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A third of the country wants this. A third hates this. The final third is deeply self centered, cowardly and has the object permanence of 2 year olds. That third is remembering now what the first Trump term was like and hates the second even more.
That’s the story.
That’s the story.
"As we survey the wreckage of Trump’s second term, it is often said that 'half the country voted for this,' or worse, 'half the country is fine with this.'" Well, not really. @monacharen.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4qndOUC
How Big Is MAGA, Really?
Trump is governing like he has a huge mandate. The numbers disagree.
lnk.thebulwark.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:35 PM
A third of the country wants this. A third hates this. The final third is deeply self centered, cowardly and has the object permanence of 2 year olds. That third is remembering now what the first Trump term was like and hates the second even more.
That’s the story.
That’s the story.
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wow too much for tim scott is saying something
Sen. Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, had this to say:
February 6, 2026 at 3:02 PM
wow too much for tim scott is saying something
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1. Turns out the Border Patrol officers who murdered Alex Pretti are of Hispanic lineage. Their names are Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, according to Pro Publica.
www.propublica.org/article/alex...
www.propublica.org/article/alex...
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 6, 2026 at 3:17 PM
🧵THREAD: 👀 👀 👀
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Iktfr. Lest we forget the Strip exists purely bc of immigrant hospitality workers.
February 6, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Iktfr. Lest we forget the Strip exists purely bc of immigrant hospitality workers.
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All of a sudden Tim Scott is wide awake. He's been silent since he helped elect that man. And Phillip is right, Trump did other things amd said other things that were just as bad.
February 6, 2026 at 3:02 PM
All of a sudden Tim Scott is wide awake. He's been silent since he helped elect that man. And Phillip is right, Trump did other things amd said other things that were just as bad.
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“White doesn’t mean white race. It means white power,”🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
4. While racism is real, race isn’t. Talking about a thing that isn’t real can cause real confusion. Confusion provides opportunities for bad actors who search for ways to exploit it. So let’s clarify our terms: White doesn’t mean white race. It means white power.
February 6, 2026 at 5:29 AM
“White doesn’t mean white race. It means white power,”🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
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Senators Clash Over Immigration Enforcement, Risking a D.H.S. Shutdown
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:07 AM
NO ONE SHOPS FOR HEALTH CARE!
GOP Reform Of Obamacare Doubles Down On Health Savings Accounts www.forbes.com/sites/joshua...
GOP Reform Of Obamacare Doubles Down on Health Savings Accounts
Critics warn that health savings accounts aren’t the fix some suggest they may be. The financial risks for patients are particularly large should they become ill.
www.forbes.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:04 AM
NO ONE SHOPS FOR HEALTH CARE!
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Here's what Republicans think is "unrealistic"
1) Need a judicial warrant to enter private property
2) Require verification that someone is not a US citizen before sending them to immigration detention
3) No masks
4) No secret police: Officers must have ID
5) Keep enforcement away from
1) Need a judicial warrant to enter private property
2) Require verification that someone is not a US citizen before sending them to immigration detention
3) No masks
4) No secret police: Officers must have ID
5) Keep enforcement away from
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Security will shut down next week if they do not work with Republicans and the White House.
Homeland Security shutdown grows more likely as Republicans rebuff Democratic demands for ICE
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday that demands made by Democrats for new restrictions on federal immigration officers are “unrealistic” and warned that the Department of Homeland Secu…
trib.al
February 5, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Here's what Republicans think is "unrealistic"
1) Need a judicial warrant to enter private property
2) Require verification that someone is not a US citizen before sending them to immigration detention
3) No masks
4) No secret police: Officers must have ID
5) Keep enforcement away from
1) Need a judicial warrant to enter private property
2) Require verification that someone is not a US citizen before sending them to immigration detention
3) No masks
4) No secret police: Officers must have ID
5) Keep enforcement away from
I’m telling you, Trump is breaking the rules of white power by treating white people like Republicans have typically treated Black people. Today, he said Alex Pretti was no angel. As you can see, white people don’t like anti-Black racism when it’s pointed at them.
