Harry Balzagna
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Everything is bad all the time
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Today’s CBO report says US consumers pay 95% of tariffs. 🤡
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February 11, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Today’s CBO report says US consumers pay 95% of tariffs. 🤡
@brendanvduke.bsky.social
www.cbo.gov/system/files...
@brendanvduke.bsky.social
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Over the past few decades our politics shifted to a more polarized reality. Republicans understood the assignment: they figured this out and how to deal with it, while Dems have an entire cottage industry of podcast and substack bros working actively to keep them from figuring it out.
weird how so many democrats from competitive seats feel compelled to vote against the party line (and national interest), but republicans don't. makes you wonder if they are taking bad advice that has little to do with electoral performance, and GOP pols know this
February 11, 2026 at 6:22 PM
Over the past few decades our politics shifted to a more polarized reality. Republicans understood the assignment: they figured this out and how to deal with it, while Dems have an entire cottage industry of podcast and substack bros working actively to keep them from figuring it out.
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Maybe the immigrants affected can all sue for $10 billion. 🤡
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February 11, 2026 at 4:26 PM
Maybe the immigrants affected can all sue for $10 billion. 🤡
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And yet, no one asks Republicans how they will pay for tax cuts or military spending or paramilitaries the way they ask how Democrats will pay for reducing child poverty or student loan debt relief.
No matter what Republicans do, they are still treated as "deficit hawks":
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No matter what Republicans do, they are still treated as "deficit hawks":
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
February 11, 2026 at 4:42 PM
And yet, no one asks Republicans how they will pay for tax cuts or military spending or paramilitaries the way they ask how Democrats will pay for reducing child poverty or student loan debt relief.
No matter what Republicans do, they are still treated as "deficit hawks":
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
No matter what Republicans do, they are still treated as "deficit hawks":
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Hard to imagine an institution that has more thoroughly discredited itself over the past year than Columbia.
February 11, 2026 at 5:46 PM
Hard to imagine an institution that has more thoroughly discredited itself over the past year than Columbia.
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Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
February 11, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
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Here's a FBI allegation against Epstein & Trump involving an 8th grader. 🚨👀⚖️♀️ www.justice.gov/epstein/file... #doj #epstein #files #trump
February 11, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Here's a FBI allegation against Epstein & Trump involving an 8th grader. 🚨👀⚖️♀️ www.justice.gov/epstein/file... #doj #epstein #files #trump
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They crush the local economy, deplete city budgets, illegally withhold congressionally allocated funds. In exchange we get masked Texans running wild in the streets, paid for with tax money that was supposed to be used on our healthcare. Thank you to our federal partners.
February 11, 2026 at 2:58 AM
They crush the local economy, deplete city budgets, illegally withhold congressionally allocated funds. In exchange we get masked Texans running wild in the streets, paid for with tax money that was supposed to be used on our healthcare. Thank you to our federal partners.
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Admission to a capricious abuse of power based on petty grievance—a power usurped from Congress.
Trump: "So I put on a 30% tariff, which is very low. I got an emergency call from I believe the prime minister of Switzerland. She was very aggressive ... I didn't really like the way she talked to us, so instead of giving her a reduction, I raised it to 39%."
February 11, 2026 at 2:36 AM
Admission to a capricious abuse of power based on petty grievance—a power usurped from Congress.
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This is why primarying people matters. Suddenly everybody involved in this race is in a firm spine contest.
GOLDMAN: Do you know what other regimes in the 20th century required similar proof of citizenship?
LYONS: Various nefarious regimes did that
GOLDMAN: Is Nazi Germany one?
LYONS: This is the wrong type of question
LYONS: Various nefarious regimes did that
GOLDMAN: Is Nazi Germany one?
LYONS: This is the wrong type of question
February 10, 2026 at 6:51 PM
This is why primarying people matters. Suddenly everybody involved in this race is in a firm spine contest.
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Trump is trying to repeal the "endangerment finding" -- the scientific investigation that led EPA to conclude that climate change is dangerous to humans.
