E. Hatt-Swank
@ehattswank.bsky.social
Human | parent | lefty | vegan | posting on: politics; LGBTQ; climate; dogs; jazz; literature; punk; martial arts; etc. Eliminate: filibuster, House seat limit, gerrymandering, billionaires. You are not what you own 🌱
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Trump is once again saying the quiet part out loud.
Trump goes public with plan to "take over" elections
After the FBI seized 700 boxes of ballots in Georgia, the president calls on Republicans to assert control over voting "in at least 15 places.”
www.motherjones.com
February 2, 2026 at 8:00 PM
Trump is once again saying the quiet part out loud.
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Republicans love adding seats to state Supreme Courts! They've done it three times in recent years. This latest court-packing plan will shift Utah's high court far to the right and possibly flip rulings on abortion and gerrymandering.
Democrats should take note that Rs have deemed this acceptable!
Democrats should take note that Rs have deemed this acceptable!
This hasn’t received nearly enough attention:
Republicans just passed a law to pack Utah’s Supreme Court after it ruled against their congressional gerrymander.
Cox could appoint two more justices before the court hears the GOP’s latest appeal to preserve their gerrymander
Republicans just passed a law to pack Utah’s Supreme Court after it ruled against their congressional gerrymander.
Cox could appoint two more justices before the court hears the GOP’s latest appeal to preserve their gerrymander
Utah governor signs bill adding justices to state Supreme Court as redistricting appeal looms
Once the new seats are filled, Gov. Spencer Cox will have appointed five of the seven justices.
www.nbcnews.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:34 PM
Republicans love adding seats to state Supreme Courts! They've done it three times in recent years. This latest court-packing plan will shift Utah's high court far to the right and possibly flip rulings on abortion and gerrymandering.
Democrats should take note that Rs have deemed this acceptable!
Democrats should take note that Rs have deemed this acceptable!
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Creating daily evidence for vindictive prosecution claims?
BREAKING: Trump team to start “daily” meetings to focus on prosecuting his political adversaries, according to CNN
Looks like Susie Wiles’ efforts to “limit” Trump’s focus on retribution has failed spectacularly.
www.cnn.com/2026/02/02/p...
Looks like Susie Wiles’ efforts to “limit” Trump’s focus on retribution has failed spectacularly.
www.cnn.com/2026/02/02/p...
Justice Department expected to ramp up efforts to deliver on Trump’s ‘weaponization’ priorities | CNN Politics
Justice Department officials are expected to meet Monday to discuss how to reenergize probes that are considered a top priority for President Donald Trump — reviewing the actions of officials who inve...
www.cnn.com
February 2, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Creating daily evidence for vindictive prosecution claims?
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What we're seeing in Georgia is a direct attack by Trump on America
Trump: "These people were brought to our country to vote, & they vote illegally. The Republicans should say, we should take over the voting in at least 15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting. We have states that I won that show I didn't win. You're gonna see something in Georgia"
February 2, 2026 at 6:29 PM
What we're seeing in Georgia is a direct attack by Trump on America
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In 2019, the thing that got Dems to stop avoiding conflict and fight Trump directly was that he got caught corrupting foreign policy to cheat in his own election. Self-preservation made it impossible to ignore. Whatever Trump has planned for 2026 is already underway. So Dems need that mindset back.
The Goal Must Be Removal
Putting all eggs in the basket of winning elections is a dangerous decision, when Trump's plan is to cheat in those elections.
www.offmessage.net
February 2, 2026 at 5:40 PM
In 2019, the thing that got Dems to stop avoiding conflict and fight Trump directly was that he got caught corrupting foreign policy to cheat in his own election. Self-preservation made it impossible to ignore. Whatever Trump has planned for 2026 is already underway. So Dems need that mindset back.
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Remarkable: 55% of noncollege whites and even 50% of rural whites say ICE is too aggressive, per new Fox News poll.
And 71% of independents disapprove of Trump on immigration.
This is digging deep into Trump's base.
We detail these numbers on today's pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
And 71% of independents disapprove of Trump on immigration.
This is digging deep into Trump's base.
We detail these numbers on today's pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
Trump Tirade over Protests Goes Off Rails as Crushing Fox Poll Hits
As Trump grows more delusional about how hated his ICE raids have become, a longtime pro-immigrant organizer explains why this may be a watershed moment in terms of public opinion on the issue.
newrepublic.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:34 PM
Remarkable: 55% of noncollege whites and even 50% of rural whites say ICE is too aggressive, per new Fox News poll.
And 71% of independents disapprove of Trump on immigration.
This is digging deep into Trump's base.
