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Elon Musk is a clown shoe so I’m here now.
Red Sox | Suns | Bills fan; Pokemon nerd; Pessimistic Progressive; He/Him
Red Sox | Suns | Bills fan; Pokemon nerd; Pessimistic Progressive; He/Him
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If the government can take away your voting rights for a felony conviction, and they also decide what constitutes a felony, and they also decide who’s charged with the felony, and they also decide who’s prosecuted for the felony, you don’t have a right to vote.
Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger endorsed a constitutional amendment to automatically restore voting rights to people with felony convictions when they leave prison. State lawmakers passed the amendment and it will now appear on the state ballot.
“It’s Time”: Virginia Lawmakers Ask Voters to Repeal Jim Crow-Era Lifetime Ban on Voting
Voters will decide this year whether to end Virginia’s uniquely harsh felony disenfranchisement rules. They
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February 12, 2026 at 3:10 AM
If the government can take away your voting rights for a felony conviction, and they also decide what constitutes a felony, and they also decide who’s charged with the felony, and they also decide who’s prosecuted for the felony, you don’t have a right to vote.
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easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”
“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:
Opinion | Affordability and the ‘Epstein Class’ Will Define American Politics
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”
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I don’t think we should allow the secret police to round people up and sort them by race
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:32 AM
I don’t think we should allow the secret police to round people up and sort them by race
Imagine the atrocities this administration is committing that we still don’t know about…
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:37 AM
Imagine the atrocities this administration is committing that we still don’t know about…
Jesus Christ…
An AP review of crimes committed by ICE agents shows how their powers can be abused:
One official admitted he repeatedly sexually abused a woman in his custody.
Another is charged with taking bribes to remove detention orders on people targeted for deportation.
One official admitted he repeatedly sexually abused a woman in his custody.
Another is charged with taking bribes to remove detention orders on people targeted for deportation.
As ICE expands, an AP review of crimes committed by agents shows how their powers can be abused
Investigators say one immigration official abused his girlfriend for years. Another admitted he sexually abused a woman in his custody.
apnews.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:23 AM
Jesus Christ…
And the best part? The admin will face no consequences for doing Famous Crimes But Dumber™️
I hate it here.
I hate it here.
When the CIA did this to the Senate it was one of the biggest intel scandals of the 21st century. But here it’s not just a huge scandal, it’s dumb: Pam Bondi is so bad at her job she brought the evidence herself to an open congressional hearing. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j...
February 12, 2026 at 2:06 AM
And the best part? The admin will face no consequences for doing Famous Crimes But Dumber™️
I hate it here.
I hate it here.
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When the CIA did this to the Senate it was one of the biggest intel scandals of the 21st century. But here it’s not just a huge scandal, it’s dumb: Pam Bondi is so bad at her job she brought the evidence herself to an open congressional hearing. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j...
February 12, 2026 at 12:20 AM
When the CIA did this to the Senate it was one of the biggest intel scandals of the 21st century. But here it’s not just a huge scandal, it’s dumb: Pam Bondi is so bad at her job she brought the evidence herself to an open congressional hearing. www.theguardian.com/world/2014/j...
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“The news is reporting”
February 12, 2026 at 12:45 AM
“The news is reporting”
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In a way, Pam Bondi was just verbalizing the unspoken Faustian bargain that every Trump voter who concedes he's a bad guy has decided to make: just help me in my bank account and hurt the people I don't like and I'll overlook everything about you that I KNOW is repulsive.
She really just said why are you talking about the mass coverup of child rape when you should be talking about money
Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."
February 12, 2026 at 12:18 AM
In a way, Pam Bondi was just verbalizing the unspoken Faustian bargain that every Trump voter who concedes he's a bad guy has decided to make: just help me in my bank account and hurt the people I don't like and I'll overlook everything about you that I KNOW is repulsive.
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DC statehood yesterday
Congressional Republicans are going to deprive D.C. of $700 million in revenue and repeal a local program projected to reduce child poverty by 20 percent, solely to spite District residents and make us suffer. They’re also throwing our tax filing into utter chaos. This is a disaster.
February 11, 2026 at 11:16 PM
DC statehood yesterday
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If you saw today's headline that Gallup will stop measuring presidential approval, they did the same thing in 2018. They do it whenever Trump is president.
February 11, 2026 at 7:27 PM
If you saw today's headline that Gallup will stop measuring presidential approval, they did the same thing in 2018. They do it whenever Trump is president.
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Too often when discussing trans rights, we’re forced to be on the defensive, as Republicans wage attacks.
Today, we take the opportunity to look forward by introducing my Trans Bill of Rights, a comprehensive vision to provide protections for all trans and nonbinary people.
Today, we take the opportunity to look forward by introducing my Trans Bill of Rights, a comprehensive vision to provide protections for all trans and nonbinary people.
February 11, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Too often when discussing trans rights, we’re forced to be on the defensive, as Republicans wage attacks.
