Private tax collection should be a federal crime IMO. There is literally no reason for any level of government to outsource its most basic function.

"We are the good police who will round up immigrants so the feds don't shoot you" is not a particularly compelling argument for any policing. Also, if a federal agency is threatening an invasion against residents for "disobeying," it seems like that agency should not exist?

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 12 Advocate: IN Bureau of Motor Vehicles quietly sneaks in ban on changing gender markers on state ID with new notice to website saying it no longer accepts court orders OR medical documentation recognizing trans people's genders.

SB6045, a bill to allow farmworker collective bargaining in WA state, will soon be voted on in WAs Senate. This bill is critical for WA farm workers like those at Windmill mushroom who have been fighting to get a contract since 2022. Take action today: act.seiu.org/a/waorganizi...

This hairstyle really has become the reddest of red flags, huh

Trump threatens to support primaries against Republicans who vote against tariffs

Nearly a year ago, Zohran Mamdani confronted Trump “border czar” Tom Homan after ICE took Mahmoud Khalil. Republicans targeted pro-Palestine students. Then, with no firm pushback, expanded their operations to what we see today. Mamdani was among the few Democrats who immediately stood against it.

Culver City? Home of Sony Pictures and some of the best restaurants in the city, and, yes, NPR Studios. Bondi has no idea of the geography of Los Angeles.

Pam Bondi clings to her job by acting tough, but her performance before the judiciary committee feels like a scene where panic replaces dignity, giving the public the pathetic spectacle of a career in freefall. #ProudBlue #DV1

BREAKING: We’ve raised $20 million from 290,000 people since launching our grassroots campaign! $0 from corporate PACs. This is what a people-powered movement looks like.

A golden age.

Thanks to Trump, two kids have been scarred for life. www.nydailynews.com/2026/02/11/p...

Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you

Rhetorial question but how is it ice's job to go after agitators

Keep being sent this completely nonsensical hogslop. It has multiple egregious lies, which is appropriate because he’s a fraud. Back in September 2024 he falsified a bunch of benchmarks to hype up his open source model. Article is total dogshit. I should annotate it venturebeat.com/ai/reflectio...

Ron Johnson to Keith Ellison: "Two people are dead because you encouraged them to put themselves into harm's way! And now you are exploiting those two martyrs. You ought to feel damn guilty about it. Yeah, sit there and smirk. Smirk. It's sick! It's despicable. You disgust me."

They’re dead because you and your party sent a death squad after them and their neighbors, idiot

It’s truly fucked up that the government regularly refers to actions it’s taking on American soil using military terms like “surge” (as in, the Iraq troop surge of 2007) and “Operation Midway Blitz” as in the Blitz of 1940, when the Nazis attacked Britain.

Pam Bondi moved to the top of the Epstein class of pedophile protectors

a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500

As long as he actually leaves office, I can probably get over the rest.

US voters have the memories of goldfish. Suddenly, they're like, "wait a minute, Biden wasn't so bad." www.axios.com/2026/02/12/t...

He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational

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A Kafkaesque saga in which the government has failed to produce critical video footage from an ICE detention facility has reached new levels of absurdity. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. Read here: www.404media.co/government-l...

Dear world, Odesa woke up devastated today. An energy facility destroyed. Homes damaged. A supermarket torn apart. 219 drones. 25 missiles. For us, in Ukraine, morning is not coffee and news. It’s checking who survived the night. And learning to live again - after every attack.

Californians beware: YOU DO NOT WANT THIS GUY AS YOUR GOVERNOR.

There’s not enough noise being made about Greg Bovino praising the CBP agent who shot Marimar Martinez. Mere hours after Charles Exum shot Marimar five times, Bovino emailed him to suggest he delay retirement as he had “much left to do!” This was attempted murder and Bovino encouraged it:

We already have laws in place to protect our elections. We should be making our elections more inclusive and accessible. The SAVE Act is an obstacle. It silences the voices of Americans by imposing barriers, forcing voters to jump through unnecessary hoops. campaignlegal.org/update/what-...

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Admin Officials in the Epstein Files: Donald J. Trump Melania Trump Howard Lutnick (Commerce) John Phelan (Navy) Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center) RFK Jr. (HHS) Kevin Warsh (Fed Nom) Mehmet Oz (CMS) Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE) Steve Bannon (Fmr WH) Alex Acosta (Fmr Labor) Bill Barr (Fmr AG)

I’ve watched a lot of congressional hearings over the last 40 years. This performance by Bondi is the single most unprofessional, non-responsive, reprehensible and obnoxious I have ever seen from any witness who has testified before any committee of either chamber.

In Missouri, hospitals are now allowed to take citizens to small-claims court for unpaid hospital bills. The court rules in the favor of the hospitals, & the patient now has a hospital bill to pay AS WELL AS COURT COSTS. They go to jail because they can't pay court costs, & work for $.05 PER HOUR.

Chris Murphy: "I sat with the kids for an hour. They saw things in these prisons they'll never forget. The bottom line is we have a constitutional obligation to only fund an administration that's operating lawfully. We cannot, we should not fund DHS if it committing these crimes."

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Nothing brings you closer to the truth about Trump than watching him live & on video. Print coverage has never captured the reality that we see everyday via @atrupar.com's diligent clipping. I honestly don't know how Aaron does it but I'm sure glad he does. My head would have exploded by now...

Worth noting that most Europeans are being honest about the unreliability of the USA, as opposed to some of their failed leaders. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Just sent out this free piece. For two weeks now we have heard senior European policy makers speak lies. Europe cannot defend itself without the USA, the USA under Trump it committed to NATO, Europe is too weak. It is a generation of failure justifying its mistakes. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Virginia’s Law: How Democrat proposal could spark flood of sex abuse claims https://aje.news/4k7d3o

New on FT website: Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract. www.ft.com/content/5bba...

Tehran’s security chief says Israel is attempting to derail talks with Washington and provoke war in the region.

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Aww Jim, I'm certainly glad you don't drain public resources otherwise that'd make you a fucking hypocrite. Oh wait: www.theguardian.com/business/202...