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Take the rest of them with you.

We need ICE out of Minnesota. Period.
February 4, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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As part of Donald Trump’s revenge tour, his administration is illegally withholding Gateway Tunnel funding, risking thousands of jobs and jeopardizing America’s most critical infrastructure project.

We’ll see them in court.
New York sues Trump administration over funding freeze for Hudson River tunnels
The administration put a hold on the funding in September.
ny1.com
February 4, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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for Trump to have an equivalent number of 'brownshirts' as Hitler he would need to recruit over 19 million 800 thousand more DHS officdts
Wait so 4 million out of ~65? Deducting women, children, and the elderly, you get 20m men age 18-65. So 1/5 of them were Brownshirts.

In America today, pop 340m, that's proportionately.... 20m.
February 4, 2026 at 7:51 AM
February 4, 2026 at 6:40 AM
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will does a great public service by convincing a lot of people to post their worst takes at him
February 4, 2026 at 1:28 AM
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so uh possibly the most effective labor action in history is, technically, just how many lawyers now refuse to work for the federal government or have quit
This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
February 3, 2026 at 9:08 PM
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Oh SHIT?! 😭😭
February 4, 2026 at 3:03 AM
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stephen miller told me woke 2 keeps eating his prosecutors so I asked how many prosecutors he has and he said he just goes to twitter and begs people to apply to become federal prosecutors so I said it sounds like he’s just feeding prosectors to woke 2 and then kristi noem started crying
February 2, 2026 at 11:30 PM
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literally I was at a DFL precinct caucus this evening and we unanimously approved a resolution to repeal Minnesota's anti-BDS law
see also the common 'you're a lib so you must support genocide' when a majority of democratic voters support sanctions on israel
February 4, 2026 at 3:48 AM
there's a short, short list of people who will be elected to federal office this fall that could actually pull off a presidential run. maybe they wouldn't win but it would be a credible attempt
February 4, 2026 at 5:36 AM
Mike Gianaris is so fascinating because he's a Hochul ally, of sorts, but he also doesn't have a problem backing DSAers
Astoria and Long Island City, you have less than three hours left to vote!
February 4, 2026 at 5:31 AM
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February 4, 2026 at 2:59 AM
i think context is important, like the fact Democrats cannot and should not promise something they cannot deliver on for 4 more years
74% of Democrats support abolishing ICE, with 53% *strongly* supporting it, according to YouGov polling from last month.

Weak calls for "reform" are coming from *elected* Democrats like Chuck, not the average Democratic voter.
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.
February 4, 2026 at 5:22 AM
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Marimar Martinez, shot by federal agents in Chicago, testifying in Washington today:
Martinez ends her testimony with this:

"If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."
February 3, 2026 at 9:52 PM
is that not a weimaraner
February 4, 2026 at 5:20 AM
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This is what hope looks like.
February 4, 2026 at 4:22 AM
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This is such a perfect way to put it: we do not need throw our past away entirely as tarnished or pretend it never happened, but can embrace those ideals and try to substantiate them in the present.

We have done it before and will do it again. Democracy is a never ending project!
My favorite part in the Ken Burns American Revolution series is right at the end when one of the historians says "it's obvious that Thomas Jefferson did not believe that all men are created. But I do"
February 4, 2026 at 4:27 AM
pretty much the exact reverse from 2017 where the backlash was very elite driven, institutions rushing to contain Trump, sometimes failing, sometimes not
one thing the trump era has made clear, i think, is that the american people themselves are far more committed to the values of our founding documents than our elites
February 4, 2026 at 4:12 AM
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"power holds no value unless it is exercised"
I wrote about Minnesota and ICE and how average Americans are reclaiming the power that the administration is abusing.
www.pbump.net/o/this-is-wh...
February 4, 2026 at 4:06 AM
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One more child like Liam has been freed
Update: @eshockmanwrites.bsky.social reports that Elizabeth and her mom were released from ICE detention this evening.
www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
February 4, 2026 at 4:07 AM
man, this really calcified to me why these labels are so frustrating, and i've increasingly refused to ID as a 'leftist', despite holding nominally leftist positions
the asymmetry is wild, honestly. `lib` is inclusive and tacitly accepts that many of its nominal members hate its leaders and disagree with many of its tactics. `leftist` requires you to refrain from criticizing a wide range of things, or you aren't one
February 4, 2026 at 4:03 AM
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the asymmetry is wild, honestly. `lib` is inclusive and tacitly accepts that many of its nominal members hate its leaders and disagree with many of its tactics. `leftist` requires you to refrain from criticizing a wide range of things, or you aren't one
February 4, 2026 at 12:33 AM
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my objection to black bloc and, in fact, the entire associated set of tactics is that they don't seem to work, which i guess makes me a lib by bluesky left/liberal divisions

amusingly this does not work the other way; i am not a leftist because i think nearly every democratic institution is rotten
February 4, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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see also the common 'you're a lib so you must support genocide' when a majority of democratic voters support sanctions on israel
February 4, 2026 at 2:06 AM