On President’s Day, the First Amendment Troop staged “ResistDance” — a tribute and act of artistic dissent — at the Lincoln Memorial. ❤️ #FirstAmendment #ArtisticExpression

Fulton Co elections expert: “In all 5 areas identified by ... the [search warrant] affidavit, there are a multitude of false or misleading statements or omissions. ... Once ... corrected, the affidavit loses any basis in reality.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Warnock: "Jesus is a victim of identity theft in American politics and culture"

Reminder that the FBI Director got--and I believe still GETS--$$$ from Shein.

CBS is lost. Trump controls it.

Not great! (From @jennycohn.bsky.social )

👇🏼 aje.news/7bgm90

Love you, Detroit. ⛽️

REP. @aoc.bsky.social : “It’s important to remember there’s more of us than them — every one of us can be sand in the gears of an injustice.”

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison. Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water. Our priorities are so fucked.

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Voluntarily—and vigorously—raises hand.

Appreciate the talk about banning ICE masks in shutdown negotiations. But the non-negotiable should be congressional oversight of ICE detention facilities. Full access, no appointments, no permission slips. No compromise.

“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔 (From @crindivisible.bsky.social )

DHS has begun purchasing warehouses to detain tens of thousands of immigrants. The big winners? Real estate brokers facilitating the deals stand to rake in millions — including one previously run by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and now run by his son. Cashing in on cruelty.

Right now, we have a tax code that forces firefighters and teachers to pay a higher share of their income than many billionaires and major corporations. We need to change that - because our economy requires it, and because it is simply the right thing to do.

I saw someone post that Thomas Massie “hates his own party”. On the contrary, this human loves his party and his country. As does Ro Khanna. Two, among may, standing strong in their convictions. The whole of both party leaders could take some lessons.

Look! "News of a potential immigrant detention center in Kansas City sparked fierce public backlash over the past month. At rallies and protests, many people called on Platform Ventures to not sell the building to the federal government..." And now: www.kcur.org/news/2026-02...

Giant toddlers with more power than anyone should ever have…dude go to therapy!!!! I am so tired of being at the mercy of unregulated abusers.

Of course 🤦‍♂️

The New York Times just launched a new "newsletter about the law and the courts." They are calling it "The Docket." The Times may not care that Democracy Docket has been publishing "On the Docket" and "Daily Docket" for years, but I believe our 400,000 subscribers might. More on this tomorrow.

Some of the women & children in Dilley detained more than 120 days, despite the LIMIT of 20 days

In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

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So the DOD started laser testing because they believed party balloons were drones, shut down all of El Paso airspace, and blamed it on Mexican cartels?

Admin Officials in the Epstein Files: Donald J. Trump Melania Trump Howard Lutnick (Commerce) John Phelan (Navy) Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center) RFK Jr. (HHS) Kevin Warsh (Fed Nom) Mehmet Oz (CMS) Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE) Steve Bannon (Fmr WH) Alex Acosta (Fmr Labor) Bill Barr (Fmr AG)

what is with these people and dogs?

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

BREAKING: Pam Bondi appears to have just committed a federal crime by lying under oath. Ted lieu just caught her in a lie and called for her resignation live on TV.

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.

Leslie Wexner is one of the 10 co-conspirators named by the FBI during the 2019 arrest of Epstein. He gave Epstein millions of dollars and the $70 million NYC townhouse. Leon Black gave Epstein over $170 million. Both men are alive. How come they've never been asked to testify?

My Latest: Contrary to many doomsayers, it is not too late to protect the midterm elections. There are steps Democrats can take now — at both the state and federal levels — to safeguard our elections. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/its-...

Here is my conclusion after sitting through Maxwell's deposition with her refusing to answer a single question about the men who raped underage girls, saying she would only do so for clemency. She must immediately be sent back to the maximum security prison where she belongs.

You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses? People

Emerging from his viewing of the UNRELEASED Epstein case files at Justice Dept, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) says: "The Dept of Justice has been in a cover-up mode for months... trying to sweep the entire thing under the rug"

If you want systems to change, pressure must be sustained: support investigative journalism, back transparency laws, vote for oversight, and keep asking uncomfortable questions. Power rarely checks itself — history shows the public has to demand it and sustain pressure until it happens.

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There are a lot of people who are going to complain about being unfairly vilified by that halftime show and it's because they know in their hearts they're on Team Hate.

Absolutely worth watching with @jkbjournalist.bsky.social youtu.be/7awbgL_BP_k

BREAKING: on this Super Bowl Sunday, Epstein Survivors have just released this PSA: “Stand with us.  Tell Attorney General Pam Bondi IT’S TIME FOR THE TRUTH” Please share everywhere!

NEW: Gabbard HID classified intel about a phone call and BLOCKED the whistleblower report about it from Congress. When she finally DID send it over, she redacted it for EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE. I will speak to the whistleblower's lawyer TODAY at 12 PM PT here: youtube.com/live/P3TvfMI...

This! My god when will we learn!? Don’t care that he is articulate. Don’t care that he is liberal….legacy power is a huge problem. It is not just the money.

Congress has the power to subpoena witnesses, hold public hearings, and establish an independent commission to review the Epstein files. What remains unclear is whether lawmakers have the political will to use those tools.

If Vance isn’t able to attend an Olympic event without an entourage of armored vehicles that looks like he just landed at Normandy in 1944, maybe he shouldn’t go.

Schiff on Gabbard's involvement in Georgia: "All of this is intended to send a message and the message is, 'We will not tolerate or accept an election that we lose.' That's why in these budget discussions we need to make sure, among other things, that we don't have ICE agents at polling places."

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