decitect
@decitect.bsky.social
Building a more perfect union; Bay Area denizen
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You are seeing parts of the far right inch publicly up to where they always have been privately: that older middle aged men have a right to exploit teenage girls as the Natural Order of Things.
They don't really have a big problem with what Trump, Epstein and his friends did and don't care.
They don't really have a big problem with what Trump, Epstein and his friends did and don't care.
February 5, 2026 at 10:53 PM
You are seeing parts of the far right inch publicly up to where they always have been privately: that older middle aged men have a right to exploit teenage girls as the Natural Order of Things.
They don't really have a big problem with what Trump, Epstein and his friends did and don't care.
They don't really have a big problem with what Trump, Epstein and his friends did and don't care.
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Subprime mortgages but for rent, brilliant
FOX: " Rent Now, Pay Later. It's a new option for renters who are struggling to make the monthly payment ... You pay them a fee or a monthly subscription, but if you miss the payments — that's when the interest rates go way up."
February 5, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Subprime mortgages but for rent, brilliant
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After latest release country should move on to Epstein trials.
February 5, 2026 at 7:39 PM
After latest release country should move on to Epstein trials.
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omg i just realized it is the coffee bowl.
starbucks v. dunkin
starbucks v. dunkin
February 5, 2026 at 2:03 AM
omg i just realized it is the coffee bowl.
starbucks v. dunkin
starbucks v. dunkin
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Trump found this one weird trick to put your tax payments right into his own pocket.
BESSENT SAYS IF TRUMP WINS IRS SUIT, $10B WOULD COME FROM TAXPAYERS
February 5, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Trump found this one weird trick to put your tax payments right into his own pocket.
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Epstein used expensive gifts to curry favor & enhance his acceptability.
"The emails paint a picture of a man calibrating presentability within the codes of upper-class American society. They also provide a snapshot of the subtle ways taste & style preferences are wielded within that community."
"The emails paint a picture of a man calibrating presentability within the codes of upper-class American society. They also provide a snapshot of the subtle ways taste & style preferences are wielded within that community."
How Epstein Used Luxury Goods to Curry Favor
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Epstein used expensive gifts to curry favor & enhance his acceptability.
"The emails paint a picture of a man calibrating presentability within the codes of upper-class American society. They also provide a snapshot of the subtle ways taste & style preferences are wielded within that community."
"The emails paint a picture of a man calibrating presentability within the codes of upper-class American society. They also provide a snapshot of the subtle ways taste & style preferences are wielded within that community."
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Thoughts:
• Much of this is already mandated by law and DHS policy and is being ignored.
• No additional enforcement mechanisms or consequences for its lack are included.
• Ending the MN surge and removing Kristi Noem are noted as things Trump can do, not demands.
• Stephen Miller is not mentioned.
• Much of this is already mandated by law and DHS policy and is being ignored.
• No additional enforcement mechanisms or consequences for its lack are included.
• Ending the MN surge and removing Kristi Noem are noted as things Trump can do, not demands.
• Stephen Miller is not mentioned.
Schumer & Jeffries lay out the Democratic demands for a DHS funding deal in a letter to the top Republican leaders
February 5, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Thoughts:
• Much of this is already mandated by law and DHS policy and is being ignored.
• No additional enforcement mechanisms or consequences for its lack are included.
• Ending the MN surge and removing Kristi Noem are noted as things Trump can do, not demands.
• Stephen Miller is not mentioned.
• Much of this is already mandated by law and DHS policy and is being ignored.
• No additional enforcement mechanisms or consequences for its lack are included.
• Ending the MN surge and removing Kristi Noem are noted as things Trump can do, not demands.
• Stephen Miller is not mentioned.
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Not that it’s new information, it isn’t, but I hate this world a lot. We only pretend to be civilized; in reality, we burn families in their beds with missiles and freeze them in their homes for geopolitical goals.
