The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...
22.02.2026 23:01 β π 16921 π 6045 π¬ 410 π 156
The reference to families is the extra touch that makes Trump a lowlife thug and Trump followers fucking trash.
20.02.2026 21:25 β π 3252 π 583 π¬ 126 π 15
A complete and total disgrace.
21.02.2026 03:16 β π 145 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Susan Collins hands Trump the 50th vote against free and fair elections
When it comes to free and fair elections, Collins is as conservative and anti-voting rights as they come.
Collins stood silently in the Oval Office clutching a red MAGA hat as Trump told lies about our elections and repeated his call for the federal government to take over vote counting in certain parts of the country. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/susa...
21.02.2026 03:14 β π 3700 π 1452 π¬ 417 π 156
No Kings includes Draft Kings
08.02.2026 23:49 β π 26117 π 6108 π¬ 185 π 111
halftime show
what a shot
09.02.2026 01:38 β π 20046 π 3467 π¬ 96 π 137
Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?
Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tailβ¦
Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.
Mamdani: Yes. Itβs also the golden snake.
06.02.2026 21:54 β π 12515 π 1834 π¬ 335 π 319
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientistβbecause the person felt she did didnβt deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
06.02.2026 09:09 β π 46875 π 19225 π¬ 1343 π 790
A large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan.
Itβs been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash.
βICE GTFO OF MNβ
Minneapolis February 4, 2026
04.02.2026 23:07 β π 8336 π 2251 π¬ 96 π 107
A letter to the director of the CIA from Senator Ron Wyden saying he has sent a classified letter that expressed concerns.
This is how Sen. Ron Wyden clues the public into activity that he finds extremely alarming. He does a press release about a letter he sent to the director of the CIA that basically says, 'I want to make sure you saw the classified letter I sent early today.' www.wyden.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
04.02.2026 21:53 β π 5148 π 1280 π¬ 99 π 97
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
04.02.2026 22:10 β π 29606 π 4318 π¬ 788 π 324
Jeff Bezosβs wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Postβs losses with what heβs made since Monday.
05.02.2026 02:48 β π 15319 π 4652 π¬ 447 π 252
If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.
03.02.2026 00:17 β π 19895 π 6079 π¬ 683 π 163
Chicago knows [morton's salt logo] how to handle ice
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01.02.2026 03:39 β π 881 π 69 π¬ 8 π 4
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by nameβciting facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
30.01.2026 11:55 β π 16432 π 10028 π¬ 842 π 1362
Personally I think this is too much money for Donald trumps untrained heavily armed militia
29.01.2026 02:22 β π 5414 π 1714 π¬ 239 π 183
This giant ICE Army they are building this year is also likely to be at polling places during the midterms in heavily Democratic precincts with the excuse being that they are looking for βillegals trying to vote.β
29.01.2026 01:54 β π 16962 π 5880 π¬ 1179 π 448
Exactly right.
Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign.
Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE.
Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them.
Every possible angle.
27.01.2026 00:13 β π 19751 π 5018 π¬ 423 π 187
Certainly appears moms with whistles won the Battle of Minneapolis.
27.01.2026 00:10 β π 20567 π 2330 π¬ 407 π 98
People of Maine, how can the rest of the country help you stand up the way MN successfully did?
26.01.2026 23:25 β π 3983 π 1241 π¬ 118 π 27
Also, may I say that I donβt agree with people saying ICE and CBP need βmore training.β Theyβre doing exactly what this administration has trained them toβimpose a reign of fear in blue cities. They donβt need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
24.01.2026 23:01 β π 38751 π 9586 π¬ 1116 π 894
A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.
25.01.2026 01:18 β π 47184 π 18211 π¬ 1017 π 1855
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti
βWe are heartbroken but also very angry.
Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.
I do not throw around the βheroβ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trumpβs murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.
Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.
"Please get the truth out about our son."
25.01.2026 00:43 β π 24953 π 12889 π¬ 200 π 448
My nerves are absolutely shot.
24.01.2026 17:20 β π 549 π 22 π¬ 18 π 3
I certainly hope to live long enough to see Stephen Miller imprisoned for his many crimes.
24.01.2026 21:57 β π 827 π 104 π¬ 19 π 7
I donβt want to hear anything from an elected official unless itβs a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
24.01.2026 19:23 β π 24141 π 6256 π¬ 293 π 291
The first Minnesota murder, they refused to let a medical professional help the woman they shot. The second Minnesota murder, they simply shot the medical professional.
24.01.2026 22:03 β π 9984 π 2526 π¬ 80 π 45
I'm not sure Democrats in D.C. are aware that their base's rage against ICE has reached a level of blinding white-hot intensity.
They're worried about "looking weak" for voting "against law enforcement" when they should be worried a mob of housewives is going to come beat them to death if they do.
24.01.2026 21:03 β π 8650 π 1922 π¬ 283 π 176
I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening.
The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.
24.01.2026 16:04 β π 47164 π 13497 π¬ 6137 π 1907
And what are they learning? Experts on the formation of internal security services in authoritarian regimes point to a sense of impunity as a warning sign. Regime officials abuse their power when they know they will be protected, and even praised, for doing so.
Over the course of weeks and months, we have seen images of DHS officials abusing American citizens and immigrants alike, including killing them. What we do not hear is regime officials calling for credible investigations into such abuses, or even expressing any concerns. Renee Goodβs killer was announced innocent, and both Good and her wife was instead the subject of an investigation, a perversion of justice so obvious that an FBI agent and half-dozen career Department of Justice prosecutors assigned to Minnesota resigned.
What we are watching is a paramilitary force learning that they can kill with impunity, that the regime will smear the victim and defend them. Unless politicians and the legal system exerts accountability, it will not stop. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/past-the-b...
24.01.2026 16:32 β π 3702 π 1447 π¬ 53 π 73
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