Sick and depraved

I keep thinking about Ted Cruz, who fervently backed Texas Republicans' partisan gerrymandering scheme, crying online about how mean it is that Virginia Democrats pulled off a partisan gerrymandering scheme. I know he has no principles, but Jesus Christ, man, have some self-respect and dignity.

"There is simply no question that this is the most flagrant display of presidential racism since Woodrow Wilson screened D.W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation” in the White House in 1915." @jamellebouie.net @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...

Yes, Lutnick procured the children:

🚨BREAKING: Someone just projected this video onto a Las Vegas building ahead of the Super Bowl, dubbing it the "Pedo Bowl" and highlighting the men who dominate the Epstein files. Spoiler alert: Donald Trump, Howard Lutnick, and Steve Bannon are the MVP lineup nobody asked for.

Save the leopards eating faces memes for the oligarchs and politicians -- we need to welcome every convert we can.

ICYMI: 950+ Google workers signed a petition demanding that executives "disclose all contracts and collaboration with DHS, CBP, and ICE, and to divest from these partnerships." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

Absolutely insane to block the cheapest, cleanest, and quickest form of power as electricity demand soars. Trump policies are hurting consumers, companies, & communities

They're saying that like it's a bad thing. LFG!

Washington State and the NW are facing our 4th straight season with an abnormally low snowpack in the mountains. This isn't just an issue for skiers. Huge challenges for fish, farmers, and the hydro system. @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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."

“They were careless people.... they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” F. Scott Fitzgerald

Time for our legislators to demand that polling places be ICE free zones. @govjayinslee.bsky.social @meidastouch.com www.meidasplus.com/p/dont-let-i...

There is no bottom to the gaping pit of his insatiable ego

Your suspicion was right. Trump shut down the Kennedy Center out of pure embarrassment after the cancellations. He’s betting we forget in two years. In 2023 the Kennedy Center was in the black, pulling in $286M in revenue. And it reopened from a $250M renovation in 2019.

Bitcoin "has no intrinsic value and is not backed by anything. ....Bitcoin investors seem to be relying on the greater fool theory—all you need to profit from an investment is to find someone willing to buy the asset at an even higher price." www.brookings.edu/articles/the...

Huge. Laws like this were designed to punish investors for taking basic steps to address climate risk. @sierraclub.org statement: www.sierraclub.org/press-releas... (Also worth noting: the firms targeted were never actually “boycotting” fossil fuels—that was political misinformation all along.)

Cutting IRS staffing is one of the most idiotic ways to reduce federal spending. Yale Budget lab estimated that if "the lack of IRS resources leads to a substantial increase in noncompliance, net forgone revenue could rise by $2.4 trillion over 10-years." budgetlab.yale.edu/research/rev...

No one is better in Gov at following the money and digging for the deep dirt than @wyden.senate.gov. So, strong agree: Watch.This.Space.

Your taxpayer dollars that should be going to pay for health care, SNAP benefits, and essential services are going to be siphoned off into the Orange One's pocket. After he has paid for over-seas military adventures, gilded ballrooms, and triumphal arches.

A personal note: Celebrating an individual victory in the war against ICE brutality- our friend Paulino won his case contesting deportation today based on the fact that he is the sole support for his autistic son, a US citizen 1/

Clean energy is spearheading growth of the most dynamic industrial economy on the planet while the US is stuck in reverse

"Regarding undocumented immigrants, Trump's administration is..." Too harsh: 60% About right: 30% Too lenient: 7% Quinnipiac / Feb 2, 2026

“If our goal is to maintain access to stuffy Washington rooms for elites, by all means, we should moderate. If we’re serious not just about winning elections but governing to change lives, let’s try standing for something real.” @coribush.bsky.social in our latest forum:

Maybe not the main point but the @bostonreview.bsky.social folks deserve a Pulitzer for this choice of share image. More seriously, they should get one for convening so many smart voices on this crucial issue. We have GOT to start thinking bigger than what's going to get us 1 or 2 pts on the margin.

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Strongly agree with the underlying thesis of this piece -- the Beltway Consensus that Democrats need to win by toning down their messages and tacking to the center is deeply flawed and misreads the electorate 1/

The misogynist-in-chief

Quote from Trump just minutes ago: "The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places.... The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting." In modern history, there's never been a bigger threat to our Constitution and our way of life than and his enablers.

Authoritarians are paid for with fossil fuel dollars. Why climate activism and resistance to ICE and other excesses of the current regime go hand in hand. @emorwee.bsky.social heated.world/p/actually-i...

Trump's efforts to nationalize the elections in Democratic States is another five-alarm fire. It's certainly illegal, but we have to take it deadly seriously. @rbreich.bsky.social robertreich.substack.com/p/could-trum...

New — I spoke to eight people who were present at the ICE protest on Saturday in Portland, Oregon when federal agents deployed tear gas and rubber bullets into a crowd of families, children, elderly and disabled people, and their pets. These are their stories:

Re-upping for reasons.

Whiplash. Radical left wing anti-gun activists now running the Trump Admin?. Time to jam some sensible gun laws through Congress?

Yep. There has never been a "free market" with a level playing field for energy. And fossil fuels still get $ 1 -7 trillion in global subsidies annually. ourworldindata.org/how-much-sub...

I hope all of the reporting on this leads with the fact that the Kennedy Center completed a $250 million renovation 6 years ago that was Congressionally authorized.

This. With Taylor Rehmet producing a 31 point swing to the left in a seat that the Rs thought was safe in Texas, it's time to expand our imagination!

Hmmm ... Caesar always knew to keep his Praetorian Guard well paid. Trump should bone up on his history.

🎩And now, the Trump Administration is planning to roll back the standards making consumers worse off. So, who's benefitting? Big Oil aka "the oil-igarchy" and the auto industry. Who loses? You, your friends and family, and the climate. We can do better! Take action today:

Brazen lying is now the go-to move for Republican Party and the Federal Government. Years of practiced climate denial may have convinced them that deceit can work @billmckibben.bsky.social billmckibben.substack.com/p/thinking-a...

Trump Admin secretly re-writes rules to accelerate permitting and loosen requirements for nuclear energy. Whatever you think about nuclear as an energy source, secret rulemaking without public input or transparency is more lawlessness from the Admin. www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

Must read. Both RussiaGate and the Epstein Files involve "a sphere of elite impunity where American consultants, Russian oligarchs, Saudi princes, European politicians, Israeli intelligence figures and British ex-spies all swim in the same waters." @seva.bsky.social 1/

This has been my assumption since Trump appointed her. "She is, hook, line and sinker, a Russian puppet.”

With Taylor Rehmet’s WIN on 1/31/26 in the Texas state Senate District 9 race, Dems have won or overperformed 240 of 269 key elections, nearly 90% since Trump took office! Rehmet won on affordability in a Trump +17 district! Ds have flipped 26 state legislative seats red-to-blue! Rs have flipped 0.

The partisans of the "center left" (aka the courtiers of Abundance) won't tell you this, or even try to account for it, but: Taylor Rehmet, who just flipped a district in TX that Trump took by 17 points, ran on "strong unions and worker power" as well as "environmental justice." 1/3

A friend told me about a viral effort to get people to watch Becoming on Netflix this weekend so Michelle completely overshadows Melania. Spread the word! www.netflix.com/title/81122487

Highly endorse, with slight addendum: If you’re 3D printing in WA, your neighbors will happily take your whistles and save you the postage. We have whistle groups blanketing the Puget Sound area. Plus Spokane, Yakima, Tri-Cities, Vancouver, Wenatchee… tr.ee/wawhistles

Someone left the freezer door open.