The Times interviewed 13 Dem voters and asked them if they want progressives or moderates to run for office. Every one said progressives. If Democrats keep playing to the middle instead of their base, they won’t excite anyone, because they won’t stand for anything. That’s not a winning strategy

The NYT interviewed 13 Democratic voters, and managed to completely leave out the most dedicated base of Black women. Black women are simply not represented in their panel. Astounding.

Happy Presidents Day?

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

The man literally dropped Puerto Rico into the middle of the Superbowl. Fucking brilliant.

Bill Clinton fighting back. I like it.

NEW: House Republicans unveiled a new version of their voter suppression bill that would erect unprecedented barriers for those hoping to register while imposing a nationwide photo ID requirement for voters. The changes would gravely undermine the right to vote in the U.S. before the 2026 midterms.

That highly classified whistleblower report Tulsi Gabbard covering up? Guardian reports it’s an NSA intercept of a call between a close Trump associate and “an individual associated with foreign intelligence.” Sounds similar to Trump’s campaign chair meeting Russian intel and sharing data in 2016.

The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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⏰ Monday, Feb 16 • 1pm 📍 Trump Tower 725 5th Ave NYC Show us how you really feel about Trump and ICE! Flip that summbich the bird 🖕 All expressions welcome, as long as it’s nonviolent.

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

RFK is using his position to push things that have never shown any benefit in autism & have shown serious harms, including numerous dead kids thru the years. Why push for things known to harm instead of looking for things that could actually provide benefit? Because the harmful things are profitable

As The Washington Post cleaved off a third of its workforce, chief executive Will Lewis and owner Jeff Bezos were nowhere to be found—leaving the storied institution to profusely bleed while its top leaders hid from accountability. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/washington...

Wow. Just wow. What a month February has been. 😵‍💫

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power. They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

Did not see that coming.

Some people are asking what I want Schumer to do. He should be screaming over medical care and access to facilities. He should be going to detention facilities himself and putting his body on the line, as he did at the border in 2019. He should lean into stories about New Yorkers in detention. [1/4]

If anyone was wondering, the ~23% reduction in ICE agents in Minnesota apparently doesn't include the ones down the street that are lurking, now as I type this, as vulnerable folks are getting their kids to the school bus this morning. We cannot rest until ICE is gone, entirely.

“The company said its disclosure won’t be filed with the agency’s online system by its Monday deadline. It cited technical difficulties and said it was attempting to send in hard copies.” And I got a bridge I can sell you. 😠 www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

They just blindly shot through the fucking door. "Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."

If you're a US citizen and you write a DHS attorney an email expressing some mild criticism of management of a case, you will instantly be labeled a domestic terrorist and they will start monitoring your email and send agent by to actually terrorize you. This is Kristi Noem's DHS.

Truly Stasi-like. What would you say if you saw it in another country?

It’s infuriating that this rapist misogynist is in our White House. I’ll never get over people re electing him.

BREAKING: Judge Jia Cobb issues a TRO blocking DHS Sec Noem's Jan 8 memo purporting to require 7-day notices by members of Congress to perform oversight visits to immigration detention facilities. The effect is that congressional oversight visits are allowed on request, as is required by Sec. 527.

The many atrocities of this regime are running headlong into one another. This is so awful.

@cbsnews.com: Agents were pursuing an immigrant when they killed Alex Pretti. Now, he shares his story. By Cara Tabachnick, Camilo Montoya-Galvez

Two days ago, the president used his social media platform to endorse this "phenomenal candidate" and to urge "all America First Patriots" in the district to get out and vote for her. Today, he says he doesn't know anything about it and had nothing to do with it. He's lying or demented or both.

I testified Friday before Gov. Pritzker's commission studying abuses of ICE and CBP and tried to explain how the agencies went so far off track. It's actually way worse than I ever realized. Please read and share my testimony as Congress considers reform: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

In a scathing order, a judge orders the release of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and his father. “Philadelphia, September 17, 1787: "Well, Dr. Franklin, what do we have?" "A republic, if you can keep it." With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike, It is so ORDERED.”

This explains why Virginia Giuffre was so reluctant to name #Trump #Epstein #EpsteinFiles

straight up Gestapo shit

They’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.

One powerful narrative strain from close analysis of commentary about, & most critically from, upstanders in MN is true dawning no one is coming to save them. Justified belief some force will intervene shattered & alongside incredible moral purpose & community cohesion, catalyzed current heroism.

In another episode of punishment for thee but not for me, meet Valentina Gomez who I 2025 stormed a church service spewing anti-LGBTQIA rhetoric, Loudly interrupting the service, but not arrested. In fact cheered on by MAGA. youtu.be/1IhF6vXRvns?...

DHS should be embarrassed that their ICE agent hires are so soft they can’t handle being videotaped, even while masked, so they resort to pepper spraying women at close range. And we should be proud of the Santa Barbara women who stood their ground anyway.

Has @cbsnews.com fired Attia yet? ?

new CBS contributor Peter Attia

CNN in Minneapolis: We are seeing thousands and thousands of people, we've been standing on the corner here for the past ten minutes. This this crowd has not let up. It's just continuous.

I agree with NYCLU on this. Instead of introducing a limited bill today, Gov Hochul should finally get behind New York For All. It’s a better bill with lots of support. It’s time @governor.ny.gov

Recall that Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered not long ago by a fake cop who showed up at their door looking like this guy

Jesus Christ. The "pivot" lasted about 15 minutes. Arresting a black journalist under the Ku Klux Klan Act for covering a pro-immigration protest at a Christian nationalist church led by an ICE officer is the perfect encapsulation of this administration's authoritarianism, racism, and trolling.

News cycles are being manipulated to make people think a problem has been solved when it hasn’t. Bovino removed didn’t change anything but people have been tricked into thinking it did, so they move on. Same as it was. Know this. The situation in MN is as bad as it’s always been. Don’t forget them.

The USA, where the summary execution of an unarmed man can now be justified by the actual president, because on a separate occasion he kicked the tail light of a "very expensive government vehicle."

Bondi says she personally directed the arrest, WH smears and cheers.

Yesterday THREADS blocked me from posting for about the next week. No explanation.