Resistance infrastructure.

How. Is. Anyone. Still. On. His. Shit. Ass. Social. Network.

Like all other statewide Dem candidates in recent memory, James Talarico has been convinced by people around him that the path to victory runs through appealing to Republicans. Jasmine Crockett has made no such concessions, choosing instead to rely on base enthusiasm. So she gets my vote.

Yes, one theory — the one endorsed here by the Dallas Morning News — has been tested repeatedly for 25 years, having never succeeded, failing each time. Unsurprisingly, the conservative DMN suggests Democrats try it one more time. The other theory — the Jasmine Crockett one — has never been tried.

Elon Musk, a pro-apartheid South African, may have come here believing the US was a bastion of English-Scots-Irish culture. (By the way, were the Irish welcomed by the English?) My grandparents and so many others came here because of the promise of freedom, tolerance, equal rights, and opportunity.

Eight years of Jeffrey Epstein Coverage by the Miami Herald How we got here jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/eight-year...

Coincidentally, the most recent Gallup poll had Trump at less than 37 percent.

🤔 “ gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years../ Trump’s Gallup approval rating as of last December was among the lowest the organization had found since it began taking the poll in the 1930s…” thehill.com/homenews/med...

While publicly supporting protesters in Iran, Elon Musk's X appears to have been selling premium accounts to regime officials. Checkmarks were removed from certain accounts after a WIRED inquiry. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

NEW: Kremlin officials recently have been repeating the same messages about Russia’s commitment to its original war aims in Ukraine to various media sources that reach international and domestic audiences. Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, February 11, 2026 update: isw.pub/UkrWar021126

"Deploying body cameras" is not enough. Without a clear usage policy and enforcement mechanism, this is a recommendation at best. That's why I'm fighting to pass real reforms into law.

The individuals currently responsible for spreading political chaos in Europe aren’t spies. Often, they’re apolitical, Russian-speaking young people who are being contracted for simple jobs on platforms like Telegram. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

“The aroma of infatuation, the perfume of the forbidden…DOJ is proud to unveil its new signature Jeffrey Epstein fragrance, Crave by Jeff,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said at a press conference

A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from revoking immigration protections for hundreds of thousands of Haitians, allowing them to remain in the U.S. legally

The protections, which have allowed roughly 350,000 Haitians to live and work in the U.S., were scheduled to end on Feb. 3.

Economics columnist Adam Tooze explores Xi Jinping’s military modernization campaign and Beijing’s yearslong purge of the top ranks of the People’s Liberation Army. foreignpolicy.com/2026/01/30/c...

Around the world, we need leadership and we need motivated leaders 🌎 📕 thanks to our Iceland 🇮🇸 Ohana for inspiring all of us and this is a must read 🗺️ www.amazon.com/Motivated-Le...

As Black History Month begins, we honor the generations of Black New Yorkers who built this city into the “gorgeous mosaic” we call home. Today, we reflect on the words of Mayor David Dinkins: our city’s first Black mayor (and a democratic socialist!).

In the days before the presidential inauguration, an Emirati sheikh paid $187 million to entities controlled by Donald Trump’s family to take a major stake in one of the president’s crypto companies, World Liberty Financial. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Around the world, we need leadership and we need motivated leaders 🌎 📕 thanks to our Iceland 🇮🇸 Ohana for inspiring all of us and this is a must read 🗺️ www.amazon.com/Motivated-Le...

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New data on AI adoption show which countries are ahead and which are falling behind. They also reveal where DeepSeek, a Chinese model that shocked the world last year, is most popular

A Tehran bank collapsed under the weight of bad loans to regime cronies. For some ordinary Iranians, it was the last straw. on.wsj.com/4qlgO4r

Great work, everyone. Truly, well done.

Solidarity

Trump: "It's actually a legal definition -- 'whole milk.' And it's whole with a W for those of you that have a problem."

New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...

Sidenote: The Minnesota @startribune.com has been doing phenomenal work

Verizon is suffering a widespread service outage, with thousands of users reporting lack of cell service.

The Danish military gears up to defend Greenland www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Whenever I am bleeding internally after being hit by a car I keep filming on my cell phone while briskly walking away from the scene without waiting for medical attention. What about you guys?

This is why JD Vance worked so hard at last year’s Paris AI summit to pressure the EU to delay the rollout of “high-risk” AI rules until 2027. The tactic was to buy time to secure the support of far-right parties and align them with conservatives in order to water down AI and tech regulations.

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NEW: Some Iranian regime officials have framed the ongoing protests as the next phase of the Israel-Iran War. The Iranian security establishment has repeatedly stressed that it believes that the Israel-Iran War is ongoing. 🧵(1/8) Read more: isw.pub/IranUpdate01...

Adios Mullahs #FreePersia

Timothée Chalamet won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy for playing ping-pong wizard Marty Mauser in ‘Marty Supreme.’

Every American 🇺🇸 Listen 👂

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Are Americans really going to except a federal police state where masked men kill people in broad daylight with impunity? Really? The answer must be no.

The Norwegian Nobel Institute has put out a statement saying Nobel Peace Prize awards "cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred to others" after Venezuela's opposition leader Maria Corina Machado suggested she was looking into giving hers to Trump. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

The Iranian regime has shifted from labeling protesters as “rioters” to describing them as “terrorists,” which signals that the regime has taken an uncompromising stance toward the ongoing protests. www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/ira...

Bob Weir was a true son of California who helped create the soundtrack of a generation. He was — and will always be — a king of psychedelic rock. Bob will be deeply missed, and his music will forever live on.

Godspeed Bobby 🙏🏼 #Grateful 🐻

Statement from the wife of Renee Good to @mprnews.org: "We had whistles. They had guns."

Data we obtained sheds light into employees hired by the US government in 2025, including a description of their duties, salaries and the agencies to which they were assigned. Let's just say, the IRS and DOGE stand out

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