🥳AP: Democrat Christian Menefee won a Texas U.S. House seat in a Saturday special election that will narrow Republicans’ already-slim majority.

I can’t get over how increasingly desperate and worried district judges are — they are doing all the right things — and how they’re being betrayed by appellate judges and a Supreme Court, both too cowardly to stand behind their decisions.

There simply has to be consequences

I don’t think the argument is that backsliding started in 2025 but the rate of change in 2025 was more rapid than in other countries that fell under authoritarian regimes

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.

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

This is happening a lot to female journalists. So here is a modest proposal for the White House press corps: Stand together. No one should ask another question until the President answers the question that was ignored.

The rapid erosion of our freedoms under Trump is shocking and repulsive

Somali women serving tea and samosas during Alex Pretti's memorial The memorial was powerful, but the support we’ve seen over the last few weeks is what really stands out. It’s a stunning reminder of what happens when we lead with our shared humanity.

This is tear gassing protesters just for protesting. There is no threat, and the only danger presented is ICE behaving recklessly. There is no provocation; this is just straight up assault.

Each time I point out that the Republican platform is simple (they want to sexually abuse children, and they want you to pay for it), a few people think I'm exaggerating, and usually some small number of people think I'm being sardonic or something. I mean it quite literally.

Jeffrey Epstein did not stop raping children after his 2008 conviction. Jeffrey Epstein did not stop facilitating the rape of children after his 2008 conviction. He kept doing it. That is the context of people treating him as a normal person after his conviction. /1 www.cnn.com/2020/01/15/u...

Another thing I want to drive home here is that Texas has no campaign finance laws and Republicans way outspent Democrats here. It's not like they didn't try!

if you’re a Republican up for reelection this fall, you are not safe

folks… eday has been bluer than the early vote so far this is a 30 point swing at present

Sharing this amazing poem with the kind permission of the author. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Alberto Castañeda Mondragón entered the U.S. in 2022 with valid immigration documents, no criminal record, & the only thing wrong is he overstayed his visa, which still doesn’t make him “the worst of the worst“. ICE ruins a man’s health & ability to work & then walks away. THAT’S the INJUSTICE.

Reminder that Anne Frank died not in the gas chamber but of typhus.

Danish Veterans Stage Protest at U.S. Embassy Over Trump’s Greenland Threats open.substack.com/pub/rawstory...

Witness told FBI Trump threatened to ‘disappear’ girl and have her ‘whole family killed’ www.rawstory.com/trump-epstei...

10/10 ICE protest sign

The senators had argued Blanche’s shutdown of crypto investigations would help support drug trafficking, child exploitation and scams. Now, they say their fears have been realized: Illicit crypto activities surged in 2025, a study found.

Mr. Pig feels the #corgi wrath of Miss Gwen. #corgicrew #dogsofbluesky.

shocked that the guy who runs the kiddie porn generator kept trying to get an invitation to the special island where pedophiles hunt middle-schoolers for sport

Spot on! 🎯🎯🎯

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

We rejected great candidates like Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris in favor of a deranged narcissist, who promotes Project 2025, which aims to remove civil service protections and bring independent agencies like the DOJ and FBI under direct presidential control.

JANE FONDA: “I know Don Lemon. My husband created CNN. And I will fight for their right to speak… they arrested the wrong Don. This is how autocrats act. We can’t fall for it.”

The FBI was able to access Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's Signal messages because she used Signal on her work laptop. The laptop accepted Touch ID for authentication, meaning the agents were allowed to require her to unlock it. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Better late than never! Thank you for your patience here - here's all of the Ups & Downs for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy S1Ep4 - Vox In Excelso #StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy youtube.com/watch?v=KP6c...

"It’s really a shame that I learned all of this too late."

The DOJ is now officially complicit and co-conspirators in the rape and murder of children.

A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community. n.pr/4thWiUr

And Peter Attia MD telling Epstein the biggest problem with being his friend is he can’t tell anyone about the life he lives. Nice.

The United States is genuinely run by pedophiles

again it is very funny that conspiracy theorists think they need to crack some elaborate code the elites use to communicate, when in reality they're just like "see you at sex crime island! bring the harem!"

People stand on a frozen lake in Minneapolis in a formation that spells out "SOS" in protest. 📷 David Guttenfelder, The New York Times

Walter Trier - Lilliput, November 1943

Everything Trump has ever been accused of is true

New NHTSA crash data, combined with Tesla’s new disclosure of robotaxi mileage, reveals Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher than human drivers, and that’s with a safety monitor in every car. Tesla has reported 9 crashes involving its robotaxi fleet in Austin, TX. /1

Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis

BREAKING: A federal judge just ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father from immigration custody — condemning their removal from Minneapolis as unconstitutional. Judge Fred Biery condemned "the perfidious lust for unbridled power" and "the imposition of cruelty."

"The case has its genesis in the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children."

i can’t believe the lead nazi is antisemitic

so all we agree he didn’t kill himself right

Popping out of the vehicle guns drawn and pointing them at a legal observer exercising her constitutional rights. Everything about this is reckless, dangerous, the opposite of law & order and keeping anyone safe… how do people see this and not see masked secret police style terror on US streets

Again, when Bari Weiss said she wanted to do "the fucking news" she apparently meant something different than what we initially assumed

DHS should be embarrassed that their ICE agent hires are so soft they can’t handle being videotaped, even while masked, so they resort to pepper spraying women at close range. And we should be proud of the Santa Barbara women who stood their ground anyway.