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“Very few have fortitude enough to tell a tyrant they are determined to be free.” - Samuel Adams
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I've harped on congressional war powers for a long time and we do need to fix all that, but threatening to invade Greenland while ranting at Norway about the Nobel Peace Prize and imposing trade sanctions on NATO is more the kind of thing you can only fix by not having a literally insane president.
January 19, 2026 at 8:35 AM
I've harped on congressional war powers for a long time and we do need to fix all that, but threatening to invade Greenland while ranting at Norway about the Nobel Peace Prize and imposing trade sanctions on NATO is more the kind of thing you can only fix by not having a literally insane president.
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January 19, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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3/Trump could become the first POTUS to direct U.S. military forces against American citizens during peacetime. & he’s doing it in a situation where the “unrest” is mostly peaceful protests resulting from Trump’s efforts to inflame, hardly the insurrection, or domestic violence the Act contemplates.
January 19, 2026 at 11:32 AM
3/Trump could become the first POTUS to direct U.S. military forces against American citizens during peacetime. & he’s doing it in a situation where the “unrest” is mostly peaceful protests resulting from Trump’s efforts to inflame, hardly the insurrection, or domestic violence the Act contemplates.
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Money that could have gone to healthcare or education is going to an armed militia
You're paying for this.
Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs.
Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.
Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs.
Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.
CNN airs a compilation of escalating ICE aggression towards peaceful protesters.
January 17, 2026 at 5:12 AM
Money that could have gone to healthcare or education is going to an armed militia
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There is a reason he’s forced to cause all of this chaos. He has NO PLAN. He funds no programs, no healthcare, no education, no lower prices, money coming in only supports more chaos. He envies other dictators. I challenge ANYONE to tell me just one single thing he’s accomplished? Discussion open
January 17, 2026 at 11:52 AM
There is a reason he’s forced to cause all of this chaos. He has NO PLAN. He funds no programs, no healthcare, no education, no lower prices, money coming in only supports more chaos. He envies other dictators. I challenge ANYONE to tell me just one single thing he’s accomplished? Discussion open
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I honestly believed everyone understood that Conald outed himself at the Ford plant. But comments make me wonder, so here’s a cartoon to make it clear.
January 16, 2026 at 4:37 AM
I honestly believed everyone understood that Conald outed himself at the Ford plant. But comments make me wonder, so here’s a cartoon to make it clear.
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Naaaaaaailed it
January 15, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Naaaaaaailed it
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Just guessing here, but I suspect the White House is pushing so hard for wars of conquest on multiple fronts because they see their support collapsing ahead of the midterms and worry they won't get another shot. An example of how tyrants become more dangerous as they get weaker, not less.
January 14, 2026 at 7:51 PM
Just guessing here, but I suspect the White House is pushing so hard for wars of conquest on multiple fronts because they see their support collapsing ahead of the midterms and worry they won't get another shot. An example of how tyrants become more dangerous as they get weaker, not less.
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This is a big no-no in armed combat.
It’s like dressing up as a doctor or a nurse and then shooting someone.
If this is proven accurate, it’s 100% a war crime.
It’s like dressing up as a doctor or a nurse and then shooting someone.
If this is proven accurate, it’s 100% a war crime.
Breaking NYT:
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
The Pentagon used a secret aircraft painted to look like a civilian plane in its first boat attack, according to officials briefed on the matter.
The laws of armed conflict forbid combatants from feigning civilian status.
That is a war crime called "perfidy."
U.S. Attacked Boat With Aircraft That Looked Like a Civilian Plane
www.nytimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:59 AM
This is a big no-no in armed combat.
It’s like dressing up as a doctor or a nurse and then shooting someone.
If this is proven accurate, it’s 100% a war crime.
It’s like dressing up as a doctor or a nurse and then shooting someone.
If this is proven accurate, it’s 100% a war crime.
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It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
January 12, 2026 at 10:56 PM
It would take a two-word amendment to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 to subject ICE agents and other federal law enforcement officers to the same liability for constitutional violations that local and state officers currently face.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
If Congress actually cared about what it's seeing, it could pass that overnight.
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What ICE/BP is doing to Minneapolis is awful.
And it's taking everything they have. By population, Minneapolis is America's 45th largest city.
Keep both in mind at once: the regime's desire for authoritarian domination is bottomless, and they'll act on it, but their capacity to do so is limited.
And it's taking everything they have. By population, Minneapolis is America's 45th largest city.
Keep both in mind at once: the regime's desire for authoritarian domination is bottomless, and they'll act on it, but their capacity to do so is limited.
January 12, 2026 at 5:08 PM
What ICE/BP is doing to Minneapolis is awful.
And it's taking everything they have. By population, Minneapolis is America's 45th largest city.
