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U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
February 9, 2026 at 4:07 PM
U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.
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One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way.
The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’
The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’
Dr. Mehmet Oz is calling on Americans to get the measles vaccine as cases spread across the U.S.
Dr. Oz urges 'take the vaccine, please' amid measles outbreaks
Dr. Mehmet Oz is calling on Americans to get the measles vaccine as cases spread across the U.S.
bit.ly
February 10, 2026 at 1:30 AM
One of the most miserable things about living in this era is having to watch the stupidest & most arrogant people in the world have to relearn The Why of literally everything good that we collectively do the hard way.
The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’
The answer is always ‘Because a bunch of people died, fuckwit.’
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Congressional Democrats tried to ban gerrymandering nationwide with bills in 2019 and 2021.
Rob Wittman and every other Republican voted against them to defeat that ban
Rob Wittman and every other Republican voted against them to defeat that ban
February 7, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Congressional Democrats tried to ban gerrymandering nationwide with bills in 2019 and 2021.
Rob Wittman and every other Republican voted against them to defeat that ban
Rob Wittman and every other Republican voted against them to defeat that ban
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If Kamala Harris had gotten booed it would have led the Sunday Shows about how Democrats were destroying America’s reputation & walking them away from the world
Regardless of one’s feeling about it, such a public response to a political leader is news, and deliberately failing to mention it is self-censorship. It’s like if reporters agreed not to report on the man who threw a shoe at George Bush. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast
The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday
www.theguardian.com
February 7, 2026 at 2:54 PM
If Kamala Harris had gotten booed it would have led the Sunday Shows about how Democrats were destroying America’s reputation & walking them away from the world
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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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Again, I know everyone wants to yell at The Democrats & Chuck Schumer & Hakeem Jefferies, but there are 10-25 people in Washington who could literally end all of this tomorrow, & none of them are Democrats, & they continue to get 24/7 free passes for being absolute oath-violating cowards. Focus.
Yes, we’re looking at you, Lisa Murkowski & Susan Collins & Thom Tillis, you absolute oath-violating cowards.
These 5 people could caucus with the Democrats, giving them a majority & firmly opposing the fascism, any time. It might be nice for an enterprising journalist to ask them why they keep not doing this every day as the crimes & corruption continue & John Thune refuses to fulfill his oath of office.
February 4, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Again, I know everyone wants to yell at The Democrats & Chuck Schumer & Hakeem Jefferies, but there are 10-25 people in Washington who could literally end all of this tomorrow, & none of them are Democrats, & they continue to get 24/7 free passes for being absolute oath-violating cowards. Focus.
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5 year old Liam is home, according to @ilhanmn.bsky.social and @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social!
February 1, 2026 at 4:40 PM
5 year old Liam is home, according to @ilhanmn.bsky.social and @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social!
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We did predict it. And we were called alarmist.
January 26, 2026 at 2:57 PM
We did predict it. And we were called alarmist.
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He died because he stepped forward instead of away, because he put himself between human beings and monsters who wanted to hurt them, because he did the thing we teach, the thing we praise, the thing we raise our children to believe still matters.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
They Killed a Nurse. They Killed a Poet.
Tyranny in uniform. Trauma by design.
open.substack.com
January 25, 2026 at 10:37 PM
He died because he stepped forward instead of away, because he put himself between human beings and monsters who wanted to hurt them, because he did the thing we teach, the thing we praise, the thing we raise our children to believe still matters.
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...
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Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
January 24, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
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Just staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless.
January 24, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Just staggered by the complete moral void of not even *pretending* to wait for more information before pivoting to “the opponent of the state deserved it.” It is so insanely depraved. Soulless.
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: "Minnesota's justice system will have the last word on this. It must have the last word. As I told the White House in no uncertain terms this morning, the federal government cannot be trusted to lead this investigation. The state will handle it. Period."
January 24, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz: "Minnesota's justice system will have the last word on this. It must have the last word. As I told the White House in no uncertain terms this morning, the federal government cannot be trusted to lead this investigation. The state will handle it. Period."
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What's making me really livid right now is thinking back to the years of commentary lecturing us that the rise of MAGA was rooted in a sense of righteous victimization by overbearing liberal elites, and sneering at those who insisted that it was fundamentally about domination and sadism all along.
They are telling us in unequivocal terms that if you show solidarity with immigrants who are in the literal crosshairs of Trump/MAGA, you're risking a death sentence.
newrepublic.com/article/2055...
newrepublic.com/article/2055...
January 24, 2026 at 7:34 PM
What's making me really livid right now is thinking back to the years of commentary lecturing us that the rise of MAGA was rooted in a sense of righteous victimization by overbearing liberal elites, and sneering at those who insisted that it was fundamentally about domination and sadism all along.
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Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
January 24, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.
White. Hot. Rage.
White. Hot. Rage.
