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2026-02-10 17:12:48 GMT

Rep. Jamie Raskin after viewing the Epstein files:
“There’s no way you run a billion-dollar international child sex trafficking ring with just two people committing crimes, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. No way. It doesn’t work like that.
The Department of Justice has been in coverup mode for many months and has been trying to sweep the entire thing under the rug."
~ Scott Dworkin
#Epstein #Trump #GhislaineMaxwell #pedophiles #coverup
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https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/what-raskin-found

2026-02-03 20:11:38 GMT

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"These men – Trump and Attia and others in the Epstein network of partying and playing and getting 'massages' -- can slough off criticism of their behavior in years past because today, the Trump Department of Justice has said officially that they did nothing wrong."
#Epstein #Trump #ToddBlanche #BariWeiss #PeterAttia #DOJ #pedophiles #EconomicElites #coverup #CBS
/20

2026-01-21 15:34:00 GMT

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"Carney just gave the first speech today of the new global order as it exists. … He was the first major leader to say… America, the United States of America, is no longer a hegemon. We are in a multipolar world, a multilateral world, where the great powers, Russia, China, the United States of America, are finding their equilibrium through panic, fear, greed, & just the pursuit of all of the middle powers."
~ Mike Madrid
#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
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https://thelefthook.substack.com/p/under-trump-a-weak-isolated-america

2026-01-21 15:30:05 GMT

"Mark Carney’s speech at Davos yesterday really is worth your time. It made some of the front pages today but the news cycle moves so fast that it’s already yesterday’s news. Part of the challenge of this moment - and I believe the job of journalists - is to focus on the signal, not the noise. And if you have time to take in one thing properly, this week, I’d suggest it’s this."
~ Carole Cadwalladr
#MarkCarney #Davos #GlobalOrder #power #NATO
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https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-rupture

2026-01-20 18:42:42 GMT

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"Trump has managed in just one year to destroy the American order that was, and he has weakened America’s ability to protect its interests in the world that will be. If Americans thought defending the liberal world order was too expensive, wait until they start paying for what comes next."
#Trump #NATO #Europe #Russia #China #InternationalLaw #GlobalInstability #rearmament #NuclearThreat
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2026-01-20 18:42:16 GMT

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"Americans are entering the most dangerous world they have known since World War II, one that will make the Cold War look like child’s play and the post–Cold War world like paradise. ...
Trump’s megalomania is transforming the United States from international leader into international pariah, and the American people will suffer the consequences for years to come."
#Trump #NATO #Europe #Russia #China #InternationalLaw #GlobalInstability #rearmament #NuclearThreat
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2026-01-20 18:41:08 GMT

"The American order is over because the United States has decided that it no longer wishes to play its historically unprecedented role of providing global security. The American might that upheld the world order of the past 80 years will now be used instead to destroy it."
~ Robert Kagan
#Trump #NATO #Europe #Russia #China #InternationalLaw #GlobalInstability #rearmament #NuclearThreat
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https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/03/trump-national-security-greenland-spheres-of-interest/685673/?gift=3gozaec2NM6PUSZsUEI9kphswgVLHs-azhwbrEEQgjA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2026-01-20 17:12:11 GMT

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Mike Luckovich's cartoon commentary on Trump's "psychological" need to own Greenland — as his regime continues to refuse to obey a Congressional mandate to open the Epstein files.
#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #NATO #Epstein
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/1/19/2363695/-Cartoon-If-we-were-in-the-Epstein-files?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=top_news_slot_9&pm_medium=web
https://cdn.toad.social/media_attachments/files/115/928/530/465/511/793/original/f20ef777c0707817.jpg

2026-01-20 17:09:26 GMT

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"Because what it shows is that Trump is literally like a toddler knocking over the Monopoly board because he’s frustrated with the rules. No matter how Sanger attempts to normalize it, Trump’s foreign policy is not (as Sanger fancies) a normal second term investment in legacy."
#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #NATO #NewYorkTimes #sanewashing
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2026-01-20 17:09:09 GMT

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"NYT did a grave disservice by sane washing this interview [by David Sanger with Trump in which Trump stated that he has a "psychological" need to own Greenland]; indeed, Trump betrayed his fundamental vulnerability elsewhere in the interview."
~ Marcy Wheeler
#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #NATO #NewYorkTimes #sanewashing
/27
https://www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/20/trump-needs-a-shrink-and-a-baby-sitter-not-a-national-security-adviser/

2026-01-20 16:04:03 GMT

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"Broglio also noted that while it would be difficult for a soldier or Marine to disobey such an order, he or she 'would be in good conscience to do so.'”
#Trump #Greenland #Catholic #PopeLeo
/26

2026-01-20 16:03:20 GMT

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"On Sunday, the Archbishop told the BBC 'Sunday' show that if the Trump administration ordered the military to take control of the semi-autonomous Danish territory, he was worried that U.S. service members 'could be put in a situation where they’re being ordered to do something that’s morally questionable.'”
#Trump #Greenland #Catholic #PopeLeo
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2026-01-20 16:02:39 GMT

