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Dear America (esp. the media)

The correct grammar is *DEMOCRATIC* Party

Shortening Democratic Party/Candidate/Senator/etc to "Democrat Party," etc is a McCarthy Era slur to "emphasize the rat in Democrat"

It's being used by the right as a means to demonize & insult Democrats

NEVER normalize it
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Deep Dive: The Heritage Foundation’s 250-Year Plan: Who It’s For — and What It Changes

www.onestnetwork.com/post/the-her...
The Heritage Foundation’s 250-Year Plan: Who It’s For — and What It Changes
A 165-page Heritage Foundation report outlines a “250-year plan” to reshape family and education policy in the U.S. Here’s what it says — an
www.onestnetwork.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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Rep. Goldman: “Do you know what other regimes in the 20th century required similar proof of citizenship?…Is Nazi Germany one?”

Lyons: “Yes.”

Goldman: “Is the Soviet Union one?"

Lyons: “Yes, but this is the wrong type of questioning you should be asking me.”
February 10, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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Follow The Money: Trump's push to slash billions in US spending and restrict the flow of taxpayer dollars keeps running into a judicial wall.

A deep data dive into the court action -- and perspective from local officials, nonprofits and businesses in the middle:
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
February 10, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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The "freedom of speech" crowd wants you to know your speech is terrorism but their terrorism is speech
February 10, 2026 at 5:03 PM
The forced birth crowd that refuses medical care to women in crisis once again demonstrated their commitment yo the sanctity of life by *checks notes* hosting a measles superspreader event

One can only assume the life they were there to promote is that of a virus 🙃

www.google.com/amp/s/www.ra...
Redirect Notice
www.google.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM
My computer screen today looks like the mountain from Paramount Pictures. For about 3 seconds I expected a row of stars to swirl around it & was curious what movie I left cued up, lmao!!!!
February 10, 2026 at 5:11 PM
These grifting sociopaths know they've killed the economy & destroyed jobs so they're reverse engineering some bullshit t9 explain why losing jobs is a good thing and also a low number or a loss is a lie hiding strong job growth

Even Navarro is disgusted with how idiotic an excuse Navarro just BS'd
Peter Navarro: "The jobs report comes out tomorrow. We have to revise our expectations down significantly for what a monthly job number should look like ... Wall Street has to adjust for the fact that we're deporting millions of illegals out of the job market."
February 10, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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February 10, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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just a fucking weird statement on it's face but also highlights how filthy rich and completely out of touch trump's whole cabinet is. a private boat for a family vacation? stopping by a billionaire's island for lunch? nannies, plural?? the epstein class, indeed.
VAN HOLLEN: Did you in fact make the visit to Epstein's private island?

LUTNICK: I did have lunch w/ him as I was on a boat going across on a family vacation. My wife was with me as were my 4 children and nannies. We had lunch on the island. That's true. For an hour. We left with all of my children
February 10, 2026 at 4:36 PM
Driving with illegal, unregistered, or fake plate is a crime

Arrest them & impound the vehicles like you would for anyone else

Stop letting them break any law they please while fretting that they're breaking laws with impunity
Also obviously a very Nazi thing to do because Nazis did this
Legal observers and officials say they have received a growing number of reports of agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers and anti-ICE activists, heightening fears in the state

ground.news/article/hard...
February 9, 2026 at 3:15 PM
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Ten years ago today, #SCOTUS issued five unsigned and unexplained 5-4 rulings granting emergency applications to block President Obama’s Clean Power Plan—a completely unprecedented move that helped to usher in the Court’s modern … (mis)adventures … with its shadow docket.

Me in today’s “One First”:
209. The Modern Emergency Docket Turns Ten
The February 2016 rulings blocking the Clean Power Plan were unprecedented; in retrospect, they were harbingers of a paradigm shift in the Supreme Court's role.
www.stevevladeck.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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Massie on Howard Lutnick: "He should just resign. Three people in Great Britain resigned for less than what we've seen Howard Lutnick lie about. He clearly went to the island, if we believe what's in these files. He was in business with Jeffrey Epstein."
February 8, 2026 at 4:29 PM
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ICYMI
Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
February 9, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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For reference, his name comes up more often in the Epstein Files than Harry Potter's name does in the Harry Potter novels.
February 8, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.
February 8, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind.

This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.

Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.
Opinion | Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Exactly what crime did this 18-month-old commit?

Being born?

Pretty sure she didn't voluntarily walk across any borders or purchase a bus or plane ticket

Worst of the worst my ass

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Toddler hospitalized with respiratory failure was returned to ICE detention and denied prescribed medication, lawsuit says
The 18-month-old was sent back to a South Texas facility after days in intensive care with severe respiratory distress, according to a federal lawsuit.
www.nbcnews.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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Trump finally accepts ownership of the current economy.

In an interview with NBC, Trump says the U.S. is experiencing the Trump economy.

"I'd say we're there now," he says. "I'm very proud of it."

Trump is polling at near-historic lows because of his handling of the economy.
February 8, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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BREAKING: Representative Massie says he will start reading Epstein’s client names publicly if Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice does not release them.
February 8, 2026 at 7:17 PM
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According to the New Yorker, Donald Trump and his family profited off the presidency by an estimated $4 billion in 2025 — mostly through shady crypto deals.

That amounts to $456,621 per hour.

But how are you doing?
February 8, 2026 at 7:00 PM
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Freedom 250, the Trump-run group the NYT reports is offering big donors special access, has totally supplanted America250, the congressional org that had been organizing 250th events, as we reported last week .So Trump is turning 250th into a party for himself, with taxpayer $, but no oversight.
February 8, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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🔴 When is America and the WORLD going to finally have the courage to say out loud, what is in plain sight??

THIS ONE is a Russian asset. A 'Manchurian Candidate'. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I mean ...
There is no such President anywhere in the world, like this. 👇🏼
February 8, 2026 at 6:29 PM
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Are you as ready for some football as I am? 🏈
February 8, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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If ICE gets even one of these facilities fully up and running, it’ll immediately be the second-largest jail in the country behind only Rikers Island.
The proposed centers are so large that some could house as many as 8,000 detainees at once, according to a DHS spreadsheet of more than 20 potential locations that was verified by NBC News. The largest federal prison in the U.S., for example, has roughly 4,000 inmates.
ICE plans to build mega warehouses for immigration detention spark growing concern
Sources at two government contractors told NBC News they were worried that new warehouses — and the large numbers of immigrants who would be housed in them — would present safety problems.
www.nbcnews.com
February 8, 2026 at 3:43 AM