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Evidence, logic, and reason before partisanship. Also, puns and dirty jokes. You’ll never find the right answers if you don’t ask the right questions. Interests include: ⚖️⚾️🥁🍣🏀✡️🐟🪴
If you think she's wrong, tell me: what IS proper in resisting crimes against humanity? Are we gonna tell her to vote about it? Call her representatives?
If this were a 1933 film of a German woman doing this to Dachau, we'd all be cheering her, no?
If this were a 1933 film of a German woman doing this to Dachau, we'd all be cheering her, no?
KMBC: "A woman tried to set a fire at a South Kansas City warehouse that had been rumored as a possible ICE detention center. Earlier today, the company that owns the property confirmed it is no longer moving forward with a sale to the U.S. government."
February 13, 2026 at 6:51 PM
If you think she's wrong, tell me: what IS proper in resisting crimes against humanity? Are we gonna tell her to vote about it? Call her representatives?
If this were a 1933 film of a German woman doing this to Dachau, we'd all be cheering her, no?
If this were a 1933 film of a German woman doing this to Dachau, we'd all be cheering her, no?
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The Many Faces of Jeffrey Epstein
The Many Faces of Jeffrey Epstein - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Ezra Klein interviews Anand Giridharadas and covers all the things I’ve been thinking I want to put into a post (gift link). If I have time, I’ll work through some of the points in detail in future posts. (But I won’t have time, most likely.) The breadth of Epstein’s influence is breathtaking. Scandals in the […]
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:43 PM
The Many Faces of Jeffrey Epstein
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This is a factually inaccurate claim. Polls indeed show voters say they trust the Republicans more than Democrats to "handle the issue of immigration", but (a) the GOP lead is within the margin of error & (b) this is not "firmly behind Trump's handling of the issue" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...
February 13, 2026 at 5:54 PM
This is a factually inaccurate claim. Polls indeed show voters say they trust the Republicans more than Democrats to "handle the issue of immigration", but (a) the GOP lead is within the margin of error & (b) this is not "firmly behind Trump's handling of the issue" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...
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Congrats again to the 99 Senators who unanimously confirmed this guy, who won't meet with Zelenskyy but is on his way to meet with Orban.
Truly, well done. It's a Big Club, & apparently neither democracy nor 🇺🇸 national security is in it.
Truly, well done. It's a Big Club, & apparently neither democracy nor 🇺🇸 national security is in it.
Rubio skips Ukraine meeting with European leaders in Munich ft.trib.al/MMNIZqu
Rubio skips Ukraine meeting with European leaders in Munich
US Secretary of State cancels attendance at last minute in move that EU official called ‘insane’
ft.trib.al
February 13, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Congrats again to the 99 Senators who unanimously confirmed this guy, who won't meet with Zelenskyy but is on his way to meet with Orban.
Truly, well done. It's a Big Club, & apparently neither democracy nor 🇺🇸 national security is in it.
Truly, well done. It's a Big Club, & apparently neither democracy nor 🇺🇸 national security is in it.
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THREAD. Every day new evidence emerges of ICE agents committing the *most serious violent crimes* in our criminal code and then *lying about it.* It's important to draw correct lessons from this, but anyone with sense is excluded from mainstream news.
February 13, 2026 at 6:02 PM
THREAD. Every day new evidence emerges of ICE agents committing the *most serious violent crimes* in our criminal code and then *lying about it.* It's important to draw correct lessons from this, but anyone with sense is excluded from mainstream news.
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PLEASE do an election interference we are BEGGING
what this should actually tell countries that want a good relationship with a stable and prosperous US is that they should collude to help democrats
there's a lot of talk about how the US has permanently destroyed its position in the world and while I do think it's done some real damage I also think we underestimate how readily a lot of former allies will be willing to rekindle a relationship if we replace this regime
February 13, 2026 at 6:34 PM
PLEASE do an election interference we are BEGGING
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Without looking (chart below in next post), what did you hear about the US economy in 2021 to 2024, when Joe Biden was president, amidst the incredibly strong job growth & unprecedentedly rapid economic recovery from the 2020 Covid shock?
