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Platner's dismissive comments about sexual assault in the military were so disgusting that a candidate who had experienced assault in the service dropped out to endorse Mills rather than risk Platner getting into the senate. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/progressiv...
Progressive Candidate Has Dropped Out Of ME Senate Race
Not Platner. Daira Smith-Rodriguez
www.everythingishorrible.net
February 15, 2026 at 7:10 AM
Platner's dismissive comments about sexual assault in the military were so disgusting that a candidate who had experienced assault in the service dropped out to endorse Mills rather than risk Platner getting into the senate. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/progressiv...
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JD Vance arrives in Italy for the Olympic Winter Games and a meeting with Meloni.
February 9, 2026 at 6:47 PM
JD Vance arrives in Italy for the Olympic Winter Games and a meeting with Meloni.
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This is both sad and hilarious.
February 10, 2026 at 11:30 PM
This is both sad and hilarious.
Partly because, Urban = Black
Just going to point out again that our arbitrary political rules permit Republicans to attack urban areas with impunity but strictly forbid the faintest whiff of condescension toward rural areas by Democrats
“The first thing I thought was, ‘What is she talking about?’” said Bryan Fish, the vice mayor of Culver City, whom everyone calls Bubba but doesn’t look like someone whom everyone calls Bubba. “The only crime here,” he added, “is like the $18 strawberry at Erewhon.”
culver city, crime haven! lmaooo
culver city, crime haven! lmaooo
February 14, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Partly because, Urban = Black
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Just going to point out again that our arbitrary political rules permit Republicans to attack urban areas with impunity but strictly forbid the faintest whiff of condescension toward rural areas by Democrats
“The first thing I thought was, ‘What is she talking about?’” said Bryan Fish, the vice mayor of Culver City, whom everyone calls Bubba but doesn’t look like someone whom everyone calls Bubba. “The only crime here,” he added, “is like the $18 strawberry at Erewhon.”
culver city, crime haven! lmaooo
culver city, crime haven! lmaooo
Bondi Suggests Culver City Has a Crime Problem. Culver City Has a Problem With That.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Just going to point out again that our arbitrary political rules permit Republicans to attack urban areas with impunity but strictly forbid the faintest whiff of condescension toward rural areas by Democrats
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It really is amazing how much of political punditry, *especially* elite outfits in NYC and Washington, still embrace this bizarre idea that rural spaces represent the "Real America" while metropolitan areas, where most (presumably real) Americans actually live, should be held in contempt.
Just going to point out again that our arbitrary political rules permit Republicans to attack urban areas with impunity but strictly forbid the faintest whiff of condescension toward rural areas by Democrats
“The first thing I thought was, ‘What is she talking about?’” said Bryan Fish, the vice mayor of Culver City, whom everyone calls Bubba but doesn’t look like someone whom everyone calls Bubba. “The only crime here,” he added, “is like the $18 strawberry at Erewhon.”
culver city, crime haven! lmaooo
culver city, crime haven! lmaooo
February 14, 2026 at 10:41 PM
It really is amazing how much of political punditry, *especially* elite outfits in NYC and Washington, still embrace this bizarre idea that rural spaces represent the "Real America" while metropolitan areas, where most (presumably real) Americans actually live, should be held in contempt.
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#medsky you need to know that HHS released a Medicaid dataset today, with your NPI in it, linked to procedure codes and volume
🚨 The Trump regime released an HHS Medicaid dataset that can be used to build a ranked hit list of abortion and gender-affirming care providers, organized by patient volume, with names and addresses. They called it open source transparency.
www.patreon.com/posts/150728...
www.patreon.com/posts/150728...
February 14, 2026 at 5:09 AM
#medsky you need to know that HHS released a Medicaid dataset today, with your NPI in it, linked to procedure codes and volume
Russell Vought Raided USAID Budgets He Helped Gut to Pay for His Own Security - Mother Jones
February 14, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Russell Vought Raided USAID Budgets He Helped Gut to Pay for His Own Security - Mother Jones
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RFK Jr. sniffed cocaine off toilets the right way.
By Ezra Klein
By Ezra Klein
February 13, 2026 at 4:44 PM
RFK Jr. sniffed cocaine off toilets the right way.
By Ezra Klein
By Ezra Klein
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JUST IN: Republican Attorneys General of 21 states asked a judge to end telehealth prescriptions of abortion pills nationwide claiming FDA rules mean they can't enforce their restrictions/bans.