We detail these numbers on today's pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
And 71% of independents disapprove of Trump on immigration.
This is digging deep into Trump's base.
We detail these numbers on today's pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
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This story haunts me. And I hope it haunts the bastards who did this.
Wael Tarabishi, who has a lifelong muscle disorder, died after Maher, his father and primary caretaker, was detained
‘They killed him inside’: man who was son’s caretaker detained by ICE and denied final goodbye
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2026 at 3:06 PM
This story haunts me. And I hope it haunts the bastards who did this.
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The last time we heard Trump on the phone talking to people in Georgia he was asking them, specifically, to find 11,000 votes for him in 2020 and he's in the White House today and not in jail. Anyway.
One more way in which the FBI's search of an Atlanta election office was surpassingly unusual: President Trump spoke to the agents who conducted the search during a phone call afterward.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
Trump Had Unusual Call With F.B.I. Agents After Election Center Search
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2026 at 5:09 PM
The last time we heard Trump on the phone talking to people in Georgia he was asking them, specifically, to find 11,000 votes for him in 2020 and he's in the White House today and not in jail. Anyway.
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Been thinking about doing something on this and the biggest issue is that we just do not have good data on Trump's mass deportation push, so it's impossible *at the moment* to do exact apples to apples comparisons.
"Trump is just doing what Obama did, & no one complained back then!" Given that this is a central talking point MAGA is using to reach people outside their hardcore base, it would be useful if a proper journalistic outlet addressed this comparison in an evidence-based way. I haven't seen one yet.
February 2, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Been thinking about doing something on this and the biggest issue is that we just do not have good data on Trump's mass deportation push, so it's impossible *at the moment* to do exact apples to apples comparisons.
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AI is literally a consent manufacturing machine.
February 2, 2026 at 4:13 PM
AI is literally a consent manufacturing machine.
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i am very much of the view that undermining the court’s secrecy is a necessary part of remaking it into something like an actual court (and not some guardian council) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2026 at 1:56 PM
i am very much of the view that undermining the court’s secrecy is a necessary part of remaking it into something like an actual court (and not some guardian council) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...
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"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm...None of these children or their parents had a criminal history anywhere in the world."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
Opinion | Liam Ramos Was Just One of Hundreds of Children at This Detention Center. Release Them All.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2026 at 2:45 AM
"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm...None of these children or their parents had a criminal history anywhere in the world."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...
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“We’d be in a far worse place without the mass protests in Minneapolis, Chicago, LA, and across the country. Protest doesn’t bring instant change, but it disrupts authoritarian power and reminds everyone this isn’t normal. We have to keep showing up. We have to keep protesting.”
February 1, 2026 at 11:07 PM
“We’d be in a far worse place without the mass protests in Minneapolis, Chicago, LA, and across the country. Protest doesn’t bring instant change, but it disrupts authoritarian power and reminds everyone this isn’t normal. We have to keep showing up. We have to keep protesting.”
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PORTLAND MAYOR WILSON:
“.. To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave. … you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame.”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
“.. To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave. … you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame.”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
February 1, 2026 at 10:35 PM
PORTLAND MAYOR WILSON:
“.. To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave. … you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame.”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
“.. To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave. … you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame.”
@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
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In 2010, Dems candidates distanced themselves from Obama to try to avoid thermostatic backlash and punishment for the ACA. This was seen as smart strategy at the time.
The GOP in 2026 has decided to go 100% in on the most unpopular policies, figures, and ideas in politics. MN gonna be D+15 in Nov
The GOP in 2026 has decided to go 100% in on the most unpopular policies, figures, and ideas in politics. MN gonna be D+15 in Nov
Michele Tafoya pledges that if elected to the US Senate she will investigate who is paying the protesters in Minnesota
February 2, 2026 at 12:10 AM
In 2010, Dems candidates distanced themselves from Obama to try to avoid thermostatic backlash and punishment for the ACA. This was seen as smart strategy at the time.
The GOP in 2026 has decided to go 100% in on the most unpopular policies, figures, and ideas in politics. MN gonna be D+15 in Nov
The GOP in 2026 has decided to go 100% in on the most unpopular policies, figures, and ideas in politics. MN gonna be D+15 in Nov
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Experts said the FBI’s seizing of ballots in Georgia triggered fears of federal interference in this year’s midterm elections:
“It's a dramatic escalation … to expand federal control over our country's historically state-run election infrastructure.”
“It's a dramatic escalation … to expand federal control over our country's historically state-run election infrastructure.”
