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But let's cut taxes! What an utter joke

You know who could sort that out? Congress via an independent counsel

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

"Now's the moment to lay down a marker..."

People need a focal point in all of these files, a specific accusation to pull out of the sludge, unite around, and say, "he needs to be held accountable for this." This is that allegation.

And then it can start the snowball rolling.

Friday the 13th is the best because terrible things are still happening but for 24 hours there's a neato spooky reason

IA Lawmakers Introduce Suite of Clean Water Legislation Bills target industrial agriculture pollution to reduce cancer-linked nitrates in waterways

www.foodandwaterwatch.org/2026/02/12/i...
This is pretty damn good

Every American needs to watch this:

We can reverse America’s decline | Bernie Sanders It is not good enough just to criticize Trump. We must offer a positive vision that will improve the lives of Americans

At this difficult moment in American history, we must be honest with ourselves:

Our nation, once the envy of the world, is now in profound decline.

For the sake of our children and future generations, we must reverse course.

This is literally insane

It’s bad enough that we’re subsidizing extremely profitable sports teams with our tax dollars to build stadiums, but we’re letting them charge us $17 dollars for a beer and $11 dollars for a damn hotdog at the concession stand?

Enough. Here’s one thing we can do about it.

High school government classes are woefully deficient and often taught by people who were primarily hired to be coaches

This is what democracy looks like The Trump administration claims the imprimatur of the people. The people disagree.

I’ve been noodling this piece over for a while. It ties together a few threads that i think ought to be tied together.
www.pbump.net/o/this-is-wh...

The Epstein rot goes deep America must now ask itself if it can restore a culture of shame

The Epstein rot goes deep ft.trib.al/y9vl7a5 | opinion

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Artwork showing the statue of liberty cowering in darkness, her torch snuffed. A crowd of people assemble at her feet with a torch saying "need a light?"

Beautiful artwork. People are the power. ✊🗽🔥

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Order – #9 in Conejo Arias v. Noem (W.D. Tex., 5:26-cv-00415) – CourtListener.com OPINION AND ORDER OF THE COURT--The Court finds that the Constitution of these United States trumps this administration's detention of petitioner Adrian Conejo Arias and his minor son, L.C.R. The Grea...

NEWS: Judge Biery has ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos. A thunderous rebuke against ICE’s violent campaign in Minnesota. Read the order below.

Link:
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The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

He emailed him on Christmas morning looking for parties!

For Liam.

On her livestream tonight, #IL09 candidate Kat Abughazaleh teased what appears to be a new 60-second-long campaign ad

Literally half the country wants to abolish ICE and the Democrats are going to make them pinky swear not to deport U.S. citizens anymore

How to help the resistance to ICE in Minnesota — and beyond What Minnesota’s immigrant communities need from you now.

In Minneapolis and many other communities across the country, we're seeing people come together to peacefully protest and support their neighbors. If you're looking to get involved, here are some ways to help:

Every social theory undergirding Trumpism has been broken on the steel of Minnesotan resolve. The multiracial community in Minneapolis was supposed to shatter. It did not. It held until Bovino was forced out of the Twin Cities with his long coat between his legs. The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Souhan: What good are sports in times like these? Local owners should be making a statement. Better yet, they should be taking action.

"Now it’s time for our rich sports owners to take the baton," writes columnist Jim Souhan.

"Shut it all down until it’s safe for every Minnesotan to drive to a sports venue without being rammed, beaten, abducted or killed."

What an absolutely insane thing to say

I refuse to give in to defeatism. For example, maybe my Senator doesn't care enough to do anything about child-kidnapping monsters. But whoever reviews his messages (or runs @durbin.senate.gov) will know his constituents are pissed. If enough of us try, maybe something will break through.

How can the bad guys be surprised that no one likes them? You sign up for the Nazi Army of the Confederacy and you're not going to have a lot of friends.

You know how you say this officially and on the record? You impeach him. Every day. And you make Republicans who vote against it go on the record as saying that they think everything he's doing is fine.

Pew Research Institute (2023):

• Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants

• Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants

• Blue State Minnesota has 130,000.

And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration."

It's *not* about immigration.

I imagine he's keeping all these bribes in a Big Room of Bribery where he goes to tell himself that people love him