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But for Trump's Treasury Secretary, it's unfair to quote Trump's words
"Trump himself has told us what’s going on: he’s throwing a temper tantrum over not receiving a Nobel Peace Prize — not how he put it, but that was the gist of his text to Norway’s prime minister. And there’s no reason to disbelieve him, even though Scott Bessent says that quoting Trump’s own words is a 'complete canard.'”
~ Paul Krugman
"They’ve lost such prestige. Got all—that’s why I have such respect for Maria doing what she did. She said, ‘I don’t deserve the Nobel Prize, he does.’ When she got it, they named—they said, ‘Wow that’s amazing, I thought President Trump would get it.’”
Things Trump said as he rambled and slurred yesterday:
“I should’ve gotten the Nobel Prize for each war, but I don’t say that. I saved millions and millions of people. And don’t let anyone tell you that Norway doesn’t control the shots, ok? It’s in Norway. Norway controls the shots. They’ll say, ‘We have nothing to do with it.’ It’s a joke."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Greenland #dementia #madman #MadKing #fascism
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January 20, 2026
World leaders are gathered at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, which is taking place from January 19 to January 23.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
Things Trump said as he rambled and slurred yesterday:
“‘To me, a town looks better when you have military people [on the streets].’
That was but one of the many, many 5-alarm fire-worthy statements the former leader of the free world slurred before a packed scrum of reporters at a White House press briefing yesterday afternoon, mere hours after he terminated the Western world order.”
~ Peter Rothpletz
#Trump #Greenland #dementia #madman #MadKing #fascism
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Greenland & ICEland
Donald Trump dismantles the Western world order, foreign leaders unite against the US, and chaos continues to erupt in US streets.Peter Rothpletz (Zeteo)
"But this one you're looking at all the steel—vicious steel, tiny windows, bars all over the place. Nobody was getting out. It's called the mental institution. That was an insane asylum.”
The point of that weave seems to have been that Democrats either created inhumane mental institutions or had a hand in ending them and placing mentally ill people on the streets — something it's well known Reagan did.
But I said to my mother, ‘Mom,’ she would be there, always there for me. She said, ‘Son, you could be a professional baseball player.’ I said, ‘Thanks, mom.’ I said, ‘Why are those bars on the windows?'"
It wasn't normal, you know? You're used to looking at, like, a window."
Things Trump said as he rambled and slurred yesterday:
“I grew up in Queens, we had a place called Creedmoor [Psychiatric Center]. Creedmoor. Did anybody know that? Creedmoor. It was a big … I said, ‘Mom, why are those bars on the building?’ I used to play little league baseball there at a place called Cunningham Park. I was quite the baseball player, you wouldn't believe."
~ Walter Einenkel
#Trump #Greenland #dementia #madman #MadKing #fascism
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dailykos.com/stories/2026/1/20…
What the hell is Trump talking about?
President Donald Trump gave a long—and very ponderous—press conference Tuesday, stepping in for propaganda princess Karoline Leavitt.Daily Kos
Things Trump said as he rambled and slurred yesterday:
“Your lover’s not going to be killed anymore, so he can act like a real lover. You can walk right through the middle of the town. And D.C. is beautiful again too.”
~ Oliver Willis
#Trump #Greenland #dementia #madman #MadKing #fascism
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Trump marks first year back in office with cruelty and lies
Donald Trump marked the one-year anniversary of his return to the presidency with a press conference on Tuesday. However, instead of addressing the issues on which his administration is failing, Trump rambled and ranted about a host of other topics.Daily Kos
"Sundowning Trump stumbles through press event."
~ Tim Miller, Sarah Longwell, and Jonathan V. Last
#Trump #Greenland #dementia #madman #MadKing #fascism
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The Next Level LIVE: Sundowning Trump Stumbles Through Press Event
Sarah, JVL and Tim discuss the low-energy, never-ending Trump event and the end of their will to live.Tim Miller (The Bulwark)
"Trump continued to read names and lists of charges, sometimes without even looking at the camera. Instead, it appeared he was simply reading brand-new information aloud to himself. ...
'Look,' Trump said, holding up another page. 'Killed someone.'”
~ Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
#Trump #Greenland #dementia #madman #MadKing #fascism
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Trump, 79, Kicks Off Press Conference by Reading Aloud to Himself
Donald Trump arrived nearly an hour late and proceeded to give a completely disjointed, barely coherent speech.The New Republic
EU chief says Europe needs to abandon caution after US treasury secretary calls Denmark ‘irrelevant’ – Europe live
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Dump US debt and they’ll see who’s irrelevant. Of course, that would take backbone which… well… how about we make a social network called W instead?
