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I wasn’t going to quote Walter Cronkite twice in one week, but what the heck:
“I think cameras ought to be everywhere the reporters are allowed to go. I think, furthermore, reporters and cameras ought to be everywhere that the Constitution says the public can go.”
- Walter Cronkite
“A former staffer… said that, under Bezos’s guidance, the opinion section effectively began to mimic the National Review…
‘[It] will absolutely bring in the minimum number of subscribers possible, while also deliberately chasing away the ones who are bringing in the most traffic…’”
Please don’t forget the new detention centers.
Just thinking outside the box here.
The Trump regime's plan to rig the 2026 election is becoming clearer:
- Send ICE to polling locations to intimidate voters
- Attempt to federalize the elections and seize control of administration in critical states
- Cast doubt on the results and declare they've won
- If needed, seize ballot boxes
If you can spare 16 minutes, here's a great discussion by
@micahloewinger.bsky.social for
@onthemedia.bsky.social with Craig Renaud, one of the creators of the "Armed Only With A Camera" documentary, highlighting the immense contribution (and all too often, sacrifice) of journalists in the field:
"Armed Only With A Camera" | On the Media | WNYC Studios
In 2022 Brent Renaud became the first American journalist to be killed by Russian soldiers while covering the war in Ukraine. Brent’s collaborator for many years was his younger broth...
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"The U.S. is in the middle of a (mostly) self-induced, deliberate polycrisis... multiple, interconnected global crises that amplify each other’s effects...
Ten years ago, any one of these crises would have been all people talked about. Now, most of them are being completely ignored" by Dem leaders.
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"In a July 2019 text exchange between Citi bankers submitted as evidence in the court case, one banker asks the other 'does mgmt know Paul Barrett’s anchor client was Jeffrey Epstein?'
The other banker responds: 'Is that important? Epstein seems like a stand up guy,' followed by a laughing emoji."
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"At least 556 people have been killed since the ceasefire took effect on 10 October..."
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This is civic action.
Surprise, Arizona. Pop. 167,000. Huge crowd shows up to the City Council meeting to oppose DHS recent purchase of ginormous warehouse. Meeting + overflow room filled and hundreds more gathered outside.
130 people sign up to speak. 128 opposed to ICE warehouse.
"The art market contains as much market as art, and the Epstein files show how a painting produced by a genius can be involved in a transaction overseen by a sex offender. From an expression of the soul to a line on a balance sheet."
(Keywords: Paul Cezanne, Leon Black, Apollo Capital)...
A UK couple has had their tourist visas revoked and their immediate departure ordered from India, having allegedly violated the "Immigration and Foreigners Act of 2025" for putting up stickers that read, "Free Palestine. Boycott Israel."
Ireland to require helmets and "high-visibility clothing" for e-bikes and e-scooters — and is drawing up plans to completely ban powerful "scrambler" bikes "in all public places, including roads," after a 16-year-old girl was hit and killed by one...
www.thejournal.ie/e-bikes-scoo...
Helmets and hi-vis clothing to be made mandatory for e-bikes and e-scooter users
Cabinet will sign off on plans to explicitly ban the use of scramblers on roads this morning.
"Law Dork has identified 253 federal habeas corpus petitions filed in the month of January — 21 general habeas petitions and 232 'alien detainee' petitions — in the U.S. District for the District of Minnesota...
[And] only 6 habeas corpus petitions filed... in the entire month of January 2025."
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"A drive against 'criminally antisocial elements,' a term covering anyone showing what is described as 'anti-State or querulous inclinations.'"
[Querulous: "full of complaints, discontented"]
"An attempt has now been made to take active steps to fight those incapable of living in the community..."
This sounds an awful lot like what happened between 1949-1952 at the White House, when Harry Truman oversaw a complete renovation of the main section of the building that essentially hollowed out and rebuilt the whole interior of the structure.
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@letsgomathias.bsky.social:
“When fascists wear masks, they want to create a world in which they won’t need to wear masks at all. And we’re kind of living in that mask-off moment.
And I think it’s important for us to consider a world in which ICE agents are comfortable not wearing masks…”
A Utah bill would allow private landlords to restrict who can live in all-male or all-female housing — where there's a shared bedroom or bathroom — "based on their sex at birth."
Last year, Gov. Cox signed a bill into law limiting where transgender students can live in dorms at public universities.
The last time he started talking like this, his allies minimized the risks and we ended up with January 6. This time we must take him literally and seriously. These comments are a five-alarm fire for democracy. In a functioning republic, he would be impeached and removed from office today.
Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"
Presented without comment. I just want everyone here to know.
I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro.
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This is genocidal language
Trump: "Minnesota is a mess. There's something in the water up there. I won the 3 three times but I got no credit for it. It's a rigged state. Really rigged badly w/ the Somalians, and the Somalians & the theft. We gotta get 'em out, most of them. 92% don't work. Many of them drive Mercedes-Benzes."
An Ecuadorian family in Minneapolis were on a path to legal status, but were increasingly afraid to go to work, school or the store.
“We didn’t come here with bad intentions. We came here to work. Now we are afraid to stay. We’re afraid to go outside.”
Three of them are now returning to Ecuador.
