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Brad Finstad's answer to farmers struggling under Trump's tariff policy? Take on more debt.

Textbook. If you are surprised, it is because this shit usually, at least not in the last 150 years, does not happen in the US. And the past is mild in comparison

Rep. Walkinshaw leaving today’s ICE hearing: “All of this comes from Stephen Miller’s sick, twisted, deranged Great Replacement Theory.” He says when Dems have the majority they will subpoena Miller to testify: “If he doesn’t he will end up in prison for contempt.” @pabloreports.bsky.social

Important to remember that not even Congress can bypass the Constitution's core components. And what the GOP & Trump are calling a non-starter is the highest law of the land. So they better get started & back their asses down.

Magaziner: Mayorkas testified in front of Congress like 30 times. Noem has only been in front of our committee twice, and one of the times, she left because she didn't want to answer questions. It's going to be very different when we are in the majority next year.

ALERT: A 14-year-old girl described being zip-tied during Idaho raid, sparking fresh questions about ICE tactics www.cbsnews.com/news/feds-zi...

A backgrounder is someone who conducts background checks.

The billionaire economy in one sentence

Donald Trump’s DOJ just tried—and failed—to indict me in front of a grand jury. We will continue to fight back against their rising tyranny. Don’t Give Up the Ship.

Here’s the article by Robert Reich which outlines the corporations & banks investing in DHS & for-profit prisons: substack.com/home/post/p-...

During a congressional visit, Congressman Joaquin Castro discovered that babies as young as two months old are being held at the Dilley, Texas Family Concentration Camp. (February 10, 2026)

Check out this fantastic interview with Rep. Joe Neguse (CO-2) with Heather Cox Richardson. Offering hope and inspiration that we can find a path forward, together. substack.com/@heathercoxr... @joeneguse.bsky.social @hcrichardson.bsky.social

February 10, 2026

in a text string after the shooting, a fellow agent told Exum he's a "legend" "Beers on me"

Americans hate ICE!

Picking today to try to shield another person in the Epstein files from prosecution is about as tone deaf as you can get

It's jarring to see how much money is going to ICE instead of education, healthcare, public transportation, international aid, green energy infrastructure, and the arts, but I guess that's the point.

Angus: It’s like having to negotiate with Al Capone in his syphilitic period. You want to shut down the bridge? Go ahead. Every day, 1,500 nurses from Canada go to help keep Detroit’s health care system going. I personally think those nurses should be working in Canada.

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist. Cool. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

NEW: Jonathon Redondo-Rosales, a 36-year-old LA protester, spent six months in jail accused of assaulting a federal officer with a *cloth hat.* A judge tossed out the DOJ’s case, accusing govt of acting in “bad faith” and engaging in “prosecutorial harassment“ that could “chill lawful protest”

Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.

NEW in Bolts: How seat-switching, plus a new state law, helps gubernatorial appointees in Arkansas reap the benefits of incumbency before they’ve earned it from voters.

The FAA has now abruptly reversed course and says the air space closure over El Paso has been lifted.

OSU appears to have been a major conduit for Epstein activities, especially those linked o Les Wexner.

This morning, Ghislaine Maxwell blanket pleaded the 5th during her deposition in the Epstein case. What’s the message? She seems to be making it clear to Donald Trump that he can buy her silence with clemency. Not on our watch. Here is the latest. ⬇️

I spent the morning at the DOJ looking at the unredacted Epstein files. Here are my initial thoughts and what I’ve found, so far.

This is the FBI’s list of “Prominent Names” it was tracking in the Epstein Case. This list appears in this slide show, FBI email correspondence, and FBI tip sheets — all of which I saw unredacted today. Believe the survivors. You can see this file on DOJ’s website www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Believe the survivors. They have been telling us who is in the files for nearly 20 years. It really is that simple.

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Legislator wants to legislate, while Mike Johnson is determined to play every game possible to prevent the House from interfering with the imperial presidency he serves.

Government-issued Real IDs and driver’s licenses aren’t proof of citizenship, and most people aren’t walking around with a passport.

This says it and it’s exactly what it is….

Sometimes I remember Reagan removing Jimmy Carter’s solar panels and I think we’ve been enduring this shit for way too many years.

AOC on Trump’s oil embargo of Cuba: “What has transpired is that now it’s kind of become acceptable that the entire Western world will look the other way as they starve & deprive a people because they find political actors or political regimes in that country to be objectionable”

Insane levels of corruption. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

This was a very important vote tonight. Here's why. For the past year Trump’s illegal tariffs have crushed our economic growth, hit American families with higher costs, killed the very manufacturing jobs we were told they would multiply, and alienated our closest allies. 1/

manufacturing and trade job loss during 2025 is even worse than it looked (already really bad)

Sen. Amy Klobuchar said at a fraud subcommittee meeting that the exodus of federal prosecutors, who left after prosecutors moved to investigate Renee Good's partner rather than the shooting itself, will set back the fight against fraud. minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/10/k...

Members of the Buddhist Walk for Peace, leaving the National United Methodist Church, beginning their walk to the National Cathedral this afternoon. DC Metro police—with name tags, badges, masks only as needed for the cold—accompanied the procession on a fleet of bicycles.

Chris Murphy: "I sat with the kids for an hour. They saw things in these prisons they'll never forget. The bottom line is we have a constitutional obligation to only fund an administration that's operating lawfully. We cannot, we should not fund DHS if it committing these crimes."

The Alabama Senate passed a bill Tuesday that would require all health benefit plans to cover breast cancer screenings for women over 40 years old. via @alabamareflector.com

The most blatantly corrupt gangster government in American history. Where are congressional Republicans on this stuff? Nowhere to be found. Vote them ALL out.

Minutes into House Judiciary Committee hearing with Pam Bondi, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) blasts Bondi for "shockingly" not redacting private information about Epstein survivors

An early nominee for Least Surprising News of the Day.

wow -- Bondi throws a fit in response to Nadler's question about how many of Epstein's co-conspirators, if any, she's investigating, aggressively pointing at him and yelling. The hearing then devolves into chaos and Raskin and Bondi start yelling at each other.

An ICE agent just got arrested for child sex trafficking. As if protecting pedophiles wasn’t enough, Donald Trump is also hiring them (with your money). These are the people who the government is paying to put on masks and throw people in vans without identifying themselves.

Rep. Raskin: “You ignored the law and even with over 100,000 employees at your disposal, you acted with some mixture of staggering incompetence, cold indifference, and jaded cruelty towards more than 1,000 victims raped, abused, and trafficked. This performance screams cover-up.”