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"Senate Dems considered a requirement banning ICE agents from polling sites as a demand in negotiating the DHS funding bill. But that was not included in their final list..."
Crazy idea: Given what Trump's said, update the "final list" to include it.
politi.co/4t6pxt0
Crazy idea: Given what Trump's said, update the "final list" to include it.
politi.co/4t6pxt0
‘A pretext to rig the election’: Democrats scramble to block ICE crackdowns near polling sites
Election officials are preparing for the possibility of immigration enforcement activity at or near polling sites in November.
politi.co
February 4, 2026 at 4:01 PM
"Senate Dems considered a requirement banning ICE agents from polling sites as a demand in negotiating the DHS funding bill. But that was not included in their final list..."
Crazy idea: Given what Trump's said, update the "final list" to include it.
politi.co/4t6pxt0
Crazy idea: Given what Trump's said, update the "final list" to include it.
politi.co/4t6pxt0
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From our magazine: Donald Trump’s in the second year of a presidential stint, and his megalomaniacal unsuitability for public service is catching up with him. Off-year elections in Virginia and New Jersey have given Dems new reason to believe.
Midterm Memo: The C-Team. Maybe B-.
The Texas Democratic slate-in-progress could definitely be worse.
www.texasobserver.org
February 4, 2026 at 6:02 PM
From our magazine: Donald Trump’s in the second year of a presidential stint, and his megalomaniacal unsuitability for public service is catching up with him. Off-year elections in Virginia and New Jersey have given Dems new reason to believe.
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There is an entire cohort of people who are like "we will work insane hours in the worst conditions imaginable for basically zero money" and the billionaires who own everything are like "nah, let's buy more RAM"
February 4, 2026 at 5:53 PM
There is an entire cohort of people who are like "we will work insane hours in the worst conditions imaginable for basically zero money" and the billionaires who own everything are like "nah, let's buy more RAM"
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The text after that ... in the quoted post is: "Despite how difficult this job can be, I am proud to be a foreign correspondent at The Washington Post"
February 4, 2026 at 5:51 PM
The text after that ... in the quoted post is: "Despite how difficult this job can be, I am proud to be a foreign correspondent at The Washington Post"
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Kristi Noem: "Most of all we thank President Trump for the guts and the love of this country to do the right thing ... he told the American people we needed a wall, and we have a wall. A big beautiful wall that President Trump also wanted painted black so that it would endure."
February 4, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Kristi Noem: "Most of all we thank President Trump for the guts and the love of this country to do the right thing ... he told the American people we needed a wall, and we have a wall. A big beautiful wall that President Trump also wanted painted black so that it would endure."
Lmao
Elon Musk desperately trying to get invited to Epstein island
YouTube video by The Slappable Jerk
www.youtube.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Lmao
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Presented without comment. I just want everyone here to know.
I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro.
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I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro.
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February 2, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Presented without comment. I just want everyone here to know.
I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro.
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I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro.
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Whoa, I just got another spam text from MAGA world and this one is asking if they should deploy ICE against Antifa in California.
This is different from their creepy pick me vibe texts I get.
CC @laurajedeed.bsky.social
This is different from their creepy pick me vibe texts I get.
CC @laurajedeed.bsky.social
February 4, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Whoa, I just got another spam text from MAGA world and this one is asking if they should deploy ICE against Antifa in California.
This is different from their creepy pick me vibe texts I get.
CC @laurajedeed.bsky.social
This is different from their creepy pick me vibe texts I get.
CC @laurajedeed.bsky.social
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Update: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA.
Facts that bear repeating.
Facts that bear repeating.
In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD. Just some facts I think bear repeating.
February 4, 2026 at 5:35 PM
Update: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA.
Facts that bear repeating.
Facts that bear repeating.
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I remember talking to be in 2024 who were surprised I said mass deportation meant mass detention and death, of undocumented and documented migrants and citizens. There's no way to do mass deportation without it.
