Quinnipiac poll | 1/29-2/2 RV President Trump approval Disapprove 56% (+2) Approve 37% (-3) poll.qu.edu/poll-release...

Breaking News: The Supreme Court cleared the way for California to use a new congressional map designed to help Democrats in the midterms.

Context: one of the speakers at a packed Surprise, AZ city council meeting after it was revealed that ICE has purchased a massive warehouse in town to use as a detention facility. The City Council has said they didn't know about it, and have no authority to stop it.

The 413's congressmen have joined an effort to have Homeland Security @Sec_Noem removed from office. #mapoli wmasspi.com/2026/01/mcgo...

We’re literally killing ourselves. They’ve been working on cutting edge cancer vaccines

According to FOX 9, a Minneapolis federal judge demanded to know why DOJ is missing deadlines & AUSA Julie Le said, "The system sucks, this job sucks" & asked to be held in contempt so she could sleep. PACER shows she got assigned to defend the govt in 88+ cases since Operation Metro Surge started.

www.youtube.com/@JudiciaryCe... Yikes… while the video is well-done and I love the sentiment, it’s not real.

Fellow Arkansan on here, let’s talk about pressuring our delegation to stand up for one of our state’s great contributions to American cultural life.

also, this, from the New York Times, is correct, Bad Bunny should not have had to be the first of the night’s broadcast to make an explicit anti-ICE statement. " www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/o...

Much like the White House, the Kennedy Center does not belong to the president and he doesn't get to just do with it as he pleases. The time to seek every kind of injunction imaginable is now, unless you want the view from the Watergate to look like the East Wing, too Hope we learned that lesson!

The person to watch is David Rubenstein, who has poured millions in philanthropy into the Kennedy Center, is not going to be pleased about this, and has money, ego, and patriotism long enough to sustain a long-ass legal battle. Particularly since his cash isn't crypto.

New picture of DC dropped.

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

"“Triumph of the Will” is very controversial, but you can’t deny that as a piece of filmmaking it is a very impressive achievement. You can like something without agreeing with its politics." "Yes, probably so."

I was hanging up curtains one time, and I sort of shouted over at my spouse that I wished they made apartment friendly curtain rods that you didn’t have to screw into the wall. Literally the next day I started getting ads for them.

It is wild to send an email claiming that a bill that would prevent people from making AI-generated videos of candidates saying things they never said is being framed as an attack on the first amendment rights *of the person creating the misinformation.*

… The Center “will close on July 4th, 2026, in honor of the 250th Anniversary of our Country”

Northwestern District Attorney David Sullivan, who covers Hampshire and Franklin counties, said the rights of residents need to be protected despite actions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. https://bit.ly/3Z907NS

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

According to the Pew Research Center, about 6% of US journalists identify as Black. Among journalists recently arrested by the Republican regime, 100% identify as Black. www.ap.org/news-highlig...

Deep breathing is necessary as new Epstein files drop.

For Liam.

Register for the March 11 #TownMeeting symposium today! Join Jane Mansbridge, Mark DiSalvo, Adam Chapdelaine and more.

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BREAKING: The Trump regime has detained former CNN host Don Lemon. A week ago, the regime tried to charge Lemon for covering an anti-ICE protest inside a Minnesota church, but a magistrate judge rejected the move. Lemon predicted: “They’re going to try again.” Apparently, he was right.

Good man. 🔥 bsky.app/profile/anno...

Senator Susan Collins was one of the top 3 recipients of campaign cash from Palantir executives in the 2024 election cycle. Palantir is the company that won contracts to let ICE build a database on protesters. #MEPolitics purgepalantir.com/the-palantir...

Tillis:

AP makes sure to squeeze this tidbit in. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/wars...

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

actually it's a commonwealth

The @slsvcoalition.org advisory board members are here to help. #SLSV #Democracy

Did you know that a 1999 psychological sciences study found that schoolchildren who watched the Challenger explosion live, like yours truly, seems to be suffering from distant-traumatic effects? That & more in today’s post on the 40th anniversary of the Challenger tragedy. 🗃️

Register for the March 11 #TownMeeting symposium today! Join Jane Mansbridge, Mark DiSalvo, Adam Chapdelaine and more.

Deliberation & Division: Making Change at The New England Town Meeting Symposium March 11, 2026

Friendly advice to edit this piece. This is not accurate: "There are currently four Francesca’s locations in Massachusetts, according to the company website, in Natick, Burlington, Braintree and Wrentham" Aside from 2 stores in #WMass (Holyoke, Longmeadow), there are others, looks like 10 in total.

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Please read the piece with comments from tech & national security experts. We have no national security while we rely on highly political US Silicon Valley firms that are enmeshed in Trump’s increasing fascistic administration. 3/

"Palantir’s software has been used by ICE... for years, with new reporting revealing how it is being used to target and locate immigrants. Thiel has been publicly supportive of authoritarian government, saying that he “no longer think[s] that freedom and democracy are compatible”."

Trump's relentless bullying of Ukraine presented as a "peace process" is making us sound like broken records. Like, how many times do we have to say that asking Ukraine to withdraw from its most fortified region in exchange for another useless Budapest memorandum offer is a dumb proposition?

"How do class gaps compare to race and gender gaps? Strikingly, we find that the class gaps in tenure-track academia are as large as or larger than analogous race or gender gaps."

This quantification of loss is staggering. And knowing some of the excellent people that make up these numbers… is heartbreaking www.science.org/content/arti...

Uh. So ICE just technically tried to invade Ecuador. Cool new international incident dropping.

Congratulations to the Kamala Will Take Your Guns crowd

EU Commission asked about comments on loss of life by ICE. “No comment” Follow-up: You condemned killing of Floyd, what is it now? “No comment. We condemn all loss of lives”. Follow-up: clarify “innocent lives.. you see these as innocent lives?” “We didn’t say innocent, it’s for US Gov to decide.”

R.I. advocates backing separate bill to make crash data public. The Department of Transportation refuses to release traffic accident data, but the Providence Streets Coalition says 42 other states make such information public. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/01/27/m...

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

"violence hides inside routine and familiarity"