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“A political movement that insists on solving a problem the data cannot substantiate is not engaged in neutral reform. It is redefining the electorate through procedural filtration…[&] structural barriers…the issue is not fraud prevention but power allocation.”
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The SAVE Act and the Myth of a Voter Fraud Crisis
Congress proposes sweeping documentation barriers to combat a form of fraud Americans are more likely to experience as a lightning strike than at a polling place.
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February 14, 2026 at 5:56 PM
“A political movement that insists on solving a problem the data cannot substantiate is not engaged in neutral reform. It is redefining the electorate through procedural filtration…[&] structural barriers…the issue is not fraud prevention but power allocation.”
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Even if this is true, the government can't do a thing about it and is wasting its time trying to scare Apple into submission.
Apple is allowed to make Apple News go full woke. Just like Elon Musk is allowed to make Twitter go full whatever it is now.
Apple is allowed to make Apple News go full woke. Just like Elon Musk is allowed to make Twitter go full whatever it is now.
"In a letter to chief executive Tim Cook, FTC chair Andrew Ferguson cited recent press coverage of a report from conservative media watchdog Media Research Center which claimed that Apple has promoted “leftist outlets” in its news feed."
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February 12, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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Dear Tim Cook, your letter should only include examples of right wing media examples and what are they doing about that? Free speech 🤷♀️. This is because they didn’t push back on this narrative immediately
"In a letter to chief executive Tim Cook, FTC chair Andrew Ferguson cited recent press coverage of a report from conservative media watchdog Media Research Center which claimed that Apple has promoted “leftist outlets” in its news feed."
www.ft.com/content/0c25...
www.ft.com/content/0c25...
Apple faces new tensions with Trump administration
US regulator issues warning to iPhone maker about its News platform following controversy over Super Bowl half-time show
www.ft.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:57 PM
Dear Tim Cook, your letter should only include examples of right wing media examples and what are they doing about that? Free speech 🤷♀️. This is because they didn’t push back on this narrative immediately
Didn’t the Tea Party use the same tactics?
RON JOHNSON: Are you aware of training for activists, Mr Ellison?
KEITH ELLISON: Yeah I'm aware. It's common for people to use their First Amendment rights, sir
KEITH ELLISON: Yeah I'm aware. It's common for people to use their First Amendment rights, sir
February 12, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Didn’t the Tea Party use the same tactics?
Illegals are not voting, why aren’t you putting ICE resources to find the murders and rapists here illegally? That is the response to this insane line.
Rep. Jason Smith: "Why should you ban ICE from being at polling places? Illegals are not supposed to vote in America. It does not make sense."
February 12, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Illegals are not voting, why aren’t you putting ICE resources to find the murders and rapists here illegally? That is the response to this insane line.
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It goes back much further. This is a common practice during worksite raids. This happened during a 2018 raid in Trump’s first term, and the Biden DOJ ended up settling a lawsuit about it.
February 12, 2026 at 3:37 AM
It goes back much further. This is a common practice during worksite raids. This happened during a 2018 raid in Trump’s first term, and the Biden DOJ ended up settling a lawsuit about it.
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Under Trump's first year back in the White House, U.S. Farm bankruptcies rose 46% in 2025. The last time farm bankruptcies were this high was way back in 2020—when Trump was President.
Who woulda thought that a failed businessman and convicted fraudster who promotes tariffs could do this???
Who woulda thought that a failed businessman and convicted fraudster who promotes tariffs could do this???
February 12, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Under Trump's first year back in the White House, U.S. Farm bankruptcies rose 46% in 2025. The last time farm bankruptcies were this high was way back in 2020—when Trump was President.
Who woulda thought that a failed businessman and convicted fraudster who promotes tariffs could do this???
Who woulda thought that a failed businessman and convicted fraudster who promotes tariffs could do this???
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Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
February 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
This is one of the most disgusting things. Want to know why so many people find this administration intolerable? This!
Perfect illustration of what the Trump regime means by "antisemitism," how it distorts the concept into a weapon.
