Uh, Anne Frank was not there legally after all the Jews had been rounded up, which was kind of why she was hiding in an attic
27.01.2026 15:59 β π 57 π 6 π¬ 4 π 0@smotus.bsky.social
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Uh, Anne Frank was not there legally after all the Jews had been rounded up, which was kind of why she was hiding in an attic
27.01.2026 15:59 β π 57 π 6 π¬ 4 π 0Iβll walk to the depths of the deepest black forest Where the people are many and their hands are all empty Where the pellets of poison are flooding their waters Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison Where the executionerβs face is always well hidden Where hunger is ugly, where souls are forgotten Where black is the color, where none is the number And Iβll tell it and think it and speak it and breathe it And reflect it from the mountain so all souls can see it
How Bob Dylan described devastation in 1962 (βA Hard Rainβs a-gonna Fallβ)
27.01.2026 12:30 β π 36 π 11 π¬ 0 π 0Her ideal point is a horizontal line intersecting the y-axis at -1.00
27.01.2026 05:02 β π 9 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Itβs just messaging people. Plus whatever Wiles does.
27.01.2026 05:00 β π 43 π 1 π¬ 4 π 0Ingraham is proposing dismantling DHS
27.01.2026 02:53 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0Okay I think I've mapped out ICE politics as of Monday night
27.01.2026 02:47 β π 3505 π 795 π¬ 92 π 74And it looks like I was wrong! Huzzah! www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
27.01.2026 00:36 β π 56 π 4 π¬ 2 π 0Oh no not realignment
26.01.2026 23:39 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This is helpful. I'm happy to be wrong on this, but I imagine the number of administration officials removed for the deaths of Good and Pretti will be zero.
26.01.2026 22:12 β π 42 π 8 π¬ 9 π 2Bariβs desperate to find some CBS employees who are driving her away with their wokeness by tomorrow
26.01.2026 20:59 β π 40 π 4 π¬ 0 π 0[stares directly into the camera]
26.01.2026 15:30 β π 9981 π 1839 π¬ 193 π 29I do appreciate these presidents issuing statements, but man Obama could do better than "this wake-up call to every American that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault." It's such a hedged and oblique description of something that screams for moral clarity.
26.01.2026 18:30 β π 61 π 3 π¬ 5 π 0People who are not kidnappers or Gestapo generally don't punish people who call them that
26.01.2026 18:22 β π 83 π 3 π¬ 0 π 1Impressive that he's dropping, but also fascinating that he's dropping because he feels he can't be a Republican state officer while the national party is acting this way.
26.01.2026 14:35 β π 211 π 36 π¬ 5 π 0A former Republican Colorado State Representative (admittedly, one of the last few sane ones)
26.01.2026 14:30 β π 38 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0Republican former member of Colorado's statehouse.
26.01.2026 14:31 β π 51 π 11 π¬ 0 π 0If we have to shut down the government to stop this ICE madness, so be it. Congress, do your job.
26.01.2026 14:25 β π 40 π 7 π¬ 3 π 2Okay fine we're killing unarmed civilians, but let's recall that some people were rude to us last year
26.01.2026 13:17 β π 412 π 22 π¬ 1 π 0New at Tusk: What we're seeing today is the result of a president obsessed with bloody visuals and a set of allies terrified to cross him
26.01.2026 13:02 β π 24 π 5 π¬ 1 π 1Mood in Nuuk, Greenland today.
25.01.2026 18:51 β π 3855 π 922 π¬ 36 π 47thought a bit about abolishing ICE, Democratic caution, and how this time the institutional change is probably the easy part
goodpoliticsbadpolitics.substack.com/p/change-see...
Stidham is playing like a talented, inexperienced, enthusiastic, & overwhelmed Matt Saracen #broncos
25.01.2026 21:31 β π 15 π 1 π¬ 3 π 0Hours later, Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino told assembled reporters that Pretti had approached agents with a handgun, intending to βmassacre law enforcement.β
If carrying a loaded weapon and magazines evidences an intention to massacre, then ICE is intending to massacre the population of Minneapolis.
25.01.2026 14:22 β π 199 π 38 π¬ 5 π 2Chief Strategist for Rand Paul.
24.01.2026 21:14 β π 26085 π 6918 π¬ 1229 π 347What'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.
24.01.2026 23:31 β π 8129 π 2293 π¬ 99 π 69Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
This administration would defend Tim McVeigh if they thought he was a Trump voter
24.01.2026 21:10 β π 454 π 104 π¬ 21 π 5holy crap youtube.com/shorts/hyqtA...
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