J. S. Bach
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- If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
- OMG. He literally went with "they were no angels" which is the mocking phrase people use to point out how authorities try to minimize their law enforcement executions. And he's using it earnestly because he doesn't realize how it's actually used.
- Killing the CIA World Factbook might seem like small potatoes, but it was a touchstone of curated facts in a sea of disinformation.
- How can someone have all this and be unhappy
- The regime is going to court to overrule a judge’s order to release 5 year old Liam Ramos from custody. They’re spending tax dollars fighting to lock up a child Arguing to send him back to a camp where children scream “let us out”. A camp with a measles outbreak. Monsters.
[Not loaded yet]- NBC News's Tom Llamas did an hour-long interview with Trump filled with softballs & filled with Trump lies that he didn't challenge. Worst of all, he did not ask 1 single question to Trump about the Epstein files & the 38,000 references to Trump. Our mainstream media is broken. Subscribe to Zeteo.
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- Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event
- i am trying not to joke about the Epstein stuff because it's so horrible but there's also this ridiculous element where it's like... discovering Dracula is real, he's taken over human society at the highest levels, he's involved in tons of evil and also he's a huge dipshit
- i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- I understand folks are scared but I want you to think about the mechanics of this. There are more polling places (>100k) than ICE and CBP agents combined, so they can only pick a few districts to try to intimidate. Now what happens when cell phone footage of that goes online in the early morning?
- i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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- The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
- A large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan. It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash. “ICE GTFO OF MN” Minneapolis February 4, 2026
- goddamnit
- it's extremely funny (in a cosmic sense) how that guy was like "yes marchini & stancil need to fear for their lives, I am completely serious", just in general, but particularly given apparently that's not a bannable offense on bluesky dot app. more permissive mod policy than kiwifarms on here
- i don't really give a fuck about the motivations (i recognize that kiwifarms' policy is wholly for self-preservation legal reasons), but the reasoning behind the policy doesn't matter, saying "we should doxx this person so they fear for their life" is a permaban offense on kiwifarms and not on here
- 1) welcome back, Sky 1a) fuck that sad trombone Karl guy, seriously, if you haven’t blocked him go do it now 2) fuck gambling almost entirely, we need to RETVRN to destination dens of sin
- Today’s picture of Professor Fate, the backyard cat. She’s getting more comfortable, meowing for me to hurry up and feed her and approaching me more closely
- It's the Winter Olympics, so my once-every-four-years chance to note that my wife's aunt was once the head of the Canadian curling federation. Her husband? A leader in the Mounties. If this family were any more Canadian, they'd be maple-flavored.
- "The system sucks, this job sucks"
- one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things
- i say this with love because everyone starts somewhere, but it's just that, sometimes you see someone with a massive platform and they're like "it kind of seems like republicans favor the rich?"
- Billionaires are economic terrorists.
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- someone behind me on the street is belting Madonna’s greatest hits at the top of their lungs and I’m dying
- STOP talking shit about 2028 Democratic presidential primary candidates: Walz is PERSONABLE Shapiro is RHETORICALLY GIFTED AOC is CHARISMATIC Pritzker is SUCCESSFUL Newsom Buttigieg has EXECUTIVE EXPERIENCE
- Spanberger is a moderate Democrat who used to work for the C.I.-fucking-A. It should put the actions of Schumer and Jeffries into perspective for everyone. Are they Republicans? Because they sure act like it. They need to get the fuck out.
- our government used a Blackhawk helicopter in a major American city, detained children and zip-tied U.S. citizens all to target... squatters and the alleged Tren de Aragua presence? "It was a brutal lie against the American public." www.propublica.org/article/chic...
- if you see this man outside of your kid’s daycare, call the police!
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- approximately 18 inches of snow/ice overhang off my front porch roof, Damoclean
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- There's blank empty looks, and then there's this:
- "By God I'll fight till hell freezes over, then I'll cut the ice and fight on."
- “If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Gonna ruin my mentions before sitting down to dinner and just say, Mamdani endorsing Hochul just makes good political sense. She's been backing him in all kinds of ways, almost none of his more ambitious agenda is can accomplished without the state government's assistance.
- Guys they are really, really not winning It sucks what they’re doing to our country, and my city especially God only knows how much damage they’ll do before they’re stopped, much of it irreversible But they are very much not winning
- I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.
- I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.
- “If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Most of the footage you see from ICE observers in Minnesota comes from the core cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul. I talked to observers in the northern suburbs, who say they're taking on the same mission in very different conditions. (1) share.google/ei9giIFLsuEJ...
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View full threadThe suburban observers, heavily women, say they share a personality type. “Many of us have encountered bullies our entire lives...I think that turns you into somebody that, even if that bully is wearing full tactical gear, I'm not interested in laying down for you.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- “If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Bezos: "We're gonna focus on markets and personal liberties." WP: *Personal liberties itself into a free fall of subscribers leaving.* Bezos: "This is the reporter's fault."
- this is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway
- But Bezos had $75 million to spend on Melania’s vanity project.
- funny how the man who cost the Washington Post hundreds of thousands in subscriptions by canceling the paper's presidential endorsement—almost certainly the most destructive decision in the history of the paper, if not journalism itself—still has his job
- I find the @whstancil.bsky.social backlash strangely fascinating. At its core it seems to be a desperate effort by folks further to the left to avoid having a liberal (with communication skills) become the face of their movement. But, to be honest, winning was always going to require that.
