It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

🤪😂 Trump: “Only the very best.” Reality: Secretary Brain-worm the Heroine addict

This is an incredible photo.

Just a reminder that the Trump admin calls immigrants who’ve fallen into drug addiction “the worst of the worst” criminals, no matter how long ago their addiction problems.

BLUMENTHAL: Were you mistaken when you said no US citizen is subject to immigration enforcement? LYONS: No sir BLUMENTHAL: Well, who is lying? You or him? The facts contradict what you said

cool, cool. so we are sort of like citizens, but not really?

“We would expect support for full social transition to be agreed very rarely” There you have it, the gov wants trans kids to rot in the closet

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

“This is why they're cracking down on observers more aggressively these days, because they know that this project – predicated on lies about lawlessness and violence in these targeted communities – cannot survive the simple power of a photograph or, increasingly, a video.”

30 countries use mail voting

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

I would love to have a discussion with Jake Tapper about the history of the term "concentration camp" and its usage. It would do so much good if he would actually address this head on.

I’m glad to see people protesting Discord forcing IDs for age verification, but what I need everyone to understand is that there’s immense bipartisan pressure to make the entire internet like this, and they are likely going to succeed unless something drastic happens

It's time to call out the GOP for what they are: a party that prioritizes power over people. The SAVE Act 2.0 is just the latest example of their attempts to silence our voices and maintain their grip on power. ➡️202-224-3121 - #StopTheSaveAct #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think we should be taking scientific advice from a demented pedophile who tried to redraw a hurricane chart with a sharpie.

He’s absolutely right that prisons and other detention places were bad under Dem presidents. And know what today’s critics of ICE did then? Complain abt it and demand change. Is this just a lame deflection, or do GOPers like this genuinely not understand that not all ppl put party loyalty first?

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

You gotta admit, the staffers in the background keeping it real are the best part.

She is an empty suit, of course. And an absolute nasty piece of cornbread. She is also, to my somewhat trained ear, absolutely, positively terrified here. She is either intimidated by the process or deeply anxious about her relationship with her boss. Or both. But she is terrified.

I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*) The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.

Who's the most famous alum of your high school? <tie> Ryan Klesko of the Atlanta Braves and SD Padres And Penelope Spheeris Decline of Western Civilization & Waynes World.

under questioning from Peters, ICE officials confirm that Kristi Noem's claim about Pretti being a "domestic terrorist" was not based on information from them

Israeli Soldiers Accused of Using Polymarket to Bet on Strikes

NEW Reign of Error episode today! I spoke with @lkatfield.bsky.social, author of the book Furious Minds: Inside the MAGA New Right, about her essay in @theatlantic.com last week about this far right movement and the regime's growing use of Nazi propaganda: redcircle.com/shows/fbed71...

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

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

Bondi whining to the guy who covered up rape at OSU. Multiple OSU people in the Epstein Files.

Toxic Empathy = Toxic Self-Righteousness. "I'm better than that person, and until they acknowledge I'm not a lowly sinner like they are and change to suit my personal beliefs ... I have zero duty to them as a Christian."

"Who cares if the President is a rapist and pedophile! Who cares if the Commerce Sec and his family has lunch with Epstein ... after all the stock market has hit a high note!"

There is nothing funnier or sadder than the total lack of self-awareness shown by the Maga/Epstein class.

I’m sure the lawmakers who were outraged that their toll (phone) records were obtained in the course of a predicated federal investigation through a subpoena are going to back Rep. Jayapal in being outraged at just lawless surveillance of her (and likely others’) search history, right?

"It is totally inappropriate and against the separations of powers for the DOJ to surveil us as we search the Epstein files. (US Attorney General) Bondi showed up today with a burn book that held a printed search history of exactly what emails I searched." - Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).

This is how CBS Evening News depicted data showing that less than 14% of ICE arrests involved those accused or convicted of violent crimes, and less than 2% had homicide or sexual assault charges or convictions.

Pam Bondi couldn’t even come prepared for her own staged temper tantrum. this is the nation’s “top law enforcement” official btw 🤡 maybe she became a lawyer because the acting career didn’t work out!!

Breaking: House passes new version of SAVE Act, worst voter suppression bill considered by Congress. Could disenfranchise: -21 million Americans w/out access to citizenship papers -69 mil married women who took partner’s name -21 mil w/out valid drivers license www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

also IF the AI doomerism was correct and we are in the process of building literal Skynet the ONLY ethical way forward would be to deploy lethal military violence against the AI industry and it's researchers worldwide. If you aren't suggesting that, you don't believe this is end-the-world serious.

i feel like in the Coen Brothers universe a lot of people are really sad right now to learn The Dude is in the Jackie Treehorn files.

This is some genuinely psycho shit...

So, to wrap up today's insanity: President Trump, who is deeply implicated in a pedophilia scandal involving his best friend, the sex trafficker, sent Attorney General Bondi -- who only has that job because Trump's first choice was also implicated in a separate pedophilia scandal -- to the House...

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.

CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"

CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.

The Trump administration is going directly after LGBTQ healthcare providers and targeting them with threats of losing access to Medicaid/Medicare payments. This is government by tweet, where every day, HHS targets more and more GAC providers with threats of investigation and withholding of funding.

UMass abruptly canceled bottom surgery appointments for hundreds of patients with no explanation. Some had surgery dates booked a year in advance, others were scheduled to get revisions done. www.wgbh.org/news/health/...

This guts me

Keep track of the escalations. The 21-yr-old who's been posting openly white-supremacist, antisemitic graphics for Dept. of Labor just got a giant promotion to run social media for DHS's 222,000 employees. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

Rep. Kennedy: "Do you believe your agency has a legal obligation to follow court orders?" ICE Director Lyons: "Yes." Rep. Kennedy: "You have a very strange way of showing it, with a federal judge finding that your agency is in violation of 96 orders in one month alone."