It's scientifically unjustifiable of course, but they're going to have to justify it to a court. That should be fun to watch.
It's scientifically unjustifiable of course, but they're going to have to justify it to a court. That should be fun to watch.
Exclusive | Trump to Repeal Landmark Climate Finding in Huge Regulatory Rollback
The move would reverse a legal determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health.
www.wsj.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Trump is trying to repeal the "endangerment finding" -- the scientific investigation that led EPA to conclude that climate change is dangerous to humans.
It's scientifically unjustifiable of course, but they're going to have to justify it to a court. That should be fun to watch.
It's scientifically unjustifiable of course, but they're going to have to justify it to a court. That should be fun to watch.
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It would be great if the top two stories about the executive branch were not a huge multinational child rape coverup and the establishment of a gulag of concentration camps
February 10, 2026 at 4:54 AM
It would be great if the top two stories about the executive branch were not a huge multinational child rape coverup and the establishment of a gulag of concentration camps
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Sen. Cynthia Lummis keeps a fairly low profile but on Jan 6 she was one of only 8 Senators to vote against certifying electoral votes. And her phone records were then subpoenaed in the Jan 6 investigation for very good reason. It's big for her to break with Trump now.
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February 10, 2026 at 4:22 AM
Sen. Cynthia Lummis keeps a fairly low profile but on Jan 6 she was one of only 8 Senators to vote against certifying electoral votes. And her phone records were then subpoenaed in the Jan 6 investigation for very good reason. It's big for her to break with Trump now.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya was used as bait by ICE, just like they did to Liam Ramos.
The Dilley camp has held the 9 year old for 113 days. She wrote a letter pleading to go home to Columbia.
Make noise for all of them.
Public pressure got Liam released.
Now close the camps.
The Dilley camp has held the 9 year old for 113 days. She wrote a letter pleading to go home to Columbia.
Make noise for all of them.
Public pressure got Liam released.
Now close the camps.
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
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February 10, 2026 at 4:53 AM
Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya was used as bait by ICE, just like they did to Liam Ramos.
The Dilley camp has held the 9 year old for 113 days. She wrote a letter pleading to go home to Columbia.
Make noise for all of them.
Public pressure got Liam released.
Now close the camps.
The Dilley camp has held the 9 year old for 113 days. She wrote a letter pleading to go home to Columbia.
Make noise for all of them.
Public pressure got Liam released.
Now close the camps.
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NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.
Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 12:00 PM
NEW: ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.
Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
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They have tried everything they can think of to distract us and prevent the truth from coming out — posting racist memes and even shutting down the House. But we will not stop until all involved are held accountable and the survivors get justice.
February 9, 2026 at 8:44 PM
They have tried everything they can think of to distract us and prevent the truth from coming out — posting racist memes and even shutting down the House. But we will not stop until all involved are held accountable and the survivors get justice.
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The US is negotiating with a child rapist in the Epstein network on how to retrain his Gestapo troops while also building a vast network of concentration camps to kidnap women and children all over the country.
February 9, 2026 at 11:28 PM
The US is negotiating with a child rapist in the Epstein network on how to retrain his Gestapo troops while also building a vast network of concentration camps to kidnap women and children all over the country.
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JUST IN: DOJ is trying to help Steve Bannon erase his conviction for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee. Motion has no career prosecutor on it, just signed by US Attorney Pirro. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 9, 2026 at 7:11 PM
JUST IN: DOJ is trying to help Steve Bannon erase his conviction for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee. Motion has no career prosecutor on it, just signed by US Attorney Pirro. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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“No matter how Ring and other surveillance tech companies may downplay it, there’s no world in which finding lost dogs is the final end-use for this technology.”
Opinion | Ring is using lost dogs to make the surveillance state adorable
The same technology the Amazon-owned company uses to find lost dogs could easily be turned against their owners.
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February 9, 2026 at 11:00 PM
“No matter how Ring and other surveillance tech companies may downplay it, there’s no world in which finding lost dogs is the final end-use for this technology.”
