People like to do this thing where they’re like “If you successfully argue X, you’ll win the election.” This is just not how anything works! One hundred million Americans are not waiting to hear your answer to this narrow question! Also, the actual winner made no such case!

if you spend any significant amount of time on X the everything app, your brain is being cooked

Will ANY Republicans in Congress condemn this vile, disgusting racism — or are they all too WEAK and COWARDLY to say anything? 😡

New, from me: Trump finalized his Schedule F policy, allowing him to remove job protections from career civil servants. The new rule is dishonest and unmoored from reality in its effort to formalize the politicization of the federal government 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trumps-sch...

It’s so bad even Tim Scott isn’t afraid to criticize it.

I know it is kinda besides the point but if Trump claims people can cheat due to mail in ballots, why won't they also cheat ny just claim they had an "illness" or "traveling."

There are a lot of peer-reviewed journals that publish research on the basic economics of housing supply and affordability, so if somebody is putting out white papers rather than peer-reviewed research, it’s probably because it’s low-quality work www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/r...

The average cost to mine a single Bitcoin is now over $90,000. The price of Bitcoin has collapsed to $67,000. Everyone mining Bitcoin at the moment is losing a fortune.

If you could slash turnout to pre-Trump levels Democrats would probably win every national election in a blowout. That's an uncomfortable fact for various reasons but important to recognize

Just like with Kilmer Abrego Garcia, the biggest sin any targeted immigrant can commit is winning battles — legal or PR battles — against the government, and they just won’t let those losses go

Trump: “America’s Elections are Rigged, Stolen, and a Laughingstock all over the World. We are either going to fix them, or we won’t have a Country any longer. 1. ALL VOTERS MUST SHOW VOTER ID 2. ALL VOTERS MUST SHOW PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP TO REGISTER 3. NO MAIL-IN BALLOTS"

It is not going to make anyone happy but it will be extremely difficult for any state to hold federal employees accountable while Trump/GOP is in the WH, BUT it could be pretty easily to do it in 2029 if a Dems win and state AG spending this time collecting evidence.

NEW: Virginia Dems have unveiled their proposed 10-1 congressional map in response to GOP gerrymanders in other states. It targets 4 Republicans & has 10 Harris seats. It will be used in 2026 contingent upon an April 21 voter referendum. Interactive map+data: davesredistricting.org/join/20e0049...

*right wing intellectual leader* Yes, this AI telling me that hot young women are better off with older man is really insightful.

AOC: We are going to have to reckon, as a country, with this time. And I hope that that reckoning includes prosecution of people who are involved with the lawbreaking and human rights violations they are knowingly engaging in right now.

Seems like the Epstein files showed how much a criminal pedo ring was behind Bitcoin and basically soon after with major holders the rug pull started.

Seems like you should really be calling him "genocide Don" and "genocide Elon" because single handedly they are going to be responsible for among of the greatest number of deaths in human history www.cnn.com/2026/02/04/w...

The only response here is a motion to enjoin the whole operation If the government's position is "I'm sorry your honor but we don't be the capacity to both respect constitutional rights and conduct the operation as it is currently being conducted" the answer is "then you must stop the operation"

Maybe we shouldn't be building a very expensive new highschool demographic trends show we will not need.

"They're gonna find out the true winner of that state" -- Trump sounds like a complete lunatic talking about Fulton County, suggesting China may have rigged the 2020 election for Biden and that's why Tulsi Gabbard is involved

A large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan. It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash. “ICE GTFO OF MN” Minneapolis February 4, 2026

The Epstein files claim another. In this case, it’s the senior partner who brokered a deal with the Trump Administration Free link www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

We are at peak pendulum swing on immigrantion and according to Quinnipiac a legal path for non-criminals is only moderately popular. Why Dems have a very small 2029 window. Don't try a grand bargain, forget adding border security or path to citizenship (can address after). Just legalize non felons.