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"The Catholic Archbishop of the US military [Timothy Broglio] said that soldiers who refused to participate in an invasion of Greenland 'would be in good conscience to do so.'"
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #Greenland #Catholic #PopeLeo
/24
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/republicans-must-stage-an-intervention

2026-01-20 16:01:30 GMT

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"Nicole Winfield and Giovanna Dell’Orto of the Associated Press reported that the cardinals spoke up after a meeting at the Vatican in which several fellow cardinals expressed alarm about the administration’s actions. Cupich said that when the U.S. can be portrayed as saying '"might makes right"—that’s a troublesome development. There’s the rule of law that should be followed.'”
#Trump #Greenland #Catholic #PopeLeo
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2026-01-20 16:00:58 GMT

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"Today three top American Catholic cardinals, Blase Cupich of Chicago, Robert McElroy of Washington, D.C., and Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, issued a joint statement warning the Trump administration that its military action in Venezuela, threats against Greenland, and cuts to foreign aid risk bringing vast suffering to the world."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Greenland #Catholic #PopeLeo
/22
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-19-2026

2026-01-20 16:00:06 GMT

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"Letters can end alliances and start wars. In our age, even a bad text message can do the same. It’s now up to Congress to decide which future it intends to defend."
~ Mark Hertling
#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #NATO #Congress #Republicans
/21
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/text-message-shatters-international-trust-nato-alliance-eu-norway-denmark-greenland-trump

2026-01-20 15:59:35 GMT

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As Tim Miller tells Republican Senator Murkowski, who is predictably shocked — just shocked! — at the latest clear evidence that something is clearly wrong with her party's head who occupies the White House now:
"This is your party now."
#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #NATO #Congress #Republicans
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/tim-miller-sorry-sen-murkowski-this

2026-01-20 15:58:07 GMT

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"I am done listening to pundits, consultants, and influencers tell us what Democrats must do, as if the attack on American democracy and freedom is a problem that the Democratic Party must solve."
~ Edwin Eisendrath
#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #NATO #Congress #Republicans
/19
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/this-isnt-a-democrats-vs-republicans

2026-01-20 15:57:38 GMT

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"The result of Republicans’ inaction will be a period of violence, instability, economic self-harm, and shame. Yes, shame. Americans should be ashamed of a foreign policy that rejects mythologized American Exceptionalism in favor of fascist-style aggression, complete with war crimes and suppression of dissent."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #NATO #Congress #Republicans
/18
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/words-and-phrases-247

2026-01-20 15:57:05 GMT

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"What Trump is doing is beyond the wildest of dreams of the craziest lunatic in the Kremlin. He's managing to have the United States go to war with NATO. I mean, it's over Greenland. Can't make it up. It really is. And, you know, I just have such disgust for these Republicans. They're the legacy to the greatest generation."
Stuart Stevens
#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #NATO #Congress #Republicans
/17
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/trumps-nato-threats-and-ices-thuggery

2026-01-20 15:56:33 GMT

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"Where in the hell are the Republicans?
Where are the rock-ribbed national security hawks of my childhood? ...
We can’t afford to normalize this for three more years."
~ Michele Hornish
#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #NATO #Congress #Republicans
/16
https://michelehornish.substack.com/p/when-is-enough-enough-asking-for

2026-01-20 15:55:54 GMT

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"Trump’s latest posts have led to one Congresswoman, Yassamin Ansari, to call for the 25th Amendment to be invoked."
#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #NATO #Congress
/15

2026-01-20 15:55:25 GMT

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"Donald Trump spent the overnight hours posting several times on Truth Social while on his way to Davos for the World Economic Forum. Significant concern grew in the United States as several of these messages included personal messages sent by world leaders [i.e., France’s Emmanuel Macron and NATO’s Mark Rutte] to Trump that were meant to remain private."
#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #NATO #Congress
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2026-01-20 15:54:29 GMT

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"Last night alone, the president unleashed a disturbing barrage of Truth Social posts: sharing private messages with world leaders, posting an image depicting Canada and Greenland as part of the United States, and threatening France with two hundred percent tariffs. The fallout was immediate—a sitting member of Congress is now publicly calling for the invocation of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #NATO #Congress
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https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-congresswoman-calls-for-25th

2026-01-20 15:53:38 GMT

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"Yesterday we were provided the latest evidence that Donald Trump is stark, raving mad. In a sane world, with a functioning democracy and a system of checks and balances, the vice president and his cabinet would be urgently pursuing the constitutional mechanism to remove a president who 'is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.'”
~ Steven Beschloss
#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #dementia #NATO #Congress
/12
https://www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-the-deranged-escalation

2026-01-20 15:52:45 GMT

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"The physician for former Vice President Dick Cheney has called on Congress to open a bipartisan investigation into Donald Trump’s fitness to serve following Trump’s letter to Norway suggesting that he may invade Greenland due to the fact that he did not receive the Nobel Peace Prize."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #dementia #NATO #NobelPeacePrize
/11
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/important-monday-night-update-trump