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“.. They are basically taking everyone in there working, whether they have proper documentation or not. .. when you are terrorizing jobsites, people are afraid to go to work”
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February 9, 2026 at 11:54 PM
“.. They are basically taking everyone in there working, whether they have proper documentation or not. .. when you are terrorizing jobsites, people are afraid to go to work”
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Veto-proof majorities passed Medicaid expansion in the Mississippi Legislature in 2024.
But they gridlocked as the Senate demanded work requirements—which Senate leaders said they'd be able to get when Trump returned.
Now, they say Medicaid expansion is dead thanks to Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill."
But they gridlocked as the Senate demanded work requirements—which Senate leaders said they'd be able to get when Trump returned.
Now, they say Medicaid expansion is dead thanks to Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill."
Medicaid Expansion Dead in Mississippi Due to Trump Cuts, Top Republican Says
Mississippi won’t expand Medicaid this year because of federal Medicaid funding cuts under Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.
www.mississippifreepress.org
February 10, 2026 at 12:38 AM
Veto-proof majorities passed Medicaid expansion in the Mississippi Legislature in 2024.
But they gridlocked as the Senate demanded work requirements—which Senate leaders said they'd be able to get when Trump returned.
Now, they say Medicaid expansion is dead thanks to Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill."
But they gridlocked as the Senate demanded work requirements—which Senate leaders said they'd be able to get when Trump returned.
Now, they say Medicaid expansion is dead thanks to Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill."
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.@JamesTalarico to Joe Rogan: I taught this kid named Justin, who had brought a knife to school. We started to build a rapport.
I found out he had started a fight. That was his last strike.
After budget cuts, the district had eliminated his therapist. His lifeline went away.
I found out he had started a fight. That was his last strike.
After budget cuts, the district had eliminated his therapist. His lifeline went away.
February 9, 2026 at 11:50 PM
.@JamesTalarico to Joe Rogan: I taught this kid named Justin, who had brought a knife to school. We started to build a rapport.
I found out he had started a fight. That was his last strike.
After budget cuts, the district had eliminated his therapist. His lifeline went away.
I found out he had started a fight. That was his last strike.
After budget cuts, the district had eliminated his therapist. His lifeline went away.
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Republican lawmakers prefer to remain soulless lackeys collecting money and power by supporting Trump. But they've got to see disaster ahead as he becomes ever more mentally unhinged. He's now predicting that if Canada cuts a trade deal with China, the Chinese will BAN HOCKEY IN CANADA.
Trump, in the middle of his latest unhinged Truth Social screed, claims that if Canada makes a trade deal with China, "the first thing China will do is terminate ALL Ice Hockey being played in Canada, and permanently eliminate The Stanley Cup."
February 10, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Republican lawmakers prefer to remain soulless lackeys collecting money and power by supporting Trump. But they've got to see disaster ahead as he becomes ever more mentally unhinged. He's now predicting that if Canada cuts a trade deal with China, the Chinese will BAN HOCKEY IN CANADA.
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Bannon knows too much about Trump and Epstein, so Blanche is taking very good care of him to keep him quiet just like with Maxwell. Blanche is the lynchpin- he has assumed full authority given to him by Trump to protect the worst of the worst.
February 10, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Bannon knows too much about Trump and Epstein, so Blanche is taking very good care of him to keep him quiet just like with Maxwell. Blanche is the lynchpin- he has assumed full authority given to him by Trump to protect the worst of the worst.
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Another ridiculous price tag that Trump is forcing you to pay.
This is YOUR money.
You deserve a government that works for you, not against you and your financial interests.
This is YOUR money.
You deserve a government that works for you, not against you and your financial interests.
Trump administration's changes to the CFPB cost Americans $19B, a new report says
The Trump administration has significantly reduced the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's activities over the past year.
apnews.com
February 9, 2026 at 11:12 PM
Another ridiculous price tag that Trump is forcing you to pay.
This is YOUR money.
You deserve a government that works for you, not against you and your financial interests.
This is YOUR money.
You deserve a government that works for you, not against you and your financial interests.