Trump Canβt Steal the Midterms
The case for being vigilant without panicking.
Trump can't steal the midterms.
I say that not as a call for complacency, but to right-size worries. Authoritarianism partially exists in our heads. Excessive fear plays into their hands.
Be vigilant but don't panic. Don't grant the regime more power than it actually has.
Me, in @thebulwark.com:
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The concept of a woman not wanting to have a baby for reasons unrelated to the state of the world or finances or support systems or rent prices is so unthinkable to so many people in power that they just...don't consider it. It must be *something* they can fix.
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So the United States will only use empty warehouses to house people it wants to terrorize, not people it wants to shelter from the cold.
We really are not a very good-natured country.
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50% of Conservatives say they approve of Donald Trump
50% of Conservatives say they approve of Donald Trump
βA βcivil warβ within Pierre Poilievreβs Conservative Party appears to be inevitable.β
50% of Conservatives say they approve of Donald Trump
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That new owner is a shell company with ties to Epstein-this ranch was kept in his circle of influence even after his death to protect the rich and powerful. The NM Govenor, Sherrifs, & other elected officials need to be investigated - they knew what was happening there & are part of the coverup.
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Opinion: Trumpβs Trading of Ukraine
If Russiaβs aggression is rewarded, it sends a message that violence is a rational investment and can only lead to its repetition in the future.
"What makes this alleged package particularly dangerous is the...logic in which the war does not end with justice but with a βdeal.β A logic in which aggression is not punished but monetized."
www.kyivpost.com/opinion/69653
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This is an argument that leads inevitably to an argument that a genocide of the Indigenous peoples of the USA was/is justified since they did not share the history, faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry or sacrifices made by forefathers of the settlers.
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π€¨slick burn
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Look! She brought him a fresh head of lettuce!
The countdown begins?
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The DOJ is monitoring what lawmakers search for in the Epstein files. Maybe they could put that same energy into monitoring, I donβt knowβ¦ the people in the files.
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Canada's Air Transat to stop flights to the U.S.
By Robert Silk
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Feb 11, 2026
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When Canadiens continue to avoid your country something is really, really wrong.
www.travelweekly.com/Travel-News/...
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true, but before 24/7 cable news, social media, podcasts and radio broadcasts with clear ideological agendas, there was local and network news at 6 and 11 pm reporting facts, mostly without bias
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Police lie. All the time. In paperwork. To prosecutors. To the media. On the stand while testifying under oath. And even when in the very rare case their lies are exposed, they get to keep lying with few if any consequences. This pattern isnβt just limited to ICE.
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r/analytics
β’ IOh
We just found out our AI has been making up
analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna
throw up.
Support
So we've been using an Al agent since November to
answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed
amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations,
everyone loved it.
I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this
entire time.
Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on
data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a
deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing
plausible sounding percentages.
I only caught it by accident when someone asked me
to double check something. I started digging, and
holy shit, it's bad.
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
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make it happen Number One
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#epstein #Democrats #senate
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Something to keep in mind about the whole Ring situation is that they're still going to link all the cameras and invade your privacy, they just learned not to be so blatant about it
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the thing I like most about this pic is how PP canβt get a security clearance
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or it could have been from watching Kaa, the snake in Disneyβs version of Rudyard Kiplingβs βThe Jungle Bookβ
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Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann # X.com
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β’ Translated from German by Grok
Marco Rubio's speech was a poisoned declaration of love. There was absolutely nothing reassuring about this speech. Rubio may have chosen a different tone from US Vice President J. D. Vance, but not a different content, and he conjured up a world that is not ours. The collective relief that was expressed in the great applause for the speech is an illusion. The inappropriate as well as naive standing ovations show that a large part of those who should know better still have not understood what hour has struck for Europe.
AGREE.
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weird that I saw βruiningβ rather than βrunningβ
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that we know of so far, thereβs hundreds or thousands of redacted names of perverts not yet revealed and about 3 million documents not released yet
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I knew I saw this somewhere before. Funny that itβs almost exactly whatβs actually happening now.
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Back in the day when his mom did his laundry and his father occasionally played catch with him in the back yard. He saw that as white culture because he was blissfully unaware that the country was much much more than his happy little all white town.
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The US is primarily a vast mosaic of diversities from across the planet. IMO the only cultural characteristics that are [stubbornly] common throughout the whole of the US are overeating and bloviating.
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