply
AND IN THE REPLIES TO EVERY FUNDRAISING TEXT I GET FROM NOW ON
“do you support the abolition and prosecution of ICE” is my new stock reply
People are being murdered because our politicians think their reelection campaign is more important than our lives
January 24, 2026 at 5:10 PM
LOUDER
AND IN THE REPLIES TO EVERY FUNDRAISING TEXT I GET FROM NOW ON
“do you support the abolition and prosecution of ICE” is my new stock reply
AND IN THE REPLIES TO EVERY FUNDRAISING TEXT I GET FROM NOW ON
“do you support the abolition and prosecution of ICE” is my new stock reply
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Hakeem Jeffries deserves to be unemployed.
DHS spending bill passed 220-207
7 Democrats voted in favor:
Henry Cuellar
Don Davis
Laura Gilles
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Jared Golden
Vicente Gonzalez
Tom Suozzi
Massie voted No
Andy Harris didn't vote
Might not have passed if every Democrat voted No, but leadership wasn't whipping them to do so
7 Democrats voted in favor:
Henry Cuellar
Don Davis
Laura Gilles
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez
Jared Golden
Vicente Gonzalez
Tom Suozzi
Massie voted No
Andy Harris didn't vote
Might not have passed if every Democrat voted No, but leadership wasn't whipping them to do so
January 22, 2026 at 10:22 PM
Hakeem Jeffries deserves to be unemployed.
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You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.
Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."
January 20, 2026 at 6:17 PM
You cannot overstate how startling it is to see a politician just say the thing with clarity and poise. No fearful hemming. No overwrought qualifying down til it’s meaningless. No lingering sense that there is a loyalty to a donor class or an ideology of stasis that they’d never admit to.
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Teenage girls who use social media daily are less likely to harm themselves and attempt suicide – one of many unmentionable realities major health surveys show
Teenage girls who use social media daily are less likely to harm themselves and attempt suicide – one of many unmentionable realities major health surveys show
Officials’ and professionals’ dismissals and distortions of the worst menaces to teenagers’ mental and physical health are inexcusable.
mikemales.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Teenage girls who use social media daily are less likely to harm themselves and attempt suicide – one of many unmentionable realities major health surveys show
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The consistent pattern of Republicans feeling no obligation to tell the truth and Democrats feeling even less obligation to call out that the former is lying has truly doomed us in ways that are hard to quantify.
So in the end, what does this article amount to? Republicans are telling the same lie about welfare that they've told for 40 years despite consistent efforts — including many led by Democrats — to restrict and police it.
And in response, Democrats should restrict and police it even more.
And in response, Democrats should restrict and police it even more.
January 19, 2026 at 5:15 PM
The consistent pattern of Republicans feeling no obligation to tell the truth and Democrats feeling even less obligation to call out that the former is lying has truly doomed us in ways that are hard to quantify.
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Some days i believe Dems are malicious collaborators who are laughing at us behind closed doors. Other days i believe they're bumbling idiots who are so disconnected they may as well be inhuman. One thing is for sure: it's not enough for Republicans to go. Minimum, yes, but not nearly enough
The author of a controversial memo from centrist think tank Searchlight telling Democrats to abandon the slogan “Abolish ICE” is a senior advisor for WestExec, a D.C. shadow lobbyist for corporations in the defense, surveillance, and immigration enforcement industries.
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
prospect.org/2026/01/19/a...
Author of ‘Don’t Say Abolish ICE’ Memo Is a Corporate Consultant - The American Prospect
Blas Nuñez-Neto is a senior adviser to WestExec, a shadow lobbyist for defense and tech firms.
prospect.org
January 19, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Some days i believe Dems are malicious collaborators who are laughing at us behind closed doors. Other days i believe they're bumbling idiots who are so disconnected they may as well be inhuman. One thing is for sure: it's not enough for Republicans to go. Minimum, yes, but not nearly enough
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PS: I forgot to add that it's no coincidence at all that the emergence of science and liberal democracy happened at the same time.
Science and democracy need each other, and it's also no coincidence that reactionaries hate both, as @markhisted.org and @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social discussed with me
Science and democracy need each other, and it's also no coincidence that reactionaries hate both, as @markhisted.org and @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social discussed with me
Science is under attack because it left the public behind
NIH scientists Mark Histed and Jenna Norton discuss the deep connection between democratic principles and scientific progress
plus.flux.community
January 18, 2026 at 7:41 PM
PS: I forgot to add that it's no coincidence at all that the emergence of science and liberal democracy happened at the same time.
Science and democracy need each other, and it's also no coincidence that reactionaries hate both, as @markhisted.org and @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social discussed with me
Science and democracy need each other, and it's also no coincidence that reactionaries hate both, as @markhisted.org and @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social discussed with me
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The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
But Americans who want to save the alliance with Europe must have no illusions about how bad a condition this transatlantic partnership is in.
