@gregolear.bsky.social cleta and catherine.

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Not only is Trump repeating a lie about the conduct of the 2020 election, but he is also announcing — at an international conference — that his administration will soon prosecute his political opponents for having defeated him in an election. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/dona...

Something I learned this year. A frame and panel, or wainscotting, found on many walls and doors, is a woodworking technique that allows inner panels to float freely within a larger frame so the wood can expand and shrink with the weather. It's mostly decorative now en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_a...

Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.

coming up on wake 'n bake tomorrow, wednesday: - SCOTUS hears the case regarding the firing of Fed Gov Lisa Cook. - an oversight hearing with DHS www.youtube.com/live/Jbx5GJY...

I've never heard this song before and it includes a young John Denver doing political satire. www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Tc...

There is no strategy www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

As Ted Cruz urges a seizure that will break NATO, remember the two Senators viewed as orchestrators of Trump's Jan 6 plan were Cruz and Josh Hawley - both political proteges of Peter Thiel. Neither has ever broken with Thiel, or with Trump. Both, like all Thiel avatars, push Putin's interests. 1/

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence

according to legal groups like @citizensforethics.org suing CDC's fascist warlords, shuttering the FOIA office is illegal. 🧢 @southpaw73.bsky.social

SCOOP: Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground. Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.

For the love of facts, reality and decency, please don't fall for the crapaganda propaganda that ICE = the US military. ICE are the failsons who couldn't pass the ASVAB or the physical fitness requirements to be in the actual fucking military. I know trump is baffling you with bullshit by dressing

This is a transparent attempt to create a pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act. One provision applies when a group of people "opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws." And when it's (allegedly) the state itself...

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic. The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

One time while my dad visited me as I lay in a hospital bed he told me a story about how my grandfather spent years working on some philosophical argument or proof to determine if God exists. My grandfather, an animator, served in World War II and retained a fair amount of guilt.

I started throwing together background research to share with folks who wanted more details on the U.S.-Venezuela-Guyana oil triangle I wrote about in @drilledmedia.bsky.social last week, and then figured I should make it public. Hope it helps! drilled.media/news/venezue...

Right: MN had everything: 1) MN-Gov and an open Sen, plus House races, and he believes he needs Gov to win in 2028 2) Somalis who could be demonized AND DENATURALIZED, a key goal for Miller 3) The ability to claim Dems engage in fraud more than the Fraudster in Chief, w/parallel prosecution route

If the White House and Congressional Hill press corps were switched out with reporters from foreign news agencies we might actually get some decent questions and follow ups asked.

4/ “The companies that supply core infrastructure to these nation states or network states will be both historically profitable and rise to state-level power themselves through the creation of these services.” They will be the “Dutch East India Companies of the 21st Century.”

The import of this ruling: Foreign citizens in the United States—including green card holders—can be arrested for political speech and imprisoned for months or even years before being given a meaningful opportunity to challenge the constitutionality of their arrest and imprisonment.

How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory US president’s friend Ronald Lauder – who first proposed Arctic expansion – is now making deals in the island www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

We might experience a sonic boom in just a few minutes in parts of LA and Ventura. It's always a bit frightening when it happens unexpectedly.

I laid out how Trump's invasion of Venezuela is like his invasion of Minnesota: Tribute and obeisance. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIi6...

Trump’s claim that Whites have been harmed by modern society is the animating belief system of MAGA. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Seizure ... by whom? If we're asserting that the money is safer in Qatar than the US, that suggests that it is being protected because Qatar has something the US lacks — presumably a lack of accountability to American courts and Congress. www.semafor.com/article/01/1...

gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

So does Trump want to ruin the US dollar as a reserve currency while betting it will remain as a dominant payment currency?

UPDATE: The pipe bomber is a 2x Trump voter and will argue Trump’s insurrection pardons apply to him also www.fox5dc.com/news/dc-pipe...

It always takes me a moment to realize when my nephew has stolen my sister's phone and has started texting me that it's him speaking. He has gotten better at announcing himself but only after a text or two where I'm wondering why my sister just texted that she likes McDonald's or something like that

BREAKING: DOJ in a court filing tonight refers to Venezuela’s current leader as “so-called Acting President Delcy Rodriguez.”

Unless you want to to send money to foreign money launderers in which case you can just use the Trump family crypto enterprise and a few anonymous wallets and mixers so that Bessent can track you. (As the UAE did when they transfered money to CZ)

Telling people how the can and can't spend their money is one way to do capitalism!

Reminder that Greg Bovino claimed in a sworn deposition that he's not the one who runs his Xitter account, bc he's not competent.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse @senwhitehouse.bsky.social 👉 Citizens United was decided 16 years ago, on false facts

Stephen Miran's term on the fed ends January 31st. He is the architect of the Mar a Lago Accord. This might help make Trump's efforts to remove Powell make more sense. www.reuters.com/business/fin...

A reminder that the Mar a Lago Accord seeks to weaken the dollar and wants foreign central banks to swap existing short term T-bills with 100 year T-bills that will not pay periodic interest during the life of the bond but can be redeemed for the full value at the end of its term.

Trump is going to use DOJ/FBI to try to steal the 2026 election. My legal team and I will fight back in court but we all have a role to play. Tomorrow, I will offer my thoughts on what Trump is up to and what we need to do now. Subscribe to Democracy Docket for free to find out. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Garrett Graff means well here but it is wrong to say "Democrats" viewed Jan 6 as an end of Trump when the Harris/Walz campaign was screaming that Trump threatened democracy. Also haven't seen anything on Jan 6 from Graff since 2022. How about covering what's in the security camera released in 2023?

If calling a state secret police agent a murderer for committing murder will lead to more murder by the state secret police, it sure seems like the problem is with the secret police

In Rialto, Calif. ICE ran over a Guatemalan food vendor and then abducted him. His whereabouts are still unknown. This news video should be playing in Congress, over and over. It is ICE that is weaponizing their vehicles.

if a Democrat had said “I can’t wait to host the oil companies at my 90,000 square foot golden self-commemorative ballroom that I tore down the White House and solicited $300 million in bribes to build” it would literally be considered the worst scandal and gaffe in human history

I'm up to FOUR OTHER alleged vehicle ramming incidents that led to shootings by ICE agents: • 8/16/2025 San Bernadino • 10/5/2025 Chicago • 10/21/2025 Los Angeles • 12/24/2025 Maryland Two of these claims fell apart and charges were dismissed. Another had "conflicting accounts".

Had some quick thoughts about the extent to which the administration seems to be using "going on the internet" as a synonym for "engaging in an anti-government movement." www.pbump.net/o/using-the-...

Great new piece from David (and I'm not just saying that because it cites me...).