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Democracy is the way. Truth and justice matter.
Russia can end the war today by leaving Ukraine.
Less proud to be an American than I used to be. I really thought we were better than this.
#IStandWithUkraine #NAFO Fellas fan
Russia can end the war today by leaving Ukraine.
Less proud to be an American than I used to be. I really thought we were better than this.
#IStandWithUkraine #NAFO Fellas fan
Marsha Blackburn is quite competitive for at least two titles:
Most corrupt and dishonest senator, and dumbest senator.
I realize there's a lot of competition for these.
And she blocks every single measure regarding election security every single time they come up for a vote.
Most corrupt and dishonest senator, and dumbest senator.
I realize there's a lot of competition for these.
And she blocks every single measure regarding election security every single time they come up for a vote.
Here’s @tennessean reporter @Vivian_E_Jones calling out governor hopeful @MarshaBlackburn for spewing education privatization talking points to a privatization vouchers/charters lobbyist propaganda arm — As she ducks local press and actual citizens and debates 🤔
February 5, 2026 at 10:47 PM
Marsha Blackburn is quite competitive for at least two titles:
Most corrupt and dishonest senator, and dumbest senator.
I realize there's a lot of competition for these.
And she blocks every single measure regarding election security every single time they come up for a vote.
Most corrupt and dishonest senator, and dumbest senator.
I realize there's a lot of competition for these.
And she blocks every single measure regarding election security every single time they come up for a vote.
These war-mongers probably cheat at sports, too. They shouldn't be allowed to play, but if they are they should be tested daily for drugs.
⚡️ Several Russian athletes are cleared for the Winter Olympics despite new reports linking them to military groups and pro-war activity.
Russian “Neutral” Olympians Cleared for Winter Games Despite Links to Pro-War Activities
Russian athletes cleared to compete at the Winter Olympics face scrutiny over connections to pro-war figures, as noted by BBC Sport.
united24media.com
February 5, 2026 at 10:44 PM
These war-mongers probably cheat at sports, too. They shouldn't be allowed to play, but if they are they should be tested daily for drugs.
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Acting like $59k from a casino PAC for a state rep race and $2 million from crypto PAC for a congressional race are the same is both intellectually lazy and dishonest.
Guess which one he demonizes???
Guess which one he demonizes???
But like, instead of making up shit about our candidates, we can talk about real shit, like James Talarico taking $59,000 from the Adelson's PAC to legalize gambling in Texas. Truly, a people-oriented goal!
In 2024 Republican multi-billionaire Miriam Adelson was Donald Trump’s third biggest donor and James Talarico’s biggest donor. . .
In 2024 Republican multi-billionaire Miriam Adelson was Donald Trump’s third biggest donor and James Talarico’s biggest Stories in a couple of national media outlets recently tried to paint rising y...
theaustinindependent.org
February 5, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Acting like $59k from a casino PAC for a state rep race and $2 million from crypto PAC for a congressional race are the same is both intellectually lazy and dishonest.
Guess which one he demonizes???
Guess which one he demonizes???
The billionaires are becoming increasingly resentful of the fact that struggling citizens are becoming increasingly resentful of billionaires.
Cameron Barr: I won't deny that Trump's threats to his business interests are part of the story, but my guess that that it's not that really Bezos has suddenly become a coward, it's that like Elon et al. he has just come to share Trump's grievances and resentments
Jeff Bezos Must Sell the Washington Post
Mass layoffs undermine his promises to protect a great American institution.
open.substack.com
February 5, 2026 at 10:37 PM
The billionaires are becoming increasingly resentful of the fact that struggling citizens are becoming increasingly resentful of billionaires.
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The status of Missouri’s new 7-1 Republican gerrymander remains unclear, with several lawsuits still on the docket.
Missouri’s GOP Gerrymander Is Still Tangled Up in Court
Five months after its initial passage, Missouri’s redrawn congressional map remains in limbo.
www.cookpolitical.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:41 PM
The status of Missouri’s new 7-1 Republican gerrymander remains unclear, with several lawsuits still on the docket.
"Trump alleged that the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian election interference - prepared by folks he associates with the “deep state” including former CIA Director John Brennan - included underlying source materials proving outcome-determinative foreign election interference:"
February 5, 2026 at 10:29 PM
"Trump alleged that the 2017 Intelligence Community Assessment on Russian election interference - prepared by folks he associates with the “deep state” including former CIA Director John Brennan - included underlying source materials proving outcome-determinative foreign election interference:"
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Nazi concentration camps had INCINERATORS —- WTF.
