BREAKING: Louisiana Democrat Chasity Verret Martinez defeated her Republican opponent by double digits in the special election Saturday night for a state House seat in a district Trump won by 13 points in 2024. Martinez won 62% of the vote compared to 38% for her Republican opponent.

A DEMOCRACY THRIVES ON DIVERSITY—TYRANNY OPPRESSES IT When someone asks me where I'm from, I like to say, From planet Earth. That's my place... I don't play on race/on skin color/on gender/on who you are or what your job is. I play on life. On life with respect & honor for all living things. 1/2

Club cancels MAGA comedian’s shows after he called Renee Good a “ret**ded lesbian” His talent agency is boycotting the club in protest after his vile set mocking the queer mom went viral. OMG, this guy is a complete assh*le. 💩🤡 www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/02/club...

Epstein survivors are sharing the most important ad you’ll see today. Please watch. Trump and his administration are trying to cover up this scandal, but we are not moving on from it.

WEDDING RECEPTION IN THE PARKING LOT OF THE SUPER BOWL

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Puerto Ricans have been fighting for energy democracy - the right to control their grid locally and build the clean energy future on the island - for decades. If you want to support an incredible effort, get plugged into the work led by Queremos Sol! queremossolpr.org

Massie on Howard Lutnick: "He should just resign. Three people in Great Britain resigned for less than what we've seen Howard Lutnick lie about. He clearly went to the island, if we believe what's in these files. He was in business with Jeffrey Epstein."

Stop using "half the country" as a byword for "the diminishing non-majority of Trump 2.0 supporters"

"During his first month in office, Trump removed multiple independent watchdogs from their posts at government agencies. However, Joseph Cuffari, the DHS’s inspector general, still remains at his position."

More unions across the country are taking a stand against Immigration and Customs Enforcement since the January 23 mass strike in Minneapolis and the January 24 killing of Alex Pretti, an intensive care nurse and union member labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0...

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.

Donald Trump and Kristi Noem’s ICE is out of control. Immigration agents are killing U.S. citizens, terrorizing communities, and detaining children. We must put an end to this brutality. Democrats are united: reform ICE & remove Noem. We won’t stop fighting until that happens.

Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

NEW: President Trump is making new false claims about Tina Peters, calling into question whether Trump is aware of the basic facts about the case that has led him to repeatedly punish the State of Colorado

$75 billion for ICE. Clinics closing. Nurses cut. Patients rationing meds. Leader Jeffries is right—taxpayer dollars should make life affordable, not fund brutality and lawlessness. Congress knows the choice. History will remember it. #FundHealthcareOverICE

They told us there was no money for healthcare. No money for kids. No money for families drowning in medical bills. But there’s always money for ICE. More cages. More raids. More cruelty. That’s not a budget problem. That’s a values problem. Fund care, not punishment. #FundHealthcareOverICE

Trump and MAGA Republican’s Big, Ugly Bill more than tripled ICE funding while slashing $1 trillion dollars from Medicaid. Now this roving caravan of lawless thugs are terrorizing our cities. Congress needs to #FundHealthcareOverICE and do away with whatever this is. Watch👇👇

We the people must stop this insanity. Racism and greed are at the bottom of all of this.

It's way past time for this unhinged lunatic Bob Kennedy to go. Don't forget to subscribe: www.dworkinsubstack.com/subscribe

🚨 'The question facing policymakers is not whether these enforcement tactics will cause lasting harm – our research suggests they would – but what human costs we, as a nation, are willing to bear.' theconversation.com/there-are-lo...

It's always the right time to do the right thing.

I’m not saying this is necessarily an invalid q to ask (tho it does feel a bit like a “do parachutes reduce the risk of death in high-altitude falls?” type paper). But having its author show up in the Epstein files should raise some red flags.

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This is absolutely insane: DHS claims the right to subpoena your emails and to send investigators to your house. In this case, because a retiree sent the mildest possible criticism to a prosecutor. No judges involved. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

👀🍿👀 The French offices of Elon Musky boy's twit-twat X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit as part of a probe that began in January 2025. Suspected offenses include unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child pornography. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I keep seeing social-media videos of doofy 20-something dudes in tacky, expensive suits talking about the massive paychecks they’re getting from selling health insurance to people. I know there’s a pyramid element here, but maybe this is something legislators/law enforcement might find interesting?

Liam made people look. Now don’t look away. We still have children in ICE custody eating bad food, drinking questionable water, living in filthy conditions, and carrying a lifetime of trauma they shouldn’t have to survive. #FreeTheChildren

Trump's insanity is contagious. It has spread wide & far throughout the Republican Party & beyond. At the core is one of the most basic of all human emotions: HATE! However, Democracy is also contagious and we will keep it that way! Democracy will trump Trump's treasonous Hate Machine! Nuff said!

Ok, so now Republicans think adding Justices to a Supreme Court whose outcomes you don't like is a good thing? Good thing to remember for the future, Democrats!

A Healer Is Dead — for Alex Pretti. I just published a grief piece on care, community, and what happens when showing up becomes a liability in this country. #Pinks #Momsky open.substack.com/pub/gissellr...

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Get her out of our government!

The story isn’t necessarily that Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a Texas election in a district Trump won by 17 points Or that Rehmet was outspent 20-to-1 Or even that his opponent was backed by Trump and Greg Abbott It’s that 57% of the voters were REPUBLICANS And Rehmet STILL WON by 12 points

Paris 🏹 to Elon ❌ marks the Spot! What? His name in the EPSTEIN files not a good look following Grok scandals? “In a message posted on X, Paris prosecutors’ office confirmed searches & said it was leaving the platform while calling on followers to join on other social media.” Direct 🎯 Hit 🤩

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Becoming, the 2020 Michelle Obama Documentary m is currently still at #6 on Netflix Movie Rankings. It moved up from #8 yesterday. We can do better. Please watch it and let’s get it to the top 5!! You know that will bother the 🍊💩 since their movie is tanking in the box office! We’ve got this!

I like the author sniffing that Puerto Rico is “an unincorporated territory of the United States” without explanation, as if their readership is so familiar with and approving of that fabricated distinction from the colonial era Insular Cases that it obv merits invocation in a pop culture debate.

How did they redact abusers but not the victims? And they expect us to believe 40 nude photos went unnoticed? That’s exactly why people think the DOJ did this on purpose, to shame these women for coming forward.

www.cnn.com/2026/02/03/b... BREAKING: A search was being carried out at the French offices of Elon Musk’s social media platform X as part of an investigation opened in January 2025, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday.

As a Texan, it’s a breath of fresh air to have 2 strong, fighter’s of the good fight running for John “MIA” Cornyn’s Senate seat. This is why I stayed in TX. To flip Texas. Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico! #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #Pinks #SheShed #wtpBLUE

UFW and SEIU Speak Up For All Working People!

We still haven’t seen the worst from the Epstein files, which Trump’s DOJ insists is to protect the victims. We KNOW graphic evidence exists. But I’m seeing victims like Danielle Bensky saying their names & personal info are NOT redacted… Soooooo who is this administration actually protecting?? 🙄

Therein lies the problem. ICE is terrorizing Los Angeles, and local police are choosing not to enforce the law banning masked federal agents. This is how trust collapses.

“I don’t like the 10 days,” South Carolina GOP Rep. Ralph Norman said of the DHS Continuing Resolution. “What’s going to change in 10 days? [Democrats are] going to dismantle ICE. They’re gonna shut it down, which is fine. I’d say, do it.” Works for me. 👍