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Tim Dickinson
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Senior Writer & Editor, The Contrarian contrarian.substack.com

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February 14, 2026 at 1:48 AM
February 14, 2026 at 1:38 AM
February 14, 2026 at 1:34 AM
David Gergen. dammit 🤢
February 14, 2026 at 1:25 AM
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Vaguely recall how Biden admin emails to Twitter were the biggest attack on free speech ever. There was a whole twitter files thing about that.

Curious where are Elon, Taibbi, Bari and crew on this?
New story up on the Homeland Security Department’s new tactic: flood social media companies with subpoenas to unmask anonymous accounts that criticize ICE or monitor the movements of ICE agents.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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Jeffrey Epstein's December 20, 2016 email to Bill Gates: "come to visit the island. new administration people visiting."

What was the upcoming administration in December2016? Oh!
February 13, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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February 13, 2026 at 7:26 PM
(related: Was interested that Lin Manuel wasn't represented amid all the PR stars)
February 13, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Still thinking about Bad Bunny's halftime show, which like, Was that art?
February 13, 2026 at 8:37 PM
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BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.

The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 13, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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A 76-year-old veteran and nurse was tackled and detained at the site of Alex Pretti's killing. Agents told him his phone was evidence in an investigation into him assaulting an officer.

“I didn’t assault an officer. I got assaulted by three officers." minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/12/w...
Why is ICE seizing people’s phones and documents? • Minnesota Reformer
After the federal agents took the shackles off Gust Johnson’s ankles to release him from detainment, he asked for his phone back. That would be staying at the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building, th...
minnesotareformer.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:35 PM
You don't fight this hard to hide nothing
BREAKING: On February 2, Sec. Noem issued a memo asserting the lapse in appropriations for DHS meant there is no Sec. 527 — the provision protecting congressional oversight visits to immigration detention facilities — and she was issuing a new (third) policy requiring seven-day notice for visits.
February 10, 2026 at 1:10 AM
The radical preacher of Broadview just got his charges dropped...
‘It’s as if Jesus Is Locked Up in Broadview’
A reverend violently arrested at Chicagoland’s ICE facility speaks out
open.substack.com
February 10, 2026 at 1:03 AM
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Jamie Raskin...after reviewing Epstein files at DOJ: evidence suggests victims as young as 9.
February 9, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Here's that Ring #SuperBowl commercial:
February 9, 2026 at 4:41 AM
A reminder to the haters it takes this many states to outnumber the American citizens in Puerto Rico

(~3.5m v. ~3.2m)
February 9, 2026 at 2:34 AM
The functionality is called "Search Party"
February 9, 2026 at 2:30 AM
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But seriously, though, they say “help your neighbor find a dog”; they mean “opt in for a full AI powered surveillance state”
Absolutely not.
#Superbowl
Rip out your Ring doorbell RN, jfc
February 9, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Rip out your Ring doorbell RN, jfc
February 9, 2026 at 2:08 AM
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More than half the drugs on the TrumpRx site have a cheaper generic version on the market.

Pristiq, an antidepressant, is available with a TrumpRx coupon for ~$200 for a 30-day supply.

A generic version is on GoodRx for less than $30 and Mark Cuban's CostPlusDrugs for $16.65.
How TrumpRx drug prices compare to generic alternatives
Patients could save more buying non-branded copycat drugs, even if they don't have insurance.
www.axios.com
February 8, 2026 at 6:00 PM
I guess that explains the new food pyramid?
RFK Jr on what he'll eat during the Super Bowl: "I am on a carnivore diet so I just eat meat and ferments, and I'm very happy with that. So I'm probably going to have yogurt."
February 8, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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Bill Ackman's fund, Pershing Square, manages 18 billion dollars for wealthy clients, billions of it for the Harvard Endowment

Anyways here he is uncritically eating up conspiracy slop from Naomi Wolf about stolen NYC elections
February 8, 2026 at 2:28 AM
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Thinking once again about Jeff Bezos's giant boat's giant boat
February 4, 2026 at 2:01 PM