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Inside Putin's horrific torture gulags where inmates are gassed in 'elephant masks', used as 'human furniture' and forced to endure 'Putin's phone' www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

So if 🧊 is around….

An astonishing account of recklessness and maladministration at the highest levels. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...

RFK, Jr.: Too bonkers for the Trump regime! www.thedailybeast.com/president-do...

Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen: "The Greenlandic people have never felt threatened. The first time they felt unsafe for real is when an ally talked about acquiring them, buying them. It's outrageous."

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

Trump insider Tom Barrack kept in regular contact with Jeffrey Epstein for years, files show www.cbsnews.com/news/tom-bar...

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

Polling these last two weeks is very clear that Trump has not only lost the argument about ICE, he's also lost it on mass deportation. Country wants him to focus on the criminals and leave the rest of us alone. From new Yahoo/YouGov: www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it. Seems kinda bad?

Donald Trump has produced the lowest GDP growth of any President in the last 80 years.

Kristi Noem's DHS searches totalitarian states around the globe for ideas. 'In a Feb 11 social media post, the Department of Homeland Security listed oppressive regimes like Cuba and Venezuela among the models for certain law enforcement practices used by ICE agents.' www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

"What Epstein figured out was how to game this. He figured out the vulnerability of this entire network, which is that these people are actually not that serious about character. In fact, character may be a liability for some of them, may be an unnecessary source of friction."

Big cities weren’t ready for ICE, but ex-urban and rural areas really aren’t. Mostly cause: 1) Residents believe their conservative politics and whiteness relative to urban areas will save them; and 2) Many new immigrant communities have no knowledge of the history of Black and Native folks 🧵/1

Ms Bondi makes the point that despite some minor embarrassments around the fringe, the core elites that Anand Giridharadas presciently called “The Epstein Class” continues full speed ahead in its control of our future See gifted www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

Trump can fly to Bragg, give a campaign rally in front of uniformed troops, and tell them how to vote—and that’s just “patriotic.” But 6 veterans in Congress remind the same troops they must refuse illegal orders, and his DOJ tries to brand it sedition. It’s authoritarian hypocrisy.

It never was about keeping Maine safe from the immigrant bogeymen who primarily live in Maine’s [teeny-tiny] big ‘cities’ despite what Trump, Miller, Noem, Bondi, Homan, or Bovino say. www.pressherald.com?p=7585415&uu...

“Three decades after ‘Clash,’ rivalries among the great powers, rather than a new clash among faith-based civilizations, continue to dominate the globe,” Josef Joffe writes: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/b...

“It was important enough for them to clear areas for walking people, but it wasn’t important for them to clear it enough for people…in wheelchairs,…All that work & all that $, but no time was spent thinking about disabled people who want to go outside.” wapo.st/3ZBR0Wg

Cash incentives have been a huge draw. For new recruits, the government is offering bonuses of up to $50k and forgiveness of student loans. And yet that breakneck growth means corners have been cut. For ICE agents, the training regimen has been reduced from 5 months to as little as 47 days.

Brava!! youtu.be/yKQWGv35BX4?...

"UK confirms Russia poisoned Navalny in prison with rare toxin" www.gov.uk/government/n...

Oil production in Russia has fallen for the third month in a row after the price fell below $50. Source: Production and quota - OPEC Urals oil price - Ministry of Economic Development of Russia

"A new ruling from the Trump administration says that when the sun disappears at night, we don’t know where it goes. All remaining top scientists have been taken from their positions and tasked with getting to the bottom of this." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Because it’s not really about trying to get troops to vote Republican-that would be bad enough. It’s about conditioning the military to obey a man and not their oath to the Constitution. It’s why Hegseth & Trump were so adamant about prosecuting the 6 Dems who spoke up about it.

“But Josh, aren’t schools and libraries secondary to the fight for democracy, not actually part of it?” whyy.org/articles/sta...

⚡️ German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius: We cannot afford another paper tiger like the Budapest Memorandum.

“A political movement that insists on solving a problem the data cannot substantiate is not engaged in neutral reform. It is redefining the electorate through procedural filtration…[&] structural barriers…the issue is not fraud prevention but power allocation.” open.substack.com/pub/theratio...

I've slept a bit on this other than a few posts, but one of the most brazen things happening in state governments right now is that the Kentucky GOP is trying to impeach a liberal justice (and the first/only Black woman to join the court) because of a vote she took last year they don't like.

From immigration to public lands, Trump's pattern is the same: ignore statutory limits, consolidate control, move fast At East Potomac, @democracydefendersfund.org & partners @democracyforward.org & Lowell & Associates went to court to ensure federal law—& public access—come first

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

JOE ROGAN (who helped Trump get elected): “Why would your name be redacted if you’re not a victim? None of this is good for this administration. It looks fucking terrible.” #TrumpEpsteinFiles

One of the most powerful, if not the most powerful, forces in public opinion is elite leadership. Partisans largely “follow the lead“ of their side’s elites. Arguing Dems shouldn’t try to shape opinion is arguing they should give up this power voluntarily. That’s dumb, not to mention morally vacuous

🧵🧵🧵 TRUMP'S BRAIN IS BROKEN 🧵🧵🧵 This thread offers 50 examples of unhinged behavior unfit for the presidency. 1. Trump blamed Rob Reiner for his own murder, citing “the anger he caused others” by criticizing Trump. 2. He told a rally that dead golfer Arnold Palmer had a large penis.

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

Charlottesville!

Karyna Shuliak married a woman named Jennifer, who had been in a relationship with Kimbal Musk after Jeffrey Epstein connected them.

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

TFW you realize for the millionth time that it's all right out there in the open. "The right people voting, electing the right leaders." Because she's the best judge of that.

🚨 Chicago friends! I’ll be doing an event on EXTRACTION hosted by @haymarketbooks.org and in conversation with @gabrielwinant.bsky.social this Monday! Come by if you can 😊

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👇🎯🧵 Also, again, he's just wrong, empirically, about what politics is, how it works, & how elite cues shape public opinion in real time. The idea that you have to take it as given & leave changing it for others in a future election is utterly detached from reality across space & time.

Good meeting with Keir Starmer in Munich. Europe and the UK share similar challenges. it is natural that we work closer to protect our people and common interests. We had a successful summit last year - let's keep the momentum and deliver at the next one.

The Epstein files make clear how easy it is for "elite" academics to get away with lying for personal gain. In 2011, for ex, Harvard professor Shing-Tung Yau asked Epstein for $1.5M to keep 6 professors from leaving Harvard, adding "of course, I shall come up with some serious proposal." 1/

i love how texas started this and was all “neener what you gon do” and a buncha blue states said “lol watch this”

We have to stick together. We cannot take chances of blowing the midterms because of infighting. There is no perfect candidate. Get it together. Unify. Protest. Vote Blue. Do what you can & must do to fight authoritarian rule. No Kings. Only democracy. Stand up. Get loud. Fight. #ProudBlue #Pinks

Koh: I wish that Kristi Noem had as much passion for homeland security as she has passion for Corey Lewandowski.