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New from me: The Chief Design Officer of the United States, Trump's pick to rebrand the US government, just boosted the John Birch Society twice in recent days.
He did so to claim immigrants are driving up housing prices. He is also a founder of AirBNB. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-chi...
He did so to claim immigrants are driving up housing prices. He is also a founder of AirBNB. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-chi...
Trump's Chief Design Officer Just Boosted the John Birch Society
Joe Gebbia, the founder of AirBNB, blames immigrants for rising housing costs
donmoynihan.substack.com
July 7, 2026 at 12:02 PM
New from me: The Chief Design Officer of the United States, Trump's pick to rebrand the US government, just boosted the John Birch Society twice in recent days.
He did so to claim immigrants are driving up housing prices. He is also a founder of AirBNB. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-chi...
He did so to claim immigrants are driving up housing prices. He is also a founder of AirBNB. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-chi...
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The State Department supposedly sent $1.5 billion tax dollars to the Board of Peace slush fund, which is now empty.
May 27, 2026 at 1:17 PM
The State Department supposedly sent $1.5 billion tax dollars to the Board of Peace slush fund, which is now empty.
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Looking, again, for a steelman view of this. Is there ANY plausible argument that we didn’t just kill a bunch of people to no purpose and hand a giant geopolitical victory to an extremist regime after making it more entrenched and more extreme?
April 8, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Looking, again, for a steelman view of this. Is there ANY plausible argument that we didn’t just kill a bunch of people to no purpose and hand a giant geopolitical victory to an extremist regime after making it more entrenched and more extreme?
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$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago.
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...
April 7, 2026 at 11:39 PM
$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago.
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...
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Republican majority leaders Thune and Johnson refuse to call back their members for an emergency session in the biggest American crisis of the century.
Minority leaders Schumer and Jeffries should have their members in session right now on the steps of the capitol, if that's what they have to do.
Minority leaders Schumer and Jeffries should have their members in session right now on the steps of the capitol, if that's what they have to do.
April 7, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Republican majority leaders Thune and Johnson refuse to call back their members for an emergency session in the biggest American crisis of the century.
Minority leaders Schumer and Jeffries should have their members in session right now on the steps of the capitol, if that's what they have to do.
Minority leaders Schumer and Jeffries should have their members in session right now on the steps of the capitol, if that's what they have to do.
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If Trump does give an order to attack civilian targets that have no military value as a means of collectively punishing the Iranian people - and make good his threat to begin a genocide - Marco Rubio should resign and the military must refuse the order.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Did Trump Just Threaten to Use Nuclear Weapons in Iran?
If such an order comes to pass, the military can and must refuse.
www.theatlantic.com
April 7, 2026 at 6:44 PM
If Trump does give an order to attack civilian targets that have no military value as a means of collectively punishing the Iranian people - and make good his threat to begin a genocide - Marco Rubio should resign and the military must refuse the order.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Here's your reminder that the Washington Post endorsed Trump's fascist enforcer Pam Bondi for attorney general.
February 11, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Here's your reminder that the Washington Post endorsed Trump's fascist enforcer Pam Bondi for attorney general.
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WRONG. I-205 administrative warrants are not issued by immigration judges. They’re signed by ICE officers. And EVEN IF THEY WERE issued by an immigration judge - they are executive branch employees, NOT judicial branch. JUDICIAL warrants are needed to enter a home without consent.
Q: You're a constitutional lawyer. Can you detail the 4th Amendment protections someone has if ICE approaches their home w/an administrative warrant?
MIKE JOHNSON: When ICE goes to execute a warrant, it's issued by an immigration judge, & that is a sufficient legal authority to go apprehend someone
MIKE JOHNSON: When ICE goes to execute a warrant, it's issued by an immigration judge, & that is a sufficient legal authority to go apprehend someone
February 3, 2026 at 3:49 PM
WRONG. I-205 administrative warrants are not issued by immigration judges. They’re signed by ICE officers. And EVEN IF THEY WERE issued by an immigration judge - they are executive branch employees, NOT judicial branch. JUDICIAL warrants are needed to enter a home without consent.
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Apparently there was a city meeting in Hutchins, Texas, tonight. Hutchins is the location of DHS's newly announced 10,000-person concentration camp. What I've been told is that city officials were unanimously and adamantly opposed to it.
Unfortunately, I'm seeing this nowhere online.
Unfortunately, I'm seeing this nowhere online.
February 3, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Apparently there was a city meeting in Hutchins, Texas, tonight. Hutchins is the location of DHS's newly announced 10,000-person concentration camp. What I've been told is that city officials were unanimously and adamantly opposed to it.
Unfortunately, I'm seeing this nowhere online.
Unfortunately, I'm seeing this nowhere online.
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I’ve been thinking more about this nonsense and what it means. I don’t think it’s a flex — a performative expression of power and intimidation — like the advertisements for ICE positions. Too obscure and lacking in flair. Instead I think it likely reflects real internal problems.
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JOIN THE LEAGUE FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE LAW!
February 1, 2026 at 4:42 PM
I’ve been thinking more about this nonsense and what it means. I don’t think it’s a flex — a performative expression of power and intimidation — like the advertisements for ICE positions. Too obscure and lacking in flair. Instead I think it likely reflects real internal problems.
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People of Maine, how can the rest of the country help you stand up the way MN successfully did?
ICE is changing tactics in Maine: "Now, the volunteers in Maine say federal agents have started showing up at their homes and intimidating them or threatening arrest. Some of them, masked and wearing tactical gear, have issued stark warnings not to follow them." www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
www.pressherald.com
January 26, 2026 at 11:25 PM
People of Maine, how can the rest of the country help you stand up the way MN successfully did?