Blue states should pass new laws about voter intimidation and very publicly let ICE agents Trump can't defend them from state law as soon as he is out of office. Not pushing Trump and his people last time led us here. Promising punishment is the only path out.

A real example of what I think of as the 'one in 1,000 problem' which plagues public policy. Basically 1 in 1,000 people are just super destructive asshole who will ruin things for no reason, but it only takes 1 in a 1,000 to ruin a public good/space. www.wweek.com/news/2026/02...

For all the “drawdown” talk ICE continues to be all over Minneapolis. Feels endless

MacKenzie Scott has the chance to do the funniest thing right now.

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office. Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

Moderna announced that they’re cutting back late-stage vaccine trials due to the uncertainty in the US market www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emergin...

Still can't get over the fact that we have very strong evidence the President of the United States pooped his pants on camera in front of a room full of people and it is not the number 1 news story.

Why institutions, accountability and management structures are so important. Portland DSA wants Portland Housing Bureau to be the largest landlord on the West Coast and after 6 months of review Portland Housing Bureau has no idea how much money it has or collects www.wweek.com/news/city/20...

Respectfully, @councilordunphy.bsky.social, we can't excuse this just because it wasn't malicious. The system of accounting was chosen and managed by City leadership who are still there. If they're incapable of effectively managing government funds, they're not qualified for their positions.

At this point if you are an attorney at DOJ you shouldn't resign just engage in malicious compliance. Word for word file the absolutely idiotic document/case the WH asked for so the case gets immediately thrown out.

If you warned people 1.5 years ago that this would be roaming the streets of Democratic cities if Trump won, serious people (our Elites) would tell you that you have lost your mind in the BlueSky echo-chamber: we were right, they were wrong, but still they won't hear our warmings of what comes next.

Per Yahoo, Le was previously an immigration court attorney for ICE and volunteered* to help the U.S. Attorney's Office in MN. And it broke her. “We have no guidance or direction on what we need to do,” Le said. * "Volunteered" could be her boss saying, "you must volunteer for this."

Politics is establishing, contesting, controlling, or using the state’s monopoly on the use of violence to make people do things they do not want to do. Rest is noise.

Since day 1 of the Trump admin it has been Christmas for Criminals and the problem only gets worse. The whole federal law enforcement apparatus has been reassigned to repression and generating social media content.

I am entirely convinced either people directly employed by DHS or contractors with DHS are just running bot attacks on Will right now.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.

Really don't see why Dems should ever find DHS ever again. Let them just spend down that huge amount they got last year.

Yeah, I have been lowkey kind of fascinated by this genre of post, which really does seem to vindicate the "everything is just perception via social media" theory of politics.

No offense but if anything MN puts the lie to the idea that popular resistance takes a bunch of time and preparation by established activists who are allegedly quietly building goodwill. Mostly I see those people upset that it's succeeding and trying to gatekeep the normal people out of it

Breaking: Eight more prosecutors are leaving the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Minnesota, including Ana Voss, the current civil division chief, the Star Tribune reports. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Yeah this is why they’ll debate whether it’s too dangerous to go to a protest without a mask but then passionately advocate t0 all be carrying guns when monitoring ICE. (Really: it’s often the same people.) The heuristic isn’t “what will keep us safe” but “does it make me feel like a revolutionary.”

blood pressure skyrocketing as I attempt to hold true to my “well intentioned cringe is good, even if it’s cringe” principles

Tulsi is a former Democrat who actually had pretty little policy in common with Trump beyond being unusually friendly to Russia. She wasn't chosen in spite of being a security/intelligences risk, she was chosen by Trump because she would be one.

DHS said that the woman CBP shot in the chest in Portland was “involved” in a gang shooting. Her ~involvement~ was that suspected gang members sexually assaulted and robbed her.

95% positive that Stephen Miller is just making up some fake polling on Canva

I ran for #Portland city council because I thought the city was a complete mess from a financial accountability perspective but it is even worse than I thought. Special fee for special fees with not even basic tracking. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...