2026-01-20 15:52:13 GMT

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"Let’s ask a simple question. What happens when you combine the mentality of a spoiled toddler with the power of the presidency, or worse, a king? You get someone who looks a lot like Donald…."
~ Brian Karem
#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #dementia #NATO
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https://www.marytrump.org/p/the-daily-wrap-up-470

2026-01-20 15:51:45 GMT

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"We don’t talk enough about how not-normal this is. We all know it, it’s become an accepted truth. Let’s honor the legacy of peaceful protest by speaking that truth to power."
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #dementia #NATO
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https://joycevance.substack.com/p/bull-connors-ghost

2026-01-20 15:51:15 GMT

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"How was it possible that American citizens could read this letter and not become very concerned for the psychological fitness of their leader? How was it possible that such an obviously unwell man still enjoyed the backing of his party and a significant minority of the public? How did members of Congress, empowered as they are to force the removal of a president who descends into lunacy, not intervene?"
#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #dementia #NATO
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2026-01-20 15:50:42 GMT

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"I suspect when future generations read about this era of US history (to the extent that 'reading,' 'the US,' and 'history' are still things that exist), they will peruse as one of their primary documents the letter that President Donald Trump sent to the Prime Minister of Norway, laying out his justification for his desired invasion of Greenland. They will wonder:"
~ Jill Filipovic
#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #dementia #NATO
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https://www.throughline.news/p/donald-trump-is-not-well

2026-01-20 15:49:32 GMT

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"The unavoidable fact is that the most powerful person on earth is no longer of sound mind. We can’t avoid it any longer."
#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #dementia #NATO
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2026-01-20 15:49:04 GMT

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"It’s time to say it: The president of the United States has lost his mind. ...
This is not just a national emergency, it is a global emergency.
Nothing is assured, but over the last few days it has become a real possibility that Trump will literally take the United States to war against our European allies."
~ Paul Waldman
#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #dementia #NATO
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https://paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-president-of-the-united-states

2026-01-20 15:47:53 GMT

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"That’s an important question, the answer to which I believe lies in the straight line from Bush vs Gore and the Roberts Supreme Court, to January 6th, to the execution of Renee Good. However, what’s more important is that we realize where we are right now, that we don’t try to sugarcoat and sanewash what’s happening: A petulant, violent and deranged individual is running America."
#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #dementia #NATO #JohnRoberts #SupremeCourt #ReneeGood
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2026-01-20 15:47:05 GMT

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"It’s sundowning in America: A presidential mind is a dangerous thing to lose. ...
How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?"
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #dementia #NATO #Putin
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https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/its-sundowning-in-america

2026-01-20 15:46:07 GMT

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"Yet Trump now not only blames Norway for failing to give it to him, but is using it as a justification for an invasion of Greenland.
Think about where this is leading."
#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #NATO #Putin #NobelPeacePrize
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2026-01-20 15:45:46 GMT

"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee, not the Norwegian government and certainly not the Danish government, determines the winner of that prize."
~ Anne Applebaum
#Trump #Greenland #madman #MadKing #NATO #Putin #NobelPeacePrize
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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/trump-letter-to-norway/685676/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3zvj3GM7jjcl1aBdZ1V8ekk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

2026-01-19 22:17:10 GMT

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"It could be a Monty Python skit from forty years ago: A demented U.S. president demands the Nobel Peace Prize (which he initially spells “Noble”), after converting the name of the Department of Defense to the Department of War and abducting the president of a Latin American country by force."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #Greenland #madman #NobelPeacePrize #NATO #Putin
/20
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/greenland

2026-01-19 21:56:17 GMT

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"Somewhere inside him, he must be aware that his 'psychologically important' need for love and approval is as visible to others as it is to him when he looks in the mirror every morning. Can you imagine how sad it is to be Donald Trump? It must be why he falls asleep all day sitting in his chair. If I were him for even a moment, I wouldn’t want to be awake either."
#Trump #Greenland #madman #NobelPeacePrize #NATO #Putin
/19

2026-01-19 21:55:43 GMT

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"After telling them that ownership of Greenland was 'psychologically needed,' he was asked if taking over Greenland was 'psychologically important to you or the United States?'
'Psychologically important for me,' he replied without hesitation." …
This has been said before, but it needs to be said again: Trump is a weak man who is always trying to appear strong."
#Trump #Greenland #madman #NobelPeacePrize #NATO #Putin
/18

2026-01-19 21:53:54 GMT

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"Attempting to apply logic to his lies and nonsense becomes the same tiresome burden we face with everything else he says late at night on Truth Social, at Oval Office press gaggles, as he walks to his Marine helicopter on the way to Mar a Lago….
Trump’s utterances, no matter their form, have a unifying theme that he was good enough to put into words during his recent interview with four reporters from the New York Times."
#Trump #Greenland #madman #NobelPeacePrize #NATO #Putin
/17

2026-01-19 21:52:39 GMT

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"Why is he addressing the Prime Minister of Norway, who has nothing to do with awarding Nobel Prizes, and certainly nothing to do with Greenland? Does he know that Greenland is a territory of Denmark, not Norway? That possibility is jaw-dropping all by itself, and so is the rest of his gibberish."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #Greenland #madman #NobelPeacePrize #NATO #Putin
/16
https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/with-trump-trying-to-make-sense-of

