Two things can be true: we’re a competitive authoritarian state with all sorts of efforts to put a thumb on the scale of who has power AND we have sufficiently free and sufficiently fair elections that every month we see the party in power lose.

Almost like people hate when a political party turns our country into a living hell idk

Amount of time devoted to the Epstein Files tonight on the Big 3 network newscasts: ABC: 4 minutes NBC: 2 minutes CBS: 30 seconds CBS was the only network that didn’t have a full report on Epstein tonight; instead, its DC reporter mentioned it at the end of her gov’t shutdown story.

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

look this is simple people the enemy of my enemy isn’t my friend they’re my first enemy once removed

Lemme just say, if ever you needed evidence AI developers are clueless, this ad is it. There are definitely less than 1000 people on earth who can check all of these boxes. Likely less than 200. None of them are interested in helping AI replace them, definitely not for $40/hr. 🤣🤣🤣

Spead the good word!!! Absolutely phenomenal outcome in Texas, in a county Dems haven’t won since Bush 1 was president.

dril tweet I am your lawyer keep posting dot jpeg

Lawyers are looking at the long game and considering the likelihood of a courtroom scenario that has no modern precedent in state history: criminal charges being filed by the state, without the cooperation of the federal government, against federal officers for use of deadly force.

And just to further put a point on it, this is very explicitly the point of militant nonviolent protest. To demonstrate incontrovertibly to even the low info news consumer that agents of the oppressor are engaging in an entirely one-sided brutality against the vulnerable

Enjoying how the demand is evolving from 'abolish ICE' to 'abolish and prosecute ICE' that's the spirit folks, keep pushing 🙌

either the Democratic Party retakes the mantle of the working class or a working people’s party will rise from its ashes

Former Texas Lege reporter here. A Dem hasn't held this seat since 1990. Tarrant is the safest of red suburban counties. There is no way the TX and national GOP aren't in panic mode right now.

Is that good

Breaking: Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins solidly red Texas Senate seat in stunning special election upset.

Sure libs can win in commie places like Fort Worth but what does real America think

Texas: the voter registration deadline is just a few days away on Monday, February 2nd. To check your registration visit IWillVote.com

The R candidate has apparently conceded, so that's a flip folks. Probably a 30-point swing vs 2024 per The Downballot, could be 35 vs the 2022 election in the seat docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

As I understood Texas gerrymandered mostly under the assumption that they would hold the Latino Trump votes and well….

P.S. In this race, the Republican took $2,300,000 vs. the Democrat's $346,000. The funding went 6.66:1 in favour of the Republicans, due to massive investment. That's why the GOP held it down to a 30-point shift. bsky.app/profile/robe...

Looking like Rehmet will win SD9, a +17 Trump district, by 15 points. The district hasn't elected a Democrat since 1991. Wow.

It's hard to overstate how ell-organized the portland march that got gassed was... organizers made the crowd promise to be peaceful, said the march would slow in front of the ICE building but not stop, that we would stick to one chant (ICE Out). They did absolutely everything right and got gassed.

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

I've seen videos of the indiscriminate use of tear gas on a large crowd that was clearly peaceful and filled with Portlanders of all ages, and well off the macadam facility. We banned tear gas for a reason. I join Councilor Green in calling for enforcement of our laws.

Why didn’t Biden’s DOJ do anything about the combo of coup attempt and pedos? Files were unsealed in early 2024 so plenty of time. It’s beyond Bill Clinton being implicated. I think it’s because it takes down elites of all stripes. What an indictment (pun intended) of so many in the ruling class.

Everyone you suspect is in there!

I may have a stroke. Someone said protests don’t belong in church and it took every ounce of self-censure within me not to say “Deborah you are literally a Protestant.” A PROTESTant. I assume they think Luther was nailing Bed, Bath, & Beyond coupons to the door.

At home with a sick toddler and this Disneyland Handcrafted documentary is great, just an hour of backhoes digging up the jungle cruise with soothing mid century voice over

I think most game dev teams underestimate how damaging slow workflows are to the ultimate quality of their game. If it takes 5 minutes to launch the game and see your changes, I think your game is going to be MUCH worse than the alternate timeline where it took 1 minute

remember, this is only the sprawling elite pedophile cabal that we know about

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.

It’s not doomerism to say trump, his party, and his government are trying to rig elections including the midterms; that’s just … reality It is doomerism to act like they are likely to “cancel” the midterms or that their success in rigging it is at all a given

Still can't believe the latest Epstein Files release just casually confirmed the anti-SJW movement was planned by pedophiles. "The entire reactionary anti-woke backlash was masterminded by child traffickers" is the kinda shit I'd say as hyperbolic agitprop, but it was true the whole time.

The group bike ride for Alex Pretti is about to depart in Minneapolis, stopping at his memorial, then Renee Good’s, and finishing at the VFW. If you can join, hop on anywhere. It’s a warm 17° & sunny! I’ve never seen this many cyclists for a group ride. ⚡️✊🏽⚡️🚲⚡️✊🏽⚡️ #RIPPretti

Damn. This judge just called out Bondi and Noem by their names and read them for filth, saying they're ignorant of the law, ignorant of the Constitution, and devoid of human decency.

BARI WEISS: Well, time to hire another new correspondent for CBS News. (Starts flipping through a huge tome titled “The Big Book of Pedophiles and Their Contact Information”)

Cross-posting this comment from Jeet Heer over on Twitter. It really is kind of funny that Musk is just totally unable to pick up on code and innuendo.

It’s so funny that Elon is the only person in any of the Epstein docs so far who keeps up the kayfabe of being a genius hypercompetent 80 hour weeks guy in private correspondence among elites

Bari Weiss with the bold vision to rebuild the CBS masthead using only people implicated in the Epstein files

it’s a good day to be a Bari Weiss hater

Sounds familiar somehow but I can’t place the reference.

Crypto is getting annihilated today

Bari just hired this guy lol

for over 3 weeks, I've spoken to ICE watchers and organizers across the country: first right after Renee Good's killing — then 2 weeks into my reporting, Alex Pretti was killed. ICE watchers are being detained and harassed — but they're also stopping ICE abductions and inspiring others to join them

It's been fun seeing The Consultants lose their mind about how they don't get this ad, which is the coolest shit she's done yet. (Also, yes, that's Matt Mercer, who I've come to learn since this ad dropped is more famous than Michael Jordan.)

They used "anti-semitism" as a pretext to deport foreign-born students and chill free speech, and their deportation chief -- the one with the nonstandard Hugo Boss-style greatcoat -- was spouting anti-semitic insults at a US attorney

Next time choose *not* to get played.

ohhhhhh okay so what we've learned from the epstein mail drop is that the entirety of the fascistic culture war since the 2010s onward was basically wholesale consolidated through the anglosphere bourgeois old boys club network of pedophile rapists