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Zia / tía / aunt. Come for the women’s sports, stay for the Broadway takes, leave at the politics. (she/her)
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“Last May, as a groundswell built demanding public scrutiny of the Justice Department's records on Epstein, the agency ran into a problem: it had already destroyed its master copy of surveillance video from Epstein's final hours in the Metropolitan Correctional Center.”
Newly released documents show the FBI's scramble to explain last year why it released a screen recording with a missing minute from the night Jeffrey Epstein died, instead of the original footage.
Mystery of the missing minute from Epstein jail solved
Documents that were part of the Epstein files release help explain why a video released from the night of Epstein's death was missing one minute close to midnight.
cbsn.ws
February 12, 2026 at 3:46 AM
“Last May, as a groundswell built demanding public scrutiny of the Justice Department's records on Epstein, the agency ran into a problem: it had already destroyed its master copy of surveillance video from Epstein's final hours in the Metropolitan Correctional Center.”
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In a moment that calls for courage, we get this:
Gallup announces, after 88 years, it will no longer track public approval of presidents. Trump's second-term approval rating fell to 36% in December, among the lowest ever recorded by the company. The president repeatedly has threatened to sue media and polling firms that portray him negatively.
February 12, 2026 at 2:17 AM
In a moment that calls for courage, we get this:
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It turns out that rock bottom has a basement.
Pam Bondi just laughed when asked if she would apologize to Epstein Survivors.
February 12, 2026 at 2:16 AM
It turns out that rock bottom has a basement.
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What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it
February 11, 2026 at 10:03 PM
What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it
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“Why is AI helping me write a song or tell a story? Send some shit through a black hole; do something that we can’t do. Or dig a ditch; do the shit we don’t want to do. Why is it coming after the stuff that we essentially need to do to be human beings?”
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
Gore Verbinski Sounds Off on AI as He Launches ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’
The ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ filmmaker is back after nearly a decade, and is ready to skewer how technology has taken over our lives (even more) in that time: “Why is AI helping me write a song or t...
www.hollywoodreporter.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:53 PM
“Why is AI helping me write a song or tell a story? Send some shit through a black hole; do something that we can’t do. Or dig a ditch; do the shit we don’t want to do. Why is it coming after the stuff that we essentially need to do to be human beings?”
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...
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I don't know if it's really clear, outside of coverage of Mpls and pockets of organizing elsewhere, that hundreds of thousands of people are actively and at every level of society fighting our government as it abducts and imprisons and torments our neighbors.
February 12, 2026 at 1:09 AM
I don't know if it's really clear, outside of coverage of Mpls and pockets of organizing elsewhere, that hundreds of thousands of people are actively and at every level of society fighting our government as it abducts and imprisons and torments our neighbors.
He’s great and she is a coward who will be reviled, at best, in the history books.
If you missed the exchange between @raskin.house.gov and Pam Bondi today, watch this masterful statement from him on behalf of the Epstein victims:
“You are siding with the perpetrators and you are ignoring the victims. That will be your legacy.”
Repost if you agree she is the worst AG in history.
“You are siding with the perpetrators and you are ignoring the victims. That will be your legacy.”
Repost if you agree she is the worst AG in history.
February 12, 2026 at 3:53 AM
He’s great and she is a coward who will be reviled, at best, in the history books.
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If you missed the exchange between @raskin.house.gov and Pam Bondi today, watch this masterful statement from him on behalf of the Epstein victims:
“You are siding with the perpetrators and you are ignoring the victims. That will be your legacy.”
Repost if you agree she is the worst AG in history.
“You are siding with the perpetrators and you are ignoring the victims. That will be your legacy.”
Repost if you agree she is the worst AG in history.
February 12, 2026 at 2:51 AM
If you missed the exchange between @raskin.house.gov and Pam Bondi today, watch this masterful statement from him on behalf of the Epstein victims:
“You are siding with the perpetrators and you are ignoring the victims. That will be your legacy.”
Repost if you agree she is the worst AG in history.
“You are siding with the perpetrators and you are ignoring the victims. That will be your legacy.”
Repost if you agree she is the worst AG in history.
