Tinita Lake O’Neill

Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...

A year later Weev would play a key role in professionalizing the trolls who played a key role in getting Trump elected.

Apparently Ron DeSantis wants to eliminate property taxes. If Floridians aren't already the dumbest people in the country, they soon will be with no funding for public education.

They really do want to keep us poor and stupid.

Wow! This is some top-notch investigative journalism. The report claims the 3 million Epstein files released are only 2% of the total.

The massive scale of what’s still missing is hard to comprehend.

The Elite Club Is Real — And You’re Not In It If this doesn’t spark reform, nothing will

The American people watched administrations change while the gravitational pull of protecting a child sex trafficking ring remained constant. Yet no one is asking four living presidents the fundamental question: why? open.substack.com/pub/saltypol...

This week at Democracy Docket: The worst voter suppression bill ever passed, and an FBI raid built on conspiracy theories When the U.S. House passed the SAVE Act last year, historians told us it was Congress' worst attack on voting rights ever. Well, this week the House approved an even worse one.

When the U.S. House passed the SAVE Act last year, historians told us it was Congress’ worst attack on voting rights ever. Well, this week the House approved an even worse one. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Inside the Debacle That Led to the Closure of El Paso’s Airspace

Morons

Morons are in charge

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Let them fight!

After seeing Trump’s name 1,500,000 times in the Epstein Files, does anyone believe Epstein really killed himself?

Germany already had ICE, pictured here.

Medicare for All would save $450B a year.

Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.

Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

Please read this long but important thread from an immigration defense attorney.

If this administration is permitted to scale its current abuse, neglect, and inhumane treatment of immigrants to the breadth and scope for which they’re currently planning, we’ll all be witness to mass atrocities.

Once again, Kristi Noem and her agents tell a story about being attacked and shooting somebody in self-defense. And once again, the story collapses.

This time, the damning video didn't show up till after the shooting. How many other times have they lied where no video is available to expose them?

5 bullets from the table of contents of a lawsuit, describing how Bannon pitched a cryptocoin while hiding his role in it, but didn't disclose there was a back door via which they could steal from the wallets.

Via @mikescarcella.bsky.social, here's the investor lawsuit against Steve Bannon and Boris Epshteyn for their fraudulent cryptocurrency.

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The fleecing of America continues. "Trump administration deported some migrants at a cost of $1 million each, Democratic report says." www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...

These Companies Have The Biggest ICE Contracts Demonstrations have demanded an end to federal funding for ICE, after two protesters were killed by federal agents in Minneapolis.

"These Companies—Palantir, AT&T, Deloitte—Have The Biggest ICE Contracts As DHS Funding Under Fire."

This story has a bit of details re: the types of services these companies provide to ICE (No paywall) www.forbes.com/sites/tylerr...

AOC in Munich: “They are looking to withdraw the United States from the entire world so that we can into an age of authoritarianism — of authoritarians that can carve out the world, where Donald Trump can command the Western Hemisphere & Latin America as his personal sandbox”

