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It’s now woke to be against going to Epstein island and creating nonconsensual sexual content of kids
Welcome to woke 2, everyone. The mind virus lives.
Welcome to woke 2, everyone. The mind virus lives.
February 3, 2026 at 12:20 PM
It’s now woke to be against going to Epstein island and creating nonconsensual sexual content of kids
Welcome to woke 2, everyone. The mind virus lives.
Welcome to woke 2, everyone. The mind virus lives.
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"The news media doesn’t seem to know how to bring anything other than wide-eyed credulity to Trump's utterances, even after all the lies and deceit of the past decade."
Great @sulliview.bsky.social takedown of coverage of "pivot" on ICE and Greenland:
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/dear-media...
Great @sulliview.bsky.social takedown of coverage of "pivot" on ICE and Greenland:
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/dear-media...
Dear media, stop acting like Trump means what he says
Whether over "a deal" on Greenland or a "pivot" on ICE, we need far more skepticism
margaretsullivan.substack.com
February 3, 2026 at 5:54 PM
"The news media doesn’t seem to know how to bring anything other than wide-eyed credulity to Trump's utterances, even after all the lies and deceit of the past decade."
Great @sulliview.bsky.social takedown of coverage of "pivot" on ICE and Greenland:
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/dear-media...
Great @sulliview.bsky.social takedown of coverage of "pivot" on ICE and Greenland:
margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/dear-media...
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“We used differences in election systems to sow doubt after 2020 even though the complaints were often contradictory but anyway because of that we now need to get everyone on the same system that we control.”
BASH: Would you be comfortable w/Trump 'taking over' elections nationally?
REP GONZALES: POTUS is bringing up a fact on many Americans' minds - election integrity
B: Isn't the issue that he's not telling the truth?
G: One of the issues is every state does it differently. That gives a lot of doubt
REP GONZALES: POTUS is bringing up a fact on many Americans' minds - election integrity
B: Isn't the issue that he's not telling the truth?
G: One of the issues is every state does it differently. That gives a lot of doubt
February 3, 2026 at 5:58 PM
“We used differences in election systems to sow doubt after 2020 even though the complaints were often contradictory but anyway because of that we now need to get everyone on the same system that we control.”
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Russian agents Kirill Dmitriev and Steve Witkoff met in Florida to talk about Ukraine without Ukrainians present.
They decided to postpone the next round of fake peace talks. Putin and his puppet Trump are buying more time for russian terrorists to continue bombing Ukraine.
They decided to postpone the next round of fake peace talks. Putin and his puppet Trump are buying more time for russian terrorists to continue bombing Ukraine.
February 3, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Russian agents Kirill Dmitriev and Steve Witkoff met in Florida to talk about Ukraine without Ukrainians present.
They decided to postpone the next round of fake peace talks. Putin and his puppet Trump are buying more time for russian terrorists to continue bombing Ukraine.
They decided to postpone the next round of fake peace talks. Putin and his puppet Trump are buying more time for russian terrorists to continue bombing Ukraine.
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Fox News hasn't covered bombshell reports revealing that an Emirati royal secretly purchased a major stake in a company controlled by the Trump family for $500 million just four days before Trump’s inauguration.
Fox won’t tell viewers that the UAE bought off Trump
www.mediamatters.org
February 3, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Fox News hasn't covered bombshell reports revealing that an Emirati royal secretly purchased a major stake in a company controlled by the Trump family for $500 million just four days before Trump’s inauguration.
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If many people hold a left-wing opinion they are a mob and should be ignored; if few people hold a left wing opinion they are fringe and should be ignored. The substance or correctness of the opinion is irrelevant. This is the reactionary centrist credo bsky.app/profile/eliv...
Imagine writing these words, in February 2026, regarding the most vicious McCarthyite of the modern era: "Bari Weiss Hates cancel culture"
February 3, 2026 at 5:15 PM
If many people hold a left-wing opinion they are a mob and should be ignored; if few people hold a left wing opinion they are fringe and should be ignored. The substance or correctness of the opinion is irrelevant. This is the reactionary centrist credo bsky.app/profile/eliv...
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Horrifying and unnerving. DHS sent an administrative subpoena to Google for this retiree's records and even sent armed agents out to his house for the "offense" of writing the following completely anodyne email to a federal prosecutor using an email address he found via Google.
February 3, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Horrifying and unnerving. DHS sent an administrative subpoena to Google for this retiree's records and even sent armed agents out to his house for the "offense" of writing the following completely anodyne email to a federal prosecutor using an email address he found via Google.
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Unrelated to everything — but relevant to everything — this map is worth spending some time examining and thinking about. We know so little of our own history — and this wasn't that long ago.