Keep both in mind at once: the regime's desire for authoritarian domination is bottomless, and they'll act on it, but their capacity to do so is limited.
And it's taking everything they have. By population, Minneapolis is America's 45th largest city.
Keep both in mind at once: the regime's desire for authoritarian domination is bottomless, and they'll act on it, but their capacity to do so is limited.
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When power starts slipping, they don’t moderate, they rush to break the system before voters can stop them, and every single day this is starting to look a whole lot more like Russia, and we know how voting goes there.
January 12, 2026 at 2:29 AM
When power starts slipping, they don’t moderate, they rush to break the system before voters can stop them, and every single day this is starting to look a whole lot more like Russia, and we know how voting goes there.
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I also must say that it's a bit rich that Trump and his DOJ think it's a good idea to gin up a bullshit investigation about supposed illegalities in ... {checks notes} … renovating a federal building
January 12, 2026 at 3:19 AM
I also must say that it's a bit rich that Trump and his DOJ think it's a good idea to gin up a bullshit investigation about supposed illegalities in ... {checks notes} … renovating a federal building
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Apart from obvious reasons, an underappreciated one:
-All developed economies (every one) see birth-rates falling, as average income goes up.
-Euro countries, Japan, S Korea, + China & Russia have steeply aging population.
-US different *only* because of immigration.
You can look it up.
Apart from obvious reasons, an underappreciated one:
-All developed economies (every one) see birth-rates falling, as average income goes up.
-Euro countries, Japan, S Korea, + China & Russia have steeply aging population.
-US different *only* because of immigration.
You can look it up.
January 11, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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Apart from obvious reasons, an underappreciated one:
-All developed economies (every one) see birth-rates falling, as average income goes up.
-Euro countries, Japan, S Korea, + China & Russia have steeply aging population.
-US different *only* because of immigration.
You can look it up.
Apart from obvious reasons, an underappreciated one:
-All developed economies (every one) see birth-rates falling, as average income goes up.
-Euro countries, Japan, S Korea, + China & Russia have steeply aging population.
-US different *only* because of immigration.
You can look it up.
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I mean, to be fair, the sort of subnormal droogs who infest ICE now do very much experience a woman laughing at them as being like murder, and murder triggers a right to self defense.
It was probably going to be either Renee Good or some girl at a bar with these thug scum.
It was probably going to be either Renee Good or some girl at a bar with these thug scum.
The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.
January 11, 2026 at 5:17 PM
I mean, to be fair, the sort of subnormal droogs who infest ICE now do very much experience a woman laughing at them as being like murder, and murder triggers a right to self defense.
It was probably going to be either Renee Good or some girl at a bar with these thug scum.
It was probably going to be either Renee Good or some girl at a bar with these thug scum.
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Given the low character you'd have to have to serve in Trump's Cabinet, I've just assumed every single one of them has a big scandal in their back pocket just waiting to be found.
Trump's Labor "Boss from Hell" Accused of Booze-Filled Fling With Staffer plus misuse of staff and travel fraud. www.thedailybeast.com/labor-sec-un... via @thedailybeast
Trump's Labor Boss Accused of Booze-Filled Fling With Staffer
Lori Chavez-DeRemer is reportedly being investigated for pursuing a relationship with a subordinate, among other things.
www.thedailybeast.com
January 10, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Given the low character you'd have to have to serve in Trump's Cabinet, I've just assumed every single one of them has a big scandal in their back pocket just waiting to be found.
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Where’s the lie
January 9, 2026 at 2:22 PM
Where’s the lie
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In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.
January 9, 2026 at 7:24 PM
In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.
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Every December 31st since 2007, I've written a little review of the year on my website. Here's the write-up for 2025. Happy New Year to most of you.
www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2025/
www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2025/
2025
Every morning just after Skylar leaves for work, I don our son in weather-appropriate attire and take him to our covered patio in the backyard. This is where we keep our now embattled and expensive st...
www.itjustgetsstranger.com
December 31, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Every December 31st since 2007, I've written a little review of the year on my website. Here's the write-up for 2025. Happy New Year to most of you.
www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2025/
www.itjustgetsstranger.com/2025/
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"You better believe that accountability is coming...The masks are coming off. Identification is coming out. Immunity is going to be stripped. And to Kristi Noem, Tom “Cashbag” Homan, and Greg Bovino – your asses are going to be in these witness chairs."
Rep. Eric Swalwell
Rep. Eric Swalwell
January 8, 2026 at 6:39 PM
"You better believe that accountability is coming...The masks are coming off. Identification is coming out. Immunity is going to be stripped. And to Kristi Noem, Tom “Cashbag” Homan, and Greg Bovino – your asses are going to be in these witness chairs."
Rep. Eric Swalwell
Rep. Eric Swalwell