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I got my original handle back, and my life has never been better, playing the lotto and cliff diving next!!! (Not.casey on Twitter)
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Coverage of Andy Barr, a sitting Congressman and candidate for U.S. Senate, running an ad declaring, "It's not a sin to be white" -- a variation of a notorious white nationalist slogan

AP: Zero
NYT: Zero
WashPost: Zero
Reuters: Zero
Politico: Zero
Axios: Zero
Major corporations bankroll political ad featuring white supremacist slogan
Congressman Andy Barr (R-KY), who is running to replace Mitch McConnell in the United States Senate, released his first television ad earlier this month.
popular.info
February 17, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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Trump's nominee to lead the National Park Service, Scott Socha, helped run a company that claimed trademark ownership over historic place names at Yosemite—many rooted in Indigenous history—then sued the NPS over name use, costing taxpayers millions.

Now he wants to run the agency? Disgraceful.
February 17, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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Bloomberg says we've spent $3B on Trump's invasion of Venezuela.

Which is 6X more than the cancer, Alzheimer, diabetes, and heart disease cures they've cut to pay for it.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump's Caribbean Surge Nears $3 Billion Price Tag So Far
The operations around Venezuela that eventually led to the capture of its president pulled in nearly a fifth of the US Navy’s surface fleet at a cost of more than $20 million a day.
www.bloomberg.com
February 17, 2026 at 11:26 PM
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The Epstein Cover-up: The FBI Interviewed a Credible Trump Accuser

In what should be headline news, investigative reporter Roger Sollenberger uncovers an FBI slideshow & internal emails that reveal they know women who credibly accused Trump of sexual assault.

open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
February 17, 2026 at 10:16 PM
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BREAKING: Millions of files related to Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a 'global criminal enterprise' that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council says
February 18, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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Elana Meyers Taylor signs to her son: "Mommy won." 🥇

#WinterOlympics
February 17, 2026 at 5:16 AM
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DHS is holding a 2-month-old BABY at a detention facility in Texas.

Last night, Juan Nicolás was rushed to the hospital after choking on his own vomit & being unable to breathe.

This demands accountability — not a blank check for more cruelty.
I have an update on Juan Nicolás, the 2-month-old baby detained at Dilley, and his mother.
February 18, 2026 at 12:18 AM
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ICE announced they’re going to spend more than $38 billion to detain thousands of more people.

With that amount of money, we could end homelessness, extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies, or provide school lunches to every kid in America.

This is totally unacceptable.
February 18, 2026 at 12:16 AM
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“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.”

@pcgamer.com #DRAM
www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...
February 17, 2026 at 6:37 PM
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Trump’s CFTC Chair Michael Selig announced today he will try to block states from regulating online prediction (gambling) markets. Wonder why?
February 17, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Wow. Wow.
February 17, 2026 at 4:10 PM
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How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
February 17, 2026 at 3:17 PM
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BREAKING: FBI notifies Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension that it won’t provide access to evidence it’s collected on the killing of Alex Pretti by armed and masked federal agents.

Perhaps this would be a good time to note that 187 members of Congress are signed on to Impeach Kristi Noem:
Kristi Noem Must Be Impeached
Members of Congress have a constitutional duty to remove this gangster from office.
www.thenation.com
February 16, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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Steve Bannon talked about invoking the 25th Amendment with Jeffrey Epstein.

The conversation happened over New Year’s in 2018/2019 and included talk about how Madeleine Westerhout, the director of Oval Office ops, was “saving the world” by giving Trump oral sex.

(www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)
February 16, 2026 at 8:40 PM
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I think those are all requirements now to win Republican nominations. quorumreport.com//quorum_repo...
February 16, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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Right-wing Heritage Foundation’s own data shows fewer than 100 noncitizens voted since 1982 (!!!)

This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...
February 16, 2026 at 3:24 PM
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In the last month ICE has bought warehouses in:

- Hagerstown, MD: $102 million
- Surprise, AZ: $70 million
- Hamburg, PA: $87 million
- Tremont, PA: $120 million
- San Antonio, TX: $82 million
- El Paso, TX: $123 million
- Social Circle, GA: price unknown

This is unprecedented.
February 9, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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The most frequently mentioned location in the Epstein Files isn't his island, nor one of his apartments. It is Mar-a Lago.
February 16, 2026 at 11:28 AM
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Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.

Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.

Our priorities are so fucked.
February 16, 2026 at 5:57 AM
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If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage.

The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.”

It’s about control.
February 15, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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I think we are going to have a Democratic-controlled Senate.

And all we will need for the leadership of that Democratic Senate to do is hold actual, real, impeachment trials.

As the Constitution requires.

Not the bullshit fake trials like the ones that the Senate held in 2020 and 2021...
February 15, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.
A short note to Kristi Noem
To a current Cabinet secretary from a former one
robertreich.substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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February 15, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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February 15, 2026 at 2:50 PM