FBI’s Search of Georgia Election Center Is “Dangerous,” Experts Warn
The search warrant, which sought 2020 election ballots, tabulator tapes, digital data and voter rolls from Fulton County, marked what experts described as a significant escalation in President Donald ...
www.propublica.org
February 2, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Experts said the FBI’s seizing of ballots in Georgia triggered fears of federal interference in this year’s midterm elections:
“It's a dramatic escalation … to expand federal control over our country's historically state-run election infrastructure.”
“It's a dramatic escalation … to expand federal control over our country's historically state-run election infrastructure.”
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Every cruelty and incompetence of the Trump regime coming together.
BREAKING: ICE has halted "all movement" at a Texas detention facility due to measles infections, DHS confirms.
ICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections
The measles cases at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center were detected Friday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News.
cbsn.ws
February 2, 2026 at 1:23 AM
Every cruelty and incompetence of the Trump regime coming together.
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ICYMI amidst all of the other dumpster fires, $14 million was stolen from libraries and funneled to Hillsdale College and PragerU to fund white supremacist revisionist history and pro-regime propaganda. Cuts to IMLS funding will impact small public libraries the hardest.
The IMLS Propaganda Machine Is In Full Swing
The agency overseeing U.S. libraries and museums is now full-on regime propaganda.
buttondown.com
February 1, 2026 at 5:55 PM
ICYMI amidst all of the other dumpster fires, $14 million was stolen from libraries and funneled to Hillsdale College and PragerU to fund white supremacist revisionist history and pro-regime propaganda. Cuts to IMLS funding will impact small public libraries the hardest.
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Hungary’s elections aren’t really free and fair. Orban’s corrupt control of most of the country’s media and courts renders it so.
But the elections are still somewhat competitive, and the most plausible mechanism to get him out of power.
It’s hard, but backsliding can be stopped, even reversed.
But the elections are still somewhat competitive, and the most plausible mechanism to get him out of power.
It’s hard, but backsliding can be stopped, even reversed.
For over a year, polls have put Hungary’s opposition party ahead of Viktor Orban’s. But a big lead in the polls is no guarantee of an election victory
Viktor Orban may lose his next election
He trails in polls, but the rules favour Trump’s man in Hungary
econ.st
February 1, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Hungary’s elections aren’t really free and fair. Orban’s corrupt control of most of the country’s media and courts renders it so.
But the elections are still somewhat competitive, and the most plausible mechanism to get him out of power.
It’s hard, but backsliding can be stopped, even reversed.
But the elections are still somewhat competitive, and the most plausible mechanism to get him out of power.
It’s hard, but backsliding can be stopped, even reversed.
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Judge slams Trump over 5-year-old: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
January 31, 2026 at 11:26 PM
Judge slams Trump over 5-year-old: "Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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We can be grateful that Liam and his father are home now. But we can't forget that so, so many more families are still trapped in detention and/or constant fear.
Liam, 5, has been freed, but four other students from his school district remain detained in Texas. Two boys from his elementary school were taken Thurs
“This isn’t something we are prepared or trained for. We’ve dedicated our lives to protecting + educating children,” school superintendent told me
“This isn’t something we are prepared or trained for. We’ve dedicated our lives to protecting + educating children,” school superintendent told me
ICE detains two more students from Liam Ramos’s school, officials say
The brothers’ mother was taken by ICE and Minnesota educators were forced to bring the children to her
www.theguardian.com
February 2, 2026 at 12:17 AM
We can be grateful that Liam and his father are home now. But we can't forget that so, so many more families are still trapped in detention and/or constant fear.
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Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.
February 1, 2026 at 8:55 PM
Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.
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“More than 2 dozen names of minor victims are exposed in the filings, according to the Journal’s analysis. Their full names were available Sun afternoon in the Justice Department’s keyword search, along with personally identifying details that make them readily traceable, including home addresses” 😡
February 2, 2026 at 12:20 AM
“More than 2 dozen names of minor victims are exposed in the filings, according to the Journal’s analysis. Their full names were available Sun afternoon in the Justice Department’s keyword search, along with personally identifying details that make them readily traceable, including home addresses” 😡
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I love this. A beautiful elegy for ice in a warming world.
@erikhoffner.bsky.social
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@erikhoffner.bsky.social
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Living on Earth: Ice Visions
As winter settles in over the northern hemisphere people find creative ways to get outside and enjoy nature. For environmental journalist and photographer Erik Hoffner, winter is a time for ice skatin...
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February 1, 2026 at 5:07 PM
I love this. A beautiful elegy for ice in a warming world.
@erikhoffner.bsky.social
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@erikhoffner.bsky.social
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