Facing mounting setbacks to their nationwide gerrymanders, Republicans are dusting off a fringe legal theory to block voter referendums, court-ordered maps and other democratic safeguards that threaten their edge. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/to-...

"Biden’s pardons eliminated roughly $680,000 in financial penalties (fines, restitution, and forfeitures) owed to victims or the government...Trump’s second-term pardons have forgiven criminal debts of more than $1.5 billion."

“.. using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought ..” @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

Some of the most far-out election conspiracists who helped him spread lies about the 2020 election and then tried to overturn it are now inside the government. Kurt Olsen once regarded as a fringe nut, Is Trump’s Director of Election Security www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

“Bad Bunny’s performance isn’t just the story of the ascendancy of a single performer, or of one genre,” Noah Shachtman writes. “It’s the sign of something bigger still. America’s pop culture is today multilingual, polycultural and international at its very core.”

Breaking News: Nithya Raman, a rising star among West Coast progressives and a Los Angeles City Council member, said she will run for mayor. Her announcement presents a significant challenge to the incumbent, Mayor Karen Bass.

Jodi Kantor in the NY Times reports that the Chief Justice requested Court employees sign nondisclosure agreements in November 2024 - moving to formal contracts requiring silence/confidentiality after Trump was reelected: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

Amazing how the people screaming “THEY’RE HIDING SOMETHING” were the ones who sold the lie in the first place. These right-wing influencers hyped a conspiracy theory that the Epstein files were going to implicate a Democratic cabal, only to see that narrative unravel right in front of them.

NEW: Trump’s approval among Catholics falls to a historic low. A rising movement of Catholics, emboldened by Pope Leo, is turning against MAGA. With over 20,000 members, we are the fastest-growing Catholic group in America. To the MAGA purveyors of cruelty and lies — we will defeat you.

The NRA opposed open-carry in CA and got a bill signed in to ban the practice in 1967 under then Governor Ronald Reagan. It wasn't because they realized they'd gone too far. It was because black people were open-carrying. www.history.com/articles/bla...

Here’s TMZ with a headline every outlet that cares about the truth should have. www.tmz.com/2026/01/24/n...

UPDATE: Minnesota Department of Corrections puts out a statement refuting Bovino’s lies about the man they say they were arresting before they killed Alex Pretti. The Trump regime’s lies are endless.

AOC on Noem's lies: "They are asking you to give up your belief in your own senses and instead hand over your belief to anything they say ... look at it for yourself and what you will see is an innocent man being executed in the street."

hi @uaw.org, do you confirm or deny that Shawn Fain called Lutnick and glazed Trump?

Top U.S. Catholic clerics said that the U.S.'s “moral role in confronting evil around the world” is in question for the first time in decades. nyti.ms/4bDP7iK

In the immediate aftermath of the death of Renée Good in Minneapolis, FBI agents launched a civil rights investigation into the actions of the ICE agent who shot her. Instead, Justice Department leaders have tried to pursue a probe against Good’s partner.

"This does mark the end of the Western alliance." Bronwen Maddox on the impact of Donald Trump's economic approach and foreign policy on the transatlantic alliance. Watch in full➡️ bit.ly/4pHKSpH

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Trump is showing symptoms of an addiction to power, evident in his compulsion to escalate claims of dominion over domestic and international adversaries. The size and scope of Trump’s targets for subjugation are spiraling ever upward,” Thomas Edsall writes.

If McConnell had allowed the GOP-controlled Senate to impeach Trump after January 6, 2021, none of this would be happening. Republicans MUST be punished for their corruption and the damage they're inflicting on the United States by losing their seats in Congress. VOTE OUT ALL REPUBLICANS IN 2026.

Adam Serwer’s brilliant summation of Bari Weiss: “What’s the difference between her “redrawing the lines” of acceptable speech and other people doing it? What makes one “censorious” and “gatekeeping” and the other not? Well, because she gets to decide.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Alaska is trending….so why not!

The former president of Honduras helped facilitate the trafficking of hundreds of tons of cocaine into the United States and was sentenced to 45 years in prison—but Trump pardoned him because he was a political ally. So much for “America First.”

Trump pardoned the ex-president of Honduras who shoveled hundreds of tons of cocaine into the U.S. He pardoned the founder of a black market who imported fentanyl from China. These men poisoned America & killed millions. Whatever Trump’s illegal boat strikes are about, it sure isn’t drugs.

💯. It's not these patriotic citizens' fault they're being used as performative props by a corrupt, mendacious, and deranged president. They deserve our kindness and respect, and now, devastatingly, our deepest concern and sympathy. 😢

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In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ... ... listen to Steve Wozniak.

If Halligan pulled a grand jury switcheroo, and did not inform the court, this could be her deepest trouble yet.

“.. Tariffs were pitched as the fix for America’s trade deficit.” 🤡 - Bilello

John Roberts once promised to be like an umpire. He charmed both senators and the media, and for 20 years, was portrayed as a moderate institutionalist. But today, it's become clear that the promise was a lie. We are watching a rigged game, and Roberts set it up.

Kash Patel has reportedly assigned a security detail of SWAT agents to guard his country singer girlfriend, in the latest chapter of the FBI director’s blatant misappropriation of bureau resources....

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Education, open markets, trade and immigration transformed the United States into the world’s dominant power, but each is now being weakened.

“When we stop federal investments in research and development, we’re forfeiting our future,” Dr. Arati Prabhakar told the Brennan Center about the Trump administration’s freeze on billions of dollars for critical services ranging from education and health care to scientific research. bit.ly/4nQHfgs

NEW: California now has nearly 17,000 megawatts of battery storage – reaching one-third of the way to our 2045 goal. We're deploying more battery storage than any state in America, building a stronger grid, cutting pollution, and securing a safer future for our nation.

VITTERT: What do you say to people struggling with higher prices? NAVARRO: We feel your pain. We are literally doing everything we can. VITTERT: But the president calls it a "con job." How can people think he feels their pain?

Tonight’s Senate vote on the federal government shutdown should have been a time for strength. Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans. The American people need more from their leaders.

Shapiro: He rose to some prominence by writing a book about growing up in Appalachia, where there are a whole lot of people who get SNAP. He made millions of dollars off telling their stories, and then he turned his damn back on those very people he likes to write about and claim as his own.

Meanwhile on Fox: #SNAP x.com/foxnews/stat...

Pope Leo:

“.. I don’t want to hear about the affordability.” - 11/06/25

Dissonance. 🇺🇸

The latest, 11pm: —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG; & gain in House —Dems win NJ-Gov —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win supreme court —ME vote-restricting measure loses —Krasner & Bragg win —JD's half-brother loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices + Dem are leading to flip so many local offices.

Dodgers celebrate repeat World Series title with another downtown parade, stadium rally

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say