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This is one reason authoritarians seek to control the arts - to shut down reactions to their misdeeds.

Another banger.

This Day in Labor History: February 7, 1894. Gold miners near Cripple Creek, Colorado walked off the job, leading to one of the biggest victories for organized labor in the Gilded Age after the state of Colorado intervened on the side of the workers. The key to victory: the power of the state!

Taylor Rehmet's win in a Texas state senate shocked pundits.

But, as I found in interviews with people close to the ground, it's not so surprising.

A lot of it is about the books bans. People hate the book bans. Even some Republicans! An analysis.

www.salon.com/2026/02/06/s...

TrumpRx Lets Big Pharma Off the Hook - Public Citizen WASHINGTON, D.C. — This evening, President Trump is expected to announce the launch of TrumpRx – a direct-to-consumer website that…

Here's @publiccitizen.bsky.social's statement on TrumpRx:

www.citizen.org/news/trumprx...
#healthpolicy

Great thread. Also, as a southern Californian, partway through this thread the Hanson name set my Spidey senses tingling and then there it was - he’s the guy who created San Clemente, because of course he did.

I am bereft.

Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution January 30 of Every Year "Stand up for what is right!" www.korematsuinstitute.org

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The Trump Administration claims the agents who shot Alex Pretti have been put on administrative leave, notwithstanding Greg Bovino’s prior short statement that they were simply reassigned.

There is no reason to credit this assertion as truthful.

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Be furious if need be, but remember I stand by you, my friend. ❤️

For anyone who wants a deep dive on how ‘empathy’ is bad, this is the first in a long series

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Know your enemies.

This is not law.
This is tyranny.

Man charged in ‘largest jewelry heist in U.S. history’ avoids trial by getting deported A defendant in federal custody for what authorities have called the largest jewelry heist in U.S. history was deported to Ecuador late last month, according to court filings, effectively ending the ca...

Completely lawless and denies justice.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

We started a Roll 20 D&D campaign during Covid. It gave us something to look forward to. (We use Discord for the audio.) We’re now a third of the way through our third campaign. We love that when we’re done it’s just steps to our beds.

Be Spock.

Review: 'Star Trek: Starfleet Academy' brings the franchise down to Earth and back to school 'Star Trek' comes down to San Francisco in this youth-targeted Paramount+ series starring Holly Hunter and newcomer Sandro Rosta.

Meanwhile, there's a new "Star Trek" series. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Even if you can do what she says, and a cursory look at the prices at the market makes it a not impossible. But the planning of, buying the ingredients for, and actually cooking the meal have a cost.

If Trump is sad you’re dead, you’re a bad person.

You’ve Heard About Who ICE Is Recruiting. The Truth Is Far Worse. I’m the Proof. What happens when you do minimal screening before hiring agents, arming them, and sending them into the streets? We're all finding out.

A few months ago, ICE hired me

I didn't sign and submit any paperwork. I almost certainly failed the drug test. I'm real outspoken about my opposition to the Trump administration, and I am extremely googlable

And yet, there it was, in plain English. "Welcome to ICE!"

My latest for Slate

Do it.

Dua Lipa or Duolingo?

Don’t take me back to my 30s to bring up a name I hoped to never hear again.

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; and the world they act in differs so materially from the world at large, that they have but little opportunity of knowing its true interests, and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

Yet more AI slop affecting actual people.

This. Please listen to experts.

Do not be fooled, these men are thugs.

I-70, November to March, sunrise to 8:30. The closures respond to actual conditions, not daily. Also, driving east during that time anywhere around Denver can be tough.

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