Email from Elissa Slotkin that reads “as a former cia officer, I’ve seen democracies flicker out.”
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10.02.2026 01:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@davidtemin.bsky.social
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Email from Elissa Slotkin that reads “as a former cia officer, I’ve seen democracies flicker out.”
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10.02.2026 01:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Did not have this on my nba fandom bingo card
07.02.2026 16:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How does this, in any conceivable world, “expand access” to universities?
29.01.2026 23:21 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The fact that he’s not running again suggests that this is Walz’s real preference for less spectacular ways of snatching our neighbors from their communities.
28.01.2026 16:48 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I am reminded, yet again, of how often the people the fascist state executes are already in jobs that involve caring for others and holding worlds together—and that they still spend their time off caring for our neighbors.
24.01.2026 20:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Right by my old apartment in Minneapolis. I love you, I love you, I love you. To all the people standing up against fascism
24.01.2026 19:55 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0When u r a true MaVErick, u vote for the gestapo at the door.
23.01.2026 01:28 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ok I need to spell this out more slowly, clearly: Greenland is Inuit land and nobody but Inuit should be getting to decide what happens to it
22.01.2026 00:09 — 👍 361 🔁 85 💬 2 📌 2I sure hope not
20.01.2026 22:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I don’t disagree with you. The discontinuities matter too of course. but your argument is different from his, which is “we used to be the good guys and now we are the bad guys.”
20.01.2026 22:21 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0We don’t have to tell stories that are false to opposed bad things, and we are more likely to get more bad things if we tell stories that cover over continuities with all the other same bad things.
20.01.2026 22:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A century that includes the US navy using gunboats to literally pilfer the Haitian treasury. Wtaf are they talking about?
20.01.2026 13:11 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0The willful historical illiteracy among pundits about American imperialism is still shocking, no matter how predictable.
20.01.2026 13:08 — 👍 281 🔁 53 💬 16 📌 23I saw the “using children as human shields” line used by someone in the admin the other day with reference to Minneapolis and wondered if people might finally get it.
15.01.2026 12:54 — 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Ask Liz about her mentorship and teaching. She has directed just a huge range of different amazing projects, but no one seems to ask her about it.
17.01.2026 17:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0🤣🤣🤣
15.01.2026 13:32 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The federal government has occupied Minneapolis. And everyone can see the abuses that come from this situation day in and day out. Even people not protesting cant keep their kids safe.
Now imagine 77 years of this.
Fraudster Emily Oster op-Ed claiming that Kennedy’s advice is “not crazy”
Absolutely no one: “I wonder what Emily Oster thinks about all this?”
08.01.2026 14:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Abolition is the reform
08.01.2026 00:30 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Reminder that for US foreign policy elites contemplating intervention since 1945:
“democracy” means right-wing dictatorship
“dictatorship” means left-wing dictatorship, social democracy, or democratic socialism
I can’t be the only one who thinks that the timing is partly motivated by Trump being envious at the media attention lavished on Mamdani.
03.01.2026 10:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 02026
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Guatemala - 1954
Chile -1973
Venezuela - 2025
Bombing Venezuela and kidnapping Maduro is completely consistent with US Imperialism’s long and bloody history in Latin America.
03.01.2026 10:24 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2The US’ aspiring tyrant just abducted the leader of another sovereign state because oil! Why in god’s name are you leading with “but Maduro”?
03.01.2026 10:19 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Tasks of the US left are to stand in solidarity with the Venezuelan people and make sure this war becomes deeply unpopular at home.
03.01.2026 10:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The US is a rogue state. The US has always been a rogue state.
03.01.2026 10:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In the immortal words of Hugo Chavez, “Eres un donkey, Mr. Danger.”
03.01.2026 10:05 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Imperial war, again
03.01.2026 09:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0100%. One important aspect of how anti-black racism is so integral to perpetuating those other structural pathologies.
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