Bob Mann
@robertmannbooks.com
Emeritus professor at Louisiana State Univ; political historian; former Russell Long, John Breaux, Kathleen Blanco flunky; RobertMannBooks.com; My new book is: "You Are My Sunshine: Jimmie Davis & the Biography of a Song." https://robertmann.substack.co
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KENNEDY: The Census Bureau is under your jurisdiction & responsible for defining what it means to be poor, is that right?
LUTNICK: I don't know
K: Well you need to look, bc it does. What's the % of Americans who live below poverty level?
L: I don't know
K: It's around 11%. It's been constant
LUTNICK: I don't know
K: Well you need to look, bc it does. What's the % of Americans who live below poverty level?
L: I don't know
K: It's around 11%. It's been constant
February 10, 2026 at 3:09 PM
KENNEDY: The Census Bureau is under your jurisdiction & responsible for defining what it means to be poor, is that right?
LUTNICK: I don't know
K: Well you need to look, bc it does. What's the % of Americans who live below poverty level?
L: I don't know
K: It's around 11%. It's been constant
LUTNICK: I don't know
K: Well you need to look, bc it does. What's the % of Americans who live below poverty level?
L: I don't know
K: It's around 11%. It's been constant
Great work, Bill Cassidy.
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 11:36 PM
Great work, Bill Cassidy.
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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 11:12 PM
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...
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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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Rep. Jamie Raskin said a 2009 email exchange between Trump and Epstein lawyers contradicts Trump's narrative that he kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago in the early 2000s. The exchange was redacted in the public release of the files, but an unredacted version was shown to members of Congress.
February 10, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Rep. Jamie Raskin said a 2009 email exchange between Trump and Epstein lawyers contradicts Trump's narrative that he kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago in the early 2000s. The exchange was redacted in the public release of the files, but an unredacted version was shown to members of Congress.
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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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NEW: Debunked claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election made by notorious conspiracy theorists and election deniers were the basis of the evidence used by the Trump administration to obtain a search warrant for the FBI to raid a Fulton County, Georgia election hub earlier this month.
FBI's Fulton County raid was based on reams of debunked 2020 fraud claims from election deniers, records show
The affidavit mentions evidence collected by Clay Parikh, a cybersecurity specialist with ties to MyPillow CEO and conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell, who is currently working as a special government em...
www.democracydocket.com
February 10, 2026 at 11:16 PM
NEW: Debunked claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election made by notorious conspiracy theorists and election deniers were the basis of the evidence used by the Trump administration to obtain a search warrant for the FBI to raid a Fulton County, Georgia election hub earlier this month.
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US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
February 10, 2026 at 8:58 PM
US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."
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This is what ICE looks like
Law enforcement on Tuesday released photos of a masked individual appearing to tamper with the camera at Nancy Guthrie’s front door on the morning of her disappearance. 🔗 on.wsj.com/46uTQjq
February 10, 2026 at 7:51 PM
This is what ICE looks like
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Then he called "General Motors" and thanked him for his service.
Trump: "Construction jobs are way up, right? Well, they're up because they're building all these factories all over the country. You have car plants under construction. I spoke to Mr. Toyota in Japan. I said, 'What's you name?' 'Toy-ota!' I said, 'If your name is Toyota you're a very rich guy.'"
February 10, 2026 at 10:33 PM
Then he called "General Motors" and thanked him for his service.
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I think we should start saying that Epstein's name shows up regularly in the Trump Files
Jamie Raskin Reveals Trump’s Name Shows Up in Unredacted Epstein Files ‘More Than a Million Times’
Jamie Raskin Reveals Trump’s Name Shows Up in Unredacted Epstein Files ‘More Than a Million Times’
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) revealed on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's name appears in the unredacted Epstein files “more than a million times.”
The post Jamie Raskin Reveals Trump’s Name Shows Up in Unredacted Epstein Files ‘More Than a Million Times’ first appeared on Mediaite.
dlvr.it
February 10, 2026 at 8:12 PM
I think we should start saying that Epstein's name shows up regularly in the Trump Files
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They're calling it the most embarrassing op-ed of all time: The Louisiana SG, who has multiple cases pending before the Supreme Court right now, writing an essay about how his old boss, Justice Samuel Alito, is the nicest, smartest, bestest justice who ever lived www.foxnews.com/opinion/i-wo...
February 10, 2026 at 8:30 PM
They're calling it the most embarrassing op-ed of all time: The Louisiana SG, who has multiple cases pending before the Supreme Court right now, writing an essay about how his old boss, Justice Samuel Alito, is the nicest, smartest, bestest justice who ever lived www.foxnews.com/opinion/i-wo...
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Every country surely must understand by now that any agreement they have entered into with the US and any agreement they are currently negotiating is utterly worthless while Trump is president.
February 10, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Every country surely must understand by now that any agreement they have entered into with the US and any agreement they are currently negotiating is utterly worthless while Trump is president.
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I was saying this the other day, but for all the thinkpieces about liberal echo chambers, no one discusses the right-wing echo chamber that enables people to think one of the most popular musicians in the world is some niche and offensive selection for the Super Bowl halftime show
Leaving the obvious racism aside for a second -- Bad Bunny has sold over 100 million albums and just won the Grammy for Best Album of the Year and these chuds are acting like he's an obscure Tuvan throat-singing act or something.
