so crazy to me that a woman asked trump if he has any words for epstein's victims and he said "you as a young woman should smile more." it will go nowhere bc republicans refuse to hold trump accountable, but it's still pretty crazy.

Megyn Kelly: "Every once and awhile you have to smile. Roger Ailes used to tell us that." Roger Ailes, famed feminist? That guy?

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

This is good. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

Trump Scolds Female Reporter For Being Adult

The Trump Administration claims the Treasury has authority over Venezuelan assets. I asked Treasury Secretary Bessent directly what grants him this authority. He seemed to have no idea that he controlled these assets, let alone the authority behind them.

I heavily pushed @vermontgmg.bsky.social's testimony on CBP's long-term criminality. Here, he lists 6 ways to fix DHS: 1) Basic Uniform and Identification Standards 2) Use of Force 3) Enforcement Standards and Restrictions 4) Restore DHS’s “Sensitive Locations” Restrictions 1/2

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The regime is at war with its people.

Read this whole astonishing document. it should be taught as an object lesson in what volunteering to assist a fascist government does to your mind, body, and soul.

Striking from new Quinnipiac poll: *Voters prefer path to legalization over deportations for most undocs by 59-34. Among independents it's 61-33 *Majority says Trump on immigration is making America less safe Again, there's broad rejection of the whole project, not just ICE tactics (see below)

can’t not hear and see:

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Page One. @wsj.com

Don’t know how many more examples it’s going to take for people to realize that billionaires are an existential threat to democracy and its institutions.

It’s important to keep in mind the existence of a lot of antipathy toward D.C. specifically, and its limited capacity to protect itself because of its relationship to the federal government.

Again, this is FALSE. Administrative warrants are NOT signed by an immigration judge (or any judge at all). They are generated and signed by ICE officers themselves with no external oversight whatsoever. Here is a blank sample warrant. Note who signs off on it; an "immigration officer."

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

He literally pulled a "you should smile more" IN RESPONSE TO AN EPSTEIN QUESTION.

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

the president is psychotic. in reality, his numbers are near all-time lows.

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

New Trump admin slogan just dropped

ICE is running a “conveyor belt” of illegally detained Minnesota families. Agents are arresting entire families with legal status and immediately shipping them off to Texas to deny them legal representation and avoid the federal courts in Minnesota. The cruelty is endless.

"Secretary Noem is the decision-maker. But the Secretary cannot just throw verifiably inapposite or false assertion after inapposite or false assertion—no matter how inflammatory—against the wall and hope that something sticks." If I were Kristi, I would just go home now. Home is probably nice.

🗣️"...should a major ICE operation go forward in Springfield, it would be the ethnic cleansing of an American city. To be sure, the appearance of racial difference drives ICE raids all over the country. But in this case we have a particularly clear trail from public racism to practical policy."

lmao it begins the distancing

Trump openly admitting FBI raid in Fulton County was a prelude to interfering with the midterms and attempting to seize control of state and local voting process

Yes. This made my whole morning.

Note the shift after Kilmar Abrego Garcia was deported

AGAIN? JFC.

Chris Geidner points out that Brad Karp had agreed to dine with Jeffrey Epstein the year before, 2018. 3/

"We need to be different. If we fight, we have to do it with love."

A reminder that Bad Bunny performs in front of the biggest audience on earth in seven days

multiple trump-created crises converging with deadly results.

Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen

"The Fulton County raid is a test run for messing with election administrators and the counting of ballots in the midterm elections in 2026..." slate.com/news-and-pol...

There is a very similar pattern for Black over-representation in the military, which is often the employer of last resort in a society with rampant labor market discrimination keeping folks out of other jobs.

"She sustained a torn rotator cuff, concussion and bruised ribs during the incident and received medical treatment at a hospital..." www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

Republicans redistricted to win five new seats in Texas. All five are projected to be between R+4 and R+8. To achieve this, they diluted their advantage in other districts. A 15-point swing in November wipes out Republican control of the state. A 30-point swing erases Republicans in Texas entirely.

Chris Murphy brought his bow of burning gold to Fox News this morning. So effective.

Gift link because this needs to be widely read: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Corruption, plain and simple. Steve Witkoff, David Sacks, and Howard Lutnick must testify in front of Congress. And Congress needs to grow a spine and put a stop to Trump’s crypto corruption.

My guess is that there will be very little pushback against Governor Cox for this, and that as he positions himself for 2028, he will do so by presenting himself as the moderate, sane voice of the GOP. But this is straightforwardly undermining a check on more radical policymaking.

Get in, losers, we’re flipping Texas.

reposting both for underlying insight and for solid use of "zugzwang"

I was curious about whether this was just named after somebody named “White” but no they literally called it this because it was a settlement of white people

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.