2026-01-19 21:44:02 GMT

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"Ahmed was born in Hennepin County and raised in St. Paul, and suffers from seizures, according to her family. She had been on her way to pick up prescription medication when the detention occurred. A review of Minnesota court records shows no documented criminal history."
State Rep. Samakab Hussein says,
“I don’t know what to say other than to make her comfortable. She’s devastated. They treated her with no respect.”
#Trump #MAGA #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #violence
/14

2026-01-19 21:42:33 GMT

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"Nasra Ahmed, a St. Paul woman and U.S. citizen who was born in Minnesota, was released to her family without charges on Friday night after being detained by federal immigration enforcement agents and spending more than two days in detention."
~ Frederick Melo
Melo reports that Ahmed suffered cuts and bruises to her face and legs when ICE snatched her.
#Trump #MAGA #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #violence
/13
https://www.twincities.com/2026/01/17/st-paul-woman-u-s-citizen-released-from-ice-detention-after-two-days/

2026-01-19 21:35:31 GMT

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And when and how will this end? The needless targeting of people due to their complexion, their nationality, their ethnicity, their gender, their sexual identities, their social class?
It won't end until we white Americans face — at long last — our deep centuries-long enmeshment in an ideology and constructed system of white supremacy propped up by white Christian nationalism.
#MLK #MartinLutherKing #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #ICE #Minneapolis
/7

2026-01-19 21:35:20 GMT

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Just smug, and in many cases jubilant, silence. That classmate and I were among a handful of students who openly expressed our shock and sorrow at Dr. King's murder.
This was the world in which I came of age. Bloodshed piled on bloodshed.
And now all over again, Minneapolis, and prior to that Chicago, Los Angeles, and New Orleans….
#MLK #MartinLutherKing #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #ICE #Minneapolis
/6

2026-01-19 21:34:20 GMT

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A few years ago, a high school classmate of mine — he and I competed through high school for the top two academic spots in our class — passed through Little Rock and asked if we could meet for lunch. When we did so, he reminded me that the day after Dr. King's murder, almost no one in our high school had anything to say about this historic event — no shock, no sorrow, no outrage.
#MLK #MartinLutherKing #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #ICE #Minneapolis
/5

2026-01-19 21:33:52 GMT

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The two white teens who were charged for the killing were exonerated by a jury of all white men. The whole town knew the three white teens were guilty. They bragged openly about what they had done.
This was the world in which I came of age.
#MLK #MartinLutherKing #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #ICE #Minneapolis
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2026-01-19 21:32:24 GMT

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Bloodshed piled on bloodshed.
A few months before Dr. King was murdered, two of my high school classmates, white teens, were charged with shooting and killing in cold blood a Black teen in our hometown. He was shot from their car as he walked on a road near his house. It was well known that a third white boy in my class was also in the car, but he was the son of an influential doctor and not charged.
#MLK #MartinLutherKing #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #ICE #Minneapolis
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2026-01-19 21:31:55 GMT

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By this time, I had lived through (and well remember) the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the murder of Medgar Evers, the murders of Viola Liuzzo, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, the attempted murder of James Meredith, the Birmingham church bombings and klling of four Black girls, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Carol Denise McNair.
#MLK #MartinLutherKing #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #ICE #Minneapolis
/2

2026-01-19 21:31:28 GMT

I remember the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., of course. I was a senior in high school when it happened. A senior in a small (some 25,000) but very wealthy oil town in south Arkansas, in a deep-South part of the state near the Louisiana border…. My father was a Louisianan whose parents moved to south Arkansas during the oil boom to find good-paying jobs.
#MLK #MartinLutherKing #WhiteSupremacy #WhiteChristianNationalism #Trump #ICE #Minneapolis
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https://cdn.toad.social/media_attachments/files/115/923/885/760/646/881/original/1509d49c337414a6.jpg

2026-01-19 20:05:42 GMT

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"'We renounce war as an instrument for narrow national interests and proclaim that military action must be seen only as a last resort in extreme situations, not a normal instrument of national policy,' said the cardinals, each of whom were staunch allies of Pope Francis and were present at the conclave that elected Leo."
#Trump #Greenland #Catholic #PopeLeo
/15

2026-01-19 20:05:24 GMT

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"On Monday, Jan. 19, three Catholic cardinals — Blase Cupich of Chicago, Robert McElroy of Washington, D.C., and Joseph Tobin of Newark, New Jersey — amplified an address given Jan. 9 by Pope Leo XIV to the Vatican's diplomatic corps."
#Trump #Greenland #Catholic #PopeLeo
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2026-01-19 20:04:19 GMT

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"With President Donald Trump ratcheting up economic threats against U.S. allies as part of his campaign to take Greenland, after the administration's comments that military action is 'always an option,' U.S. bishops are offering stark warnings against the administration's recent foreign policy actions and threats, including a rare joint statement from three senior church leaders.
~ Michael O'Loughlin
#Trump #Greenland #Catholic #PopeLeo
/13
https://www.ncronline.org/news/us-bishops-break-further-trump-time-foreign-policy

