Mina
@minerva1.bsky.social
American woman with wide-ranging interests.
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“I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated.“
February 13, 2026 at 10:35 PM
“I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated.“
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Trump is afraid that Dems will win control of Congress, so he’ll have no support for, or supposed legislative means of a securing, a third term, so he would no longer have protections from ending up in prison.
Trump probably views this midterm as his only chance to ensure he stays out of prison
Trump probably views this midterm as his only chance to ensure he stays out of prison
February 13, 2026 at 10:25 PM
Trump is afraid that Dems will win control of Congress, so he’ll have no support for, or supposed legislative means of a securing, a third term, so he would no longer have protections from ending up in prison.
Trump probably views this midterm as his only chance to ensure he stays out of prison
Trump probably views this midterm as his only chance to ensure he stays out of prison
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REPORTER: Why choose to do this press conference this way? Your agency is about to run out of funding. You were just in Arizona last week. And you bussed all of us to a secure facility. This doesn't seem top secret.
KRISTI NOEM: Oh my goodness -- this is our critical infrastructure
KRISTI NOEM: Oh my goodness -- this is our critical infrastructure
February 13, 2026 at 7:27 PM
REPORTER: Why choose to do this press conference this way? Your agency is about to run out of funding. You were just in Arizona last week. And you bussed all of us to a secure facility. This doesn't seem top secret.
KRISTI NOEM: Oh my goodness -- this is our critical infrastructure
KRISTI NOEM: Oh my goodness -- this is our critical infrastructure
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Q: You said the Iranian nuclear sites have been 'totally obliterated.' What's left to go after?
TRUMP: You could get whatever the dust is down there. If we do it, that's really the least of we mission. But we'd probably grab whatever is left.
TRUMP: You could get whatever the dust is down there. If we do it, that's really the least of we mission. But we'd probably grab whatever is left.
February 13, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Q: You said the Iranian nuclear sites have been 'totally obliterated.' What's left to go after?
TRUMP: You could get whatever the dust is down there. If we do it, that's really the least of we mission. But we'd probably grab whatever is left.
TRUMP: You could get whatever the dust is down there. If we do it, that's really the least of we mission. But we'd probably grab whatever is left.
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Today, one day after Homan announced that his death squads were leaving here, Minnesota is unseasonably warm and very sunny. It feels like spring. Snow and ICE is literally melting, and fast.
I know. I know we can't trust these goons, but let me enjoy this too-on-the-nose metaphor for just a bit.
I know. I know we can't trust these goons, but let me enjoy this too-on-the-nose metaphor for just a bit.
February 13, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Today, one day after Homan announced that his death squads were leaving here, Minnesota is unseasonably warm and very sunny. It feels like spring. Snow and ICE is literally melting, and fast.
I know. I know we can't trust these goons, but let me enjoy this too-on-the-nose metaphor for just a bit.
I know. I know we can't trust these goons, but let me enjoy this too-on-the-nose metaphor for just a bit.
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He really is the weakest senator there is. Two people have been murdered, there’s been no accountability, and he believes the Senate is powerless. He believes Trump gets what Trump wants.
February 13, 2026 at 1:52 PM
He really is the weakest senator there is. Two people have been murdered, there’s been no accountability, and he believes the Senate is powerless. He believes Trump gets what Trump wants.
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I’m just going to leave this here
February 13, 2026 at 5:54 PM
I’m just going to leave this here
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Because DHS paramilitaries are masked, heavily armed, poorly trained, and have been terrorizing Americans for months. Because Americans don't want to vote at gunpoint. #holdfast
February 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Because DHS paramilitaries are masked, heavily armed, poorly trained, and have been terrorizing Americans for months. Because Americans don't want to vote at gunpoint. #holdfast
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🚨Ranking Member @meeks.house.gov is demanding documents and answers from Secretary Rubio regarding the Trump administration’s decision to route Venezuela oil revenues into an offshore account in Qatar.
Read the letter: democrats-foreignaffairs.house.gov/2026/2/meeks...
Read the letter: democrats-foreignaffairs.house.gov/2026/2/meeks...
February 13, 2026 at 7:45 PM
🚨Ranking Member @meeks.house.gov is demanding documents and answers from Secretary Rubio regarding the Trump administration’s decision to route Venezuela oil revenues into an offshore account in Qatar.
Read the letter: democrats-foreignaffairs.house.gov/2026/2/meeks...
Read the letter: democrats-foreignaffairs.house.gov/2026/2/meeks...
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Russia's deeply unsuccessful Matryoshka fake news campaign has now started using Cameo videos to deepfake the voices of celebrities, here's a few examples featuring Bruce Boxleitner, Dolph Lundgren, David Yost, and Neil Newborn.
February 13, 2026 at 4:37 PM
Russia's deeply unsuccessful Matryoshka fake news campaign has now started using Cameo videos to deepfake the voices of celebrities, here's a few examples featuring Bruce Boxleitner, Dolph Lundgren, David Yost, and Neil Newborn.
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NEWS: Two ICE agents who chased and shot a man in Minnesota lied under oath, another example of the federal government’s narrative falling apart. It must be pretty flagrant for ICE to be making these disclosures now.
February 13, 2026 at 7:01 PM
NEWS: Two ICE agents who chased and shot a man in Minnesota lied under oath, another example of the federal government’s narrative falling apart. It must be pretty flagrant for ICE to be making these disclosures now.
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Narrator: "He lost the popular vote in 2016 by about 2.9 million votes."
Trump speaking at Fort Bragg: "The first time, I won but they say I didn't win the popular vote. You know I did. I won it by a lot."
February 13, 2026 at 6:54 PM
Narrator: "He lost the popular vote in 2016 by about 2.9 million votes."