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The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect.
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January 24, 2026 at 7:18 PM
The official policy of the government of the United States of America is that they will murder anyone they want, that they will tell any lie necessary to justify that murder, and that no one who resists them has any rights they are bound to respect.
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I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
Minneapolis police chief Brian O'Hara says that the victim was a 37-year-old white man and US citizen with no criminal record and that he was a legally permitted gun owner.
January 24, 2026 at 6:29 PM
I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street
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it's honestly insane how DOGE managed to make absolutely no impact on the spending trendline while also gutting a bunch of programs that were incredibly efficient at turning money into saved lives
January 23, 2026 at 11:20 PM
it's honestly insane how DOGE managed to make absolutely no impact on the spending trendline while also gutting a bunch of programs that were incredibly efficient at turning money into saved lives
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hey man, remember when we tortured those people? that was sick lol. Kinda sucks that we're being tortured down here though. That part isn't great. Maybe we should've AHAhAAAaaaAHAHAHAHRHRRRRRRRGHGHGH
The only reason I hope Hell is real is so that the people doing this get to hangout together in the afterlife while being tortured by demons
Over 100 priests have been arrested in Minneapolis for protesting ICE.
They gathered to demand airlines to cease contracting deportation flights to DHS.
They gathered to demand airlines to cease contracting deportation flights to DHS.
January 23, 2026 at 11:56 PM
hey man, remember when we tortured those people? that was sick lol. Kinda sucks that we're being tortured down here though. That part isn't great. Maybe we should've AHAhAAAaaaAHAHAHAHRHRRRRRRRGHGHGH
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The second Dems get power back. It can’t wait. We can’t Gerald Ford this again. And we know, from both Obama and Biden, that good policy on issue X doesn’t fix the authoritarian problem. The platform must be institutional reform:
- DC/PR/USVI statehood
- Enlarging the House
- MMDs
- New VRA
- Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Automatic universal voter registration
- Rewriting the "national emergency" laws: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Etc.
- Enlarging the House
- MMDs
- New VRA
- Totally revamping SCOTUS: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
- Automatic universal voter registration
- Rewriting
- Subordinating the Senate: bsky.app/profile/mcop...
Etc.
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Again, the needs to be & all the committees & commissions that want to Do A Popularism & focus on Kitchen Table Issues are engaged in a category mistake about What Democrats Must Do the next time they ever have power.
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Again, the
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January 23, 2026 at 3:06 PM
The second Dems get power back. It can’t wait. We can’t Gerald Ford this again. And we know, from both Obama and Biden, that good policy on issue X doesn’t fix the authoritarian problem. The platform must be institutional reform:
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Man, this is really a stunning, spectacular cave from Trump.
January 22, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Man, this is really a stunning, spectacular cave from Trump.
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1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees
ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
popular.info
January 20, 2026 at 1:42 PM
1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees
ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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there is no nonpartisan solution to a partisan attack on our democracy and there is absolutely no *apolitical* solution to a partisan attack on our democracy
January 19, 2026 at 3:46 AM
there is no nonpartisan solution to a partisan attack on our democracy and there is absolutely no *apolitical* solution to a partisan attack on our democracy
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The shadow cabinet idea was a great idea and should have been implemented a year ago. Would have presented an organized, unified response to the chaos, issue by issue, by people with expertise.
Democrats could act like a real opposition party, refusing to validate Trump malfeasance with votes, and setting up a shadow cabinet that regularly communicates how Democrats would be different. But nah.
It’s not only a majority of Democratic voters that hate this approach. US allies see it too.
It’s not only a majority of Democratic voters that hate this approach. US allies see it too.
The incredibly lukewarm Democratic response on Greenland is being noticed in Europe, incidentally.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
Chuck Schumer not finding a stronger word than “quixotic” for Trump’s plan to seize Greenland has been name checked to me more than once.
January 18, 2026 at 11:29 PM
The shadow cabinet idea was a great idea and should have been implemented a year ago. Would have presented an organized, unified response to the chaos, issue by issue, by people with expertise.
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DOJ investigating whether Denmark lied on its Greenland mortgage.
January 17, 2026 at 6:23 PM
DOJ investigating whether Denmark lied on its Greenland mortgage.
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I think Democrats should focus on kitchen-table issues
Such as whether parents will be shot dead by masked government agents and thus be unable to eat breakfast with their children at the kitchen table anymore
Such as whether parents will be shot dead by masked government agents and thus be unable to eat breakfast with their children at the kitchen table anymore
January 15, 2026 at 5:40 PM
I think Democrats should focus on kitchen-table issues
Such as whether parents will be shot dead by masked government agents and thus be unable to eat breakfast with their children at the kitchen table anymore
Such as whether parents will be shot dead by masked government agents and thus be unable to eat breakfast with their children at the kitchen table anymore