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🚨 Epstein survivors release this powerful PSA in advance of the Super Bowl demanding answers from the Justice Department. This is the Super Bowl ad every American should see. Spread it everywhere.

We’ll whaddyaknow—another Trump scam

People over the last year keep electing Democrats, not because they love Democrats, but because they loathe and fear Trump.

YouTube video by Kermode and Mayo's Take Mark Kermode reviews Melania

You probably don’t want to hear another word about “Melania.“ But on the slim Chance you that might, please watch @kermodemovie.bsky.social. You will be rewarded.

The GOP is going harder after a five year old than people in the Epstein files.

My first grader (a US citizen) came home from school crying because a friend from class (also a US citizen) hasn’t been coming to school because his parents (one of whom is not a citizen) are afraid of ICE.

Little kids don’t have concepts of racism and xenophobia. That has to be taught. Or imposed.

Meet the mastermind behind Trump’s definition of "woman" May Mailman’s anti-trans crusade could threaten gender equality for all.

"My Taylor Swift.”

That’s what Riley Gaines had to say about May Mailman, the mastermind behind the administration’s most sweeping anti-trans orders.

Now scholars are warning that those orders could have far-reaching repercussions for the rights of all women.

Bruce Arthur: U.S. Olympic athletes are speaking out about the state of their country — as Trump seethes Athletes rarely speak out against their own governments at the Olympics. This year has proven an exception, writes Bruce Arthur.

U.S. Olympic athletes are speaking out about the state of their country — as Trump seethes #Opinion

Joy Reid Goes All The Way Off On Nicki Minaj Calling Her A "House Pet" For The MAGA Movement Joy Reid is not holding back when it comes to her thoughts on Nicki Minaj’s latest political pivot. During a recent appearance on The Don Lemon Show, the veteran journalist delivered a scathing critique of the rapper’s relationship with Donald Trump and the MAGA movement. Reid accused the Republican party of using Minaj as a "house pet" to provide a sense of "blackface" and legitimacy to their cause. According to Reid, the embrace of the "Super Freaky Girl" rapper isn't about her music or her views, but rather a desperate need for the GOP to tap into Black "cultural cool." Reid explained that the right wing is essentially keeping Minaj on a "leash" because they are chasing the influence that Black creators naturally bring to the table. “The reason they want her on a leash as their house pet cuddled at Donald Trump’s feet... is because they need, N-E-E-E-D Black people to give them ‘cultural cool,’” Reid stated. She argued that while Trump and his team might welcome the endorsement, they would likely be "horrified" if they actually sat down and listened to the lyrical content of her songs. Reid also took several personal shots at Nicki’s legacy and her character, comparing her unfavorably to other industry giants. “She’ll never be Rihanna. She’ll never have a brand like Rihanna. She’ll never be Beyoncé,” Reid claimed, adding that Minaj is a "40-some year-old" artist who has shown a lack of concern for the Black community and immigrants, despite her own history as an undocumented immigrant from Trinidad. Reid also suggested that the rapper has officially lost the very "cool" the GOP is trying to buy. She warned that the alliance is strictly transactional and that the MAGA crowd will move on as soon as they find a newer Black face to represent them. “Nikki ain’t s**t and she ain’t saying nothing. And a 100 little Barbs can’t tell me nothing. Y’all mad about it, be mad about it,” Reid said defiantly. She concluded by making it clear that she believes the strategy won't work in the long run, even if the right continues to look for Black figures to act as a shield for their movement. Joy Reid claims Trump and MAGA are using Nicki Minaj as a "pet" to put a Black face on MAGA, because MAGA "needs" the power of Black culture to seem "cool." "Black ‘cultural cool’ has always been a powerful, powerful element in the country.” Follow: @AFpost pic.twitter.com/JNEs6Yv9sv — AF Post (@AFpost) February 7, 2026

Joy Reid Goes All The Way Off On Nicki Minaj Calling Her A "House Pet" For The MAGA Movement

How Big Gaming Is Swallowing Up the Big Game The Super Bowl will showcase the lords of legalized betting, even as they’ve already colonized every other reach of human experience.

