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Imagine seeing this and still thinking we need incrementalism. Social media has totally cooked people's brains. We got intelligent people who aren't willing to see the forest for the trees because they don't want to admit they were wrong to a bunch of people they'll never meet in real life.

03.02.2026 16:41 — 👍 1580    🔁 346    💬 32    📌 6
While the Treasury Department has denied the existence of a contract for this work, IRS engineers were invited to another three-day “training and building session” on the project located at Palantir’s Georgetown offices in Washington, DC, this week, according to a document viewed by WIRED.

While the Treasury Department has denied the existence of a contract for this work, IRS engineers were invited to another three-day “training and building session” on the project located at Palantir’s Georgetown offices in Washington, DC, this week, according to a document viewed by WIRED.

They started building this immigrant-hunting nightmare system without a contract directly at Palantir headquarters.

If you don't know much about government contracting you might not know why that is bad.

But if you do, it is breathtaking.

03.02.2026 06:22 — 👍 105    🔁 34    💬 4    📌 3

So weird, also they always ask me specifically for $225.00, really curious how they came up with that.

03.02.2026 04:42 — 👍 65    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 1

This article definitely makes me think that overhauling what sort of databases we have and who has access to them and how and when is a critical next move too, but likely a much trickier one to accomplish, both politically and practically.

03.02.2026 04:14 — 👍 45    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 1
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They want us working earlier and til we die to pay for their tax cuts for the rich. Supervillains.

03.02.2026 04:15 — 👍 13300    🔁 4761    💬 2726    📌 929

Go yell at them Thursday, bay area. #IceOutTheBay

02.02.2026 21:15 — 👍 28    🔁 15    💬 1    📌 0
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DNI Gabbard put Trump on the phone with FBI agents who searched Fulton County elections office, sources say | CNN Politics Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard put President Donald Trump on the phone with some of the FBI agents who had conducted a controversial search of an elections office in Fulton County, Ge...

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard put President Donald Trump on the phone with some of the FBI agents who had conducted a controversial search of an elections office in Fulton County, Georgia, last week, two sources familiar with the call told CNN.

03.02.2026 02:31 — 👍 93    🔁 57    💬 19    📌 7

My plan in crosswalks at rush hour in Palo Alto is to avoid them and jaywalk in the middle of the block because every driver takes a turn at 45 MPH

03.02.2026 02:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Derp blue evening sky, Union Dquate buildings, pathway leading to them, 2 ChatGPT billboards in sort of the style of apple billboards but instead of people dancing with iPods or examples of photos people are poking sticks into tide pools. I guess it’s a metaphor.

Derp blue evening sky, Union Dquate buildings, pathway leading to them, 2 ChatGPT billboards in sort of the style of apple billboards but instead of people dancing with iPods or examples of photos people are poking sticks into tide pools. I guess it’s a metaphor.

#sanfrancisco #streetphotography

03.02.2026 02:34 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Judge Reyes starts with a comparison: George Washington versus Kristi Noem.

03.02.2026 00:48 — 👍 3305    🔁 964    💬 58    📌 103

It's probably not a good "reform" if your opponents adopt it before you even pass the bill

02.02.2026 21:51 — 👍 983    🔁 168    💬 19    📌 4

We didn't say body cams on ICE. Their murders are already on video. We said no more ICE.

02.02.2026 22:16 — 👍 6116    🔁 1471    💬 47    📌 18

Watching elected Ds use the Epstein Files as a punchline instead of treating it as a nightmare children lived through and will forever be scarred by is unbelievable. These victims had the guts to come forward and speak about dangerous and powerful individuals on the record and nothing happened

02.02.2026 17:34 — 👍 777    🔁 155    💬 6    📌 6
Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

02.02.2026 18:30 — 👍 25433    🔁 8056    💬 829    📌 1136

Incrementalists take it on the chin again. This is why they hate Mamdani. He's giving up the game that people in power HAVE POWER and don't solely exist to beg you for $5 every day. He's ruining the Democratic Party by showing voters that they have the power to do stuff instead of crouching in fear

02.02.2026 17:20 — 👍 5284    🔁 1493    💬 27    📌 25
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House Democrats must vote ‘no’ on DHS funding tomorrow. Our country is in the middle of a five alarm fire, and we must act like it.

While ICE agents are killing Americans in the street and using five year old children as bait, we should not give that agency another dime.

02.02.2026 19:02 — 👍 2801    🔁 627    💬 31    📌 33

the whole country is on fucking fire and Mamdani is just over there going down the checklist of shitty things no one should have allowed rich people to get away with, and honestly it gives me hope for a better world.

02.02.2026 19:05 — 👍 1308    🔁 344    💬 10    📌 0
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I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home.

But did you look at the judge's order?

It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept."

Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

02.02.2026 19:11 — 👍 12381    🔁 4311    💬 641    📌 446

Simply couldn’t imagine being enough of a loser to go to the official “wasn’t slavery neat?” dinner

02.02.2026 19:26 — 👍 967    🔁 186    💬 21    📌 0

Figured

02.02.2026 21:52 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Wikipedia article: A Kavanaugh stop is a law enforcement practice in the United States in which federal agents can stop and detain a person based on their perceived ethnicity, spoken language, or occupation. Kavanaugh stops originated in a September 2025 Supreme Court concurrence by Justice Brett Kavanaugh in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo.

Wikipedia article: A Kavanaugh stop is a law enforcement practice in the United States in which federal agents can stop and detain a person based on their perceived ethnicity, spoken language, or occupation. Kavanaugh stops originated in a September 2025 Supreme Court concurrence by Justice Brett Kavanaugh in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo.

Kavanaugh should be proud.
He left his mark in history.
He will be remembered.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kavanau...

01.02.2026 20:30 — 👍 244    🔁 46    💬 4    📌 0

We love our San Francisco tourists who support the thriving industry of little shops that sell sweatshirts and extra luggage to hold all the sweatshirts to people who visit in the summer.

01.02.2026 19:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fear, faith and preparation as ICE closes in on an Ohio community • Ohio Capital Journal Church-supervised hubs to house and care for children separated from their parents. Volunteers to deliver food to hungry neighbors. Training on what to do if ICE agents breach churches. These are…

Fear, faith and preparation as ICE closes in on an Ohio community ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/30/f...

01.02.2026 17:04 — 👍 9    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

My unsolicited recommendation that will be completely ignored:

A lot of terrible people who helped re-elect Trump will jump off the ship. They will be embraced by Democrats and corporate media.

Make them earn it. Make them show their homework.

Or else this cycle repeats itself again and again.

01.02.2026 15:50 — 👍 1192    🔁 241    💬 68    📌 21

Exactly

01.02.2026 15:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Important to understand that:

Normal people hate Trump.
Normal people hate ICE.
Normal people hate fascists.
Normal people hate secret police executing people in the street, shooting priests in the head with pepper balls, and kidnapping little kids with Spider-Man backpacks and bunny hats.

01.02.2026 14:27 — 👍 685    🔁 209    💬 4    📌 7
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5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, father board plane for Minneapolis after detention center release A federal judge on Saturday ordered that the pair be released.

Liam and his dad are finally free and on their way back home to Minnesota.

They never should have been kidnapped in the first place.

abcnews.go.com/amp/US/5-yea...

01.02.2026 15:25 — 👍 596    🔁 156    💬 13    📌 20
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How is he president on Monday?

01.02.2026 04:29 — 👍 11    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 1

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