See the end where AG Bondi, after trying to change the subject by smearing a Jewish Rep. as antisemitic and noticeably upsetting the descendant of Holocaust victims, grins with pleasure.
See the end where AG Bondi, after trying to change the subject by smearing a Jewish Rep. as antisemitic and noticeably upsetting the descendant of Holocaust victims, grins with pleasure.
BONDI: You didn't ask Merrick Garland anything about Epstein
BALINT: Weak sauce
BONDI: And with this antisemitic culture right now, she voted against a resolution--
BALINT: You want to go there! Really? Talking about antisemitism to a woman who lost her grandfather in the Holocaust! *storms off*
BALINT: Weak sauce
BONDI: And with this antisemitic culture right now, she voted against a resolution--
BALINT: You want to go there! Really? Talking about antisemitism to a woman who lost her grandfather in the Holocaust! *storms off*
February 11, 2026 at 7:39 PM
This is one of the most disgusting things. Want to know why so many people find this administration intolerable? This!
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They're not stopping at your birth certificate. SAVE 2.0 would END online voter registration in, KILL mail-in registration, and STOP voter registration drives.
It's a full-scale attack on your right to vote.
Call your MoC (202) 224-3121 and tell them #StopTheSaveAct
social.demcast.com/s/TxRgzkPM
It's a full-scale attack on your right to vote.
Call your MoC (202) 224-3121 and tell them #StopTheSaveAct
social.demcast.com/s/TxRgzkPM
February 10, 2026 at 10:16 PM
They're not stopping at your birth certificate. SAVE 2.0 would END online voter registration in, KILL mail-in registration, and STOP voter registration drives.
It's a full-scale attack on your right to vote.
Call your MoC (202) 224-3121 and tell them #StopTheSaveAct
social.demcast.com/s/TxRgzkPM
It's a full-scale attack on your right to vote.
Call your MoC (202) 224-3121 and tell them #StopTheSaveAct
social.demcast.com/s/TxRgzkPM
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You deserve access to abortion care if you are pregnant and do not want to be. Full stop.
Your reasons are your reasons and they are good enough.
Abortion is healthcare and everyone deserves healthcare access.
Your reasons are your reasons and they are good enough.
Abortion is healthcare and everyone deserves healthcare access.
You don’t need a traumatic or tragic story to deserve abortion care.
February 11, 2026 at 2:04 PM
You deserve access to abortion care if you are pregnant and do not want to be. Full stop.
Your reasons are your reasons and they are good enough.
Abortion is healthcare and everyone deserves healthcare access.
Your reasons are your reasons and they are good enough.
Abortion is healthcare and everyone deserves healthcare access.
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When govt shares many things "from white nationalist discourse, it’s the opposite of an innocent mistake. It’s a pattern. It’s intentional. It’s official policy."
Can add the all-white-guy Dept of Labor posters, and much more.
As @bernybelvedere.bsky.social writes, white nationalism is the policy.
Can add the all-white-guy Dept of Labor posters, and much more.
As @bernybelvedere.bsky.social writes, white nationalism is the policy.
Trump's racist video depicting the Obamas as apes wasn't a mistake—it's part of a pattern. From DHS posting neo-Nazi recruitment material to erasing slavery exhibits, white nationalism has become official government policy.
My latest in @theunpopulist.net
My latest in @theunpopulist.net
Trump's Vile Obama Video Follows the White House's Official White Nationalist Line
DHS and other agencies have been spewing racist goals as government policy
www.theunpopulist.net
February 10, 2026 at 3:53 PM
When govt shares many things "from white nationalist discourse, it’s the opposite of an innocent mistake. It’s a pattern. It’s intentional. It’s official policy."
Can add the all-white-guy Dept of Labor posters, and much more.
As @bernybelvedere.bsky.social writes, white nationalism is the policy.
Can add the all-white-guy Dept of Labor posters, and much more.
As @bernybelvedere.bsky.social writes, white nationalism is the policy.
