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Jared Rizzi
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· May 2
my vote prereqs:
1 restore govt ability to regulate; reverse DOGE cuts and expand govt capacity
2 prosecute/seek damages - all officials who have enabled this abuse of power in violation of their obligations and paths
3 formal guardrails to prevent this happening again
This is the bare minimum
1 restore govt ability to regulate; reverse DOGE cuts and expand govt capacity
2 prosecute/seek damages - all officials who have enabled this abuse of power in violation of their obligations and paths
3 formal guardrails to prevent this happening again
This is the bare minimum
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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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“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 10, 2026 at 10:29 PM
“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.
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NEW: Trump DOJ tries, fails to secure indictment over Democratic lawmakers' social media video on unlawful orders. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Trump administration fails to secure indictment in connection with Democrats involved in 'illegal orders' video
President Donald Trump had accused six Democratic lawmakers of "seditious behavior" after they urged members of the military and intelligence communities to refuse unlawful orders.
www.nbcnews.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:13 AM
NEW: Trump DOJ tries, fails to secure indictment over Democratic lawmakers' social media video on unlawful orders. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
maybe he had left one of the nannies behind
Lutnick last year on his visit to Epstein's house in 2005: "My wife and I decided that I will never be in the room with that disgusting person ever again." (Lutnick testified under oath today that he visited Epstein's island in 2012.)
February 11, 2026 at 1:07 AM
maybe he had left one of the nannies behind
I worked with Kevin at KMOX a few years before he made this and every year in February I love it and him so much
Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.
February 11, 2026 at 1:01 AM
I worked with Kevin at KMOX a few years before he made this and every year in February I love it and him so much
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My god.
I keep rereading this paragraph expecting the words to change
February 11, 2026 at 12:24 AM
My god.
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I think they should just put it back every day--put a new one up each day--and let them take it down every night. Will show how completely obsessed they are.
Also, just ring the park, on city property with a hundred massive flags.
equality.house.gov/media-center...
Also, just ring the park, on city property with a hundred massive flags.
equality.house.gov/media-center...
Mamdani, Schumer & NYC Council demand National Park Service return Pride flag to Stonewall National Monument
Rep. Mark Takano of California, chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus, said the move reflects a broader political agenda. “Removing Pride flags from a place that is so deeply connected to our fig...
equality.house.gov
February 11, 2026 at 12:38 AM
I think they should just put it back every day--put a new one up each day--and let them take it down every night. Will show how completely obsessed they are.
Also, just ring the park, on city property with a hundred massive flags.
equality.house.gov/media-center...
Also, just ring the park, on city property with a hundred massive flags.
equality.house.gov/media-center...
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Charles Exum was treated like a hero by peers and fellow Feds, not just Bovino, as he shared with this text sent by “guy from Vermont” who called him “a legend among agents”
February 10, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Charles Exum was treated like a hero by peers and fellow Feds, not just Bovino, as he shared with this text sent by “guy from Vermont” who called him “a legend among agents”
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Generation Oregon Trail ascending
February 11, 2026 at 12:40 AM
Generation Oregon Trail ascending
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Everyone here has had to decide what they will and won’t do. Will you take someone in your house? Will you bring them groceries? Will you patrol streets with a whistle? Will you do some other kind of work, of which there are many. And how many of these types.
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
February 11, 2026 at 12:05 AM
Everyone here has had to decide what they will and won’t do. Will you take someone in your house? Will you bring them groceries? Will you patrol streets with a whistle? Will you do some other kind of work, of which there are many. And how many of these types.
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Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text.
Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.
Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.
February 10, 2026 at 10:12 PM
Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text.
Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.
Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.
love a sport where you can drink a beer or be a lawyer
Team USA Curler Rich Ruohonen:
"We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota...I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution... and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear."
"We'd be remiss if we didn't at least mention what's going on in Minnesota...I am a lawyer, as you know, and we have a constitution... and what's happening in Minnesota is wrong. There's no shades of gray. It's clear."
February 10, 2026 at 11:57 PM
love a sport where you can drink a beer or be a lawyer
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NEW: Clergy arrested while protesting outside a DHS facility last fall have had their charges dropped.
But one told me another person arrested — a local organizer who works w/faith communities — is still facing charges, as is a pastor arrested at a separate protest. religionnews.com/2026/02/10/s...
But one told me another person arrested — a local organizer who works w/faith communities — is still facing charges, as is a pastor arrested at a separate protest. religionnews.com/2026/02/10/s...
Charges dropped against some clergy arrested for protesting DHS in Chicago
(RNS — The state attorney’s office of Cook County, Illinois, announced it was dropping charges against 19 of the 21 people who were arrested at a demonstration in Broadview, Illinois, in November.
religionnews.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:33 PM
NEW: Clergy arrested while protesting outside a DHS facility last fall have had their charges dropped.
