“You’re damn right we’re gonna have ICE surround the polls come November,” Steve Bannon said on his War Room podcast. trib.al/0lWZSnj

Heads are going to explode 💥

Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third.

All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit.
1/3

Holy cow. The gall.

Casten to Bessent on VZ oil money: "IEEPA specifically says you have to be engaged in hostilities with a country for IEEPA to trigger. Rubio said we are not at war with Venezuela. So unless you disagree w/ him, I'm unclear other what legal authorities the US has to control or disperse those assets"

Great choice!

Donate to Washington Post 2026 layoff fund, organized by Rachel Siegel On Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2026, The Washington Post laid off hundreds of journalists. We ar… Rachel Siegel needs your support for Washington Post 2026 layoff fund

We at the @postguild.bsky.social are raising money for the hundreds of journalists the Post just laid off. This goes to the people who are hurting, not the Post. Or if you'd rather, go subscribe to an independent journalist. Support is hugely appreciated.

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Does anyone have a running count of the on-the-record lies from official spokespersons, broken out by agency?

In the months ahead, Trump will gin up all kinds of lies about so-called election malfeasance.

It’s bullshit. All of it. Its sole purpose is to undermine trust in elections as a pretext for extra-constitutional actions.

Get the facts.

These are voices I trust.

go.bsky.app/FxTaZYF

YouTube video by Washington Post 'Democracy Dies in Darkness': Super Bowl commercial (2019)

Seven years ago yesterday, this ad ran during the Super Bowl.

While vetting the Epstein files, the FBI created a list of prominent names mentioned in the documents—and they noted which people had "salacious information" about them in the records. Trump was on the "salacious" list. Bill Clinton was not.

www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Count me in. K!ll me now.

Martinez ends her testimony with this:

"If there's not justice for the people, let there be no peace for the government."

He literally pulled a "you should smile more" IN RESPONSE TO AN EPSTEIN QUESTION.

give him a break he just stumbled into the liquor closet by mistake

Annotating the Judge’s Decision in the Case of Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-Year-Old Detained by ICE Our critic annotates the barbed wordplay of a decision challenging the Trump administration’s theory of executive power.

One of the many unsettling images from the ICE surge in Minneapolis include the 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, in his blue bunny hat, standing in the cold. A federal judge freed him and his father in a judicial reasoning through passionate and mischievous prose. Our critic annotated the decision.

What the…?

Holy cow, what an intro. That last paragraph is a doozy!

Wow, congratulations and thank you. And thanks to your plaintiffs for letting their stories stand for so many! Wishing you many more successes like this one.

The attorneys who submitted the application could be disciplined for that, in addition to any other repercussions in the criminal case. Candor to the court includes an obligation to address law that could cut against your position.

I’d love to institute a morals test before anyone like this could come into a sanctuary city. Like, my dude, do you have any idea what this country would be without the NYCs, LAs, Vegases, Portlands, Chicagos?

How the Supreme Court Secretly Made Itself Even More Secretive

The idea that the Court should operate entirely in secret is a modern phenomenon. The idea that the Court should be separated from the public is a modern phenomenon. Earlier generations did not accept a powerful, isolated & secretive Court and we shouldn't either 1/6

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

There’s a bill introduced this session (that probably won’t go anywhere) in WA to do something like this!

A screenshot of a tweet by Nick Adams (@NickAdamsinUSA), verified, posted about four hours earlier. The tweet claims he overheard several college women at an OrangeTheory gym talking about “Melania” after a workout. He writes that they admired the First Lady’s “class, humanity, and business acumen,” and includes quoted dialogue using slang like “Period sis” and “Slay queen,” saying they were surprised by her intelligence and talent. The tweet continues with a quote claiming the women said President Trump is a good husband and a gentleman and that the media lies about him. It concludes with the author asserting that the film he references has secured the female vote for the GOP in the midterms.

Of all the things in the history of the world that definitely did not happen - this is the pinnacle.

Promise I won't do this every day but this too is losing loser loses again. I think that's something like 5 today, and that's just what's in my feed and not all of those.

It doesn't mean he's not (extremely) dangerous. Doesn't mean there's no doing. Quite the contrary.

But he's *very* beatable.

DHS’s account of two Venezuelans shot by border patrol falls apart in court: ‘A smear campaign’ Immigration officials said agent shot two ‘vicious gang members’ in Portland, but records obtained by the Guardian reveal US prosecutor contradicted claims

After Border Patrol shot two people in Portland, DHS claimed they were "vicious gang members" tied to a past shooting.

But records I obtained reveal a US prosecutor has since directly contradicted DHS, saying, "We're not suggesting he is a gang member." My dive into how DHS' claims have collapsed:

This tracks. The answer to the “woke mob”? Become a knee-jerk apologist for people who don’t deserve defending.

I lived in New York for almost 20 years — never got to see it from this angle. Love this.

The Trump Administration exempts new nuclear reactors from environmental review The announcement comes just days after NPR revealed the administration had secretly rewritten safety and environmental standards.

The announcement comes just days after NPR revealed the administration had secretly rewritten safety and environmental standards.

It’s actually hard to listen to.

First, he's saying the quiet part out loud: he wants to take over elections to control outcomes.

Second, when he realizes he can't do this directly, he will try to leverage federal funding to coerce states to tilt the playing field for him.

Governors and courts better be ready to defeat that.