Trump Approval Polling:
🔴 Disapprove: 57% (+12)
🟢 Approve: 41% (-11)
Rasmussen / Feb 4, 2026
(% Change With Feb 4, 2025)
(Republican Pollster)
🔴 Disapprove: 57% (+12)
🟢 Approve: 41% (-11)
Rasmussen / Feb 4, 2026
(% Change With Feb 4, 2025)
(Republican Pollster)
February 5, 2026 at 11:56 PM
I’m telling you, Trump is breaking the rules of white power by treating white people like Republicans have typically treated Black people. Today, he said Alex Pretti was no angel. As you can see, white people don’t like anti-Black racism when it’s pointed at them.
Bannon is in the Epstein class.
Among the newly released Epstein files is Steve Bannon’s two hour interview with him in which he appears to be helping Epstein rehabilitate his public image after his sex crime conviction.
www.wsj.com/video/series...
www.wsj.com/video/series...
'Is Your Money Dirty?': Inside Bannon's Interview With Epstein
WSJ's Khadeeja Safdar breaks down new revelations about Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein's relationship in files released by the Department of Justice.
www.wsj.com
February 5, 2026 at 11:51 PM
Bannon is in the Epstein class.
Among the newly released Epstein files is Steve Bannon’s two hour interview with him in which he appears to be helping Epstein rehabilitate his public image after his sex crime conviction.
www.wsj.com/video/series...
www.wsj.com/video/series...
'Is Your Money Dirty?': Inside Bannon's Interview With Epstein
WSJ's Khadeeja Safdar breaks down new revelations about Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein's relationship in files released by the Department of Justice.
www.wsj.com
February 5, 2026 at 11:48 PM
Among the newly released Epstein files is Steve Bannon’s two hour interview with him in which he appears to be helping Epstein rehabilitate his public image after his sex crime conviction.
www.wsj.com/video/series...
www.wsj.com/video/series...
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23. Even if you *are* white, you might still be “illegal,” as was evidenced by the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. They were guilty of treason against their “country” (ie, their race), a crime undeserving of due process, instead straight to execution.
February 5, 2026 at 1:12 PM
23. Even if you *are* white, you might still be “illegal,” as was evidenced by the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. They were guilty of treason against their “country” (ie, their race), a crime undeserving of due process, instead straight to execution.
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22. Virtually everyone now understands the “illegal” part of “illegal immigrants” has nothing to do with legal status and everything to do with whiteness, as in: if you’re not white, you’re “illegal.”
February 5, 2026 at 1:11 PM
22. Virtually everyone now understands the “illegal” part of “illegal immigrants” has nothing to do with legal status and everything to do with whiteness, as in: if you’re not white, you’re “illegal.”
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17. As for Ochoa and Gutierrez, the CBP officers who murdered Pretti, what better way to prove you are worthy of whiteness than by punishing a privileged white man for turning his back on the social order that gave him so much? Pretti was not worthy. But Ochoa and Gutierrez are.
February 5, 2026 at 1:07 PM
17. As for Ochoa and Gutierrez, the CBP officers who murdered Pretti, what better way to prove you are worthy of whiteness than by punishing a privileged white man for turning his back on the social order that gave him so much? Pretti was not worthy. But Ochoa and Gutierrez are.
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13. In defying CBP, Pretti thought he was being true to the soul of America. According to the logic of white power, however, patriotism isn’t loyalty to one’s country. It’s loyalty to one’s race.
February 5, 2026 at 1:06 PM
13. In defying CBP, Pretti thought he was being true to the soul of America. According to the logic of white power, however, patriotism isn’t loyalty to one’s country. It’s loyalty to one’s race.
