Moses
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When you’ve seen the polling
February 13, 2026 at 11:02 PM
When you’ve seen the polling
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"Fandoms," which seemed so cute & spontaneous & earnest a few years ago, have come to be odious forces in public life. They are ruining the things they claim to love.
the Heated Rivalry fandom has done a really remarkable speedrun from a celebration of a fluffy, sexy gay show to calling cast members pedophiles & journalists "klan members" (yes, really) — v excited about @wired.com's blow-by-blow feat interviews w fans on the front lines
The ‘Heated Rivalry’ Fandom Is Tearing Itself Apart
The breakout hockey romance has sparked legions of enthralled fans, along with obsessive, parasocial behavior that’s starting to get called out.
www.wired.com
February 13, 2026 at 8:28 PM
"Fandoms," which seemed so cute & spontaneous & earnest a few years ago, have come to be odious forces in public life. They are ruining the things they claim to love.
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The Epstein fallout keeps claiming powerful people. Strange how one very familiar figure seems immune.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
Everyone is paying for their Epstein ties—except Trump
The Epstein files claimed a new victim on Thursday, when Goldman Sachs’ top lawyer Kathy Ruemmler announced she was resigning from the bank over her ties to the disgraced financier, whom she ...
www.dailykos.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:30 PM
The Epstein fallout keeps claiming powerful people. Strange how one very familiar figure seems immune.
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Trump can’t pardon election felon Tina Peters for state crimes, so he’s squeezing Colorado instead—moving Space Command, canceling $100 mn in grants, and vetoing a clean-water pipeline. This type of presidential coercion threatens federalism and rewards election misconduct, this CATO paper argues.
The Presidency as Protection Racket
‘Nice little state you got there. I sure wouldn’t want anything to happen to it.’
www.cato.org
February 13, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Trump can’t pardon election felon Tina Peters for state crimes, so he’s squeezing Colorado instead—moving Space Command, canceling $100 mn in grants, and vetoing a clean-water pipeline. This type of presidential coercion threatens federalism and rewards election misconduct, this CATO paper argues.
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I am afraid of this happening. If you want my vote, then I hope you'll fight against this happening here: bsky.app/profile/park...
This piece from @erininthemorning.com explains the situation www.erininthemorning.com/p/why-transg...
February 13, 2026 at 7:01 PM
I am afraid of this happening. If you want my vote, then I hope you'll fight against this happening here: bsky.app/profile/park...
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Our planet is warming at an alarming rate, contributing to more frequent and severe natural disasters, devastating coral reefs, and disrupting wildlife ecosystems. Bottom line is this decision undermines the EPA's founding mission to protect the public health and welfare of the American people.
February 13, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Our planet is warming at an alarming rate, contributing to more frequent and severe natural disasters, devastating coral reefs, and disrupting wildlife ecosystems. Bottom line is this decision undermines the EPA's founding mission to protect the public health and welfare of the American people.
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When Trump was looking for replacements for Steve Mnuchin as treasury secretary, he turned to... Jeffrey Epstein
February 13, 2026 at 6:06 PM
When Trump was looking for replacements for Steve Mnuchin as treasury secretary, he turned to... Jeffrey Epstein
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EXCLUSIVE: The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid. theintercept.com/2026/02/13/a...
The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid.
One of the women Alex Pretti was killed trying to defend is an EMT. Federal agents stopped her from giving him first aid.
theintercept.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:29 PM
EXCLUSIVE: The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid. theintercept.com/2026/02/13/a...
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One of the Trump admin's key steps to targeting refugees involves reversing the government’s longtime position on whether a federal law allows the government to detain certain refugees. The reversal appears to based on nothing, at best, or a lie, at worst.
My report:
My report:
Exclusive: DHS based its newest refugee attack on a Trump proclamation that stated it would not apply to refugees
New documents filed in a key refugee case in Minnesota shed light on a broad, aggressive plan to review all refugees admitted since the start of the Biden administration.
www.lawdork.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:07 PM
One of the Trump admin's key steps to targeting refugees involves reversing the government’s longtime position on whether a federal law allows the government to detain certain refugees. The reversal appears to based on nothing, at best, or a lie, at worst.
My report:
My report:
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DHS is currently targeting 5,600 refugees in Minnesota as a first step in an expansive plan aimed at reviewing — and presumably restricting — the legal status of refugees admitted since the start of the Biden administration.
Read my Law Dork report on Trump admin memos filed in court Thursday:
Read my Law Dork report on Trump admin memos filed in court Thursday:
Exclusive: DHS based its newest refugee attack on a Trump proclamation that stated it would not apply to refugees
New documents filed in a key refugee case in Minnesota shed light on a broad, aggressive plan to review all refugees admitted since the start of the Biden administration.
www.lawdork.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:58 PM
DHS is currently targeting 5,600 refugees in Minnesota as a first step in an expansive plan aimed at reviewing — and presumably restricting — the legal status of refugees admitted since the start of the Biden administration.
Read my Law Dork report on Trump admin memos filed in court Thursday:
Read my Law Dork report on Trump admin memos filed in court Thursday:
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Here's a longer piece about Joseph Gordon-Levitt's bizarre support of 230 repeal. We're collecting comments on a letter to him here: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/jose...
February 13, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Here's a longer piece about Joseph Gordon-Levitt's bizarre support of 230 repeal. We're collecting comments on a letter to him here: www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/jose...
