BREAKING: Democrat Christian Menefee wins special election for Texas U.S. House seat, narrowing GOP's slim majority.

People still don't understand how bad this is going to get. They are tear-gassing CHILDREN. The protest today could have turned into a massacre. We live in that reality, and we must be prepared for it. They will stop at nothing to hold on to power.

Imagine it, then decide what you can do to help stop it, and start working to do that today.

We know how brown and black kids are being treated, they are dying in the ICE concentration camps.

He's looting the U.S. Treasury, people. Most crooked dictators find covert ways to get rich. Trump intends to simply order his government to transfer money into his bank account.

💙📎📢 Tomorrow Feb 1 ICE out of Long Beach

Attending another data center meeting and I'm not shocked that the city is being shady about this. Doesn't want to comply with the FOIA. Doesn't want to have meetings with the public. Just want to usher in the data center and get the rest of us to shut up.

Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a Texas state Senate election in a reliably Republican district that Trump won by 17 points in 2024

Hard to overstate how big a deal a Rehmet win would be. Tarrant County is the epicenter of Christian nationalism in Texas, an incubator for far-right policies, and nexus of billionaire Tim Dunn's network, which is riding hard for Wambsganss. Rehmet almost entirely funded by donations of $100 or less

If you're wondering just how far right the GOP is in Tarrant County, where Taylor Rehmet just pulled off a stunning upset, here is the type of stuff that the party's (now former) chairman posts on a daily basis with almost zero backlash from others in the party.

JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate. Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards. With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43. Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.

Q: On ICE protests, what did you mean when you said 'people will suffer an equal or greater consequence'? TRUMP: If they do anything bad to our people, they will have to suffer, I'm sorry. If they throw bricks at one of our very expensive vehicles, they are gonna be met with very very serious force

Just got gassed pretty good at the labor union anti-ICE protest in Portland. Massive march, 5-10k strong. Vibes were very much liberal rather than radical. Lots of kids and older folks. They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.

A little girl in Portland, OR after being tear gassed by ICE. what the actual fuck.

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

Video from the scene.

The Trump regime has declared the American people to be their enemy. They know the creation of a dictatorship requires unreasonable uses of force. That's why they tear-gassed a crowd, including children, in Portland today.

People probably won't care if you pay yourself $10 billion in taxpayer money. It's not like you just ended healthcare subsidies for millions of Americans.

'It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.'

Hundreds of people spelled out the distress signal "SOS" on Bde Maka Ska in Minneapolis on Friday, Jan. 30. 📷️ Provided by Jeff Schad

Context fyi: Epstein seems to have met Thiel in 2014: Reid Hoffman introduced them in March and there was a meeting in May. More meetings through 2015. In Oct. 2016, 5 months after the Gawker offer, Epstein arranged for Thiel to meet Vitaly Churkin. (Sources in doc.) docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Among the batch of newly released emails from Jeffrey Epstein: Epstein telling Peter Thiel he would “gladly share…expenses for the Gawker suit.” This was sent the day after @rmac.bsky.social and @mattdrange.bsky.social reported in Forbes that Thiel was behind the lawsuit that would bankrupt Gawker

📢📢📢📢📢📢 I freaking loved Gawker. Peter Thiel destroyed it to cover up his bullshit.

An unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume angrily confronted Santa Clara city officials during a joint meeting of the City Council, city authorities, and the Santa Clara Stadium Authority on Monday, using his public comment to condemn the city’s stance on cooperation with ICE.

Epstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that

Great crowd and CRAZY honking in support today!!! Because this is true: GOP COULD STOP THIS And this is what we want: ICE OUT @kittywestmeow.bsky.social @indivisible.org @hcrichardson.bsky.social @mrjoncryer.bsky.social

Sound UP 📢 The sound of catharsis, LA freeway style GOP COULD STOP THIS ICE OUT @kittywestmeow.bsky.social @indivisible.org @hcrichardson.bsky.social @mrjoncryer.bsky.social

Unmarked car, no lights or police insignia. Masked armed men leap out. Victim not in the act of committing any crime. This is not how a serious federal law enforcement agency acts in a free society. How is this not supposed to be a “right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime”?

Amount of time CBC News’s The National spent covering the US protests (and Lemon): 2 minutes, 30 seconds. Telling that CBC covers American opposition to Trump better than CBS. (This is a great report, btw. TV news is so much better in Canada) youtu.be/KBnCbCAscP8?...

It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.

The nazis redistributed the stolen property of deported Jews to the German population. It was called Aryanization. This is no different. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryaniz...

There are just FOUR HOURS left to vote in the TX-18 runoff! Polls are open until 7PM. After polls close, pull up to our Election Night Watch Party! RSVP: ChristianMenefee.com/ElectionNight

This is the winter of our rage. Bless the protesters in Minneapolis.

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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I know this from researching police salaries for a recent paper: many cities have a set of officers taking home more than $500k and they can’t really explain why oaklandside.org/2026/01/29/o...

"If white Americans feel conflicted when they learn about Black hardship, it’s because they know those conditions were unfair," Nate Schumann writes. "That discomfort is important because it can lead to something this nation needs a little more of right now: empathy."

this handful of independent journalists (my former colleagues at Motherboard) do more impactful journalism than 75% of the corporate tech press on a fraction of the budget

No mention of Epstein on Page One. @nytimes.com

Now, they are not just going after corporate media: they are going after independent journalists too. But always remember, there are more of us than there are of them, and they can’t silence all of us. Keep speaking out, keep telling the truth.

Tom Morello live in Minneapolis

The director of Melania movie

"Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google and one of the richest men in the world, visited Jeffrey Epstein’s private island in St. Thomas, made plans to dine at Mr. Epstein’s home and corresponded with Ghislaine Maxwell, Mr. Epstein’s longtime companion and convicted co-conspirator..."

The poison of White Supremacy was never forced onto White Americans; they just willfully sipped on it little by little until they forgot it was poison. Or something like that. Mark Twain.

North Carolina officials are currently considering a series of proposed rules aimed at undermining the public’s confidence in elections. One of those rules: flagging certain voters as “presumptive noncitizens” in an attempt to potentially remove them from the rolls.

That’s what all the migrant prisons are for. Kidnap them from their legitimate jobs sites, imprison them and dole them out for slave labor. Just as Jesus would do.

Everytime I see something like this, I'm reminded of a VOX 2016 article that discussed who was supporting Trump right before he was first elected. "Twenty percent said Lincoln shouldn't have freed the slaves." www.vox.com/2016/3/1/111...

But if I say the end goal of capitalism is slavery, that's a bridge too far.