What's the range of reasons for abruptly closing the airspace at a busy airport next to the Mexican border for 10 days? El Paso is a city of 700,000 people, btw.

“Before Mr.Trump’s second term, it had been exceedingly rare for grand jurors to rebuff requests by prosecutors seeking indictments. It is now happening with increased frequency, as MrTrump’s appointees push ahead with questionable cases in an effort to appease him.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

BREAKING: The FAA has closed airspace over El Paso and parts of southern New Mexico for 10 days under a “national defense airspace” designation, offering no explanation for the rare move. The order warns violators could face interception and possible deadly force. elpasomatters.org/2026/02/11/u...

It's the American Way™ Same thing happened with Los Angeles, which ICE never left Attention spans of crack-addled goldfish

Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.

MeToo might've actually led to systemic change if it included accountability for those who knew and didn't intervene. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

shutting down all service (*all* service) to a regional airport for ten days with no advance notice to anyone is pretty nuts

"The American public is increasingly alarmed about the dangers of Trump and Trumpism. But the elites are slower...Their behavior brings to mind the alleged remark by Alexandre Ledru-Rollin in 1848: 'There go the people. I must follow them, for I am their leader.'” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

A year ago, we were on the cusp of turning many cancers into chronic rather than terminal diseases through immunotherapy and mRNA vaccines. Today, we're working through the curative qualities of a magical horse paste instead.

This says it and it’s exactly what it is….

Thousands of people across the country have been arrested and charged with impeding ICE agents for following at a safe distance and filming. The intimidation campaign continues

Rachel Maddow: “The Trump economy is not going great. Whatever the opposite is of great, that's how it's going — in just the first month of this year, 2026, the total number of layoffs in this country was more than 108,000 — that's more layoffs in any January since 2009, since the Great Recession”

This was DER SPIEGEL’s cover on August 19, 2017. Feels like it has aged relatively well…

Last night *every* cable & network news show featured the Epstein files (except Fox) with clips of MOCs coming out of the scif after reading & Raskin reporting that a search of Trump’s name had >1m hits. I wondered who Trump was going to bomb next to stop the Epstein flow. Just picture the tantrum..

Last night *every* cable & network news show featured the Epstein files (except Fox) with clips of MOCs coming out of the scif after reading & Raskin reporting that a search of Trump’s name had >1m hits. I wondered who Trump was going to bomb next to stop the Epstein flow. Just picture the tantrum..

How did Bad Bunny utter not one word about Trump or authoritarianism at the Super Bowl yet deliver the most power message in 60 years of the game? Behind Benito's 13-minute love song for the same "neighborism" that's saving Minneapolis from ICE raids My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

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.

This was one of the bosses' explicit goals in getting Trump elected - crush the strong Biden era labor market in order to discipline workers and make them submit to abuse and exploitation. That, not burrito taxi prices, was the actual economic stakes of the 2024 election

Heartbroken by this horrific school shooting in British Columbia. The people of California stand with our neighbors in Canada in grief and solidarity — no community should endure this kind of violence.

If I was a Republican and especially if I participated in the Trump administration in any capacity, I would be terrified of what's going to happen to me in just a few years.

Sometimes I remember Reagan removing Jimmy Carter’s solar panels and I think we’ve been enduring this shit for way too many years.

All flights to and from El Paso, Texas, have been grounded for ten days for “Special Security Reasons”, the Federal Aviation Administration announced. Shutting down airspace of a major US city for such an extended period hasn’t happened since the aftermath of 9-11.

The airspace over El Paso airport, Texas, has been suddenly closed by the FAA for ten days, closing the airport too. The airspace has been defined as "National Defence Airspace". Nobody knows why. (Via @osinttechnical.bsky.social on X)

They might as well study bloodletting

They crush the local economy, deplete city budgets, illegally withhold congressionally allocated funds. In exchange we get masked Texans running wild in the streets, paid for with tax money that was supposed to be used on our healthcare. Thank you to our federal partners.

IS EVERYBODY ELSE HAVING A FUN TIME IN THE GOLDEN AGE?

China is building solar and wind energy capacity equal to 5 nuclear power plants A WEEK, and this guy is using tax dollars to prop up 1800's tech that even the energy companies don't want running anymore. We're goingt o have to jump into an Apollo-program level of electrification post-dipshits.

The Epstein money trail leads straight to 45*! 45* sent FOUR THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE (4725) wire transfers to Jeffrey Epstein. They totaled over $1.1 billion. 😱

Trump is actively making our goods more expensive by blocking a piece of key infrastructure - apparently all because his most Epstein-linked Cabinet Secretary conveyed a request from a billionaire GOP donor. America does not have to tolerate this kind of corruption.

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“what we’re witnessing is…on the scale of the larger concentration camp systems in history—the Soviet Gulag, the Nazi concentration camps, & Chinese labor camps…The admin is actively aspiring to a system of that magnitude to reshape society to its racial, political & cultural prefs for generations”

Welcome to the United States of America. Please respect our cultural norm of telling Ku Klux Klan fascist trash to go fuck themselves into a permanent prison stay. Please feel free use your own terminology.

Huge rebuke of Trump and Johnson in the House tonight. This was a very bad day on the Hill today for the regime.

In the face of fascism, “Fuck you. Make me.” continues to be the right move.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

“If these fuckers think” has set a new bar for how politicians should begin their statements about these fuckers. Meet it or get left behind.

Insane levels of corruption. www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

This was a failed coup by the Trump administration against Democratic members of Congress. Everyday Americans on the grand jury stopped it. The 6 targets were right all along—don’t follow illegal orders. Speak truth to power. Because it will prevail.

We fucking tried to warn them but noooo 🤌

they said it couldn't be done, folks, big strong men with tears in their eyes, they came up to me and said "no president could completely wreck an entire united states economy twice", they said "no one's ever put more people out of work than you"

US HIRING AT RECESSION LEVELS: HIRING RATE AT 3.3%, MATCHING THE 2020 CRISIS AND NEAR A 13-YEAR LOW.

Is this why the White House was putting out all this “don’t panic!” releases?

Yes, Trump has turned the United States into a kleptocratic police state. But lib wine moms sound so cringe when they point this out. I have never felt more politically homeless.

"The government attorneys assigned to the case are political appointees, not career Justice Department prosecutors, according to a source familiar with the investigation."

This is a major repudiation of Trump's efforts to use the law enforcement system to attack his political opponents. Grand juries only hear the prosecution side and rarely reject indictments. But in this case, the everyday citizens found even the one-sided case unconvincing.

It's the citizens on this grand jury & the people blowing whistles in Minneapolis & across America that are standing up to Trump's lawless, authoritarian takeover.   We, the People are protecting our democracy as spineless Republicans in Congress roll over for Trump every time.

I genuinely think calling Rep offices in Colorado is having a demonstrable impact on their public facing behavior.

Looks like Rep Jason Crow is out of fucks. Love to see it. "If these fuckers think that they're going to intimidate us and threaten and bully me in the silence, and they're going to go after political opponents and get us to back down, they have another thing coming. The tide is turning.”

Donald Trump and the Republicans are threatening to destroy representative democracy while killing civilians, taking massive bribes, destroying alliances, and exploding costs. That's why it's so critical that the Democrats find candidates who are inspiring enough to get me to vote.

Another memorable ruling out of West Virginia, where Judge Goodwin — a Clinton appointee — excoriates the treatment of ICE detainees. "This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system of government under law." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...