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EXCLUSIVE: 21 Texas state legislators have signed a new letter to Congress demanding major ICE reforms and declaring the agency “an unaccountable paramilitary force that threatens the constitutional rights and safety of the communities we serve.”
thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/13/t...
thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/13/t...
Texas Lawmakers Say They’re Demanding Major ICE Reforms Because ‘Families and Children Are Terrified’
21 Texas legislators call ICE “an unaccountable paramilitary force.”
thebarbedwire.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:50 PM
EXCLUSIVE: 21 Texas state legislators have signed a new letter to Congress demanding major ICE reforms and declaring the agency “an unaccountable paramilitary force that threatens the constitutional rights and safety of the communities we serve.”
thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/13/t...
thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/13/t...
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The Trump Justice Department admits: It "logs all searches" by members of Congress who view the unredacted versions of the Epstein files on their data systems.
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/e...
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/e...
Epstein files: DOJ says it logs Congress members' searches to 'protect' victim information
Attorney General Pam Bondi and Rep. Pramila Jayapal exchanged sharp words at a hearing when Jayapal asked victims of Jeffrey Epstein about meeting with the DOJ.
www.cnbc.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:10 AM
The Trump Justice Department admits: It "logs all searches" by members of Congress who view the unredacted versions of the Epstein files on their data systems.
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/e...
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/e...
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People didn’t really understand when they found out that I sold everything & got out of that fasicst state. I gave stats on the high cost of everything & heard the, but California has state sales tax, blah blah blah. True, TX has no state sales tax & CA does. TX also takes $$$$ from CA tax payers
February 13, 2026 at 4:51 PM
People didn’t really understand when they found out that I sold everything & got out of that fasicst state. I gave stats on the high cost of everything & heard the, but California has state sales tax, blah blah blah. True, TX has no state sales tax & CA does. TX also takes $$$$ from CA tax payers
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Good morning from @altyellonatpark.org
February 13, 2026 at 4:18 PM
Good morning from @altyellonatpark.org
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Sheesh, here's the WSJ coming close as a mainstream newspaper can to asserting that Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski are schtupping in a private cabin in the back of a luxury love jet the government bought for them: archive.is/Dbo4i
In any other administration, this would be kind of a big deal.
In any other administration, this would be kind of a big deal.
February 13, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Sheesh, here's the WSJ coming close as a mainstream newspaper can to asserting that Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski are schtupping in a private cabin in the back of a luxury love jet the government bought for them: archive.is/Dbo4i
In any other administration, this would be kind of a big deal.
In any other administration, this would be kind of a big deal.
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NEW: Ahead of the FBI’s raid of an election center in Georgia, the prosecutor overseeing the investigation met with several Trump lawyers, including Ed Martin and Kurt Olsen, who helped the president try to overturn the 2020 election.
What Meetings Among Trump Lawyers Reveal About the FBI’s Seizure of Election Records in Georgia
The federal prosecutor from Missouri, who is overseeing an investigation into the 2020 vote in Georgia, had several meetings set up with top administration lawyers last fall to discuss election integr...
www.propublica.org
February 13, 2026 at 4:52 PM
NEW: Ahead of the FBI’s raid of an election center in Georgia, the prosecutor overseeing the investigation met with several Trump lawyers, including Ed Martin and Kurt Olsen, who helped the president try to overturn the 2020 election.
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In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p
RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.
n.pr
February 13, 2026 at 2:20 PM
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p
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Tulip 🌷 #beavers #animals #babybeaver
YouTube video by Holley Muraco at Something Wild
www.youtube.com
February 13, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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Hmm
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 4:54 PM
Hmm
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It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
February 13, 2026 at 4:48 AM
It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.
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If you block everyone who thinks AOC is too far right you will have lost nothing, both qualitatively and quantitatively.
she's a liberal and therefore supports a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie
February 13, 2026 at 6:46 AM
If you block everyone who thinks AOC is too far right you will have lost nothing, both qualitatively and quantitatively.
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I can't believe a lying new york state real estate conman operating at fourth grade reading level used a phony dedication to populist antitrust reform to gain power, only to rule as a corrupt, hollow autocrat
if only somebody had warned me
if only somebody had warned me
February 13, 2026 at 4:47 PM
I can't believe a lying new york state real estate conman operating at fourth grade reading level used a phony dedication to populist antitrust reform to gain power, only to rule as a corrupt, hollow autocrat
if only somebody had warned me
if only somebody had warned me
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Worth the ride:
Trump has lost the culture. But what if the universal conventional wisdom—that he won the culture in the first place—was never true? What if our warped media environment, then Trump's victory, created an illusion of MAGA cultural dominance that is now slipping. This is a long one, so strap in.
The Nonresponse To Donald Trump
How an obscure quirk of statistics and human nature explains the liberal crisis of confidence—and why it may finally be lifting.
www.offmessage.net
February 13, 2026 at 4:40 PM
Worth the ride:
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When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.”
For these Americans, that wasn’t true.
(Published Oct. 2025)
For these Americans, that wasn’t true.
(Published Oct. 2025)
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
February 13, 2026 at 4:00 AM
When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.”
For these Americans, that wasn’t true.
(Published Oct. 2025)
For these Americans, that wasn’t true.
(Published Oct. 2025)