In NC primary early voting: - Dems turn out in way bigger numbers than R's - UNAFFILIATED voters turning out in bigger numbers than R's - And Unaffiliated votes are breaking for Dems, big time

I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.

Damn he’s good.

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school. They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes

Great thread exploring the details of Bad Bunny’s performance.

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

King

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Puerto Rico hasn't had reliable power in a decade. The grid sends occasional surges through the wires that fry appliances. Electricity rates are among the highest in the entire U.S. Heat waves are getting intense in the summer, and outages mean A/C is no guarantee for an aging population.

heads up to the american news media: I do not care what racists thought of the super bowl halftime show

So it wasn’t a staffer? Just an absolute web of lies.

Scoot over “concerned “, we now have “appalled”.

30 years old

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Trump openly admitting FBI raid in Fulton County was a prelude to interfering with the midterms and attempting to seize control of state and local voting process

In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

the SD09 after report is a disaster for R’s

I barely survived bacterial meningitis when I was a teenager. Many don’t or have lifelong effects. Anti-vax nonsense makes me crazy and put simply, people will die as a result of this.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

The effects of the psychological trauma he has suffered could last a lifetime.

Abu Dhabi poured a secret $500 million into Trump’s company. Then Abu Dhabi got the highest end AI chips that it had coveted (which could then go to China). & the Trumps took steps to try to cover it up. This should rank among the greatest US scandals ever www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

We may have found ourselves in the dreaded dry slot in central NC yesterday, still enough snow eventually came to give this snow monster a fun morning.

I understand it's hard for some to use the term concentration camp, even for those horrified by what's happening. And there are settings (e.g., court) where it may not be helpful today. The key thing to realize is that there's an arc of how detention regimes tend to go, and we're recognizably on it.

straight up Gestapo shit

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

A federal judge has ordered the release of a father and his 5-year-old son held at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. news4sanantonio.com/news/loca...

Full rights and citizenship actually means they’re not a “foreign labor class.” And that’s what he’s angry about. He’s mad citizenship is universal rather than restricted to white people like before the civil war bsky.app/profile/gbbr...

These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée

The Trump Adm is arresting Don Lemon and overcharging disruptive protesters at Cities Church to posture as if it’s protecting Christians. It’s not. DHS is staging disruptive ops at other churches, at least one of which has had to go online. ... 1/4

I cannot stress how completely bizarre & unheard of it is for the DNI to be personally present for a search warrant execution, never mind this one.

Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.

Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

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No masks

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

One of the reasons I like following Bill Kristol despite his past is that he understands how political power works. When HE says Dems should press their advantage, Dems should listen. (Unlike a lot of never Trump folks he’s not constantly grifting, just stating his opinion)

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

May he one day find himself sitting at the defense table in District Court.

What’s the emotion called when the first thing you do every morning is wonder if Trump died in his sleep?

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

This is probably the claim that sinks them.

UPDATE: @dropsitenews.com has obtained the very graphic video from the lady in the pink coat, which shows ICE executing yet another person in broad daylight:

BREAKING: The Tribune confirmed on Instagram that the man shot has died, according to two sources with knowledge of the incident. ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but Chief Brian O'Hara refused, sources also told the Tribune. O'Hara instructed his officers to preserve the scene.

This is a photo of someone being tortured, not someone being restrained