"Previous estimates showed the US economy generated 584,000 jobs in 2025, the first year of Trump’s second term, which was deeply discouraging.
Now, the picture is far worse: The newly revised, final data shows that the U.S. economy actually added only 181,000 jobs..."
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
Now, the picture is far worse: The newly revised, final data shows that the U.S. economy actually added only 181,000 jobs..."
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
February 13, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Without looking (chart below in next post), what did you hear about the US economy in 2021 to 2024, when Joe Biden was president, amidst the incredibly strong job growth & unprecedentedly rapid economic recovery from the 2020 Covid shock?
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I bet if you just did a simple survey, not one American in 10K would be able to accurately tell you the current level of immigration to the US, whether that level is up or down from the previous decade, what countries are most represented among immigrants, or what current US immigration policy is.
February 13, 2026 at 5:33 PM
I bet if you just did a simple survey, not one American in 10K would be able to accurately tell you the current level of immigration to the US, whether that level is up or down from the previous decade, what countries are most represented among immigrants, or what current US immigration policy is.
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People are fed the fuck up with nazis and their corporate enablers
February 13, 2026 at 5:58 PM
People are fed the fuck up with nazis and their corporate enablers
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Plan A is “everything will be better but for white people“ and a very acceptable Plan B for all of these people is “everything gets worse for everybody but faster for everyone else“
In contrast, the Trump administration has done for white people what stories about pit bulls eating children do for pit bulls
February 13, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Plan A is “everything will be better but for white people“ and a very acceptable Plan B for all of these people is “everything gets worse for everybody but faster for everyone else“
The news is so unfathomably insane every single day.
February 13, 2026 at 4:53 PM
The news is so unfathomably insane every single day.
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The pollster was leaning against the split-rail fence, looking at the horses. (The horses had started to appear 88 years ago due to a misspelling of Gallup. A new one arrived with each completed poll.)
What Fabulous Timing for Gallup to Stop Tracking Presidential Approval!
Why stop with BLS data and jobs reports?
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:50 PM
The pollster was leaning against the split-rail fence, looking at the horses. (The horses had started to appear 88 years ago due to a misspelling of Gallup. A new one arrived with each completed poll.)
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Note: I should have added "at worst" to the line about the fishermen. We don't know how many were actually even doing that.
Also, as with the brazen, wildly exaggerated lying, the hypocrisy is itself a projection of power. They want you to see that there's no pretense of justice or fairness.
Also, as with the brazen, wildly exaggerated lying, the hypocrisy is itself a projection of power. They want you to see that there's no pretense of justice or fairness.
I'm all for pardons and second chances. But it's a hell of a juxtaposition to pardon millionaire NFL players convicted of drug distribution while you're summarily executing impoverished fishermen making a few hundred bucks to shuttle drugs around the Caribbean.
President Trump pardons Hall of Famer Joe Klecko and four other former NFL players
Trump pardoned Klecko, Nate Newton, Jamal Lewis, Travis Henry and the late Billy Cannon for crimes ranging from perjury to drug trafficking.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Note: I should have added "at worst" to the line about the fishermen. We don't know how many were actually even doing that.
Also, as with the brazen, wildly exaggerated lying, the hypocrisy is itself a projection of power. They want you to see that there's no pretense of justice or fairness.
Also, as with the brazen, wildly exaggerated lying, the hypocrisy is itself a projection of power. They want you to see that there's no pretense of justice or fairness.
St. Necessariliso, the patron Saint of jazz musicals
February 13, 2026 at 4:22 PM
St. Necessariliso, the patron Saint of jazz musicals
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Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.
CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.
“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody
The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.
shorturl.at
February 13, 2026 at 2:00 AM
Every single time a story like this is reported, we must assume that there are many many more that do not.
