Army Ranger Adrian Bonenberger just declared for Governor of Connecticut — as an independent. His big idea: revive the State Guard, restore citizen-soldier democracy. Ep. 444 with @paulrieckhoff is live. 🎙️https://lnk.ink/IA444POD 🇺🇸 bonenbergerforgovernor.com #IndependentAmericans

Yep. He’ll probably be named as an undersecretary soon. If not at DoD, probably at VA. He’d fit right in with Collins. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.

I can say from personal experience that Putin is threatened by strong women. As I argue in a new piece in @foreignaffairs.com, he and his fellow autocrats have reason to fear us: Defending women's rights and combating authoritarianism is the same fight. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Remember back in the day when Congress used to be in charge of appropriations?

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

7/ Whistleblower alleges that an SSA “database called the Numident, which is the master database of ur personal info, was uploaded to an AWS cloud environment.” [Numident’s data is now allegedly linked to the Save System to facilitate voter purges. This is a centerpiece of the Save America Act]

JFC, cut that shit in half and you’ve eradicated hunger, provided healthcare for all and made education free for all Americans. What the fuck are we doing?

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When will Republicans, veterans organizations, & retired military officers speak up about this? No president in the history of the Republic has done this. Yet Trump, Vance, & Hegseth do it constantly. It betrays the most important core value of our military-no partisan politics.

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.

They think they have a right to impose their delusions on your kids. They are banking on the fact that liberal parents will be too nice to be as aggressive as MAHA. Prove them wrong. This should infuriate you and you must make sure your legislators hear that. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/h...

“If We Don’t Have Free Speech, Then We Just Don’t Have a Free Country” - The New Yorker

Broken bones, burning eyes: How Trump's DHS deploys 'less lethal' weapons on protesters www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

The GOP’s “Save America Act” (previously just “SAVE”) requires that states implement voter purge programs using programs such as the “SAVE” system, which had an error rate of at least 14% in one of the counties that used it, per the Texas Tribune & ProPublica. 14%! #NoOnSAVE 1/

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

This should concern us all. You cannot speak of freedom and liberty and then support this regime’s actions. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

It costs $165 to get a passport. THAT’S a poll tax. It costs $47 in DC to get a real ID. You also can’t get a drivers license without proof of insurance. THAT’s a poll tax. Many people do not have physical copies of their birth certificate and have to pay to get a duplicate (if that is

FfS, he was the president.

I have a dream

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

Can we just call these what they are? Concentration Camps!!! www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

I read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/

🚨BREAKING: Republicans are moving quickly to pass a bill requiring voters to show proof of citizenship both to register and at the polls ahead of the 2026 midterm elections — a move that experts warn could disenfranchise millions of Americans. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This is overt racism. Full stop. There’s no ‘misinterpretation’ and no excuse. This is who he is, who he’s always been, and why he should never be anywhere near power again. And there’s a reason the tapes from The Apprentice have never been released.

Raise your hand if you are SICK TO DEATH of Dems in Congress pretending to “fight” for us, and then finding every way possible to dilute, negate, undermine, sabotage, and capitulate every micron of leverage they have to do anything we want them to do. Infuriating doesn’t even begin to cover it.

We should listen to Bernie. He’s earned his wings Schumer is a pawn who got $100k from Epstein himself We have shit leadership in Congress, it’s all a political game to Schumer/ Jeffries AOC and Bernie are not idiots. They are the voice of the people, as are the blue governors NO is strength

He’s barking mad and mouth-frothing dangerous www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...

Luttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.

Lawmakers renewed their push to pass the SAVE Act, which would block millions of Americans from voting. It failed before — and it must fail again. Tell your senators to stop this attack on the freedom to vote: bit.ly/4tmVIor

The US is increasingly resembling the Third Reich: US military is helping Trump to build a massive network of concentration camps. The DHS is using a repurposed $55 billion Navy contract to convert warehouses into jails and build tent cities. These facilities should house 10,000 people each.

The GOP wants to “DOGE” our state voter rolls. Their so-called “SAVE Act,” wld require ongoing voter purges using citizenship data from sources such as the DHS’s “SAVE”program & SSA. It proposes *no penalties* for erroneous purges but potential *prison time* for erroneous registrations. WTF?! 1/

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

“Imagine if we had to follow the law”

WSJ: “.. Welcome to a world where America First is coming to mean America Alone, whose friends are searching for alternatives to what increasingly feels like an abusive relationship and whose enemies are gloating.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/how-am...

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

"The Constitution vests the power of declaring War with Congress, therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject, and authorized such a measure." What quaint notions that George Washington fellow had.

Federal prosecutors are so demoralized by ICE's surge in Minneapolis that they're resigning in droves. More than a dozen have left, or announced plans to leave, since the killing of Renée Good. “We are down to a skeleton crew,” one source told me last week. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

We already live in a surveillance state. ICE lets its agents wear masks so they can’t be identified; meanwhile, they scan our faces. They know who we are, where we’ve been, and who we’re connected to. They’re openly building a 24/7 social media surveillance operation. 1/2

A government agency doesn’t need a warrant to change your life...just enough data. ICE is building exactly that kind of system. www.jackhopkinsnow.com

Reminder about "They're here ILLEGALLY" Being undocumented is a civil offense, not a criminal one. That's why they're not entitled to a court-appointed lawyer, why it's "civil detention" not a jail, why it's not in the criminal code, etc. Other civil infractions are things like parking tickets.

State officials--governors especially--should be able to protect their citizens from Federal terrorism by declaring states' of Emergency and calling out the National Guard to protect We The People from being hunted, terrorized, and murdered by Federal actors!

"For anyone who is alive in the United States today, this is the most dangerous moment to democracy we've ever seen." -George Conway @gtconway.bsky.social

Do you get it now?

ICE and CBP agents seem to enjoy gratuitously breaking glass—from car windows to store fronts to homes. It’s an expression of unchecked power and dominance: “We’re in charge. We break and shatter what we want.” And nights of broken glass have been a harbinger of worse to come.

A president I respected . . .