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Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.

This morning @status.news produces a long list of his attacks on press freedom before asking: "Should the WHCA treat Trump as just another president participating in a century-old Washington tradition—or as someone who blatantly attacks First Amendment freedoms at every turn?" Read to remember...

whether war, vaccines, or critical infrastructure there is contingent of the right that seems to believe that their security from the worst things that happen is some kind of metaphysical principle rather than the result of specific historical processes that could've gone otherwise and still could

tl;dr: more people should watch this gentleman's speech and think seriously about what he is saying bsky.app/profile/slcl...

NY Times sub headline this morning: Trump Calls for Overthrow of Government. Not clear which government: Iran or US? Or both.

this is total nonsense? presidents quite famously struggled to maintain control over the federal bureaucracy going back to before the civil war and congress has always interfered a great deal into the executive branch. congressional deference is the abnormality!

and that, my fellow academics, is one reason not to hire war criminals: so they can't show up years post (their) war arguing in favor of the scaffolding behind their own atrocities with the imprimatur and status of your university

The right move.

We will win with whistles and cameras and frog suits and slippers— and millions of us sharing the shit out of them. Only cowards need guns.

Listen to how brave and unflappable these observers are. Incredible heroism and outright villainy. ICE MUST LEAVE and MUST BE DISMANTLED

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

What he says…

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?

In addition to all our stolen neighbors back, Minneapolis needs billions in federal reparations for the economic damage the US government has intentionally inflicted on this city for no reason beyond exacting some kind of bizarre political and racial retribution

This is an excellent @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social podcast with @himself.bsky.social. Chock full of political science theory providing a very useful framework to understand contemporary events www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/o...

We need to be clear about what Attorney General Bondi's demand for Minnesota voter rolls is about. The Trump administration is trying to intimidate voters and election officials so they don't have to face accountability in the midterm elections.

More on the horrors in Maine: www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/m...

“Peace isn’t what you ask for when the boot is already on someone’s neck. Peace is what the powerful ask for when they don’t want to be interrupted” ❤️‍🔥

Holding 3 thoughts. The need to honour a life well lived cut horrifically short by ICE. The hope that something cuts through to those whose identities seem wedded to supporting the violence. That everyone, regardless of background or circumstances, should be safe from being shot in the street.

@marisakabas.bsky.social is right. This is unlike protesting & more like civilian self-protection (CSP), where civilians protect each other when state & other actors can't or won't protect them. Peace Medie & I wrote about this in the context of armed conflict. Deeply troubling to see it in the US

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

"Fascist gov'ts are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy." - Umberto Eco, "Ur-Fascism" Even if toadies like Vance recognize reality, they can't upset Dear Leader by being honest about it. They're all trapped in the lie.

Trump Just Proved Carney’s Point www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...

How many January 6 insurrectionists were armed? Is the position now that Capitol police could have shot them all? Just trying to keep up

What's happening in Minnesota is one reason the Reconstruction Amendments banned insurrectionists from holding office. Unfortunately, the originalists on the Supreme Court interpreted the plain language of the amendment to mean its opposite.

This is sickening. The recklessness and brutality of the Trump Administration knows no bounds. The President must immediately order ICE to withdraw before another tragedy happens.

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

It is important to keep repeating this, because these 23 people continue to get complete free passes every day while the fascism & incineration of American national security keep happening.

In Karl Ove Knausgaard’s new cycle of novels, old mysteries reassert themselves. www.newyorker.com/culture/open...

Bipartisan negotiators released a DHS funding bill that does not significantly reduce ICE and CBP’s funding nor rein in the agencies’ abuses of power. Make no mistake: Any Democrat who votes for this bill is complicit in Trump’s campaign of terror. Grow a spine and vote no.

Mistaking Order for Anarchy by Casey McNeill is out now! "Casey McNeill provides the reader with a sophisticated, accessible, and timely discussion of security in West Africa and the Sahel." —Kevin Dunn, Hobart and William Smith Colleges https://ow.ly/sU1N50Y0kWE

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

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Ugh! Disgusting. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/o...

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

If protesters were getting paid, there's be a massive chain of solicitations, emails that would easily prove the case. There is none Any TV interviewer needs to demand proof when this claim is made and end the interview when it's not provided

Nailed it for reals, TY Sara💙 @sassy0210.bsky.social 🐊🐸🦋 @simonbarsinister.bsky.social @mbdeed.bsky.social @hfyou.bsky.social @danellek.bsky.social @bostonbitch.bsky.social @antifatemptress.bsky.social @bm1970.bsky.social

Again, I’m going to keep banging the drum that the fact we are threatening the territorial sovereignty of our closest allies is not only a gross violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations & poses a massive threat to national security & world order but also should immediately end this presidency.

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

Not the worst horror story, but bad enough. www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/i...

i’ll say it again, jennings is a contemptible liar and it is a disgrace that CNN puts him on television every night to spread bullshit

He had multiple opportunities to prevent this and deliberately pissed them away.

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