In 2012 I painted the top image: Rise

In 2026 I am saddened to have to repaint this update: Fall

How Bovino proved too openly fascistic for Trump And what it means—or doesn't—that border czar Tom Homan is taking over.

Bovino had apparently become so accustomed to lying that he pushed the DHS falsehood that Pretti appeared to have “wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement.”

Pretti, a VA ICU nurse, was too sympathetic to be smeared so brazenly. Trump recognized that and sent Bovino packing.

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Read the Report on Alex Pretti’s Killing — and the Bizarre Q&A CBP Gave Congress First Congress pressed for a report on Alex Pretti’s killing. CBP supplied answers to a list of questions — questions that CBP had written itself.

When Congress pressed CBP for a report on Pretti’s killing, CBP offered answers to a list of questions. It also supplied the questions itself.

Over 8,000 emails sent and we have 24 hours left to stop Sex Matters sabotaging the vote for the conversion therapy ban 🔥

Email your MP right now 📩
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I find it interesting to note that the word “incel”, a contraction of “involuntary celibacy,” has become a generic insult that is now being hurled at assholes who, more likely than not, aren’t even celibate, let alone involuntarily so.

Neil Young Trashes Amazon, Gives His Complete Musical Catalog to Greenland for Free - Rolling Stone

The Global Billionaire Steal: Wealth, Authoritarianism and Media It’s official. This tormented, heated, traumatised planet is now home to over 3,000 billionaires.  (That number was reached last year.)  In October 2025,

www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/27/t...

Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., rolls out his demand for supporting a DHS appropriations bill: fire Stephen Miller

In her book “Whipping Girl,” Julia Serano coined the term “effemimania,” which she defined as hatred of femininity, regardless of the sex or gender of the person expressing said femininity. Perhaps she would have recognized that people who are bigoted in one way are usually bigoted in other ways.

Exactly.

the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house... except have you seen that guy's tools? dude has a circular saw and a demo hammer. idk pretty sure i can dismantle a house with that shit

So... astroturfing? How can we know these online digital spaces are even genuine anymore?

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The Algorithms of Collapse | Common Dreams ​Capitalism has elected AI as the next tool to distribute and dismantle labor, create a new power structure in the world, and repress social and political movements.

www.commondreams.org/opinion/ai-c...

Celebrating my coauthor's second release of a transfeminist book, which of course is just the phrase "Girls rule boys drool (but they're trans)" repeated a bunch, as all transfeminist writings are. I'd be so owned if a contrarian went and bought Brown/Trans/Les specifically to prove me wrong on this

I'm in deep cover somewhere red at the moment. I can confirm: the right pretty uniformly believes that Pretti was going for his gun.

I would like to be added.

Fred Rogers literally washed the feet of a black man (whom he knew to be secretly gay) on TV to make a point about the role of his faith as it related to the civil rights movement. (i.e. his faith demanded that he support it)

I mean, c'mon.

It's not incompetence: Patel and Bongino know truth is irrelevant, and all that matters is what people believe to be true. Research shows that whatever people hear FIRST is what they will believe going forward, regardless if they hear corrected information later. They shape reality deliberately.

MAGA are hypocrites.

It’s quite safe to assume there’s the same person/team running all social media accounts across the cabinet

Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help:

Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org.

Please donate what you can.

www.2harvest.org

Pentagon will begin review of 'effectiveness' of women in ground combat positions The review, outlined in a Pentagon memo obtained by NPR, comes after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told admirals and generals in September that women must meet the "highest male standard."

You know that if this "study" returns any result other than recommending women be removed from combat roles, Hegseth will have them all fired.

The fix is in.

www.npr.org/2026/01/06/n...

Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.

The Star Tribune has published the name of the person who murdered Renee Good. I'm sure the Trump administration will handle it well.

JK. I expect half the staff to end up incarcerated. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

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Hmm. Sounds plausible. Also suggests how Trump will try to take down Canada and Greenland.

Don't say *we* attacked Venezuela. We didn't attack shit. Put the blame where it belongs: say "The Trump regime attacked Venezuela."

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