An easy way to tell that the White House’s “a staffer posted the racist video, not the president, who would never do such a thing” story is a lie is that, if it were true, the obvious next steps would be to (1) name the staffer and (2) make a big show of firing them www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

We're traumatizing thousands of kids for life. The people behind this are monsters.

it's so, so, so frustrating how they act like people applying for asylum are subject to removal proceedings. that is not the law!!!!

The only reason for THE WASHINGTON POST to write this local NYC story is to slam Mamdani. It's blatant propaganda.

Even if this isn’t true, in the unlikely scenario Dems retake the Senate in November you better believe he’s quitting and a replacement is being rammed through in a matter of weeks.

You want to President by Truth? Well, then you are Presidenting by Truth.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

That video was nasty and should have immediately ended his presidency. And also, they're literally torturing children in concentration camps under the guise of "they broke the law and they're dangerous criminals" but also hiding evidence about how they've sexually abused children in the past too

every dem should immediately shift to the obamas-as-apes video trump posted, because it is instantly recognizable to normies are insanely racist and opens up numerous lines of questioning

Here's @rickhasen.bsky.social detailing the scenario in which Trump uses search warrant to seize ballot boxes in a contested 2026 locale. This is more worrisome than ICE at the polls. Hasen also suggests ways to act against this now. It's harrowing stuff: newrepublic.com/article/2062...

FWIW this is more or less how white conservatives destroyed multiracial democracy after emancipation. That & paramilitary violence, but of course they would never... oh yeah they're doing that too.

This level of apologia (from Megan McArdle in a podcast with Josh Barro and Ross Douthat) is fucking appalling. Idk what else there is to say.

Trump wants to take over voting in at least 15 places FBI raid in Fulton County GA now fueling MAGA calls for election takeover there That would allow them to purge voters, cut polling places, limit early voting & challenge election results. Very scary for 2026 www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I'm sorry when was AOC a "left-wing agitator?" She was an elected member of congress. She didn't harass fellow members like MTG did/does. Is being left of Pelosi considered being an "agitator" by the NYT's? Does Kellen know what being a "left-wing agitator" means?

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

For those who don't know, Luttig was once considered the intellectual heir to Scalia. He was about as conservative a judge as you could find...

This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen: A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained" But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.

I want to reiterate that this shit is nuts. A federal invasion of state-run elections, an intelligence community invasion of federal law enforcement, a White House invasion of a criminal investigation, and a president’s insane treasonable sore loser obsession all rolled up and muddled together.

The War against Trans People: Common Sense The War against Pedophilia: Moral Panic

New Brunswick, an east coast Canadian province of about 900,000 people, will no longer use billionaire Elon Musk’s social media platform X for routine government communications, its leader announced

Congress members, state election chiefs, and voting rights advocates are decrying President Donald Trump’s insistence that the federal government wrest control of elections from the states. But Trump himself is doubling down on his stance. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

the biden border bill and choosing to run on a “border patrol endorsed” piece of legislation should go down as not only cowardly and backward thinking but one of the worst strategic political decisions by democrats in recent memory, everyone involved should be out of politics forever

People are going to be really mad that the ask here isn’t abolishing any deportation ever (which would be my choice if it was just up to me) but this is a very calculated list of reasonable asks that Republicans will lose their minds over, reinforcing revulsion in the American lizard brain.

Abolish ICE is too confusing. What we meant to say is that "no masks should be deployed in an arbitrary and capricious fashion."

ICE is murdering them in the camps. They strangled Geraldo Campos to death. Chuck, the words you’re looking for are “abolish and prosecute every single one of them.” ICE cannot be reformed. Claw back the $75 billion or resign in disgrace.

They should try to teach object permanence in J school

we should all yell about this loudly but just saying it is a scare tactic, they do not have the bodies to do this widely even in just one area. we should yell loudly about that too to decrease intimidation.

Watching Democrats stumble their way through questions at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this morning affirms my belief that every one of these senators should be ceding their time for questions to a 28-year-old leftist

Unbelievable

so crazy to me that a woman asked trump if he has any words for epstein's victims and he said "you as a young woman should smile more." it will go nowhere bc republicans refuse to hold trump accountable, but it's still pretty crazy.

This cannot be accepted. This is a bullshit move to try and keep the status of the occupation basically unchanged but try and play it off as a compromise

I truly believe there is nothing more important that civic-minded multi-millionaires could do right now than start up local newspapers and run them at a small but steady loss and the benefits are amazing -- everyone has to talk to you and you get to act like you're a good and important person

the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades

Bezos has the resources to make WaPo into the BEST sports outlet and BEST science outlet and BEST place to get trusted news without feeling any sort of negative financial impact but is happy to turn it into Quillette because he’s lost whatever creative spark he had and turned into a vapid dullard

basically yglesias, jain, jentleson, WelcomePAC donors etc all base their prescriptions for Dems on a statistical model that nobody can replicate, and refuse to acknowledge (a) that uncertainty dwarfs the detectable effect of moderation & (b) that the last year has proved their views wrong!!

You cannot do "commonsense reform" for a secret police force that's declared itself exempt from constitutional requirements. You cannot reform ultraviolent agencies that have been corrupt for decades and now have accountability only to the president's goons and lackeys.

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

@sulliview.bsky.social “As always, headlines & news alerts are important. All the nuance in the world in the 12th paragraph doesn’t help much if the headline creates a completely different impression” margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/dear-media...

we say this guy chases polls or the Baileys or whatever, but the reality is that he’s just misaligned with Democrats. the polling is clear that this is not what Democrats want. Chuck is an ideological, pro-cop centrist. He’s saying this because it’s his policy preference. It’s what he wants.

My apologies to France, I was not familiar with your game.

I stand corrected. Four out of 5 Democrats want to abolish ICE. Any elected Dem asking for less is outside the mainstream of their party.

Republicans do not believe in free or fair elections whatsoever. Bad news.

“We've seen ICE draw guns on Americans who are not protesters.” Reporters are now implying it’s ok to draw guns on protesters. That’s how normalization works. The regime is successfully criminalizing protest.

How shocking. A new investigation finds that major Swiss banks had more ties to the Nazis than they have acknowledged publicly. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

"So it turns out Trump was involved with a pedophile human trafficking ring masquerading as a modeling agency where the perpetrator died under mysterious circumstances in prison" "Oh yeah, Jeffrey Epstein right?" "No, I mean the OTHER time that happened" bsky.app/profile/meid...

NEW: A growing choir of conservatives is urging Senate Republicans to kill the filibuster to pave the way for bills that would impose strict photographic identification requirements on the right to vote, potentially disenfranchising millions of eligible, legal voters.

It’s a Big Herrenvolk and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the Big Herrenvolk. Again, if a single Democrat ever talked about punishing rural areas like this for ___, it would be a nonstop national scandal for months on end. But Republicans can treat cities & urban residents like this & 🦗🦗

I am at a loss to understand why GDC isn’t suing over Gateway and why the MTA isn’t suing over 2nd Ave. yet. They still seem to think they can negotiate with or placate the lunatics in the White House.

“Giving into the mob” Lady, your wife was emailing Pedophile Island years after his arrest. You should be out of a job too.

lmao