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A little folk music from No Kings in Middletown, CT

Uncle Jeffy Tiedrich says today in his newsletter: "Here’s one sure way you can tell you’re living in a shithole country: when the following two headlines appear one after another."

what is even the point of this

Called it!

So, Trump starts a bullshit organization “Bored of Peace” appoints himself lifetime chair, and contributes 10 billion dollars of American taxpayers money to himself? In what world?

Shameful—but in a way useful. No one should any longer pretend we have a “Department of Justice.” We have a Department of Trump.

“FCC you.” - Colbert to Carr, youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A

Massie not backing down.

What a humongous piece of shit

The RFK number seems like a massive failure of the media to explain what RFK is doing to our public health system and how catastrophic it will be

Primary season is already here. Typically only one in 5 voters bother to show up in primaries. Here's why primaries will be some of the most important races in 2026. Plus six early ones to watch. wapo.st/3ZDDFfX (giftlink)

Meta is putting a "Name Tag" feature in Ray-Bans - facial recognition through the glasses' camera. You look at someone, AI tells you who they are. In an internal document, the company wrote that the timing is good because civil society groups are busy with politics and won't cause problems.

NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

This is the way.

Good thread. This administration drank its own KoolAid and believed the Fox News/Newsmax fantasy about what the rest of the country is like. Echo chambers are dangerous — especially for the occupants.

Personally, I would have addressed him as something more 'colorful' than "Sir" in my answer.

President Donald Trump launched into a near 500-word spiel Saturday to voice his regret over having hosted comedian Bill Maher at the White House, calling the television host a "jerk" who displayed "zero confidence" during their recent time together.

Reports are saying that Trump is extremely worried that Investigations in Europe into Epstein and crimes may probe his overseas bank accounts. This definitely doesn’t sound like an innocent man! #USDemocracy #Pinks youtube.com/shorts/adAcz...

I do not wish to be mean, but if I hear you in the year 2026 claiming that Elon Musk "saved free speech" from "leftist censors" I am going to question your judgment on pretty much everything else, because you do not live in reality.

C’mon, Chuck. You’re fighting to “rein in” ICE? DEFUND ICE.

ICE has forfeited that claim thanks to its own behavior and leadership. It’s not a “legitimate law enforcement agency.” Defund ICE.

Jeffrey Epstein's December 20, 2016 email to Bill Gates: "come to visit the island. new administration people visiting." What was the upcoming administration in December2016? Oh!

Sanders: The American people do not want this country to be an authoritarian society or an oligarchy. We have our differences, that’s what democracy is about—we argue it out. We don’t throw people who disagree in jail. We don’t intimidate the media. We don’t send ICE agents to shoot people.

One thing that's fun is that if you're black and you don't have much experience, it's woke dei if you get the job, and if you're black and you have all the experience in the world, you're an out of touch elite who is not really black and doesn't deserve the job.

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Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime

In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

“Donald Trump and his administration don’t like accountability. They don’t like when retired veterans question them. That’s why they are cracking down on our rights and trying to make examples out of anyone they can.”

A+++ post

This is all performative bullshit. Believe it when you don't see ICE in Minneapolis/Saint Paul anymore.

If my followers have been inspired by the fierce resistance the Twin Cities has put up to ICE, you should make it a point to take a trip here (April through October 😬), enjoy the wonderful things MN has to offer and support our small businesses. It continues to be a really tough time for them.

RIP Bud Cort. How else would you even pay tribute to him.

Khanna: There were two rounds of redactions. There was the original FBI redactions… and they did a second round of redactions at the DOJ. What they’re showing members now is the unredacted version of the DOJ’s redactions—not the original FBI redactions. They’re in blatant violation of the law.

Raskin: "I want the whole country to look at this. This is the attorney general of the US whose job is law enforcement. We've never had a witness who has misunderstood our rules and been unable to conform his or her conduct to our rules before. Excuse me."

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

Angus: It’s like having to negotiate with Al Capone in his syphilitic period. You want to shut down the bridge? Go ahead. Every day, 1,500 nurses from Canada go to help keep Detroit’s health care system going. I personally think those nurses should be working in Canada.

CNBC: How unusual is it for a senator to not know what's happening when the FAA shuts down airspace for a major airport for 10 days? MARKWAYNE MULLIN: It's not really my lane right now. It's just not something I'm dealing with. We got so many things we're working on around the world, like Iran

I and millions of Americans believe exactly the same thing Kasparov does. Too many troops, too many new prisons, too much money not under Congressional supervision. We're not just witnessing a mass deportation scheme anymore. This is something significantly bigger and scarier.

Breaking MS NOW: In a major defeat for Mike Johnson, 3 House Republicans bucked their leaders to block legislation that would have restricted Congress' ability to strike down Trump’s tariffs. The final tally was 214-217, with 3 Republicans joining Democrats in opposition.

Massie: "What's happened it seems is that the US attorneys and/or the FBI have redacted documents, given them to the DOJ, and then the DOJ hasn't done their diligence to go get the original documents."

What an ugly assault on First Amendment and on Congress. Thankfully, thwarted. "A group of ordinary citizens sitting on the grand jury in Federal District Court in Washington rejected the effort." Shame on DOJ. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

The most blatantly corrupt gangster government in American history. Where are congressional Republicans on this stuff? Nowhere to be found. Vote them ALL out.

The president had his DOJ raid an election office and seize ballots. Now it turns out the whole thing is just election deniers telling the same old lies. Our democracy is in danger but I founded Democracy Docket to help keep you informed on the fight ahead. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

They're not stopping at your birth certificate. SAVE 2.0 would END online voter registration in, KILL mail-in registration, and STOP voter registration drives. It's a full-scale attack on your right to vote. Call your MoC (202) 224-3121 and tell them #StopTheSaveAct social.demcast.com/s/TxRgzkPM