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Writer. Journalist. Ph.D. molecular biologist. Former biopharm exec. Sentient neural network. Small Language Model.

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The Fox News chyron reads "Latest Dem hoax" at the same time that Brendan Carr confirms that yes, the FCC would've "enforced the law" and gone after CBS had Colbert aired his interview with Talarico on TV

19.02.2026 02:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9884    ๐Ÿ” 3151    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 658    ๐Ÿ“Œ 225
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Stephen Colbert and the First Amendment As if CBS hasnโ€™t drawn enough fire for tampering with 60 Minutesโ€™ journalistic integrity, on Monday, Stephen Colbert shared that he was told by the networkโ€™s lawyers that he couldnโ€™t have Texas Democr...

Brendan Carr, head of the FCC, wrote the chapter on it in Project 2025. Itโ€™s hard to know whatโ€™s worse: The administrationโ€™s efforts to intimidate journalists or CBSโ€™s willingness to cave in. Read here to understand the issues: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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19.02.2026 03:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3536    ๐Ÿ” 1273    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 99    ๐Ÿ“Œ 42

The Constitution is currently being interpreted by the Epstein Class at SCOTUS.

17.02.2026 21:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4801    ๐Ÿ” 1634    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 159    ๐Ÿ“Œ 32
Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin Oโ€™Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, โ€œObama: Dems need to avoid scolding and โ€˜virtue-signaling.โ€™โ€ The post quotes Oโ€™Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin Oโ€™Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, โ€œObama: Dems need to avoid scolding and โ€˜virtue-signaling.โ€™โ€ The post quotes Oโ€™Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

17.02.2026 21:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 36684    ๐Ÿ” 11194    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1006    ๐Ÿ“Œ 376
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What would normally be presidency-ending scandals not even a blip on the radar

Daily

17.02.2026 14:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5904    ๐Ÿ” 3028    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 258    ๐Ÿ“Œ 163

CBS is regime state TV, straight up. Sad

17.02.2026 16:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Bullshit.

15.02.2026 17:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3115    ๐Ÿ” 582    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 147    ๐Ÿ“Œ 30

Every time I think my lame-duck senator might do some good as he rides into the sunset, thereโ€™s a comment like this.

You want to safeguard his *legacy*?

Sir, can you not see that even *he* does not give a damn about his legacy?

15.02.2026 19:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is nicely done.

15.02.2026 18:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿคฃ I bet we werenโ€™t the only ones.

15.02.2026 18:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When this headline popped into my news feed, I thought, just for a second, it might be real.

This is where we are now.

15.02.2026 18:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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

15.02.2026 01:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14007    ๐Ÿ” 4659    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 274    ๐Ÿ“Œ 114
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This week at Democracy Docket: The worst voter suppression bill ever passed, and an FBI raid built on conspiracy theories When the U.S. House passed the SAVE Act last year, historians told us it was Congress' worst attack on voting rights ever. Well, this week the House approved an even worse one.

When the U.S. House passed the SAVE Act last year, historians told us it was Congressโ€™ worst attack on voting rights ever. Well, this week the House approved an even worse one. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

15.02.2026 15:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6057    ๐Ÿ” 3119    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 246    ๐Ÿ“Œ 144
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This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the โ€œbaby jailโ€ in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But itโ€™s routine. And disgusting.

15.02.2026 15:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13640    ๐Ÿ” 6258    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 620    ๐Ÿ“Œ 347
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So good

14.02.2026 21:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12771    ๐Ÿ” 3346    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 250    ๐Ÿ“Œ 136
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Not Apartheid Clyde, the worldโ€™s richest man, posting his obsession with replacement theory every damn day in January.

14.02.2026 18:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2289    ๐Ÿ” 1012    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 306    ๐Ÿ“Œ 108

The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that the state can put aย redistricting planย on the ballot this spring that could add as many as four more Democratic seats in Congress.

Theย referendumย will take place on April 21.

14.02.2026 18:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6408    ๐Ÿ” 1287    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 84    ๐Ÿ“Œ 91
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It wasnโ€™t just the Europeans who were outraged about Trumpโ€™s threats over Greenland โ€” it was Americans, too.

Thatโ€™s what U.S. Senators Thom Tillis and Jeanne Shaheen argued at our #POLITICOPub on the sidelines of #MSC2026 ๐Ÿ‘‡

More on our live blog: www.politico.eu/article/muni...

14.02.2026 15:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 141    ๐Ÿ” 24    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

14.02.2026 16:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6751    ๐Ÿ” 2236    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 274    ๐Ÿ“Œ 102
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Swalwell: ICE agents shot Alex Pretti and Renee Good. And the only person in the world who has been held accountable by DHS is the pilot who somehow forgot to move Kristi Noemโ€™s blankie.

14.02.2026 02:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26270    ๐Ÿ” 8294    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 456    ๐Ÿ“Œ 245
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I can really picture him diligently focused, intensely searching the depths of Legal Arguments despite the slight obstacle that they have yet to be articulated

14.02.2026 01:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 415    ๐Ÿ” 41    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 76    ๐Ÿ“Œ 6

Some polls (like NYT) only ask about deportations in abstract without asking if people want to see *noncriminals* removed.

That creates a distorted impression of support for what Trump is doing, allowing pundits to keep pushing idea that Trumpism represents mystical longings of Real American volk:

14.02.2026 13:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 383    ๐Ÿ” 130    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

Just watched our Secretary of State laud the Scientific Revolution and deride climate science as a โ€œcult,โ€ almost in same breath.

The distorting effect of fossil fuelโ€™s corrupt influence is astounding, like a warped fun-house mirror.

14.02.2026 13:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1840    ๐Ÿ” 490    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 75    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

โ€œBut DHS has lied about so many things that no one should take their words seriously.โ€

When lying is the presidentโ€™s most common characteristic, itโ€™s no surprise that it becomes common throughout the administration.

14.02.2026 11:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Please read this long but important thread from an immigration defense attorney.

If this administration is permitted to scale its current abuse, neglect, and inhumane treatment of immigrants to the breadth and scope for which theyโ€™re currently planning, weโ€™ll all be witness to mass atrocities.

14.02.2026 13:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1189    ๐Ÿ” 473    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 15    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10
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Notice how โ€œresignedโ€ keeps meaning โ€œgot caught.โ€

Now do Howard Lutnick.

13.02.2026 10:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6792    ๐Ÿ” 2140    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 337    ๐Ÿ“Œ 107
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The most corrupt pro-Putin president in US history endorses the most corrupt pro-Putin leader in Europe.

13.02.2026 15:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12713    ๐Ÿ” 4270    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1360    ๐Ÿ“Œ 380

You canโ€™t make this stuff up.

Dog-shooting weapon-cosplaying ICE Barbieโ€™s boyfriend fires a pilot over her blankie?

13.02.2026 15:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.

In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p

13.02.2026 14:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4978    ๐Ÿ” 2237    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 582    ๐Ÿ“Œ 389

Hey there Pam Bondi if you have nothing to hide why were you tracking what congressmen were searching on the Epstein files?

Why uhโ€ฆ. Whyโ€ฆ. Why so nervous?

13.02.2026 14:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18124    ๐Ÿ” 4269    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 607    ๐Ÿ“Œ 120

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