The idea that America comes from "English-Scotts-Irish" culture is only possible if you have spent your life gazing at the ceiling high, and never read a book or asked a single question. For instance, American Democracy entirely was inspired by the Iroquois people, www.history.com/articles/iro...

🟨 Print Edition — ‘Domestic Terrorism’ ICE Contractor Palantir’s Tools for Tracking Dissent The controversial data firm co-founded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel… 🔗 https://subscribe.bylinetimes.com/edition/83/domestic-terrorism-ice-contractor-palantirs-tools-for-tracking-dissent/

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Trump Erased a Bedrock Climate Rule. Here Come the Lawsuits. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/c...

Protesters in Minnesota have used “tactical frivolity,” a method of using humor as a form of peaceful protest.

Trump Admin Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night 😂 Maybe Mark Kelly & other dissident members of Congress are hiding the sun in a big bag. @petridishes.bsky.social writes hilariously brilliant humor pieces 👏 🎁 link www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/... You can simply decide to burn coal and witches and books again. Be especially sure to burn the books. We must do whatever we can to make light until the sun comes back. I hope it comes back soon.

Übrigens gerade sehr fesselnd und nachvollziebar beschrieben im Interview mit Gisèle Pelicot in der NYT

At the U, inquiry and academic freedom for most topics; censorship and chilled speech when donors and politicians complain — from @mgallope.bsky.social, UMN chair of the College of Liberal Arts Assembly

Did you know that, before vaccines, 1 of 5 children didn't make it to 5 years old? Kennedy Allies Target States to Overturn Vaccine Mandates for School Children. Proponents of vaccines warn that efforts will lead to more outbreaks of disease. (Free gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/h...

Meta, Reditt, etc giving Social Media over to DHS/ICE Read and be prepared. 🎁 article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. 🧐💪🇺🇸👇https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/dhs-anti-ice-social-media.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MFA.sl0M.n2J04vReKrZh&smid=bs-share

Also, re "the military cannot deliberately target civilians who do not pose an imminent threat of violence, even if they are suspected of engaging in criminal acts": even *correctly* identifying them as criminals, terrorists, or foreign military wouldn't by itself suffice as a matter of law.

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“No handcuffs, but he was on the ground, and he was being punched in the face while he’s on the ground, and then another agent pulled ... his sidearm, pulled his gun out and just [expletive] laid him out.” www.startribune.com/911-transcri...

"Trump has become a parody of a 1980s televangelist, openly grifting his followers for massive amounts of cash. (His ballroom is practically his own Heritage USA.) But Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart put on a more convincing show." — @playtyperguy.com

📄 EXCLUSIVE: Did Jeffrey Epstein Try to Sabotage the Lawyers Fighting Him? Soon after Epstein tried (and failed) to infiltrate Brad Edwards' database system, Stan Pottinger, an old Epstein partner, and David Boies waltzed in to “help” victims. america2.news/part-seven-d...

I can't stop thinking about how Trump caused the 1% transnational mafia pedo syndicate to go down, then and now. That Trump initially reported Epstein to the FBI to try and shut Epstein up about his Russian money laundering of the mansion. GOP will take him down? They will commit him? Assassinate?

Pam Bondi's Rap Sheet emptywheel.net/pam-bondis-r...

Rep. Jason Crow on Rubio's Munich speech: "Not only did he say things I found disturbing, what was also important was what he did not say. He never mentioned Russia once. He never mentioned China once. There was historically revisionism."

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Quick 🧵 on Epstein rabbit hole I went down In Dec 2025 Next Model Management co-founder Faith Kates retired after emails w/Epstein resurfaced Files show in 2015 Epstein said he'd loan $ to Kates to buy out Next Model Mgmt co-owner Golden Gate Capital pagesix.com/2025/12/01/s...

In a video shared with Palantir employees, Alex Karp did not explain how ICE is utilizing the company’s products. Instead, workers were told they can sign NDAs if they want detailed information.

