@thiek.bsky.social
Everything he is doing is something Putin whispered in his ear. Who knows, they may be talking daily now.
"When authority cannot be grounded in legitimacy or shared ideals, it often resorts to threatening, brutalising and performing power endlessly instead." Sasha Mudd @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
Trump has destroyed American soft power
With its actions in Venezuela and the menacing of Greenland, the US is just another global bully
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
January 15, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Everything he is doing is something Putin whispered in his ear. Who knows, they may be talking daily now.
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I was told electing a progressive prosecutor would inevitably lead to a rise in crime.
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Philadelphia records the fewest homicides in 60 years, plus other insights to 2025’s crime
The drop in homicides to 222 mirrors a national reduction in violence and follows years of sustained declines after Philadelphia’s homicide rate peaked during the pandemic.
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January 2, 2026 at 5:25 PM
I was told electing a progressive prosecutor would inevitably lead to a rise in crime.
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Jack Smith in newly released testimony: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power." @glennthrush.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/u...
In Hearing Transcript, Jack Smith Defends Decision to Indict Trump
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January 3, 2026 at 12:59 AM
Jack Smith in newly released testimony: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power." @glennthrush.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/u...
The students know what to do!
Students walked out of school at Burnsville High School in Minnesota to protest Trump’s ICE gestapo terrorizing their community….the kids are alright 💪!
"NO MORE ICE! NO MORE ICE!"
"NO MORE ICE! NO MORE ICE!"
December 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
The students know what to do!
There was NO NEED for those guard members to be in DC. This person died in a Trump propaganda operation.
I keep hearing about how Dems are the party of "identity politics" and yet it's Republicans who always reach to identity for everything.
God forbid we talk about guns. There have been 452 mass shootings this year; this shooting doesn't even make the list because fewer than 4 people were shot.
God forbid we talk about guns. There have been 452 mass shootings this year; this shooting doesn't even make the list because fewer than 4 people were shot.
It didn’t even take 6 hours.
November 28, 2025 at 6:08 PM
There was NO NEED for those guard members to be in DC. This person died in a Trump propaganda operation.
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Please do *not* circulate this story that the NC GOP does not want circulated.
Please, they have threatened you nicely, please.
Please, they have threatened you nicely, please.
NEW: Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power.
Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state.
By @dougbockclark.bsky.social
Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well beyond the borders of his state.
By @dougbockclark.bsky.social
“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
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October 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Please do *not* circulate this story that the NC GOP does not want circulated.
Please, they have threatened you nicely, please.
Please, they have threatened you nicely, please.
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Well done, USA. 🇺🇸
There are more of us than there are of them. Thank you for a truly historic day of peaceful protests across America. #NoKings
October 19, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Well done, USA. 🇺🇸
Could a reporter please ask him if he spends more time not knowing or not convening congress.
I realize things have never been great but it does feel especially lately like the main job of many people is to not know things, in an age where every day we're all knowing more things we'd rather not know so that takes genuine effort
Q: What's your message to the 170 US citizens who have been detained by ICE? About 20 of them are children
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
MIKE JOHNSON: I don't know what you're talking about with the children. I haven't seen that so I'm not going to comment on it.
October 17, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Could a reporter please ask him if he spends more time not knowing or not convening congress.
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ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.
He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.
He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.
October 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.
He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.
He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.
Another kidnapping of a child by ICE. These are the child traffickers, supported by Trump and Republicans.
Despite what some, including at DHS, are claiming, this video isn’t from a year ago in Chicago. It was Friday in Hoffman Estates, in my district, a street I’ve walked myself. It appears to show a child being violently detained by ICE. It’s real, and I’m demanding accountability.
October 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Another kidnapping of a child by ICE. These are the child traffickers, supported by Trump and Republicans.
Remember when the right-wing freakout was "show us your papers!" about vaccination status? Now they just jail you, papers or not. Good times!
October 4, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Remember when the right-wing freakout was "show us your papers!" about vaccination status? Now they just jail you, papers or not. Good times!
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Some critical context about Trump's troops to "war-ravaged Portland" that most folks don't know: Any conflicts there between protesters and ICE agents are happening because ICE agents ARE PROVOKING THEM
(From that "radical left-wing group," the Portland Police Department) bsky.app/profile/mock...
(From that "radical left-wing group," the Portland Police Department) bsky.app/profile/mock...
September 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Some critical context about Trump's troops to "war-ravaged Portland" that most folks don't know: Any conflicts there between protesters and ICE agents are happening because ICE agents ARE PROVOKING THEM
(From that "radical left-wing group," the Portland Police Department) bsky.app/profile/mock...
(From that "radical left-wing group," the Portland Police Department) bsky.app/profile/mock...