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More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 1:35 AM
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
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To check your party affiliation (if any) online: voterlookup.elections.ny.gov
To change your party affiliation online (to Dem so that you can vote in the primary):
e-register.vote.nyc
To change your party affiliation by mail or at a BOE office: vote.nyc/page/register-vote
Deadline: Sat, Feb 14
To change your party affiliation online (to Dem so that you can vote in the primary):
e-register.vote.nyc
To change your party affiliation by mail or at a BOE office: vote.nyc/page/register-vote
Deadline: Sat, Feb 14
Heads up: the deadline to switch or enroll in the Democratic Party is this Saturday February 14 💌 and YOU CAN’T VOTE FOR US WITHOUT DOING IT – being registered to vote without enrolling isn’t enough.
Make sure your voice is heard, follow the steps in this post to check, and switch if you need to! 🗳️
Make sure your voice is heard, follow the steps in this post to check, and switch if you need to! 🗳️
February 12, 2026 at 1:14 AM
To check your party affiliation (if any) online: voterlookup.elections.ny.gov
To change your party affiliation online (to Dem so that you can vote in the primary):
e-register.vote.nyc
To change your party affiliation by mail or at a BOE office: vote.nyc/page/register-vote
Deadline: Sat, Feb 14
To change your party affiliation online (to Dem so that you can vote in the primary):
e-register.vote.nyc
To change your party affiliation by mail or at a BOE office: vote.nyc/page/register-vote
Deadline: Sat, Feb 14
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I and millions of Americans believe exactly the same thing Kasparov does.
Too many troops, too many new prisons, too much money not under Congressional supervision.
We're not just witnessing a mass deportation scheme anymore.
This is something significantly bigger and scarier.
Too many troops, too many new prisons, too much money not under Congressional supervision.
We're not just witnessing a mass deportation scheme anymore.
This is something significantly bigger and scarier.
February 11, 2026 at 9:37 AM
I and millions of Americans believe exactly the same thing Kasparov does.
Too many troops, too many new prisons, too much money not under Congressional supervision.
We're not just witnessing a mass deportation scheme anymore.
This is something significantly bigger and scarier.
Too many troops, too many new prisons, too much money not under Congressional supervision.
We're not just witnessing a mass deportation scheme anymore.
This is something significantly bigger and scarier.
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"...if you’re not victims when the government which you’ve voted for, when the army in which your younger brothers are serving without hesitation or remorse have undertaken race murder, you are, without a shadow of doubt, executioners."
- Jean-Paul Sartre, Introduction to "Wretched of the Earth"
- Jean-Paul Sartre, Introduction to "Wretched of the Earth"
February 12, 2026 at 3:36 AM
"...if you’re not victims when the government which you’ve voted for, when the army in which your younger brothers are serving without hesitation or remorse have undertaken race murder, you are, without a shadow of doubt, executioners."
- Jean-Paul Sartre, Introduction to "Wretched of the Earth"
- Jean-Paul Sartre, Introduction to "Wretched of the Earth"
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This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...
Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News
About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.
apple.news
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 AM
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
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JUST IN: Judge Kelly has barred the Trump administration from transfering 20 former death row inmates (commuted to life sentences by Biden) to the notorious ADX supermax prison, saying they were given "sham" due process after decision was made. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
February 12, 2026 at 2:29 AM
JUST IN: Judge Kelly has barred the Trump administration from transfering 20 former death row inmates (commuted to life sentences by Biden) to the notorious ADX supermax prison, saying they were given "sham" due process after decision was made. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
I think “I would like to relax with you” is one of the most romantic things ever said, ever.
February 12, 2026 at 2:49 AM
I think “I would like to relax with you” is one of the most romantic things ever said, ever.