February 4, 2026 at 5:21 PM
I remember talking to be in 2024 who were surprised I said mass deportation meant mass detention and death, of undocumented and documented migrants and citizens. There's no way to do mass deportation without it.
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Of course normal Americans oppose mass deportation once they see what it looks like! It was a massive moral failing on the part of the media & democratic party not to clearly explain what mass deportation actually means. You shouldn't have been able to turn around without hearing an explainer on it
Vast camps are central to Trumpism. Stephen Miller has long been very excited about them. Backlash is another sign that opposition to Trump/Miller runs deeper than revulsion at ICE. There's real resistance to the whole ideological project of mass deportations. 4/
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
newrepublic.com/article/2060...
February 4, 2026 at 5:18 PM
Of course normal Americans oppose mass deportation once they see what it looks like! It was a massive moral failing on the part of the media & democratic party not to clearly explain what mass deportation actually means. You shouldn't have been able to turn around without hearing an explainer on it
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Truly hilarious headline from the Bezos-owned Washington Post yesterday.
Never, ever let the guys who control half the wealth in America and just got billions of dollars in tax breaks tell you we shouldn't tax the rich.
Never, ever let the guys who control half the wealth in America and just got billions of dollars in tax breaks tell you we shouldn't tax the rich.
February 4, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Truly hilarious headline from the Bezos-owned Washington Post yesterday.
Never, ever let the guys who control half the wealth in America and just got billions of dollars in tax breaks tell you we shouldn't tax the rich.
Never, ever let the guys who control half the wealth in America and just got billions of dollars in tax breaks tell you we shouldn't tax the rich.
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Tucker Carlson thought he could do a high quality conservative news outlet and when he found there was no audience for it he decided to become Julius Streicher
I do enjoy how many of these guys who turned their brains into sludge on come cocktail of roids think there is a huge unserved audience of MAGA chuds who desperately want to read the newspaper.
February 4, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Tucker Carlson thought he could do a high quality conservative news outlet and when he found there was no audience for it he decided to become Julius Streicher
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INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
February 4, 2026 at 5:11 PM
INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.
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Jeff Bezos took over the Washington Post Editorial Board and turned it into a mouthpiece for pro-corporate, pro-billionaire propaganda.
Now, WaPo is laying off hundreds of *real* journalists — including the reporter covering Amazon.
Democracy dies in billionaire hands.
Now, WaPo is laying off hundreds of *real* journalists — including the reporter covering Amazon.
Democracy dies in billionaire hands.
February 4, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Jeff Bezos took over the Washington Post Editorial Board and turned it into a mouthpiece for pro-corporate, pro-billionaire propaganda.
Now, WaPo is laying off hundreds of *real* journalists — including the reporter covering Amazon.
Democracy dies in billionaire hands.
Now, WaPo is laying off hundreds of *real* journalists — including the reporter covering Amazon.
Democracy dies in billionaire hands.
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Rep. Beatty to Bessent after he refuses to answer a question about affordable housing: "No no. We're not gonna to do that with me. You get to hear my wrath that you refuse to answer a question under your authority, and yet you've talked about the value of housing and you're not releasing the funds."
February 4, 2026 at 5:21 PM
Rep. Beatty to Bessent after he refuses to answer a question about affordable housing: "No no. We're not gonna to do that with me. You get to hear my wrath that you refuse to answer a question under your authority, and yet you've talked about the value of housing and you're not releasing the funds."
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Every lawyer knows this man. He’s the one who loved to “play devil’s advocate” for rapists in crim and do a “thought experiment” about what if maybe Brown v Board was wrong actually in con law.
JD Vance is the most loathsome character in American politics, and it's mostly because he's immediately recognizable to anyone with an interest in politics as The Worst Guy From Your PoliSci Class
Reporter: Do you plan to apologize to the family of Alex Pretti?
Vance: For what?
Vance: For what?
February 4, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Every lawyer knows this man. He’s the one who loved to “play devil’s advocate” for rapists in crim and do a “thought experiment” about what if maybe Brown v Board was wrong actually in con law.