But one told me another person arrested — a local organizer who works w/faith communities — is still facing charges, as is a pastor arrested at a separate protest. religionnews.com/2026/02/10/s...
But one told me another person arrested — a local organizer who works w/faith communities — is still facing charges, as is a pastor arrested at a separate protest. religionnews.com/2026/02/10/s...
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More than two dozen Dallas residents speaking during public comment at tonight's police oversight board meeting. Usually we have one or two. It's all about ICE and CBP. People are obviously furious.
February 10, 2026 at 11:50 PM
More than two dozen Dallas residents speaking during public comment at tonight's police oversight board meeting. Usually we have one or two. It's all about ICE and CBP. People are obviously furious.
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There's a hot new move going around popular fronts where a near-contender in a contested primary endorses the leftier winner as a bulwark against the forces that ran the reactionary spoiler. It's called "Landering" and it kicks ass.
February 10, 2026 at 6:11 PM
There's a hot new move going around popular fronts where a near-contender in a contested primary endorses the leftier winner as a bulwark against the forces that ran the reactionary spoiler. It's called "Landering" and it kicks ass.
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///BREAKING/// Body cams, texts, emails and other evidence have been released in the Oct. 4 shooting of Marimar Martinez by Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum, including this email to Exum by Cmdr. Greg Bovino on the day of the shooting
Background:
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/06/p...
Background:
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/06/p...
February 10, 2026 at 11:13 PM
///BREAKING/// Body cams, texts, emails and other evidence have been released in the Oct. 4 shooting of Marimar Martinez by Border Patrol Agent Charles Exum, including this email to Exum by Cmdr. Greg Bovino on the day of the shooting
Background:
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/06/p...
Background:
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/02/06/p...
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NPS employees say confusion over the new policies is rampant, a culture of fear is pervasive and ignored/denied media requests have become commonplace. “Everything has to be approved before we speak. Everything,” one employee said.
via @ashleyharrell.bsky.social
www.sfgate.com/national-par...
via @ashleyharrell.bsky.social
www.sfgate.com/national-par...
Sweeping new rules restrict nearly all aspects of national park communications
"It's getting more f—ked up every day."
www.sfgate.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:31 PM
NPS employees say confusion over the new policies is rampant, a culture of fear is pervasive and ignored/denied media requests have become commonplace. “Everything has to be approved before we speak. Everything,” one employee said.
via @ashleyharrell.bsky.social
www.sfgate.com/national-par...
via @ashleyharrell.bsky.social
www.sfgate.com/national-par...
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The purpose is to disincentivize investments in vaccine development
NEW: The F.D.A. refused to accept an application from Moderna for its mRNA flu vaccine.
Its reason: The agency did not think Moderna compared the new vaccine to one of the best flu shots available. The company spent $750M+ on a 41,000 person study.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...
Its reason: The agency did not think Moderna compared the new vaccine to one of the best flu shots available. The company spent $750M+ on a 41,000 person study.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/h...
F.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna Flu Vaccine
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:34 PM
The purpose is to disincentivize investments in vaccine development
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Hours later and I still don’t understand how a magistrate judge signed off on this
BREAKING: The supporting affidavit for the warrant to search Fulton County election records has been unsealed.
Read it via @lawfaremedia.org:
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
Read it via @lawfaremedia.org:
www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
February 10, 2026 at 11:16 PM
Hours later and I still don’t understand how a magistrate judge signed off on this
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Centrists
What are the 3 branches of government again?
I know it's pedophiles and corporations but what's the third one?
I know it's pedophiles and corporations but what's the third one?
February 10, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Centrists
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This is the kind of plan you would develop if you wanted to intentionally kill thousands through neglect and disease. Which, if you know history, was how large proportions of people in concentration camps died
The malnutrition and disease killed millions.
The malnutrition and disease killed millions.
February 10, 2026 at 11:24 PM
This is the kind of plan you would develop if you wanted to intentionally kill thousands through neglect and disease. Which, if you know history, was how large proportions of people in concentration camps died
The malnutrition and disease killed millions.
The malnutrition and disease killed millions.
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THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
February 10, 2026 at 11:19 PM
THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.
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A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is
www.huffpost.com
February 10, 2026 at 7:08 PM
A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...
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a society losing the plot in real time
February 10, 2026 at 9:11 PM
a society losing the plot in real time
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I parsed through some of the emails in the Epstein files, and it’s very clear that Epstein was a eugenicist weirdo. Something he very much had in common with the billionaire class à la Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Donald Trump. New for @motherjones.com.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Epstein couldn't stop emailing people about eugenics
In the latest files, the trafficker gives it a Silicon Valley–pilled name: "genetic altruism."
www.motherjones.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:47 PM
I parsed through some of the emails in the Epstein files, and it’s very clear that Epstein was a eugenicist weirdo. Something he very much had in common with the billionaire class à la Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Donald Trump. New for @motherjones.com.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...