The People Are Leading. The Leaders Should Follow.
Congressional Democrats should take a page from the people of Minneapolis.
"President Trumpโs State of the Union address is scheduled for two weeks from now. Perhaps Democratic members of Congress should accept that we arenโt living in business-as-usual times? Perhaps they should choose not to attend the State of the Union?"
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11.02.2026 15:26 โ ๐ 238 ๐ 53 ๐ฌ 19 ๐ 6
The president had his DOJ raid an election office and seize ballots. Now it turns out the whole thing is just election deniers telling the same old lies. Our democracy is in danger but I founded Democracy Docket to help keep you informed on the fight ahead. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
10.02.2026 23:58 โ ๐ 7533 ๐ 2134 ๐ฌ 94 ๐ 46
A lot of low level accounting jobs are essentially human control points to prevent fraud, they haven't been automated not because it's impossible but because the amount of fraud you can commit against a fully automated purchasing system is basically unlimited
11.02.2026 15:01 โ ๐ 159 ๐ 20 ๐ฌ 7 ๐ 4
avocados: $20/mo
rotisserie chicken 2x a month: $20
juice budget: $150/mo
mortgage + PMI + property taxes: $6500/mo
11.02.2026 15:29 โ ๐ 21 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0
As we say in Seattle:
The mountain is out!!!!
#Seattle #PNW #MtRainier
11.02.2026 00:26 โ ๐ 2136 ๐ 116 ๐ฌ 99 ๐ 7
The results of the US Olympic womenโs hockey, they have played 4 games so far. The US has scored 20 goals. Their opponents? ONE.
The US Womenโs Hockey team is terrifying.
They have scored twenty goals in this Olympiad so far.
Their opponents?
One.
11.02.2026 07:02 โ ๐ 2263 ๐ 326 ๐ฌ 127 ๐ 35
This made me ugly cry ๐ญ
I will never claim that he was perfectโฆevery president in my lifetime has pissed me off for one reason or another.
Butโฆdammit, Iโm so tired of the constant feeling of uneasiness and uncertainty ๐
10.02.2026 22:03 โ ๐ 10109 ๐ 2283 ๐ฌ 825 ๐ 335
So dumbass fans did like $12,000 to the historic pergola in Seattle Sunday night & the parks dept has started a GFM to get the money to repair it. This is a chance for the Seahawks to do the right thing & pay to repair it.
11.02.2026 03:11 โ ๐ 792 ๐ 129 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
This administration is a criminal administration.
10.02.2026 17:57 โ ๐ 12870 ๐ 4174 ๐ฌ 280 ๐ 69
Raskin to Bondi:
"You're running a massive Epstein coverup right out of the Department of Justice... You ignored the law and even with over 100,000 employees at your disposal, you acted with some mixture of staggering incompetence, cold indifference and jaded cruelty to more than 1000 victims".
11.02.2026 15:28 โ ๐ 213 ๐ 84 ๐ฌ 14 ๐ 15
If this doesnโt deep-six his Presidency I donโt know what will.
This is vile. This is ugly.
This perpetrator must be held accountable.
No longer is this right versus left.
Itโs about right versus wrong.
Americaโs morality will be tested like never before in nearly 250 years.
11.02.2026 05:08 โ ๐ 2147 ๐ 791 ๐ฌ 14 ๐ 67
Canada, we have to do better on gun control. There is no way we can let this school shooting in Tumbler Ridge go unaddressed. We are not USians. We MUST respond to this, and we must do so together as a nation.
It is NOT okay that school shootings happen. Not here. Not anywhere. We MUST solve this.
11.02.2026 04:19 โ ๐ 983 ๐ 168 ๐ฌ 58 ๐ 9
Pirro should be impeached just for attempting to get an indictment against members of Congress for speech.
Her incompetence is actually useful right now because it negates her malevolence.
11.02.2026 03:24 โ ๐ 11841 ๐ 2340 ๐ฌ 282 ๐ 77
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad โ the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
11.02.2026 03:43 โ ๐ 22000 ๐ 6273 ๐ฌ 359 ๐ 480
Khanna: There were two rounds of redactions. There was the original FBI redactionsโฆ and they did a second round of redactions at the DOJ. What theyโre showing members now is the unredacted version of the DOJโs redactionsโnot the original FBI redactions. Theyโre in blatant violation of the law.
