I can think of several dozen historians who would be happy to lecture @jaketapper.bsky.social about why "concentration camp" is, in fact, an apt term.

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They've been saying this shit for 50 years, and yet...

pure elite capture - the uk just folded to a hardline anti-trans campaign pushed by a tiny number of people www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

The potential foreign agent was Saudi foreign agent Jared Kushner. I mean, I was betting on Roger Stone but this is actually far more problematic.

NEW. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick on Trump's mass deportation regime. “The government wants to arrest, detain, and deport one in every 24 people—4% of the population. That can't be done without transforming who we are and our relationship to law enforcement.” youtu.be/AJ9WFEhCpTM?...

If Sen. Johnson believes protesters in Minnesota "put themselves in harm's way," that means he admits ICE is harmful?

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Secretary of Health and Human Services for the United States.

I never thought dismantling the federal government would be so stupid

@davidrlurie.com explores Trump's "nihilistic ambitions" and the legacy of "utter and complete destruction" he is building—an echo of Putin's "heedless destruction of his own country in pursuit of a pointless war that has gutted Russia’s prospects for the future."😔 open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

Yikes — Epstein showing appreciation for @GovBillLee pal Betsy Devos making it harder to report sexual abuse on campuses

The silence of US elites about this remains stunning & utterly damning.

All because white guys did not want to cede power in a multiculti America.

Talking to Republican congressmen as if they are especially stupid children is always a winning move.

This video on the rise of Russ Vought is based on scores of interviews, thousands of pages of emails and dozens of hours of videos and recordings of private briefings given by Vought, most of which have not been previously reported.

A) This is a lie. Other countries have it. B) Trump uses it regularly. Bottom line: They are afraid of you voting.

NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake @witnessblower.net on Epstein revelations: “It is not merely that bad people did evil and terrible things. It is that the institutions designed to prevent those things…were captured, compromised, or rendered inert.” eyewitness-for-history.mymagic.page/the-dystopia...

"But it’s not better than nothing. It’s worse than nothing. The face Grok produced isn’t a face it found under the mask. It’s a face it made up." It's soooo important people realize this tech is not what they see on crime shows, where blurry footage can be "fixed" with the touch of a button.

Todd Lyons claimed in Homeland Security hearing that ICE goons are only using their phones to collect evidence against so-called agitators. Except the guy who arrested Nekima Armstrong Levy clearly used it for propaganda purposes. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Reminder that, if you don't want your skeets to show up on some cable news channel's feed the next time they have to fill a few minutes and don't feel like actually reporting anything of substance? Just fucking swear in it. A shitload.

it really can't be said enough that this is a person who has dined with the president of the united states

Trump's tariffs are the single largest tax hike in the postwar and it was done unilaterally without consent of Congress. Its actually outrageous when you think about it, and conservatives and Republicans just like accept it because yadda yadda daddy Trump. Unreal.

Hassan to Lyons: "I would hope I get the same treatment that Sen. Wicker got, which is to say the town doesn't want the detention center, so please cancel it. And I would expect that my partisan affiliation shouldn't make any difference to that determination."

easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”

Outright corruption

Palantir for California Governor? The Broligarchy Is Buying Democrats! Palantir is spending millions buying Democratic and Republican politicians as it continues to make billions of dollars by gobbling up our data, helping ICE, and creating a surveillance state. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

Sorted them by race and ethnicity

Listen to @gilduran.com. He has followed Newsom's entire political career. He ain't it. Gavin Newsom’s likely presidential bid is built on broken promises | Gil Durán www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Watch our full conversation here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATwr... @juliesulabor.bsky.social

We’re in the timeline where “99 Luftballoons” was apparently an almost literal prophecy

Pam Bondi is just treating the rest of America the way she treated trans Floridians. I keep saying it: if you want to know who the fascists are, and how they behave, look at who is going after trans people hardest. Same way the worst Nazis went after Jews, Sinti, gays, and the disabled.

I called up one of the White House's "special government employees" involved in the Fulton County FBI raid. I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...

🚨BREAKING: Republicans are considering a new judicial requirement that would let Trump skirt court orders for a short time — for the small price of nationwide legal pandemonium. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

It's kind of insane: the obvious lane open today in US politics is fiery left populism that vows to restrain & discipline the Epstein class ... but our only left party is run by that same class & its quisling pundits! Something is gonna break.

I’m on the Senate floor right now with @booker.senate.gov @schatz.bsky.social and @gallego.senate.gov to talk about the crisis of our disappearing democracy. Never before has a President tried to indict Members of Congress for their political opposition to the President.

NEW from me today: Tumbler Ridge is mourning a horrific loss. But how the shooter's identity is being talked about online, and the dangerous links being made to trans people at large, will have resounding and dangerous impacts in the months and weeks to come. xtramagazine.com/power/tumble...

NEW: Arkansas bars public officials who've been appointed by the governor to seek a full term for their position. The 2 justices appointed by Governor Sanders are using a way around that — they're just running for each other's seats. I wrote on Arkansas' supreme court races coming up in March:

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since we're doing the "potential individual trans shooter = epidemic of transgender violence" discourse again, I will re-up this. while there is zero evidence for this correlation, when "rare" ppl engage in "rare" behaviors, we incorrectly presume there must be a connection bsky.app/profile/juli...

"Trump no longer has the bandwidth to enforce his own edicts. His popularity is in free fall, Ds are over-performing in every election, and, while he can certainly punish Rs who fail to parrot his increasingly unhinged narratives, he can’t make them commit political suicide." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Wrong! You stated in your headline that they endorse restrictions on surgeries now. That’s not what either of them said! In fact, ASPS made it clear that they oppose legal bans/restrictions!

NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise. BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?

The framing of transgender existence as ideology is unscientific and bigoted. Just because it is widely used by the GOP and broader political right does not mean media and pollsters need to use the bigoted framing to be neutral. They shouldn’t. They should only ever note the scientific consensus.

Trump’s genocide

The FBI - now run by online influencers, hair tonic salesmen, and talk show hosts - has become a shell of its former self. The next President is going to have an enormous job to rebuild it.

Grand juries almost never ever fail to indict. It's basically automatic. Only in cases where the prosecution is engaged in transparent abuse of power does a grand jury say no.