Hearing in Louisiana case against FDA is scheduled for 2/24
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Hearing in Louisiana case against FDA is scheduled for 2/24
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NEW: Louisiana and lawyer Erin Hawley of ADF just asked a federal judge to IMMEDIATELY end telemedicine prescriptions of the abortion drug mifepristone while their lawsuit against the FDA proceeds. They cite Fifth Circuit opinion and the Comstock Act of 1873
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**Second, the 2023 REMS is “otherwise not in accordance with law.” 5 U.S.C. § 706(2)(A). Under 18 U.S.C. § 1462** [NOTE: THIS IS THE COMSTOCK ACT. IT'S 18 U.S.C 1461-1462], Congress prohibits the use of “any express company or other common carrier or interactive computer service” for “any drug, medicine, article, or thing designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion.” Because a federal agency cannot permit what federal law expressly prohibits, FDA lacked authority to permanently remove the in-person dispensing requirement.
For these reasons, and as set forth fully in Plaintiffs’ Complaint and supporting Memorandum of Law, interim relief is necessary and appropriate to mitigate irreparable injuries caused by the 2023 REMS. Interim relief will serve the public interest and will not harm Defendants.
This Motion is made on the grounds specified in this Motion, the accompanying Memorandum of Law, the exhibits attached to this Motion, the Complaint, and the Complaint’s accompanying exhibits, as well as on such other and further oral or documentary evidence as may be presented to the Court at or before a hearing on this Motion.1 An exhibit list and a proposed order are attached.
docket here: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71544002/louisiana-v-u-s-food-drug-administration/?order_by=desc](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4fdfjfnhhyeo4hsmoxpeazsg/bafkreifj2cvzqbotkuyfhsv5afpnhcuxtrjy4fgad6otbbnex4dis76yhe@jpeg)
February 13, 2026 at 11:24 PM
JUST IN: Republican Attorneys General of 21 states asked a judge to end telehealth prescriptions of abortion pills nationwide claiming FDA rules mean they can't enforce their restrictions/bans.
Hearing in Louisiana case against FDA is scheduled for 2/24
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Hearing in Louisiana case against FDA is scheduled for 2/24
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Whether it’s Barack Obama, putting Dijon mustard on a hotdog or RFK Jr. snorting cocaine off a toilet seat, both men made some curious decisions.
February 13, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Whether it’s Barack Obama, putting Dijon mustard on a hotdog or RFK Jr. snorting cocaine off a toilet seat, both men made some curious decisions.
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Pay attention to the Prairieland case.
By saddling the defendants with indiscriminate charges, holding them without bail, and isolating them from lawyers and the public, prosecutors are attempting to terrorize them into signing guilty pleas in order to set a precedent criminalizing dissent itself.
By saddling the defendants with indiscriminate charges, holding them without bail, and isolating them from lawyers and the public, prosecutors are attempting to terrorize them into signing guilty pleas in order to set a precedent criminalizing dissent itself.
The Road to Prairieland
The crackdown on anti-ICE activists in Texas reflects a pattern of intensifying repression all around the country.
crimethinc.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:25 PM
Pay attention to the Prairieland case.
By saddling the defendants with indiscriminate charges, holding them without bail, and isolating them from lawyers and the public, prosecutors are attempting to terrorize them into signing guilty pleas in order to set a precedent criminalizing dissent itself.
By saddling the defendants with indiscriminate charges, holding them without bail, and isolating them from lawyers and the public, prosecutors are attempting to terrorize them into signing guilty pleas in order to set a precedent criminalizing dissent itself.
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Breaking WSJ:
The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Intercepted Conversation About Jared Kushner
The substance of the conversation, which covered in part issues related to Iran, isn’t known.
www.wsj.com
February 12, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Breaking WSJ:
The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.
We’re cooked.
February 13, 2026 at 11:35 PM
We’re cooked.
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“You don’t tell me anything, washed-up loser lawyer!”
Is it asking too much to have an Attorney General who doesn’t sound like a drunk in a trailer park brawl?
Apparently, it is.
Is it asking too much to have an Attorney General who doesn’t sound like a drunk in a trailer park brawl?
Apparently, it is.
Pam Bondi and Dems clashed at a House Judiciary hearing.
