The only thing more powerful than hate is love.

While many of you are likely yelling “GO PATRIOTS” or “GO SEAHAWKS” I’m yelling “GO HOUSE OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE” and “The rule of law!”

RESULT: Democrat Chasity Martinez wins a special election for a legislative seat in Louisiana, 62% to 38%. This was a district that Trump carried by 13% last year, so a big overperformance by Dems, but the seat was already Dem-held.

That sound you hear is every sport scholar rushing to tell you that women didn’t actually compete in Olympic hockey until 1998, not at the second winter games like today’s ceremonies so naively implied.

Twenty years of post-9/11 wars broke society's idea of positive masculinity and made American men believe being an "operator" was the only viable signifier of manhood. The problem was that most men weren't willing or able to do that job. But the need to prove masculinity remained. So we get this.

Olympic figure skater Amber Glenn recently criticised the Trump administration ahead of competing in this year’s Winter Olympics in Milan. “It's been a hard time for the community overall in this administration,” USA Today reported she said on 5 February. 📷 Getty

WTAF

Go Canada!🇨🇦 🍻 @canadiantom.bsky.social, which players should I be watching?

On ice, preferably.

I don’t think people realize how much this rhetoric is going to hurt the GOP in November with independents and some center-right conservatives.

Midterms are referendums on the president, full stop. That is the “gas” that fuels the midterm effect. Tap into that angst like @MichaelSteele did in 2010, win big.

That sound you hear is every sport scholar rushing to tell you that women didn’t actually compete in Olympic hockey until 1998, not at the second winter games like today’s ceremonies so naively implied.

if you spend any significant amount of time on X the everything app, your brain is being cooked

I know we're having a lot of fun with the whole penis doping thing, but I wouldn't be me if I didn't point out that this should be the scandal in ski jumping that everyone is screaming about apnews.com/article/olym...

Credit where it’s due: This is one hell of a hard nosed bullshit free article by the NYT. It feels like an editor slipped in the word anomalies, but other than that it’s tough & honest, & how news outlets should write about Trump & his racist administration. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

TRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trump‘s Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer. (I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!

I hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.

A good thing you can do about this instead of dooming is Google “how to become a poll observer in [your town]”

I could not agree more that ICE should be abolished, so should the entire DHS. However, until we’re the majority party that won’t happen. That is at best 11 months away. If ICE is forced to remove masks upwards of 75% will quit. That cripples them. One step forward is better than none.

Aliyah Rahman: "I continue to hear the word 'bodies' because that is how agents refer to us—'We're bringing in a body'…'We can't use that room, there's already a body in there.' You have no reason to believe you will make it out alive if you are already being called a body."

⛓️CONCENTRATION CAMPS & INCINERATORS—D.H.S. is setting up a huge network of camps. They are converting the U.S. as a region for ‘expeditionary military deployment’ & no-bid no-public-comment contracts to build a “ghost network” of 10,000-person concentration camps. Jesus. Thread 🧵

ICE OUT

Cleveland yesterday.

NPR's Adrian Florido has been buying fruit from the same fruit-cart vendor in his LA neighborhood for years. On Tuesday, Florido was there when federal immigration agents whisked him away.

THEY DID IT. EVERY SENATE DEMOCRAT just voted on an amendment to DEFUND ICE (rescind the BBB slush fund that keeps ICE open during a shutdown.) This amendment failed, but it shows broad support! KEEP CALLING and make it a demand to vote for the DHS funding bill!!

Absolutely worth your money and time! Big, continuous thank yous to Marc Elias and his team.

ICE Begins Warehouse-Buying Spree in Small Towns To use as detention centers. This is alarming! I gifted this so you can read it www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

What they chose to release, and then delete, from the Epstein files is the most vile, disturbing, disgusting material I have ever read. Just imagine what they are still hiding.

The files with some of the worst alleged crimes by Trump are now BACK UP on the DOJ website: www.justice.gov/epstein/file... 👇

BREAKING: The DOJ just DELETED a document in the Epstein Files that contained allegations made against Donald Trump. But we saved it. 👇

Ahem. I've thought of an idea that will really stick it to those ICE boys: I will make them super-duper triple promise to follow the rules.

Y'all, the "cancelling of the midterms" has already begun. Don't be a doomer, but be a realist. Amplify this.

A friend shared with me a girl scout cookie link from a group that's having a hard time selling in Minneapolis right now. digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/troop5...

Ohio friends—might need to make a trip to Springfield.

Y'all, the "cancelling of the midterms" has already begun. Don't be a doomer, but be a realist. Amplify this.

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

Reporting the Trump had “pivoted” was journalistic malpractice popular.info/p/how-legacy...

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

approaching the problem of "roving death squads" from an incrementalist point of view is just a slow form of suicide

The cave is on. This is toothless bullshit. @chuckschumer.com wants Trump to promise that he'll pay Tuesday for a hamburger today, and he thinks we're gonna fall for it again.

please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota. people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.

🔊🔊 🔊 Excited about this project. Please DM me with any questions.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

The testing ground for Bovino’s Operation At Large was Los Angeles. A California judge initially prohibited ICE/CBP’s most flagrant constitutional violations. SCOTUS overruled her 6–3, handing Bovino a blank check to inflict unspeakable brutality on Chicago and Minneapolis. The 6 bear so much blame.

Believe Haliburton is the first NBA player to speak out since the start of the federal occupation of Minneapolis. For the most part, American athletes in all major sports have been shockingly silent.

And he didn’t. He tried to help a woman who’d just been assaulted. There was nothing rash, stupid, or radical about what he did. He showed kindness. And they killed him for it.