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The most unserious snowflake in Congress Rep Ogles continues to waste everyone’s time and taxpayer money.

Stuff like this is why his re-election campaign owes more than it has. Even Republicans are embarrassed by him.

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February 15, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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Platner's dismissive comments about sexual assault in the military were so disgusting that a candidate who had experienced assault in the service dropped out to endorse Mills rather than risk Platner getting into the senate. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/progressiv...
Progressive Candidate Has Dropped Out Of ME Senate Race
Not Platner. Daira Smith-Rodriguez
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February 15, 2026 at 7:10 AM
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Remarkable: Majority of working class voters oppose deportations of undocumented immigrants with jobs/no criminal records, per new Marquette data.

Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here:

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February 14, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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Can’t believe we are still doing this
February 15, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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Madonna releases “Borderline” 42 years ago today — her fifth and final single from her debut album and her first Top 10 hit.

The iconic video carved a path for other, narrative-driven videos on MTV. “I knew what I wanted to look like. .. I knew what I wanted to be about. I had very clear ideas.”
February 15, 2026 at 1:48 PM
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Watched and really enjoyed “One Battle After Another,” although the most unbelievable thing about it — more so than the elite wealthy country-club league of racist assassins — was the ubiquity of pay phones.
February 14, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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Epstein survivor Danielle Bensky: "There were 3 times that Bondi could have turned around in that room & just looked us in the eye. Just the sheer acknowledgment that we were human would have been enough. And she couldn't even do that. She reminded us we are nothing to her."
February 15, 2026 at 6:27 AM
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Students walked out re ICE in many states. In TX, they protested despite threats from Gov Abbott: school districts could lose funding and that students should be arrested. He warned that districts found to have facilitated walkouts could be taken over by the state.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/u...
Students Across the U.S. Are Protesting ICE. Texas Wants to Punish Their Schools.
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2026 at 1:28 PM
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Good job students 👍
February 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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⚖️ Trump lost in court 4 TIMES this week. FOUR. TIMES. Judges are DONE with his BS and the losses keep piling up...
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February 15, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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EU foreign chief Kaja Kallas said Russia is receiving more at the negotiating table than it achieved on the battlefield. She stated Moscow barely moved beyond the 2014 front line at the cost of 1.2 million casualties and is now putting forward unrealistic demands in negotiations. #Ukraine
February 15, 2026 at 11:31 AM
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"Helping enslaved people would have been dangerous and costly in the early 19th century, when New York was a proslavery city, with heavy investment in the banking, insurance and merchant industries that relied on slave labor from the South..." #BlackHistoryMonth
February 15, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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In the East Village, Hiding in Plain Sight: A Secret Passage to the Underground Railroad www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/n...
In the East Village, Hiding in Plain Sight: A Secret Passage to the Underground Railroad
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February 15, 2026 at 11:11 AM
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Susan B. Anthony was tried and arrested for voting in my hometown of Canandaigua, NY, at a time when only men were allowed to vote. She was found guilty and fined $100, which she did not pay. I feel her with me as a woman who may lose my right to vote under this administration.
February 15, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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LLMs do not understand, will not understand, and cannot ever understand information. It's a glorified search engine combined with auto-compete, and you should treat it as such. No matter how much LLM companies try to tell you their machines can think or reason, they cannot and will not.

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February 14, 2026 at 7:55 PM
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February 15, 2026 at 12:34 PM
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February 15, 2026 at 12:33 PM
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The Trump administration's move to revoke the EPA's “endangerment finding,” which determined that greenhouse gases pose a risk to public health, comes as scientists warn of a “point of no return” in global warming. @govjayinslee.bsky.social joins me @ 11 a.m. EST to discuss what's at stake. #Velshi
February 14, 2026 at 1:24 PM
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“This is personally deadly for Americans," said @govjayinslee.bsky.social about the Trump administration’s move to repeal a key climate change finding which serves as a basis for regulating greenhouse gas emissions #velshi
A ‘deadly’ move: The EPA repeals landmark climate finding
The Trump administration is repealing the EPA’s Endangerment Finding, the legal basis for regulating greenhouse gas emissions. “Of all of Trump's outrages - invading Greenland, putting tariffs on us, you know, election tampering - of all the outrages, I think this actually might be the most consequential because it leads to more deaths,” said Jay Inslee, the fmr. governor of Washington and longtime climate activist. “This is personally deadly for Americans...there is a legal obligation to rein in these pollutants when you find there's a danger to health.”
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February 14, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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Dilley, Texas calls itself “a slice of the good life.” It's also home to one of the nation’s largest family immigration detention centers. Children describe fear, illness, and uncertainty as detentions surge. Ali breaks down how this small town became central to his deportation push. #Velshi
Inside Dilley: The Texas Town at the Center of Trump’s Family Detention Surge
Dilley, Texas calls itself “A slice of the good life,” but for hundreds of detained families, life there looks very different. Letters written by detained children and shared with ProPublica paint a harrowing picture of life inside the Dilley Immigration Processing Center. Ali breaks down the Trump administration's new strategy of quickly transferring migrants to Texas, where appeals are heard by the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, a court widely seen as favorable to the administration’s immigration agenda.
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February 14, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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Federal law limits how long minors can be held in ICE custody to 20 days. New reporting by ProPublica found hundreds of children detained for a month or more. Vox's @imillhiser.bsky.social notes, "Whatever the law says, it only matters if you have good courts that are able to enforce the law."
Seeking admission: How a federal appeals court in Texas decision supercharged ICE
The Trump-aligned Fifth Circuit Court in Texas just handed the Trump administration broad authority to lock up scores of detained immigrants, provided it can get them to Texas, Louisiana, or Mississippi. As legal challenges to their detention soar, the Trump administration has begun transferring arrests from Minnesota and other places to Texas, where their challenges can be heard by courts that are friendlier to the White House. While federal law dictates that migrants detained inside the country may be released while their cases work their way through courts, Vox's Senior correspondent, Ian Millhiser, says, "Trump has started to apply the rules that apply to people at the border to every immigrant in the country."
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February 14, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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@jennyboylan.bsky.social’s body of work has always been a masterclass in empathy and understanding. And today? In the midst of so much division? “None of us is any one thing,” she reminds us. #Velshi #VelshiBannedBookClub

www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/w...
Velshi Banned Book Club: ‘Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us’ by Jennifer Finney Boylan
Author Jennifer Finney Boylan’s remarkable life has been examined across five memoirs through humor, well-placed anecdotes, and pitch-perfect detail. Her latest memoir, "Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us", explores the transgender experience, but also love, family, and the ever-constant of change.
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February 14, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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Happy birthday Galileo Galilei. 🎂
So true these days...
February 15, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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New post about tariffs. Last week two reports found that foreigners have borne very little of the cost. But the CPI came in somewhat soft. Is there a contradiction? As I explain, no.

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Who Is Paying the Trump Tariffs?
A wonkish guide for the confused
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February 15, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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“The real story here is about what happens when one part of the government decides that safety regulations are merely suggestions, and another part of the government has the audacity to disagree.”
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The Pentagon's Laser Weapon vs a Party Balloon (Guess Who Won?)
So let me get this straight.
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February 14, 2026 at 4:29 PM