Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

This is multi media art in every way

Incredible work by Levi Ismail and anyone else who worked on this report. Also noted was a trend of troopers turning off the audio of their body cams. In one such instance, it was after the trooper told a person they could leave but then ICE took the driver. www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

I have seen this claim several times on here and it is abject fucking madness. bordering on antivax sentiment

this is all racism, obviously, and multiculturalism is great, but i'll note that i'm pretty close to being a median american, and i can't think of too many other people in america with whom i share fewer cultural values that elon musk

In the 1800s, a slave owner purchased over a dozen people in Georgia and set the foundation for his family’s generational wealth Generations later, a railroad company owned by one of his descendants is using eminent domain to seize land of Black farmers

Did an interview for this and I really appreciate NPR for continuing to cover the surreal situation facing observers and commuters here in Minneapolis, even as the attention of the world moves on.

Horrific details👇of ICE agents’ extreme racism and cruelty during a joint operation in Nashville with Tennessee officers. Grateful for this reporting: nashvillebanner.com/2026/02/19/i...

all the worst people

40% now consider Trump to be the “worst president in U.S. history.” Another 12% think he is “worse than average”—meaning that a majority now rate Trump as one of the least successful presidents ever to hold the office. (Yahoo/YouGov) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260219-top...

The next president should just immediately seize Trump's assets to the dollar value of all of these corrupt emoluments on the grounds that because emoluments are unconstitutional, the money was never Trump's in the first place. Let him try to get them back in the civil asset forfeiture process.

i actually like the economist fwiw. i think they have a lot of good reporting. but sometimes you just get a full on firehose blast of PURE IDEOLOGY like this and you remember why so many people hate the economist.

FEMA has the money but Trump would rather people suffer www.cnn.com/2026/02/18/p...

This is where laws, for example, against insurrectionists running for office, are supposed to be the stopgap against public ignorance. Alas, laws are not self enforcing. We put people in charge to make sure of that. Roberts and his ilk failed their most basic job as caretakers of democracy.

1. DHS surges 3,000 officers to Minneapolis without doing anywhere near enough prep first. 2. Hundreds of habeas cases overwhelm local courts. 3. Dozens of DOJ lawyers quit in disgust/anger. 4. The DOJ brings in JAGs to cover. 5. A JAG was just held in contempt and fined $500/day for ICE's failures.

Epstein friend to testify as to whether in the past he has harmed young children and teens.

I think it’s pretty clear this is all extremely intentional. The media has refused to cover Trump as he actually is for 10 years: a corrupt, racist imbecile. It’s intentional. These way out of proportion attacks on AOC, smarter than Trump in every way, are intentional.

I suppose you could say insisting on the rights of all people, including all trans people, is issuing a "political purity test." But why would you do so, while also ignoring the fact that those who refuse to enter the tent unless you push trans people out are ALSO issuing a political purity test?

Coverage of Andy Barr, a sitting Congressman and candidate for U.S. Senate, running an ad declaring, "It's not a sin to be white" -- a variation of a notorious white nationalist slogan AP: Zero NYT: Zero WashPost: Zero Reuters: Zero Politico: Zero Axios: Zero

Imagine doing this with your one precious life. Other people are out there teaching children and curing cancer and you decide to spend your time telling outrageous, laughably unbelievable lies about a dementia-addled rapist and fraud whose legacy will be nearly ending US democracy

I'd like to report that none of this stuff is made in America. Most from China. The stuff that looks indigenous is from India.

Stephen Colbert said that the FCC and CBS - which is in no way a compromised or complicit organization - wouldn’t allow him to broadcast an interview with Democratic State Rep James Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

The Cabinet this week *RFK Jr. bragged about snorting cocaine off of a toilet seat *Lutnick acknowledged taking his family to Epstein island *Bondi “The Dow” / refuses to look at victims *Noem blanket *Hegseth loses to Kelly, tries to tweet through it *Bessent “tariffs don’t cause inflation”

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🔥 “To me, when we're talking about what justice looks like, it's ultimately getting to a place where every single fascist agent and the leaders that directed them to do what they did are held accountable to the highest degree of the law. And that means prosecution.”

The Ten Suggestions.

NEWS: Goldman Sachs’ top lawyer Kathryn Ruemmler has RESIGNED after newly released emails exposed a years-long personal relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — including advising him on handling sex crime accusations, media scrutiny, and accusers.

My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has shared a big data update, covering all recorded US protests through Jan 2026. Some key takeaways 🧵:

What if Pam Bondi screaming "THE DOW IS AT 50K" is peak stock market?

@schiff.senate.gov absolutely killing it calling out Pam Bondi on all the questions she refused to answer. She sounds panicked, rambling on about things she wasn't being asked about. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjZt...

Imagine if Gallup had just suddenly and "coincidentally" decided to stop collecting presidential approval data when Biden hit his polling lows. thehill.com/homenews/med...

After conservative attacks, Amber Glenn and Alysa Liu won gold in Team Figure Skating for the US at the Olympics. They're outspoken supporters of LGBTQ+ people and trans athletes. Both are queer. Now, Glenn is taking to social media to mock haters. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

AP, ABC and CBS all reported that Wagner was charged with threatening federal agents— which wasn’t reflected in the complaint or even said by DOJ explicitly. AP has now finally changed their headline and added a correction.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

7. Unlike other federal courts, immigration courts are run by the DOJ. That means Bondi/DOJ can reassign cases. And, right now, Somali migrants are being reassigned in bulk to Ashworth.

Welcome to Fascism folks, where the president and vice president are so thin skinned and corrupt, the house needs rules to silence dessent

Brendan Carr Launches Fake Investigation Of ABC’s ‘The View’ Because They Haven’t Adequately Coddled Trumpism FCC boss Brendan Carr is back with yet another fake "investigation" of media outlets he deems insufficiently deferential to radical (and increasingly unpopular) right wing ideology. This…

GOP Sen Lummis says she’s changed her mind after the new Epstein revelations today: “Initially my reaction to all this was, I don’t care. I don’t see what the big deal is. But now I see what the big deal is. The members of Congress who were pushing this were not wrong!”

Just recorded like six hours with @andrewti.bsky.social on how Jeffrey Epstein helped build the modern world (derogatory)

I can't take credit, this was sent to me... 🤣

We're going to need to slam the door on fascism pretty hard to get Germany back

ALERT: Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) has arrived at Justice Dept office to review unreleased Epstein files (Under law, as of 9am today, Congress is permitted to view what Justice Dept has withheld from files)

If we could desalinate the tears over Bad Bunny, we could refill Lakes Mead and Powell. Bunch of damn crybaby ass snowflakes

There are many reasons why ICE raids have become more violent in the Trump era than in the Obama era. Here's reason 1001: Many new ICE agents are former prison guards, attracted to the much higher salary. "Corrections Officers Are Leaving in Droves for ICE" www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Reminder when you watch the Intuit Super Bowl ads, they have Super Bowl ad money because they are a successful rent seekers who have worked for decades to kill free, quality, public tax preparation services donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

I was considering getting one of those new electric bike pumps because the times I do use a manual pump or CO2 can be really annoying... Weight and where to put it have been my main hold ups...

With every overperformance, it only seems likelier that Democrats will retake one or both houses of Congress by a decent margin. It's important that they run on a clear promise to hold Trump and his goons accountable, so they can hit the ground running in 2027 with a mandate to do so.