⛓️CONCENTRATION CAMPS & INCINERATORS—D.H.S. is setting up a huge network of camps. They are converting the U.S. as a region for ‘expeditionary military deployment’ & no-bid no-public-comment contracts to build a “ghost network” of 10,000-person concentration camps. Jesus. Thread 🧵
February 5, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Nazi concentration camps had INCINERATORS —- WTF.
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Two things are true 1.) Informed observers, including many if not most elected Republicans, know how this regime is going to end, it's just a question of when and how. 2.) It's up to the rest of the country to fight them to a draw until they collapse or are turned out of office via elections. 1/2
over the next 3 years, be ready for seeing a lot of coverage of Republican lawmakers, business leaders, university leaders who did absolutely nothing to stall Trump (on the contrary) — about how *actually* they were wringing their hands all along. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
February 5, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Two things are true 1.) Informed observers, including many if not most elected Republicans, know how this regime is going to end, it's just a question of when and how. 2.) It's up to the rest of the country to fight them to a draw until they collapse or are turned out of office via elections. 1/2
Never let them think they've been forgiven.
over the next 3 years, be ready for seeing a lot of coverage of Republican lawmakers, business leaders, university leaders who did absolutely nothing to stall Trump (on the contrary) — about how *actually* they were wringing their hands all along. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
February 5, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Never let them think they've been forgiven.
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Guys, I think I found the file about Trump.
February 5, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Guys, I think I found the file about Trump.
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Again, there's a straight line from this back to the ugliest parts of our history & people who do this should be shamed off the national media & shunned from polite society & American politics. In fact, they should be asked to resign immediately for violating their oaths of office.
Again, there’s a straight line between this appalling nonsense straight back to the failure of Reconstruction & we simply shouldn’t tolerate it anymore. People who do this should be shamed off the national media and never invited back. And forced to resign for violating their oaths of office. Enough
There is a straight line from the failure of Reconstruction to "We don't need to count everyone's vote in the 2000 election" to "People from places like Madison & Milwaukee aren't real Wisconsinites & shouldn't have their votes count" to "ICE can murder people in cold blood in our cities."
February 5, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Again, there's a straight line from this back to the ugliest parts of our history & people who do this should be shamed off the national media & shunned from polite society & American politics. In fact, they should be asked to resign immediately for violating their oaths of office.
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I would like WI politicians to stop lying about the existence of mass voter fraud & stop insinuating people in cities are not real people & don't deserve to have their votes count. They've been doing it for at least 20 years & it's ugly & we shouldn't tolerate it.
www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/u...
www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/u...
February 5, 2026 at 8:21 PM
I would like WI politicians to stop lying about the existence of mass voter fraud & stop insinuating people in cities are not real people & don't deserve to have their votes count. They've been doing it for at least 20 years & it's ugly & we shouldn't tolerate it.
www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/u...
www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/u...
Fortunately here in California everyone (even Hispanic citizens) can vote safely from the comfort of their own homes and mail in their ballots, which is probably the most hack-proof form of voting there is. Everyone should have this right. Trump wants to force you to wait in lines for a machine.
February 5, 2026 at 9:45 PM
Fortunately here in California everyone (even Hispanic citizens) can vote safely from the comfort of their own homes and mail in their ballots, which is probably the most hack-proof form of voting there is. Everyone should have this right. Trump wants to force you to wait in lines for a machine.
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"There is no evidence that the election was marred by fraud in 2020, in Fulton County or elsewhere in Georgia. A hand-count of all ballots confirmed the result shortly after the election." www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
Fact-checking Trump's interview with NBC News
Trump made several false or misleading claims on topics ranging from the economy to immigration to elections during an Oval Office interview with NBC News’ Tom Llamas.
www.nbcnews.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:23 PM
"There is no evidence that the election was marred by fraud in 2020, in Fulton County or elsewhere in Georgia. A hand-count of all ballots confirmed the result shortly after the election." www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...
A smart country would fund the hell out of education rather than giving all the money to billionaires and corporations.
Negotiations are expected to continue Thursday between San Francisco Unified School District leaders and the district's teachers' union. nbcbay.com/fyXFGQ4
February 5, 2026 at 9:37 PM
A smart country would fund the hell out of education rather than giving all the money to billionaires and corporations.
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Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
"We are now in a system of competitive authoritarianism. And it’s just about whether we manage to take our democracy back from that."
On the pod, @ryanenos.bsky.social is so good on Harvard pulling back from surrender to Trump, and on need for institutions to fight:
newrepublic.com/article/2061...
On the pod, @ryanenos.bsky.social is so good on Harvard pulling back from surrender to Trump, and on need for institutions to fight:
newrepublic.com/article/2061...