Tired of living in fear, this family decided to deport themselves
An immigrant family from Ecuador said they felt like prisoners in their Minneapolis home.
“As for taxpayer accountability over how their money gets spent… The companies already contracting with the government are grandfathered into future contract increases. The Navy turns a "pilot program" into a permanent, massive-scale operation overnight…”
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Elon Musk:
"The strong must protect those cannot protect themselves, especially vulnerable children. I will gladly accept any amount of future pain to do more to protect kids and give them a chance to grow up and have happy lives."
Addendum (edit.): "Except my trans daughter, natch."
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This email was sent 4 years, 6 months after Epstein pleaded guilty
“‘We’re walking on eggshells right now,” Hernandez said…
He did not vote in 2024 and has never cast a ballot before, like many he knows.
He intends to change that this year, and he thinks he is not the only one.
‘More people are like, oh ... we’ve got to vote,’ he said.”
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“Barring any 11th-hour changes, about 350,000 Haitians will lose their status on Tuesday — ending their right to live and work in the United States legally…
At Sinai Residences… 9% of staff members are Haitians with TPS… In total, 69% of the center’s staff are foreign-born.”
"Since Trump took office, Democrats have flipped eight Republican-held state legislative seats in special elections across five states. Republicans have flipped zero Democratic seats.
The average swing across these eight flips is 19 points. Tonight’s 32-point swing in Texas blew past that."
A "brutal [breach] of the ceasefire," with 32 dead, including children, and more than 30 injured.
Israel hasn't adhered to withdrawal lines stipulated in the ceasefire, didn't allow entry of materials and equipment for repair, rebuilding & body recovery, and hasn't opened the Rafah border crossing.
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Making a hasty donation tonight to the ASPCKB (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ketchup Bottles)…
BREAKING: Texas Democrat Taylor Rehmet just won a *massive* landslide to flip a deep-red Senate district. He's up by 14 points in a Trump+17 seat—an overperformance of more than 30 points.
How did he do it? Here's our full writeup:
Breaking: Texas Democrats score landslide upset in race Trump badly wanted to win
Taylor Rehmet just flipped a deep-red seat—and gave his party a shot in the arm
“Of the first $250 million installment… $187 million was directed to Trump family entities.
At least $31 million was slated to flow to entities affiliated with the family of Steve Witkoff.
The administration committed to give [U.A.E.] access to around 500,000 of the most advanced AI chips a year.”
‘Spy Sheikh’ Bought Secret Stake in Trump Company
$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips.
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“Iran’s Islamic regime has not officially announced the number of protesters detained but a member of the country’s parliament disclosed to The Sunday Times that the nationwide estimate ‘cited … during a closed-door parliamentary session’ has ‘surpassed 50,000’.”
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"This is the first time the doctors, including Moll, have seen measles outside of textbooks.
'We thought it had been eliminated,' said Moll, 51."
Gift link:
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Someday:
"Grandma, what does your tattoo mean?"
Y’all wanna see bots try to throw a dead body over a wall
It's no wonder Donald Trump is coveting Greenland.
New court record from the FBI details the state of the devices seized from Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson: phone was on w/Lockdown Mode; personal laptop was off; work laptop was on w/Touch ID; several Signal chats used disappearing messages.
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#ICEOUT unity ride in Minneapolis today:
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Nixon, blaming the student victims at Kent State:
"This should remind us all once again that when dissent turns to violence it invites tragedy."
Sound familiar?
And "say it ain't so," but those camps could come in handy in a pinch, like during an election...
Carl T. Rowan, Minneapolis journalist, 1971:
"One of the glaring symptoms of this society's deepening sickness is that it can go for months, shrugging off the murders of black protesters and demonstrators — only to become aroused when National Guardsmen gun down four middle-class white youngsters."
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Another one of those good/bad dichotomies that are endemic to Trump world. On the one hand, their desperation to find willing participants in the toxic regime is reassuring; on the other hand, you know intuitively that the ones they do find are going to be horrible and capable of wreaking havoc.
DM me? We used to get hundreds of highly qualified applicants for a single job posting. Good prosecutors are increasingly hesitant to work for this DOJ.
The co-author of "How Democracies Die" thinks Trump is going further in his crackdown on the press than strongmen around the world. Via
@status.news
(Almost everyone who studies these things is shocked not by what he's doing, but by how fast its moving.)
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And history and precedent are practically shouting at us, if we only remember to listen...
The employment of any conciliatory word or phrase by this administration should, by default, be cause for heightened vigilance and a tactical doubling-down.
"More than 34,000 Minnesotans have signed up to be trained as U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement observers with various activist groups in recent weeks...
Even in places as far-flung as Moorhead, a town more than 200 miles from Minneapolis where 400 showed up Tuesday."
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The same "RWDS" slogan was on a patch worn by the guy who killed eight people in 2023 in a mass shooting at an outlet mall in Allen, Texas.
Wow...
"It's believed to be the first time a local police department in Minnesota intervened in a federal law enforcement action since the surge in immigration enforcement began two months ago."
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
St. Peter police chief intervenes, prevents federal agents from arresting resident
The police chief of St. Peter intervened to prevent federal agents from taking a local resident who was observing ICE enforcement actions into custody. It is believed to be the first time local police...