EU chief says Europe needs to abandon caution after US treasury secretary calls Denmark ‘irrelevant’ – Europe live
Scott Bessent replied to a question on Danish investments by saying that ‘Denmark’s investment in US treasury bonds, like Denmark itself, is irrelevant’Jakub Krupa (The Guardian)
RE: mastodon.social/@blogdiva/1146…
historically, cop unions functioned as branches of the KKK, so much so, #NYPD has a SEPARATE undeclared police union for Black & POC cops.
#ICE has been kidnapping BIPOC migrant cops and retired military personnel for a while now.
you don’t hear cop unions condemning ICE because they’re all from the same rotten fruit putrefying from the same KKK trees.
your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (@blogdiva@mastodon.social)
soooooooooo many USA localities depend on not just BIPOC but migrants to fill up their unnecessary cop quotas, been waiting for this to happen: #ICE IS KIDNAPPING OFF-DUTY COPS https://tucson.your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 (Mastodon)
“When I was in justice, my ultimate vision for that part of the criminal justice system was to achieve, by means of AI and technology, what Jeremy Bentham tried to do with his Panopticon. That is that the eyes of the state can be on you at all times.”
– Shabana Mahmood, Home Secretary of the UK
(For those of you not in the UK, these are the so-called “centrists.”)
Via @fkamiah17
#panopticon #fascism #Labour #UK #ukPol #ShabanaMahmood #JeremyBentham #BigBrotherIsWatchingYou
Here's the thing about the fash: They think collaboration is something you only (pretend to) do if you're not strong enough to dominate. They don't think they need anyone.
That's why they can't be trusted, ever - but it's also why, like in @pluralistic's "Masque of the Red Death", they eventually starve / shit themselves to death locked inside their sad little basement clutching a rifle, while everyone else work together to build better lives.
"The monumental idiocy of Trump’s threat to impose a 10% tariff on eight European nations that do not support his bid to conquer Greenland cannot go unremarked.
Foreign nations do not pay tariffs on goods imported into the US. Tariffs are paid by US companies that import goods into the US. Those companies pass their costs onto US consumers."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
"Donald Trump is not blowing up NATO by accident. He is not threatening tariffs on European allies because he is impulsive. And he is not floating bizarre new global bodies where nations pay billions for access because he suddenly cares about peace.
This is a strategy. A crude one, but coherent. And it is designed to replace alliances with tribute."
~ Julie Roginsky
#Trump #Greenland #madman #tariffs #NATO #Europe #fascism
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Trump's Latest Shakedown
The president just upped the anteJulie Roginsky (Salty Politics with Julie Roginsky)
"This post is bonkers on many levels. ...
The post also makes explicit that Trump is trying to use tariffs not to nurture the American economy but to force other countries to do his bidding."
I intend to punish, cow, and coerce you by taxing my own citizens.
"In a long screed [yesterday] morning, Trump’s social media account said the president is placing tariffs of 10% on all goods from the countries currently protecting Greenland after February 1, and that the tariffs will increase to 25% on June 1."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #Greenland #madman #tariffs #NATO #Europe #fascism
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January 17, 2026
After the extraordinary pushback on President Donald J.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
Interview: Journalist tests ICE recruitment process
"They didn’t ask very many questions.”
Laura Jedeed was hired as an ICE deportation officer after a six-minute interview at a job fair in Texas.
There was no paperwork, no background check, a likely failed drug test, & she publicly shared her opposition to the Trump administration.
"Who are they hiring? They don’t know.”
~Laura Jedeed
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#USPol #europol #ICE #Trump #Racism #Fascism #Press #LauraJedeed .
Journalist Tests ICE Recruitment; Surprised to Find Herself Hired with No Background Check
“They didn’t ask very many questions.” Independent journalist and U.S. military veteran Laura Jedeed recounts how she was hired as a deportation officer by Immigration and Customs Enforcement after a six-minute interview at a job fair in Texas, despi…Democracy Now!
"Genocide isn’t a mistake. Which is why the media can’t tell you the truth about Gaza".
The Voice of Hind Rajab, "a new film about Hind Rajab’s murder, points to a deeply sick Israeli society, driven into the darkest of places..."
