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Last week enough folks called the AL House in an uproar to cause them to pull the bill to take away your right to vote on the PSC members. Well, they’re at it again this week with SB71, the bill that would prohibit the state from protecting our own air, our communities and ultimately your health…

The GOP’s “show us your papers” bill Is the latest effort to help Trump take over elections “If the SAVE Act were to pass, it would be the worst voter suppression law that Congress has ever enacted"

“If the SAVE Act were to pass, it would be the worst voter suppression law that Congress has ever enacted."

Homeland Security buys entire warehouse property for $128 million The Department of Homeland Security paid more than $128 million for the warehouse and property in Social Circle that appear destined to become an ICE detention facility.

Why is the Trump administration paying hundreds of millions of dollars to Russian companies to put ICE facilities in Georgia without community input or support? Sketchy.

A line in "Ich Bin Dein Mensch" stuck with me and I think it's useful. The protagonist is arguing w/the robot she's "testing" as a companion. She says about their exchanges "I'm talking to MYSELF!"

She's right and it's part of why people lose their boundaries with LLMs.

Also note the way that the burden is always, always placed upon the left; the right must be catered to, the center must be appealed to, the left? Suck it up, accept whatever is offered, perform the labor of care and capitulation and compromise.

A familiar dynamic.

The Trump admin argument that masks "are for officer safety reasons" is actually an admission Tom Homan highlights how secrecy aims to block accountability, the immoral lawlessness at the core of the Trump administration. And, for paid subscribers: Closing my tabs.

Tom Homan’s statement on Face the Nation that “masks right now are for officer safety reasons” was an admission of the fundamental moral failing at the base of the Trump administration’s lawless actions.

If you knew what the administration is doing, it would not be sustainable.

Idiocracy has nothing on us

We already know this works. They have an entire network of media to make ANYTHING they say appear to be true and an army of incurious idiots who believe what they are told. Until we successfully attack that in some way we are screwed.

'Yes, it’s real': Bombshell Epstein email appears to undercut Trump's story A 2011 email from Jeffrey Epstein recently uncovered from the Justice Department’s trove of 3.5 million files on the disgraced financier appears to undercut President Donald Trump’s version of events with respect to his past relationship with the convicted child sex offender.The email in question wa...

A newly released 2011 email shows Jeffrey Epstein planning a call with Trump while discussing victim Virginia Giuffre, completely blowing up the president's claim that he cut all ties in 2004 and proving yet again that he cannot tell the truth under oath.

But there are other arguments as well. If we look at this from the centrist end of the telescope, ICE and CBP should be defunded because they aren’t doing their jobs. If immigration enforcement is an important task, it is going undone. Instead, the Trump administration is wasting tens of billions of dollars kidnapping people semi-randomly, many of them legal residents or even U.S. citizens. The appalling nature of this has led thousands of Department of Justice lawyers to quit their jobs, and the resulting flood of lawsuits has totally overwhelmed the ones that remain. Basic functions of federal law enforcement have collapsed in favor of a psychotic effort to deport people like an Irish drywall contractor who has lived here legally for 20 years and is married to an American woman. Even if you accept that some police force must maintain order at the border and perform all of the other tasks given to ICE, like customs inspection, it’s plain as day that they already have enough money to do that. If Tom Homan is to be believed that ICE is leaving Minneapolis, with future operations geared only toward targeted enforcement, what does ICE need an extra $75 billion reserve for? The easiest way to draw that money down is to deny baseline funding for the duration of Trump’s term.

Republicans handled the IRS surge from Biden by clawing it back to a nub. Democrats can do the same thing with immigration enforcement, and by Republicans' own admission it wouldn't threaten public safety. prospect.org/2026/02/16/i...

🗃️ Tyler Austin Harper’s insane Andrew Mellon Foundation hit piece, which of course @theatlantic.com was happy to print, has rightfully pissed off everyone in the Humanities.

