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Shut it down - for good.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
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!
February 6, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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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
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
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)
February 5, 2026 at 11:56 PM
Bannon is in the Epstein class.
February 5, 2026 at 11:51 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...
'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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
February 5, 2026 at 11:21 PM
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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
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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.
February 5, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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This has me thinking of Lorraine O'Grady saying white supremacy may no longer require white people to perpetuate itself.
February 5, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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A thread on "honorary whiteness".
February 5, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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Has Mike Madrid explained that this is because democrats are soft on crime or some similar bullshit?
February 5, 2026 at 11:05 PM
No one needs Amazon. Life will go on as usual without it.
February 5, 2026 at 10:19 PM
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I am not a Schumer fan--indeed, I think he should step aside--but credit where it's due. He anticipated that Rs would not agree to a set of *extremely* normie demands, and shutting down DHS over that is good politics.
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 10:16 PM
States are sovereignties that will come for criminals even when the feds won’t.

www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/...
Lamont, Tong push strict safeguards for kids using AI chatbots
The bill would require tech companies to prevent AI chatbots from becoming sexually explicit with children and clearly state they talking to AI.
www.ctinsider.com
February 5, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Laughable and moronic.
February 5, 2026 at 8:15 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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The banality of evil is shocking. An ex-Big Lots warehouse for cheap consumer junk is bought by ICE to ship as many as 7,500 handcuffed human beings, as the Trump regime builds a U.S. gulag archipelago

The unthinkable comes to Pa. coal country. My special report www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
From Big Lots to warehousing humans: ICE plan sparks fear in Schuylkill County | Will Bunch
A massive warehouse in Tremont. Pa. that once moved cheap goods will now detain migrants in an $119 million ICE deal.
www.inquirer.com
February 5, 2026 at 5:54 PM