K.A. Cuordileone
@kacuordileone.bsky.social
Former New Yorker living in exile in the green hills of Umbria, Italy. I read the NY Post so you don't have to. RIP America.
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Germany's paper of record (not exactly a paragon of progressiveness) comes out in favor of boycotting the World Cup.
Fußball-WM 2026: Sollte der DFB über einen Boykott nachdenken?
Die Fußballwelt als Staffage: An Donald Trumps Politik wird auch die Weltmeisterschaft nichts ändern. Die Positionierung des DFB scheint klar.
www.faz.net
January 25, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Germany's paper of record (not exactly a paragon of progressiveness) comes out in favor of boycotting the World Cup.
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Are interviewers going to ask them to support their claims of "paid agitators"? Why don't they review the long history of this canard? Here is segregationist Senator John Stennis making an argument about "paid agitators and racial provocateurs" in April 1964, shortly before the CRA's passage.
January 25, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Are interviewers going to ask them to support their claims of "paid agitators"? Why don't they review the long history of this canard? Here is segregationist Senator John Stennis making an argument about "paid agitators and racial provocateurs" in April 1964, shortly before the CRA's passage.
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Was this partly plagiarized from Elena Ceausescu?
January 25, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Was this partly plagiarized from Elena Ceausescu?
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Day after a man was executed in Minneapolis, Il Douche is whining about halting progress on his Ballroom. I feel like Louise XVI would even be saying that's a bit much.
Trump: “I’m building, on top of everything else that I am doing, one of the greatest and most beautiful Ballrooms anywhere in the World, with more than 300 Million Dollars of Great American Patriots’ money, & working closely with, right from the beginning, the US Military and Secret Service”
January 25, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Day after a man was executed in Minneapolis, Il Douche is whining about halting progress on his Ballroom. I feel like Louise XVI would even be saying that's a bit much.
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From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.
January 25, 2026 at 1:53 PM
From the NY Post. You know they are really scrambling when they are running "The gun was no angel" stories.
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"The leader of the US military is telling the agents of another govt dept—one of whom is on video pumping at least 5 bullets into a man who’d already been shot and was lying on his face—that 'we have your back'...Worse, the secretary seems to be implying that the govt of MN is an enemy of the US."
"Pete Hegseth might consider adding another task to his many duties, one that would be of immense help to the nation and to the armed forces: He should shut up."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Pete Hegseth Should Sit This One Out
By inserting himself into the situation in Minnesota, the secretary of defense is only making things worse.
www.theatlantic.com
January 25, 2026 at 2:24 AM
"The leader of the US military is telling the agents of another govt dept—one of whom is on video pumping at least 5 bullets into a man who’d already been shot and was lying on his face—that 'we have your back'...Worse, the secretary seems to be implying that the govt of MN is an enemy of the US."
Bill Kristol 👇🏼👇🏼
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
January 25, 2026 at 4:26 AM
Bill Kristol 👇🏼👇🏼
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I am okay. Thank you for all the well wishes. We are in scary times. Please stay safe and do not let these people silence you. Onwards.
Congressman Maxwell Frost says he was punched in the face at Sundance Festival by a man who told him "Trump was going to deport" him
January 25, 2026 at 2:49 AM
I am okay. Thank you for all the well wishes. We are in scary times. Please stay safe and do not let these people silence you. Onwards.
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As I explained earlier this month, we're too literal abt what amounts to military occupation. The ICE/CPB operations in Blue cities are the kinds of garrisoning of civilian towns that the founding documents opposed. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...
Don’t Be So Literal About What Counts as a Military Occupation
I want to return to a topic I’ve alluded to in several...
talkingpointsmemo.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:35 AM
As I explained earlier this month, we're too literal abt what amounts to military occupation. The ICE/CPB operations in Blue cities are the kinds of garrisoning of civilian towns that the founding documents opposed. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-...
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AP reports on how an ICE agent, after the shooting, told “Boo hoo” to protesters. apnews.com/article/immi...
January 24, 2026 at 10:52 PM
AP reports on how an ICE agent, after the shooting, told “Boo hoo” to protesters. apnews.com/article/immi...
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Holy crap.
This is the most damning video yet.
It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face.
Murder.
This is the most damning video yet.
It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face.
Murder.
January 24, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Holy crap.
This is the most damning video yet.
It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face.
Murder.
This is the most damning video yet.
It shows Border Patrol agents clearly taking Alex's firearm, running it away, and THEN executed him in cold blood by emptying a clip into his face.
Murder.
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AOC: "An ICE officer had violently pushed a woman to the ground and he had come over to help get her up and that is what precipitated this incident that very quickly led to an execution in the streets. What we are seeing here is a momentous pivotal moment for the United States."
January 24, 2026 at 10:25 PM
AOC: "An ICE officer had violently pushed a woman to the ground and he had come over to help get her up and that is what precipitated this incident that very quickly led to an execution in the streets. What we are seeing here is a momentous pivotal moment for the United States."
