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"A very accessible, very interesting, non-bombastic political scientist." -Jonah Goldberg Subscribe to my newsletter "Tusk" about US parties, campaigns, and politics: http://smotus.substack.com

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And it looks like I was wrong! Huzzah! www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

27.01.2026 00:36 β€” πŸ‘ 31    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh no not realignment

26.01.2026 23:39 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This 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€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 2

Bari’s desperate to find some CBS employees who are driving her away with their wokeness by tomorrow

26.01.2026 20:59 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

[stares directly into the camera]

26.01.2026 15:30 β€” πŸ‘ 9368    πŸ” 1735    πŸ’¬ 187    πŸ“Œ 27

I 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€” πŸ‘ 58    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

People who are not kidnappers or Gestapo generally don't punish people who call them that

26.01.2026 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 78    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Impressive 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€” πŸ‘ 208    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

A former Republican Colorado State Representative (admittedly, one of the last few sane ones)

26.01.2026 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 36    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Republican former member of Colorado's statehouse.

26.01.2026 14:31 β€” πŸ‘ 50    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If 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€” πŸ‘ 39    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

Okay 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€” πŸ‘ 346    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Enforcing immigration or "enforcing immigration" What we're seeing today is the result of a president obsessed with bloody visuals and a set of allies terrified to cross him

New 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€” πŸ‘ 23    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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Mood in Nuuk, Greenland today.

25.01.2026 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 3826    πŸ” 911    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 47
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Change seems impossible until it doesn't The killing of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis yesterday feels like a significant turning point in what was already an awful and authoritarian situation.

thought 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...

26.01.2026 12:27 β€” πŸ‘ 41    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5
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Immigrant Rapid Response Fund Your gift supports the immediate need for rights and resources in all targeted immigrant communities.

Just gave to this organization in Minnesota

26.01.2026 00:08 β€” πŸ‘ 35    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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a close up of a dinosaur in a room with a videofs logo ALT: a close up of a dinosaur in a room with a videofs logo

Patriots testing the Broncos defense like

25.01.2026 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Stidham is playing like a talented, inexperienced, enthusiastic, & overwhelmed Matt Saracen #broncos

25.01.2026 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
Hours later, Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino told assembled reporters that Pretti had approached agents with a handgun, intending to β€œmassacre law enforcement.”

Hours later, Border Patrol Commander Gregory Bovino told assembled reporters that Pretti had approached agents with a handgun, intending to β€œmassacre law enforcement.”

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€” πŸ‘ 197    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2
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Chief Strategist for Rand Paul.

24.01.2026 21:14 β€” πŸ‘ 26077    πŸ” 6915    πŸ’¬ 1230    πŸ“Œ 347

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.

24.01.2026 23:31 β€” πŸ‘ 8121    πŸ” 2290    πŸ’¬ 100    πŸ“Œ 69

Alex 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.

24.01.2026 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 60492    πŸ” 18959    πŸ’¬ 1407    πŸ“Œ 750

This administration would defend Tim McVeigh if they thought he was a Trump voter

24.01.2026 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 454    πŸ” 103    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 5
ICE is full of COWARDS. They are all absolute, pathetic, untrained COWARDS. DEFUND AND PROSECUTE.
YouTube video by Seth Moulton ICE is full of COWARDS. They are all absolute, pathetic, untrained COWARDS. DEFUND AND PROSECUTE.

holy crap youtube.com/shorts/hyqtA...

24.01.2026 19:21 β€” πŸ‘ 4259    πŸ” 1496    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 369

Abolishing ICE is not nearly sufficient. State and local officials need to start arresting and prosecuting these kidnappers and murderers.

24.01.2026 16:54 β€” πŸ‘ 549    πŸ” 117    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 4
Tucker: M&M's will not be satisfied until every last cartoon character is deeply unappealing and totally androgynous. Until the moment you wouldn't want to have a drink with any one of them. That's the goal.
When you're totally turned off, we've achieved equity...

Tucker: M&M's will not be satisfied until every last cartoon character is deeply unappealing and totally androgynous. Until the moment you wouldn't want to have a drink with any one of them. That's the goal. When you're totally turned off, we've achieved equity...

It's hard to believe Fox News ever parted ways with such an insightful voice as Tucker Carlson

24.01.2026 14:58 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Best thing Denver’s Mayor Hancock ever did was stab a Tom Brady donut with a pretzel rod

24.01.2026 14:30 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Kidnapper: β€œWhat, I took him to Wendy’s”

24.01.2026 13:41 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

Tahoe / iOS26 really seems like the most change with the least improvement of any system upgrade I can remember

23.01.2026 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

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