Greenwaldism.
We really need to look at how Witkoff managed to build such a great reputation as a “hard nosed negotiator who gets results” in the first few months of Trump’s term when as far as I can tell he has never negotiated a deal that lasts
September 9, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Greenwaldism.
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In the last week of the 1936 campaign, FDR reminded a massive crowd in Madison Square Garden that "organized money" was "unanimous in their hate for me--and I welcome their hatred!"
And then the country rewarded him with a 523-8 landslide in the electoral college.
This is, in fact, good politics.
And then the country rewarded him with a 523-8 landslide in the electoral college.
This is, in fact, good politics.
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.
Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
September 8, 2025 at 11:23 PM
In the last week of the 1936 campaign, FDR reminded a massive crowd in Madison Square Garden that "organized money" was "unanimous in their hate for me--and I welcome their hatred!"
And then the country rewarded him with a 523-8 landslide in the electoral college.
This is, in fact, good politics.
And then the country rewarded him with a 523-8 landslide in the electoral college.
This is, in fact, good politics.
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Holy shit:
Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status.
www.hcn.org/articles/fir...
Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status.
www.hcn.org/articles/fir...
Firefighters question leaders’ role in ICE raid near Bear Gulch Fire - High Country News
Firefighting veterans believe the management team overseeing fire crews played a key role in handing team members over to immigration authorities.
www.hcn.org
September 3, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Holy shit:
Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status.
www.hcn.org/articles/fir...
Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status.
www.hcn.org/articles/fir...
What is the left wing version of this? www.axios.com/2025/09/03/r...
OMB director says Government Accountability Office "shouldn't exist"
"They are a quasi-legislative independent entity and something that shouldn't exist," he said.
www.axios.com
September 3, 2025 at 11:58 PM
What is the left wing version of this? www.axios.com/2025/09/03/r...
Who was prez in 2020?
September 3, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Who was prez in 2020?
Manly MAGA ICE Men showing their masculinity by scaring children.
🚨NEW: Declarations filed in the lawsuit against the rushed attempt to deport 600 Guatemalan children reveals the chaotic way the Trump admin carried out the operation.
Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."
Children were taken out of bed after midnight to be rushed onto planes. One girl "was so scared she vomited."
September 3, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Manly MAGA ICE Men showing their masculinity by scaring children.
Lets make that guy famous.
🚨ICE agents are racially profiling and arresting Hispanic drivers in the DC area today, targeting work vehicles like trucks and vans. A friend who was targeted sent me video today. Here’s a picture that shows one of two agents before he pulled on his mask. Unmarked black Ford truck, plate: NTV9211.
August 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Lets make that guy famous.
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Sarah, a victim/survivor of Epstein/Maxwell, & co-conspirators tells all.
Listen. Feel. Believe. Demand #Justice4Survivors.
#WhereIsTheList
Listen. Feel. Believe. Demand #Justice4Survivors.
#WhereIsTheList
August 21, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Sarah, a victim/survivor of Epstein/Maxwell, & co-conspirators tells all.
Listen. Feel. Believe. Demand #Justice4Survivors.
#WhereIsTheList
Listen. Feel. Believe. Demand #Justice4Survivors.
#WhereIsTheList
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August 18, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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For Florida’s Miccosukee Tribe, the controversial facility is “an abomination to the whole concept of sovereignty.”
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...
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Inside One Native American Tribe’s Fight Against The ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Detention Camp
When President Donald Trump toured Florida’s so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” immigrant detention camp...
talkingpointsmemo.com
August 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
For Florida’s Miccosukee Tribe, the controversial facility is “an abomination to the whole concept of sovereignty.”
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...
And they're exiting a UHaul
Federal agents pretending they're exiting a landing craft at Normandy on D-Day.
Except it's a Home Depot parking lot. And they're the Nazis.
Except it's a Home Depot parking lot. And they're the Nazis.
Border Patrol at a Home Depot in Los Angeles days after the 9th circuit affirmed a court order that purports to block this exact behavior. They don't even know who they're chasing! This is insane. Send them all to jail.
August 6, 2025 at 6:17 PM
And they're exiting a UHaul
Please, if you must alliterate, use Alligator Auschwitz.
Really good and thorough report here. DeSantis has been flouting Florida's Sunshine Law for years, but it's really in different territory now.
Over 90 pages of "Alligator Alcatraz" files disappeared as I was looking at them and reporting on the situation. Our public records requests are getting stonewalled. A slew of experts told me this all seems to be illegal. talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/th...
August 5, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Please, if you must alliterate, use Alligator Auschwitz.
RIP Chuck Mangione. Great musician, great guy.
July 24, 2025 at 9:02 PM
RIP Chuck Mangione. Great musician, great guy.