Jennifer Harris
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"The political ineptitude of the magnates of industry and finance was no less than that of the generals and led to the mistaken belief that if they coughed up large enough sums for Hitler he would be beholden to them."
Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 237)
Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 237)
Can Tim Cook now get his 24-karat slab of gold back from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?
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Apple warned by FTC over alleged lack of conservative news
The tech giant is facing pressure over claims that its news app does not feature articles from conservative outlets.
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February 13, 2026 at 1:29 AM
"The political ineptitude of the magnates of industry and finance was no less than that of the generals and led to the mistaken belief that if they coughed up large enough sums for Hitler he would be beholden to them."
Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 237)
Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (p. 237)
“The initial order also said that greater El Paso was ‘national defense airspace,’ and that the military would use ‘deadly force’ against offending aircraft if need be. All of this was unusual.”
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What Happened in El Paso?
The MAGA clown show takes to the skies. In a dangerous way.
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February 13, 2026 at 9:28 AM
“The initial order also said that greater El Paso was ‘national defense airspace,’ and that the military would use ‘deadly force’ against offending aircraft if need be. All of this was unusual.”
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‘The only remotely comparable episode I can think of was the 9/11 mass grounding of planes, leading to aircraft and passengers stuck in place for a number of days’
the Fallows breakdown I've been waiting for since they first announced the airspace closure
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What Happened in El Paso?
The MAGA clown show takes to the skies. In a dangerous way.
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February 13, 2026 at 5:46 AM
‘The only remotely comparable episode I can think of was the 9/11 mass grounding of planes, leading to aircraft and passengers stuck in place for a number of days’
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Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
February 12, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.
“The model operates in part by maintaining control over key figures thanks to compromising material on them. Marshall points out that the system can be oddly stable if everyone has something on everyone else.”
February 13, 2026 at 8:51 AM
“The model operates in part by maintaining control over key figures thanks to compromising material on them. Marshall points out that the system can be oddly stable if everyone has something on everyone else.”
This assumes she has some sort of soul or sense of remorse. Not sure she does.
"If there is justice in the world, the photograph of Bondi looking straight ahead as a row of women raises their hands behind her will haunt her for the rest of her career."
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February 13, 2026 at 8:46 AM
This assumes she has some sort of soul or sense of remorse. Not sure she does.
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This is just unconscionable man
February 13, 2026 at 1:43 AM
This is just unconscionable man
Old but relevant
“A Mafia state … acts only in the personal profit-seeking interests of the clan. ‘That’s not a deviation,’ Magyar said. ‘It’s a substantive, structural characteristic …The state itself, at the top, works as a criminal organization.’”
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“A Mafia state … acts only in the personal profit-seeking interests of the clan. ‘That’s not a deviation,’ Magyar said. ‘It’s a substantive, structural characteristic …The state itself, at the top, works as a criminal organization.’”
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The Trump-Russia Investigation and the Mafia State
The indictments in the Mueller investigation have revealed an attempt at state capture by an international crime syndicate.
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February 13, 2026 at 8:40 AM
Old but relevant
“A Mafia state … acts only in the personal profit-seeking interests of the clan. ‘That’s not a deviation,’ Magyar said. ‘It’s a substantive, structural characteristic …The state itself, at the top, works as a criminal organization.’”
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“A Mafia state … acts only in the personal profit-seeking interests of the clan. ‘That’s not a deviation,’ Magyar said. ‘It’s a substantive, structural characteristic …The state itself, at the top, works as a criminal organization.’”
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“This is the Epstein Administration because there are two types of people in it — people who are in the Epstein files and people who are covering up the Epstein files.”
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“The Epstein Admin protects the Epstein Class, supported by the Epstein Court.” @dzaia40.bsky.social
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“The Epstein Admin protects the Epstein Class, supported by the Epstein Court.” @dzaia40.bsky.social
February 13, 2026 at 7:11 AM
“This is the Epstein Administration because there are two types of people in it — people who are in the Epstein files and people who are covering up the Epstein files.”
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“The Epstein Admin protects the Epstein Class, supported by the Epstein Court.” @dzaia40.bsky.social
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“The Epstein Admin protects the Epstein Class, supported by the Epstein Court.” @dzaia40.bsky.social
Knives out — shitty people shivving shitty people
So who is leaking it? Scott? Homan?
So who is leaking it? Scott? Homan?
Firing a pilot for leaving Kristi Noem's blanket behind. Berating staff when she's not on TV enough. Inside the constant chaos at DHS.
A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS
Secretary faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations.
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February 13, 2026 at 8:21 AM
Knives out — shitty people shivving shitty people
So who is leaking it? Scott? Homan?
So who is leaking it? Scott? Homan?
February 13, 2026 at 8:08 AM
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What our government is doing to people is evil.
![J.J.B.'s holding cell at Whipple "could not hold more than 20 people" - yet it was
packed with 100. (Id. I 12.) The room had a dirty toilet with excrement overflowing. (Id.)
J.J.B. had to ask for toilet paper, but was sometimes denied. (Id.) There were no beds,
blankets, or trashcans, and trash was all over the ground. (Id. I 13.) People slept in
handcuffs and standing up because there was not enough room. (Id.) One person in J.J.B.'s
cell had epilepsy and begged for medication; no one answered. (Id.)
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CASE 0:26-cv-00749-NEB-DLM
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"ICE beat people and denigrated them." (Id. 9 15.) J.J.B. explains that it "seemed
like the ICE officers wanted to scare" him, and they "treated [him] and the other detainees like animals." (Id. 1 22.) Through the duration of J.J.B.'s confinement, he was shackled by
his ankles with handcuffs meant for wrists. (Id. I 12.) Because they were meant for wrists,
they were too small and caused pain, and no one listened to his pleas to loosen them. (Id.)
