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Robert Reich
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Google gave ICE the sensitive personal data of a student journalist, including his bank account and credit card info, without even letting him know. The company is also helping bankroll Trumpโs vanity ballroom project. Google is enabling fascism โ all to protect its bottom line.
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Michael D
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The sad part is that they have been groomed to follow an authoritarian leader, so he can do or say anything and they wonโt care.
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A thread of sheep photos
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Idaho Capital Sun
1 day ago
Here's a crash course on what the 5% state budget holdbacks advancing in the
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@idahocapitalsun.com
staff busted out this week. What we found is that these cuts could affect nearly every Idahoan in some way.
#idpol
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Legislative notebook: Budget committee sends funding cuts to full Idaho House, Senate floors โข Idaho Capital Sun
This week, we did something a little differently than we ever have before at the Idaho Capital Sun. After spending the last five years, day in and day out, covering as many Idaho legislative committee...
https://idahocapitalsun.com/2026/02/14/legislative-notebook-budget-committee-sends-funding-cuts-to-full-idaho-house-senate-floors/
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Dan Yocum. Ugh.
1 day ago
Read this headline. Then read it again.
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Dan Yocum. Ugh.
1 day ago
Here we have fucking Idaho. I mean, thoughts and prayers have worked *so well* for gun violence, letโs do it for climate change, too.
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Protests, violence, little snow: Idaho lawmakers call for prayer and fasting
House Majority Leader encourages residents to pray for divine guidance for state leaders โ and for rain and snow to replenish water supplies.
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article314691234.html
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Michael D
about 23 hours ago
Rubio is a spineless dickhead
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Wonderingwanker
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Africa is going solar. Trump is going all in on coal! Thats the direction weโre headed!
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Lauren Necochea
about 21 hours ago
The "In Case You Missed It" list from the
@idahocapitalsun.com
is stunning. News in Idaho these days is essentially all the ways the Republicans' fiscal mismanagement is causing deep harm to our state. I'm saddened by risks to lives and livelihoods and the higher costs coming down the road.
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Shelley
about 15 hours ago
A reminder of conspiracy theories that ran deep in the Trump admin leading upto January 6th. Ex Rep. Rigglemen ran the data analysis for the committee. It is frightening. We see the same playbook occurring right now for the elections.
youtu.be/n9adLsXTpZQ?...
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Former January 6 committee technical adviser Denver Riggleman: The 60 Minutes Interview
YouTube video by 60 Minutes
https://youtu.be/n9adLsXTpZQ?si=N9zZ8lBoJ8sgjI8U
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Alicia Abbott
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14 women knocked 600 doors yesterday in the Idaho Panhandle for the Reproductive Freedom & Privacy Act Initiative. We were in a gas station parking lot for our first meet up. People were VERY curious about what we were doing ๐ Hereโs a list of people we met.
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Rachel Maddow
about 20 hours ago
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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Broken bones, burning eyes: How Trump's DHS deploys 'less lethal' weapons on protesters
Federal immigration officers have repeatedly used force in ways that appear to violate their own policies or general policing guidelines, NBC News found.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-dhs-immigration-protests-injuries-less-lethal-weapons-force-rcna258388
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1 day ago
Possible call script: "Hello, I am calling to voice my concern about the Department of Homeland Security leasing office space at the St Luke's Meridian Portico complex. DHS has not been forthcoming with what this office space will be used for,
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Acyn
1 day ago
Raskin: What makes somebody a good lawyer? You have to identify with the people who are the victims of injustice โ not with their perpetrators. So I would say to Pam Bondi: If youโre going to stand with the victimizers and not the victims, then youโre not a real lawyer.
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Rachel Maddow
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Enraging that this took a court order: "Catholic nuns and clergy had visited the facility for years, offering prayer services and holy communion to detainees during visitor hours. Trump Administration immigration authorities rolled back that access in September..."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...
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Judge Orders ICE to Let Clergy Give Communion to Detained Migrants on Ash Wednesday
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/us/politics/ice-detention-catholics-ash-wednesday.html
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Rachel Maddow
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โI am too scared to drive my 5-year-old daughter to school in my husbandโs car. Iโm terrified ICE will detain me and our daughter will end up alone,โ she said. โThis is just as scary as the war in Ukraine, except now we donโt have Dmytro with us..."