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This was from a townhall-style event AOC just did at the Munich Security Conference. She'll also be on another panel there in a couple hours.
AOC: "I think we have to recognize that we are in a new day and in a new time. But that does not mean that the majority of Americans are ready to walk away from a rules-based order, and that we're ready to walk away from our commitment to democracy."
February 13, 2026 at 5:38 PM
This was from a townhall-style event AOC just did at the Munich Security Conference. She'll also be on another panel there in a couple hours.
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Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott
Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Eliminating gender studies courses helps to ensure that universities and other institutions will continue to protect men who benefit from the abuse of women and girls, either directly or through their connections to those who exploit girls and women for profit.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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one of america’s most cherished folk singers wrote an entire song about what a cruel criminal piece of shit donald trump’s father was all the way back in 1954 and somehow this basically never comes up in any story about the trumps, they have literally *always* been this way
the whole fucking family from trump’s parents on down have been a goddamned blight on this country for at least seven decades
February 12, 2026 at 9:40 PM
one of america’s most cherished folk singers wrote an entire song about what a cruel criminal piece of shit donald trump’s father was all the way back in 1954 and somehow this basically never comes up in any story about the trumps, they have literally *always* been this way
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DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law. They are tear-gassing schools, killing American citizens, and disappearing legal immigrants. Democrats shouldn’t fund an out of control ICE.
February 13, 2026 at 4:53 PM
DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law. They are tear-gassing schools, killing American citizens, and disappearing legal immigrants. Democrats shouldn’t fund an out of control ICE.
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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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Really is something that every single chart below shows that negative attitudes to the US correlate explicitly with Donald Trump being in office and that they reversed themselves when he left in 2021 only to go back to negative when he came back last year.
🧵/ Our February European Political Monthly survey once again finds attitudes to the USA hitting new lows
Net favourability of the USA in...
🇩🇪 -56 (down 5 from Jan)
🇫🇷 -52 (down 18)
🇮🇹 -43 (down 5)
🇪🇸 -41 (down 4)
🇬🇧 -41 (down 7)
🇵🇱 -5 (new)
yougov.co.uk/internationa...
Net favourability of the USA in...
🇩🇪 -56 (down 5 from Jan)
🇫🇷 -52 (down 18)
🇮🇹 -43 (down 5)
🇪🇸 -41 (down 4)
🇬🇧 -41 (down 7)
🇵🇱 -5 (new)
yougov.co.uk/internationa...
February 13, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Really is something that every single chart below shows that negative attitudes to the US correlate explicitly with Donald Trump being in office and that they reversed themselves when he left in 2021 only to go back to negative when he came back last year.
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German chancellor rebuts idea of American unilateralism and says ‘democracies have partners and allies’
US ‘not powerful enough to go it alone’, Merz tells Munich conference
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:56 PM
German chancellor rebuts idea of American unilateralism and says ‘democracies have partners and allies’
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New AP-NORC poll:
Trump job approval - 36%
Economy is good - 34%
Country heading in right direction - 29%
Vance approval - 32%
Trump job approval - 36%
Economy is good - 34%
Country heading in right direction - 29%
Vance approval - 32%
February 13, 2026 at 12:36 PM
New AP-NORC poll:
Trump job approval - 36%
Economy is good - 34%
Country heading in right direction - 29%
Vance approval - 32%
Trump job approval - 36%
Economy is good - 34%
Country heading in right direction - 29%
Vance approval - 32%
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this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
February 13, 2026 at 2:54 PM
this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
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The extraordinary courage of people who are documenting ICE atrocities in places like Minneapolis, at great personal risk, are also achieving something else: They're changing the public's mind about immigration. We have a rare opportunity here. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
How the Democrats Can Play Offense on Immigration
Typically, Democrats run for the hills when immigration comes up. But as two blue-state governors are showing, the winning play is actually to confront ICE and MAGA xenophobia head on.
newrepublic.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:57 PM
The extraordinary courage of people who are documenting ICE atrocities in places like Minneapolis, at great personal risk, are also achieving something else: They're changing the public's mind about immigration. We have a rare opportunity here. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2059...
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I'm all for pardons and second chances. But it's a hell of a juxtaposition to pardon millionaire NFL players convicted of drug distribution while you're summarily executing impoverished fishermen making a few hundred bucks to shuttle drugs around the Caribbean.
President Trump pardons Hall of Famer Joe Klecko and four other former NFL players
Trump pardoned Klecko, Nate Newton, Jamal Lewis, Travis Henry and the late Billy Cannon for crimes ranging from perjury to drug trafficking.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:46 PM
I'm all for pardons and second chances. But it's a hell of a juxtaposition to pardon millionaire NFL players convicted of drug distribution while you're summarily executing impoverished fishermen making a few hundred bucks to shuttle drugs around the Caribbean.
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“The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds, whether they actually slept with the women on offer or simply shared Epstein’s fantasies in order to gain influence.”
Gender studies courses are shutting down across the US. The Epstein files reveal why | Joan Wallach Scott
Texas A&M University is the latest school to end women’s and gender studies programs and teaching race. We know why
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:10 PM
“The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knew no bounds, whether they actually slept with the women on offer or simply shared Epstein’s fantasies in order to gain influence.”
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Professors in the Epstein files say they hoped friendship would lead to research funding
apnews.com/article/epst...
apnews.com/article/epst...
Professors in the Epstein files say they hoped friendship would lead to research funding
A new trove of documents released by the Justice Department reveals that Epstein’s reach into academia was wider than previously known.
apnews.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Professors in the Epstein files say they hoped friendship would lead to research funding
apnews.com/article/epst...
apnews.com/article/epst...