I’d like to point out the deep irony that the feds are constantly using possible “doxxing” as the justification they must be anonymous, plateless, and masked, when they are constantly doxxing us. Peak DARVO.

ICYMI: I got to speak with someone in Minneapolis/ St. Paul about the REALITY there: ICE agents are still terrorizing people, but she also shared the work she’s doing like countless others to provide mutual aid and help to their communities. youtu.be/dx6uCnJFD6o?...

New in PN: Trump is clowning his evangelical base "Trump now knows religious conservatives and their motivations well enough that he doesn’t feel a need to perform anymore. Like his supporters, he’s stopped pretending he’s anything but his worst self."

“Trump has used words like “rigged,” “crooked,” “stolen” and “fraudulent” to describe elections hundreds of times. Since the start of the month, he’s gone on a tear, using these words to characterize elections 139 percent more frequently than in the preceding months” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

“it’s election subversion, not cancellation, that is the real authoritarian move. The goal is to keep elections going but without unseating those in power.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...

All because the GOP wants armed, masked paramilitaries terrorizing their people.

The family of Texas businessman and politician Donald Huffines owns the late Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch. Huffines, a former GOP state senator from Dallas, is now running a high-profile campaign for comptroller. Huffines Communities, a real estate development co. A conservative, Tea Party Rep.

Sounds right www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

Please read this long but important thread from an immigration defense attorney. If this administration is permitted to scale its current abuse, neglect, and inhumane treatment of immigrants to the breadth and scope for which they’re currently planning, we’ll all be witness to mass atrocities.

Collective action works. We the people decide how law enforcement can operate. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

Dont look away. Another HuffPost must read. Report from my colleague @alannavagianos.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/parent...

Leonard Leo’s poodle is concerned about non existent voter fraud. Sit! Roll over! Remains on Leo’s leash. www.themainewire.com/2026/02/excl...

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Wealth inequality has set the stage for our current political condition. The billionaires stay in power by dividing the groups who might otherwise unite and oust them from power. The race baiting, xenophobia, homophobia, and faux religious pandering is all part of the strategy. We shall overcome.

"Surveys have found that nineteen percent of 18-to-24-year-olds qualify as problem gamblers, and 37 percent of Gen Z gamblers self-report as having an addiction." Via @aselrod.bsky.social, we have a problem...we're creating a terminally online generation: www.liberalcurrents.com/from-pill-mi...

Southern boy converts to Catholic Integralism, finds it not quite fascist enough, converts to hardline Orthodox, moves to Hungary to be fascist Orban fanboy. archive.ph/UZA7w

Via @mikescarcella.bsky.social, here's the investor lawsuit against Steve Bannon and Boris Epshteyn for their fraudulent cryptocurrency. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Rubio just made a speech to the European defense community in Munich that did not mention Ukraine. Or democracy. Or US business deals with Russia. Or the administration's plans to support the European far right. But there were lots of nice words about our common civilization.

Yeah I mean the *2024 exit polls* found 56% support path to legal status for most undocumented versus only 40% deportations. Entire commentariat has pretended not to know this for the last year or so

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

Learn this from Bezos and the Washington Post: with hypercapitalists in charge, your news is not safe | Jane Martinson

Russian President Vladimir Putin consults more with Tsar Peter and Empress Catherine than with any living person, Zelenskyy said He doesn't walk the streets, can't visit cafes. He may see himself as tsar, but in reality, he is "slave to war" euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/14/p...

Zorro Ranch: The property was valued for tax purposes for 2023 at $21.1 million, but representatives of the LLC protested, and court records show in Dec 2024, the Santa Fe County assessor determined the value of the property for tax purposes to be just $13.4 million for tax year 2023. #Huffines

I applaud Massie's statement. He is seriously worried that Trmp or his goons will try to kill him. I fear that he is right being concerned. Too many people have died in mysterious "suicides" in the Trump-Epstein affair.