Beth Dahlman
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Wonderfully written NY Times piece by a local dad involved in the resistance, really echoes with a lot of what we’re feeling: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o... (gift link)
Opinion | In the Resistance, We Drive Minivans
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2026 at 2:19 PM
Wonderfully written NY Times piece by a local dad involved in the resistance, really echoes with a lot of what we’re feeling: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o... (gift link)
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Over here trying to do counterprogramming to video of RFKJr shirtless & wet in jeans and video of dancers reenacting murders. Along with the usual horrors, of which there are too many.
February 17, 2026 at 11:47 PM
Over here trying to do counterprogramming to video of RFKJr shirtless & wet in jeans and video of dancers reenacting murders. Along with the usual horrors, of which there are too many.
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Minority owners of FOUR NBA teams are profiting directly from business deals with the DHS concentration camp industrial complex.
Those teams are Atlanta, Sacramento, Charlotte, and Minnesota.
www.readeyeblack.com/p/an-nba-inv...
Those teams are Atlanta, Sacramento, Charlotte, and Minnesota.
www.readeyeblack.com/p/an-nba-inv...
February 17, 2026 at 9:53 PM
Minority owners of FOUR NBA teams are profiting directly from business deals with the DHS concentration camp industrial complex.
Those teams are Atlanta, Sacramento, Charlotte, and Minnesota.
www.readeyeblack.com/p/an-nba-inv...
Those teams are Atlanta, Sacramento, Charlotte, and Minnesota.
www.readeyeblack.com/p/an-nba-inv...
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this is an eight week old baby that has been in Dilley for at least three weeks.
do you remember how small an eight week old is? this is unconscionable.
do you remember how small an eight week old is? this is unconscionable.
We are all deeply concerned that Juan and his mom will be deported and that Juan’s health will continue to deteriorate. His life is in danger because of ICE’s monstrous cruelty. I will continue to provide updates and we will keep fighting to protect them.
February 17, 2026 at 10:15 PM
this is an eight week old baby that has been in Dilley for at least three weeks.
do you remember how small an eight week old is? this is unconscionable.
do you remember how small an eight week old is? this is unconscionable.
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The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
February 17, 2026 at 8:06 PM
The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...
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New "this motherfucker again" just dropped.
The Atlantic continues to cover itself in glory. This guy is treated as an elder statesman for a career that peaked with—drumroll—being one of the earliest and loudest proponents for invading Iraq after 9/11. I suppose it's good he's now a fan of white nationalism, that means it too will fail.
February 17, 2026 at 3:33 PM
New "this motherfucker again" just dropped.
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“False herring” is stupid, but the most dishonest & manipulative word here is “now.” As if this is some novelty. But warrants for entering homes, like cops who show their faces & badges, is how we’ve done things for 250 years. The radical novelty is suggesting we STOP doing these things.
Emmer: "It's a false herring for these guys to suggest, 'Oh, we now we need a judicial warrant,' because they know that that's going to delay any enforcement of the actual administrative warrant."
February 17, 2026 at 1:18 AM
“False herring” is stupid, but the most dishonest & manipulative word here is “now.” As if this is some novelty. But warrants for entering homes, like cops who show their faces & badges, is how we’ve done things for 250 years. The radical novelty is suggesting we STOP doing these things.
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“.. officials knew the amount of force — be it lethal force or non-lethal efforts to physically restrain or subdue people or neutralize threats — used by ICE officers was rapidly rising after .. Trump took office and that incidents were occurring nationwide.”
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
ICE officials knew use of force was rising well before Minneapolis shootings
Internal agency emails show a surge in reports of ICE officers using more force going back nearly a year, but DHS leadership did not see it as a concern to be addressed.
www.politico.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:13 PM
“.. officials knew the amount of force — be it lethal force or non-lethal efforts to physically restrain or subdue people or neutralize threats — used by ICE officers was rapidly rising after .. Trump took office and that incidents were occurring nationwide.”
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives.
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AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking
ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and other abuses.
futurism.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:58 PM
NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.
February 17, 2026 at 1:36 PM
i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.
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Remember: this guy admitted that started churning out right wing agitprop because he couldn’t get book contracts and work writing the serious stuff he wanted to write.
Noah Rothman on the Epstein files: "It is a witch hunt. It‘s a moral panic."
February 17, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Remember: this guy admitted that started churning out right wing agitprop because he couldn’t get book contracts and work writing the serious stuff he wanted to write.
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Recent CBS News news:
1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades
2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem
3. Producer says politics dictating what airs
4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table.
5. Not firing Epstein pal.
1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades
2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem
3. Producer says politics dictating what airs
4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table.
5. Not firing Epstein pal.
February 17, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Recent CBS News news:
1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades
2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem
3. Producer says politics dictating what airs
4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table.
