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Remember affordability and groceries, those new, made up words?
February 14, 2026 at 3:38 AM
Remember affordability and groceries, those new, made up words?
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I am just reporting text Democratic solicitations as spam now.
February 14, 2026 at 4:54 PM
I am just reporting text Democratic solicitations as spam now.
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I'm a Gallup pollster. You can contact them at galluppanel@gallupmail.com to let them know what you think of this.
February 11, 2026 at 8:10 PM
I'm a Gallup pollster. You can contact them at galluppanel@gallupmail.com to let them know what you think of this.
@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
This is how you do it. You don't pretend to care and then signal weakness by talking about exceptions to a mask ban.
What century is it? You guys seem to be stuck in the Reagan Era.
This is how you do it. You don't pretend to care and then signal weakness by talking about exceptions to a mask ban.
What century is it? You guys seem to be stuck in the Reagan Era.
BREAKING: Rep. Steve Cohen just told Pam Bondi that ICE is executing Americans, and compared it to Kristi Noem executing her dog. He named Alex Pretti. He named Renee Good. He said you didn’t investigate the killings, you went after their families instead.
February 11, 2026 at 10:00 PM
@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
This is how you do it. You don't pretend to care and then signal weakness by talking about exceptions to a mask ban.
What century is it? You guys seem to be stuck in the Reagan Era.
This is how you do it. You don't pretend to care and then signal weakness by talking about exceptions to a mask ban.
What century is it? You guys seem to be stuck in the Reagan Era.
Jesus H. Christ. The fascist tentacles spread far and wide.
Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...
February 11, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Jesus H. Christ. The fascist tentacles spread far and wide.
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This needless to say, fucking insane.
There was also no public statement from the U.S. Consulate just across the border in Juarez about anything, as long as we’re collecting tidbits of information.
And the Juarez airport sits juuuuuust outside the NOTAM’s radius and seems to be up and running.
There was also no public statement from the U.S. Consulate just across the border in Juarez about anything, as long as we’re collecting tidbits of information.
And the Juarez airport sits juuuuuust outside the NOTAM’s radius and seems to be up and running.
Post from an El Paso city councilor on one of the aviation subreddits
February 11, 2026 at 1:33 PM
This needless to say, fucking insane.
There was also no public statement from the U.S. Consulate just across the border in Juarez about anything, as long as we’re collecting tidbits of information.
And the Juarez airport sits juuuuuust outside the NOTAM’s radius and seems to be up and running.
There was also no public statement from the U.S. Consulate just across the border in Juarez about anything, as long as we’re collecting tidbits of information.
And the Juarez airport sits juuuuuust outside the NOTAM’s radius and seems to be up and running.
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“If these fuckers think” has set a new bar for how politicians should begin their statements about these fuckers.
Meet it or get left behind.
Meet it or get left behind.
Helluva statement from Colorado Rep Crow (D) on the Trump administration's failure to indict him and others
February 11, 2026 at 3:04 AM
“If these fuckers think” has set a new bar for how politicians should begin their statements about these fuckers.
Meet it or get left behind.
Meet it or get left behind.
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To explain: When you come in from out of state to represent someone, you have to get a local counsel to sponsor you in "Pro Hac Vice." That's what Abbe Lowell et al are doing for Don Lemon.
The guy who is sponsoring them in is the lead prosecutor who quit bc Pam Bondi is so corrupt.
The guy who is sponsoring them in is the lead prosecutor who quit bc Pam Bondi is so corrupt.
Look at who is PHVing Abbe Lowell and team into MN to represent Don Lemon.
February 10, 2026 at 11:56 PM
To explain: When you come in from out of state to represent someone, you have to get a local counsel to sponsor you in "Pro Hac Vice." That's what Abbe Lowell et al are doing for Don Lemon.
The guy who is sponsoring them in is the lead prosecutor who quit bc Pam Bondi is so corrupt.
The guy who is sponsoring them in is the lead prosecutor who quit bc Pam Bondi is so corrupt.
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ICE is currently holding around 80,000 detainees. Nazi Germany didn't reach this number in its formal camp system until 1942, nine years after seizing power and three years into the war.
February 10, 2026 at 3:42 AM
ICE is currently holding around 80,000 detainees. Nazi Germany didn't reach this number in its formal camp system until 1942, nine years after seizing power and three years into the war.
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Yesterday, a Trump supporter dropped a lengthy, rambling, profanity-laden diatribe into my comments section, lecturing me for implying that MAGA is inherently a white supremacist movement...