“You don’t tell me anything, washed-up loser lawyer,” she shouted at ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.).
The anger and insults over the Epstein files and immigration crackdown in Playbook PM 👇
“You don’t tell me anything, washed-up loser lawyer,” she shouted at ranking member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.).
The anger and insults over the Epstein files and immigration crackdown in Playbook PM 👇
Anger spills over in Bondi hearing
And the January jobs report comes in unexpectedly hot.
politi.co
February 11, 2026 at 8:51 PM
“You don’t tell me anything, washed-up loser lawyer!”
Is it asking too much to have an Attorney General who doesn’t sound like a drunk in a trailer park brawl?
Apparently, it is.
Is it asking too much to have an Attorney General who doesn’t sound like a drunk in a trailer park brawl?
Apparently, it is.
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He was 48. Chadwick Boseman was 43. These are tragedies and we need Medicare for all
James Van Der Beek, 'Dawson's Creek' and 'Varsity Blues' star, dies at 48
The actor was diagnosed with stage 3 colorectal cancer in November 2024.
www.nbcnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 8:13 PM
He was 48. Chadwick Boseman was 43. These are tragedies and we need Medicare for all
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This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.**
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.
February 10, 2026 at 9:26 PM
This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...
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(Media) SCOOP: Weeks ago, the owner of the Washington City Paper had offered to purchase The Washington Post's sports and local sections, keeping their desks alive.
The Post reporters were laid off and the desks were shut down instead.
www.theverge.com/policy/87683...
The Post reporters were laid off and the desks were shut down instead.
www.theverge.com/policy/87683...
Bezos could have saved WaPo’s sports and local journalists. He laid them off instead.
“The equation isn’t adding up.”
www.theverge.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:39 PM
(Media) SCOOP: Weeks ago, the owner of the Washington City Paper had offered to purchase The Washington Post's sports and local sections, keeping their desks alive.
The Post reporters were laid off and the desks were shut down instead.
www.theverge.com/policy/87683...
The Post reporters were laid off and the desks were shut down instead.
www.theverge.com/policy/87683...
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There are really no words for this.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:44 AM
There are really no words for this.
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McIVER: Do you consider yourself a religious man?
LYONS: Yes mam
McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?
LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question
McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?
LYONS: Yes mam
McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?
LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question
McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?
February 10, 2026 at 5:34 PM
McIVER: Do you consider yourself a religious man?
LYONS: Yes mam
McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?
LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question
McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?
LYONS: Yes mam
McIVER: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands?
LYONS: I'm not going to entertain that question
McIVER: Do you think you're going to hell, Mr Lyons?
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"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."
“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.
Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
www.aljazeera.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:29 AM
"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."
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🚨Buckle up!🚨
Poland is investigating potential connections between Jeffrey Epstein and Polish victims, as well as possible involvement of Russian intelligence in his activities. The Polish government has set up a special task force.
Poland is investigating potential connections between Jeffrey Epstein and Polish victims, as well as possible involvement of Russian intelligence in his activities. The Polish government has set up a special task force.
February 10, 2026 at 3:51 AM
🚨Buckle up!🚨
Poland is investigating potential connections between Jeffrey Epstein and Polish victims, as well as possible involvement of Russian intelligence in his activities. The Polish government has set up a special task force.
Poland is investigating potential connections between Jeffrey Epstein and Polish victims, as well as possible involvement of Russian intelligence in his activities. The Polish government has set up a special task force.
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What an ugly assault on First Amendment and on Congress.
Thankfully, thwarted.
"A group of ordinary citizens sitting on the grand jury in Federal District Court in Washington rejected the effort."
Shame on DOJ.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
Thankfully, thwarted.
"A group of ordinary citizens sitting on the grand jury in Federal District Court in Washington rejected the effort."
Shame on DOJ.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
Grand Jury Rebuffs Justice Dept. Attempt to Indict 6 Democrats in Congress
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2026 at 2:13 AM
What an ugly assault on First Amendment and on Congress.
Thankfully, thwarted.
"A group of ordinary citizens sitting on the grand jury in Federal District Court in Washington rejected the effort."
Shame on DOJ.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...
Thankfully, thwarted.
"A group of ordinary citizens sitting on the grand jury in Federal District Court in Washington rejected the effort."
Shame on DOJ.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...