Your grandparents' grandparents' grandparents were likely born around the time of this map.
Your grandparents' grandparents' grandparents were likely born around the time of this map.
The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...
February 3, 2026 at 6:08 PM
Unrelated to everything — but relevant to everything — this map is worth spending some time examining and thinking about. We know so little of our own history — and this wasn't that long ago.
Your grandparents' grandparents' grandparents were likely born around the time of this map.
Your grandparents' grandparents' grandparents were likely born around the time of this map.
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In New Jersey, we stand up for one another.
ICE activity in our neighborhoods is distressing, but please know our office is here to serve you, the people of New Jersey.
Please review your rights and share with a friend.
ICE activity in our neighborhoods is distressing, but please know our office is here to serve you, the people of New Jersey.
Please review your rights and share with a friend.
February 3, 2026 at 6:11 PM
In New Jersey, we stand up for one another.
ICE activity in our neighborhoods is distressing, but please know our office is here to serve you, the people of New Jersey.
Please review your rights and share with a friend.
ICE activity in our neighborhoods is distressing, but please know our office is here to serve you, the people of New Jersey.
Please review your rights and share with a friend.
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MSNBC broadcasts body cam footage of the FBI raid at the Fulton County elections office
February 3, 2026 at 3:12 PM
MSNBC broadcasts body cam footage of the FBI raid at the Fulton County elections office
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This is a great example of what Marx called "the vampire thirst for the living blood of labour."
Dr Oz: "If we could get the average American to start working a year earlier, right out of high school, or a year later -- not retire -- or work better during their lifetime because they're healthy, it would generate about $3 trillion to the US economy. That would more than remove the debt."
February 3, 2026 at 5:46 PM
This is a great example of what Marx called "the vampire thirst for the living blood of labour."
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Republicans: We believe in free market capitalism
The Market: Cool. We can make money selling gender affirming shapewear.
Republicans: NO. NOT LIKE THAT!
The Market: Cool. We can make money selling gender affirming shapewear.
Republicans: NO. NOT LIKE THAT!
The FDA is targeting companies that sell gender-affirming shapewear.
FDA Targets Gender-Affirming Garments, Warning Companies that Serve Trans Customers
At least 12 companies received letters from the agency stating that the gender-affirming compression garments are medical devices and require compliance with strict federal regulations.
rewirenewsgroup.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Republicans: We believe in free market capitalism
The Market: Cool. We can make money selling gender affirming shapewear.
Republicans: NO. NOT LIKE THAT!
The Market: Cool. We can make money selling gender affirming shapewear.
Republicans: NO. NOT LIKE THAT!
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3 sitting justices worked on that case, too.
It’s a really bad sign if they are calling up Roger Stone who ran the Brooks Brothers riot in 2000 (to stop the Florida recount), cavorted with the Proud Boys & Oath Keepers before Jan 6, & was a primary architect of so-called “Stop the Steal” campaigns in 2016, 2018, and 2020, 1/
February 3, 2026 at 5:58 PM
3 sitting justices worked on that case, too.
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Pretty wild to me how many pundits and academics treated Republican opposition to the notion of Supreme Court expansion during the Biden administration as a serious, principled stance, as opposed to a position Republicans would obviously abandon the moment it became convenient
Republicans Love Supreme Court Expansion When It Gets Them What They Want
When it comes to state supreme courts, Republican politicians have been happy to add (or subtract) justices as they see fit.
ballsandstrikes.org
February 3, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Pretty wild to me how many pundits and academics treated Republican opposition to the notion of Supreme Court expansion during the Biden administration as a serious, principled stance, as opposed to a position Republicans would obviously abandon the moment it became convenient
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If you're rich you get a tax cut, if you're not you have to work longer and harder. Populism! bsky.app/profile/atru...
Dr Oz: "If we could get the average American to start working a year earlier, right out of high school, or a year later -- not retire -- or work better during their lifetime because they're healthy, it would generate about $3 trillion to the US economy. That would more than remove the debt."
February 3, 2026 at 11:12 AM
If you're rich you get a tax cut, if you're not you have to work longer and harder. Populism! bsky.app/profile/atru...
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The Paris Prosecutor's office announced they are leaving X by stating they raided their offices.
What a way to leave X.
What a way to leave X.
February 3, 2026 at 12:42 PM
The Paris Prosecutor's office announced they are leaving X by stating they raided their offices.
What a way to leave X.
What a way to leave X.
