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I thought about why I’ve been pushing back on stolen midterm fears. What’s the harm of worry, even if it doesn’t materialize?

It’s this. The regime has less capacity than it’d like, and tries to make up the difference with bluster. If people act as if it’s true, that grants the regime more power.

honestly about as big of a psychospiritual fuck you to ICE as i can imagine

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Absolutely right. Democrats backed a national ban on gerrymandering while Republicans pushed their advantage in key states. This evens things up but also draws us closer to real reform.

Reactionaries use this meme constantly. I'm sure you've seen it. The actual politicians' records show that it's a lie.

Here's the source link for you to paste in next time you see someone using the deceptive meme below. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

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In 1924, a racist mob of Piedmont residents forced a Black family to flee their home.

Sidney and Iréne Dearing were Piedmont's first Black home owners. A new lawsuit by their descendants alleges that city officials fraudulently took steps to push them out.

oaklandside.org/2026/02/04/p...

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

Oklahoma receives $18 billion more in federal funds than it gives with 12.2 percent from California. Nearly half of Oklahoma's government revenue is from federal funding. Just say thank you and be on your way, asshole.

conservatives cannot abide the fact that they can't control the levers of culture the way they do the levers of power.

A fine is merely the cost of doing business. We need to be throwing C-suite level people in jail.

Accountability for ICE and CBP However bad you think the corruption and misconduct at ICE and CBP is — the reality is far far worse.

"Indeed, for much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States."

www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

#ICE #CBP #corruption

The Democrats didn’t flip a red seat in the Texas Senate.

The PEOPLE flipped a red seat in the Texas Senate.

Anyway congrats to our Free Speech Champions(tm) who helped usher in the most censorious American government since the Palmer Raids

There are 3,800 kids in ICE custody.

Reminder: There's no such thing as a "moderate" ideology. There exists no set of ideas upon which moderates agree. That's why efforts to create centrist parties always fail.

A "moderate" Dem is one who embraces Republican policies. The real question: What are those policies?

‼️This famous photo from the Minnesota Tribune on Jan. 21 is from this incident, involving at least three of the same agents from Alex Pretti's killing.

Thanks to the people replying who tipped me off to this.

If humanities were useless AI companies would not be scrambling to ingest all the work of writers/thinkers/artists/journalists/etc. They, in fact, cannot do anything without that kind of work. But devaluing it is a great way to get people to give it to you for free/little $$, or justify stealing it

this story quotes:

- A trump ambassador
- A museum run by Trump appointees
- Stop Antisemitism, an organization funded by right-wing donors

... aaannnnddd that's it! Not a single scholar of the Holocaust. Not anyone unaffiliated with Walz' political opponents.

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

While glad to see Bovino humbled, I really don’t have any higher opinion of Homan—a cruel, cold, corrupt, calculating bureaucrat who’s devoted more of his career to mass deportation than almost anyone. He’s the architect of child separation.

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE

Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

If they can’t blame the victim, they move on to blaming the community, city, state. It’s a classic framing contest and they’re working within group to find a strategic frame that their audiences can use to place blame on the other side for atrocities their eyes (on the video evidence) can’t deny.

Remember, per testimony before the J6 committee, Trump told officials to remove screening equipment at the Ellipse rally meant to prevent people from bringing in firearms.

DFL Party Statement on Trump and Bondi's Attempt to Extort Our State Voter Rolls "Donald Trump and Pam Bondi are demanding access to Minnesotans’ voter rolls in exchange for relieving us from the federal siege we are under," said DFL Party Chair Richard Carlbom. "Let us be direct: Fuck off."

Thinking back, we probably should not have elected the horrifying nazi pedophile with severe dementia to be president of the United States

The majority of organizing happening in Minnesota isn’t just peaceful, it’s INVISIBLE. Moms showing up who won’t be interviewed on TV, people whose ICE patrols don’t turn into viral video. The grocery runs, the donations, the people filming bc they happen to be there. Please remember this.

Since the GOP position has, overnight, morphed into, "Yes, there are restrictions on when and where you can carry a gun," this is the moment for gun safety groups to say, "Good. Let's discuss what those restrictions should look like."

Of course the GOP is acting in bad faith, but this boxes them in

Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics

I remain absolutely furious that all this shit in Minneapolis started because a barely-literate homeschooled mormon made a video trying to run up in daycare centers trying to find people of Somalian descent doing fraud despite the ringleader (a white woman) being in jail since March. Demonic.