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Medicare for All would save $450B a year.

Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.

Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

Polling these last two weeks is very clear that Trump has not only lost the argument about ICE, he's also lost it on mass deportation. Country wants him to focus on the criminals and leave the rest of us alone. From new Yahoo/YouGov:

www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

At least half a dozen top Trump administration officials appear in the Jeffrey Epstein files The degree to which each individual was connected to Epstein varies significantly, from a single email to years of communications.

The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it.

Seems kinda bad?

Great sitting down with Brian Tyler Cohen to talk about everything from the courage we saw in Minnesota, to how Democrats can be true to our values and get stuff done, to how we’re building a community of changemakers at the Obama Foundation. youtube.com/watch?v=uI-hgSE5QIw

Donald Trump has produced the lowest GDP growth of any President in the last 80 years.

DHS Cites Cuba And Venezuela As Law Enforcement Models For ICE In a social media post, DHS listed Cuba and Venezuela among the models for certain law enforcement practices used by ICE.

Kristi Noem's DHS searches totalitarian states around the globe for ideas. 'In a Feb 11 social media post, the Department of Homeland Security listed oppressive regimes like Cuba and Venezuela among the models for certain law enforcement practices used by ICE agents.' www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, it was the logical next move.

"A new ruling from the Trump administration says that when the sun disappears at night, we don’t know where it goes. All remaining top scientists have been taken from their positions and tasked with getting to the bottom of this."

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🗣 Homeland Security Wants Names | EFFector 38.3 Criticize the government online? The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) might ask Google to cough up your name. By abusing an investigative tool called "administrative subpoenas," DHS has been

Our latest EFFector is out! We're covering Homeland Security's unlawful subpoenas to silence critics, our push to expand encryption protections, and a new bill to stop government face scans. Learn more: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

To celebrate the warmth of their love on Valentine's Day, Melania is going to tell Donald the combination to her bedroom door—right after she deadbolts it in three places. 😍

But They Fuck Jam A game jam from 2026-03-01 to 2026-07-01 hosted by Z Gosck. Are you tired of being constantly put on lists with the worse of humanity just for wanting to create or enjoy sexual content? Well now there...

The jam page is now up! The only jam that invites you to specifically make a TTRPG, but they fuck!
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RFK Jr. Says Americans Need More Protein. His Grok-Powered Food Website Disagrees The site Realfood.gov uses Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot to dispense nutrition information—some of which contradicts the government’s new guidelines.

The site Realfood.gov uses Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot to dispense nutrition information—some of which contradicts the government’s new guidelines.

Thanks for saving the world! You're my pandemic valentine forever! <3

Photo of LaLa Zanell speaking and smiling at a podium. Beside her is a quotation: "We cannot advocate for Black lives if we are not advocating for Black trans lives." The quotation is attributed to LaLa Zanell, Activist, ACLU campaign manager. Red ACLU logo. "Black Futures Month".

LaLa Zanell is a dedicated force in the fight for trans liberation. Before working at the ACLU, she fought for police reform, advocated for LGBTQ New Yorkers who've experienced violence, and defended transgender rights before the White House and Congress.

TIM DILLON: “That’s right— so what if we snatched your kids and took them to an island? The DOW is up! So what we worship Baal? The Dow is up!”

“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔

(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )

Is there any failure more profound and total than to fail to prosecute or even ATTEMPT to prosecute a cabal of identified pedophiles? Everyone knows. No one cares enough.

Seriously, America has failed on every possible axis. There is nothing to reform. Just knock it down and start again.

‘Movies can change the world but not in a political way’ says Wim Wenders At a press conference to open the 76th edition of the Berlin film festival, the jury president said ‘cinema has an incredible power’ but little influence on political decision-makers

Saying that films have to stay out of politics is one of the most fascist things I've ever heard, and that's saying a lot given the last year.

But that's what Wim Wenders said: “We have to stay out of politics because if we make movies that are dedicatedly political, we enter the field of politics"

While very gratified by backer 69, it would ALSO be great to get additional backers.

It's a long haul to 420, people.

Been using this blocklist for awhile now and it's wonderful. A return to a better internet. Highly recommended.

Trump’s Minnesota Retreat Points to the Power of Public Anger

"Trump doesn’t believe in anything except himself... When that resistance and those protests actually made his policies tremendously unpopular, he relented. And I think it’s a lesson that we should apply elsewhere when he engages in outrageous activities...”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

Heather Cox Richardson and Allison Gill Discuss Republican Spying and Weaponized Justice Watch now | A recording from Allison Gill's live video

NEW: @hcrichardson.bsky.social and I discuss republican clandestine spying, weaponization of the Justice Department, and failures of Pam Bondi. Never any paywalls, and you can subscribe for free. www.muellershewrote.com/p/heather-co...

It really is amazing how much of political punditry, *especially* elite outfits in NYC and Washington, still embrace this bizarre idea that rural spaces represent the "Real America" while metropolitan areas, where most (presumably real) Americans actually live, should be held in contempt.

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

Judge Orders ICE to Let Clergy Give Communion to Detained Migrants on Ash Wednesday

Enraging that this took a court order:

"Catholic nuns and clergy had visited the facility for years, offering prayer services and holy communion to detainees during visitor hours.

Trump Administration immigration authorities rolled back that access in September..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

A benefit of free buses I hadn’t heard enough about until this piece from @galvinalmanza.bsky.social

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Tell Your Members of Congress: Halt the ICE Terror Machine On January 24, federal forces with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) killed Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. This was just over two weeks after the killing of Renee Good. These killings are a direc...

Tell Your Members of Congress: Halt the ICE Terror Machine act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...

That flower rug really tied the room together.

This is Pamela Jo Bondi contemptuously flipping her hair (which is SCREAMING for some purple shampoo) when asked to acknowledge the Epstein survivors seated directly behind her. She couldn't even be bothered to turn her head.

What a rude and deeply unpleasant person.