WOW. Incredible. This is the case in which DHS claimed that ICE officers had been attacked with a shovel and fired back in self-defense. Evidence since suggests an ICE officer fired through a closed door and struck someone on the other side. Will DHS retract the prior claims?

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

This thread is worth your time. The contrast between DHS's wreckless lawlessness and ordinary Minnesotans decency and commitment to their neighbors and our Constitution couldn't be more stark. There's nothing to say that hasn't been said, but bless you, @mddoogie3.bsky.social.

What a story: “Lewandowski and Noem, both married, have denied the reports of the affair, but people said they do little to hide their relationship. “The pair have been using a luxury 737 MAX jet, with a private cabin in back, for their travel around the country” 1/ www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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“The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights.”

Andy McCarthy of The National Review and regular Fox Network legal contributor has blasted the Trump family and its cronies for corruption. That is a significant break from the party line and party loyalty.

Petition for Gallup to measure presidential approval in June of each election year just to make things easier on me.

This isn't a setback. This is sabotaging scientific and medical progress because Trump put conspiracy theorist hacks in charge of our government.

I also think that this paper with @joeura.bsky.social and others helps explain why Trump couldn't get credit for a gangbusters economy in 2018: the people with the rosiest, forward-looking views of the economy have college degrees. College degree holders are more likely to dislike Trump.

She also specifically says Trump's claim that he kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Largo is a "lie."

Emerging from his viewing of the UNRELEASED Epstein case files at Justice Dept, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) says: "The Dept of Justice has been in a cover-up mode for months... trying to sweep the entire thing under the rug"

Remember when "America has many groups of people in it and that's good and makes us strong" was an uncontroversial - even cliched - viewpoint that was universally endorsed across the political spectrum? We can go back! We just have to get rid of the tiny handful of bitter, angry men in the way.

FWIW today, the 2016 Republican Party platform called for "greater participation in all aspects of the political process" for U.S. citizens from our territories and commonwealths and endorsed adding Puerto Rico as the 51st state. www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/20...

Kerryman who is married, living and working legally in the United States for >20 years has been incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025. Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

This is a great piece by my colleague spencer on the bad bunny helftimeshow but of course there’s never been a more divisive idea in American history than all of us being American, we fought a civil war over it and Trump is nothing if not manifest opposition to it www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Yes, some of us did, but the libertarians at Reason were not prominent among them, except for the one who got fired for it.

“What is it that binds us to this place as no other?" youtu.be/yNjkULVedjE?...

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

You should read this. It is the type of detail that experts in authoritarian regimes see as telling. In this case, state agents are offered impunity from higher ups, and the legal system is rendered inoperative as a mode of accountability. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

Well, that’s just maddening

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

I don't want to speak rashly here, but I'm starting to get the feeling that the Trump administration is *not* actually concerned with holding pedophiles to account?

32 years ago today. www.nytimes.com/1994/02/06/u...

The Trump administration's war on American history continues unabated. "Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist" mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/m...

“Neither the Bivens Act nor the Universal Constitutional Remedies Act is a magic bullet that will save American democracy, but they would provide greater levels of deterrence and accountability” A Law That Might Just Save the Midterms www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/o...

74th National Prayer Breakfast. Ladies & Gentlemen, Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-IL) ⬇️

You'd be better off investing in tulip bulbs or Shrute Bucks.

Trump likes to see the bad guys to get away with it. I wonder why?

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

She's a 2021 J.D. and has been at DOJ for 14 months.

Motion to require ICE and CBP officers to wear official, standardized uniforms while on duty.

Hm everything is fine guys

Mike Johnson against the Constitution.

Foreign countries are bribing our president to sell out the American people.   Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech.   They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.

Gonna beg media not to just repeat Trump's obviously bullshit framing in the headlines. Tell readers the truth in the headlines. Alternatives: "With Artists and Audience Fleeing, Trump Closes Kennedy Center Indefinitely" "Trump Says Kennedy Center Needs Renovation, Despite Recent $250M Renovation"

GOP Rep. Thomas Massie: “How will we know if this bill has been successful? We will know when rich men are being perp walked in handcuffs to the jail. Until then, this is still a coverup.” #EpsteinFiles

Federal agents shatter a grandmother's car window, tear her rotator cuff, and throw her to the ground. After they dump out her purse and discover her US passport, they drive off, leaving her with a concussion and bruised ribs

Feb. 1, 1960, 4 NC A&T students sat-in at the “whites only” counter at Woolworths in Greensboro. Their defiance ignited a movement led to the birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Young people fuel movements. It is inspiring to see that today they still do. #BlackHistoryMonth

This was a 31-point swing for Democrats. I’m not a politics reporter, but that seems like a pretty big number. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/u...

Steve Levitsky, the co-author of How Democracies Die, on the dangerous place we have reached as Trump escalates: “Orbán doesn’t arrest journalists,” he said. “And in Hungary if you walk the streets of Budapest or other Hungarian cities, you will not find heavily armed masked men abducting people."

I think it is OUTRAGEOUS that people are LEAPING to the conclusion that some our post prominent Americans are child rapists when it is EQUALLY PLAUSIBLE that they are simply indifferent to whether other people are child rapists so long as those other people can offer them access to power.

NEW: Howard Lutnick, the billionaire who serves as President Trump’s commerce secretary, planned a visit to Epstein’s island in 2012. Lutnick previously claimed that he was so revolted by Epstein that he had cut ties with him years earlier. 1/6 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

It’s pretty fucking wild that the DOJ is releasing files that include accusations that the President of the United States raped underage girls, to distract from the fact that the DOJ is covering up murders of US citizens by their own government.

This article captures the scale at which academic freedom is being repressed at TX A&M, but also the chaotic way the new rules are being implemented. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

Speculation that the FBI special agent in charge in Atlanta was fired when he raised questions about the planned raid on the Fulton County elections center are confirmed.

TAMU ended our women and gender studies program, degrees and certificates today. Apparently they aren’t allowed under the new don’t mention gender or sexuality in the classroom rules our board passed. I am so saddened by this. I worked as a grad asst to wmst (no gender in the 90s) for a few years