In the New American Republic after the New Reconstruction, a parliamentary democracy with proportional multiparty representation, the Presidency will be reorganized into a national figurehead and symbol of unity, rotating on an annual basis by random lot from a Council of Evelyn Normielibs
February 4, 2026 at 5:21 PM
In the New American Republic after the New Reconstruction, a parliamentary democracy with proportional multiparty representation, the Presidency will be reorganized into a national figurehead and symbol of unity, rotating on an annual basis by random lot from a Council of Evelyn Normielibs
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![(D-MI) Evelyn Normielib
[illustration of a friendly, smiling woman with short hair and glasses, wearing a cardigan and necklace that may be pearls or may be funky beads, clasping her hands demurely, standing next to an "In This House We Believe" sign]
-Retired teacher
-Voted for Buttigieg in 2020 because he reminders her of her grandson
-"The blood of the tyrant shall water our fields"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2qaei67lcm32xvmmhgaza4de/bafkreicy732fdrqkqc5a5qloikecvmmgihgiuegwkkrgbwvn3d2amlauya@jpeg)
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HASSETT, last week: “People haven’t turned the machines on yet.”
BESSENT, today: “I can’t snap my fingers and create factories.”
BESSENT, today: “I can’t snap my fingers and create factories.”
FOSTER: You agree it's a historic fact that during Republican presidencies without exception manufacturing employment dropped and the dollar got weaker?
BESSENT: I haven't seen the data
FOSTER: I presented it to you in a graph
BESSENT: I can't snap my fingers and create factories
BESSENT: I haven't seen the data
FOSTER: I presented it to you in a graph
BESSENT: I can't snap my fingers and create factories
February 4, 2026 at 5:08 PM
HASSETT, last week: “People haven’t turned the machines on yet.”
BESSENT, today: “I can’t snap my fingers and create factories.”
BESSENT, today: “I can’t snap my fingers and create factories.”
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this is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway
Reporter: Do you plan to apologize to the family of Alex Pretti?
Vance: For what?
Vance: For what?
February 4, 2026 at 4:41 PM
this is a wicked man who knows he is being wicked and does it anyway
Steve Bannon is the Georges Ruggiu of MAGA
NEW: Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon announced “we’re going to have ICE surround the polls come November,” and told Democrats they’re not going to “steal the country again.”
The comments come amid rising concerns that Trump is plotting to interfere in this year’s midterms. https://bit.ly/3O6AIBY
The comments come amid rising concerns that Trump is plotting to interfere in this year’s midterms. https://bit.ly/3O6AIBY
February 4, 2026 at 5:04 PM
Steve Bannon is the Georges Ruggiu of MAGA
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Before anyone dooms about this, recall that every time these bastards have tried to pull this sort of shit, it has not gone the way it wanted, because they simply do not have the numbers.
There are more of us than there are of them. Prepare, but do not despair.
There are more of us than there are of them. Prepare, but do not despair.
NEW: Former Trump advisor Steve Bannon announced “we’re going to have ICE surround the polls come November,” and told Democrats they’re not going to “steal the country again.”
The comments come amid rising concerns that Trump is plotting to interfere in this year’s midterms. https://bit.ly/3O6AIBY
The comments come amid rising concerns that Trump is plotting to interfere in this year’s midterms. https://bit.ly/3O6AIBY
February 4, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Before anyone dooms about this, recall that every time these bastards have tried to pull this sort of shit, it has not gone the way it wanted, because they simply do not have the numbers.
There are more of us than there are of them. Prepare, but do not despair.
There are more of us than there are of them. Prepare, but do not despair.
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50% of the Epstein files remain unreleased.
We’re not going to ‘get on’ until every single survivor gets the justice they deserve.
We’re not going to ‘get on’ until every single survivor gets the justice they deserve.
February 4, 2026 at 3:48 PM
50% of the Epstein files remain unreleased.
We’re not going to ‘get on’ until every single survivor gets the justice they deserve.
We’re not going to ‘get on’ until every single survivor gets the justice they deserve.