5. Not firing Epstein pal.
1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades
2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem
3. Producer says politics dictating what airs
4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table.
5. Not firing Epstein pal.
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I think it’s awesome how cabinet secretaries take orders from anon randos on the internet
February 16, 2026 at 11:43 PM
I think it’s awesome how cabinet secretaries take orders from anon randos on the internet
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AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand
it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating
it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 7:21 PM
AOC’s biggest problem if she runs for president is that the white men who control our media ecosystem will not so much put a finger on the scale to stop her as an entire hand
it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating
it can be done (see: Zohran) but it’s going to be blatant and it’s going to be infuriating
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with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭
February 15, 2026 at 6:24 PM
with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭
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Many people in South Africa, where Elon is from, died to create a genuinely multiracial polity. They were killed by people who thought like Elon.
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
bsky.app/profile/alan...
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
bsky.app/profile/alan...
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Many people in South Africa, where Elon is from, died to create a genuinely multiracial polity. They were killed by people who thought like Elon.
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
bsky.app/profile/alan...
The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.
bsky.app/profile/alan...
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America’s elites are self-loathing and insecure cosmopolitans who love to see their views reflected in someone who codes as more “authentic” then them, many such cases.
There is a Kinda Guy that is absolutely gaga for Gruff-Aesthetic White Guy Who Says Kinda Lefty Things. Their love for this is *not* strategic or instrumental to some end, such a person is an object of intrinsic attraction to them, and a strong one at that. They will rationalise anything for this.
I also am baffled that people are assuming this super checkered barely known guy will be super progressive as though we're not living in a post Fetterman universe.
February 15, 2026 at 3:32 PM
America’s elites are self-loathing and insecure cosmopolitans who love to see their views reflected in someone who codes as more “authentic” then them, many such cases.
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RFK Jr. is responsible for dozens of measles deaths so far and is on track to kill hundreds of thousands of people domestically and worldwide thanks to the insane health policies he is pushing. He is a eugenicist and thoroughly unqualified to make health policy.
February 15, 2026 at 3:30 PM
RFK Jr. is responsible for dozens of measles deaths so far and is on track to kill hundreds of thousands of people domestically and worldwide thanks to the insane health policies he is pushing. He is a eugenicist and thoroughly unqualified to make health policy.
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This message from the US State Department about "not wanting allies to be shackled by guilt and shame" is a pretty direct call-out to the German far-right argument that Germany has spent too long feeling guilty about the Holocaust, and needs to move on and stop doing remembrance.
February 15, 2026 at 3:08 PM
This message from the US State Department about "not wanting allies to be shackled by guilt and shame" is a pretty direct call-out to the German far-right argument that Germany has spent too long feeling guilty about the Holocaust, and needs to move on and stop doing remembrance.
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Is there such a thing as “sad sack medievalism?” I’m thinking of Dreher but also all the tech bros who sort of read Tolkien (but didn’t get it).
Kind of losers with no friends, only yes men, who long for a period they imagine people would be forced to respect them
Kind of losers with no friends, only yes men, who long for a period they imagine people would be forced to respect them
Rod Dreher has fueled some of the more apocalyptic currents on the Trumpist right. Robert F. Worth spoke with the writer to understand his worldview:
Rod Dreher Thinks the Enlightenment Was a Mistake
The influential author derides secularism and the modern world. Conservatives—including the vice president—are joining him on a march back to the Middle Ages.
bit.ly
February 15, 2026 at 2:14 PM
Is there such a thing as “sad sack medievalism?” I’m thinking of Dreher but also all the tech bros who sort of read Tolkien (but didn’t get it).
Kind of losers with no friends, only yes men, who long for a period they imagine people would be forced to respect them
Kind of losers with no friends, only yes men, who long for a period they imagine people would be forced to respect them
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Even compared to the dire state of the newspaper business in general, Black newspapers in particular are getting fucking hammered.
February 15, 2026 at 2:46 PM
Even compared to the dire state of the newspaper business in general, Black newspapers in particular are getting fucking hammered.
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wealth concentration is already 200% as bad at is was in 2020. think about that
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
February 15, 2026 at 3:20 PM
wealth concentration is already 200% as bad at is was in 2020. think about that
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Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.
February 15, 2026 at 1:10 AM
Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans
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rubio’s invocation of “western civilization” — defined here as racial and religious chauvinism, if not outright supremacy — is a rejection of the more egalitarian and universalistic notions that came out of america’s two revolutions.
February 15, 2026 at 1:17 AM
rubio’s invocation of “western civilization” — defined here as racial and religious chauvinism, if not outright supremacy — is a rejection of the more egalitarian and universalistic notions that came out of america’s two revolutions.