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This is new. “Violent criminal” immigrants are driving Americans’ wages down??????

Pressed on voting conspiracy theories, Noem gives the wrong answer to a good question When an official accuses a state of having a system of elections that’s become “an absolute disaster,” she really only has one job: Prove it.

Noem went to Arizona to condemn its elections system as “an absolute disaster.”

Asked for one example of fraud, she replied, “Oh, I’m sure there’s many of them” — a clumsy way of admitting, “I assume my conspiracy theory is true, but I can’t back it up.”

In GOP politics, this keeps happening.

What does “Dow 50,000” actually tell you—anything about the economy, or just that a number got bigger? Dow 50,000 is a milestone, not a measurement. The level of the Dow is basically arbitrary: it’s… "Dow 50,000" Sound Nice. Until Justin Wolfers Shows You That U.S. Markets Are Coming 21st Out of 23.

Dow 50,000 seems like an extraordinary headline, until... you add some context.

The aggregate stock market return during the second Trump presidency ranks as 21st out of 23 developed countries.

Here's my youtube-splaination.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYL5...

It's hard to believe that you could be the trade representative for a major power and not know that tariffs are regressive.

My econ 101 students know what the word regressive means, and that tariffs are regressive. Many could even cite studies on the subject.

Let me tell you about the SAVE Act. You need to know about it.

It’s Trump’s first (of likely many) major attempt to rig the election in his favor. It takes away the right to vote for millions and allows your voting records to be erased. We cannot let it pass the Senate.

DHS has deported a gravely ill 2 month old infant and his 16 month old sister, along with their parents.
Juan because so sick at Dilley that he was unresponsive and hospitalized yesterday. Today DHS deported the entire family with only the $190.00 in their commissary account.

Hello from the second Surprise City Council meeting since DHS purchased a large industrial warehouse nearby with plans to convert it into a concentration camp. Public comment begins soon, tune in here if you want to watch: m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaT8...

Earlier tonight, I hosted a Know-Your-Rights panel to outline everyone’s rights when interacting with ICE or DHS officers.

We all have constitutional rights that must not be violated. ICE must be reined in and the Trump Administration must be held accountable.

Republicans, Braced for Losses, Push More Voting Restrictions in Congress

We all need to be ready for this -- Lawyers, activists, elected officials, election workers and philanthropists. The fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. And it is most squarely before us in the battle for free and fair elections this November. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

Florida is a cesspool of corruption.

BREAKING: Millions of files related to Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a 'global criminal enterprise' that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council says

PIMCO: “.. the fact that Congress is having a hard time doing the very bare minimum – i.e., funding the government successfully – speaks to the lack of functioning of the institution .. Indeed, this most recent full Congress (ended Jan 2025) passed the fewest bills into law since the civil war ..”

Restored Peatlands Could Become Carbon Sinks Within Decades - Eos That’s much faster than what most scientists thought.

Restored Peatlands Could Become Carbon Sinks Within Decades eos.org/articles/res...

He destroyed our economy and everyone knows it.

Whatever he or his voters would like to believe about what he did, the numbers do not lie.

We are seeing the worst job growth in over two decades and it is explicitly tied to bad decisions he made and then lied about.

He's pathetic.

Republicans are rejecting the Constitution in favor of Trump's terror campaign against immigrants and those of us who support them. Here's what the 4th Amendment says.

Epstein survivor tells CBS News how she was trafficked, and assaulted Juliette Bryant says not long after meeting Jeffrey Epstein, he assaulted her, and she realized, "this is not a modeling opportunity, I've been kidnapped."

“As the airplane took off, Epstein started touching me forcibly in between my legs, and I freaked out. I realized, this is not a modeling opportunity, I've been kidnapped. They whisked me away to the island. I was stuck there. They never arranged any modeling opportunities, I was completely conned."

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

The Quintessential Epstein Files Email - The American Prospect Jeffrey Epstein and his friends standing up for Mary Jo White against Elizabeth Warren tells you everything about the class war at the heart of the files.

The Quintessential Epstein Files Email prospect.org/2026/02/17/e... The Epstein files are not just about pedophiles getting a “get out of jail free” card.

Trump somehow got worse on public health after covid He's incapable of learning lessons and actively resists it.

New in PN: Trump somehow got worse on public health after covid

"Trump has brought us fascism, he is threatening war and violence. But it is all too possible that his most lasting and horrific legacy, in his second term as in his first, will be plague."

ALFORD: We're not doing the drop boxes, which led to a lot of mistrust during the 2020 election


BORIS SANCHEZ: Well, a lot of that mistrust was sewn by the president, who made repeated false claims about widespread election fraud when there was none

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people."

—The Declaration of Independence

‘Residential protesting’ could be a crime in Minnesota under new GOP proposal A bill that’s backed by a coalition of GOP lawmakers set to be proposed at the start of the upcoming session would make “residential protesting" punishable under Minnesota law.

The GOP is once again showing its disdain for the Constitution.

fox9.com/news/residen...

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.

We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

Russian officials are unlikely to deviate from their original war demands during the upcoming February 17 to 18 trilateral US-Ukrainian-Russian talks in Geneva, Switzerland.

Read more here: www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/rus...

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Context Matters: Trump Administration Summons Secretaries of State And the context for this one isn't promising.

Maine Secy of State Shenna Bellows: “In the context of Trump’s assault on the rule of law & threats to elections, the odd invitation raises concerns.” Here’s what you need to know about the administration summoning state election officials to a meeting: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The DOJ managed to do something remarkable with the Epstein files. They’ve over-protected the powerful and under-protected the victims.

I wrote about what we know, what’s still redacted, and why the surveillance of Congress should alarm everyone: open.substack.com/pub/logicall...

THE “EPSTEIN CLASS”

The DOJ is using selective redactions and half lists that protect the powerful while intentionally confusing the public.

They’re protecting reputations, not survivors.
@khanna.house.gov

Yes, the Trump-Epstein files.

A bill to strengthen punishment for child sex trafficking is moving through the Colorado legislature with strong bipartisan support... as a GOP state rep claims there are pedophile rings in the Colorado legislature