2026-01-19 19:34:17 GMT

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"The message [of Trump to the Norwegian PM] was so extreme that even renowned journalists initially questioned whether it could be real. It was quickly verified by Norwegian officials and corroborated by Finland’s prime minister."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #Greenland #madman #NobelPeacePrize #NATO #Putin
/12
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/monday-afternoon-news-updates-11926

2026-01-19 18:51:19 GMT

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Pointing to Trump's letter to the Norwegian PM, Anne Applebaum says,
"The word 'bizarre' isn’t really sufficient to describe the strange things happening right now in Washington. ...
Years of careful diplomacy, billions of dollars in trade, are now at risk because senators and representatives who know better have refused to use the powers they have to block him. Now is the time."
#Trump #Greenland #madman #NobelPeacePrize #NATO #Putin
/11
https://anneapplebaum.substack.com/p/trump-writes-a-letter-to-norway

2026-01-19 18:44:09 GMT

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"And yet something is happening. Trump’s blatant abuse of power really does seem to be radicalizing moderates and causing Trumpers to experience cognitive dissonance (a mental collision of diametric beliefs). I haven’t seen Republicans this anxious since a mob sacked and looted the Capitol."
Good luck with the project of trying to talk sense to the cultic true believers. And I say that sincerely, even as I'm dubious.
#Trump #MAGA #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #violence
/12

2026-01-19 18:43:13 GMT

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John Stoehr interviews former MAGA Rich Logis, who has founded a group to try to help MAGA folks to come to their senses. Stoehr writes,
"Trump can send his paramilitary (ICE, CBP) to execute frightened widowed mothers but still expect at least 33 percent of the population to back him. (The most recent Gallup survey that I have seen shows his approval rating to be 36 percent.)"
#Trump #MAGA #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #violence
/11
https://www.editorialboard.com/can-liberals-help-maga-find-the-off-ramp/

2026-01-19 17:38:00 GMT

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"We all knew it, but in the last few days he confirmed it. He is a baby with a full diaperload."
~ Gene Weingarten
I think it will be obvious who Weingarten means when he speaks of "he."
#Trump #Greenland #madman #NobelPeacePrize #NATO #Putin
/10
https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/tantrump

2026-01-19 17:23:20 GMT

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"This immigration-hating regime is even rounding up native people, whose ancestors lived on this continent long before Europeans came and killed 95% of the indigenous population while gobbling up the land from coast to coast. …
When we say 'This is Not America,' that is a lie."
#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #violence
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2026-01-19 17:21:15 GMT

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"This regime and its movement are implementing a plan of White Christian conquest over a vast, multi-cultural area. Couched in terms of punishing criminal elements in the country illegally, the regime is rounding up anyone with a spanish-sounding accent, brown skin, people with white skin who truly ally themselves with people who have darker skin or heavier accents."
~ Stephanie G. Wilson
#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #WhiteChristianNationalism
/9
https://www.freedomoverfascism.us/p/this-is-very-america-those-who-says

2026-01-19 17:18:27 GMT

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Simon Rosenberg tells a story (see the attached screenshots below) that should royally shame any Americans who have retained a conscience in this era.
#Trump #ICE #MaskedThugs #immigrants #cruelty #violence
/8
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/trumps-edges-closer-to-war-with-europe
https://cdn.toad.social/media_attachments/files/115/922/886/175/991/299/original/c81d231f285715cb.jpg
https://cdn.toad.social/media_attachments/files/115/922/886/760/508/029/original/5e31c9cf6c8b0ab8.jpg
https://cdn.toad.social/media_attachments/files/115/922/887/143/783/381/original/baf3af1fba7d54bf.jpg

2026-01-19 17:01:10 GMT

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Three days ago, Dale Partridge, pastor at King's Way Church in Prescott, Arizona and founder of Reformation Seminary, posted the following on X:
"Restoring America requires us to:
1. Submit to Christ
2. Attend Church Weekly
3. Close Commerce on Sundays
4. Mass Deportations of Pagans
5. Outlaw Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism
6. Outlaw Abortion and Homosexuality
7. Repeal the 19th
We can do this in 10-15 years."
#Trump #WhiteChristianNationalism
/7
https://www.threads.com/@mixmaster.morris/post/DTmRRpYjQQQ/photo-posted-by-morris-gould-mixmaster-morris

2026-01-19 16:55:01 GMT

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"The Christian nationalists, and I believe the white supremacists, too, believe they are bringing about the earth and the nation that is the right design, whether it's the white supremacist design or the white Christian nationalist design."
#Trump #Minneapolis #ICE #MaskedThugs #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteSupremacy
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2026-01-19 16:54:39 GMT

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Audra Watkins talks about the white Christian nationalist push that's playing a huge role behind the scenes in the Trump regime's attempt to subordinate Minnesota:
"They believe that they're carrying out God's plan for the earth if they're Christian nationalists doing this."
#Trump #Minneapolis #ICE #MaskedThugs #WhiteChristianNationalism #WhiteSupremacy
/5
https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/project-2025-jeremy-lewin-and-how

