‘Grind the country to a halt’: Democrat urges national strike if Trump meddles in midterms

The Trump admin has shut down the CIA’s World Factbook, a country reference that for six decades has provided data on birth and death rates, major exports, and more. Long used by government officials and by researchers, educators, and journalists, the database was taken offline today.

Trump wanted Dulles Airport and Penn Station named after him as condition of releasing rail tunnel funds

MAGA judges are LITERALLY attending Trump rallies. Respectfully, shut up.

@lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social: Treasury Secy. Bessent is Trump’s most tortured accomplice youtu.be/-D3YcOIvCM8?...

GOP cancel culture is fully unhinged.

"NBC’s Softball Trump Interview Normalized an Abnormal President" I fact-checked Tom Llamas’s deferential interview with the president, in which the 'NBC Nightly News' anchor did not ask him even a single question about the Epstein files.

Just this week, we’ve seen multiple GOP Members of Congress speak out against ICE warehouses planned in their state or district. The tide is turning against the regime’s lawlessness, but we know ICE is still purchasing commercial warehouses. Is Trump trying to build a mass detention camp near you?

Portland mayor: "To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave. "To those who continue to make these sickening decisions, go home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children..." content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ORP...

“I know they would do anything, that they would hurt people, that they’ve murdered people... I know that intellectually. But I still did not expect them to gas a chill, friendly protest full of nurses and teachers and children and the elderly.” www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

Samit Saha in India wrote: "A bright #lunarhalo surrounds the #moon on a bone-chilling winter night. The wide-field view reveals several familiar #constellations along with the bright planet #Jupiter." Thank you! buff.ly/wCgnvNl What makes a #halo around the sun or moon? buff.ly/0sqesOL

Wake up, America: Federal agents were deployed at last year's Prop 50 launch in LA and at polling places across the nation. Trump is using fear tactics to escape accountability at the ballot box.

Elizabeth Ryan was born #OTD in 1892. She dominated #tennis for decades w/an unmatched record in doubles play w/26 Grand Slam titles. Her record 19 Wimbledon titles stood for 45 yrs until Billie Jean King finally surpassed it--𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝘆𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗱 (𝘄𝗵𝗶𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝗪𝗶𝗺𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗼𝗻!) 𝗶𝗻 1𝟵𝟳𝟵. #WomenInSport

On Capitol Hill, a growing number of lawmakers — including a handful of Senate Republicans — want Kristi Noem to resign or be fired. A new poll shows the American mainstream agrees. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Have you ever seen cloud streets? NOAA’s #GOES19 satellite captured these #cloudstreets on Sunday: “The recent Arctic blast that prompted freeze warnings as far south as southern Florida also created a captivating phenomenon over the waters of the Gulf and Atlantic." ☁️🛰️ buff.ly/LW3mDZL 📸 NOAA.

A few years ago, the IRS got additional funding. What happened? More audits of wealthy tax cheats and better customer service for everyone else. Fast forward to now and the IRS is so understaffed and underfunded that it’s using HR employees to process tax returns. Trump delivers for the oligarchs.

Immigrants have paid more in taxes than they have received in benefits every single year for the past 30 years, according to new analysis from Cato. Remember this the next time Trump and his racist lackeys call immigrants "freeloaders."

Hi stargazers! Tomorrow morning, the waning gibbous #moon will be near #Spica, the brightest star in #Virgo the Maiden. You can catch them before dawn. Don't miss them! 🌖🌌🔭 Watch this video for more information: buff.ly/W1Icw2R And visit EarthSky’s night sky guide: buff.ly/Wt3tm2Z 📹 EarthSky.org.

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Seven months ago, Trump said that the New START treaty is “not an agreement you want expiring,” adding that it would be “a big problem for the world.” Yesterday, it expired. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Meta has dropped $65 million into two super PACs to boost pro-AI state candidates in California. Big Tech is working overtime to ensure they get a bailout if — or when — the AI bubble bursts. We can’t let them get away with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wxBHxpMFXA

At this difficult moment in American history, we must be honest with ourselves: Our nation, once the envy of the world, is now in profound decline. For the sake of our children and future generations, we must reverse course.

The prolific #sunspot region AR4366 continues to put on a show, firing off its 10th X flare (strong) yesterday! Find the details at: buff.ly/HVTgLbX And for more on this week's remarkable activity watch the latest videos on the sun at buff.ly/spyPS2a 📸 NASA/ SDO.

DHS should be abolished. Visiting high schools where people vote has nothing to do with its mandate.Suppressing the vote improves the security of no one. www.daytondailynews.com/local/homela...

This is damning. The Treasury Secretary just admitted that it's "up to the President" whether the DOJ sues or investigates Warsh if he fails to follow Trump's direction at the Fed. They're saying it out loud - Trump will only accept a sock puppet as the head of the Fed.

This is a good start from Democratic leadership with demands that would halt the regime’s terror campaign and protect our communities. But we need to know where Schumer and Jeffries stand on DHS funding levels. ICE and CBP are already flush with cash — what are Democrats going to do about that?

Democracy dies in billionaire hands. [Cartoon by Michael de Adder]

Modernist poet Marianne Moore died #OTD in 1972. Her book, 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘗𝘰𝘦𝘮𝘴, won the #Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award & the Bollingen Prize in 1951. For her full body of work, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature by Nobel Committee member Erik Lindegren, 1968. #poetry #booksky

Silence is complicity. We all need to speak up and say that what ICE is doing is wrong.

Courage is contagious. Let’s keep going.

"If New Start ends with no commitment to respect its limits, both the US and Russia will be free to expand their strategic nuclear arsenals," writes @edmarkey.bsky.social. "A new arms race will officially be under way."

Approved by voters, the new map gives Democrats as many as five seats, neutralizing five GOP seats added by Texas

When assessing personnel, Trump keeps emphasizing one thing: whether or not they meet his expectations for “central casting”: tinyurl.com/4vxf3bsa It’s quite creepy.

I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just a year and a half is devastating.

NJ Gov. @mikiesherrill.bsky.social taking Trump to court over 'illegal' rail tunnel funding freeze youtu.be/0JPYC0WLX_c?...

Psaki: Trump "is laying the groundwork to undermine the validity of the midterm elections ... He does not think he and his party can win on their own."

Psaki on WaPo layoffs: "Anyone who tells you this was about the bottom line is wrong."

East San Antonio, TX "This warehouse will traffic some of the most disreputable commercial activity since WWII," the County Commissioner said in a statement... www.wfaa.com/article/news...

Schumer and Jeffries present their list to Republican leaders, "laying out clear legislative actions to rein in ICE and stop the violence." They also called for "fully ramping down the surge in Minnesota and removing Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem from her position."

"This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world’s greatest news organizations." Read former executive editor Martin Baron's statement on today's cuts at the Washington Post here: www.facebook.com/share/p/1ES5...

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“Trump and his allies are now straight up telling us that they plan to try everything they can to interfere in the midterms—including using ICE agents,” says Chris Hayes. Civil rights expert Sherrilyn Ifill joins to discuss that and more.

Good to see attention to the possible ethnic cleansing of Springfield, Ohio, and the people who are coming together to fight against it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

If you can, take a few minutes to watch us run through the parade of lies from DHS.

The Supreme Court’s one-line decision in the California Prop 50 gerrymandering case went the right way, but it hides a larger truth. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Billionaires are fearmongering about California’s proposed billionaire tax. Baloney. Just look at what happened when Massachusetts raised taxes on the rich.