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Wife to a Military Veteran, Mom, Grandma, Democrat. ‘Empathy is the most essential quality of civilization.’ – Octavia Butler

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LA Lakers Co-Owner’s Firm Linked to Proposed $80 Million ICE Warehouse Deal in Texas The unwelcome facility would detain up to 9,500 people

NEWS: LA Lakers Co-Owner’s Firm Linked to Proposed $80 Million ICE Warehouse Deal in Texas — a massive facility that could detain up to 9,500 people.

14.02.2026 00:04 — 👍 3999    🔁 2817    💬 540    📌 358
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Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

12.02.2026 21:15 — 👍 14279    🔁 4379    💬 1499    📌 1398

Washington state legislators‼️
Please publicly address why you think a bill (SB 6239) that forces survivors and their stories behind closed doors, is a good call?
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12.02.2026 23:47 — 👍 600    🔁 315    💬 22    📌 14
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Burgum: "CO2 was never a pollutant. When we breathe, we emit CO2. Plants need CO2 to survive and grow. They thrive with more CO2. So the whole endangerment thing opens up an opportunity for the revival of clean, beautiful, American coal."

11.02.2026 14:29 — 👍 1433    🔁 305    💬 825    📌 760
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This is utterly deranged behavior from a U.S. attorney general

11.02.2026 18:44 — 👍 17134    🔁 5079    💬 2545    📌 881
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CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"

11.02.2026 21:27 — 👍 12386    🔁 5510    💬 565    📌 511
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NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise.

BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned

NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?

11.02.2026 18:28 — 👍 33134    🔁 11184    💬 938    📌 596
photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

11.02.2026 17:15 — 👍 40305    🔁 13768    💬 1370    📌 895
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NEW: A page from Bondi's burn book. This is a list of the searches by Rep Jayapal of the unredacted Epstein files. That means the DOJ grabbed her search terms from the computers they set up for members of congress to view the Epstein files to use as ammunition. The photo is from Reuters.

11.02.2026 23:36 — 👍 15262    🔁 6792    💬 1034    📌 520
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Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is

A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.

That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

10.02.2026 19:08 — 👍 4303    🔁 1931    💬 87    📌 161
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Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

10.02.2026 22:28 — 👍 12648    🔁 6929    💬 379    📌 856
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ICYMI - Dems flipped a seat in Tarrant County and Republicans called an emergency meeting.

Trump carried the district by 17 points in 2024, so if Texas Republicans are in panic mode there, the entire state is in play.

09.02.2026 18:18 — 👍 1489    🔁 567    💬 119    📌 53

It bears repeating that Tom Homan is a fucking psycho and Greg Bovino's exile means functionally nothing when it comes to what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.

09.02.2026 18:57 — 👍 6320    🔁 2311    💬 80    📌 40
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'What's wrong with the world?' Man in wheelchair found dead outside in freezing temps The 61-year-old man had been released from a hospital the day before.

During freezing temperatures in Port Arthur, Texas, a 61-year-old homeless man was found dead in his wheelchair outside a convenience store.

He was wearing a hospital gown and no shoes. Authorities say he had been released from a hospital the previous day.

This is a diseased society.

09.02.2026 16:09 — 👍 1973    🔁 802    💬 85    📌 131
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‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

09.02.2026 20:48 — 👍 3958    🔁 1925    💬 225    📌 108
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ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

09.02.2026 17:56 — 👍 12813    🔁 7461    💬 1289    📌 1241
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For $1 Million, Donors to U.S.A. Birthday Group Offered Access to Trump

“people & companies with interests before the Trump administration can make tax-deductible donations to gain access to & seek favor with, a president who has maintained a …willingness to use the levers of government power to reward financial supporters.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/u...

08.02.2026 23:39 — 👍 933    🔁 449    💬 73    📌 28
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Minneapolis now has daily deportation flights. One man has been documenting them A professional airplane enthusiast has been tracking the federally chartered deportation flights out of the Minneapolis airport as DHS sends immigration detainees to other states and, eventually, othe...

www.npr.org/2026/02/06/n...

07.02.2026 19:30 — 👍 3930    🔁 1703    💬 112    📌 65

The sheriffs….

07.02.2026 21:16 — 👍 1002    🔁 425    💬 84    📌 11
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Current Water, Sewer Systems Can't Handle Proposed 7,500 Bed ICE Detention Center in Schuylkill County - Coal Region Canary The current water and sewer systems at the proposed site of the ICE detention center in Tremont Township can't handle what the federal government is planning, according to Schuylkill County Commission...

coalregioncanary.com/2026/02/05/i...

07.02.2026 19:14 — 👍 1543    🔁 667    💬 96    📌 34
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“Memorial services are nothing new to staff at the Minneapolis VA Medical Center. But this week our chapel hosted a memorial like none that preceded it. The memorial service was for Alex J. Pretti, whose sudden passing left a significant impact on the entire medical center.“

07.02.2026 19:28 — 👍 1584    🔁 370    💬 19    📌 14
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www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...

07.02.2026 20:23 — 👍 2441    🔁 1304    💬 91    📌 60
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When the U.S. Supreme Court said that you could detain people based on their race, their accent, or the language they spoke… there is nothing to preclude ICE from doing that while you’re standing in line getting ready to cast a ballot.

Stacey Abrams
Voting-rights expert

07.02.2026 16:29 — 👍 6766    🔁 3542    💬 344    📌 216
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He lied at the National Prayer Breakfast to take credit for a prisoner freed who was actually freed during Obama.

You heard that right — Lying 🤥 at 🤥 a 🤥 prayer 🤥 breakfast 🤥

www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/p...

06.02.2026 21:43 — 👍 4461    🔁 1710    💬 244    📌 89
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It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

06.02.2026 15:37 — 👍 22336    🔁 6796    💬 628    📌 1088

Trump now says he didn’t personally post the racist video and that it was done by a staffer. That raises serious questions. If a staffer handled this post, it’s fair to ask which other public statements or posts are actually coming directly from him versus someone on his team.

07.02.2026 00:17 — 👍 2058    🔁 322    💬 269    📌 31
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Tatiani Elliot was brave today.

She is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and gave her testimony in front of Washington state legislators. And they silenced her.

“Now that some of us are finally speaking, the rules are changing.” ~ Tatiani

“Can you please wrap up?” ~ Committee

1/2

07.02.2026 02:39 — 👍 2571    🔁 1055    💬 163    📌 83
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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 tail…

Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.

Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake.

06.02.2026 21:54 — 👍 12513    🔁 1834    💬 336    📌 321
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Every American needs to watch this:

05.02.2026 20:41 — 👍 20258    🔁 10149    💬 567    📌 960
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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 scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

06.02.2026 09:09 — 👍 46618    🔁 19106    💬 1340    📌 782

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