By any objective measure, he is wildly wildly popular.
By any objective measure, he is wildly wildly popular.
Both these options sound objectively amazing, why do racists keep assuming everyone's racist?
February 10, 2026 at 7:21 PM
I was saying this the other day, but for all the thinkpieces about liberal echo chambers, no one discusses the right-wing echo chamber that enables people to think one of the most popular musicians in the world is some niche and offensive selection for the Super Bowl halftime show
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New: Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski comes out against the SAVE Act, the Trump-backed election bill www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski comes out against Trump's election bill, with a warning to her party
The Alaskan reminded her fellow Republicans that they claimed to oppose any new federal election laws just a few years ago, insisting that the issue should be left to states.
www.nbcnews.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:49 PM
New: Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski comes out against the SAVE Act, the Trump-backed election bill www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
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Jamie Raskin said he reviewed an email sent from Epstein to co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell that was a forwarded conversation between Epstein’s lawyers and lawyers for Donald Trump.
The DOJ (illegally) redacted Trump's name in the public files.
What else are they hiding?
The DOJ (illegally) redacted Trump's name in the public files.
What else are they hiding?
Rep. Raskin Confirms ‘Troubling’ And ‘Unnecessary’ Epstein File Redactions
www.huffpost.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Jamie Raskin said he reviewed an email sent from Epstein to co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell that was a forwarded conversation between Epstein’s lawyers and lawyers for Donald Trump.
The DOJ (illegally) redacted Trump's name in the public files.
What else are they hiding?
The DOJ (illegally) redacted Trump's name in the public files.
What else are they hiding?
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Goldman: You said references to ICE as secret police encourages threats. The problem is you have it backwards sir. People are making valid observations about your tactics which are outright fascist. If you don’t want to be called a fascist regime, stop acting like one.
February 10, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Goldman: You said references to ICE as secret police encourages threats. The problem is you have it backwards sir. People are making valid observations about your tactics which are outright fascist. If you don’t want to be called a fascist regime, stop acting like one.
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This is exactly the aging dipshit that’s emblematic of the GOP, they literally have nothing else.
Rep Mark Alford (R-MO) says House Rs are "investigating" Bad Bunny's Super Bowl halftime show & talking with FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr. Alford says he didn't watch the whole thing & also doesn't know Spanish but suspects it might have been "much worse than the Janet Jackson wardrobe malfunction"
February 10, 2026 at 5:54 PM
This is exactly the aging dipshit that’s emblematic of the GOP, they literally have nothing else.
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"Jeffrey Epstein's island simply happened to be on my way to where I was going on my yacht" is such a simple and relatable explanation that could happen to anyone
February 10, 2026 at 4:14 PM
"Jeffrey Epstein's island simply happened to be on my way to where I was going on my yacht" is such a simple and relatable explanation that could happen to anyone
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This is very good
Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."
February 10, 2026 at 5:51 PM
This is very good
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I know the Sgt. Schultz routine seems to work for GOP legislators, but claiming you’re unaware of massively viral videos of ICE misconduct when you’re the director of ICE just makes you sound hopelessly incompetent and out of the loop.
THANEDAR: What did your ICE agent mean when he said, 'you raise your voice, I erase your voice' in the video all of us have seen?
LYONS: I'm not aware of that video. I can't comment
LYONS: I'm not aware of that video. I can't comment
February 10, 2026 at 4:56 PM
I know the Sgt. Schultz routine seems to work for GOP legislators, but claiming you’re unaware of massively viral videos of ICE misconduct when you’re the director of ICE just makes you sound hopelessly incompetent and out of the loop.
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But enough about members of the Trump Administration.
February 10, 2026 at 3:38 PM
But enough about members of the Trump Administration.
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We’re actually trying to, by conventional measures, destroy the economy
is as close as honestly as we’ll get from these fiends
is as close as honestly as we’ll get from these fiends
Peter Navarro: "The jobs report comes out tomorrow. We have to revise our expectations down significantly for what a monthly job number should look like ... Wall Street has to adjust for the fact that we're deporting millions of illegals out of the job market."
February 10, 2026 at 3:23 PM
We’re actually trying to, by conventional measures, destroy the economy
is as close as honestly as we’ll get from these fiends
is as close as honestly as we’ll get from these fiends
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the party of Manly Tough Men
House Oversight hearing on ICE opens with the rules:
"It is also a clear violation of the rules of the House to make statements that might personally be offensive to the President or the Vice President of the United States."
"It is also a clear violation of the rules of the House to make statements that might personally be offensive to the President or the Vice President of the United States."
February 10, 2026 at 3:20 PM
the party of Manly Tough Men
Meanwhile, Trump is trying to oust FED board members because they checked the wrong box on a mortgage application.
Trump Commerce Sec. Lutnick admits visiting Epstein island during family vacation
Trump Commerce Sec. Lutnick admits visiting Epstein island during family vacation
cnb.cx
February 10, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Meanwhile, Trump is trying to oust FED board members because they checked the wrong box on a mortgage application.