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Good morning! This man is a fucking liar.

When do the ICE agents stand trial for murder, tho?

I'm gonna bet on "all of it" and "forever" 😅

ICE retreating in MN like it's the beginning of the Holocene Period. Keep resisting, it's working! 💚

"We've had great success in this operation," says Tom Homan in Minneapolis.
Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment.

image from today's hearing

Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them

(Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)

I'm super excited to contribute! Hopefully @pstirparo.bsky.social finds my rants and frantic gesticulation to be useful 😉

Trump and the GOP haven't done anything to make life better for working people so they've resorted to cheating voters out of their voice in hopes of holding onto power.

Here's @morelle.house.gov saying the quiet part out loud

The death of the CIA Factbook and Trump's war on usefulness Wherever government does something helpful, the regime wants to kill it.

The CIA scrubbing the World Factbook from the web may not seem like a big deal in itself, but it's a symptom of something larger: the Trump administration's war on government usefulness.

My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/cia-world-...

Sharing is caring (and not just because it rhymes).
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A key lesson from Operation Deepfake on VISI.
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Tweet from JD Work (@HostileSpectrum) at 08:58 on 2/7/26: Illegal vehicle checkpoints are the key hallmark of every urban insurgency, used to control terrain tipped toward rebellion. Having been trained to maneuver in a city beset by their latent lethal menace from the hard lessons of Northern Ireland, and nearly having lost my life to such a VCP in Baghdad, it is shocking to see them on American streets.

Here’s @hostilespectrum.bsky.social, who is currently an NSC staffer, comparing Americans protesting abuses by our government with terrorists and insurgents

Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need a lot more of this.

www.ms.now/news/minneap...

this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth

Mamdani: "I speak of Renee Good, whose final words to the man who murdered her were, 'I'm not mad at you.' I speak of Alex Pretti who died as he lived, caring for the stranger. ICE shot him bc he did something they could never fathom ... let us offer a new path: one of defiance through compassion."

I read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/

Houston man pardoned by Trump arrested on child sex charge - The Texas Tribune Andrew Taake received a six-year sentence for assaulting officers on Jan. 6. He was arrested Thursday on an outstanding charge of soliciting a minor.

NEW: Insurrectionist pardoned by Trump has been arrested for child sex crimes. www.texastribune.org/2025/02/06/a...

The Winter Olympics start today, and we will feel pride and honor for our country.

But when we see our criminal, delusional, President, we feel none of those things.

I’ve faced off with him before, and now I’m ready to take him on in Congress.

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The people that work at Palantir are monsters enabling fascism and should be shunned by all decent people in society. They should be ashamed of themselves.

Headed to @cactuscon.com tomorrow? Drinks are on us 🌵🍹

The Vertex Project is sponsoring Happy Hour (3–6 PM). Find Dylan Hennessy for drink tickets and come chat Vertex, Synapse, and investigations.

See you there.

Pay attention. Concentration camps are being built right now.

This is monstrous. ICE can't be reformed, it must be dismantled and its thugs prosecuted for their crimes against humanity.

Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

They closed the CIA World Factbook and deleted it entirely.

Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel?

Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again.

And they almost shot some kids in the process.

ICE agent wearing skull mask that is usually associated with the neo Nazi atomwaffen group

Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets

Sick fourth-grader among 4 Columbia Heights students held by ICE Columbia Heights Public Schools says four students remain detained by ICE after Liam’s return, including 10-year-old Elizabeth, who has fallen ill.

Elizabeth is a Columbia Heights fourth-grader who loves volleyball, learning English and giggling in the halls with her friends. She's been held in the Dilley Immigration Processing Center for nearly a month, and she and her mom have both fallen ill. sahanjournal.com/education/co...

so crazy to me that a woman asked trump if he has any words for epstein's victims and he said "you as a young woman should smile more." it will go nowhere bc republicans refuse to hold trump accountable, but it's still pretty crazy.