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if youre a supreme court justice you shouldnt be allowed to make a single cent outside of your government paycheck
just learned that Justice Sam Alito has a book coming out in October called "So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country" and wow I already hate it
February 3, 2026 at 3:32 PM
if youre a supreme court justice you shouldnt be allowed to make a single cent outside of your government paycheck
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If you want a sense of how bad the attacks on pro-choice speech are right now, read the latest issue of my newsletter.
Prepare for a thread—because there are too many attacks to list here
jessica.substack.com/p/texas-coll...
Prepare for a thread—because there are too many attacks to list here
jessica.substack.com/p/texas-coll...
Texas College Cancels “Illegal” Speech by Abortion Provider
2.2.26
jessica.substack.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:23 PM
If you want a sense of how bad the attacks on pro-choice speech are right now, read the latest issue of my newsletter.
Prepare for a thread—because there are too many attacks to list here
jessica.substack.com/p/texas-coll...
Prepare for a thread—because there are too many attacks to list here
jessica.substack.com/p/texas-coll...
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Was happening before DHS. You just didn’t care.
Rather than "shoot first, ask questions later," Trump's DHS follows instructions to "shoot first, deny what happened."
It should come as no surprise to anyone who has some sense of the reality of America under Trump that the DHS claims about shooting two dangerous criminals in Portland are false.
It should come as no surprise to anyone who has some sense of the reality of America under Trump that the DHS claims about shooting two dangerous criminals in Portland are false.
DHS’s account of two Venezuelans shot by border patrol falls apart in court: ‘A smear campaign’
Immigration officials said agent shot two ‘vicious gang members’ in Portland, but records obtained by the Guardian reveal US prosecutor contradicted claims
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Was happening before DHS. You just didn’t care.
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ICE does immigration enforcement. THAT'S ALL IT DOES. Anything else, like pulling people over or detaining them or crowd control or ANYTHING other than immigration enforcement is beyond its authority. Let's not forget that.
February 3, 2026 at 3:41 PM
ICE does immigration enforcement. THAT'S ALL IT DOES. Anything else, like pulling people over or detaining them or crowd control or ANYTHING other than immigration enforcement is beyond its authority. Let's not forget that.
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Agent: These guys were all threatening us yesterday with hand guns.
...
Agent: *Hand* guns, like threatening to shoot us.
Reporter: You mean like with hand symbols?
A: Pulling them out, trying to engage us.
R: Pulling out literal guns?
A: No. Making... assuming we were going to do something.
...
Agent: *Hand* guns, like threatening to shoot us.
Reporter: You mean like with hand symbols?
A: Pulling them out, trying to engage us.
R: Pulling out literal guns?
A: No. Making... assuming we were going to do something.
February 3, 2026 at 3:32 PM
Agent: These guys were all threatening us yesterday with hand guns.
...
Agent: *Hand* guns, like threatening to shoot us.
Reporter: You mean like with hand symbols?
A: Pulling them out, trying to engage us.
R: Pulling out literal guns?
A: No. Making... assuming we were going to do something.
...
Agent: *Hand* guns, like threatening to shoot us.
Reporter: You mean like with hand symbols?
A: Pulling them out, trying to engage us.
R: Pulling out literal guns?
A: No. Making... assuming we were going to do something.
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Go Minnesota.
Power of the people.
Power of the people.
A manager for the Immigrant Defense Network told MPR News that back in November, 2,500 people were trained as constitutional observers. Now, the total is nearly 30,000 trained observers in 77 of Minnesota's 87 counties.
Nearly 30,000 Minnesotans trained as constitutional observers
The Immigrant Defense Network works with more than 100 organizations to help train constitutional observers. At the end of November, there were 2,500 trained observers. That number has soared as more ...
www.mprnews.org
February 3, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Go Minnesota.
Power of the people.
Power of the people.
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At least 6 people were injured in russian drone strike on an apartment building in Kharkiv today ‼️
February 3, 2026 at 2:55 PM
At least 6 people were injured in russian drone strike on an apartment building in Kharkiv today ‼️
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A defining feature of life in the US today is watching other countries address serious issues in ways this country can not, or will not, do.
X offices raided in France as prosecutors investigate child abuse images and deepfakes
French prosecutors have raided the offices of social media platform X as part of an investigation into allegations of spreading child sexual abuse images and deepfakes.
apnews.com
February 3, 2026 at 2:54 PM
A defining feature of life in the US today is watching other countries address serious issues in ways this country can not, or will not, do.
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When you build an unprecedented amount of renewable energy but it gets used to meet new data centre demand instead of replacing fossil fuels
February 3, 2026 at 1:10 PM
When you build an unprecedented amount of renewable energy but it gets used to meet new data centre demand instead of replacing fossil fuels