Alex Kingsbury

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Steve King 9 @SteveKinglA + Follow Wilders understands that culture and demographics are our destiny. We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies. ESTERN ILIZATION Voice of Europe @V_of_Europe Hundreds of Islamists shouting "Allahu Akbar" in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Wilders is right for over 10 years. #turkijerel RETWEETS LIKES 516 688 10:40 AM - 12 Mar 2017 from lowa, USA

I'm teaching about early 20th century eugenics today and was reminded that 9 years ago Republican Representative Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments by his GOP colleagues for this post that simply states what is now bog standard GOP policy/rhetoric on immigration and "civilization."

I think a lot of writers would do well to admit themselves, embrace JLC's dictum that 'the writer is a natural spy' - it's uncomfortable but you have to wrestle with it if you want to write things that last

Today was an important day for the opposition movement. The law firms that stood up against Donald Trump threats won.

Those that capitulated and collaborated with Trump will need to explain to their families, clients and future generations why when democracy was at stake they were such cowards.

How have crime rates in the United States changed over the last 50 years? Both violent and property crime are far below their 1990s peak, but some crimes see periodic rises.

Looking at the 2024 crime figures, it's absolutely insane how Trump, tech billionaires, and centrist pundits fooled everyone into thinking Biden had turned the U.S. into some Hobbesian hellscape.

50-year lows for violent crime, armed robbery, property crime. Second-lowest homicide rate.

THIS.

Commit acts of journalism.

…the united states had a vibrant ecosystem of local, regional and alternative press sources. in a real sense — and this has been true since the start — the US is a nation of newspapers and newspapermen, with both of those categories broadly defined…

Quakertown parents, groups demand release of students in police clash Civil rights groups and parents gathered in front of the Quakertown Police Department Saturday demanding answers for the violent confrontation Friday.

INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday.

They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.

Fun fact I just noticed: The U.S. had about half as much total job growth in 2025 (total) as during an average *month* during the Biden administration.
181k net jobs added over the entire course of 2025, versus average of 329k each month from 2021-2024.

this literally looks like a scene from THE FIRST PURGE

Well done @radosh.bsky.social

I know we’re so far past even considering the possibility that Republicans ever actually believed in the Constitution, but it’s a useful thought experiment to read this article as if it was about Biden using technology developed by a billionaire donor to surveil anti-abortion and 2A activists.

How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are

Nice of Trump to build a federal gun owner’s facial database for us. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...

Agreed.

Our idea that legislation could preserve privacy was the mistake.

Don Lemon taken into custody for his involvement in livestreaming protest at Minnesota church Former CNN host Don Lemon was taken into custody for his role in the left-wing protest that took over a Minnesota church, his attorney said in a statement.

This is Susan Collins’ America. www.foxnews.com/media/don-le...

ICE’s excuse for wearing masks has never actually manifested There have been incidents of harassment and threats. But there are no apparent incidents in which identified ICE officers have been assaulted off-duty.

Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...

IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.

Biden himself said they were fabricated!

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Spain Offers Undocumented Migrants a Legal Way to Stay The measure, unexpectedly approved, comes as other countries are cracking down on immigration.

Breaking News: Spain issued a decree allowing hundreds of thousands of undocumented migrants to apply for legal residency. The measure is bucking a trend, as many Western governments have cracked down on illegal immigration.

Opinion | Europe Has a Bazooka. Time to Use It.

Time for Europe to read this from @himself.bsky.social and act accordingly.

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/o...

A French judge explains how Trump sent people from the US Embassy to try to intimidate her during Marine Le Pen's trial for embezzlement — something they've done to other judges around the world

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic.

The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

Dementia has a devastating impact on affected families' finances.

Beginning about six years prior to clinically recognizable dementia, affected families net worth starts to crater.

We should treat dementia risk not just as a medical issue, but as a predictable financial shock.

Opinion | Extremists in Uniform Put the Nation at Risk (Published 2022)

Extremists in Uniform Put the Nation at Risk www.nytimes.com/2022/11/13/o...

Luke Littler is on the path to greatness: ‘I’ll be around for a very long time’ Luke Littler emphatically retained his world title and can now be regarded as an all-time great of his sport

Luke Littler is on the path to greatness: ‘I’ll be around for a very long time’ www.nytimes.com/athletic/693...

The briefing with Hegseth and Rubio only reaffirmed what we already knew: the Trump Administration is in clear violation of domestic and international law—and our own Constitution.

One of my weird hobbyhorses is that a standard university education is almost always going to make this, the correct view of history, unthinkably distasteful.

There are a dozen Billy Joel songs that aren’t terrible.