Jackie Matusow

Great reporting from @jkbjournalist.bsky.social

“Ukrainians are saving us all, and unlike us, they don’t even ask us to say thank you.”

A handful of contractors are pulling in big money equipping ICE and CBP with heavy weaponry, ammo, and other accessories as they wage their war on us. I asked Schiff's staff to list out the top contractors per their data.

The results are in the chart below. 2/

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Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff.

For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/

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Ladies and gentlemen, the 45th and 47th president of the United States of America

Wow. Yet not surprising.

Your morning smile. You’re welcome.

Susan Rice is right. Now Netflix must choose. The institutions and individuals who betrayed democratic principles will bear that mark of shame well into the future.

Susan Rice saw this moment coming. She described it plainly, and she was right.

Now, Netflix must decide which side of history it wants to be on.

The right choice is obvious. The only question is whether Netflix has the courage to make it. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/susa...

BREAKING: The State of the Union has been changed to The Airing of Grievances.

GOOD FOR AOC ❤️💙❤️
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I'm not entirely sure how they did it, but they've completely cleared the streets around my office in Midtown #NYC.

They paid a lot of people good wages to do the job effectively, thank you for coming to my socialism talk

What a mission-driven press must do in this time of crisis We need the opposite of media capitulation. Here are some concrete ideas.

@sulliview.bsky.social may be the most important piece of writing you will read today.

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JB Pritzker’s genius lies in his ability to connect his constituents’ concerns with those of all Americans. We are all Illinoians.

It’s worse than that. This is what a sociopath sounds like. Sociopaths lack a social conscience and have little/no regard for others.

Just amazing that on the same day that an ex-president gets life in prison for leading an insurrection, a prince is arrested for his ties to Jeffrey Epstein

It can't happen here

The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.

A vote is like a prayer for the kind of world we want for ourselves and our children.

Republicans in DC want to make it harder for you to vote.

They are trying to silence those prayers.

I won’t stand for it.

Well, first, let’s just agree that they’re hypocrites… And Miller? I believe he is a sociopath.

And, so who is going to enforce the 130 days per year max?

Should Jews be afraid of this talk of a “Christian nation?” Well, yes. Yes we are.

Exactly.

Let’s agree to call them the Klan. I’ll bet they would be fine with that.

Trump Tirade Over Bridge to Canada Backfires, Handing Dems 2026 Weapon His corrupt threat to block the opening of the Gordie Howe Bridge is about to become a big albatross around the necks of GOP candidates in pivotal Michigan.

Blocking the new Detroit-Windsor bridge — as Trump is threatening — would be yet another act of economic self-sabotage

Michigan has the most to lose, something Democrats will be reminding voters in key midterm races here

@gregsargent.bsky.social lays out the stakes newrepublic.com/article/2064...

Jayapal: To the survivors in the room, if you are willing, please stand. And if you are willing, please raise your hands. If you have still not been able to meet with this DOJ. Please note for the record that every single survivor has raised their hand.

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@NewYorker
On the death of … [the WP’s] book section, and the heartbreaking truth of what it means.

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And yeh. This is what Trump voters and non-voters voted for.

‘Together, We Are America’ Bad Bunny’s critics said his Super Bowl halftime show would be divisive. They were totally wrong.

How’d he do it? Make us feel so American? In Spanish…

www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Such a child.