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Not so mention the many journalists who buried a juicy and substantively important scandal because Nuzzi was a made woman and/or people just refused to take the threat RFK Jr. posed seriously for a variety of reasons
And Olivia Nuzzi facilitated all of this.
the bargain between Trump and Kennedy that basically sealed the election for Trump in exchange for handing American health policy to the most dangerous and irresponsible people on the planet will go down as one of the most costly deals in human history
February 13, 2026 at 2:01 AM
Not so mention the many journalists who buried a juicy and substantively important scandal because Nuzzi was a made woman and/or people just refused to take the threat RFK Jr. posed seriously for a variety of reasons
Rizzo, holding a dummy head at beauty school:
🎶 Look at me
I’m St Denis🎶
🎶 Look at me
I’m St Denis🎶
February 13, 2026 at 1:59 AM
Rizzo, holding a dummy head at beauty school:
🎶 Look at me
I’m St Denis🎶
🎶 Look at me
I’m St Denis🎶
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And if you're wondering why it is that it's so easy for the federal government to control where a habeas petition is filed simply by moving a detainee around after their arrest, allow me to introduce you to #SCOTUS's (5-4) 2004 ruling in the Jose Padilla case:
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February 13, 2026 at 1:13 AM
And if you're wondering why it is that it's so easy for the federal government to control where a habeas petition is filed simply by moving a detainee around after their arrest, allow me to introduce you to #SCOTUS's (5-4) 2004 ruling in the Jose Padilla case:
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I can think of several dozen historians who would be happy to lecture @jaketapper.bsky.social about why "concentration camp" is, in fact, an apt term.
God the gall of @jaketapper.bsky.social lecturing that Minneapolis small business owner about the meaning of the word "concentration camp" while people are being crammed into poorly resourced buildings by the thousands and shuttled off never to be heard from again
February 13, 2026 at 1:00 AM
I can think of several dozen historians who would be happy to lecture @jaketapper.bsky.social about why "concentration camp" is, in fact, an apt term.
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In other words, long enough that habeas petitions can be filed on their behalf in Minnesota before they're whisked off to an immigration detention facility somewhere in the Fifth Circuit (where, under that court's current law, they wouldn't be eligible for a bond hearing).
Incredibly powerful opinion chronicling the awfulness in Whipple and the ways it interfered with the right to counsel.
One key part of the ruling (that ICE will likely appeal ASAP); Judge Brasel bars ICE from transferring anyone out of Minnesota within 72 hours of arrest.
One key part of the ruling (that ICE will likely appeal ASAP); Judge Brasel bars ICE from transferring anyone out of Minnesota within 72 hours of arrest.
February 13, 2026 at 1:03 AM
In other words, long enough that habeas petitions can be filed on their behalf in Minnesota before they're whisked off to an immigration detention facility somewhere in the Fifth Circuit (where, under that court's current law, they wouldn't be eligible for a bond hearing).
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Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...
Vince Guaraldi - earliest television recording of "Linus and Lucy"
YouTube video by Lee Mendelson Film Productions, Inc.
www.youtube.com
February 12, 2026 at 7:45 PM
Actual footage of Vince Guaraldi performing "Linus and Lucy". I'm gobsmacked that this exists, but utterly thrilled too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EMf...
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All Wagner, no group.
NEW: The Trump admin publicized the arrest of an "antifa domestic terrorist," implying he was charged with threatening federal agents. But the criminal complaint suggests Kyle Wagner was charged with Instagram beefing with controversial rightwing agitator Jayden Scott.
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The Trump Admin Arrested an Antifascist for Shit-Talking a Fascist
A supposed ‘antifa domestic terrorist’ was arrested for ‘cyberstalking’ a controversial right-wing agitator who showed up at a reporter’s home to threaten him.
zeteo.com
February 12, 2026 at 10:58 PM
All Wagner, no group.
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“You starve your public schools to feed your private schools and charter schools,” said one superintendent about the state’s efforts to grow charter schools. “Our foundation was set up for a free and appropriate education for all kids. All kids!”
(Published Oct. 2025)
(Published Oct. 2025)
This Is Ground Zero in the Conservative Quest for More Patriotic and Christian Public Schools
Oklahoma has spent years reshaping public schools to integrate lessons about Jesus and encourage pride in America’s history. By the time the second Trump administration began espousing its “America Fi...
www.propublica.org
February 13, 2026 at 12:00 AM
“You starve your public schools to feed your private schools and charter schools,” said one superintendent about the state’s efforts to grow charter schools. “Our foundation was set up for a free and appropriate education for all kids. All kids!”
(Published Oct. 2025)
(Published Oct. 2025)