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Civil rights lawyer Nekima Levy Armstrong's latest brief reveals the backstory of her arrest in a footnote. Feds refused to let her self-surrender, taped her arrest at a hotel, and broke a promise not to post it on social media, she says.
The White House then digitally altered it to smear her.
The White House then digitally altered it to smear her.
February 9, 2026 at 2:48 PM
Civil rights lawyer Nekima Levy Armstrong's latest brief reveals the backstory of her arrest in a footnote. Feds refused to let her self-surrender, taped her arrest at a hotel, and broke a promise not to post it on social media, she says.
The White House then digitally altered it to smear her.
The White House then digitally altered it to smear her.
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😡 OH DEAR GOD.
CSR funding was ELIMINATED by the TRUMP Admin in 2017 when HIS Justice Dept. chose NOT to appeal a court decision IN REPUBLICANS FAVOR.
Furthermore, *reinstating* CSR funding would RAISE net premiums on millions of ACA enrollees while only reducing them for a few hundred thousand.
CSR funding was ELIMINATED by the TRUMP Admin in 2017 when HIS Justice Dept. chose NOT to appeal a court decision IN REPUBLICANS FAVOR.
Furthermore, *reinstating* CSR funding would RAISE net premiums on millions of ACA enrollees while only reducing them for a few hundred thousand.
BASH: Can you give me one specific example of a solution the president has put forward that is lowering healthcare costs, beyond prescription drugs?
DR OZ: There's something called a CSR
DR OZ: There's something called a CSR
February 8, 2026 at 4:47 PM
😡 OH DEAR GOD.
CSR funding was ELIMINATED by the TRUMP Admin in 2017 when HIS Justice Dept. chose NOT to appeal a court decision IN REPUBLICANS FAVOR.
Furthermore, *reinstating* CSR funding would RAISE net premiums on millions of ACA enrollees while only reducing them for a few hundred thousand.
CSR funding was ELIMINATED by the TRUMP Admin in 2017 when HIS Justice Dept. chose NOT to appeal a court decision IN REPUBLICANS FAVOR.
Furthermore, *reinstating* CSR funding would RAISE net premiums on millions of ACA enrollees while only reducing them for a few hundred thousand.
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I think Xi - rightly or wrongly - is convinced that the United States is a declining power, and the only difference is how that manifests itself in leadership style.
February 8, 2026 at 3:46 PM
I think Xi - rightly or wrongly - is convinced that the United States is a declining power, and the only difference is how that manifests itself in leadership style.
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I don't want to speak rashly here, but I'm starting to get the feeling that the Trump administration is *not* actually concerned with holding pedophiles to account?
It's largely been lost in the chaos of the last month, but Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is trying to doxx the John Does who sued her for (allegedly) allowing them to be raped by grown men when they were kids and (allegedly) covering it up
@brandonthurston.bsky.social has a write-up:
@brandonthurston.bsky.social has a write-up:
Vince and Linda McMahon file oppositions to ring boy plaintiffs' request to maintain anonymity in lawsuit - POST Wrestling | Podcasts, News, Reviews | WWE AEW NXT NJPW
McMahons say "John Doe" anonymity will unfairly hinder their ability to find witnesses to clear them. WWE takes no position on pseudonyms.
www.postwrestling.com
February 7, 2026 at 4:46 PM
I don't want to speak rashly here, but I'm starting to get the feeling that the Trump administration is *not* actually concerned with holding pedophiles to account?
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(First term, this would have been a story. Second term, I'm wondering if it was even worth my time to post on social.)
February 5, 2026 at 2:28 PM
(First term, this would have been a story. Second term, I'm wondering if it was even worth my time to post on social.)
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HCR “Haitian TPS holders pay $1.3 billion a year in taxes”; which is about $1.3 billion more than trump paid in 5 years. #trumpsucks
February 4, 2026 at 3:35 PM
HCR “Haitian TPS holders pay $1.3 billion a year in taxes”; which is about $1.3 billion more than trump paid in 5 years. #trumpsucks
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James Comer is bringing Hillary Clinton before his committee to testify about Epstein despite having zero contact with him, but not Epstein’s neighbor Howard Lutnick who lied about his connections to Epstein over many years which is proven in the files.
