The world of Jeff Bezos

"Tell me you know nothing about the Muppets without telling me you know nothing about the Muppets."

As if harassing asylum seekers, migrants and anyone who isn’t white, Stephen Laxative-Lennon has taken up stalking and harassing trans people. This man is dangerous and a stain on humanity and all that is decent. His actions will have dangerous consequences for innocent people.

If there's one benefit from all the Republican criminality and corruption it's that you never have to treat them like good faith interlocutors again. Every currently living Trump accomplice should be treated at most to a reflexive "Eat Shit" for life, and that's better than they deserve

The President of the United States is openly threatening to 'nationalize' elections, and it's no mistake he intentionally targeted Detroit. In Michigan, we've led the nation in expanding access to and securing our right to vote. And we won't stop now.

House Republicans’ voter suppression bill now bans student IDs from counting as voter ID. Many Republican states have done this to target students with their voter ID laws

A senior Yorkshire Terrier was rescued at the bottom of a trash chute in Washington. The malnourished, neglected dog — now named Apple — is doing much better after volunteers have taken her in to nurse her back to health.

Big news in California, with filing deadline very near: Nithya Raman, a progressive city councilor and a leader in the local left, has decided to run for mayor against Mayor Karen Bass (and many others). www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

Whatever you think of them as people, it is an objective fact that Bill and Hillary are smarter and have more political talent in their pinky finger than all Republicans in the Committee combined.

It almost feels like unnecessary Trump tax cuts for the superwealthy have been about allowing them to drain the U.S. Treasury and make their getaways, leaving our country and society in ruins, before the Epstein files were finally exposed. We need to tax snd seize every penny back to rebuild.

Massachusetts isn’t just moving too slowly on housing, it’s becoming a national outlier in its lack of urgency to fix the systemic barriers that made it one of the hardest, most expensive places in America to build homes.

On a day with so much awfulness just taking a moment to note with admiration a dignified leader

Most all of Massie’s positions sucks so much but the one thing he is consistent in is his commitment to them. This is one instance of it being for good.

Rep. Massie gets the mic snatched from his own local Kentucky Republican Party as he tells them he works for the people not Speaker Johnson — as he gets attacked for breaking with Trump in the Epstein files, etc

Aside from being a lie about how they behave when Democrats are in power, this has to be the most pathetic and “strongly worded letter” vision of politics imaginable www.liberalcurrents.com/s/

“Minnesota's housing shortage isn’t an abstract problem; it’s showing up in people’s day-to-day lives. When people working our most in-demand jobs can’t afford to live near where they work, and renters are forced to choose between housing and basic needs, that’s a sign our system is out of balance.”

None of her campaign socials have been updated yet but her campaign website has (just barely)

“I have deep respect for Mayor Bass. But over the last few months in particular, I’ve really begun to feel like unless we have some big changes in how we do things in Los Angeles, that the things we count on are not going to function anymore.”

The big difference between YIMBYs and others on the left is that when we see a great city, we don’t think “keep people out.” We think “build enough so everyone who wants to live here can.” The scarcity mindset sucks!

I am definitely aware that being the minority party in the senate is extremely limited in what they can do. Of those limited things they could stop voting for his nominees to fill vacancies. The Republicans have 53 votes. Not a single Democrat should vote for any of them and yet….

Again, McConnells actual crowning achievement was bucking senate precedent & holding open Scalias seat, but even there it was trading an immediate advantage for long term benefits. That bridge could only be burned once & now the odds a future D senate let thru an R SCOTUS nom are basically nil.

so funny to see republicans complaining about this as if they have not been pulling this shit for 15 years.

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

Just a reminder that the Obamas are INFINITELY better - smarter, classier, more ethical, kinder, you name it - than Trump and the Trumps. bluevirginia.us/2026/02/satu...

AIPAC is so furious at a moderate candidate who very occasionally criticized Israel that it succeeded in electing a candidate who is fully committed to Palestinian statehood and shutting down support for Israel.

Per @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk: 'Reform has gobbled up a large chunk of the right-leaning youth, this is reallocation within an already shrinking bloc [...] rather than a far-right surge, the youth vote in the UK shows a remarkable opposite trend: a surge of progressive voting, including among young men'

Just added @SenLouiseLucas to the WINNERS list b/c she didn’t take any shit from MAGA & continues to not take any shit from MAGA (e.g., see below). Plus, Lucas played a huge role in pushing for 10D-1R maps. For all that, thank you Sen. Lucas! bluevirginia.us/2026/02/8-wi... h/t @jamellebouie.net

Bill Kristol: “It’s blindingly obvious that the Trump administration has no interest in our learning more about Epstein. It’s also blindingly obvious the web of corruption and complicity around Epstein was large and intricate, and that there is much more we deserve to know.”

“Democrats should talk about ICE…Trump’s immigration enforcement agenda is deeply unpopular once voters see the real-world consequences. Support for ICE reforms is overwhelming…Polling toplines understate how intense anti-ICE sentiment has become…” open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

Trump says he was the one who decided to post the video with racist imagery of the Obamas, not an anonymous aide, but says he didn't watch to the end before sending it to "the people" to post for him. But he has no regrets. "No, I didn’t make a mistake." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

Note also that Republicans are increasingly seeing Canada and the EU as outright enemies. Incessant propaganda will have that effect.

Senators who keep voting for Trump judges, such as Durbin and Duckworth, are locking in these kind of cruel and lawless rulings for generations to come. Thanks guys!

February 2025: Susan Collins votes to confirm RFK Jr. as Secretary of HHS. February 2026: Maine has its first case of measles in 7 years. wgme.com/news/local/m...

The next Congressional Hearing for Howard Lutnick is going to be 🔥.

Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level

AWFUL news tonight. This blesses the “mandatory” detention in the 5th Circuit without bond (and little chance at habeas) of every undocumented immigrant who originally entered across the border, no matter how many decades in the past. It will fuel ICE’s push to transfer people to Texas immediately.

(CBS News) - U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has said he had "limited interactions" with Jeffrey Epstein, but documents show they were in business together as recently as 2014. @cbsnews.com www.cbsnews.com/news/howard-...

The body of the rapper Lil Jon’s 27-year-old son was found in a pond in Georgia on Friday, days after he was reported missing, the authorities and his family said.

New York governor signs law allowing medical aid in dying for terminally ill residents reut.rs/3ObOrYd

"They bought or inherited aging apartment buildings, hoping to bring home a little extra cash" ... bought, or inherited, whole ass apartment buildings

“Trump may be racist but you’re fat” isn’t the sick burn whatever moron runs the GOP account thinks it is

Seriously, I’ve been thinking about #NC11 for months. bsky.app/profile/trum...

This week’s @the-downballot.com podcast is every election nerd’s dream: Full coverage of the Texas Senate special election earthquake, filing deadlines, Senate fundraising, House fundraising, and a special look at one of my 2026 House race obsessions: #NC11 www.the-downballot.com/p/why-the-go...

Trump makes clear: if you vote for me and MAGA, you get disaster relief. If you didn't, tough. It's a tactic designed to tear the country apart and foment strife. That's his goal, people.

#NJ11 update: New Jersey counted roughly 2,000 ballots today, and Analilia Mejia increased hear lead over Tom Malinowski from 0.8% to 1.1% (that's roughly +474 to +676).

Rose DeLauro will be 83 next month. Like many other older electeds who no longer seem to be able to understand what this moment calls for from them, she needs to retire and let someone else represent this district.

Republican Party of Kentucky’s response to my question asking about Trump posting the same Obama/money video they condemned a few months ago: