Epolitics (Colin Delany)

Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging

C.f. Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging
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Trump deletes racist video depicting Obamas as monkeys after bipartisan backlash Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) called it "the most racist thing I’ve seen out of this White House."

Remind me again how we got stuck in this timeline? A mind-blowing headline: Trump deletes racist video depicting Obamas as monkeys after bipartisan backlash
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Donald Trump Slams Grammys as ‘Unwatchable’ and Calls Trevor Noah a ‘Total Loser’ Over Trump-Epstein Island Joke: ‘It Looks Like I’ll Be Sending My Lawyers to Sue This Pathetic Dope’ Donald Trump says the Grammys were 'virtually unwatchable' and calls Trevor Noah 'a total loser' for joking about his connection to Jeffrey Epstein.

Perfectly normal. variety.com/2026/music/n...

Thought we should check in on the total list of legislative flips during Trump 2.0. The tally so far (including tonight):

Democrats: 26 flips

Republicans: 0 flips

Accountability for ICE and CBP However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.

I testified Friday before Gov. Pritzker's commission studying abuses of ICE and CBP and tried to explain how the agencies went so far off track. It's actually way worse than I ever realized. Please read and share my testimony as Congress considers reform: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

Trump Accused In Epstein Files of Forcing Underage Girl To Perform Oral Sex Bombshell allegation in the latest Epstein Files document release ... an underage girl claims she was forced to perform oral sex on Donald Trump approximately 35 years ago in New Jersey.

Note that these incidents are unverified! But if true... www.tmz.com/2026/01/30/t...

Every one of the journalists arrested by the regime in last 24 hours was Black and that is not a coincidence.

Trump PAC to Potential Donors: Fill Out This Survey or ICE Might ‘Track You Down’ “Don’t tell me, YOU'RE AN ILLEGAL ALIEN?!?” the political action committee fundraising email says. “This is your FINAL MOMENT to Prove me wrong.”

Of course, grassroots Trump supporters know THEIR faces (probably) aren't actually on the menu...

Trump PAC to Potential Donors: Fill Out This Survey or ICE Might ‘Track You Down’
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Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging

You'd almost think they might have an agenda: Administration Social Media Posts Echo White Supremacist Messaging
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/u...

DHS suspends Bovino's access to his social media accounts, source says Tom Homan is headed to Minnesota after the fatal shooting of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in an encounter Saturday with federal agents deepened outrage over the Trump administration’s surge, part of its nati...

Poor baby: DHS suspends Bovino's access to his social media accounts, source says
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Your Teenager May Be Spreading Himmler’s Favorite Myth The Aryan utopia of “Agartha” is making a comeback.

"'Now you have normies playing with what was fringe, esoteric Nazi memes,' GWU's Lewis said. 'It just broadened the aperture of people clicking on the video and the sound, who will consume even worse neo-Nazi content.'"

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White House Posts AI-Altered Photo of Arrested Protester The federal government loves to share fake, disturbing images.

An arrestee conducting herself with dignity? No worries - they'll just add enough fake "liberal tears" to make to make themselves feel big and strong
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Minnesota Had Its Birmingham Moment In 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. outlined a strategy to expose official brutality. Anti-ICE protesters are following it—and it’s working.

"The civil-rights movement was built on creating and exploiting (in the best sense) such moments of moral witness, images of contrast. And King was the most prominent promoter of this approach."
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Right. If it looks as though they want to roll the world order back to the late 19th century and the nation’s political arrangements back to a weird mix of the 19th and 18th, it’s because they do.

Maybe they see it as what can get them ahead in life; maybe they’re truly into it. Same difference.

A century of colonial rule by oil and gas companies and corrupt leaders at county, state and national levels.

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Profiles in Courage: Hawley's backing down from his vote to limit presidential power in Venezuela thehill.com/homenews/sen...

Anderson Clayton Dropped By With Exciting News And A Preview of Battleground North Carolina In 2026 Always great to see our inspiring Democratic Party Chair of North Carolina

Congratulations, North Carolina Democrats! The party has recruited candidates in every state lege seat up this year. This time, Rs won't have the message monopoly they've enjoyed in much of the state in recent cycles.

www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/anderson-c...

Ein Volk. Ein Reich. Ein Tweet.
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Some Questions, Then a Selfie: Mayor Mamdani Meets the (Creator) Press

"Mr. Mamdani, whose digital dexterity has been praised as a model for national Democrats, signaled his intention to keep close ties with the city’s online content creators", who are "trusted voices in communities across every borough in our city."
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/b...

ICE’s Killing of Renee Good Is Part of a Bigger Project The right is waging, and winning, a war on empathy. The country is poorer, and more dangerous, for it.

"Every falsehood spun by Trump and his acolytes is an attempt to degrade their followers’ capacity for empathy past the point of flinching at an innocent woman’s death. The goal is to diminish the ghastliness of Good’s death, and with it, the value of her life."
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Opinion | There Is a Sickness Eating Away at American Democracy

"There are many ways to diagnose the state of the nation, but if there is a sickness eating away at American democracy, it is our culture of elite impunity"
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/06/o...

Good one!

The Anti-MAGA Majority Reemerges Democrats won up and down the ballot yesterday, riding a backlash to Donald Trump’s second term.

YES: "The big lesson may be that Democrats’ best bet is to run candidates who effectively represent and speak to the places they’re running, rather than pursuing a single ideology." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

The New York Times’ “Moderation Advantage” Is a Statistical Illusion After accounting for money and incumbency the supposed electoral bonus for moderate candidates vanishes entirely.

Repeat after me: correlation is not causation. data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-new-yo...

Trump Dumps a Barrage of Trolling No Kings Protest Responses Trump reacted to the protests by posting an AI poop video, denying he acts like a king, and threatening to assume “unquestioned power.”

A headline in which the word "dumps" does double dooty. nymag.com/intelligence...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

"With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted."
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‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

Somehow, even more repellent than I would have imagined. politico.com/news/2025/10/14/private-chat-among-young-gop-club-members-00592146

Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread

Autocrats CAN be voted out of office. If the opposition sticks together and offers a positive alternative, among other things.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Education Department employees surprised to find their email automatically changed to blame Democrats for shutdown Five furloughed employees told NBC News they had put up nonpartisan out-of-office messages, only to see they were changed — without their permission — to partisan ones.

Furlowed workers' email auto-responders have been bulk-updated to blame Democrats. And these are civil servants, not political appointees.
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