The significance of this is often underestimated.

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I have felt this way for awhile now.

How to understand war with Iran? We must get away from propaganda. Facts suggest two interpretive frameworks: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the United States. snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...

The war with Iran has started; Israel fired the first shot and has now declared a state of emergency while it braces it self for a return fire. The US is also expected to join the war if it hasn’t already.

🚨 BREAKING: Multiple explosions reported in Tehran after Israel launched what its Defense Minister describes as a “preemptive attack.”

This is brilliant.

I know what would happen to me if I broke the law over 42,000 times. But when you're the IRS, they let you do it....

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When is someone going to investigate the real fraud in our govt? The big fraud?

There are two explanations for the Trump Admin’s Russia’s policy: 1. This admin is secretly aligned with Putin and lying about that to the world and the American people, or 2. they are incredibly naive fools who ignore overwhelming evidence that contradicts their worldview.

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#waterfall #landscape #photography #EastCoastKin #floodwaters #dam

Is this the American version of a Canadian starlight tour? Is that what we're doing now?

An enraging, enraging case.

Boasting about tossing nearly half a million people on the unemployment line

The Trump Admin’s War on Minnesota continues. Some people commit fraud so everyone must be punished for it whether they did anything wrong or not. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Actually, yeah, you inconsiderate smug little shit.

“autonomous weapons systems that can use AI to kill people without human input” sounds really bad to begin with. But put it together with the report about the AIs preferring nuclear war and it seems to cross that line to into existentially bad. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It's so obvious even Grok can grok it

Rubin: "On Jan. 4, Deputy AG Blanche wrote a memo instructing DOJ officials reviewing the Epstein files to flag 302 memos -- the form the FBI uses to memorialize interviews. That's the exact kind of document we reported yesterday was missing with respect to Trump's accuser."

As you read @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social's piece on how Trump is fast-tracking his concentration camps by bypassing the bidding process, remember that Tom Homan accepted a pre-bribe from concentration camp co & Trump decided that was totally cool. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-buy...

A leaked itinerary of Kash Patel's four-day trip reveals he spent more time watching Olympic ice hockey than attending actual meetings.

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BREAKING MS NOW: @lawofruby reports DOJ directed reviewers to flag FBI interview memos before it produced the latest Epstein files. That follows MS NOW reporting that DOJ appears to have withheld memos on three interviews with a woman who accused Epstein and Trump of assault.

“I think we all have the same values. And that’s to treat people as we would want to be treated.” Thank you Holly Neaton for joining me after the SOTU on @ms.now.

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when the justice department reveals itself to be untrustworthy, then surprise! the courts no longer trust the justice department: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Here’s the Vivian Jones article Speaker Sexton is upset about, because it accurately explains the AG report on undocumented crime in Tennessee: -2% of all crime (not 50%, Johnny Garrett is a huge liar) -Vast majority traffic/non-violent www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

New in PN: The Trump boys are Making Corruption Great Again "Heck, if you can’t be bothered to fake a board seat and you’re not interested in Trump-branded monopoly money, you can just pay $500,000 to join Don Jr.’s private membership club. It’s called Executive Branch. Yes, for real."

Great reporting here from @gregsargent.bsky.social on the escalating danger of what ICE has become. 1/

As @simonwdc.bsky.social notes in this thread, all this spending on Trump's ICE terror state is a choice. If the American people knew about these demented priorities they'd be even more opposed to all this than they are already:

CHATTANOOGA: “DO Y’ALL HAVE A WARRANT? What’s the suspicion of crime, they’re brown?” ICE trespasses on private property as they conduct their racial profiling terror campaign. An ex ICE lawyer just testified they are trained to disregard the law. Full: www.facebook.com/share/r/1CPF...

New poll: 42% of adults say they would spend a hypothetical $75 billion surplus on reducing housing, health care, & food costs, vs 5% who say immigration enforcement. Voters also say they'd want to pause Trump's deportations if they were causing inflation. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-v...

ICE has long been an overmilitarized agency, including under previous presidents. But under Trump it's unshackling itself with warrantless arrests, expanded surveillance and massive new prison camps. This is the post 9/11 madness supercharged and turned inward. 5/ newrepublic.com/article/2069...

👀 We the People are sponsoring and supplying our very own demise. Just like back in the day, when US Congress members utilized their "taxpayer" funded mailers to spread Notsee propo. The court case was such a spectacle that no one was ever held accountable then either. 😐

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff. For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2069...

What's important about this story is the newly revealed fact that Donald Trump's personal lawyers are sifting through the Epstein Files and determinedly removing only those pages that could potentially inculpate their client. That's consciousness of guilt writ cartoonishly large.

Donald Trump won’t talk tonight about how ICE is tear-gassing elementary schools, murdering American citizens, and disappearing legal immigrants. Democrats position is clear: no more funding for ICE until they stop their lawlessness and abuse.

We'd just hit the extremely racist part of the speech so I assumed there'd be no cause for me to laugh but then he said that there was no money for DHS to help with snow removal just days after we learned adulterers Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski have a $70 million fuck plane

Trump appeared so fixated on the team’s gold medals that one player offered the president his own.

From the Anthropic CEO

One of the more disturbing things that has changed since Snowden's revelations is that back then collecting more data increased the size of the haystack without making it easier to look for needles. Now, processing power is catching up. Real-time mass surveillance (not just collection) is viable.

Either agree to help us break law or we'll punish you, said no qualified or ethical Secretary of Defense ever. But when you're the Secretary of War they let you do it.

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Have you ever wanted to ask someone about the State of the Union while they’re actually in the chamber? @cheetah.bsky.social will be there tonight, answering questions live as the speech unfolds. Follow along in r/politics on Reddit. We'll start answering questions at 9pm ET.