January 18, 2026 at 10:05 PM
The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
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We keep telling people he only cares about himself and advancing himself. He and any democrat who pushes him or supports them is an oppressor, plain and simple, no different from what we have now. He may honestly be one of the biggest, most obvious two bit phonies Ive seen
I put myself through the entire interview. Trust me when I tell you that Gavin "dank memes" Newsom agrees with him on EVERYTHING. I literally says "I agree with you" on EVERYTHING. Ben "extremely unpopular even with MAGA" Shapiro gets very combative with him and Gavin capitulates EVERY time.
Ben Shapiro: "Israel did not commit a genocide in Gaza"
Gavin Newsom: "I agree with you."
Gavin Newsom: "I agree with you."
January 18, 2026 at 1:29 PM
We keep telling people he only cares about himself and advancing himself. He and any democrat who pushes him or supports them is an oppressor, plain and simple, no different from what we have now. He may honestly be one of the biggest, most obvious two bit phonies Ive seen
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For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping.
Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.
www.ms.now
January 16, 2026 at 6:55 PM
For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.
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Gavin Newsom has never had a homeless, a working unhoused, or an affordable housing advocate on his podcast despite governing California.
So yeah I think it’s weird that he’s entertained & platformed multiple fascists while grinning, nodding & relenting to their easily defeatable talking points.
So yeah I think it’s weird that he’s entertained & platformed multiple fascists while grinning, nodding & relenting to their easily defeatable talking points.
January 16, 2026 at 5:05 AM
Gavin Newsom has never had a homeless, a working unhoused, or an affordable housing advocate on his podcast despite governing California.
So yeah I think it’s weird that he’s entertained & platformed multiple fascists while grinning, nodding & relenting to their easily defeatable talking points.
So yeah I think it’s weird that he’s entertained & platformed multiple fascists while grinning, nodding & relenting to their easily defeatable talking points.
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Exactly. Dems keep trying to pivot the conversation back to affordability but what is their signature policy on this issue? Once we’re finally talking about it they have nothing to say.
aside from the obvious problem with this strategy, do dems really want to own a part of this economy when there is likely nothing they can do about it?
Schumer as a major American metro is being brutally occupied by Trump goons: "The affordability crisis will be our focus throughout 2026 because that's what the American people are demanding"
January 16, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Exactly. Dems keep trying to pivot the conversation back to affordability but what is their signature policy on this issue? Once we’re finally talking about it they have nothing to say.
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i think gavin newsom fucking sucks and if you ever try to guilt me into voting for him i’ll scream
January 16, 2026 at 3:24 AM
i think gavin newsom fucking sucks and if you ever try to guilt me into voting for him i’ll scream
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I think that people don’t comprehend that the state has been unapologetically beating young people’s asses basically nonstop & charging us with massive crimes for protesting since at least Occupy Wall Street & growing up like that has a chilling effect on the way people engage with democracy
January 15, 2026 at 3:45 AM
I think that people don’t comprehend that the state has been unapologetically beating young people’s asses basically nonstop & charging us with massive crimes for protesting since at least Occupy Wall Street & growing up like that has a chilling effect on the way people engage with democracy
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The "article" here should be "why do so many people in rural areas believe things that are easily provably false?" as opposed to "why are we so divided?"
It's almost like the former might give you the answer to the latter.
It's almost like the former might give you the answer to the latter.
January 15, 2026 at 4:34 PM
The "article" here should be "why do so many people in rural areas believe things that are easily provably false?" as opposed to "why are we so divided?"
It's almost like the former might give you the answer to the latter.
It's almost like the former might give you the answer to the latter.
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Another reason I'm never Newsom. He's a billionaires errand boy beholden to them.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
Newsom Vows to Stop Proposed Billionaire Tax in California
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Another reason I'm never Newsom. He's a billionaires errand boy beholden to them.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...
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the most important thing in 2028 is electing someone who is a true believer in the project of dismantling right-wing power. if you don't get that, then nothing else will matter very much.
January 12, 2026 at 11:12 PM
the most important thing in 2028 is electing someone who is a true believer in the project of dismantling right-wing power. if you don't get that, then nothing else will matter very much.
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Anything less than abolishing ICE is unacceptable. I don't want to hear people talk about training these motherfuckers or throwing more money at them. The entire institution needs to be permanently disbanded. Do not let politicians sell you on anything less.
January 12, 2026 at 1:42 PM
Anything less than abolishing ICE is unacceptable. I don't want to hear people talk about training these motherfuckers or throwing more money at them. The entire institution needs to be permanently disbanded. Do not let politicians sell you on anything less.
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they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
January 9, 2026 at 7:00 PM
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
never Newsom
Newsom's already calling for a joining of hands with the Nazis and let atrocities be bygones.
January 11, 2026 at 3:04 AM
never Newsom
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They fucking did this shit after W and Trump 1, how did it fucking go, I forget
Newsom's already calling for a joining of hands with the Nazis and let atrocities be bygones.
January 10, 2026 at 11:08 PM
They fucking did this shit after W and Trump 1, how did it fucking go, I forget
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The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
January 7, 2026 at 8:26 PM
The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.