2026-01-19 16:47:08 GMT

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"Protests took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, and in Nuuk, Greenland, over the weekend. Thousands took to the streets to demonstrate against Trump’s plans to invade Greenland. Folks held signs that read 'Yankee Go Home' and 'No Annexation Without Representation,' and wore red hats that said 'Make America Go Away.'”
~ Scott Dworkin
#Trump #Greenland #madman #NobelPeacePrize #NATO #Putin
/9
https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/kristi-noem-caught-lying-on-live

2026-01-19 16:21:47 GMT

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"ICE agents at a hotel in St. Paul woke up [Sunday] morning to news that they’re getting kicked out of their hotel today at noon."
~ Chris Geidner
He's reporting this morning that mutiple hotels in St. Paul-Minneapolis took the step of kicking ICE out yesterday.
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #Minneapolis #ICE #MaskedThugs #resistance
/4
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/post/3mcpl2qc4mk2z

2026-01-19 16:21:13 GMT

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"But looking at the ironclad resolve of ordinary Minnesotans to protect their homes and defend their neighbors, I think the administration is more likely to break on their opposition and learn, as the British did in Boston, that Americans are quite jealous of their liberties."
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #Minneapolis #ICE #MaskedThugs #resistance
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2026-01-19 16:20:52 GMT

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"Faced with an angry public but committed to a rigid agenda of nativist brutality, the president and his coterie of ideologues are playing the only move they seem to have: wanton violence and threats of further escalation. They think this will break their opposition."
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #Minneapolis #ICE #MaskedThugs #resistance
/2

2026-01-19 16:20:11 GMT

"One way to read the occupation of Minnesota is as a flex — a demonstration of the government’s power and authority. That, perhaps, is how [Stephen] Miller and Kristi Noem see the situation. I smell, on the other hand, a stench of desperation, an attempt to do with force what they can’t accomplish through ordinary politics."
~ Jamelle Bouie
#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #Minneapolis #ICE #MaskedThugs #resistance
/1
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/opinion/ice-minneapolis-occupation.html

2026-01-19 16:15:06 GMT

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The graphic below, mocking Trump's susceptibility to insane ideas if a Nobel Peace Prize is dangled in front of him (and also mocking his insane jealousy of Barack Obama) is circulating on social media, and I have been unable to track its creator.
#Trump #Greenland #madman #NobelPeacePrize #NATO #Putin
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/jimmykimmellive5/posts/1825297414830400/
https://cdn.toad.social/media_attachments/files/115/922/641/935/046/237/original/a86376c48960ead9.jpeg

2026-01-19 16:11:59 GMT

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"CBS POLL: Do you approve or disapprove of US using military force to take Greenland?
🟢 Approve: 14%
🟤 Disapprove: 86%"
~ Interactive Polls quoted by Greg Dworkin
#Trump #Greenland #madman #NobelPeacePrize #NATO #Putin
/8
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/1/19/2364045/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-The-public-is-against-what-Trump-is-doing-which-is-insane

2026-01-19 16:07:18 GMT

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"The US wants to take this over because… it’s 'psychologically important' to one mentally failing 79-year-old man?"
#Trump #Greenland #madman #NobelPeacePrize #NATO #Putin
/7

2026-01-19 16:06:30 GMT

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James Fallows offers a primer on Trump and Greenland:
1) This crisis is all coming from someone’s gut. Not from anyone’s brain.
2) The US has nothing to gain by ‘owning’ Greenland. Zero.
3) No one wants us there. Zero.
4) Greenland is smaller than you think. But the distances and remoteness are larger.
5) The whole idea of taking over Greenland would appall the founders of our country.
#Trump #Greenland #madman #NobelPeacePrize #NATO #Putin
/6
https://fallows.substack.com/p/your-primer-on-greenland

2026-01-19 16:04:30 GMT

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"Multi-layered 'look what you made me do' lie.
Because Norway didn’t give a him prize (it doesn’t decide winners) for ending wars (he didn’t end) the US won’t be peaceful anymore (bombing multiple countries) and will take Greenland (part of Denmark, not Norway) to stop Russia (it’d help Russia)."
~ Nicholas Grossman
#Trump #Greenland #madman #NobelPeacePrize #NATO #Putin
/5
https://bsky.app/profile/nicholasgrossman.bsky.social/post/3mcqwcop6ts24

2026-01-19 16:03:25 GMT

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"In his letter to Støre, Trump said Denmark 'cannot protect' Greenland from Russia or China, adding: 'Why do they have a "right of ownership" anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago.'”
~ Jon Henley
#Trump #Greenland #madman #NobelPeacePrize #NATO #Putin
/4
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/19/donald-trump-greenland-threats-nobel-prize-snub-letter

2026-01-19 16:02:26 GMT

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Trump wrote the Norwegian PM Jonas Gahr Støre to say,
"Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America."
#Trump #Greenland #madman #NobelPeacePrize #NATO #Putin
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https://www.alternet.org/trump-norway/