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12. In the case of Alex Pretti, this dynamic has another dimension. According to the either/or logic of white power, the ICU nurse was disloyal. He rejected his birthright by choosing to fight for people brutalized by an unequal and unjust racial caste system.
February 5, 2026 at 1:06 PM
12. In the case of Alex Pretti, this dynamic has another dimension. According to the either/or logic of white power, the ICU nurse was disloyal. He rejected his birthright by choosing to fight for people brutalized by an unequal and unjust racial caste system.
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4. While racism is real, race isn’t. Talking about a thing that isn’t real can cause real confusion. Confusion provides opportunities for bad actors who search for ways to exploit it. So let’s clarify our terms: White doesn’t mean white race. It means white power.
February 5, 2026 at 1:03 PM
4. While racism is real, race isn’t. Talking about a thing that isn’t real can cause real confusion. Confusion provides opportunities for bad actors who search for ways to exploit it. So let’s clarify our terms: White doesn’t mean white race. It means white power.
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Every time he is confronted, even briefly, with the world outside his safe space full of ganked up viziers and underage waifu chatbots, it inflicts heavy psychic damage on him.
And, makes him retreat even further into his safe space, Howard Hughes style.
And, makes him retreat even further into his safe space, Howard Hughes style.
February 5, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Every time he is confronted, even briefly, with the world outside his safe space full of ganked up viziers and underage waifu chatbots, it inflicts heavy psychic damage on him.
And, makes him retreat even further into his safe space, Howard Hughes style.
And, makes him retreat even further into his safe space, Howard Hughes style.
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It's funny that every time Elon leaves his carefully curated Potemkin village full of chatbots with suspiciously childlike faces, he's met with a roaring crowd of millions of people calling him a pedophile and telling him to pack a sack lunch and play some sudoku.
February 5, 2026 at 11:14 PM
It's funny that every time Elon leaves his carefully curated Potemkin village full of chatbots with suspiciously childlike faces, he's met with a roaring crowd of millions of people calling him a pedophile and telling him to pack a sack lunch and play some sudoku.
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There's no one who craves being mistaken for white more than Latines. This comes from the colonial history of Latin countries where you literally got more rights the lighter (more European) you were. Still they forget that the white elites will always suss out even a crumb of non-whiteness.
1. Turns out the Border Patrol officers who murdered Alex Pretti are of Hispanic lineage. Their names are Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, according to Pro Publica.
www.propublica.org/article/alex...
www.propublica.org/article/alex...
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 5, 2026 at 1:38 PM
There's no one who craves being mistaken for white more than Latines. This comes from the colonial history of Latin countries where you literally got more rights the lighter (more European) you were. Still they forget that the white elites will always suss out even a crumb of non-whiteness.
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This has me thinking of Lorraine O'Grady saying white supremacy may no longer require white people to perpetuate itself.
1. Turns out the Border Patrol officers who murdered Alex Pretti are of Hispanic lineage. Their names are Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, according to Pro Publica.
www.propublica.org/article/alex...
www.propublica.org/article/alex...
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 5, 2026 at 2:03 PM
This has me thinking of Lorraine O'Grady saying white supremacy may no longer require white people to perpetuate itself.
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A thread on "honorary whiteness".
1. Turns out the Border Patrol officers who murdered Alex Pretti are of Hispanic lineage. Their names are Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, according to Pro Publica.
www.propublica.org/article/alex...
www.propublica.org/article/alex...
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 5, 2026 at 2:55 PM
A thread on "honorary whiteness".
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Has Mike Madrid explained that this is because democrats are soft on crime or some similar bullshit?
1. Turns out the Border Patrol officers who murdered Alex Pretti are of Hispanic lineage. Their names are Jesus Ochoa, 43, and Raymundo Gutierrez, 35, according to Pro Publica.
www.propublica.org/article/alex...
www.propublica.org/article/alex...
Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting
The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...
www.propublica.org
February 5, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Has Mike Madrid explained that this is because democrats are soft on crime or some similar bullshit?