dvdtrow.bsky.social
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in the same way that Dem policies poll a lot better when you don't prime voters to think about how we pay for them, R policies poll a lot better when voters aren't primed to think about how we enforce them, and Dems should do more to leverage that
February 17, 2026 at 6:12 PM
in the same way that Dem policies poll a lot better when you don't prime voters to think about how we pay for them, R policies poll a lot better when voters aren't primed to think about how we enforce them, and Dems should do more to leverage that
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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
February 17, 2026 at 11:41 AM
I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is
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The reason people are concerned about lefties saying “I won’t vote for a moderate Dem” isn’t because they want Newsom. It’s because lefties keep not voting for moderate Dems!
I think all the scolding about it being years til the primary would hit a little harder if WE DIDN’T JUST GO THROUGH THIS
I think all the scolding about it being years til the primary would hit a little harder if WE DIDN’T JUST GO THROUGH THIS
February 16, 2026 at 6:24 AM
The reason people are concerned about lefties saying “I won’t vote for a moderate Dem” isn’t because they want Newsom. It’s because lefties keep not voting for moderate Dems!
I think all the scolding about it being years til the primary would hit a little harder if WE DIDN’T JUST GO THROUGH THIS
I think all the scolding about it being years til the primary would hit a little harder if WE DIDN’T JUST GO THROUGH THIS
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The cover up of the Trump administration’s murders is well underway.
Minnesota criminal investigators have again been denied access to evidence and other materials collected by federal authorities after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, state officials said Monday.
FBI will not provide the BCA access to evidence gathered from Pretti shooting, BCA says
Minnesota criminal investigators have again been denied access to evidence and other materials collected by federal authorities after the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, state officials said Monday.
www.mprnews.org
February 16, 2026 at 5:53 PM
The cover up of the Trump administration’s murders is well underway.
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can you imagine if the establishment press treated this madness with the same scorn reserved for progressives advocating for affordable housing regulation?
Dude is quickly climbing the ranks of Most Dangerous Man Alive
February 16, 2026 at 5:45 PM
can you imagine if the establishment press treated this madness with the same scorn reserved for progressives advocating for affordable housing regulation?
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"There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up."
-- Tony Benn
-- Tony Benn
No, ICE isn’t ‘retreating.’ It’s loading up to invade your town. | Will Bunch
A much-hyped ICE pullback from Minneapolis is a blip in a looming nationwide surge of arrests, concentration camps.
www.inquirer.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:20 PM
"There is no final victory, as there is no final defeat. There is just the same battle. To be fought, over and over again. So toughen up, bloody toughen up."
-- Tony Benn
-- Tony Benn
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Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.
Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.
Our priorities are so fucked.
Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.
Our priorities are so fucked.
February 16, 2026 at 5:57 AM
Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.
Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.
Our priorities are so fucked.
Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.
Our priorities are so fucked.
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I did a 1 year long independent study about Japanese mass incarceration a few years ago and I was surprised to learn this. Blogged a bit about the use of "concentration camps" here: www.usprisonculture.com/2013/09/26/s...
February 16, 2026 at 3:37 PM
I did a 1 year long independent study about Japanese mass incarceration a few years ago and I was surprised to learn this. Blogged a bit about the use of "concentration camps" here: www.usprisonculture.com/2013/09/26/s...
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get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
February 13, 2026 at 10:28 PM
get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship
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I think what’s funny to me here is that people make up really specific-sounding shit (“I eat one egg a day and would notice if it went up by 2%”) and then call Stancil pedantic when he does the math problem *they literally created to sound rigorous.*
If you're eating one egg a day, a 2% increase in egg costs raises your egg spending by about two dollars annually. You'd notice this?
February 15, 2026 at 7:12 PM
I think what’s funny to me here is that people make up really specific-sounding shit (“I eat one egg a day and would notice if it went up by 2%”) and then call Stancil pedantic when he does the math problem *they literally created to sound rigorous.*
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This is a popular bit of wishcasting, you see it in both left and centrist-y versions, and it is absolutely not true. Populism is about identity and exclusion, it is not people lashing out because they secretly yearn for whatever your preferred economic policy is.
"The Ascent of populist movements is telling us that governments have have strayed too far from being responsive to the working class"
This is probably the only area where AOC agrees with JD Vance and Josh Hawley.
This is probably the only area where AOC agrees with JD Vance and Josh Hawley.
February 15, 2026 at 7:05 PM
This is a popular bit of wishcasting, you see it in both left and centrist-y versions, and it is absolutely not true. Populism is about identity and exclusion, it is not people lashing out because they secretly yearn for whatever your preferred economic policy is.
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the world would be a much better place if we could solve bigotry with better economic policy but unfortunately evidence strongly suggests that we cannot
This is a popular bit of wishcasting, you see it in both left and centrist-y versions, and it is absolutely not true. Populism is about identity and exclusion, it is not people lashing out because they secretly yearn for whatever your preferred economic policy is.
"The Ascent of populist movements is telling us that governments have have strayed too far from being responsive to the working class"
This is probably the only area where AOC agrees with JD Vance and Josh Hawley.
This is probably the only area where AOC agrees with JD Vance and Josh Hawley.