As someone who works in higher education funding, here is a 🧵 on why this article is even more infuriating than you think.

Epstein’s project was narcissistic AND ideological and the ideology was “get rid of women’s and gender studies” and it basically organized for the environment where it became normal for a centrist publication to attack women’s and gender studies funders in the way The Atlantic is attacking Mellon

This bit about the Mellon Foundation happening at the same time as the Epstein files is a coincidence but they are connected in that they are both about how under capitalism intellectual work is dependent on the largesse of robber baron tax shells and when one does something useful, they’re policed

The Constitution couldn’t be clearer: Presidents don’t run elections; the states do. Yet President Trump warned “there will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!”

He can’t legally do that—but that hasn’t stopped him before. trib.al/9tnKPOC

Variety; Stung by the revelations of her 20 year friendship with Epstein, and how she profited from that relationship, NY culture maven Peggy Siegel now whines, “[I]t is tragic I am again humiliated by the media and ostracized by my friends.”

Yeah, Peggy, it’s tragic for you, and not the victims.

Andy is right: Left-wing disaffection did not cause Clinton or Harris the White House. It didn’t help, but it wasn’t the pivotal factor.
The real problem with Newsom isn’t that he’s moderate, it’s that he comes off like a disingenuous corporate pick. Harris and Clinton suffered from the same

"Elon Musk and Pete Hegseth think that diversity will doom us. In reality, though, their racist paranoia and white nationalist conspiracy theories are the real threat."

Hegseth (boorishly): Russia's cool. NATO sucks. Your security problem, Europe, is you're too brown and gay.

Vance (condescendingly): Russia's cool. Your security problem is you're too brown and Muslim.

Rubio (politely): Who cares about Russia. Your problem is you're not white or Christian enough.

Epstein sympathized with Kavanaugh during supreme court confirmation, emails show Files show convicted sex abuser messaged with Ken Starr and others about Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford

we are living in the reboot of the 2017-2018 tear in the social fabric where suddenly everyone can see how abusers promote and protect each other, but this time there is almost no hope for accountability (this is just yet another example). survivors should consider logging off for a while

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So, just like the president's defecation air raid meme, these fucks at heart are all grimy little insecure subterranean trolls with gallon jars of vaseline and personal collections of crusty bed socks with names like Tricia.

Rubio Pledges US Support for Orban Ahead of Hungary’s Vote US President Donald Trump would provide assistance if Hungary ever ran into financial trouble under Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, giving an extraordinary endorsemen...

Susie Wiles described Rubio as a true believer, a convert to far-right extremism. Between his Munich speech and this effort to rescue Orbán, that seems increasingly plausible👇

@gailsimone.bsky.social Just a suggestion, if you wanted to contact your senator with it...

They are DRUNK who the fuck cares, why would you not expect to have beads thrown at you at a Mardi Gras parade?! THEY don’t even know why they’re mad 😠

Also ffs, why do you think krewes wear masks? Go ahead, prove who threw some beads at you

This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.

Somehow Musk was in the Epstein files talking about attending wild parties at the island, and is now still head of his companies and posting on Twitter that people investigate the Epstein files and that white people are the superior race.

Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
 
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
 
Not one dime for this cruelty.

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Billionaire In Palm Beach Sex Scandal JULY 26--Prepare to take a shower after reading this remarkably sleazy probable cause affidavit filed in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier who was arrested Sunday for soliciting s

/2 Anyway, this is what the Smoking Gun was reporting TWENTY YEARS AGO in 2006. It was horrifying then and it’s still horrifying and it unequivocally shows child abuse.

www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/se...

Steve Bannon courted Epstein in his efforts to ‘take down’ Pope Francis | CNN Steve Bannon, a longtime adviser to US President Donald Trump, discussed opposition strategies with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein against Pope Francis, with Bannon saying he hoped to “take do...

Yeah, I don't think Bannon will win this fight, but let's see...

www.cnn.com/2026/02/14/w...

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