When the racist meme becomes national policy

Ken Howery (below) is Trump’s ambassador to Denmark. He: Co-founded PayPal & The Founders Fund w/ Peter Thiel & attended the Jan 2025 inauguration party at Thiel’s mansion. Thiel’s Oct 2024 Hereticon event included a talk titled: “Manifest Destiny: Greenland, Cuba, & the New American Colony” 1/

🤔 In 2021, Kip Mock of Moscow ID accidentally set his pal, Elijah Froh, on fire by pouring diesel on a fire. Mock & Froh were later were hired by Valar Atomics—founded by their pal, Isaiah Taylor, a high school dropout from Moscow, ID who somehow landed a DOE contract to build a nuclear reactor. 1/

I don’t think this is the own that Fox thinks it is. Quite the insurrection. 🎥 @acyn.bsky.social

Every couple of weeks we get a different description of the apparently awful stench coming off our necrotic president and I think it's high time the media nail down exactly what kind of rotten meat covered in women's perfume he actually smells like.

And there's America in a nutshell. A narrow majority of essentially good people. The ~35% that are full blown Nazis, and have been for years. And the 12% that constitute the most empty skulled fucking morons that ever walked the earth: aka, the Median Voter.

Half of Americans don't believe Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who gunned down Renee Good in the streets, was justified in killing her Those who do think it's justified? Only Republicans Read it for free here: usapolling.substack.com/p/americans-...

She falsely offered to take a company she controlled private at 420 per share without any commitments in place???? wow

People say that Newsom hates Republicans and he deserves credit for that but that is obviously untrue for multiple reasons. Spanberger likewise has pretty meh politics but she fucking *loathes* Republicans and it shows. Slay em Queen 👑👑👑

The EPA closed a loophole that xAI had exploited to rapidly stand up its data center in Memphis. The updated rule means companies need to get air pollution permits before installing & using methane-burning turbines for off grid power at their facilities... www.cnbc.com/2026/01/16/m...

what the hell is this revisionist nonsense? This *did not happen*—except in the minds of the far-right. You're buying their bad faith bullshit. MAGA called for and now is building a white ethnostate b/c *they are white nationalists*. That's what they do. FFS

I have the utmost respect for Senator Kaine and Senator Warner but we do not need “coaching” on redistricting coming from a cuck chair in the corner. How about you all stay focused on the fascist in the White House and let us handle redistricting in Virginia. 10-1

I feel like people who are telling folks in Minnesota not to take the bait so Trump doesn’t invoke the Insurrection Act have a lot more good faith in an aging cruel dipshit who is being feed a steady diet of AI slop by scheming viziers who dream of invoking the Insurrection Act than I do.

I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.

This guy is basically inviting China to take Taiwan.

This week an American citizen was killed by ICE, and as a concerned human, I can’t pretend like this is normal. This is an invitation to everyone who follows me, if you’re concerned – you are not alone – together, we can stop the violence, and #BeGood, in honor of Renee Macklin Good.

Some people were confused by my ICE post. This should clear it up.

Decent story but infuriating that this is still being cast as a good-faith institution that failed to achieve its lofty goals rather than a fundamentally cynical right-wing project. Look what Bari Weiss is doing to CBS! Why would you assume her goal here was any different?

Trump is so determined to end fraud that he has pardoned one person *twice* for engaging in criminal fraud.

I hate to burst everyone's bubble but if you think that CBS News losing ratings or prestige matters to David Ellison, you're mistaken. Murdoch ran the NY Post for 45 years without turning a profit. They want these media companies to pump propaganda, not to get ratings or make money.

More unaccountable thuggery, via the AP Twitter account. After being screamed at not to knee him in the face, the agent...knees him in the face again. See for yourself

ICE has kidnapped one of my MN News Guild siblings

The actual story is that a family of American citizens trying to evacuate from a neighborhood that ICE had made unsafe, and then ICE tossed munitions into the car, causing three kids to be hospitalized and a six month old to stop breathing. DHS called the family “radical agitators”

this is a rollicking great read it's a story of a bunch of tenured idealists who believed that they were building a university dedicated to free speech and free inquiry, but then lost control of their project to... the right-wing megadonors who funded the university www.politico.com/news/magazin...

The Trump Administration treats its supporters and donors as above the law, able to violate your rights with impunity. Treat them accordingly.

