America desperately needs a functioning and independent House as a check on Trump’s chaos and mania. It will never have that as long as Mike Johnson is Speaker. Every vote for a House Republican is a vote to give Trump unchecked power for two more years.

Now we learn the billionaire owner of a bridge that will compete w/the new Canada-MI bridge met with Lutnick right before Trump issued his threat to shut down the new bridge. The Trump admin is a lawless mafia gangster extortion racket existing to enrich oligarchs at our expense.

A CBP agent or officer has been arrested every 24 to 36 hours since 2005 — and there's every reason to believe that ICE has similar cultural misconduct problems, as it's set to be turbocharged with 10,000 new officers. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

How quickly they forget.

UPDATE: Now Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein have both invoked the Fifth Amendment when asked about Trump.

Rep. Walkinshaw leaving today’s ICE hearing: “All of this comes from Stephen Miller’s sick, twisted, deranged Great Replacement Theory.” He says when Dems have the majority they will subpoena Miller to testify: “If he doesn’t he will end up in prison for contempt.” @pabloreports.bsky.social

WATCH — @balint.house.gov on the unredacted Epstein files: “There’s a bunch of sick fucks… so many people knew…. Trump never kicked Epstein out of Mar-A-Lago. That’s a lie.” (From @dropsitenews.com )

But now that the bridge is completed many years later and is about to open, Trump is using it in another extortion attempt.

Here's what DHS doesn't want you to know: Working for ICE is one of the safest jobs in America — and last year was the second-safest year for the agency on record. And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once. The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...

A federal court just upheld California’s law REQUIRING federal agents to identify themselves. California will keep standing up for civil rights and our democracy.

"Hate thy Neighbor as Thyself: The Gospel of JD" snyder.substack.com/p/hate-thy-n...

$10 billion for childcare and other social services protected because 5 Dem AGs sued to protect it. ⚖️

💯 percent this could happen

Rep. @reprashida.govpeeps.us : “A whistle and a cell phone — that’s all our residents are using to protect themselves in the streets… they’re making money off our babies being imprisoned.” (H/T @oversightdemocrats.bsky.social )

The Republican Party should stand by their strong English-only position by ending the massive number of political ads they run on Spanish language radio and TV stations every election.

INBOX: A Republican in Tennessee tells us they were sent this threatening text message 👇🏽 (The link goes here, where it says donations will benefit Trump’s joint fundraising committee: secure.winred.com/team-emmer/2...)

It’s very telling that Ghislaine Maxwell was happy to sit down with Trump’s former criminal defense attorney Todd Blanche for 2 days & answer his pathetic questions in exchange for special treatment, but she will refuse to answer all questions from anyone else including Congress.

It’s insane that the Trump admin wants to double the already massive US military budget in just 2 years when we are not at war. Trump’s DOD budgets are a cesspool of corruption and grift for the military industrial complex, scammers and grifters, including Donald Trump, Jr.

It's usually the ones you most suspect.

NBC is editing out JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. CBS and ABC paid millions in bogus settlements to fund Trump. CNN made Scott Jennings a rightwing star. The Washington Post just laid off 300 journalists. Support independent media. Subscribe to Democracy Docket. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

It’s almost like Putin is running our foreign policy.

“Late Friday night, the Fifth Circuit adopted the extreme minority view—that the government can indefinitely detain without bond millions of non-citizens who have been here for generations; who have never committed a crime; and who pose neither a risk of flight nor any threat to public safety.”

MAGA-aligned military commanders are pressuring enlisted service members to go to the Melania movie and bring their families. Troops at 8 different bases have complained. www.businessinsider.com/us-military-...

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NEW STORY: Trump admits he was the one who found the video and asked that it be posted from his Truth Social account. Refuses to apologize.

A Border Patrol agent shot her five times—then bragged about it to his buddies.   Today, a federal court ruled those texts must be released.   The American people deserve transparency just as much as Marimar deserves justice.

The contrast between President @barackobama.bsky.social and the current President could not be clearer.

Trump said he would fight for “forgotten Americans.” I didn’t know that meant Jeff Bezos. Despite making $89.5 BILLION in profits last year, Amazon paid just 3.1% in taxes. This is what Republicans’ SNAP & Medicaid cuts were for. Guess that ‘Melania’ doc really paid off.

My law firm intervened in every case DOJ has filed to gain access to states' sensitive voting data. So far we have won several and lost none. But this is going to be a long fight for free and fair elections.

DHS must provide answers about what is happening to children at this facility. No child should be detained in these conditions.

If it was a staffer, it was someone who is very close to Trump. Someone he trusts enough to let him post in his name. Someone he knows extremely well and spends a lot of time with. Which shows yet again that the people Trump trusts the most are racists because that’s who he is.

Tom the Dancing Bug: A Trump Government Community Bulletin

Important thread on the Republicans latest attempt to rig the midterms.

In the documents the Department of Homeland Security said the raid "was based on intelligence that there were illegal aliens unlawfully occupying apartments in the building." There is no mention of criminal gangs or Tren de Aragua. n.pr/4qqVxpj

👀 One good clue that @MarshaBlackburn knows she is not well liked is her ZERO TOWN HALLS SINCE 2017!

This is appalling - probably part of Kristi Noem's training manual.

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They want to pick their voters, and make it harder for the rest of us to vote.

Minnesota…

A tragic day for global security. The last major US-Russia nuclear arms control treaty has expired. With limits on strategic arsenals gone, the world is now a more dangerous place. My latest: michaelmcfaul.substack.com/p/the-tragic...

Anti-woke, worse—a lot worse, tbh—than woke. “The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument. Among the anticipated changes? No longer calling his murderer a ‘racist.’” mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...

It’s bad enough that we’re subsidizing extremely profitable sports teams with our tax dollars to build stadiums, but we’re letting them charge us $17 dollars for a beer and $11 dollars for a damn hotdog at the concession stand? Enough. Here’s one thing we can do about it.

LONDON — 🇬🇧 people put Elon’s email to Epstein up at a bus stop 👀 This is who we’re letting poison Memphis and drill a hole in Nashville? 🤔

The reaction of the Trump admin from Karoline Leavitt: “It’s a brutal war.” That’s all you get. That’s the reaction. Don’t forget to thank Trump, or Vance will get upset.

ICE investigators were supposed to investigate the killing of Alex Pretti. Instead, they investigated Alex. Not his killers. With FBI now leading this probe, I’m calling on Kristi Noem and Kash Patel: Remove all ICE agents from this investigation completely.

Bessent has arrogance but not competence. He also said Americans are losing faith in the Federal Reserve - of course that is Trump's and his doing. A real stain on America.

Let’s be clear: when the Trump administration kills or stalls energy generation projects, that’s the White House choosing to make your electricity more expensive. Americans deserve better.

Trump on the Epstein files and survivors seeking justice: “I think it’s really time for the country to get on to something else." [Via CNN]

This is how our government has been corrupted: 1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians to office. 2) Elected officials rewrite the rules in the donors' favor. 3) Donors make a huge profit. 4) Repeat. For the sake of democracy, we must get Big Money out of politics.