By relentlessly “gamifying” human experience, legalized gambling is poised to make even the most personal and idiosyncratic features of our lives fodder for transactional prognosticating.
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He Served Those Who Served: Portrait of a Man Named Pretti It’s better to not know heroes exist than to find out they did only after they’re gone.

“When our country grew tired of the broken people it called heroes, they went to Alex Pretti at the VA. He found them on their worst day and asked them, “are you okay?”” www.liberalcurrents.com/he-served-th...

Did he say how?

The underground network: Prehistoric fungi feed the world’s plants and resist climate change, but face an uncertain future Trillions of miles of tiny fungal tubes embedded in soil transport nutrients to crops and other plants and fight climate change by storing carbon. Scientists are racing to understand how these…

In case you missed it: Prehistoric fungi feed the world's plants and resist climate change, but face an uncertain future. ⬇️

I’ll be happy to do it if we can make this bargain: Trump can build all the monuments he wants to himself….Provided that he reserves a fund for demolishing them the minute he dies.

Justin Wolfers & Julie K. Brown Podcast Episode · Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast · 02/07/2026 · 56m

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Pod Reco:
Don’t miss. economy. Fed. Epstein. One of her best.
@mollyjongfast.bsky.social with @justinwolfers.bsky.social and @jkbjournalist.bsky.social

How about his vote to confirm RFK Jr? Does he regret that one?

Watch in the coming years for the drumbeat to turn SNAP into a block grant, and remember what happened to TANF.
Same pattern: add so many administrative burdens that states say it would be easier to just take cash, and then fail to deliver that cash to the poor.

Fewer. Impeachment takes only a simple majority of those present and voting in the House. We could get that with a handful of GOP abstentions. It's only in the Senate where we'd need a large block of Republicans to cross-over or abstain to reach the required 2/3 majority for conviction and removal.

The Sordid Story of Trump, the Trump–Witkoff Family Business, and the UAE | National Review Even if crypto makes your head hurt, you’re going to be hearing a lot about this in the months to come.

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The Empire Crumbles During Commercial Breaks Super Bowl culture wars, ICE abroad, Trump’s Board of Peace grift, and Tulsi Gabbard’s classified lockdown

Mary Geddry welcomes you to Super Bowl Sunday:
"Because America is now incapable of holding even a sporting event without turning it into a referendum on authoritarianism, the Super Bowl is arriving this weekend as a national culture-war potluck where everyone brought something unhinged."

Even with the so-called "drawdown," many Minneapolis area activists say little has changed since hundreds of agents left and they're preparing for prolonged resistance. The anxiety remains palpable after two fatal shootings of US Citizens by federal agents in January. https://cnn.it/4rAFZ34

"Cooperation with federal immigration enforcement is emerging as a major dividing line between red and blue states — and a source of intensifying conflict between President Donald Trump's administration and local Democratic officials," writes Ronald Brownstein | Analysis
https://cnn.it/4qn2Z4Q

I’d like to give you a prize for coining “beschmutz”

These would be the same people who claimed that climate change is a hoax? Who refused to do anything to slow carbon emissions?

Let’s all be crystal clear about this: the SAVE Act is not meant to solve the problem of voter fraud. That problem is non-existent. The SAVE Act is intended to solve the problem of a GOP wipeout in November — because that problem has them terrified.

Schiff on the SAVE Act: "Jonathan, what you've just asked is essentially, Republicans have created distrust in the elections by making claims of nonexistent fraud, and shouldn't we use the distrust they've created in order to enact a voter suppression law?"

I was asked to check this, the journal uses a Rail Fence Cipher, so you read each line up and down, left to right. The deciphered text in the article below is accurate, and names names. The file itself can be found here:
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I hope we’re keeping records of the donor lists so we can bill them for the cost of demolishing and replacing all of Trump‘s desecrations

FYI: 82-year-old Mick Jagger, 82-year-old Keith Richards, 83-year-old Paul McCartney, 84-year-old Bob Dylan can still pack in the crowds