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To White People Tired of Being Called Racist, From Another White Guy,
Yesterday, a Trump supporter dropped a lengthy, rambling, profanity-laden diatribe into my comments section, lecturing me for implying that MAGA is inherently a white supremacist movement.
johnpavlovitz.substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Yesterday, a Trump supporter dropped a lengthy, rambling, profanity-laden diatribe into my comments section, lecturing me for implying that MAGA is inherently a white supremacist movement...
johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-white-p...
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February 7, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
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This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen:
A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained"
But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.
A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained"
But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.
February 5, 2026 at 7:13 PM
This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen:
A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained"
But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.
A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained"
But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.
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When you're so coked up and stupid you put the scope on backwards:
February 5, 2026 at 6:32 PM
When you're so coked up and stupid you put the scope on backwards:
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ICE at the polls! Bannon is basically yelling “fire” in a crowded theater here. His objective is to cause chaos (and suppress votes on the left). And it’s already working.
This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose.
Let me explain & offer some advice.
This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose.
Let me explain & offer some advice.
Steve Bannon says the federal government is planning to send ICE officers to patrol polling stations during the midterms.
"We're going to have ICE surround the polls come November."
"We're not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
"We're going to have ICE surround the polls come November."
"We're not going to sit here and allow you to steal the country again." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections
Trump doubled down on his comments to nationalize voting Tuesday during an Oval Office press conference. “If you think about it, a state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” Trump sai...
www.democracydocket.com
February 4, 2026 at 9:13 PM
ICE at the polls! Bannon is basically yelling “fire” in a crowded theater here. His objective is to cause chaos (and suppress votes on the left). And it’s already working.
This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose.
Let me explain & offer some advice.
This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose.
Let me explain & offer some advice.
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Well, you know you have a problem when WSJ is suddenly honest.
Welcome to a world where America First is coming to mean America Alone, with positive views of the U.S. declining in much of the world. on.wsj.com/4qXfp4B
February 4, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Well, you know you have a problem when WSJ is suddenly honest.
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After 8 years writing the tech column
@washingtonpost.com, I am among folks who were laid off today. I’m grateful for the stories I got to tell and the impact we made on privacy, sustainability & AI.
You can keep following my work on my new (free) Substack geoffreyafowler.substack.com
@washingtonpost.com, I am among folks who were laid off today. I’m grateful for the stories I got to tell and the impact we made on privacy, sustainability & AI.
You can keep following my work on my new (free) Substack geoffreyafowler.substack.com
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February 4, 2026 at 2:52 PM
After 8 years writing the tech column
@washingtonpost.com, I am among folks who were laid off today. I’m grateful for the stories I got to tell and the impact we made on privacy, sustainability & AI.
You can keep following my work on my new (free) Substack geoffreyafowler.substack.com
@washingtonpost.com, I am among folks who were laid off today. I’m grateful for the stories I got to tell and the impact we made on privacy, sustainability & AI.
You can keep following my work on my new (free) Substack geoffreyafowler.substack.com
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The Sports section drives a significant amount of subscriptions for any paper. In the age of legalized sports books this move makes no sense. The reason for that is because this is not about trying to make print media profitable. This is about destroying an institution of record.
February 4, 2026 at 2:10 PM
The Sports section drives a significant amount of subscriptions for any paper. In the age of legalized sports books this move makes no sense. The reason for that is because this is not about trying to make print media profitable. This is about destroying an institution of record.
So, yes. Bezos bought the Washington Post to dismantle it.
WaPo also closing Books section and downsizing International and Metro sections
February 4, 2026 at 2:14 PM
So, yes. Bezos bought the Washington Post to dismantle it.
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The deep lore says that if your first words of a new month are "RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT," good luck will follow you all month long. Let's all do it, because we need all the luck we can get.
February 1, 2026 at 1:59 AM
The deep lore says that if your first words of a new month are "RABBIT RABBIT RABBIT," good luck will follow you all month long. Let's all do it, because we need all the luck we can get.
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Movie review from Guardian on Melania.
January 30, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Movie review from Guardian on Melania.
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/3 Anyway, Ezra Klein thought that Charlie Kirk did politics right by engaging in fatuous pantomimes of debate while reviling college students, calling for their punishment, expressing contempt for minorities among them, and encouraging their official suppression….
January 30, 2026 at 10:38 PM
/3 Anyway, Ezra Klein thought that Charlie Kirk did politics right by engaging in fatuous pantomimes of debate while reviling college students, calling for their punishment, expressing contempt for minorities among them, and encouraging their official suppression….
Best In Show - God Loves a Terrier
YouTube video by Darren Williams
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January 30, 2026 at 10:19 PM