Pam Bondi had a choice today. She could hold pedophiles accountable or she could protect pedophiles. She chose to protect pedophiles. She chose to protect people who raped children.

Effectively declaring "Money is all that matters!" is definitely not going to make the focus on elite, wealthy men involved with a notorious child sex trafficker go away.

Tina Brown telling Bezos he's wrong: “'The data tells us what is valuable and where to focus.' No, it’s not the data that tells us, Jeff. It’s the intellect and enterprise of journalists searching out stories that readers didn’t know." tinabrown.substack.com/p/bafflement... I agree but... 1 of 2

Rep. Jayapal: "Attorney General Bondi…will you turn to [Epstein's survivors] and apologize for what your DOJ has put them through?" Pam Bondi: *refuses to answer*

Dear God.

Yes, Mark Kelly. Thank you for your leadership. Trump and team are not America’s best.

I'm very sorry about Nancy Guthrie, but what's with the breathless coverage when we have children who have been kidnapped & imprisoned by ICE? #AbolishICE www.propublica.org/article/life...

I really feel like: Donald Trump is building a prison camp system on the scale of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao … would be a good and true headline to run every day. Advertisements across media. Speeches on the Senate. Everywhere.

‘The United States government is engaged in an active cover-up of the largest sex-trafficking and influence peddling scandal in our history, and Donald Trump is right at the center of it.’- House Oversight Democrat Rep. Stansbury

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

The Wall Street Journal just illustrated the core argument of my book: a system rigged to reward capital over labor is one in which even full-time work no longer secures the most basic material needs. This is the economic order that produces the "working homeless." www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

21.3 million voters at risk of losing the right to vote in the 2026 midterms — mostly women and newer citizens, if the SAVE Act (SAVE white male privilege) passes. @votersoftomorrow.org @aoc.bsky.social @maxwellfrost.bsky.social @democracydocket.com @warren.senate.gov @tedlieu.bsky.social

"[T]his Court has no faith that the Government would comply with an order to hold a bond hearing." It is difficult to overstate how insane of a situation it is that a judge makes such a statement in a court order, and that this statement is absolutely reasonable.

Trump is trying to repeal the "endangerment finding" -- the scientific investigation that led EPA to conclude that climate change is dangerous to humans. It's scientifically unjustifiable of course, but they're going to have to justify it to a court. That should be fun to watch.

I will reiterate: for every bit of damage, violence, or theatrical incompetence that draws public attention, there are a *thousand* things the Trumpists are doing behind the scenes, outside of public attention, that are just as ruinous to our country and our future.

"For many of us who carry Puerto Rico in our hearts, there are certain words that are impossible to swallow. When we read a description of Puerto Rico as a 'territory' or 'commonwealth,' we know the speaker is uncomfortable with the reality that Puerto Rico is a colony & that the US is a colonizer."

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

Here's what DHS doesn't want you to know: Working for ICE is one of the safest jobs in America — and last year was the second-safest year for the agency on record. And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once. The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...

“We never shared equal justice under the law. What we did perhaps share was an ideal—the…lure of life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness. But that dream was deferred, then mortgaged along w/ our future, & the question now is less whether the dream is dead but who is most to blame for killing it.”

Removed chapter can be read here: www.realclimate.org/wp-content/u...

This is why domestic "shuffle" flights between ICE detention centers have skyrocketed, much moreso than ICE deportation flights. When you are moved to a different jurisdiction, you have to refile your habeas petition all over again. They want to wear people down so they'll give up on their cases.

The USA has just dropped to 28th, its lowest position ever, in Transparency International's corruption index. With a score of just 64 out of a possible 100, the USA is seen as much more corrupt than nearly all other developed countries. This is Trump's America www.transparency.org/en/cpi/2025/...