Jagged little shill www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/jagg...

it actions like this that make people, especially gen z, despise the democratic party. what are we doing here

Pollster: Would you support the American military indiscriminately killing brown people in— Republicans: Let me stop you right there, yes. Absolutely, yes.

I was actually fine not knowing my neighbors and most of my family would be Nazis just because Donald Trump tells them to be. Ignorance is fantastic actually.

A former federal agent after watching the New York Times breakdown of the ICE shooting:

AP-NORC poll shows Trump's approval overall at 40% But in a change from last year, his approval on immigration is now lower than his overall at 38% His approval on the economy? 37% apnorc.org/projects/few...

Amazing. Plurality of Americans support abolishing ICE (46%-43%); Moderates by double digits (45%-35%) and Indies as well (47-35%). Yet Schumer Dems are looking for ways to increase fundings for ICE. 🙃 d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

Trump is privately worried about the "optics" of ICE raids and his advisers are looking for ways to soften them, Axios reports. I'm calling bullshit: The terror and violence cannot be hived off from the broader policy agenda. They are 100% intrinsic to it. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2053...

"No recalibrated or sanitized version of the assault that Trump and Stephen Miller are waging on American cities right now... is available to them or anyone else. That’s because it’s a campaign of deliberate terror: The policy is the terror, and the terror is the policy." 🔥 @gregsargent.bsky.social

An 823-word health insurance plan that forgets pre-existing conditions is like a fire insurance policy that doesn’t mention fire. Bold choice.

CNN: What do you say to people who watch these videos & worry Minnesota is becoming a police state? McLAUGHLIN: There's a lot of fear-mongering going on by the media CNN: Let me correct you. They are watching these videos & using their independence of mind McLAUGHLIN: No. Actually it is the media

damn -- CNN put together a video of Kristi Noem claiming ICE officers are "highly trained and skilled" and "gifted" alongside to a clip of them beating someone nearly to death in Minneapolis

BLITZER: When Noem called this 37 year old mother a domestic terrorist, that really was outrageous McLAUGHLIN: In no way is that outrageous. She used her car as a deadly weapon B: She was driving by after dropping off her boy at school M: That simply is not true. I have the facts on the ground

The level of sycophancy is nauseating. Do these people have to try and name everything after Trump? And given his putrid approval rating with women, that isn’t the greatest procreation incentive. bsky.app/profile/atru...

McLAUGHLIN: Racial animus has no place in DHS and of course is not use CNN: *plays clip of ICE agents asking Minneapolis woman where she was born* McLAUGHLIN: I haven't seen this clip before. She might've been assaulting law enforcement prior to this.

By submitting to humiliation by Ben Shapiro, Gavin Newsom showed that he has what it takes to appeal to Republicans as a candidate.

pretty sure he meant the other thing, grok, but very cool that those are your two things

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social l 2026 Jan 15 Advocate: HRC annual Community Survey shows LGBTQ+ adults going back in closet under Trump assault w/ 47% less out in their lives over the last 12 months incl 26% on workplaces, 25% in healthcare, & 28% in public spaces. [1/2]

The Trump administration says some approved childhood vaccines need better studies. Scientists disagree www.science.org/content/arti... Reality: "The vaccines now under attack were licensed using rigorous, globally accepted standards; they work, they are safe, and they have saved countless lives."

Whoa. Immigration is both the highest individual policy reason people approve of Trump (26% of his proponents list immigration as "the most important reason you approve"), AND the highest individual policy reason people disapprove (14% list immigration as "the most important reason you disapprove")

CNN poll shows that Trump's approval is cratering among many of the people who put him in the White House: -29% of independents approve -30% of Latinos approve -30% of adults younger than 35 approve www.cnn.com/2026/01/16/p...

The 6-month-old that DHS is tweeting about here lived in the neighborhood and the baby’s father was just trying to evacuate his family after federal agents had shot someone.

Just so people outside of MN know - a lot of the US citizens getting “arrested” by ICE never get processed at Whipple. They are roughed up during the arrest and then often dropped off miles from where they were picked up. It means we don’t know the true scale of what ICE is doing based on ICE stats

Perfect— Tennessee/Nashville gives MAGA billionaire Larry Ellison millions of our tax dollars to land Oracle’s HQ… and he recruits people from outside TN for jobs he’s “creating” 🤔 @GovBillLee (in MEMPHIS Elon’s xAI is also recruiting from outside TN) fortune.com/2026/01/15/o...