BREAKING:Democrat Alex Holladay defeats Republican Bryan Renshaw in the Arkansas House District 70 special election, flipping the GOP-held suburban Little Rock seat from 🔴 to 🔵.

"By killing [Khamenei], the US and Israel didn’t just strike Iran’s government. They struck a spiritual leader with transnational religious authority – and created exactly the kind of martyr that galvanizes movements for generations." - fascinating and important piece by Iran scholar Narges Bajoghli

We have a literal Crusader running the military

Can Mother Nature hurry the fuck up please

"Trump's lethal presidency" No president in the modern era has ordered more military strikes against as many countries as Trump. He has attacked 7 nations, 3 of which—Iran, Nigeria + Venezuela—had never previously been targeted by U.S. military strikes. Oh.

Wild how Hillary Clinton has to answer for why Trump raped kids with Jeffrey Epstein.

I need to rant about something this morning. I really am getting irritated by resistance accounts that, while otherwise approaching our problem correctly, keep telling us voting won't matter and the election won't be free and fair. Not only is that not helpful, it's actually harmful...

All y'all going to jail

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes. $9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….

This is clearly blatantly intentional voter suppression and any claim otherwise is completely unserious

This is very good reporting that sheds light on just how small the extremely pro-Trump online right really is. The online right is totally astroturfed. The White House's own staffers are running meme accounts to make them look more popular than they are. www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

They found him. He died. Another murder by our immigration goon squads

Everything Trump has said so far during his State of the Union address has been said several times before during his other speeches. No new material whatsoever. His team are completely out of ideas. Just repeating the same false facts and distorted narratives in a wholly incoherent and clumsy way.

I spoke at length to a Dane two days ago. She’s being paid $1k a month to study for her master’s degree at a university that’s free and there’s no such thing as medical debt or the chance that an accident would make her destitute. Whatever mess capitalism has made here is not winning for the people.

Royal family is considering removing Andrew from Succession. He is 8th in line, so there are low chances he will live that long, but it's just on the Principle. Armed Police rammed into his accommodation on his birthday, just to add salt to the injury. Long Live the United Kingdom! #MainBastards

WHISTLEBLOWER: Kash’s personal use of the FBI jet delayed investigators after the Brown U Mass shooting (H/T @atrupar.com )

Republican Tony Gonzales allegedly pressured Regina Ann Santos-Aviles, who died by suicide, into a sexual relationship. He is refusing to resign.

Question I will ask again, has ANYONE even announced they are running in the Democratic primaries for president? We don’t owe anyone undying support before we even know who all the options are. Grow the fuck up, people.

And once again, have we heard anything more about the guy that supposedly tried to assassinate the president? Huh.

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M, to detain 4k people of whom only 30 were accused of violent crimes. $9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Plus two citizens murdered. ~ Veterans for Peace

Dumbfuck Republican YouTuber discovers mixed use developments

Every time I see a report of ICE leaving Minnesota or Minneapolis I think "I wish" because uh, they're still here being assholes & terrorizing people, just not as much in some places but more so in other places best I can tell and of course people are still imprisoned in misery at Whipple & . . . 🧵

The city disappeared last night while I was teaching, view from the 9th floor

I agree with the anti Newsom sentiment but if you’re going to say never Newsom, include an alternative so we can amplify other contenders. Personally, I want AOC and I refuse to believe the “America is misogynistic” bullshit when Kamala lost by a narrow margin and Clinton won the popular.

The rules are made for us, not for them.

Complaining that following the Constitution will stop you from doing the thing you want to do is... an admission that what you want to do is unconstitutional. You swore an oath to defend the Constitution. You are violating that oath, Rep. Alford. Time to go home and let someone else do the job.

Yeah sure Storm the Capital, Change Laws of the Constitution, force Americans to get and pay for unobtainable requirements to vote..to weed out the (avg) of 4 illegal immigrant votes per Election

ICE has completely broken our social contract. They manipulate social trust and are creating lasting damage to our most basic social foundations

I would much rather have a dozen noncitizens vote than millions of citizens not be able to.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

“Democrats are trying to impose guardrails on how Trump’s fascist paramilitary force looks and operates, and how Trump can deploy his fascist paramilitary force, when the truth is that his fascist paramilitary force must be eliminated.” From First Draft: zeteo.com/p/reforming-...

Pam Bondi’s little performance today was truly surreal to witness, I often cannot believe that this is the stupid fucking reality we’re forced to share with these psychopaths.

Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.

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"

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

I miss when Audi’s were elegant and timeless

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

No one hates America more than Trump.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

2.5 million Epstein documents are still unreleased with the DOJ saying no further prosecutions are likely to take place. That alongside the failure to redact the victims in this case is a complete and utter moral failure. Release all of them now.

Casar holds a 3 minute and 26 second moment of silence to represent the time in which DHS officers let Renee Good bleed out after she was shot

Garcia: I want to remind the American public of Stephen Miller. There's probably no single person in this government that has done more damage and more harm to people across this country than this man right here. It's our job to hold him responsible

HAHAHAHA these files are just bat shit. So Epstein was directly involved in creating /pol/ on 4chain where all of the Qanon shit started. MAGAts are literally a Jeffrey Epstein psyop, I just fell into a supermassive blackhole of irony and become spaghetti

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

jesus christ

In a genuine upset, Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a special election for Texas State Senate District 9. Trump carried that district in 2024 by 17 points; it is ruby red. But the GOP lost...by 14 points. That's a 31-point swing. The kicker? Rehmet was outspent ~ 10 to 1. Dems turned out; GOP didn't.