Howard Lutnick went to Jeffrey Epstein's island 5 days before Lutnick and Epstein went into business together. 12/23/2012 — Lutnick goes to Epstein's island. 12/28/2012 — Lutnick and Epstein sign a stock purchase agreement.

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

It's been obvious for years that Trump and the people around him are traitors.

2/8/2026- The Three Horsemen of the Apocalypse www.timesfreepress.com/news/2026/fe...

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

Camo and hats for jungle combat do not make sense in American cities. But they are key to dressing for the war ICE has imagined.

Here’s a slightly clearer version with AltText—and the link to the original: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

In terms of paper waste, maybe, but ebooks aren'tthe solution. Speaking as a librarian, ebooks are the bane of my fucking existence. I can buy 10 MMPB for the cost of 1 restricted access temporary license ebook. See: bsky.app/profile/book...

A gift from me, but you might not like it: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

They looked for “Don T” in the Epstein files and redacted all instances, which means they also redacted a lot of “don’t”

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "Please reply with the copy/pasted text of the error message you got, and a filepath pointer to the log file."

I'm reading this decision more closely today, and Jones's opinion is extremely bad on the merits, but it's also just so cruel at points.

If they’re going to name a NY landmark after Trump, how about the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant, the largest sewage treatment facility in NYC, in Brooklyn? As for the D.C. area: Perhaps the Fort Totten Solid Waste Disposal facility, in northeast D.C.? www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

🚨Epstein introduced Melania to Donald.🚨 “The unnamed woman, a former model who worked as Epstein’s assistant for a year from 2005-06, made the claim in July 2019, three days after her old boss was arrested by the FBI. The 11-page, heavily redacted document was…uncovered on Monday.”

somebody should inform the Politico/CNN/Axios/NYT brunchlord media establishment that corruption has hollowed out public safety, labor rights, and consumer protection, opening the door to decades of mass suffering and death I feel like that might be an interesting story

The Guardian has a rough outline of what the Tulsi whistleblower complaint is about: NSA found someone close to Trump in contact with foreign intelligence, and rather than doing something about that, Tulsi brought the report to Susie Wiles. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Kim Philby rose to head of counter espionage at MI6 while also being a spy for the Soviet Union. Tulsi Gabbard might have that beat.

The White House has opened the only marine national monument in the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Cape Cod, to commercial fishing for the first time since Obama protected the waters a decade ago.

“Buried in a footnote of Ghislaine Maxwell’s court filing, she makes the bombshell claim that there are twenty-five accomplices of Jeffrey Epstein who entered into secret settlements and that there are four unnamed employee co-conspirators of Epstein.” open.substack.com/pub/michaelp...

NYT - Federal prosecutors had a warrant to collect evidence from Renee Good’s vehicle, but Trump administration leaders said to drop it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...

Whistleblower puts Tulsi on notice that he will go to Congress himself if her office doesn’t respond by Friday.

“Late Friday night, the Fifth Circuit adopted the extreme minority view—that the government can indefinitely detain without bond millions of non-citizens who have been here for generations; who have never committed a crime; and who pose neither a risk of flight nor any threat to public safety.”

tinyurl.com/24x6h9m9. Please read. This is from my Mankato Free Press today. We are under siege here.

My latest: Applauding community defense is not enough. We are organizing resistance to a concentration camp regime. The front lines are everywhere. (Plus resources and my must-reads list!)

ICE has grabbed so many people from their vehicles that there are abandoned cars across Minnesota. This tow truck driver returns the cars for free as a public service, and he’s been getting death threats. They hate the helpers. Which is why must keep helping.

It sparks at least a little joy every time I figure out how to disable one of the new AI features in my email or phone.

In which Jeffrey Epstein, who laundered money for the Russians, explains how Donald Trump was doing exactly the same thing, and how this accounts for most of his wealth.

A lot of our political discourse would be easier if we didn't extend good faith to people who would never extend it back.

New post by Al Charlson: The real story for U.S. soybean producers is the shift in worldwide trade relationships since Donald Trump’s 2018 tariffs on China. www.bleedingheartland.com/2026/02/06/3...

I think people don't really understand what the bottom half of the American electorate looks like in terms of political knowledge. What has happened in the extreme-turnout elections of recent years is that decisive numbers of these people have started voted in presidential cycles

What Democrats need to know to truly reform ICE

I asked Taylor Wettach, the Democrat running for Iowa state auditor, if there are any particular agencies or programs he would want to audit if elected. "One big area of focus," he said, would be "following the money on the school voucher program." www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNHT...

did Mitch McConnell ever get released from the hospital

This is bad enough, yes, that I could even see this going differently en banc. Not definitely, it's the Fifth Circuit, but I could see the votes for it. From more at Law Dork, here are the reasons why 160 different judges have reached a different conclusion than Jones and Duncan:

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went hunting for dinosaur bones in the Dakotas with child sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Good Q @SarahKSilvermam

GOP always cries unfair when they lose a fight they picked

If you think the 5th Cir. decision will only cause folks who entered illegally to be detained with no due process and no remedy (which is unconscionable on its own), you have not been paying attention. They are going to try to normalize mass warrantless detentions of EVERYONE they want detained.

It really pays to remind ourselves frequently that this whole immigration "crisis" is made up out of whole cloth. There was no emergency,danger or problem, only a demagogue stirring up racist grievances for political advantage.

This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream

Friday night news dump: Trump just opened a marine national monument to commercial fishing. Environmentalists worry that fishing in the area could damage sensitive ecosystems and habitats for endangered whales and other species. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/c...

“Doctors, nurses, and other officers are increasingly being deployed to ICE detention centers. Some have resigned in protest, while others offer a rare look into bleak conditions.” - @amymaxmen.bsky.social

Wisconsin is really vulnerable to measles. We rank 48th in the nation for measles vaccination and the vaccination rate falls below that which is needed for herd immunity.

I read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/

Minneapolis is still being terrorized by Trump’s thug army. The mainstream media wants to move on, but nothing has really changed there.

Please do not come into my replies to tell me the old saw about "republicans, democrats, and appropriators" — ICE is abducting children to use as bait, even the laws of war prohibit that.