Dave LaFontaine

NOW: Howard Lutnick was asked by Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) if the nanny who joined Lutnick family on a 2012 trip to Epstein island is the same nanny Epstein expressed an interest in meeting

Lutnick: "I have no idea about that whole thing"

This is why journalism matters.

People were using Grok to unredact victims' photos from the latest Epstein release. We reached out to X (they didn't respond), but then over the weekend, Grok stopped responding to those requests.

How America’s EV retreat is increasing China's control of global markets U.S. automakers are pivoting away from EVs to refocus on gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs while Chinese manufacturers are expected to keep growing electric exports.

“Trump has basically outlawed electric cars, because he got bribed by evil oil billionaires to make you dependent on gas. Now, American auto workers are all gonna lose their jobs because the Chinese are eating our lunch. China wins, America loses.”

Dem messaging

www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/a...

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Congress should set agency priorities, not the president.

This is a presidential power grab.
And we are in a separation of powers crisis.

It’s part of the Project 2025 plan, enabled by the Supreme Court which has been packed with corrupt politicians in robes.

two men are playing basketball in a gym and one of them is holding a basketball . ALT: two men are playing basketball in a gym and one of them is holding a basketball .

The algorithms have so optimized for causing engagement via anger and despair, that as with so much else in a capitalistic society, the only way to resist is to decouple

Watching AI brahs try to talk without being elbows deep in a chatbox is legitimate, in-front-of-your-eyes proof that this is NOT a social good. They are descending into screeching little imps in leather jackets and dead faced confusion the second they can't get to their word-puking machine.

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When their theory makes contact with reality and they realize they are about to get blamed for killing thousands of babies

Bluesky is that special place where someone will take time out from serialposting about how ICE can never defeat one mid sized midwesern city to post about how ICE is going to commandeer every voting booth in the US and all is lost

This can't possibly be true

Can it?

The Conservative Researcher Being Linked to the FBI’s Seizure of Election Records in Georgia Kevin Moncla has tried repeatedly to prove that the 2020 vote in Fulton County, Georgia, was tainted by fraud. While state election overseers have rejected his claims, his work may be fueling the fede...

EXCLUSIVE: Since the FBI seized 2020 election materials from GA, questions have abounded as to what evidence justified the raid.

@ProPublica has obtained audio of conservative activists discussing providing files and exhibits to the Department of Justice…

www.propublica.org/article/kevi...

Conservative Activists Discuss Providing Files to DOJ Listen to Conservative Activists Discuss Providing Files to DOJ by ProPublica #np on #SoundCloud

2/ In the call, activists claimed to have provided the Department of Justice materials for a Dec. lawsuit.

“The DOJ knows who to call to get the information that they need,” one said. “I’ll be honest with you, they rely on a lot of our stuff.”

on.soundcloud.com/p0bzOtQ50qel...

The podcast about the Haitian Revolution had eye-opening details about how brutal and deadly it was on the sugar plantations podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Just sadistic cruelty back when Haiti produced more wealth than the entire United States. Mostly from sugar.

…publicly and under oath about all this, let’s get this all out there, and the sitting president’s response is usually, WHY DO THESE HARPY CNN LADIES STILL BOTHER ME WITH THIS, DOJ SAYS CASE CLOSED, I WILL SUE COMEDIANS FOR BRINGING THIS UP AGAIN, NOTHING TO SEE HERE FOLKS

I guess I could term what Loomer is doing as performative ignorance. The kindest analysis of this is that this person is aware that what they’re saying is patently ridiculous, and it’s just doing it to try to prove some kind of a point?

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2/ first time this really struck me was when a college professor explained fax machines by saying that they were just two Xerox copiers connected by a phone line

There’s a really interesting philosophical discussion going on here. It’s about what it really means for the human race when our lives are dominated by system systems that we don’t understand.

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Someone should ask the ratings – obsessed Trump about why his ratings are so low

Childish pique: “We are SO the real popular ones! We win! To big meanies! Waaaaahhhh!”

Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Colorful doodles of a rainbow and hearts are found throughout the page. Translation: “I am Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya and I have been 113 days in detention I miss my friends and I feel they are going to forget me. I am bored here. I already miss my country and my house, I came on vacation for 10 Days and they took me into an ice office an officer interrogated me 2 hours without my mom, I was traveling with flight attendant because my mom lives in new york, they only wanted to arrest my mom, because my mom didn’t have documents to live in U.S.A., I always traveled with my tourist visa but ice used me to catch my mom and now I am in a jail and I am sad and I have fainted 2 times here inside. When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”

Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Translation: “They don’t give me my diet I am vegetarian, I don’t eat well, there is no good education and I miss my best friend julieta and my grandmother and my school I already want to get to my house. Me in dilei [Dilley] am not happy please get me out of here to colombia.” Below the text is a drawing of the girl and her mother in the government-issued gray sweatsuits of the detention center.

6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”

9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.

Warner on Fox News Sunday: "What's amazing to me is historically the GOP has been about 'let's not have federal overreach.' We've got federal overreach with ICE. We've got federal overreach w/POTUS saying 'let's nationalize elections.' Do you really want ICE agents showing up at polling stations?"

Turns out that U.S. luge athlete Jonathan "Jonny" Gustafson is a D&D player and his entire gaming group is cheering him on and THIS IS THE SORT OF SPORTS COMMENTARY I NEED.

#Olympics

Can someone explain how trump can just kill an election, based only on his demented emotions, and fragile ego? Are we not the silent majority, can we not win against him and his goon squad, and give ‘election’ control back to the people’s government, and the States?

Congress isn’t doing their job. The media isn’t doing their job. The Supreme Court isn’t doing their job. The military isn’t doing their job. The president surely isn’t doing his job.

It’s almost as if the United States government is conspiring against their citizens on purpose.

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Basically Ring advertised the technology Batman used to find the Joker that Lucius Fox refused to be a part of except for that one time.

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and bill kristol gave us palin

Schiff on Gabbard's involvement in Georgia: "All of this is intended to send a message and the message is, 'We will not tolerate or accept an election that we lose.' That's why in these budget discussions we need to make sure, among other things, that we don't have ICE agents at polling places."

i would not recommend reading trump’s unhinged post because all he knows how to do is diminish joy, and bad bunny just created so much of it.

ICE Uses Disguises and Fake Plates for Immigration Enforcement in Minnesota A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement did not respond to inquiries about whether the men were federal immigration officers. As the sweeping imm...

There are a growing number of reports of agents impersonating construction workers, delivery drivers & anti-ICE activists, heightening fears in the state.

That's deceptive & unconstitutional, because they use trickery to get around warrant & consent protections.