A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

People don't want data centers polluting their cities. They don't want masked thugs terrorizing their neighbors. They don't want warehouses being turned into ICE prisons. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

Without the dots, it looks like polygraph test results from a pathological liar.

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

This one hits hard.

This is exactly right

Wolfers: What we have is a pro-tax Republican president. Maybe he favors this tax because it’s regressive — it takes a bigger chunk out of the paychecks of the poor than of the rich. Maybe he thinks he can baffle us with bullshit and pretend China is paying, but that’s a story people aren’t buying

Belgian MEP Marc Botenga grills US Ambassador Never heard of this guy before but I like him! 👏👏👏

Neal Katyal: "In America, the chief justice said only Congress can impose taxes on the American people, and that's what tariffs are. Tariffs are taxes."

😳I can’t believe he allowed himself to be caught on tape. This lawyer just inadvertently announced to the world (w his hushed tone & motivational death threats) his client is guilty AF & he needs to keep as quiet as possible to minimize the damage in court later. Just… wow 🤯 #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp

“So, how was your birthday?”

If the motherfucking KING OF ENGLAND is willing to have his own brother arrested because he's a pedo, whomever is running in the midterms and in 2028 needs to bring fire and brimstone for EVERYONE in the files. Charles himself realizes how important this is! This is not an extreme position!

YOU GUYS THERE'S A LONGER VERSION bsky.app/profile/gigi...

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail. It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children. Vought is a mass murderer.

Name names. Marty Makary, Vinay Prasad, Jay Bhattacharya, Tracy Beth Hoeg, Martin Kulldorff, Russell Vought, RFK Jr., Donald Trump. All of them contributed to this by their relentless attacks on vaccines and biomedical R&D.

A thread for the Second Reconstruction:

And will we just vote and wait for our reps to act on this? No. Will we push for ways to get some of this through actions like boycotts and protests and strikes? Hell, yes. Will this take the rest of our fucking lives? Yes, it will. Are we ready for that? Yes, we are, because we love our neighbors.

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

NOTHING TO SEE HERE 2013: Florida AG Pam Bondi decided not to join a multi-state fraud lawsuit against Trump University AFTER her campaign received a $25,000 donation from the Donald Trump Foundation that she personally solicited. Despite consumer complaints, her office took no action.

been watching the olympics and i think i found a solution to the male loneliness crisis

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

On 15 January 2026, Trump pardoned a former FBI counterintelligence agent who had refused to testify about his work for Oleg Deripaska and Dmitry Rybolovlev, permanently sealing records of services US officials secretly provided for sanctioned Russian networks. bylinetimes.com/2026/02/11/t...

Goldman: You said references to ICE as secret police encourages threats. The problem is you have it backwards sir. People are making valid observations about your tactics which are outright fascist. If you don’t want to be called a fascist regime, stop acting like one.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

<staff kitchen> NAZGUL #1: I just... NAZGUL: #2: What? N#1: Like... Seriously? We're hunting HOBBITS now? N#2: I mean okay but clue was in the name N#1: True, but still WITCH KING <entering>: Hey N#1: Hey N#2: Hey <Witch King leaves with coffee> N#1: Maybe we should have said something N#2: Maybe

The Democrats idea of fighting fascism.

Buon cane!

Perfect

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

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"

Republicans in Congress could impeach Trump for so many things and yet none have the guts, women included. Let me remind you of the people on Flight 93 on 9/11 that stood up for democracy! They stopped the hijackers! And you are worried about Trumps wrath?? Do the right thing! Grow a set!

WATCH - @repstansbury.bsky.social : “The 🇺🇸 government is engaged in an active cover-up of the largest sex trafficking and influence-peddling scandal in history, and Trump is right at the center of it— and the person who knows what’s going on is trying to invoke the 5th to buy her clemency.”

Republicans getting destroyed by a bunny at halftime

The government says the people being deported are violent criminals, and they treat them inhumanely. But mostly they are subjecting ordinary people to extraordinary punishments.

People often jump to saying online propaganda is either the work of radicalised actors, or else Russia. In practice, it’s amazing how often the answer is much simpler – someone is chasing either (a) clout, (b) money, or (c) both.

"The American media makes things that are abnormal seem normal. The European press doesn’t do that. So you’ll see when they report on Trump’s rambling Davos speech, they will say it made no sense. In the US press, you’ll just see excerpts and an attempt to sanitize it." — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

"Trump for Europeans conjures up the pre-war era when what we now call populism but then was called fascism engulfed country after country and led to a continent-wide catastrophe that killed millions of people."

The owner of the Seahawks IS NOT in the Epstein Files. Robert Kraft is. GO SEAHAWKS.

part of me still can't believe the East Wing was completely destroyed and there have been no negative consequences or reports on whether items inside were properly archived or not

Timeline cleanser!

I dislike much of Cato's agenda, but this is important.

her: We need to talk me: As you wish her: Your obsession with The Princess Bride is driving me crazy me: Inconceivable! her: That's it, I’m leaving you me: I think you're bluff— her: *slams the door* me: *turning to camera* Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something

Tesla reported paying ZERO federal income tax on $5.7 billion of U.S. income in 2025. You suckers

Monarchy should be abolished. The only good Prince sang Purple Rain.