23 Cited in the order for support were the following decisions: see, e.g., J.O.P. v. U.S. Dep’t of Homeland Sec., 2025 WL 1431263, at *10 (4th Cir. May 19, 2025) (Gregory, J., concurring) (“As is becoming far too common, we are confronted again with the efforts of the Executive Branch to set aside the rule of law in pursuit of its goals. It is the duty of courts to stand as a bulwark against the political tides that seek to override constitutional protections and fundamental principles of law, even in the name of noble ends like public safety.”); President & Fellows of Harvard Coll. v. U.S. Dep’t of Homeland Sec., 788 F. Supp. 3d 182, 205 (D. Mass. 2025) (“[T]he Court will not apply any presumption of regularity to conduct that is so unusual and therefore irregular on its face.”), appeal docketed, No. 25-1627 (1st Cir. July 1, 2025); In re Search of One Device and Two Individuals under Rule 41, 784 F. Supp. 3d 234, 244 n.10 (D.D.C. 2025) (“Blind deference to the government? That is no longer a thing. Trust that had been earned over generations has been lost in weeks. Numerous career prosecutors have had to resign instead of taking actions that they believe violated their oath of office, or worse, were fired for upholding that oath.”); Washington v. Trump, No. 25-0127 (JCC), ECF No. 53 at 13:13-15 (W.D. Wash. Jan. 24, 2025) (“I’ve been on the bench for over four decades. I can’t remember another case where the question presented was as clear as this one is. This is a blatantly unconstitutional order.”); N.H Indonesian Cmty. Support v. Trump, 765 F. Supp. 3d 102, 109 (D.N.H. 2025) (“[T]he Executive Order contradicts the text of the Fourteenth Amendment and the century-old untouched precedent that interprets it.”); Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP v. Exec. Off. of the President, 774 F. Supp. 3d 86, 88 (D.D.C. 2025) (“The retaliatory nature of the Executive Order at issue here is clear from its face . . . .”); Pacito v. Trump, 2025 WL 1295660, at *7 (W.D. Wa. May…

Holy shit.

Abbe Lowell's argument that DOJ is not entitled to presumption of regularity in Don Lemon case consists of:

1) A page on irregularity in this case.
2) A page on irregularity in MN.
3) Other adverse rulings in MN.
4) One page plus TWO PAGE footnote on similar rulings nationally.

It's beyond obvious that Republicans don't want an educated populace, primarily to keep themselves in power, and protect the upper class from competition.

This will absolutely destroy us as a country competing on the world stage in the 21st Century. Absolutely insane, suicidal move.

Ro Kanna would rather accuse random innocent dudes of being in the Epstein Files than mention Elon Musk, who is all over them

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Trump vows to defy Congress if voting laws unchanged for midterms President Donald Trump argued Friday that he would push to change voter ID laws ahead of the midterm elections — regardless of congressional approval. Trump has long threatened that elections should h...

Louder for the people in the back: THERE IS NO FUCKING VOTER FRAUD AND THERE NEVER WAS.

Trump vows to defy Congress if voting laws unchanged for midterms

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okay so this is funny because he's spiraling after being told it's not passing and is now posting shit

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Laughing ICE Goons Seize Dad Who Fled Ukraine War at Walmart Dmytro Kulyk is facing deportation as refugees become the Trump administration’s latest target.

It will not surprise you that ICE is filled with pro-Russian goons.

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Title 52, United States Code, Section 20701 requires election officers to retain election records for 22 months following an election for a federal office. The statute’s retention requirement applies to “all records and papers which come into his possession relating to any … act requisite to voting in such election.” Violation of this statute is a misdemeanor.

Any officer of election or custodian who willfully fails to comply with this section shall be fined not more than $1,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.

Just noticing that the Fulton Co election records search warrant affidavit entirely omits the mental state (“willfully”) required to commit the 1st of the 2 crimes cited. The FBI agent makes it sound like a strict liability crime, which it's not. (Sorry if this has already been widely reported.)

YouTube video by emptywheel Behind the Masks

One thing the ICE masks do is hide that Stephen Miller's white supremacist project relies on brown labor.

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Real Estate Brokers Are Profiting From Warehouse Sales to ICE Lucrative deals selling empty warehouses to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the Trump administration’s mass deportation machine are being quietly facilitated by a handful of powerful real esta...

"In Hutchins Texas, ICE reportedly bought a former Amazon property for $80 million. The broker’s contact on the listing was Majestic Realty, a Los Angeles–based firm owned by Ed Roski Jr, a Trump campaign contributor who is a partial owner of the L.A. Lakers..."

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Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

BREAKING: Multiple Epstein victims tell NBC News that Pam Bondi intentionally un-redacted their names and other victims' names as a way to threaten them into silence!

“I think we all realize now that [the DOJ] really wanted to silence us, and thought that could scare us by putting our names out.”