Jeff of the Progressive Persuasion 🇺🇦🇩🇪🇵🇸

"That's just not true, as you well know" -- Sen. Chris Coons is a bit taken aback after CNBC's Joe Kernen pushes the great replacement theory during an interview

BERMAN: Trump posted a video w. a racist image depicting the Obamas as apes. Is that a message POTUS should send?

HARIDOPOLOS: I have not seen that video. The number one thing we have to do is elevate the conversation

B: Should he take it down?

H: All I can control is what I can control

They’re trying to run the Kilmar Abrego Garcia playbook with a five year old boy in a bunny hat because nobody can find peace if they embarrass the Trump administration publicly. Normal people didn’t like it with Garcia and they really aren’t going to like it for Liam.

Would've hit different if she referred to Spencer Lee.

FT exclusive:

“The US state department is set to fund Maga-aligned think-tanks and charities across Europe to disseminate Washington’s policy positions and challenge perceived threats to free speech.”

via @annasophiegross.bsky.social and colleagues

Between this and them needing 30 mf's to change a tire has me reeling...

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”

Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive

The idea that the Court should operate entirely in secret is a modern phenomenon. The idea that the Court should be separated from the public is a modern phenomenon. Earlier generations did not accept a powerful, isolated & secretive Court and we shouldn't either 1/6

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

They're desparate to stop Senate Democrats from defunding ICE. Keep calling. Keep pushing.

decades of Cold War fiction: "here is a years-long plot to install a spy at a crucial mid-level post in the intelligence services"

reality: "lol we're making an obvious Russian asset DNI"

He's totally right. You can't have a real court system if the highest court of all gets to play in secret and make up all of its own rules and then refuse to punish each other when they fail to even uphold that low bar.

Term/age/health limits should be implemented as well.

Here's a good guess.

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COCOUNSEL STATEMENT ON TRUMP ATTEMPT TO CLOSE KENNEDY CENTER FOLLOWING LOSS OF ARTISTS AND AUDIENCES

Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

This article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

In many of the first generation of modern concentration camp systems (near the turn of the twentieth century), the vast majority of deaths were caused by disease and malnutrition. Most of the victims were women and children.

ANOTHER ANGLE:

This view includes a 2nd VETERAN being escorted out of Mike Lawler’s town hall…but not before yelling at Mike Lawler to go f*** himself.

BREAKING:

GOP Rep. Mike Lawler held a town hall tonight in Rockland County…and proceeded to have VETERANS thrown out of the venue.

#NY17

And DoJ...on top of needing to impeach a number of judges at all levels of the fed judiciary.

It's....a lot.

I feel like the only force large/strong enough to actually step in temporarily is the military. CBP has 60k people and frankly, I don't think anyone has a good idea on if/who/how many of those shitbags is even capable of redemption in a new agency.

convergence of Trump policies is exponential escalation of the catastrophes he has unleashed

There's a reasonable case to be made that American law enforcement has abused chemical irritants for far too long and should be banned from having them nationwide

Here's a thought, for the world we build after this:

Whatever version of police or prisons we have? They get to do *absolutely nothing* in secret, in their official capacity.

Every action, interaction, and statistic is logged, publicly available. Every officer is accountable for their actions.

Liam is back home.

He is only one of the approximately 3,800 children in ICE custody.

(Source: www.themarshallproject.org/2026/01/29/i...)

Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...

He’s just describing The American Dream but you’re supposed to hate it for some reason

Since this is getting some traction, here's what I'm talking about:

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You know it's pretty fucked when the bottom 60% of US citizens are economically irrelevant.

Is a 30-point swing good?

Man, I'd hate to be some doofus who redrew maps with the intent on giving my party an extra 5 seats, only to have massive swing's like this hang your whole ass plan precariously above a fire pit...

Usually dictators are more subtle about looting the treasury, because gross corruption is often a part of what gets them overthrown.