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a few thoughts youtu.be/lERS4kJIQR8
Abolish ICE
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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January 8, 2026 at 1:42 AM
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masked, unidentified goons who assault and murder with impunity. a literal gestapo.
This is the ICE agent who murdered a woman by shooting her multiple times in the face.
January 7, 2026 at 7:36 PM
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One of the organizations the US withdrew from is the European Centre for Countering Hybrid Threats.

That group primarily focuses on protecting European democracies from hostile Russian intelligence and military operations. Except the current US government hopes to see those hostile ops succeed.
January 8, 2026 at 4:02 AM
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7/ Dryden’s tweet was actually a thread. Here’s part of it: “I went to Greenland to try to buy it. *** First, some context. I’m building a crypto-native country called @ praxisnation, w/ a network of people who’ve founded companies worth >$400B. We are scouting for physical territory to build…”
January 4, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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👀 Praxis is a Thiel-backed “network state” project that aims to build its OWN COUNTRY. In Nov, Praxis founder Dryden Brown wrote about wanting Greenland 4 Praxis. In Dec, Trump named Thiel partner Ken Howery as ambassador to Denmark & said the US shld buy Greenland. Praxis & Dryden are thrilled...1/
January 4, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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2/ Link to the summary of Gibson’s Hereticon talk: “The plan? Copy-paste the Homestead Act, send 100,000 American frontiersmen up there, and boom: the New New England.” www.abovo.co/piratewires@...
April 3, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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not beating the allegations that antivax beliefs are downstream of being afwaid of needles
Trump: "Effective today, America will no longer require 72 'jabs' for our beautiful, healthy children. We are moving to a far more reasonable Schedule, where all children will only be recommended to receive Vaccinations for 11 of the most serious and dangerous diseases."
January 5, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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If the DEA had killed 80 innocent Americans in the course of apprehending one drug dealer, there would be riots. But we are so ghoulishly indifferent to the lives and humanity of people abroad that it's barely even part of the conversation.
A reminder that the US killed 80 people in Venezuela, and it would be nice if the US media cared enough to think that the life of a grandmother in Caracas whose building is destroyed by a US bomb matters as much as the life of a person in the US.
January 5, 2026 at 8:57 PM
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During Fiona Hill's testimony to Congress on Oct 14, 2019, she described how Trump and Putin discussed exchanging Ukraine for Venezuela. The quid pro quo was if Trump refuses to help Ukraine fight off a Russian invasion, Putin would not help Venezuela (a Russian ally) resist a US takeover.
January 4, 2026 at 2:36 AM
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How's it going folks? [89]

#UkrainianView
January 4, 2026 at 11:46 AM
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Canada needs to keep its guard up. These people are predatory. They won’t stop.
If u do a Google search for “Marc Andreessen and Canada”, this turns up: “Canada will welcome us as liberators”. If you go to X, however, Andreessen (a DOGE advisor) deleted his tweet. I wonder why. 1/
January 4, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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Reversing the United States’ slide into authoritarianism will require democracy’s defenders to recognize the twin dangers of complacency and fatalism, write Steven Levitsky, Lucan A. Way, and Daniel Ziblatt.
www.foreignaffairs.com
January 4, 2026 at 6:20 PM
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My son hypothesized earlier today that Cuba might be next. A few hours later, I found this.
Michael Gibson (Thiel Fellowship and 1517 Fund) just posted: “Someone should pitch Rubio on a charter city in Venezuela and Cuba.” As if he only just thought of this now. 1/ x.com/william_blak...
January 4, 2026 at 3:24 AM
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It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.
January 4, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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What do Venezuela, Greenland, Honduras, Nigeria, and “Freedom Cities” have in common? The “network state” cabal—which includes Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, & Joe Lonsdale—has been circling them like vultures. Thread. ⬇️
What do Greenland, Honduras, Venezuela, and Nigeria have in common? The “network state” cabal—which includes Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, & Joe Lonsdale—has been circling them like vultures. 1/
January 3, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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Trump is a damned war criminal.

Where is our Congress??? John Roberts & his SCOTUS have done so much damage by declaring a president immune from our laws.

As a citizen I do not agree with this Venezuelan war of Trump's.

Stay focused. This is all to avoid the Epstein files, videos and photos.
January 3, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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What do Venezuela, Greenland, Honduras, Nigeria, and “Freedom Cities” have in common? The “network state” cabal—which includes Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, & Joe Lonsdale—has been circling them like vultures. Thread. ⬇️
Did someone mention Nigeria? “A Peter Thiel–Backed Startup City Wants to Be Africa’s Delaware ***Nigeria’s Itana partnered with Binance and the Charter Cities Institute to build a physical tech hub near Lagos, but the plan has sparked controversy.” 4/18/23… 1/
www.wired.com/story/itana-...
A Peter Thiel-Backed Startup City Wants to Be Africa’s Delaware
Nigeria’s Itana partnered with Binance and the Charter Cities Institute to build a physical tech hub near Lagos, but the plan has sparked controversy.
www.wired.com
January 4, 2026 at 12:34 AM
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at least part of everything this government does is to impress a handful of psychos on twitter
Several of the photos have Twitter up on a screen in the background but I can’t make out what search term appears
January 3, 2026 at 7:38 PM
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looks like someone is about to win the “fell for it again” award
Trump on María Corina Machado: "I think it'd be very tough for her to be the leader. She doesn't have the support or the respect within the country. She's a very nice woman but she doesn't have the respect."
January 3, 2026 at 6:56 PM
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Did someone mention Venezuela?
In 2019, Mark Lutter—whose nonprofit received $$$ from the Thiel-backed Emergent Ventures in 2018—said, “we’re putting out a white paper looking at Venezuela…assuming this transfer of power does go thru … And if you u can get charter cities to be part of the conversation,” there is “opportunity…” 1/
The team trying to end poverty by founding well-governed 'charter' cities
"China looked & said, 'Wait, Hong Kong's rich. Taiwan's rich. We're all Chinese. Why are they doing well and we're starving?'"
80000hours.org
January 3, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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ah yes, the best way to explain and understand the world is by ignoring experts and practitioners and turning our attention to the “average American,” whatever that means
This isn't about democratizing the news. It's about elevating "vibes" and "feelings" to be on par with lived experience and subject-matter expertise.
January 3, 2026 at 12:02 AM
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an “inherent power” to respond to an “imminent” attack is just a license for aggressive war on the president’s whim
How does launching air strikes and a commando raid fall under the remit of self defense for an arrest operation
January 3, 2026 at 12:39 PM
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I'm trying to get a sense of how many (other) people were invited and then disinvited from US campuses last year. If you have a story to share, please dm. I will keep it confidential – just trying to figure out the scale of this.
January 2, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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These disgusting ideologies are spreading to college campuses across the country, and most Americans have no idea how bad or serious this is.
Catholic “integralist” William Branson Donahue—founder of the College Republicans of America, which has over 300 chapters—says CRA would be “glad” to host Jack Posobiec following Poso’s decision to cozy up to Hitler lover Myron Gaines outside a TPUSA event where Poso also held up a rosary. 1/
January 1, 2026 at 9:33 PM