2026-01-19 16:00:26 GMT

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"The Kremlin says Vladimir Putin has been invited to join Donald Trump’s proposed 'board of peace' for overseeing a Gaza ceasefire—an unconfirmed move that raises questions about the board’s purpose and reinforces criticism that Trump is favourably disposed toward Russia despite Putin continuing the war in Ukraine."
#Trump #Greenland #madman #NobelPeacePrize #NATO #Putin
/2

2026-01-19 15:59:53 GMT

"Overnight we learned that Donald Trump sent an ominous letter to Norway suggesting war could be on the table over Greenland as he is upset that Norway did not award him the Nobel Prize."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Greenland #madman #NobelPeacePrize #NATO #Putin
/1
https://aaronparnas.substack.com/p/news-trump-threatens-possible-conflict

2026-01-19 15:42:50 GMT

Bishop William J. Barber II preached at St. Paul's United Methodist church in Biloxi, Missisissippi, for Martin Luther King Jr. Sunday. He opened by saying that he doesn't really like the notion of holidays and commemorations for people who were murdered.
But he knows why Reagan was happy to sign off on the King holiday:
#MLK #MartinLutherKing
/1
https://ourmoralmoment.substack.com/p/sermon-for-martin-luther-king-day

2026-01-18 23:32:55 GMT

"On Sunday (Jan. 18), an unplanned liturgy of 'ICE out!' and 'Justice for Renee Good!' erupted in the sanctuary of a Southern Baptist church in St. Paul, Minnesota. Activists marched into the building to protest the fact that one of the congregation’s pastors is the acting director of the St. Paul ICE field office."
~ Brian Kaylor
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #fascism #SouthernBaptists
/1
https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/protesters-disrupt-southern-baptist

2026-01-18 22:29:38 GMT

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"For all Donald Trump’s bluster about restoring American strength, his attempt to bully European allies over Greenland reveals a deeper weakness: coercive diplomacy only works if people are afraid to resist. Increasingly, they aren’t. And that is a good thing. Bullies often back down when confronted – their power relies on fear."
~ The Guardian
#Trump #Putin #NATO #Greenland #EU
/8
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/18/the-guardian-view-on-trump-and-greenland-get-real-bullying-is-not-strength

2026-01-18 20:38:46 GMT

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"These troops are not being prepared to suppress riots. They are being prepared to crack down on protests. Trump keeps claiming that his opponents are turning America into a 'Third World country.' But he’s the one giving us all the trappings of a tin-pot dictatorship, where the strongman’s rule has to be enforce by soldiers on the streets."
~ Executive Watch
#Trump #Minnesota #fascism #ICE
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https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-pentagon-has-reportedly-called

2026-01-18 20:35:11 GMT

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"Poll after poll confirms Americans know exactly what they saw with their own eyes. … Including the remarkable finding that almost a majority of Americans want ICE abolished."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #ReneeGood #JonathanRoss #Minnesota #fascism #resistance #solidarity #ICE #ApprovalRating
/9
https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/week-progressive-wins-january-18

2026-01-18 20:33:36 GMT

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"New YouGov poll finds a majority of Americans [53%] believe ICE agent Jonathan Ross should be charged for killing Renee Good.
Despite repeated lies from the Trump administration, Americans watched the videos and are demanding accountability."
~ Matt McDermott
#Trump #ReneeGood #JonathanRoss #Minnesota #fascism #resistance #solidarity #ICE #ApprovalRating
/8
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ryku3zw5wsf76ofvn4tjtx4s/post/3mcbfb54prs24?

2026-01-18 20:30:17 GMT

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"The conclusion among allies is chillingly direct: information shared with Trump cannot be trusted to stay out of Vladimir Putin’s hands."
#Trump #Greenland #madman #tariffs #NATO #Europe #fascism
/7

2026-01-18 20:29:47 GMT

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"French intelligence, working with Ukraine, deliberately fed false high-level intelligence to Trump’s regime to test whether it would leak. That information quickly surfaced in Russian channels, confirming their worst fears. As a result, France and other European services have effectively cut the United States out of critical intelligence flows related to Ukraine and broader security matters."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #Putin #NATO
/6
https://www.meidasplus.com/p/sunday-afternoon-news-updates-11826

2026-01-18 17:02:20 GMT

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"Our power, our movement, right now is diffuse, not centralized. And Trump is exploiting our system of government to divide and conquer. He goes after one state at a time. He isolates and divides. It is why we must learn, somehow, to come together and form some kind of rough coordinating council of state and Congressional leaders to form a more coherent and stronger opposition."
#Trump #Minnesota #fascism #resistance #solidarity #Nazis #ICE
/8

2026-01-18 17:01:24 GMT

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"One thing we discussed was however our pro-democracy movement was to take shape here, it might not look like what Europeans and Britons would expect. Our country is so large and dispersed. We don’t have a national central square a few hours drive for everyone to get to easily. Our protests have been massive but distributed, not centralized."
#Trump #Minnesota #fascism #resistance #solidarity #Nazis #ICE
/7

