“A letter tossed over the detention center fence said they’ve been held 290 days… haven’t had a single piece of fruit… no pain meds…” @corecivic, folks

Hate to say it, but IT'S ABOUT TIME SIGNERS WERE AVAILABLE FOR ALL TELEVISED PERFORMANCES!! I'm not deaf, but I know deaf and hard of hearing people who should be included in the world like we are!! I think Bad Bunny might be worth a listen to! Kudos mate! Good one 👍!!

Looking forward to watching the U.S. Citizen Bad Bunny perform at the #SuperBowl tonight! 🏈🇺🇸

Britain has dethroned a prince, forced Mandelson to resign, & lost confidence in Starmer because Rep. Thomas Massie & I forced the release of the Epstein files. What is America doing to hold the Epstein class accountable? We need to haul these powerful men before Congress.

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

Luttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.

NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

Will the Supreme Court ever make a ruling on the tariffs?

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Lack of redactions is intentional. Both to punish and to shame those speaking out now and to frighten others to remain silent. This is not how far they’re willing to go, it’s just the beginning

ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families. Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota. The cruelty is endless.

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

At every single stage of my life there has been a movie or show suited for my age group in which Catherine O’Hara was a standout player. This just sucks, man.

Bluesky friends. The only favor I ask. When you see a post about a shelter animal needing help. Please please REPOST. I've always said it before. Reposting definitely helps! It gets them seen. You helped MELIA. Now let's help others!! Thank you ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

RIP Catherine O'Hara, who managed to steal every scene she was in

Holy shit that is a haunting image:

There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.

A retired Minneapolis couple who had guns pointed at them by ICE in a church parking lot. "They were obviously not trained at all. I've known many police officers in my life. These people were right off the streets." "They had the professional demeanor of criminals." ht: @paulgraham.bsky.social

Traces of Texas reader Betty McCauley graciously submitted this wonderful photo of her grandfather, Francis Washington Cotton, who was born in 1879 and who was the son of early Texas pioneers. He made these four fiddles to help pay for the building of a church in Eastgate, Texas, round about 1935.

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Donald Trump could be naked, yelling at cars on the freeway, and Republicans would still be all "Democrats have just never witnessed a genius at work".

Texas Sen. John Cornyn is accusing his highest-polling challenger, Attorney General Ken Paxton, of abusing his official powers to write a 74-page campaign ad masquerading as a legal opinion. www.rawstory.com/john-cornyn-...

Earlier today Ken Paxton issued an unsolicited opinion narrowing civil-rights protections. The Texas NAACP warned it breaks with constitutional precedent and threatens lawful remedies for discrimination. Texans should take that seriously. The solution is to elect @jaworskifortexas.bsky.social AG.

Tony Blair appointed to Gaza Board of Peace after Satan was unavailable www.normalisland.co.uk/publish/post...

I don’t understand how the first reaction from leadership isn’t “This is an impeachable offense. My colleagues must defund Hegseth and begin drafting articles immediately.” Like, even if it doesn’t get done, how are you not planting this flag in the ground immediately?

"Days before 16-year-old Kevin was expected to graduate from Francis T. Maloney HS in Meriden, federal officials detained him in Hartford & moved him to an ICE facility in TX. After 6 months in detention he returned home to a standing ovation from community members" www.ctpublic.org/news/2025-12...

It would be so cool if the United States Congress still existed.

🧑‍🌾 SPOTTED in Jackson County, Wisconsin…

Trump's Rob Reiner post is gonna break the record for number of Republican Senators who haven't seen it yet.

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Big announcement from Gov. Newsom:

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They’re not hiding the brutality anymore. They want you to see it. They want you to get used to it.👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.” What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.” Funny how that works.

It is becoming increasingly obvious that the oligarchs, backed by the scum in the Kremlin and the White House, want to carve up Europe between the USA and Russia.

Batya might herself be perfectly willing to outsource all of her moral convictions to an alcoholic Crusades enthusiast. But most of us deserve a public justification for these decisions that aren’t exclusively made by someone who is sexually stimulated by the word “lethality.”

100% THIS!!!!

Look, people, there is no evidence that Senator Tom Cotton was caught pleasuring himself while watching the video of those survivors clinging to a portion of a wrecked boat until they were murdered by a second missile. There's just no truth to that at all. Stop saying it.

Tom Cotton wants you to believe that two men who had just been blow out of a boat (that killed 9 people) and were probably severely injured – could flip a 39 foot boat that weighed several thousand pounds – and somehow represented an imminent threat.

What I'd like to know is how exactly Tom Cotton could see, through a solid hull, at a distance, on a grainy video, that the boat was carrying cocaine. He must have a lot of experience with cocaine!

Ilhan Omar: “His obsession with me is creepy, I'm not going anywhere — I'll be here longer than #Trump - He’s an old man losing his mind. I hope he gets the help he desperately needs—”

HERO VS ZERO! MARK KELLY IS AN AMERICAN HERO. WHO SERVED OUR COUNTRY WITH HONOR & INTEGRITY IN THE NAVY INCLUDING 4 SPACE MISSIONS & NOW IN THE SENATE. Hegseth is a Murderer & TRAITOR He’s a sick, Insane & disturbed individual. He’s a NAZI, Confederate, FOOL, & EMBARRASSMENT! He’s not American.

Hegseth is a cold-blooded murderer. There's no way to dress it up. He's a criminal. And his was precisely the kind of illegal order that those Dem members of Congress urged the military not to follow. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Senator Thune doesn't like that Speaker Johnson wants to repeal a cash grab by R senators, but Thune's colleagues were hit with an investigation into actions to overthrow duly certified election results that were verified in multiple court cases. Y'all wanted to play, Leader Thune. Take your lumps.

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