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I've done a whirlwind speaking circuit these past few days (University of Alabama, Washington & Lee, & UVA)
It continues to be remarkable how many students are taught that originalism is legit or even necessary for legal interpretation...and remains a pleasure to disabuse them of that notion hehehe
It continues to be remarkable how many students are taught that originalism is legit or even necessary for legal interpretation...and remains a pleasure to disabuse them of that notion hehehe
February 12, 2026 at 12:13 AM
I've done a whirlwind speaking circuit these past few days (University of Alabama, Washington & Lee, & UVA)
It continues to be remarkable how many students are taught that originalism is legit or even necessary for legal interpretation...and remains a pleasure to disabuse them of that notion hehehe
It continues to be remarkable how many students are taught that originalism is legit or even necessary for legal interpretation...and remains a pleasure to disabuse them of that notion hehehe
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“If all the names in the Epstein files are released then our entire system will collapse.”
Works for me.
Works for me.
February 10, 2026 at 7:54 PM
“If all the names in the Epstein files are released then our entire system will collapse.”
Works for me.
Works for me.
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JUST IN: U.S. Customs and Border Protection says Border Patrol agent Charles Exum, who shot Chicago's Marimar Martinez, "was placed on administrative leave":
February 11, 2026 at 10:27 PM
JUST IN: U.S. Customs and Border Protection says Border Patrol agent Charles Exum, who shot Chicago's Marimar Martinez, "was placed on administrative leave":
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This isn't radical stuff. This is just basic democracy. Basic political philosophy. One person, one vote stuff. You know, American values.
February 12, 2026 at 12:14 AM
This isn't radical stuff. This is just basic democracy. Basic political philosophy. One person, one vote stuff. You know, American values.
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Similarly...
As long as more money = more political power in the US, billionaires should be taxed out of existence.
As long as Citizens United remains the law of the land, billionaires should not exist.
As long as more money = more political power in the US, billionaires should be taxed out of existence.
As long as Citizens United remains the law of the land, billionaires should not exist.
February 12, 2026 at 12:07 AM
Similarly...
As long as more money = more political power in the US, billionaires should be taxed out of existence.
As long as Citizens United remains the law of the land, billionaires should not exist.
As long as more money = more political power in the US, billionaires should be taxed out of existence.
As long as Citizens United remains the law of the land, billionaires should not exist.
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Billionaires should be taxed out of existence because no one human being should possess the unilateral power to launch the kinds of environment-destroying and world-changing projects that billionaires can approve.
February 11, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Billionaires should be taxed out of existence because no one human being should possess the unilateral power to launch the kinds of environment-destroying and world-changing projects that billionaires can approve.
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CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.
CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"
February 11, 2026 at 9:36 PM
CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.
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The 6 Rs who crossed the aisle to block Trump's Canada tariffs:
Thomas Massie
Don Bacon
Brian Fitzpatrick
Jeff Hurd
Kevin Kiley
Dan Newhouse
Jared Golden (D) voted with the Republicans to maintain them.
Thomas Massie
Don Bacon
Brian Fitzpatrick
Jeff Hurd
Kevin Kiley
Dan Newhouse
Jared Golden (D) voted with the Republicans to maintain them.
Incredible that this many Republicans are still backing Trump on this wildly unpopular policy.
They'll now have to do it again after Trump vetoes and an override vote is held.
Just generating mountains of votes for midterm ads.
They'll now have to do it again after Trump vetoes and an override vote is held.
Just generating mountains of votes for midterm ads.
U.S. HOUSE APPROVES RESOLUTION TO END TRUMP’S CANADA TARIFFS BY 219–211
February 11, 2026 at 11:29 PM
The 6 Rs who crossed the aisle to block Trump's Canada tariffs:
Thomas Massie
Don Bacon
Brian Fitzpatrick
Jeff Hurd
Kevin Kiley
Dan Newhouse
Jared Golden (D) voted with the Republicans to maintain them.
Thomas Massie
Don Bacon
Brian Fitzpatrick
Jeff Hurd
Kevin Kiley
Dan Newhouse
Jared Golden (D) voted with the Republicans to maintain them.
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The Dilley family detention center is run by CoreCivic, a major Trump donor who has raked in millions from federal contracts already.
Never forget who is profiting from this cruelty.
Never forget who is profiting from this cruelty.
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about t
www.propublica.org
February 11, 2026 at 11:30 PM
The Dilley family detention center is run by CoreCivic, a major Trump donor who has raked in millions from federal contracts already.
Never forget who is profiting from this cruelty.
Never forget who is profiting from this cruelty.