11.02.2026 00:50 โ ๐ 15029 ๐ 4944 ๐ฌ 307 ๐ 146
We have a federal administration led by idiots and criminals.
11.02.2026 01:49 โ ๐ 19025 ๐ 4783 ๐ฌ 690 ๐ 216
Rep. Walkinshaw leaving todayโs ICE hearing: โAll of this comes from Stephen Millerโs sick, twisted, deranged Great Replacement Theory.โ He says when Dems have the majority they will subpoena Miller to testify: โIf he doesnโt he will end up in prison for contempt.โ @pabloreports.bsky.social
10.02.2026 19:04 โ ๐ 14587 ๐ 4337 ๐ฌ 600 ๐ 238
Ottawa commits $84M to install more than 8,000 EV chargers | CBC News
In an effort to address range anxiety and get more drivers into electric vehicles, the federal government is committing to fund and further expand the country's EV charging infrastructure.
๐จ๐ฆOttawa -Federal government commits $84M to install more than 8,000 EV chargers.
According to Natural Resources Canada, more than 33,000 EV chargers have been installed and more than 18,000 are planned across the country.
#Cdnpoli๐
#CanadaSky๐จ๐ฆ
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10.02.2026 10:01 โ ๐ 2571 ๐ 518 ๐ฌ 78 ๐ 54
Trump tried to have democrats Indicted over that video. Meanwhile too many democrats were fundraising off the video instead of fighting it in the court of public opinion.
11.02.2026 02:27 โ ๐ 674 ๐ 85 ๐ฌ 22 ๐ 4
JUDGE JOHNSTON: โToday, immigrants are being detained without due process. Tomorrow, under the Governmentโs interpretation of the law, American citizens could be subject to the same .. This Court will not allow such an unraveling of the Constitution.โ
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10.02.2026 14:34 โ ๐ 5140 ๐ 1999 ๐ฌ 81 ๐ 84
VAN HOLLEN: Did you in fact make the visit to Epstein's private island?
LUTNICK: I did have lunch w/ him as I was on a boat going across on a family vacation. My wife was with me as were my 4 children and nannies. We had lunch on the island. That's true. For an hour. We left with all of my children
10.02.2026 15:02 โ ๐ 4570 ๐ 1108 ๐ฌ 1794 ๐ 1179
Jamie Raskin accuses DoJ of cover-up after viewing unredacted Epstein files
Ranking member of House judiciary panel said โmysterious redactionsโ in files obscured names of abusers
Jamie Raskin accuses DoJ of cover-up after viewing unredacted Epstein files
Ranking member of House judiciary panel said โmysterious redactionsโ in files obscured names of abusers
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
11.02.2026 05:38 โ ๐ 79 ๐ 27 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 1
KENNEDY: The Census Bureau is under your jurisdiction & responsible for defining what it means to be poor, is that right?
LUTNICK: I don't know
K: Well you need to look, bc it does. What's the % of Americans who live below poverty level?
L: I don't know
K: It's around 11%. It's been constant
10.02.2026 15:09 โ ๐ 10457 ๐ 3303 ๐ฌ 1245 ๐ 479
SWALWELL: You said you wanted to see a deportation process that was 'like Amazon Prime but with human beings.' How many times has Amazon Prime shot a mom 3 times in the face?
LYONS: None
SWALWELL: How many times has Amazon Prime shot a nurse 10 times in the back?
LYONS: None
10.02.2026 16:14 โ ๐ 12010 ๐ 3864 ๐ฌ 351 ๐ 199
Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.
10.02.2026 15:41 โ ๐ 14958 ๐ 5751 ๐ฌ 237 ๐ 161
๐จ United States v. Benson
Learn more here.
๐จBREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES DOJ lawsuit to gain access to Michiganโ unredacted statewide voter registration list. Another BIG victory for our clients and voters. Another stunning defeat for Pam Bondi. www.democracydocket.com/cases/michig...
10.02.2026 14:33 โ ๐ 21402 ๐ 6097 ๐ฌ 692 ๐ 391
Rep. Jamie Raskin now says Trump's name is mentioned "more than a million times" in the un-redacted version of the Epstein files that were released nearly two weeks ago.
This doesn't include the other three million files that have yet to be released.
A million times in the first 3.5 million files.
10.02.2026 19:04 โ ๐ 1057 ๐ 361 ๐ฌ 31 ๐ 35
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