February 5, 2026 at 3:49 AM
Not that it’s new information, it isn’t, but I hate this world a lot. We only pretend to be civilized; in reality, we burn families in their beds with missiles and freeze them in their homes for geopolitical goals.
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Ask Usha if its fun for a woman to be told she doesn't smile enough.
Vance: There was a moment in the Oval Office, I wasn't even in there, but Trump was talking to Kaitlan Collins. Trump says, 'Why don't you ever smile?' And it's actually, like, so perceptive. Have some fun.
February 5, 2026 at 3:50 AM
Ask Usha if its fun for a woman to be told she doesn't smile enough.
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Thread:
So on this day when one of the oligarchs of our digitized and dystopic world is emptying one of America's greatest newsrooms of trained and committed journalists, I thought I would regale you all with a wonderful little anecdote about our world to come. It involves two of the finest...
So on this day when one of the oligarchs of our digitized and dystopic world is emptying one of America's greatest newsrooms of trained and committed journalists, I thought I would regale you all with a wonderful little anecdote about our world to come. It involves two of the finest...
February 5, 2026 at 2:28 AM
Thread:
So on this day when one of the oligarchs of our digitized and dystopic world is emptying one of America's greatest newsrooms of trained and committed journalists, I thought I would regale you all with a wonderful little anecdote about our world to come. It involves two of the finest...
So on this day when one of the oligarchs of our digitized and dystopic world is emptying one of America's greatest newsrooms of trained and committed journalists, I thought I would regale you all with a wonderful little anecdote about our world to come. It involves two of the finest...
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Time machine. It’s important that Democrats start using publicly available information like this to hold Republicans accountable every single day. Just because some years ago by doesn’t mean something changed.
College girlfriend says James Comer abused her
Gubernatorial hopeful James Comer committed domestic abuse in college, ex-girlfriend says
www.courier-journal.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:05 AM
Time machine. It’s important that Democrats start using publicly available information like this to hold Republicans accountable every single day. Just because some years ago by doesn’t mean something changed.
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An excellent quote, if I say so myself, which I just did.
February 5, 2026 at 2:58 AM
An excellent quote, if I say so myself, which I just did.
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If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
February 5, 2026 at 12:16 AM
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
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Paul Weiss leader Brad Karp is stepping down from the role after a trove of emails released by the Justice Department detailed the lawyer’s close connections to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
Paul Weiss Chief Karp Steps Down as Epstein Controversy Heats Up
Paul Weiss leader Brad Karp is stepping down from the role after a trove of emails released by the Justice Department detailed the lawyer’s close connections to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
bit.ly
February 5, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Paul Weiss leader Brad Karp is stepping down from the role after a trove of emails released by the Justice Department detailed the lawyer’s close connections to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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BREAKING: A federal judge blocks immigration agents from arresting people in Oregon without warrants unless there's a risk of escape.
ICE agents can't make warrantless arrests in Oregon unless there's a risk of escape, US judge rules
A judge says U.S. immigration agents in Oregon must stop arresting people without warrants unless they are likely to escape. U.S.
bit.ly
February 5, 2026 at 2:06 AM
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They're going to try & steal the election if it's close. And they're going to do everything possible to make it close. So job 1 is making it not close, & job 2 is talking about what happens & making plans for when it is. These things are not mutually exclusive as so many folks here seem to believe.
The Trump regime's plan to rig the 2026 election is becoming clearer:
- Send ICE to polling locations to intimidate voters
- Attempt to federalize the elections and seize control of administration in critical states
- Cast doubt on the results and declare they've won
- If needed, seize ballot boxes
- Send ICE to polling locations to intimidate voters
- Attempt to federalize the elections and seize control of administration in critical states
- Cast doubt on the results and declare they've won
- If needed, seize ballot boxes
🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon said Tuesday that the federal government is planning to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to patrol polling stations during this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
February 4, 2026 at 6:03 PM
They're going to try & steal the election if it's close. And they're going to do everything possible to make it close. So job 1 is making it not close, & job 2 is talking about what happens & making plans for when it is. These things are not mutually exclusive as so many folks here seem to believe.
