This is a nice move in an interview www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...

A Marine veteran who witnessed Alex Pretti shooting claims that federal agents held a gun to his head, detained him, seized his phone, took fingerprints and DNA without a warrant, and held him for eight hours before releasing him without charges into subzero temperatures.

"I’ve wanted Marc Elias to be wrong for seven years, or six years, for as long as he’s been coming on my show. I have wanted his warnings to be wrong, but every single one of them has been either affirmed or prescient."--Nicolle Wallace. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/its-...

Democrats should propose amendments to the SAVE act that require the government to furnish free IDs to all eligible voters before requiring them, automatically register all people to vote, expand mail-in voting, and create a national voting holiday. Then watch republicans block them.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Yes. One reason popularism is collapsing is because the status quo positions are becoming unpopular, yet the ”popularists” still hold them. It’s exposing the true motivation.

At first I thought the quoted post was mere bollocks and so I wrote the below. But the more I think about it the more I am confident that it is a good sign for us. we are seeing a rearguard action collapse. Finally. Popularism/status quo-ism has carried weight for far too long.

Chris Van Hollen changed public opinion by going to El Salvador and meeting with Abrego Garcia.

This is the last gasp of an argument that is lost. A critical mass of people now see that poll-following is just status quo politics. I have been on about this for about five years now, and I feel very gratified that pressure has now built to change it. Let’s go. Fight and win.

Just going to point out again that our arbitrary political rules permit Republicans to attack urban areas with impunity but strictly forbid the faintest whiff of condescension toward rural areas by Democrats

Sometimes when I take the digital shopping list to Wegman's, I find items that I must decipher, and cannot. Today I failed to buy the items intended by "dried toothpaste" and "tiny mirrors."

i love how texas started this and was all “neener what you gon do” and a buncha blue states said “lol watch this”

A young violinist was nervous about meeting with Jeffrey Epstein due to his 2008 child sex abuse conviction. Epstein reassured her by noting his friendship with @bardcollege.bsky.social’s Leon Botstein, and set up a dinner between Botstein and the musician. She soon became one of Epstein’s victims.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

A young man at our town hall asked if I was pushing class warfare. I told him: “We already have class warfare in this country — billionaires are waging war on the rest of us.”

Representative Ted Lieu allows Pam Bondi to commit perjury and then shows it in this clip. Masterful www.reddit.com/r/Progressiv...

On my way to look at the unredacted Epstein files. We need to seek accountability for the perpetrators and justice for the victims.

Arrest Les Wexner

the other day I saw an old white dude on a busy road around the corner from my house in cobb county ga holding up a sign that read "immigrants make america great." it was 7:10 am on tuesday.

Pam Bondi's Gutter: Five Ways the Attorney General Confirmed She Is Engaged in an Epstein Cover Up emptywheel.net/pam-bondis-g...

The DHS Nazi problem in a nutshell: youtube.com/shorts/3SMz1...

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.

First on MS NOW: House Oversight Ranking Member Robert Garcia just announced that Oversight Democrats will hold a shadow field hearing as part of their Epstein investigation in Palm Beach, Florida on April 14. The field hearing will include testimony from survivors and important witnesses.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

Trump, Musk and the Epstein-Oligarch Class are the greatest threat to our freedom of speech in the nations history

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

Watters: I was walking in my street, a car drives by and I give him a wave. He rolls down the window and says, “F U fascist.” He doesn’t know I’m a fascist! Jessica: Yes, he does. You’re on TV.

Goldman to Lyons: "You said in your opening statement that references to ICE as 'the Gestapo' or 'secret police' encourages threats against ICE agents. The problem is you have it backwards. People are simply making valid observations about your tactics, which are un-American and outright fascist."

i think this more than anything is what miller wants. vast detention camps with all of the suffering and death that means.

one of the reasons i prefer the fighters vs folders framework is bc it undercuts leftist accelerationism and centrist red-baiting. either you believe the republic is worth retrieval or not. that's the bar to meet before we start arguing about implementation, babes

To clarify, per mile driven, corn -> ethanol -> combustion vehicle uses 100 times more land than solar PV -> power grid -> electric vehicle.

Put a third way, growing corn for ethanol to move combustion vehicles around uses ~100 times more land than making solar electricity to move electric vehicles around.

Put another way, we could get rid of corn ethanol, switch 30% of the freed-up farmland to solar to generate 100% of US electricity, and use the other 70% of the freed-up land for whatever we want.

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

This is the CEO of Barclays basically telling Epstein that Gramsci was right—capitalism and pop culture have pacified social movements so he need not fear popular revolt

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

loved every second of Bad Bunny. That message of inclusion and a celebration of cultures like Puerto Rico’s is just what America needs right now. Plus, his music just gets you in motion. 10/10

If you thought Vance got a cold reception at the Olympics, wait until they introduce Kristi Noem at the Puppy Bowl.

Gift shop in the Minneapolis airport is selling "ICE OUT of St. Paul" posters next to cute onesies and fridge magnets.

Cause that's what heroes do.

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” MAGA wanted you to boycott this.

Legendary flex bsky.app/profile/adub...

Kind of gives away the whole game that all the crypto ads this year have been replaced with gambling and AI ads.

Exactly. In this repeated prisoners dilemma, Dems must defect to restore the mutual cooperation outcome. Those who caution against, because of the worry of further erosion of norms, are ironically undermining the path to their restoration

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

If there's ever been a time to NOT be incrementalist, this is it. The most political capital you're gonna have is right now. And we got Gestapo death squads in MSP and TB spreading through concentration camps in Texas. If you can't find a win there, get out of politics. The Epstein Class, baby

exactly - their position is that by virtue of being part of the in-group they are extended endless grace, endless forgiveness, and an endless presumption of good faith they deserve none of it and we should not grant it to them

the core issue is that good faith is vanishingly rare on the right, because explicitly acting in bad faith has been elevated as a virtue and rewarded with money and prestige there for decades it’s not “polite” to say you should treat all right wing pundits as bad faith actors, but it’s true

no we don’t have to pretend that the calipers people are sincerely concerned about crime rates, actually none of them are just asking questions in good faith