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What lying fucks they all are.
January 24, 2026 at 10:00 PM
What lying fucks they all are.
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Literally 10 days ago, this hypocritical jackass introduced a bill to make concealed carry easier across the nation to help "law-abiding citizens to more freely exercise their Second Amendment rights." www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-re...
January 24, 2026 at 9:17 PM
Literally 10 days ago, this hypocritical jackass introduced a bill to make concealed carry easier across the nation to help "law-abiding citizens to more freely exercise their Second Amendment rights." www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-re...
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Videos analyzed by NYT appear to contradict accounts given by Homeland Security. They said the man approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun and the intent to "massacre" them. Footage of the encounter shows the man holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, when agents take him to the ground.
Here’s the latest.
www.nytimes.com
January 24, 2026 at 9:50 PM
Videos analyzed by NYT appear to contradict accounts given by Homeland Security. They said the man approached Border Patrol agents with a handgun and the intent to "massacre" them. Footage of the encounter shows the man holding a phone in his hand, not a gun, when agents take him to the ground.
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Trump might actually release the Epstein files now to distract from what ICE and Border Patrol is doing.
January 24, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Trump might actually release the Epstein files now to distract from what ICE and Border Patrol is doing.
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As JD Vance starts trying to play "nice Gestapo" to Steven Miller's "mean Gestapo," it's worth emphasizing that what's happening in Minnesota is a direct descendant of Vance's knowingly false racist demagoguery during the campaign. "Somalis are low-IQ thieves" is "Haitians are eating your pets."
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January 24, 2026 at 5:59 PM
As JD Vance starts trying to play "nice Gestapo" to Steven Miller's "mean Gestapo," it's worth emphasizing that what's happening in Minnesota is a direct descendant of Vance's knowingly false racist demagoguery during the campaign. "Somalis are low-IQ thieves" is "Haitians are eating your pets."
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He was trying to help someone else they'd knocked to the ground. And for that they started pepper spraying him. And then the pistol whipped him and murdered him.
He was a nurse. Alex Jeffrey Pretti.
He was a nurse. Alex Jeffrey Pretti.
January 24, 2026 at 7:05 PM
He was trying to help someone else they'd knocked to the ground. And for that they started pepper spraying him. And then the pistol whipped him and murdered him.
He was a nurse. Alex Jeffrey Pretti.
He was a nurse. Alex Jeffrey Pretti.
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Draft-dodger Trump's false claim Nato troops avoided Afghanistan front line sparks outrage in UK
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Trump's claim Nato troops avoided Afghanistan front line sparks outrage in UK
The US president says Nato troops stayed
www.bbc.co.uk
January 23, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Draft-dodger Trump's false claim Nato troops avoided Afghanistan front line sparks outrage in UK
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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After illegally abducting Maduro, Trump has just sold $250M of Venezuela's oil to Vitol.
John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who helped broker the deal, gave $6M to Trump's 2024 campaign.
Pay-to-play imperialism.
John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who helped broker the deal, gave $6M to Trump's 2024 campaign.
Pay-to-play imperialism.
January 22, 2026 at 1:00 AM
After illegally abducting Maduro, Trump has just sold $250M of Venezuela's oil to Vitol.
John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who helped broker the deal, gave $6M to Trump's 2024 campaign.
Pay-to-play imperialism.
John Addison, a senior trader at Vitol who helped broker the deal, gave $6M to Trump's 2024 campaign.
Pay-to-play imperialism.
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Trump is now calling on Pam Bondi to prosecute Jack Smith.
January 22, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Trump is now calling on Pam Bondi to prosecute Jack Smith.
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Sometimes it feels like we are a nation beholden to the unresolved daddy issues of scared little authoritarians like “freedom loving Patriot” Glenn Beck.
January 22, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Sometimes it feels like we are a nation beholden to the unresolved daddy issues of scared little authoritarians like “freedom loving Patriot” Glenn Beck.
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The Morning crew at the New York Times are leaning heavily into “Trump takes” language. I wasn’t there, of course, but my sense of the response of our allies is emphatically not that “it certainly seemed possible.” And once again they use a strong action word to describe a deranged speech.
January 22, 2026 at 6:02 PM
The Morning crew at the New York Times are leaning heavily into “Trump takes” language. I wasn’t there, of course, but my sense of the response of our allies is emphatically not that “it certainly seemed possible.” And once again they use a strong action word to describe a deranged speech.
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I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.
Senator Gallego weighs in as well. Note that at the start of 2025 he was considered a *moderate* on immigration and co-sponsored the Laken Riley Act. Him and many other Dems have been increasingly horrified at what ICE is doing and shifted away from a "more enforcement" focus.
January 21, 2026 at 11:09 PM
I would argue that the case for dismantling ICE has, at this point, virtually nothing to do with larger questions of immigration enforcement and reform, it's just clearly incompatible with a free and democratic society to maintain a secret police force with sweeping and arbitrary authority.