February 15, 2026 at 7:39 PM
the world would be a much better place if we could solve bigotry with better economic policy but unfortunately evidence strongly suggests that we cannot
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"In at least 4,421 cases, more than 400 federal judges ruled since the beginning of October that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is holding people illegally as it carries out its mass-deportation campaign."
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, one the administration has ignored.
www.reuters.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:53 PM
"In at least 4,421 cases, more than 400 federal judges ruled since the beginning of October that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is holding people illegally as it carries out its mass-deportation campaign."
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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NEW: For the second time in 2026, Kentucky state police have charged a woman with homicide after a pregnancy loss.
Both were criminalized after seeking medical care—one for a miscarriage and one for self-managed abortion—and face charges of abuse of a corpse and concealing a birth @autonomynews.co
Both were criminalized after seeking medical care—one for a miscarriage and one for self-managed abortion—and face charges of abuse of a corpse and concealing a birth @autonomynews.co
Second Kentucky Woman in 6 Weeks Charged With Homicide After Pregnancy Loss
Both women were criminalized after they sought medical care, one for a miscarriage and one for self-managed abortion.
www.autonomynews.co
February 14, 2026 at 4:53 PM
NEW: For the second time in 2026, Kentucky state police have charged a woman with homicide after a pregnancy loss.
Both were criminalized after seeking medical care—one for a miscarriage and one for self-managed abortion—and face charges of abuse of a corpse and concealing a birth @autonomynews.co
Both were criminalized after seeking medical care—one for a miscarriage and one for self-managed abortion—and face charges of abuse of a corpse and concealing a birth @autonomynews.co
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the more you learn about the antebellum south the more you transform into this
every plantation owner should have been put to death
every plantation owner should have been put to death
February 15, 2026 at 12:01 AM
the more you learn about the antebellum south the more you transform into this
every plantation owner should have been put to death
every plantation owner should have been put to death
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ICE has completely broken our social contract.
They manipulate social trust and are creating lasting damage to our most basic social foundations
They manipulate social trust and are creating lasting damage to our most basic social foundations
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 14, 2026 at 10:55 PM
ICE has completely broken our social contract.
They manipulate social trust and are creating lasting damage to our most basic social foundations
They manipulate social trust and are creating lasting damage to our most basic social foundations
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Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, but the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely.
www.reuters.com
February 14, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 5:07 PM
In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
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My Trump-supporting cousin-in-law just texted my husband to say he encountered this Mother Jones on social media, read it, realized I wrote it, and told him to tell me I’m doing good work and to keep going.
Things are changing, y’all.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Things are changing, y’all.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICE deportation flights are getting longer and crueler
A private equity–owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.
www.motherjones.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:54 PM
My Trump-supporting cousin-in-law just texted my husband to say he encountered this Mother Jones on social media, read it, realized I wrote it, and told him to tell me I’m doing good work and to keep going.
Things are changing, y’all.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Things are changing, y’all.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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I compare Trump to Cataline often because of the lessons everyone learned from him: did the Republic succeed because their guardrails prevented Cataline from seizing power, or did Cataline fail because he was a hubristic moron?
Europe hopes the former, the Germans think the latter.
Europe hopes the former, the Germans think the latter.
Europeans (except Germans) tend to think the continent can ride out Donald Trump, and that once he is no longer president US foreign policy towards Europe will return to how it was before
yougov.co.uk/internationa...
yougov.co.uk/internationa...
February 13, 2026 at 5:08 PM
I compare Trump to Cataline often because of the lessons everyone learned from him: did the Republic succeed because their guardrails prevented Cataline from seizing power, or did Cataline fail because he was a hubristic moron?
Europe hopes the former, the Germans think the latter.
Europe hopes the former, the Germans think the latter.
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that’s a wine mom imo. we count those
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 4:12 PM
that’s a wine mom imo. we count those
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I just can't believe we're still here, man. Millions (?) of young people looking at the destruction of education and medical research and thinking "ehh, inconsequential, mere set-dressing, don't let that distract you from the fact that there's no difference between Republicans and Democrats"
"they both serve the capitalist class" okay cool, you have said the requisite incantation. You may now cease the Shamanic frenzy, descend from the realm of Spirits, and observe the profane, material world around you
February 13, 2026 at 6:11 PM
I just can't believe we're still here, man. Millions (?) of young people looking at the destruction of education and medical research and thinking "ehh, inconsequential, mere set-dressing, don't let that distract you from the fact that there's no difference between Republicans and Democrats"
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the communist will never forgive the social democrat for actually achieving anything remotely superior to what came before
February 13, 2026 at 6:11 PM
the communist will never forgive the social democrat for actually achieving anything remotely superior to what came before
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This was also the intra-party divide on the right, and the fuck you people won (handily) and are currently running the country, and that is quite obviously empirically very bad for everybody, including almost everyone who votes Republican. A lesson is available here!
February 13, 2026 at 6:30 PM
This was also the intra-party divide on the right, and the fuck you people won (handily) and are currently running the country, and that is quite obviously empirically very bad for everybody, including almost everyone who votes Republican. A lesson is available here!