Today, we take the opportunity to look forward by introducing my Trans Bill of Rights, a comprehensive vision to provide protections for all trans and nonbinary people.
Today, we take the opportunity to look forward by introducing my Trans Bill of Rights, a comprehensive vision to provide protections for all trans and nonbinary people.
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CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.
CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"
February 11, 2026 at 9:36 PM
CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.
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The US campaign to starve Cuba of fuel should be understood as genocidal. They are targeting a whole nation, deliberately destroying conditions necessary for life, in flagrant violation of international law. Pure barbarism, there is no other way to describe it.
February 11, 2026 at 6:55 PM
The US campaign to starve Cuba of fuel should be understood as genocidal. They are targeting a whole nation, deliberately destroying conditions necessary for life, in flagrant violation of international law. Pure barbarism, there is no other way to describe it.
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Democrats like ICE, so they don't know what to do right now. Every single person in 2026 that isn't screaming with their whole chest a call to abolish ICE needs to never serve in an elected role ever again. These dinosaurs are enabling, compromising, even collaborating openly with fascism.
Seeing this insane ICE violence in Saint Paul, and I’m wondering where Betty McCollum is. Just the most absent congressperson of all time. Hardly any communication about what’s happening to her constituent. Not built for the moment.
February 11, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Democrats like ICE, so they don't know what to do right now. Every single person in 2026 that isn't screaming with their whole chest a call to abolish ICE needs to never serve in an elected role ever again. These dinosaurs are enabling, compromising, even collaborating openly with fascism.
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this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...
February 11, 2026 at 7:28 PM
this is a level of complicity that had not occurred to me
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We now have data from Trump's first full year in office. Let's review the performance of Trump and the two parties since 1989 and a new age of globalization began.
However you cut the data Trump continues to have worst jobs record of last six Presidents. 1/
However you cut the data Trump continues to have worst jobs record of last six Presidents. 1/
February 11, 2026 at 3:12 PM
We now have data from Trump's first full year in office. Let's review the performance of Trump and the two parties since 1989 and a new age of globalization began.
However you cut the data Trump continues to have worst jobs record of last six Presidents. 1/
However you cut the data Trump continues to have worst jobs record of last six Presidents. 1/
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Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
February 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
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Marimar Martinez is a hero. Please keep her safe.
And please remember every time you hear a claim from the DHS that they will lie. Constantly. Blatantly. Without remorse.
And please remember every time you hear a claim from the DHS that they will lie. Constantly. Blatantly. Without remorse.
Chicago's U.S. attorney's office has released evidence from the case against Marimar Martinez, pre-empting her press conference later today.
It even released text messages it once claimed would "sully" a Border Patrol agents's rep.
From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
It even released text messages it once claimed would "sully" a Border Patrol agents's rep.
From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Border Patrol agents say 'time to get aggressive' in footage that contradicts claims against Marimar Martinez
Martinez is expected to announce a new lawsuit stemming from her Oct. 4 shooting by a Border Patrol agent at a press conference Wednesday. Her attorneys say newly released evidence will show an agent ...
chicago.suntimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Marimar Martinez is a hero. Please keep her safe.
And please remember every time you hear a claim from the DHS that they will lie. Constantly. Blatantly. Without remorse.
And please remember every time you hear a claim from the DHS that they will lie. Constantly. Blatantly. Without remorse.
MAGA: “Bad Bunny needs to speak English!!!”
Kid Rock, hammered on Bud Light (which he claims to be boycotting) & failing to lip sync his own lyrics: “Bawitdaba da-bang da-bang diggy diggy diggy said the boogie said up jump the boogie.”
Kid Rock, hammered on Bud Light (which he claims to be boycotting) & failing to lip sync his own lyrics: “Bawitdaba da-bang da-bang diggy diggy diggy said the boogie said up jump the boogie.”
February 11, 2026 at 6:02 PM
MAGA: “Bad Bunny needs to speak English!!!”
Kid Rock, hammered on Bud Light (which he claims to be boycotting) & failing to lip sync his own lyrics: “Bawitdaba da-bang da-bang diggy diggy diggy said the boogie said up jump the boogie.”
Kid Rock, hammered on Bud Light (which he claims to be boycotting) & failing to lip sync his own lyrics: “Bawitdaba da-bang da-bang diggy diggy diggy said the boogie said up jump the boogie.”
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Watters: I was walking in my street, a car drives by and I give him a wave. He rolls down the window and says, “F U fascist.” He doesn’t know I’m a fascist!
Jessica: Yes, he does. You’re on TV.
Jessica: Yes, he does. You’re on TV.
February 10, 2026 at 11:00 PM
Watters: I was walking in my street, a car drives by and I give him a wave. He rolls down the window and says, “F U fascist.” He doesn’t know I’m a fascist!
Jessica: Yes, he does. You’re on TV.
Jessica: Yes, he does. You’re on TV.