Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

Getting the word out as a candidate: we can curb ICE violence by amending Section 1983, holding feds to the same standards as local cops. www.cjonline.com/story/opinio...

I don't know that Twitter numbers mean much anymore, but I was sure surprised to see the CDC fall so flat in its defense of RFK. Some of the replies are blowing up, but not even the MAGA/MAHA dead-enders are enthusiastic about this.

Ammon Bundy is scared www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Doing a TikTok town hall for my congressional campaign, and I'm pleased to report that the young people are sharp, observant, and unafraid to tell important truths.

Over 1,200 miles in the car this weekend, to and from the far corners of Kansas. Up by 5 and home after midnight, making every hour count: tabling with the party, meeting supporters, lecturing on negotiation strategy, and seeing a bald eagle strike. God, I love Kansas.

Texas today, Kansas in November! @colinmcroberts.bsky.social

I ran this question past an investigative reporter whose work I admire, and it turns out this is something journalists have been looking into with little success. No one seems to know if accounts like @CMDROpAtLargeCA on X are monetized. Think maybe Congress should make sure they aren't?

Question for people who know about social media business practices: is X paying public employees for engagement? My understanding is that private shit-stirrers can make significant money for posts that drive engagement. What about Bovino, Hegseth, etc.? Anyone know what X's practices are?

This could be incompetence or it could be malevolence but there is no universe where this is normal or a good idea. Cops involved in justified shootings get support and time to recover. This wasn't that, but it shows how abnormally ICE is behaving. They're acting like it's an active combat zone.

The Farmers Union. Planting common sense and growing America for a hundred and twenty two years.

man the stuff i am seeing on IG from the most normie, i don’t really talk about politics accounts suggests something different

Solidarity, particularly across race and class, is Kryptonite for authoritarian regimes. They can only thrive when their us v. them framing is adopted by society at large, and they join as active or passive collaborators with the regime. So the only response they have is to raise the cost of unity

Not a goddamn word about the government using a man's exercise of his Second Amendment rights as a pretext for killing him in a protest.

Beyond the obvious need for tribunals for the crimes Noem and others have committed and enabled, bringing shame back seems fundamental to the enterprise of rebuilding this country. No society can survive without a general understanding that this kind of shameless lying is unacceptable.

Because the only way to change that is to run the hard races. @runforsomething.net

Hard to see the people of Minneapolis suffering and not being able to do anything concrete to help. So I worked the phones today instead and campaigned. I feel like that sounds selfish, but undermining a Midwestern MAGA incumbent means something right now--especially in a red district and state.

Horses matter to my family, so it’s painful to see a smart Hutchinson program shut down. It reduced wild horse overpopulation, rehabilitated inmates with real skills, and provided affordable horses funded by its own auctions. Cutting this helps no one.

You're not so special, there's no plan for what to do if I die before you finish, either.

Request to the legal community in Texas, Wisconsin, and other states with partisan judicial elections: do you know someone who would speak via Zoom to a group fighting the introduction of such elections in Kansas? 1/x

There's no reason to hold ICE to a lower standard than local cops--and nothing stopping the GOP majority from solving a problem for a change. But they won't. So let's elect some politicians with practical solutions. www.colinforkansas.com

Done. Well, one step closer to being done, at least. But if it picks up critical mass among candidates, real action becomes a lot more likely. www.facebook.com/share/p/18K7...

Yet another United States Attorney disqualified because they were illegally appointed. This is five now? H/t Roger Parloff. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

One of the things I miss most and least about Twitter is the Twitter lawyers. The circuit appointed a judge to decide questions about Halligan's appointment in any cases involving challenges to her appointment. That judge and this one were right; Halligan and this poster are over their skis.

Even in Kansas! @colinmcroberts.bsky.social for KS-01!

Called it! www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1... This will make an interesting case in board powers, but I think not a difficult one. EO members may choose not to vote, but stripping them of power is a violation of the acting members' fiduciary duties.

I’m working next to Colin (@colinmcroberts.bsky.social) at a coffee shop while he writes thank-you notes to donors to his congressional campaign. Seeing how many of you have donated to him makes my heart so full. THANK YOU so much, dear friends!!!

Fantastic news! The ACLU won a HUGE concession from the administration, which will now review some of the frozen and denied grant applications individually and without the arbitrary directives that the ACLU challenged. Here's the stipulation: www.aclu.org/documents/ap...

I feel like "attention hacking" is most of politics now. The Minnesota aid fraud story is becoming a perfect example. Recap: In 2022, the Biden DOJ filed the first charges against dozens of fraudsters, many of them Somali-American, who'd fleeced a state food aid program. (1/x)

Ending the year with a bang on Within Reason with Mike Matson, one of those programs showing what good media can do to connect people to politics. www.youtube.com/live/IkUvug-...

Nobody in the United States of America has ever had to “apologize for being white.” Ever.

Is there some deeper corruption happening at the Kennedy Center? Trump loyalist Richard Grennell just posted what he claims is an excerpt from the Kennedy Center's bylaws, stipulating that the center's board shall be composed of non-voting and voting members. But if it's true, it's illegal?

I gotta say, I'm only a rank amateur photographer--and my best work is bugs, not people--but I actually really like this style.

A TikTok town hall, my first and one of the ways we can reach voters across a district as big as the Kansas First. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-mh...

A @universityofkansas.bsky.social scholar says Superman's KKK battle is a model to thwart conspiracy theories. “My chapter is trying to convince the writers of modern mass media to ... use their stories to tell what conspiracy theories actually do in the real world.” news.ku.edu/news/article...

A really good analysis of why the vaccine injury compensation program is important to public health and how RFK Jr. and his minions are trying to undermine it (with some explicit Kennedy family drama thrown in). www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours° Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"

The Supreme Court's conservative justices are the most powerful Republican political strategists in the country

“Behind one of these doors is a 1980 Fiat Panda with more rust than steel by weight, but the other two conceal sheep who are also in the X-Men” www.justice.gov/opa/pr/monta...

RFK Jr will take away access to lifesaving vaccines from Americans. #Ivax2protect #VaccinesWork #FightFlu #science

We could have nice things.

NEW: Judge Currie finds that Lindsay Halligan was UNLAWFULLY APPOINTED and dismisses the James Comey and Letitia James indictments without prejudice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

A detailed run through of literature and claims concerning vaccines and autism. Long story shot: vaccines do not cause autism.

This is a fantastic bit of lawyering by a prosecutor who just effectively told the judge that a declination memo exists without technically violating his direct instructions