"... by a racist ideology that says 'Jewish lives count, Palestinian lives don’t'."
"Mainstream media helps perpetuate this lie."
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#HindRajab #gazaGenocide #USPol #Europol #Racism #fascism #palestine @palestine .
Genocide isn’t a mistake. The media can’t tell you that truth.
A new film about Hind Rajab’s murder points to a deeply sick Israeli society, driven by a racist ideology that says Jewish lives count, Palestinian lives don’tcontact@ifamericansknew.org (Israel Palestine News)
This might be a good time for Minnesotans to read up on what the United States does to places it invades.
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DOJ investigating Gov. Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey over alleged conspiracy to impede immigration agents
Federal prosecutors are investigating Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey for allegedly impeding immigration agents, sources told CBS News, an extraordinary escalation in the Trump administration's clash with Democratic leaders.Camilo Montoya-Galvez (CBS News)
Warning: kissing fascist ass may result in liquid glass.
So my phone tricked me into updating to iOS 26 (nice one, asshats). And wow: it really is a case study in form over function. Gratuitous, meaningless aesthetics and motion. Decoration, not design. “Look what I can do!”
Oh well, if it gets me using my phone less, that’s a good thing, I guess.
But the next time you hear someone from Apple talking about design, please feel free to laugh in their damn faces. What a sad joke they’ve become.
#apple #ios26 #liquidAss #design #decoration #BigTech #fascism #aesthetics
This is what authoritarians do. This is what dictators and tinpot tyrants do. This is what Putin does. This is what Stalin did, before doing worse, but also worse. This is what Hitler did, before doing worse. Doing worse is next.
#uspol #authoritarianism #fascism
"Ultimately it comes down to the Republican Party, the MAGA base they’ve radicalized, right wing media, and the oligarchs financing it all. They are the real problem. If Trump disappeared tomorrow, they’d be looking for someone else to carry out their fascist agenda."
#Trump #ReneeGood #ICE #MaskedThugs #violence #Minnesota #fascism #Republicans #MAGA
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"It’s past time that voices in the media describe this as what it is - the other “F word” fits the bill.
But while they are at it, how about openly talking about Trump’s open corruption, his deranged mental state, his dementia, and the need to have him resign or be removed from office ASAP?
Let’s also hear them admit this isn’t just a Trump problem."
~ Chitown Kev
#Trump #ReneeGood #ICE #MaskedThugs #violence #Minnesota #fascism
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NY Times columnist Michelle Goldberg goes there: it’s fascism
In an editorial captioned “The Resistance Libs Were Right”, Michelle Goldberg offers an acknowledgment of what should have been obvious all along.Daily Kos
"It’s striking how much the arguments that Trump is not a fascist have suffered in just the first few days of this year, in which we’ve plunged to new depths of national madness."
~ Michelle Goldberg
All those pundits and intellectuals who have played coy games about the use of the word "fascism" to describe Trump's plans for the US should be ashamed of themselves now.
#Trump #ReneeGood #ICE #MaskedThugs #violence #Minnesota #fascism
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"I'm just going to use the words we've been using here on Democracy-ish for years. You've got to use these words. A fascist regime. I'm not even going to use the word neo-Nazi. A Nazi regime that is literally quoting word for word Nazi talking points. Yeah, it's not really too neo."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #ReneeGood #ICE #MaskedThugs #violence #Minnesota #fascism #Nazis
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The Resistance To Trump’s Authoritarianism Grows
w/the trifecta of Katie, Waj, and DanielleKatie Phang
“F*cking b*tch”.
We all know what it means. Most women know exactly the type of man who uses that language.
Jonathan Ross wasn’t afraid for his life. He didn’t think he was in danger.
He shot Renee Nicole Good because she wasn’t afraid.
He took her life because he was angry that she didn’t cower in his presence.
Didn’t show him the deference he felt he deserved.
These are the men DHS gives unchecked power to.
I didn’t want to write this article. I didn’t want to watch her die.
But we can’t remain silent in the face of such atrocities:
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#abolishice #ice #minneapolis #minnesota #reneenicolegood #dhs #uspol #fascism
Misogyny, Murder and Renee Nicole Good
It's been a week since we watched an ICE agent shoot and kill Renee Nicole Good and then mutter "f*cking b*tch" at her. It's time we talk about the misogyny that's baked into ICE enforcement.Broadwaybabyto (The Disabled Ginger)
