Can’t focus on Russia …

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Ugh. Picking up a point on City the hard way.

The Times reports, citing British intelligence, that Ukrainian troops killed 27 times more Russians than they lost in battles for Kupyiansk. Around 200 Russian soldiers were surrounded before Christmas, with total Russian losses in the thousands. #UkraineWar

I scored 45 out of 50 points on Dateline, @TheEconomist history game! ⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️🎯 Can you do better? economist.com/dateline

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Quite Trumpish

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Jamaica …. Brazil Boy is this upcoming World Cup going to be fun

Yeah so anyway you're not getting discharged from the hospital the same day if you have internal bleeding in your torso. Even Grok knows that. LOL.

This is disgusting. They have lavish parties and eat high end meals and tell you to have 1of each chicken, broccoli, tortilla and tomato. This is bullshit.

The Dolphins …

Just hoping he puts it on the Wall at the Oval Office

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Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents. Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center. Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.

Trump admits that this is nothing but political retribution. Minnesota voted against him three times and now he’s punishing us – putting lives at risk and wasting enormous resources in the process.

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

maybe the 6 month old they tear gassed was driving right at them, maybe think about that before you pass judgement

Rep. Angie Craig: "There's no way in hell I'm voting to give one cent to Trump and Kristi Noem's ICE. I won't send one penny to these people who are terrorizing the people of Minnesota. We also should pass a bill that will prevent them from going onto schools, into church, into daycares ... "

Why not donate in his own riding? Has he been back since election night?

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Classic Big 10 match up

BofA: Tariffs have contributed to the stickiness of inflation We estimate that core PCE inflation excluding tariffs would be closer to 2.4% y/y than 2.8%

Harry Burton, Irish Examiner

Spiraling toward a depression. US posts record $145 billion December deficit as outlays outpace receipts. The money is going to DoD, DHS, ICE.

Breaking News: Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan said that federal prosecutors are investigating her after she urged service members to resist illegal orders.

There you have it; the Trump admin allows ICE lawyer James Rodden to stay on the job. His personal social media account praised Hitler, supported white nationalism, and said that America started going downhill the day that Lincoln was elected.

No one did more to get Trump elected

If you haven’t seen this, it is INSANE. Past Orwellian. Past even Putin’s Russia. It would even make North Korean style “the truth is whatever we say it is”, blush. Pure alternate reality disinformation. This garbage is being paid for by American taxpayers. #ICEout #DHS #ICEGestapo #TrumpAutocracy

Sorry, TGL is bull shit … why no college basketball tonight?

Kristi Noem stated over the weekend that Americans deserve what they get if they get in the way of law enforcement operations, including the murder of Renee Good. If people get injured or killed, it's on them. Then she is sending more agents to Minneapolis. This Regime wants us killed.

Whether it's Trump creating his own personal Gestapo that murders unarmed civilians or Barack Obama wearing a tan suit to a press conference, both presidents made the nation deeply uneasy.

Liberals say that Trump's personal Gestapo is destroying our democracy. They're wrong—Trump's personal Gestapo is destroying our republic.

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Regardless of the fact that he would argue with me on X as our politics differed, Scott Adams was one funny man. Some of the Dilbert strips would have me in tears (of laughter) … the boss looking for the token ring on the floor …

This is the way

No self reflection, obviously

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What a cover open.spotify.com/track/5RBv2h...

Trump’s America, you get executed for disrespecting ICE, Fed Chairs get threatened with criminal indictments if they don’t lower interest rates, and our closest allies for decades are threatened with invasion. We are in a dark place, a place some of us very much expected.

@poznaninmypants.bsky.social is it Bayesian to say that “I think there is a 100% probability that @arsenalvisionpodcast.com enjoyed both the Arsenal win and the Man Utd loss today?” Or is that inverted Bayesian? podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/t...

Not sure Elon has turned the corner here

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Wow

The left has a rhetoric problem? Renee Good was labeled a domestic terrorist before any investigation at all. That’s their approach - did it in Chicago, too. And that video doesn’t show what they think it does.

Russia can’t take Ukraine, let alone Greenland

Trump lies again. Countries with mail in voting:

What a shit show … ICE the worst of all Americans …

Newly-released footage reveals Renee Nicole Good’s last words.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Many of the Afghan refugees who have entered the United States in recent years are heroic allies of this country,” the editorial board writes. “Yet President Trump has betrayed the loyalty of Afghan refugees by conducting a mass crackdown against them.”