February 4, 2026 at 1:36 AM
James Comer is bringing Hillary Clinton before his committee to testify about Epstein despite having zero contact with him, but not Epstein’s neighbor Howard Lutnick who lied about his connections to Epstein over many years which is proven in the files.
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So much of GOP conspiracy land is simply not understanding how counting works. No one is ever “ahead” or “behind” until the counting is over.
Mike Johnson on Trump calling for Rs to "nationalize" elections: "We had 3 Republicans who were ahead on election day in last cycle & every time a new tranche of ballots came in they just magically whittled away until their leads were lost. It looks on its face to be fraudulent. Can I prove it? No"
February 3, 2026 at 8:17 PM
So much of GOP conspiracy land is simply not understanding how counting works. No one is ever “ahead” or “behind” until the counting is over.
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“Magically”
“On its face to be fraudulent”
“Can I prove it? No.”
Just the speaker of the House making wild, unsupportable statements to cast doubt on elections, including Nevada’s. He has no idea what he is talking about or doesn’t care. Or both.
Like his master.
“On its face to be fraudulent”
“Can I prove it? No.”
Just the speaker of the House making wild, unsupportable statements to cast doubt on elections, including Nevada’s. He has no idea what he is talking about or doesn’t care. Or both.
Like his master.
Mike Johnson on Trump calling for Rs to "nationalize" elections: "We had 3 Republicans who were ahead on election day in last cycle & every time a new tranche of ballots came in they just magically whittled away until their leads were lost. It looks on its face to be fraudulent. Can I prove it? No"
February 3, 2026 at 8:22 PM
“Magically”
“On its face to be fraudulent”
“Can I prove it? No.”
Just the speaker of the House making wild, unsupportable statements to cast doubt on elections, including Nevada’s. He has no idea what he is talking about or doesn’t care. Or both.
Like his master.
“On its face to be fraudulent”
“Can I prove it? No.”
Just the speaker of the House making wild, unsupportable statements to cast doubt on elections, including Nevada’s. He has no idea what he is talking about or doesn’t care. Or both.
Like his master.
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NEW: President Trump is making new false claims about Tina Peters, calling into question whether Trump is aware of the basic facts about the case that has led him to repeatedly punish the State of Colorado
February 3, 2026 at 2:12 AM
NEW: President Trump is making new false claims about Tina Peters, calling into question whether Trump is aware of the basic facts about the case that has led him to repeatedly punish the State of Colorado
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The @nytimes.com coverage of France's Grok investigation casts it as part of a conflict between U.S. & European speech rules. That's true only if you buy Elon's version.
This is a case about CSAM and NCII. Those are crimes in France, and crimes in the U.S. There's no transatlantic divide here. 1/
This is a case about CSAM and NCII. Those are crimes in France, and crimes in the U.S. There's no transatlantic divide here. 1/
February 3, 2026 at 5:01 PM
The @nytimes.com coverage of France's Grok investigation casts it as part of a conflict between U.S. & European speech rules. That's true only if you buy Elon's version.
This is a case about CSAM and NCII. Those are crimes in France, and crimes in the U.S. There's no transatlantic divide here. 1/
This is a case about CSAM and NCII. Those are crimes in France, and crimes in the U.S. There's no transatlantic divide here. 1/
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For decades, nativists have sold America this narrative that immigrant welfare is behind our deficits and debt. This figure shows how absurd that is. This is all government expenditures, federal, state, and local, for the last 3 decades. Immigrants are not to blame:
February 3, 2026 at 4:29 PM
For decades, nativists have sold America this narrative that immigrant welfare is behind our deficits and debt. This figure shows how absurd that is. This is all government expenditures, federal, state, and local, for the last 3 decades. Immigrants are not to blame: