Wes Payne - So Much For Subtlety
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I'm here to chew bubble gum and repost, and I'm all out of bubble gum.
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I've asked the question many times before, but: let us imagine that we knew, with absolute metaphysical certainty, that Trump was a Russian asset -- FSB payroll stubs and everything. What would he be doing differently?
The answer is still: nothing.
The answer is still: nothing.
That pee tape must be a banger.
It’s been weeks since Trump admitted that Putin lied about the made-up strikes on his residence, and he still hasn’t done anything about it.
Now Putin has broken his one-week ceasefire, and Trump is defending him.
How weak can a man be?
Now Putin has broken his one-week ceasefire, and Trump is defending him.
How weak can a man be?
February 5, 2026 at 6:48 AM
That pee tape must be a banger.
Because "Zelig" was a bit too background for the simile and you'd have to explain it to more people.
Epstein is like the Forrest Gump of the elites istg everything always ties back to him
February 5, 2026 at 6:45 AM
Because "Zelig" was a bit too background for the simile and you'd have to explain it to more people.
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Kiddies who made it out of the ICE dungeon report sighting a schoolmate. Before this, the school district had no information on their whereabouts. The family has now been connected with a lawyer.
Youngsters who escape a govt dungeon are the only way to track abducted children? This is fine!
Youngsters who escape a govt dungeon are the only way to track abducted children? This is fine!
The two children who returned to MN today say they saw one of their Valley View schoolmates at a detention center in TX. This is a child whose family was last in contact with the school on January 9. No one has known where they were until now.
February 5, 2026 at 12:20 AM
Kiddies who made it out of the ICE dungeon report sighting a schoolmate. Before this, the school district had no information on their whereabouts. The family has now been connected with a lawyer.
Youngsters who escape a govt dungeon are the only way to track abducted children? This is fine!
Youngsters who escape a govt dungeon are the only way to track abducted children? This is fine!
I hear that recent ICE hires aren't getting the bonuses that President Deals promised them. How am I taking the news? Well ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDJw...
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February 5, 2026 at 2:52 AM
I hear that recent ICE hires aren't getting the bonuses that President Deals promised them. How am I taking the news? Well ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDJw...
I really don't like the taste of seed corn and think we should be eating something else.
Like the rich. Maybe.
Like the rich. Maybe.
February 5, 2026 at 1:06 AM
I really don't like the taste of seed corn and think we should be eating something else.
Like the rich. Maybe.
Like the rich. Maybe.
"Abolish ICE" is no longer a moderate position. It is the MINIMAL position. It's where one should start from. Abolish ICE, empty its concentration camps, and run each and every one of their kapos to ground.
February 5, 2026 at 12:58 AM
"Abolish ICE" is no longer a moderate position. It is the MINIMAL position. It's where one should start from. Abolish ICE, empty its concentration camps, and run each and every one of their kapos to ground.
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"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed."
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
Homeless Oregon youth got $1,000 a month for two years. Most found housing after • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Oregon is the second of its kind in the nation to implement the direct cash transfer program after New York City.
oregoncapitalchronicle.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:12 PM
"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed."
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends.
Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
That worked out so well with Merrick Garland.
Man suggesting the next President should appoint an AG of the opposite party.
Sure, honey. Sure.
Sure, honey. Sure.
February 5, 2026 at 12:48 AM
That worked out so well with Merrick Garland.
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No one should be surprised at pace that American democracy is unraveling. You were told by the very people who are doing this that this is what they are going to do.
February 4, 2026 at 12:21 PM
No one should be surprised at pace that American democracy is unraveling. You were told by the very people who are doing this that this is what they are going to do.
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One lesson from the Epstein–Mandelson affair is that we need to stop routinely rehabilitating political careers after serious scandals.
When politicians knowingly engage in grave ethical wrongdoing, that should permanently end their political careers. Being "talented" should not override that.
When politicians knowingly engage in grave ethical wrongdoing, that should permanently end their political careers. Being "talented" should not override that.
February 4, 2026 at 1:08 PM
One lesson from the Epstein–Mandelson affair is that we need to stop routinely rehabilitating political careers after serious scandals.
When politicians knowingly engage in grave ethical wrongdoing, that should permanently end their political careers. Being "talented" should not override that.
When politicians knowingly engage in grave ethical wrongdoing, that should permanently end their political careers. Being "talented" should not override that.
