This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

The Atlantic’s profile of Bondi has some wow. @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

We needed a care economy and we got a "who cares?" economy.

".. The Congressional Budget Office on Wednesday warned yet again that the US is on an unsustainable fiscal path, jacking up its estimate of deficits for the coming decade by $1.4 trillion thanks in part to .. Trump’s 2025 tax law and immigration policies." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

An annual meeting of the nation's governors that has long served as a rare bipartisan gathering is unraveling after President Donald Trump excluded Democratic governors from White House events. n.pr/4qyVgAO

‘No Reason He Should Have Died’: Alex Pretti’s Parents Open Up I'm gifting this article.

Kevin Moncla, who pleaded guilty to a voyeurism charge and was ordered to pay more than $3 million for secretly filming guests in his home bathroom, has tried repeatedly to prove that the 2020 vote in Fulton County, Georgia, was tainted by fraud.

Jesus has an opportunity to do the funniest thing, while also making a fucking killing on Polymarket.

The Trump family built a crypto machine that converts presidential power into billions in cash for insiders. It's an orgy of self-dealing and corruption at a scale so massive it will need to break the nation to evade accountability. gift link: www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

Dozens of researchers will move to France from US following high-profile bid to lure talent. Large proportion worked at Columbia University, which had its grants cut and frozen by the administration of US President Donald Trump. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A simple proposal for federal judges frustrated that Trump Regime isn’t freeing people in response to habeas corpus orders: Order that DHS bring each individual to court for their habeas hearing. If the judge grants habeas, the petitioner walks out free. Bonus: huge pre-hearing burden on feds.

I'm convinced one of the reasons epstein was able to coast for so long is that for many sensible people including and especially educated liberals, viewing the world through a conspiratorial lens was always seen as vaguely distasteful and rube-coded

Yet another example of an out-of-control President sacrificing the American economy and blocking good infrastructure. It's also a test for Michigan Republicans: will they stand up for what's right, even when it means breaking with Trump?

“.. The programs slated to be cut are in California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/h...

Shout out to Black Protestants

For no reason at all, I’m suddenly remembering that con men sometimes do a “reload,” jacking up the stakes to keep their marks invested or drag them further into the con.

JUST IN: DOJ is trying to help Steve Bannon erase his conviction for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee. Motion has no career prosecutor on it, just signed by US Attorney Pirro. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

EXCLUSIVE: Since the FBI seized 2020 election materials from GA, questions have abounded as to what evidence justified the raid. @ProPublica has obtained audio of conservative activists discussing providing files and exhibits to the Department of Justice… www.propublica.org/article/kevi...

21 hours, no community note, on mail-in ballot conspiracy theories debunked in 2020. Now boosted by Elon. They are arguing hard for eliminating them and laying the groundwork to delegitimize losses by way of them. www.usatoday.com/story/news/f...

NO SECRET POLICE IN AMERICA. It's easy to understand, and hard to argue against.

Case continues against those who protested Joswar Torres’ arrest, with prosecutors seeking six years’ imprisonment

Last month, the Trump administration pulled out of 3 key global #cybersecurity organizations. Former #cyber diplomat Chris Painter warns that the withdrawal will hamper intelligence-sharing, coordinated response, and capabilities, leaving both the U.S. and its allies vulnerable:

It is nice to see at least one conservative publication acknowledging the most blatant corruption happening in the history of the US by far, but this will never be mentioned on Fox or Newsmax. On those networks, none of this is happening.

Filming federal agents in public is legal, but avoiding a dangerous—even deadly—confrontation isn’t guaranteed. Here’s how to record ICE and CBP agents as safely as possible and have an impact.

More than half the drugs on the TrumpRx site have a cheaper generic version on the market. Pristiq, an antidepressant, is available with a TrumpRx coupon for ~$200 for a 30-day supply. A generic version is on GoodRx for less than $30 and Mark Cuban's CostPlusDrugs for $16.65.

Officials in authoritarian regimes frequently make absurd false statements in public to signal their loyalty

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/

Serious people abroad taking PET (Putin-Epstein-Trump) seriously. www.reuters.com/world/poland...

This. 👇👇👇

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

Director Gabbard twists the truth about our whistleblower client's complaint, Senator Mark Warner "and his friends in the Propaganda Media." We are clearing that up here. Our national security is at stake.

In which Jeffrey Epstein, who laundered money for the Russians, explains how Donald Trump was doing exactly the same thing, and how this accounts for most of his wealth.

Best twitter riposte of the day.

WaPo editorial board when TX imposes a legislative gerrymander: don't freak out guys! Not a threat to democracy! When VA responds to TX with *referendum* on their own gerrymander: brass-knuckled hypocrisy, anti-democratic gamesmanship. There is hypocrisy here, all right, but not from VA.

NYT confirming MS NOW reporting: Prosecutors began investigating Renee Good's killing, then Washington told them to stop. Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Good's vehicle, but Trump leaders said to drop it. About a dozen prosecutors have since departed.

Trump lawyers aim to deport five-year-old boy after judge ordered his release www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“.. It is an invisible barrier to startups and new market entrants,” said Scott Lincicome .. “Why would you ever want to enter a market that you know your chief competitor is backed by the U.S. government?” @cnbc.com @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.cnbc.com/2026/02/07/t...

“The NSA detected evidence of an unusual phone call between an individual associated with foreign intelligence and a person close toTrump…Gabbard took a paper copy of the intelligence directly to Wiles…One day after Gabbard told the NSA not to publish the report.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

FIRE is representing NewsGuard as it sues the FTC: “At stake is whether the govt can punish private companies and nonprofits that it sees as part of a “censorship-industrial complex” suppressing conservative viewpoints — or whether the 1A protects those orgs” www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Trump makes clear: if you vote for me and MAGA, you get disaster relief. If you didn't, tough. It's a tactic designed to tear the country apart and foment strife. That's his goal, people.

Any NATO government contemplating a Palantir contract should carefully scrutinize the newly released DOJ Epstein files, and particularly the document surrounding Epstein's introduction of Palantir owner Peter Thiel to a senior Russian intelligence officer.

There's nothing the Texas GOP excels at quite like producing violence-prone rioters who are simultaneously sexual predators focused on children, like Houstonian MAGA man Andrew Taake

“Four of [Don Jr]’s portfolio companies have won contracts from the Trump [regime] this year amounting to $735 MILLION… It looks like more Trump enrichment. When the public and the private are as intertwined as they are in this [regime] it’s hard to tell the difference.” @johncassidysays.bsky.social

the man who owns Palantir, a key contractor to the US intelligence community. Under US law, Thiel, as a holder of high level security clearances, was required to report this contact to USG. It does not appear he did so.

This is an immensely significant document that continues to get virtually no attention in US media—but lots abroad. In Jul 2015, Epstein arranged a meeting between a known highest-level Russian intel operative, Sergey Belyakov and Peter Thiel,

Not that it would be okay to do this to an undocumented immigrant either but THIS GUY IS A LEGAL IMMIGRANT and also his lawyer hand delivered his medication and they REFUSED TO GIVE IT TO HIM. Enraging! How do ANY of these people live with themselves?