No one told J.J.B. what they were going to do to him. (Id. I 13.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:i3exxl6oahirrqj7phdhg63s/bafkreiadhe62s65g4fabml6gmj56g4beiimuha5tvsfmkjaphqftqmc7ky@jpeg)
February 13, 2026 at 12:34 AM
What our government is doing to people is evil.
Fair point 🤣
the only note here is "according to grok" means that ben carson is equally plausible
Marco Rubio telling Jeffrey Epstein he loves him in 2016
February 13, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Fair point 🤣
I mean everyone else in the current regime was doing it, so why not Marco?
February 13, 2026 at 3:16 AM
I mean everyone else in the current regime was doing it, so why not Marco?
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📽️ WATCH: We went inside the immigrant family detention center in Dilley, Texas.
Listen to what kids told reporter @micarosenberg.bsky.social about their life in detention — and the things they’ve lost and left behind.
Read more: https://propub.li/4toqME6
Listen to what kids told reporter @micarosenberg.bsky.social about their life in detention — and the things they’ve lost and left behind.
Read more: https://propub.li/4toqME6
February 13, 2026 at 2:02 AM
📽️ WATCH: We went inside the immigrant family detention center in Dilley, Texas.
Listen to what kids told reporter @micarosenberg.bsky.social about their life in detention — and the things they’ve lost and left behind.
Read more: https://propub.li/4toqME6
Listen to what kids told reporter @micarosenberg.bsky.social about their life in detention — and the things they’ve lost and left behind.
Read more: https://propub.li/4toqME6
Not the flex you think this is RFK Jr.
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
February 13, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Not the flex you think this is RFK Jr.
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Advocates of the GOP's SAVE Act often charge critics of the bill with being at best tactical federalists and with simply being opposed to voter ID, but that's pretty silly in the case of those of us who were staunch opponents of the old centralizing H.R. 1 and who have no problem with voter ID.
New from me at Cato: The proposed SAVE Act still doesn't pass a basic civics test. It poses severe practical problems for voters and administrators and would give too much power over elections to the president. /1
Federal Power Grab On Voting Still Flunks Basic Civics Test
The proposed SAVE Act still doesn’t pass a basic civics test. It poses severe practical problems for voters and administrators and would give too much power over elections to the president.
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February 13, 2026 at 3:08 AM
Advocates of the GOP's SAVE Act often charge critics of the bill with being at best tactical federalists and with simply being opposed to voter ID, but that's pretty silly in the case of those of us who were staunch opponents of the old centralizing H.R. 1 and who have no problem with voter ID.
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In other words, long enough that habeas petitions can be filed on their behalf in Minnesota before they're whisked off to an immigration detention facility somewhere in the Fifth Circuit (where, under that court's current law, they wouldn't be eligible for a bond hearing).
Incredibly powerful opinion chronicling the awfulness in Whipple and the ways it interfered with the right to counsel.
One key part of the ruling (that ICE will likely appeal ASAP); Judge Brasel bars ICE from transferring anyone out of Minnesota within 72 hours of arrest.
One key part of the ruling (that ICE will likely appeal ASAP); Judge Brasel bars ICE from transferring anyone out of Minnesota within 72 hours of arrest.
February 13, 2026 at 1:03 AM
In other words, long enough that habeas petitions can be filed on their behalf in Minnesota before they're whisked off to an immigration detention facility somewhere in the Fifth Circuit (where, under that court's current law, they wouldn't be eligible for a bond hearing).
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Come mister tariff man, tarrif me banana
February 12, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Come mister tariff man, tarrif me banana
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"If only we had some guide as to how Donald Trump would behave if he was president"
- millions of Americans in 2026, apparently
- millions of Americans in 2026, apparently
New poll: In 2024, low-engagement voters went for Trump over Harris by 11 percentage points. But now they disapprove of the way he's handling the presidency by 13. They have moved 25 points against Trump — 2x as large as the shift for high-knowledge voters www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...
Trump has lost the voters who weren’t paying attention in 2024
The least-engaged Americans have swung 25 points against him since 2024 — about twice the shift among everyone else. Trump has flattened the engagement gap.
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February 12, 2026 at 1:02 PM
"If only we had some guide as to how Donald Trump would behave if he was president"
- millions of Americans in 2026, apparently
- millions of Americans in 2026, apparently
Ketchup about to hit the WH dining room wall.
(AXIOS) - President Trump has become so politically toxic that voters now say Joe Biden — whose unpopularity forced him into early retirement — did a better job as president, according to three new polls.
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February 12, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Ketchup about to hit the WH dining room wall.
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It constantly amazes me that these folk spend enormous amounts of energy trying to blame others for our current situation, based on who they supported in the past, instead of trying to change the present and future.
February 12, 2026 at 1:53 PM
It constantly amazes me that these folk spend enormous amounts of energy trying to blame others for our current situation, based on who they supported in the past, instead of trying to change the present and future.
Certified copy of birth certificate or a valid US passport or no Bud Light for you.
Senate Democrats should offer an amendment to the SAVE act applying the same registration and id provisions to buying beer
Rep. Brian Steil: "I flew home to my home state of Wisconsin, went to buy a 6 pack a beer, the clerk asked for my ID, confirmed it, and then I was allowed to buy the beer. I just think it's nuts that we protect our beer more than our ballots."
February 12, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Certified copy of birth certificate or a valid US passport or no Bud Light for you.
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You gotta admit, the staffers in the background keeping it real are the best part.
February 12, 2026 at 6:12 AM
You gotta admit, the staffers in the background keeping it real are the best part.