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"For much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States."
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
Accountability for ICE and CBP
However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.
www.doomsdayscenario.co
February 4, 2026 at 2:28 AM
"For much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States."
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
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Y’all didn’t realize they were using “Democracy dies in darkness” as a mission statement, not a salutary motto
February 4, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Y’all didn’t realize they were using “Democracy dies in darkness” as a mission statement, not a salutary motto
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independent media or bust.
February 4, 2026 at 3:10 PM
independent media or bust.
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What if RFK Jr. is just trying to kill off the American public as a multi-decade vendetta to avenge his dad and uncle?
February 3, 2026 at 9:11 PM
What if RFK Jr. is just trying to kill off the American public as a multi-decade vendetta to avenge his dad and uncle?
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Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
February 3, 2026 at 5:00 PM
Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
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In a sane world, the decision by Rufo, Vance, & co. to slander and slap a target on the traumatized, hardworking immigrants who revitalized a rust belt city -- and who *were invited* to that city -- would be a stain on their careers that they never live down.
They should be reminded of it. Often.
They should be reminded of it. Often.
MAGA is a movement of America haters who despise this country and are conspiring to destroy it
February 4, 2026 at 5:04 PM
In a sane world, the decision by Rufo, Vance, & co. to slander and slap a target on the traumatized, hardworking immigrants who revitalized a rust belt city -- and who *were invited* to that city -- would be a stain on their careers that they never live down.
They should be reminded of it. Often.
They should be reminded of it. Often.
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So you won the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. You stacked the courts, the DOJ, HHS, the FBI, and everything else with loyalists. But you think you should be allowed total control of elections to make sure it's not "rigged".
"Make America Stupid Again" because smart people dont like you. 🙄
"Make America Stupid Again" because smart people dont like you. 🙄
February 4, 2026 at 8:41 PM
So you won the House, the Senate, and the Presidency. You stacked the courts, the DOJ, HHS, the FBI, and everything else with loyalists. But you think you should be allowed total control of elections to make sure it's not "rigged".
"Make America Stupid Again" because smart people dont like you. 🙄
"Make America Stupid Again" because smart people dont like you. 🙄
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ICE observers in the Twin Cities suburbs say they fear being injured or killed, but are dedicated to being on the right side of history. They say working together has brought them community and connection. And they're seeing shifts in attitudes among their neighbors. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved
After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.
www.mprnews.org
February 4, 2026 at 3:49 PM
ICE observers in the Twin Cities suburbs say they fear being injured or killed, but are dedicated to being on the right side of history. They say working together has brought them community and connection. And they're seeing shifts in attitudes among their neighbors. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
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The Washington Post dies in broad daylight.
February 4, 2026 at 4:40 PM
The Washington Post dies in broad daylight.
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How far down “and then they came for” are we at this point?
A retiree wrote this email to a DHS attorney. Within five hours, DHS demanded Google turn over records for his account.
A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech.
New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social
A Kafkaesque form of domestic surveillance, intimidating Americans for lawful speech.
New from us at the Post: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... @johnwoodrowcox.bsky.social
February 3, 2026 at 5:05 PM
How far down “and then they came for” are we at this point?
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Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel?
Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.
And they almost shot some kids in the process.
Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.
And they almost shot some kids in the process.
They just blindly shot through the fucking door.
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Additional photographs show damage consistent with a bullet fragment lodged in a bedroom wall down the hallway — suggesting it traveled between a mattress and a portable crib in a room where several small children sleep."
"Photographic evidence from the shooting scene of a Venezuelan man by federal agents last month in Minneapolis supports the account of witnesses there – and appears to undercut the narrative provided by federal officials." www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
February 3, 2026 at 11:33 PM
Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel?
Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.
And they almost shot some kids in the process.
Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.
And they almost shot some kids in the process.
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Yes they should.
February 4, 2026 at 2:32 AM
Yes they should.
If by "commonsense reform" you mean to tear it out, root and branch, then yeah.
Resign, you fraud.
Resign, you fraud.
Democrats want commonsense reform for ICE:
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
End the roving patrols and racial profiling.
Take accountability and abide by the same rules as local police.
Masks need to come off, body cameras need to stay on—no secret police in the United States of America.
February 4, 2026 at 5:36 AM
If by "commonsense reform" you mean to tear it out, root and branch, then yeah.
Resign, you fraud.
Resign, you fraud.