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dieworkwear.bsky.social
one of my strongest beliefs is that we're in our situation right now bc some of the most prominent talking heads (e.g. joe rogan, andrew schulz) are learning about politics in their 40s and 50s, instead of their teens and early 20s, and we have to go along for the ride as they learn basic things
February 4, 2026 at 10:10 PM
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jbpritzker.bsky.social
$4 billion for Trump and his family.

Higher prices for you.
The New Yorker Article: Trump's Profiteering Hits $4 Billion
February 5, 2026 at 1:27 AM
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jbenmenachem.com
Felton bylined the best story WaPo did on the encampments www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/...
February 4, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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cwebbonline.com
Heads are going to explode 💥

Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.

All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
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February 4, 2026 at 7:08 PM
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newsjennifer.bsky.social
Incredible work here by local Chicago journalists investigating two of the especially violent DHS agents terrorizing people in Chicago & MSP. Using body cam footage, after-action reports, social media videos & much more, @unraveledpress.com tells a jarring and must read story:
Border Patrol Agent Michael Sveum (EZ-2) throws a canister of CS gas in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. Source: Status Coup Border Patrol Agent Edgar Vazquez (EZ-17) fires a chemical munition directly into the face of a man in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026. Source: Status Coup
February 4, 2026 at 10:05 PM
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19thnews.org
As Republican lawmakers move toward permanently banning gender-affirming care in Utah, lawmakers continue to sidestep public dialogue about the results of research which concluded that this care for minors with gender dysphoria is largely found to result in positive outcomes.

From @sltrib.com:
Utah lawmakers sweep their own study on care for trans kids under the rug as they push to ban it
“They have no intention of actually using the data,” a Utah health provider treating transgender youth said.
19thnews.org
February 4, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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chrislehmann.bsky.social
Jeff Bezos, journalistic supervillain: my latest for @thenation.com thenation.com/article/society/washington-post-layoffs-analysis-jeff-bezos/?nc=1
Jeff Bezos’s Destruction of “The Washington Post” Is a Disgraceful Plutocratic Crime
It turns out that democracy doesn’t die in darkness at all—it succumbs to repeated group muggings at the hands of the monied power elite.
thenation.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:02 PM
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samhalpert.bsky.social
This is brilliant. I'm so grateful for this testimony. I've transcribed it to use in letters I'm writing. Sharing the full transcription here (see alt text to copy/paste it):
"I'd like to share a story from a local paper in Coldwater, Michigan dated to the 9th of April, 1945. It tells how the US Army, under General Patton--the US 3rd Army--came onto what you might call a detention center just outside the village of Ohrdruf, Germany. The US Army brought the leading citizens of Ohrdruf to tour the facility, which turned out to be part of the Buchenwald network of concentration camps. A US Army colonel told the German civilians who viewed the scenes, without muttering a word, that they were to blame. One of the Germans replied that what happened in the camp was (quote) 'done by a few people, and you cannot blame us all.' And the American, who could have been any one of our grandfathers, said, 'this was done by those that the German people chose to lead them, and all are responsible.' The morning after the tour, the Mayor of Ohrdruf killed himself. And maybe he did not know the full extent of the outrages that were committed in his community, but he knew enough. And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough. I ask you to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf might have thought before he died. Maybe he felt like a victim. He might have thought, 'how is this my fault? I have no jurisdiction over this.' Maybe he would have said, 'this site was not subject to local zoning, what could I do?' But I think, when he reflected on the suffering that occurred at this camp, just outside of town, that those words would have sounded hollow even to him. Because in his heart he knew--as we do--that we are all responsible for what happens in our community. I urge the council to take action to stop, or stall, or at the barest minimum to think creatively about how to exercise oversight over this proposed ICE facility. Thank you."
February 4, 2026 at 2:20 PM
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pbump.com
These are the last words in the last column I wrote for The Washington Post, titled "When institutions crumble, strongmen step in". www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
This is nonetheless more favorable terrain for Trump than for the American system. As New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan once wrote (here in The Post), “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” Trump has for years stoked the idea that actually, having your own facts is fine. And even as his base chooses facts that he finds inconvenient in the moment, he’s still pushing toward the next phase: Everyone is entitled to the facts that Trump presents. What institutions of power will be left to disagree?
February 4, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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cato.org
The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023.

