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Jim Reilly
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Retired, Opinionated Curmudgeon
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WATCH: Border czar Tom Homan announces 700 immigration agents leaving Minneapolis immediately
The Trump administration is reducing the number of immigration enforcement officers in Minnesota after state and local officials agreed to cooperate by turning over arrested immigrants, Homan said Wed...
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February 5, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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Trump's Border Czar Can't Be Trusted to Make ICE Stand Down
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Trump's Border Czar Can't Be Trusted to Make ICE Stand Down
Tom Homan?
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February 5, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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February 5, 2026 at 6:05 PM
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February 5, 2026 at 6:03 PM
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I’m betting Comer will suddenly lose interest in this hearing.
February 5, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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February 4, 2026
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February 4, 2026
On the heels of last weekend’s special election in Texas, President Donald J.
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February 5, 2026 at 5:53 PM
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DOJ Attacks Judge, Claims Judicial Immunity For Itself
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DOJ Attacks Judge, Claims Judicial Immunity For Itself
Stunt, man
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February 5, 2026 at 5:52 PM
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It’s bad enough that we’re subsidizing extremely profitable sports teams with our tax dollars to build stadiums, but we’re letting them charge us $17 dollars for a beer and $11 dollars for a damn hotdog at the concession stand?

Enough. Here’s one thing we can do about it.
February 5, 2026 at 3:04 PM
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muellershewrote.com
They went through the trouble of severing DHS. Just shut down DHS if republicans don’t agree to your terms. Why extend it? I get that ICE is funded no matter what and won’t close down, but what was the point of severing DHS for leverage if you’re just gonna keep extending the funding?
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 9h
If Dem senators vote to extend the DHS CR again, they are instantly going to lose a tremendous amount of support from their base who have been in wait-and-see mode on this. I can only assume Dem senators considering this have completely lost touch with their voters. Don’t do it.
February 5, 2026 at 5:47 PM
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@rothschildmd.bsky.social describes how pissed off Trump's conspiracists were about the anti-gun comments in the wake of Alex Pretti's murder.

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This time, they infuriated the conspiracy theorists who, before Trump, used to believe that federal government stormtroopers could kick down their door and take their guns away at any time. Such violent opposition to the FBI and Justice Department were once the backbone of anti-government extremism, and they were finally resurfacing as a version of their paranoid nightmare was finally coming true. Nowhere was the backlash more apparent than on r/conspiracy, where the board seemed to turn as one against the president it had once so vocally supported. When combined with Trump’s reversals on the Jeffrey Epstein files and his constant drumbeat of launching new wars when he ran as an anti-interventionist “peace president,” it proved to be too much for many prolific users of the forum. They had no trouble saying so, either. “We are being dragged into hell by a demonic cult,” declared the most popular post on r/conspiracy for weeks, featuring a meme with pedestrians being surveilled by drones and herded by police, one of whom declares “we sure owned the libs.”
February 5, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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Ya still can't trust DJT!
UPDATE: Despite rhetoric, feds continue aggressive crackdown in Minneapolis
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UPDATE: Despite rhetoric, feds continue aggressive crackdown in Minneapolis
After the brutal killing of Alex Pretti on January 25 — the second fatal shooting of an American citizen by federal agents in the Minneapolis area — the Trump administration sought to advance a narrat...
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February 5, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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Local and State Police Can Investigate Federal Agents, But Rarely Do
It doesn’t happen often, but local law enforcement can arrest and charge federal agents. Legal experts say there’s a moral obligation to at least try to hold federal immigration officers accountable w...
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February 5, 2026 at 5:46 PM
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Trump is the reason the Founders kept elections out of POLITICAL CONTROL. They distrusted dealing with greedy, power crazed "kings" www.ms.now/chris-jansin...
February 5, 2026 at 5:44 PM
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The statue is a recreation of one tossed into Baltimore Harbor in 2020. The new version got $30,000 in taxpayer money for its creation. www.ms.now/opinion/colu...
Opinion | Why Trump thinks a statue of Christopher Columbus could help him in the midterms
A statue of Christopher Columbus is moving to the White House from Baltimore. Trump thinks it will help the Italian vote in the midterms.
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February 5, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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Sen. Mitch McConnell is among the oldest serving senators.
Sen. Mitch McConnell Hospitalized With Flu-Like Symptoms, Received ‘Positive’ Prognosis
Sen. Mitch McConnell is among the oldest serving senators.
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February 4, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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dryad.technology
Somebody should invent a socioeconomic system which is good at allocating resources
February 4, 2026 at 8:44 PM
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"ICE guys are pretty miserable. I don’t think morale is particularly high for them. They’re freezing, they’re getting shouted at. They can’t go anywhere without being tailed by 5 cars. They get out and immediately there's a crowd of 100 people shouting at them, blowing whistles as loud as they can."
Inside the resistance with Will Stancil
"It's something I could do to keep them from stealing my neighbors."
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February 4, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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At this point, some leaked videos might help.
February 4, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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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.
February 5, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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The Supreme Court’s one-line decision in the California Prop 50 gerrymandering case went the right way, but it hides a larger truth. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
February 5, 2026 at 1:39 AM
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BREAKING: Judge Boasberg has GRANTED Our Motion to Compel in DOGE FOIA Case Involving Musk's Phone(s)
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BREAKING: Judge Boasberg has GRANTED Our Motion to Compel in DOGE FOIA Case Involving Musk's Phone(s)
Though still refusing to acknowledge Musk was a government employee, DOJ argued they shouldn't have to find out if he was using a personal phone. They just lost that argument.
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February 4, 2026 at 10:04 PM
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Supreme Court Clears Way for California Voting Map www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
Supreme Court Clears Way for California Voting Map
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February 4, 2026 at 10:02 PM
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After making hollow threats, House Freedom Caucus members cave (again)
For the past year, the far-right members have talked a good game, right until they cave under pressure.
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February 4, 2026 at 9:56 PM
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Lashing out at women in media, Trump still can’t seem to restrain himself
In a trend that seems to be getting worse, the president is struggling to treat women who cover the White House with any modicum of professionalism.
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February 4, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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Congress to gain access to the whistleblower complaint against Tulsi Gabbard at last
Lawmakers have had to wait for months to learn the details about allegations against the DNI. That wait is now over.
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February 4, 2026 at 9:47 PM