From the Epstein files… massive Kushner company/Russia crypto payments. cc @wendysiegelman.bsky.social @jamesshenry.bsky.social @wyden.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov @rokhanna.bsky.social @craigunger.bsky.social @lukeharding1968.bsky.social @carolecadwalla.bsky.social @carolleonnig.bsky.social

THREAD: a reminder we’ve been here before, and back then, Congress stood up— both parties stood up—to confront a bully, criminal president, and demand he step down. @votersoftomorrow.org @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social @aclu.org @indivisible.org @50501movement.bsky.social

This amorphous and ever-shifting group of agents drawn from across the federal government looks increasingly like a catchall national police force operating at the direction of the White House itself. slate.trib.al/oXoO9DU

I’ve lost count of how many people lost their jobs simply for speaking up for Palestine. We can count on one finger how many people have gone to prison for child sex trafficking. We live in a corrupt system where condemning genocide is punishable but trafficking children is not.😐

A @SuperBowl Sunday Fact… If a football field were a timeline of cosmic history, cavemen to now spans the thickness of a blade of grass in the end zone.

How refreshing. A politician who is an actual, empathetic human being.

Protesters are in the streets of Milan protesting ICE in their city! It’s unanimous: everybody hates ICE. #ICEout #FuckICE #ProudBlue #Italy #Olympics

From @theathletic.com: Activists at the Super Bowl handed out towels at the entrance of Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara with the slogan “ICE OUT.” The other side of the towel has a bunny kicking a football that is inside a block of ice. nyti.ms/4quQynz

“We never shared equal justice under the law. What we did perhaps share was an ideal—the…lure of life, liberty, & the pursuit of happiness. But that dream was deferred, then mortgaged along w/ our future, & the question now is less whether the dream is dead but who is most to blame for killing it.”

A must read.

i started researching Russian disinfo networks in 2014 and writing about them in 2015 and the sheer amount of smug online assholes who dismissed every piece of reporting as CIA propaganda or whatever will never not piss me off

New in PN: @anneapplebaum.bsky.social on Trump's betrayal of Europe "They’re bewildered we’ve allowed this to happen. And yes, you do hear Europeans saying, 'why aren’t people protesting?' This all comes as a real shock to people who had a different expectation of what America was."

U.S. Olympian Svea Irving: "It's definetly a tough time in our country right now. I just continue to represent my values which is compassion and respect and love for others."

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)

The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.

Oh.👀 Secretary of the Navy John Phelan is named on a flight manifest in the Epstein docs, showing that he flew in 2006 from London to New York on Epstein’s private plane. The manifest lists Phelan alongside 12 other passengers including Epstein and Jean-Luc Brunel. www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/p...

Washington imposes 'terrorist-grade sanctions' on Francesca Albanese, ICC judges Seriously 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 🤬 thecradle.co/articles-id/...

“Tellingly, SAVE proposes *no penalty* for faulty (voter roll) purges, but potential *prison time* for a single faulty voter registration.” Don’t let SAVE destroy our democracy @votersoftomorrow.org @murray.senate.gov @vanhollen.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov @votevets.org @aclu.org @democracynow.org

Once again I’d like to remind everyone that Jeffrey was not even Trump’s first “Epstein.” Before him, there was Casablancas. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020...

VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.

🧵The dam is bursting. Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland have all launched criminal investigations into potential human trafficking after the latest release of Epstein documents. Trump has to be nervous. Eastern Europe was one of his prime picking grounds for his trafficking model agency.

Epstein survivor Anouska De Georgiou: The fact that the very people who are meant to lead this country have completely retraumatized us… it’s—I mean—it’s like being raped by the Department of Justice.

The Washington Post just laid off its entire award-winning photo team. They were our eyes in places we'll never see. It's a horrifying loss at a time when lying governments, propaganda and AI slop are on the rise.

“In a sharply worded opinion released Thursday, U.S. District Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai concluded that the department’s public statements and actions stripped it of the trust courts typically afford federal law enforcement agencies.” #2026vote @democracydocket.com @demgovs.org @arimelber.bsky.social

I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend. They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.