The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets.

https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3
February 3, 2026 at 5:27 PM
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adamserwer.bsky.social
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...
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d
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
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thetnholler.bsky.social
Help us out, we suck at math — which is more $125 million or $8 million?
February 2, 2026 at 5:41 AM
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nstenhouse.bsky.social
Looking at the list of 19 new CBS News commentators, the median number of times they appear in the searchable Epstein database is 2 and the mean is 100
Peter Attia 1752 Niall Ferguson 59 HR McMaster 35 Janna Levin 27 Roland Fryer 9 Derek Thompson 6 Mark Hyman 5 Roger Carstens 3 Arthur Brooks 2 Reihan Salam 2 Elliot Ackerman 0 Masih Alinejad 0 Caroline Chambers 0 Clare de Boer 0 Andrew Huberman 0 Casey Lewis 0 Patrick McGee 0 Lauren Sherman 0
January 31, 2026 at 4:46 PM
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altnps.bsky.social
Ocean Beach this morning… just wow!!
February 1, 2026 at 1:24 AM
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thetnholler.bsky.social
ROLLING STONE: “The damage from Miller’s grand designs are plain for all to see. Americans’ mistrust and hyper-partisanship has grown only more poisonous. The country feels like a tinder box and Miller, and ICE are running around with lit matches.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
January 31, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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daveweigel.bsky.social
Wow -- incredible!!!
January 30, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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therickydavila.bsky.social
Illegally arresting journalists before releasing the Epstein Files.

Falsifying Georgia voting records before releasing the Epstein Files.

Tying to destroy the independence of Federal Reserve before releasing the Epstein Files.

Never stop talking about the Epstein Files.
January 30, 2026 at 3:32 PM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
So this administration has charged an independent Black journalist reporting in Minnesota but not two white agents who murdered two citizens
January 30, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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audacityofdespair.bsky.social
"In theater" is a military term that refers to a wartime theater of operations. ICE and CBP agents are in Minnesota, which is one of the United States. The enemy in this military operation are citizens of Minnesotans and the United States.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d
Q: Can you be specific about how many ICE and CBP agents are currently operating in the state?

HOMAN: 3,000. There's been some rotations. They've been in theater a long time. Day after day, can't eat in restaurants, people spin on you, blowing whistles at you. But my main focus now is draw down
January 29, 2026 at 5:59 PM
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michiganadvance.com
In a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday night, U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin called for the resignation, firing or impeachment of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in the wake of the killing of ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis on Saturday.

Story from @kdailey.bsky.social
Slotkin calls for Noem to step down, DHS funding to be halted without ICE reform • Michigan Advance
In a speech on the Senate floor Wednesday night, U.S. Sen. Elissa Slotkin called for the resignation, firing or impeachment of Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in the wake of the killing of ...
michiganadvance.com
January 29, 2026 at 4:07 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Amazon just announced another round of 16,000 layoffs, months after it laid off 14,000 workers.

Reminder that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raked in over $40M in 2024.

And Amazon is spending at least $75 million producing and promoting the Melania documentary.

The system is rigged.
January 29, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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cwilliams.thedevyroyale.com
Shedeur making the Pro Bowl is like a Little Leaguer making the local All-Star team because the league organizer needed their parent to coach.
January 26, 2026 at 6:14 PM
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gtconway.bsky.social
Exactly. Report the facts. One of the most striking facts here are the lies. And they are lies. Intentional lies.
kylec.bsky.social Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 12d
Journalists, please remember that repeating obviously false statements is not balance or fairness. It is actively participating in deception.
January 25, 2026 at 2:06 PM
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katzish.bsky.social
Truly amazing that tech leaders and Republican members of Congress aren’t brave enough to stand up to Trump/Miller while literal children in a concentration camp dare to protest apnews.com/article/texa...
Immigrant families protest at Texas facility housing 5-year-old boy, father detained in Minnesota
Dozens of immigrant families protested behind the fences of a Texas detention facility where a 5-year-old boy Ecuadorian boy and his father were sent this week after being detained in Minnesota.
apnews.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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ilhanmn.bsky.social
Deporting children with cancer.
Using a 5-year-old as bait.
Shooting moms.

ICE is beyond reform. And today the House is voting to bankroll more terror. Hell no.
January 22, 2026 at 5:02 PM