And there we go Dems hold LA-HD60(R+13) 62-38 with 27% turnout

are these words

JD checking out the local trade while at the Olympics like…

This is the guy who nerfed Tumblr’s usage with the porn ban btw.

WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED. Thank you, @donlemonofficial.bsky.social, for your courage in the face of censorship, and for joining us in NYC as our special opening guest. HRC is proud to stand with you, and will always defend a free press.

If the Soviets were anticolonial then why's the Aral Sea dead and gone?

I think this is the part where I point out the Latvians for a while preserved the KGB station in downtown Riga as a museum, and its Latvian name in English translated to “The Museum of the Occupatuon 1919-1990”

I thought I was in florida when I woke up from my nap, but is this texas?

Arizona gets more sun than almost anywhere in America. We should be the solar energy capital. Renewable energy like solar means lower energy bills and more good-paying jobs, but Trump is gutting these investments.

It’s by design

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

"Longtime Hutchins resident Felix Madrigal attended Wednesday’s meeting wearing a nametag that read “No ICE In Hutchins.” "I look at it as a moral issue," the 86-year-old said. “We just cannot allow ICE to come in, truck migrants in like cattle." www.keranews.org/news/2026-02...

SEN. OSSOFF: “.. why are roving gangs of masked men — who look like they couldn’t pass the Army physical exam — dressed up like pretend Delta Force operators, on our streets, demanding papers, dragging people from their cars, and shooting people to death?” @acyn.bsky.social

The Princess Bride is being presented with a full orchestra at Place des Arts in Montreal on Valentine’s Day weekend. Premium Parterre tickets for the Feb. 13 show are now available at a 50% discount.

“.. It is an invisible barrier to startups and new market entrants,” said Scott Lincicome .. “Why would you ever want to enter a market that you know your chief competitor is backed by the U.S. government?” @cnbc.com @scottlincicome.bsky.social www.cnbc.com/2026/02/07/t...

"The American media makes things that are abnormal seem normal. The European press doesn’t do that. So you’ll see when they report on Trump’s rambling Davos speech, they will say it made no sense. In the US press, you’ll just see excerpts and an attempt to sanitize it." — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

It turns out that not all ice is created equal. Ice rinks are calibrated specifically for different sports, and at the Olympics these sport specifics are tightly controlled by the event’s "ice meisters." 🎤✏️: Marta Hill 📸: Getty Images

In 2022, Erin Jackson became the first Black woman from any country to win gold in any individual event at the Winter Olympics. Yesterday, she became the first Black woman to bear the flag for #TeamUSA at the Winter Olympics. Congratulations Erin - keep making us proud! #BlackHistoryMonth

The rot is deep. www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026...

You all started it and we fucking finished it.

Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Renee Good’s vehicle after an immigration agent fatally shot her, but Trump administration officials ordered them to stop investigating. About a dozen prosecutors have since resigned, leaving the Minnesota U.S. attorney’s office in turmoil.

“As a woman, I cannot imagine taking expert health advice from Attia seriously at this point, given the gross and dehumanizing way he talked about the female anatomy in his emails with Epstein.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...

Whole lot of words to say “I don’t vote”

Hmmm, James Carville worked for Palantir, eh

"President Trump moved on Friday to allow commercial fishing in the only marine national monument in the Atlantic Ocean, an area the size of Connecticut that is home to dolphins, endangered whales, sea turtles and ancient deep-sea corals." This kind of stuff gets lost in the news cycle. 🎁🔗

Republicans save their most histrionic umbrage for when Democrats adopt their tactics.

Everywhere he goes he causes problems.

A certain class of elite commentators is allowed to say whatever they want about Dems and immigration -- once that's the topic, it becomes a standards-free zone and they all just congratulate each other for saying the same vacuous and often provably wrong things over and over again about the topic

From writer @stephenmarche.bsky.social, proud Canadian, on what the current despot rule of the US has meant for Canada and the world. (Also note his nomenclature for the US.) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/o...

Days after a tense gathering in Washington, D.C., laid bare growing acrimony between President Trump's administration and state election officials, the FBI invited those same officials to discuss "preparations" for the midterm elections.

Those on the left who used to praise Tulsi Gabbard should really learn a lesson: Being "anti-war" is not a golden standard. Thugs like Assad deserve nothing but war against them, and will be overthrown with or without the US. Tyrant apologists like Gabbard shouldn't be allowed anywhere near power.

The Trump effect.

scenes from my hometown of Forest Lake, Minnesota: "ICE present at the Ice Fishing Classic, out of vehicles, interacting with attendees."

Uh, no. Even the NYT got it correct (and direct). www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/w...

trump creating the incentive and permission structure for democrats to do insane 2010-era gerrymandering of their own may turn out to be one of the biggest self-owns of all time. dems are now pretty likely to emerge with an advantage from the 2025-26 redistricting wars

Gov. Beshear: "They want to try to silence the voices of of our citizens. They want people that are valid voters to think that they shouldn't show up at the polls. But guess what…The American people are ready for change and they won't be bullied by this president."

Woah former Utah Economic Development President Scott Cuthbertson who lost to Dem Kathleen Riebe in 2024 in a Senate run left the Utah GOP

I don't know what to say.

Damage done by this latest petulant outburst by Trump and Hegseth: —1% to Harvard, from loss of students and ongoing links to career military. —99% to career military officers, losing educational, social, and lifetime-connections benefits of stint at Harvard. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Grocery-checkout reading: @people.com people.com/trump-says-h...

balloon gay was cooking with this one

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NBC allegedly muting the JD Vance boos is a great way to turn a one day story into a two day story.

in terms of the 'voters trust Rs to handle immigration over Ds' line, 2 points: 1. R advantage has been cut by half/two-thirds since 2024. 2. Public clearly disagrees with Trump on enforcement. Task for Dems is giving voters a coherent alt, substack.com/@gelliottmor...

POLITICO: “As Europe’s political class moves to clean up its mess and address its shame concerning ties with Epstein , it’s inadvertently highlighting the comparative lack of accountability in 🇺🇸- No prominent politicians have taken a fall.” www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

I'm at the Olympics and the entire stadium booed JD Vance. 😌

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