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Laughing ICE Goons Seize Dad Who Fled Ukraine War at Walmart
Dmytro Kulyk is facing deportation as refugees become the Trump administrationโs latest target.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/laughing-ice-goons-seize-dad-who-fled-ukraine-war-at-walmart/?via=twitter_page&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb
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#TuckFrump
1 day ago
What is it about Minnesota that made it a target for Trumpโs ICE crackdown?
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What is it about Minnesota that made it a target for Trumpโs ICE crackdown?
https://twp.ai/9PbJv2
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Rebel with a Cause
1 day ago
NFL franchise owners in the EPSTEIN e-mails & assorted docs Partial list: *Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots *Steve Tisch, co-owner of the New York Giants *Stephen Ross, owner of the Miami Dolphins *Zygi Wilf, owner of the Minnesota Vikings *Arthur Blank, owner of the Atlanta Falcons
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The NFL Owners and Olympic Organizers in Epsteinโs Inbox
The sports media is ignoring the story, but wealthy sports figures are all over the Epstein files.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/nfl-owners-casey-wasserman-epstein-files/?utm_campaign=SproutSocial&utm_content=The+Nation+Magazine,thenation&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky,twitter
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Robert Reich
1 day ago
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. Itโs not about what this country can or canโt afford. Itโs about priorities.
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sam stroozas
2 days ago
hello minnesota and beyond! thank you for your kind messages. it is very weird to be the news when you cover the news. i love this beautiful state and journalism, and i am hopeful for better days. but we will be forever changed bc of the last two months.
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Meet Minnesota Bathrobe Lady Sam Stroozas of MPR News | Minnesota Public Radio
Earlier this week, an unexpected and fast-moving incident unfolded in St. Paul, Minnesota involving both federal and local law enforcement. As crowds gathered and questions mounted, one of our MPR New...
https://www.mpr.org/stories/2026/02/13/meet-bathrobe-lady-sam-stroozas-mpr-news
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Jon Cooper
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Skip
1 day ago
More concentration camps; they aren't acquiring new prisons for immigrants, these concentration camps are for anyone who disagrees with Donny Babbles.
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Barb McQuade
1 day ago
Wealth inequality has set the stage for our current political condition. The billionaires stay in power by dividing the groups who might otherwise unite and oust them from power. The race baiting, xenophobia, homophobia, and faux religious pandering is all part of the strategy. We shall overcome.
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Philip Mai
8 days ago
Palantir, Deloitte, and the private prison giant GEO Group took in more than $22 billion from ICE and CBP last year. Behind the spreadsheets and contracts, there's a quieter truth: someone is getting rich from cages, borders, and human pain. Profit has always been fluent in the language of cruelty.
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Companies reap $22bn from Trumpโs immigration crackdown
Palantir and Deloitte among beneficiaries of spending by government agencies
https://www.ft.com/content/c74170d3-237d-459c-8642-bfd71530897d
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Brent Toderian
3 days ago
โI don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,โ says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. โI don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.โ Sounds accurate to me.
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The Fight Over US Climate Rules Is Just Beginning
As the EPA moves to roll back the endangerment finding, which allows it to regulate greenhouse gases, experts predict uncertainty for business and a protracted legal fight.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-fight-over-us-climate-rules-is-just-beginning/
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Adam Parkhomenko
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NOTUS
2 days ago
NOTUS reviewed dozens of habeas corpus lawsuits filed in Minnesota and interviewed several detainees, many of whose stories paint a very different picture of the deportation surge than the one described by the Trump administration. via
@josepagliery.bsky.social
www.notus.org/immigration/...
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Homan Said They Were โCriminals.โ Minnesota Detainees Tell a Different Story.
Through interviews and lawsuits, detainees say the White Houseโs description of the operation in Minneapolis as targeted criminal enforcement couldnโt be further from the truth.
https://www.notus.org/immigration/minnesota-detainees-lawsuits-trump-ice-homan
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ElizabethC ๐๐ธ
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Here's the plan: he'll seize the election whatever it takes. He knows loss in Nov. will strip much of his power, & he'll do what it takes to survive. Check your registration. Take backpacks full of ID's if you have to. Help old or isolated people to get a good ID & register. Vote early.
#ProudBlue
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Rachel
1 day ago
New camp in Romulus? Breaking laws before it even opens? I love Michigan and I love our communities. All of them. We cannot let this happen.
