Swarms of bots linked to IP addresses in Lanzhou, China are absolutely flooding the internet. An absolutely fascinating story from our Made in China newsletter this week, by @zeyiyang.bsky.social

The default assumption should be that they’re lying

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

EVERYBODY KNOWS the president of the United States has BEEN found CRIMINALLY guilty basically for being a r*pist and a liar,in so many ways. and this was BEFORE the last election. I guess he can't r*pe EVERYONE, but people expected him not to LIE??? come on, now. WHY? HOW?

If you look at everybody, it's more like 95%. AI will not help with any of this. Maybe it's not the panacea you think it is. 2/2

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Sanders: The American people do not want this country to be an authoritarian society or an oligarchy. We have our differences, that’s what democracy is about—we argue it out. We don’t throw people who disagree in jail. We don’t intimidate the media. We don’t send ICE agents to shoot people.

“I think we are one big step into dictatorship already.” Neoconservative scholar Robert Kagan: "The only people willing to stand up to Trump are average Americans in Minneapolis and God bless them. But certainly not Congress." Shout out to average Americans with more courage than Congress!! ✊🏼

Guy who on the debate stage who says “please shut the fuck up for ten goddamn seconds buddy” will take a rocketship to The White House.

A throwback to the last time Pearl Jam was in Japan in honor of Eddie returning in the spring. 🇯🇵 Public tickets will be on sale Saturday, February 14 at 10am JST. For more information, head to: pj.lnk.to/EVJP-GeneralTP

“Democrats are the normal people in America. Republicans are the out-of-touch, beyond-the-pale extremists.” @stevemnomoremister.bsky.social nomoremister.blogspot.com/2026/02/once...

Former U.S. Vice President and 2024 presidential candidate Kamala Harris pulled up to Alabama State on Thursday. Video c/o:@brothamyles1

Slavery is white history, how we survived it is Black history. - Malcolm Jamal Warner Pic of the day #photography

Get it? See, it's funny 'cuz our President is a pathological liar who rarely, if ever, tells the truth.

@schumer.senate.gov you paying attention? www.gelliottmorris.com/p/democrats-...

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

Every reporter needs to be asking Trump and Leavitt to respond to this. www.axios.com/2026/02/12/t...

Chris Murphy: "I sat with the kids for an hour. They saw things in these prisons they'll never forget. The bottom line is we have a constitutional obligation to only fund an administration that's operating lawfully. We cannot, we should not fund DHS if it committing these crimes."

Fired for doing what every government employee should have done. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons and CBP Commissioner Rodney Scott cited ongoing investigations in refusing to speak about the deaths.

Kristi Noem has to go. Gregory Bovino has to go. Stephen Miller has to go.

NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise. BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?

That headline… news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

This is a whole new level of dumb, economically, militarily, environmentally…really checks all the boxes. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

“Earlier this week, the anti-drone technology was launched near the southern border to shoot down what appeared to be foreign drones. The flying material turned out to be a party balloon, sources said. One balloon was shot down, several sources said.” www.cbsnews.com/news/airspac...

NPR Is interviewing a Philadelphia election official for their reaction to Trump's claims of rampant election fraud. I must say his first two words were shockingly professional for a Philly native. But the accent was legit

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"

The top lawyer for Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minnesota has left the agency, the same week an ICE attorney was removed after telling a district judge that “this job sucks” and that the Trump administration is “overwhelmed” with immigration cases.

Gonzales on Liam Ramos and his family: "They're not gonna qualify for asylum. So what do you do with all the people that go through the process and do not qualify for asylum? You deport them. I understand that 5-year-old and it breaks my heart. I also think, what about that 5-year-old US citizen?"

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We are still waiting for the rest of the Epstein files, bitch.

Featured story, from Michelle Pitcher: Between January 2020 and July 2025, at least 189 Texas prisoners died of drug-related causes—and each year through 2024 was deadlier than the last. In 110 cases, synthetic cannabinoids were confirmed or suspected.

It's so cold in DC that Donald Trump got excited when he heard it was going to be in the teens.

"'The pastors’ group that I’m in, we got together, and we agreed that if violence breaks out in Springfield, we have a duty to go right to the front of it and to call for peace,' he said..." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Trump is suing the U.S. government for up to $10 billion, claims he’s already “won a lot of money,” then plays it off as no big deal because he’ll donate it, before pivoting to phantom “$19 billion” fraud in Minnesota. This is not normal.

Is Tim Scott really acting surprised Trump is racist now? Actually I notice he’s blaming “the White House” so his hero Trump can fix everything for him.

Maybe we need to take a different approach: who in this administration is *not* in the Epstein files?

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This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen: A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained" But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.

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.

Do you get it now?