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I'd just like to say that the funding bump ICE got from the Big Ugly Bill would have paid for ACA enhanced subsidies for 10 years.
Ten. full. years.
Ten. full. years.
January 26, 2026 at 7:14 PM
I'd just like to say that the funding bump ICE got from the Big Ugly Bill would have paid for ACA enhanced subsidies for 10 years.
Ten. full. years.
Ten. full. years.
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This dude’s private jet is airborne over Africa again.
NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.
It’s oligarchs all the way down.
My first for @zeteo.com:
zeteo.com/p/this-famil...
It’s oligarchs all the way down.
My first for @zeteo.com:
zeteo.com/p/this-famil...
December 3, 2025 at 12:37 AM
This dude’s private jet is airborne over Africa again.
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Just for muscle memory's sake, it would be fun if everyone thought of one way to make political hay over this. Got a GOP MoC? Call them out for being the party of crime publicly. Got a MAGAt family member? Call and ask why they're freeing cocaine traffickers.
So, seems like we’re not all that serious about fighting the war on drugs after all.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...
Former President of Honduras Is Freed From Prison After Trump Pardon
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Just for muscle memory's sake, it would be fun if everyone thought of one way to make political hay over this. Got a GOP MoC? Call them out for being the party of crime publicly. Got a MAGAt family member? Call and ask why they're freeing cocaine traffickers.
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NEW: I found 17 sheriffs in Illinois that have contracts to detain people for ICE through U.S. Marshals Service contracts. IL law explicitly prohibits these types of intergovernmental service agreements. news.wttw.com/2025/10/22/d...
Despite Illinois Sanctuary Laws, At Least 17 County Sheriffs Have Contracts to Hold People in ICE Custody
To ascertain if county jails are complying with the state’s TRUST Act, WTTW News sent Freedom of Information Act requests to each of the 90 county jails in Illinois to obtain copies of intergovernment...
news.wttw.com
October 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
NEW: I found 17 sheriffs in Illinois that have contracts to detain people for ICE through U.S. Marshals Service contracts. IL law explicitly prohibits these types of intergovernmental service agreements. news.wttw.com/2025/10/22/d...
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I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
October 22, 2025 at 11:53 AM
I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
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“Are you telling me we can spend $40B on Argentina, $1B on Trump’s Qatar jet, $250M on Trump’s ballroom, $150M on Trump’s golf, $520M on Trump's National Guard deployments & $172M on Kristi Noem’s jets - but we can’t spend a penny on lowering our healthcare
#BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky #EMSky
#BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #NurseSky #EMSky
October 20, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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look at the framing of this story, placed in the most important position of yesterday's new york times, and tell me this newspaper isn't trying to take out the democratic party
October 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM
look at the framing of this story, placed in the most important position of yesterday's new york times, and tell me this newspaper isn't trying to take out the democratic party
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But now Vance is on it.
October 17, 2025 at 8:10 PM
But now Vance is on it.
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Plaintiffs (basically Chicago's civil society, including journalists targeted) response: "How convenient. ... Give us Bovino."
By ALL means, let's get Greg Bovino under oath about ... everything.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
By ALL means, let's get Greg Bovino under oath about ... everything.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Plaintiffs (basically Chicago's civil society, including journalists targeted) response: "How convenient. ... Give us Bovino."
By ALL means, let's get Greg Bovino under oath about ... everything.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
By ALL means, let's get Greg Bovino under oath about ... everything.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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On Thursday, Judge Sarah Ellis ordered that the guy in charge of ICE Chicago, Russell Hott, show up for a hearing on Monday bc ICE is violating so many parts of an order she issued last week.
On Friday, DHS decided Hott was no longer overseeing Chicago.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
On Friday, DHS decided Hott was no longer overseeing Chicago.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 17, 2025 at 5:46 PM
On Thursday, Judge Sarah Ellis ordered that the guy in charge of ICE Chicago, Russell Hott, show up for a hearing on Monday bc ICE is violating so many parts of an order she issued last week.
On Friday, DHS decided Hott was no longer overseeing Chicago.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
On Friday, DHS decided Hott was no longer overseeing Chicago.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Bessent’s friends have huge investments in Argentina.
Elon Musk does too.
Bessent is sending $40 billion of our money to Argentina with more to come.
There is zero oversight. Congress not involved.
One unelected man is sending a fortune to Argentina and nobody will stop him,
Elon Musk does too.
Bessent is sending $40 billion of our money to Argentina with more to come.
There is zero oversight. Congress not involved.
One unelected man is sending a fortune to Argentina and nobody will stop him,
October 15, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Bessent’s friends have huge investments in Argentina.
Elon Musk does too.
Bessent is sending $40 billion of our money to Argentina with more to come.
There is zero oversight. Congress not involved.
One unelected man is sending a fortune to Argentina and nobody will stop him,
Elon Musk does too.
Bessent is sending $40 billion of our money to Argentina with more to come.
There is zero oversight. Congress not involved.
One unelected man is sending a fortune to Argentina and nobody will stop him,
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Looking back at old forum posts I see that since at least 2018 the GOP has successfully convinced at least 1/3rd and maybe over 2/3rds of US voters that antifa is a single organized group supported by the Democrats who show up to protests to engage in brutal violence. It's not true but it has stuck.
October 14, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Looking back at old forum posts I see that since at least 2018 the GOP has successfully convinced at least 1/3rd and maybe over 2/3rds of US voters that antifa is a single organized group supported by the Democrats who show up to protests to engage in brutal violence. It's not true but it has stuck.