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Musk promised to sell his Tesla stock and solve world hunger if United Nations World Food Program would describe exactly how $6B would be used.
When WFP did exactly that - he didn't do jack squat. Musk is incredibly full of shit.
When WFP did exactly that - he didn't do jack squat. Musk is incredibly full of shit.
June 11, 2023 at 1:37 PM
Musk promised to sell his Tesla stock and solve world hunger if United Nations World Food Program would describe exactly how $6B would be used.
When WFP did exactly that - he didn't do jack squat. Musk is incredibly full of shit.
When WFP did exactly that - he didn't do jack squat. Musk is incredibly full of shit.
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🎻 (all my money can't buy me friends or respect).
it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
February 5, 2026 at 2:11 AM
🎻 (all my money can't buy me friends or respect).
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I went to an absolutely packed anti-ICE training in Austin over the weekend and it was 99% women, most of them white women. I don't think Austin is a bellwether (I wasn't surprised to see mostly women at the training) but the ones who give a fuck are activated as hell right now.
February 5, 2026 at 1:20 AM
I went to an absolutely packed anti-ICE training in Austin over the weekend and it was 99% women, most of them white women. I don't think Austin is a bellwether (I wasn't surprised to see mostly women at the training) but the ones who give a fuck are activated as hell right now.
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This Claremont twit is so fearful of “wine moms” with cell phones and whistles that he’s demanding Trump crush them with violence.
Or rather, more violence.
Or rather, more violence.
February 4, 2026 at 9:46 PM
This Claremont twit is so fearful of “wine moms” with cell phones and whistles that he’s demanding Trump crush them with violence.
Or rather, more violence.
Or rather, more violence.
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It was @asharangappa.bsky.social who first put this idea in my head, but really starting to feel like they're gonna try to get Maduro to cop to some insane 2020 election conspiracy in exchange for leniency
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Exclusive: US spy chief's office investigated voting machines in Puerto Rico
A team working for President Donald Trump's spy chief, Tulsi Gabbard, last spring led an investigation into Puerto Rico's voting machines, said Gabbard's office and three sources familiar with the pre...
www.reuters.com
February 5, 2026 at 12:05 AM
It was @asharangappa.bsky.social who first put this idea in my head, but really starting to feel like they're gonna try to get Maduro to cop to some insane 2020 election conspiracy in exchange for leniency
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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These numbers are simply incredible. It's very clear that most ordinary people have figured out that ICE is not remotely functioning as a law enforcement agency any longer and that none of this is about enforcing the law in any recognizable sense.
February 4, 2026 at 9:00 PM
These numbers are simply incredible. It's very clear that most ordinary people have figured out that ICE is not remotely functioning as a law enforcement agency any longer and that none of this is about enforcing the law in any recognizable sense.
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We are seeing the convergence of all of these tactics across media, and the absolute purge at the @washingtonpost.com of some 300 staff and entire news divisions at one of this nation’s greatest newspapers while an open ideologue has been handed CBS’s reins are signs of a democracy in deep decline.
February 4, 2026 at 9:06 PM
We are seeing the convergence of all of these tactics across media, and the absolute purge at the @washingtonpost.com of some 300 staff and entire news divisions at one of this nation’s greatest newspapers while an open ideologue has been handed CBS’s reins are signs of a democracy in deep decline.
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Great work by Greg Sargent. We are, right now, deciding whether we want to be a land of giant concentration camps and ethnic cleanings.
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country
The next phase of ICE’s big ramp-up: a nationwide network of vast detention facilities. But guess what? Even parts of Red America are saying no.
newrepublic.com
February 4, 2026 at 8:36 PM
Great work by Greg Sargent. We are, right now, deciding whether we want to be a land of giant concentration camps and ethnic cleanings.
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
newrepublic.com/article/2060...