Tom Schaller

Sad if it weren’t so frightening.

Especially for a Cuban American.

MAGA: “Athletes and other entertainers should shut their mouths about politics and stay in their lane because they don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about.”

“Now, please click link below to watch policy wonk Joe Rogan interview political geniuses James Wood and Kid Rock. “

It should have been a massive story that the FBI threatened Thomas Massie’s staff to stop pushing for the release of the Epstein files. Credit to Massie for staying relentless in this fight, even in the face of Trump’s threats.

Support Aaron:

Um….

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734507...

Somebody should write a book about this.

#whiteruralrage

Despite having all the oil it could ever need, Norway still smart enough to drive EVs.

@barackobama.bsky.social: "When I was POTUS, I suppose I could have simply unilaterally ordered the military to go into some red state and harass and intimidate a governor or cut off funding for states that didn't vote for me... but that is contrary to how I think our democracy is supposed to work."

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

Remarkable: Majority of working class voters oppose deportations of undocumented immigrants with jobs/no criminal records, per new Marquette data.

Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here:

newrepublic.com/article/2059...

Fugees release “The Score” 30 years ago today — featuring their cover of “Killing Me Softly”.

“A pivotal moment in music for many young black women coming up in the mid-1990s,” wrote @theatlantic.com. “Never before had a female member of a hip-hop group been given center stage to shine like that ..

QAnon, then: “This mention of a pizza in a John Podesta email is triangle-shaped code for underage boy and clear proof he’s a pedofile.”

QAnon, now: “A million mentions of Trump and repeated pix of him with teen girls in the Epstein files? That don’t prove shit.”

Powerful people are losing their jobs because they appear in the Epstein files…
Except in the USA.

The cruelty of this regime in a nutshell.

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let's stay together

We are entering the “falling out of windows” phase.

The party has for too long been the followership party, chasing survey results rather than moving them.

Leadership means moving people, ideologically and policywise…maybe even emotionally, too.

Hi friends! If you haven’t already (& you’re in a safer position to do so), consider finding (or starting) a neighborhood ice watch/support group.

Even if ice hasn’t been high-activity in your area yet, it’s important to get ready now. And lots of support to provide in the meantime. 1/

Greg FTW, as usual:

How the Democrats Can Play Offense on Immigration Typically, Democrats run for the hills when immigration comes up. But as two blue-state governors are showing, the winning play is actually to confront ICE and MAGA xenophobia head on.

The extraordinary courage of people who are documenting ICE atrocities in places like Minneapolis, at great personal risk, are also achieving something else: They're changing the public's mind about immigration. We have a rare opportunity here. 1/

(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2059...

According to polling data on who has a U.S. passport, the SAVE Act would disproportionately impact Americans who are...

- white or black (non-Hispanic)
- lower income
- married women
- not college educated
- older
- trump voters

ygo-assets-websites-editorial-emea.yougov.net/documents/Pa...

I hate to be reductive, but Trump/Miller’s big mistake was picking MN.

Sure, there are Somalis, AfAmericans, Latinos; but greater MSP metro is 70% *white city* in even *whiter state.*

So white Trumpers see on TV white middle class “soccer moms” in revolt. Not “bad hombres” or Antifa.

Mistake.

When I have spent 15 years suggesting that the Obama lawyers were inadequately committed to cracking down on elite criminality.... even I didn't envision that one of them was going to become a close friend of Jeffrey Epstein.

America has concentration camps.

👇👇

Goldman’s Top Lawyer Departs Amid Revelations About Her Ties to Epstein

Big NYT story about former Obama lawyer Ruemmler having to step down from Goldman (“Government Sachs”) because she aided Epstein.

Guess what? Dems and libs are happy to see it. We don’t care party of the guilty.

That’s the difference between left and right.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/b...

Will Fox be updating their story on this and giving it the same amount of airtime as they did initial arrest?

As you know, Amanda @paulwaldman.bsky.social and I wrote about how these urban/bad, rural/good myths are built. Trump/Vance literally stood in Detroit and Minneapolis saying that people better vote for them our else the rest of those states and nation will look like “scary” cities.

#whiteruralrage

Attorney General Pam Bondi tells a member of a co-equal branch of government during a public hearing: “You don’t tell me anything, you washed-up loser lawyer.” The disdain for our own government is appalling. This administration is destroying our democracy.