2026-01-18 17:00:44 GMT

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“'Is it enough?' the [BBC interviewer] asked. No, of course it is not enough I told him. Trump has escalated these last few weeks and so must we. I don’t exactly know what our escalation, our higher gear needs to look like, but we are now, and we must meet the moment, together."
~ Simon Rosenberg
#Trump #Minnesota #fascism #resistance #solidarity #Nazis #ICE
/6
https://www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/sunday-hopium-some-thoughts-on-meeting

2026-01-18 15:13:15 GMT

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Du Mez's posting includes this video footage of wee Greg Bovino strutting and fretting his big-man hour upon the stage in Nazi cosplay (the haircut, the coat, the menacing plunges and shouts, the horde of armed goons surrounding him).
The smaller the man, the bigger he struts.
Bovino is doing his Nazi act at ICE-occupied Whipple Building in Minneapolis.
#Trump #Minnesota #fascism #resistance #solidarity #Nazis #ICE
/5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkGryMyQlik&t=1s

2026-01-18 15:09:58 GMT

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"We’re now at the show-your-papers stage of things. The door-to-door searches. The presumed guilt. Especially if your skin is a darker shade. These are precisely the things our Constitution was designed to protect us from."
#Trump #Minnesota #fascism #resistance #solidarity #ICE
/4

2026-01-18 15:09:32 GMT

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"Do you live in a red state? You’ll have slightly better odds of avoiding this sort of thing in this round, but probably not the next.
You’re not the protesting type? The family with six children trying to get home from their son’s basketball game probably also weren’t the type. But that didn’t stop them from getting pulled over and tear gassed. Their infant stopped breathing. His mother administered CPR, and he survived."
#Trump #Minnesota #fascism #resistance #solidarity #ICE
/3

2026-01-18 15:09:03 GMT

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"But should time of emergency call for emergency responses?
Maybe, too, the reason for our collective inaction is that the disconnect is still too great between what people see with their own eyes and the intellectual frameworks we have to process it. This can’t happen here. It must not be happening. ...
Because here’s the thing. There is no reason this will not come to your town, sooner or later. There really isn’t."
#Trump #Minnesota #fascism #resistance #solidarity #ICE
/2

2026-01-18 15:08:19 GMT

"I don’t have a solution. I’m feeling the same as you. I’ve been watching footage from Minneapolis with horror, just like you. I’m reading everything I can, especially from local sources. From people on the ground, from people I know. And then, I block it out to work on final edits for my book. A book I think needs to be out there. It’s my job, just like other people show up at their jobs."
~ Kristin Du Mez
#Trump #Minnesota #fascism #resistance #solidarity #ICE
/1
https://kristindumez.substack.com/p/fighting-for-the-soul-of-america

2026-01-18 15:03:34 GMT

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"The monumental idiocy of Trump’s threat to impose a 10% tariff on eight European nations that do not support his bid to conquer Greenland cannot go unremarked.
Foreign nations do not pay tariffs on goods imported into the US. Tariffs are paid by US companies that import goods into the US. Those companies pass their costs onto US consumers."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #Greenland #madman #tariffs #NATO #Europe #fascism
/5
https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/sunday-comment-section-open-11826

2026-01-18 15:03:00 GMT

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"Trump’s foreign policy vision is not based on shared values, mutual defense, or democratic norms. It is based on leverage, punishment, and payment."
#Trump #Greenland #madman #tariffs #NATO #Europe #fascism
/4

2026-01-18 15:02:34 GMT

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"Donald Trump is not blowing up NATO by accident. He is not threatening tariffs on European allies because he is impulsive. And he is not floating bizarre new global bodies where nations pay billions for access because he suddenly cares about peace.
This is a strategy. A crude one, but coherent. And it is designed to replace alliances with tribute."
~ Julie Roginsky
#Trump #Greenland #madman #tariffs #NATO #Europe #fascism
/3
https://saltypolitics.substack.com/p/trumps-latest-shakedown

2026-01-18 15:01:56 GMT

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"This post is bonkers on many levels. ...
The post also makes explicit that Trump is trying to use tariffs not to nurture the American economy but to force other countries to do his bidding."
I intend to punish, cow, and coerce you by taxing my own citizens.
#Trump #Greenland #madman #tariffs #NATO #Europe #fascism
/2

2026-01-18 15:00:58 GMT

"In a long screed [yesterday] morning, Trump’s social media account said the president is placing tariffs of 10% on all goods from the countries currently protecting Greenland after February 1, and that the tariffs will increase to 25% on June 1."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Greenland #madman #tariffs #NATO #Europe #fascism
/1
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/january-17-2026

2026-01-17 18:03:19 GMT

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"There is news that ICE will be deploying to Maine. I saw a lot of people, by the way, on social media last night saying, why Maine? It's the whitest place in the country. But Maine has a large Somali immigrant population."
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #ICE #Minnesota #Maine #Somalis #fascism
/3
https://lucid.substack.com/p/on-resistance-with-joyce-vance