Trump Spirals Into Crazed Fury After Harvard Humiliates Him Very Badly
As Trump rages at Harvard over leaks that he’s backtracking in his fight with the university, a Harvard political scientist explains why the stakes in this battle are far bigger than they seem.
newrepublic.com
February 4, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Today in life under competitive authoritarianism
Unsurprising. At this point more than half of Americans also don't want to be ruled by a mentally unstable octogenarian dictator.
What a shock. Greenlanders don't want to be ruled by a mentally unstable octogenarian dictator.
February 5, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Unsurprising. At this point more than half of Americans also don't want to be ruled by a mentally unstable octogenarian dictator.
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No 10 defies calls to sack Morgan McSweeney over Mandelson appointment www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
No 10 defies calls to sack Morgan McSweeney over Mandelson appointment
Amid warnings McSweeney’s survival would leave his position ‘untenable’, PM apologises to Epstein’s victims for appointing Mandelson as US ambassador
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:26 PM
No 10 defies calls to sack Morgan McSweeney over Mandelson appointment www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Again, even if the Democrats win, & even if the Republicans cede power in January, it will still not be evidence that we are a democracy or that things worked. Elections under these conditions fail basic criteria of democratic process, & this stuff doesn't happen in any actual democracy anywhere.
February 5, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Again, even if the Democrats win, & even if the Republicans cede power in January, it will still not be evidence that we are a democracy or that things worked. Elections under these conditions fail basic criteria of democratic process, & this stuff doesn't happen in any actual democracy anywhere.
Interesting.👀
WEISENTHAL: “.. if #Bitcoin can’t thrive during a period where every rich government and fiat currency is perceived to be under stress, what’s the environment for it?”
@weisenthal.bsky.social @opinion.bloomberg.com
@weisenthal.bsky.social @opinion.bloomberg.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Interesting.👀
This is so embarrassing. And the harder they "campaign" for the Nobel like it was an Oscar, the less likely he is to ever get it.
US cuts ties with the speaker of the Polish Parliament after he refuses US ambassador (former podcaster) Tom Rose's demand that he sign a nomination letter to the Norwegian Nobel Committee putting Trump forward for the Nobel Peace Prize. It gets more absurd every day.
US cuts contact with Polish parliament speaker over Trump 'insults'
The U.S. ambassador in Warsaw cut off contact with Poland's parliament speaker on Thursday, accusing him of insulting Donald Trump after he criticised the president's policies and declined to support ...
www.reuters.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:29 PM
This is so embarrassing. And the harder they "campaign" for the Nobel like it was an Oscar, the less likely he is to ever get it.
They certainly don't seem interested in interviewing most of the people named in those files. And if they had anything that made Clinton look really bad, you know damn well it would've been among the first stuff released.
House Republicans should bring in the person who is named the most in the Epstein Files, Donald Trump.
February 5, 2026 at 9:28 PM
They certainly don't seem interested in interviewing most of the people named in those files. And if they had anything that made Clinton look really bad, you know damn well it would've been among the first stuff released.
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sir, this is a prayer breakfast
Trump at the National Prayer Breakfast: "I don't know how a person of faith can vote for a Democrat. I really don't. *crowd groans* I know we have some here today. I don't know why they're here, because they certainly don't give us their vote ... they cheat."
February 5, 2026 at 8:30 PM
sir, this is a prayer breakfast
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Saving this for when RFK and co. claim the brain swelling is actually a sign of intelligence...
South Carolina measles outbreak is triggering dangerous brain swelling in some children www.scientificamerican.com/article/sout...
Brain swelling is one of measles’ nastiest side effects, and it’s happening in South Carolina
The South Carolina measles outbreak has triggered rare but serious brain swelling in some children
www.scientificamerican.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Saving this for when RFK and co. claim the brain swelling is actually a sign of intelligence...
If Jeff Bezos continues to own the @washingtonpost.com and continues to run it the way he is, he will destroy both his own reputation and that of the once great source of quality news.
Seems a shame. He should consider selling it.
Seems a shame. He should consider selling it.
Cameron Barr, former senior managing editor of the Washington Post: "To put it in terms Bezos would use, he is no longer a swashbuckling badass. He should sell the Post to someone who is."
Exclusively @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/jeff-bezos...
Exclusively @thebulwark.com: www.thebulwark.com/p/jeff-bezos...
Jeff Bezos Must Sell the Washington Post
Mass layoffs undermine his promises to protect a great American institution.
www.thebulwark.com
February 5, 2026 at 9:23 PM
If Jeff Bezos continues to own the @washingtonpost.com and continues to run it the way he is, he will destroy both his own reputation and that of the once great source of quality news.
Seems a shame. He should consider selling it.
Seems a shame. He should consider selling it.