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Jake Snow
2 days ago
The ACLU (including my team) has filed multiple actions to block subpoenas sent by DHS to identify people speaking out against its abuses. Today's NYT story shows that those cases are the tip of the iceberg: DHS has sent HUNDREDS of subpoenas to tech companies.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
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Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-social-media.html
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Jacqueline Antonovich
1 day ago
Happy Valentine's Day! The National Capital Planning Commission has opened the public comment period on the East Wing Modernization Project, including the proposed construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom addition to the White House complex. Written comments are due March 4, 2026 at Noon ET.
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Public Comment Period Open: White House Ballroom Proposal | National Trust for Historic Preservation
The National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) has opened the public comment period on the East Wing Modernization Project, including the proposed construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom additi...
https://savingplaces.org/public-comment-period-white-house-ballroom?utm_medium=email&utm_source=update
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Foreign Policy
1 day ago
At the Munich Security Conference, European leaders are not holding back in assessing that the post-World War II global order is kaputโand they blame Trump.
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Facing the Elephant in Munich
Europe is not tiptoeing around Trump anymore.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/02/13/munich-security-conference-msc-merz-germany-trump-europe/
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Catherine ๐จ๐ฆ ๐
2 days ago
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The Editorial Board
1 day ago
They are jailing kids. No due process. No concern for their welfare. Just snatching them and jailing them. I donโt expect people to remember this five years from now, but we should. We should remember when the government commits evil.
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Rachel Maddow
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Mother Jones
1 day ago
The Trump administration's social media repurposes language and cultural references with connections to neo-Nazi and white supremacist movements. It's content that experts say is instantly recognizable to those who are in the white supremacist know, but can be largely invisible to everyone else.
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The US government will not stop sharing Nazi propaganda
And their supporters are loving it.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/nazi-propaganda-trump-white-house-dhs-kristi-noem-social-media/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=slack
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MAKS 25 ๐๐บ๐ฆ
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We also went over the work on security guarantees for Ukraine. The clarity and precise understanding of each point are crucial for our societyโs trust in the security guarantees document. For all Ukrainians, it is vital that security guarantees are ratified by the U.S. Congress.
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emptywheel
2 days ago
Via
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storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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elias isquith
2 days ago
this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where โ at a bare minimum โ they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper.
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fElon Musk
1 day ago
Because if you're a dictator and you're going to require a passport to vote, you also have to make it impossible to get one. The Pedofรผhrer's SAVE Act is blatant, orchestrated, unconstitutional, voter suppression.
apnews.com/article/pass...
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State Department orders nonprofit libraries to stop processing passport applications
The State Department has ordered nonprofit public libraries to stop taking passport applications, cutting off a popular local service.
https://apnews.com/article/passport-libraries-rubio-nonprofit-0a800e2661c1a07c6a81a40f3801af2f
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andrew โ lyons
1 day ago
He clumsily read his speech from the page without hardly looking up and told everyone in the room to follow the US's lead or suck it. He accused Europe of managed decline by not being racist enough, and if it doesn't fall in line then America won't be there for it. Not sure how reassuring that is.
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Grumpy-ish Brian๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐ช๐บ๐ฎ๐ช
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I know his lies don't make the news anymore but we must keep trying to get the message out! He talks bollocks!
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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy
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Alt National Park Service
5 days ago
Some warehouse owners have even backed out of sales after learning how the properties might be used. It feels like something bigger is unfolding, and it doesnโt sit right. Please pay attention. Why would this many warehouses be needed to hold people?
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Guardrails of Democracy
1 day ago
Holy Shit! ๐๐ฉธ๐ฆ Rep. Massie staff receiving threats from the ๐ฆง & Kash goons? M@G@Ts, you still want to call MTG a liar? Thereโs worse than we know to be uncovered in those Epstein Files.
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Joey Fishkin
2 days ago
This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of Californiaโor rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
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Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-02-13/trump-drops-appeal-of-court-order-blocking-uc-ucla-settlement
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Sean Sublette
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Offshore wind is a huge reason it survived.
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Ricky Davila
2 days ago
Deranged chaos agent RFK Jr recently went on a propaganda podcast and admitted that heโs not scared of germs because he used snort cocaine off of toilet seats. We went from actual medical professionals leading US Health to this demented repugnant asshole wanting to kill us all.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
2 days ago
Sure sure letโs order the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) to end all pandemic preparedness and biodefense work. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
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Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation
Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and โbiodefenseโ from the agencyโs website.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00468-1
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