The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it. Seems kinda bad?

Art

i’ll end this little brainstorm by just asking what it is, exactly, that the MAGA right likes about the United States, since it explicitly rejects those things that make this nation distinctive — its pluralism, its revolutionary heritage and egalitarian aspirations, and its republican institutions

Just going to point out again that our arbitrary political rules permit Republicans to attack urban areas with impunity but strictly forbid the faintest whiff of condescension toward rural areas by Democrats

NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

Women: If you are getting married and thinking about changing your name, don't.

Whenever you read a horrifying list like this about people who are critically ill or died in ICE concentration camps it’s important to remember that these are just the stories that got out because they were lucky enough to have lawyers who could tell their stories.

CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF! (I never post Olympic videos bc the IOC will hunt you down but I am taking that risk so that you can hear the Canadian curling cursing)

*taps sign* LLM/GenAI models are not designed to produce accurate information, they are designed to produce statistically significant information and this can be hugely different to "accurate"

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

“the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.” ☠️☠️☠️

It doesn’t say it as directly, but at its core all of this stuff is Calhounism and Dred Scott: An assertion that the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution were conceived in purely racial terms and to include exclusively the white race.

This…was not on my 2016 bingo card. boingboing.net/2026/02/13/t...

President Trump's lawyers have told a court he shouldn't have to respond to lawsuits because it would distract him from running the government. But he's found time to bring lawsuits of his own, against the New York Times and even against his own administration. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

I seriously have no idea why it’s legal for Trump to sue constituents as President

I loaf you 😘

Doing WHAT?

Texas Republicans thought Latino and Independent voters would go along no matter what. Nope. That gerrymander is going to backfire. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

The Illinois Accountability Commission is gathering precisely the kind of evidence that will hold ICE and the Trump Administration responsible.

The story of the slow, inexorable decline of Trump's support in the last thirteen months is the story of millions of Americans, one person at a time, witnessing the obscenities being perpetrated by this administration and being roused to opposition.

Think about what that library could do with an extra $2 million a year

They know they can't just repeal the 19th amendment, but they can get a fuckton of us if we let them.

@democrats.org could message this AND <all this> by simply pointing out that he's stealing your money to DO <all this>! They are both losing arguments for him - tie them the fuck together and never mention one without the other. Or, keep pissing everyone off sounding ridiculous & being tone deaf. 🤷🏻‍♀️

hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message: - the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next - a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9

“On known trafficking routes” That’s it. That’s the justification. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...

Oh.

I do not like that we're in a world where I'm sharing MTG, but here we are.

I’m sorry but… lol lol lol lol lol

Plutocracy is dependent on poor thinkers and poor thinking

Just noting this because I have cited the trends a lot recently: Tracking data from Civiqs now shows a plurality of the public favors abolishing ICE, with 47% in support and 46% opposed. Independents are net +5 on abolish, up from -40 a year ago substack.com/profile/4791...

North Carolina lawmakers have voted to remove all college campus voting sites. Specifically at the largest HBCU in the US NC A&T. They now have to walk 30 minutes to their nearest polling place. Students are protesting this - pls share and support. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThx29BJ9/

The Trump administration’s push for mass deportations has resulted in more cases, known as habeas petitions, filed in federal court in the last year than under the last three administrations combined, including Trump’s first term. ➡️ Read more (with @texastribune.org): https://propub.li/4tDklgE

Trump ran on a platform explicitly to punish and terrorize “the enemy from within.” That is what he and his gang are doing, and it’s treating an American state in peacetime as a “enemy territory “

Goes without saying but this is a Massive problem, not just in what they’re doing but who they are literally, per our sources, drawing inspiration — about what to do next in the twin cities and elsewhere — from how the U.S. has handled foreign wars including ones we lost

America may have always been like this for far too many people but this administration is bringing it home, directly and in person, to a ton of folks who have never seen it before that this is their response is extremely encouraging

I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.

Again, the unifying 🧵 about this WH’s foreign policy is not realism or neo-royalism. It’s the extension of sexual assault/predation to IR. If they think you’re their macho pal, they’ll respect your sovereignty. If they don’t, they’ll try to violate you & humiliate you. Epstein-ism, if you like.

Found a few more confirming data points. In this GBAO poll 75% of Americans support a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. 8/

Democrats should be for reining in ICE, ending the violence and the lawlessness *and* ending mass deportation and the dangerous expansion of the detention centers. Focus on the criminals and leave the rest of us alone. More 👇7/ www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/dhs-runs-o...

Polling these last two weeks is very clear that Trump has not only lost the argument about ICE, he's also lost it on mass deportation. Country wants him to focus on the criminals and leave the rest of us alone. From new Yahoo/YouGov: www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

In normal times, this comment alone would cost her the job. Think about how far down the rabbit hole we are.

Just as ICE and CBP have no legitimate role in "election security" neither does the head of DHS. The mere existence of this press conference should be a scandal, much less this tone-deaf comment.

2025-2026 is creating sentences that weren't made for the English language

That last line is straight up the words of an abuser.

Yikes: guy who blogged about how an AI agent published a “hit piece” against him, says (human) reporters seem to have used an LLM to read (and misreport) his blog post theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

Put the Coast Guard back in Interior or Commerce where it belongs, let airports or airlines run security like the rest of the world does it, and let USCIS cook without Border Patrol, ICE, etc.

GOOD. There’s less than no reason for its continued existence. @democrats.senate.gov should absolutely refuse to fund it. It was a post-9/11 reactionary move and it’s done nothing but harm us. Put it in the bathtub the GOP wants to drown the government in and let the water flow.