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Remember that you know someone this is affecting. It's me.

I'm someone who's electric bill TRIPLED in Aug '25 (a month that I was only home for ONE week)

I unplugged everything but the stove & fridge. They had no explanation other than pay it or break my lease 🙃

restarting my chip thread over here because twitter doesn’t deserve it: sweet and sour chicken Lays are exactly as good as you’d imagine

Drive racists out of public life forever, and other lessons from Black history Author Brian Jones on how we win—and protect—social progress for all of us.

“We are chastised in moments of democratic advance for wanting too much, for trying to do too many things too fast. It’s usually more that we didn’t go far enough.”

Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald I've been amazed at the massive growth and tech innovations at Substack since we were there last (in 2022). We're grateful for the wave of subscribers in our first 10 days back. And yes, you bitches at @DropSiteNews , once we deal with Timothy Snyder, we are coming for you.

Subscribe to @dropsitenews.com and keep us on top and we’ll put a Glenn’s Tears mug in the merch store

Alex Thompson @AlexThomp . @hollyotterbein scoops: Top Dem officials who worked on the party's still-secret autopsy of the 2024 election concluded that Kamala Harris lost significant support because of the Biden administration's approach to the war in Gaza. https://www.axios.com/2026/02/22/dnc-2024-autopsy-harris-gaza

Incredible that the DNC won’t release this autopsy because apparently they don’t like the findings. They’d rather keep losing than admit their support for genocide cost them.

U.S. Military Deployment in the Middle East in Anticipation of a Possible Military Operation Against Iran - 17 Feb 2026 Created by ®EGYOSINT X Abraham Lincoln CSG Gerald R. Ford CSG On Deployment Turkey Syria Iraq Egypt. Iran UAE USS Gerald R. Ford Aircraft Carrier USS WinstonS. Churchill USS Bainbridge USS Mahan Air Defense Deployement ed Kuwait Bahrain • Qatar. Saudi Arabia Yemen Oman Arabian Sea Created by BEGYOSINT Approx 160 flights by C-17A (Since 16th Jan) Djibouti Gulf of Aden (Muwaffaq Salti AB) 18x flights by C-5M (KSA, Qatar & Djibouti) 20-22x KC-135 & KC-46 Tankers +24 F-15E (Muwaffaq Salti AB) ★ Numerous Flights by C-130H/J 1x RC-135 SIGINT (Chania, Greece) 30x F-35A fighters (Muwaffaq Salti AB) 4x MC/HC-130J (2x Muwaffaq Salti AB) (2x Diego Garcia NSF) 3x EA-11A BACN (Prince Sultan AB) F-16 deployed at the UAE & KSA WC-135R Nuke Sniffer (Midenhall, UK) 2x E-3 Sentry AWACS (Midenhall, UK) 6x EA-18GA (Muwaffaq Salti AB) + USS Abraham Lincoln Aircraft Carrier (Arabian Sea) USS Frank E. Petersen (Arabian Sea) USS Spruance (Arabian Sea) USS Michael Murphy (Arabian Sea) Other assets in the ME USS Roosevelt (Mediterranean Sea) USS McFaul (Persian Gulf) USS Mitscher (Persian Gulf) USS Delbert D. Black (Red Sea) Ohio-class (unknown location) THAAD At least one additional battery (KSA or Qatar) MIM-104 Patriot Multiple battaries across the region 土 +99 C-17A & C-5M flights transferring AD Battaries By @TheIntelFrog

This is somewhere between 40-50% of deployable US air power (and it’s still growing). On a scale with the Gulf Wars.

Proposed cuts to libraries, parks, CUNY, housing + health, while keeping NYPD + Corrections intact; proposed real property tax increases disproportionately affecting Black owners + most tenants; homeless encampment sweeps.

Why is Z proposing these regressive measures, and how best can we respond? 🧵

With New Momentum, Republican States Push Broader Limits for Trans Americans

"In states that once focused mainly on health care and sports for transgender minors, debates now revolve around the validity of transgender identity."

Because it was never about sports.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

Bypass here:

archive.ph/jUvSO

Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.

👇 this is a very good summary of all the anti-trans positions Newsom has taken:

This is LITERALLY just taking Mike Johnson’s lie and presenting it as fact.

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

Goldman Sachs General Counsel Kathryn Ruemmler Resigns Over Epstein Ties Kathryn Ruemmler, a former top Obama administration lawyer, is out at Goldman Sachs after emails showed she had a friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, the sex offender, spanning many years.

Breaking News: Goldman Sachs’s top lawyer, Kathryn Ruemmler, resigned after her extensive relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was revealed.

YouTube video by The Lever When Disaster, Inc. Comes To Town | Lever Time

Full episode here ⬇️

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOEN...

ICE Boosts Income at Private Prison Company GEO Group by 800 Percent - The American Prospect The company’s year-end earnings call came just days after a lawsuit alleges guards in the company’s Washington state immigrant prison assaulted immigrants.

ICE contracts increased private prison company GEO Group's revenues by 800% in 2025, according to an earnings call attended by @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social. But none of that money seems to be going to oversight amid a spate of sexual abuse & physical assault complaints against GEO Group guards.

ICE is pushing Minneapolis underground Scenes from a city under siege

The Verge: 'ICE is pushing Minneapolis underground'

'After ICE raids, tear gassing protestors, and two killings...the battle has merely moved from the streets to the underground, and the city remains under siege.'

www.theverge.com/policy/87710...

The behavior of our big beautiful billionaires over the past several decades is psychologically what I can only describe as "Crying out for consequences." They can't stop themselves and deep down they need to be stopped. They need it as much as we do

Thinking today of this statement Bezos made in 2019, when the National Enquirer tried to blackmail him with compromising photos. See the highlighted portion below, about his "unswerving" support of The Post's mission.
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From the technology community on Reddit: Hi! We're 404 Media's Jason Koebler and Joseph Cox. AMA (us) about the tech ICE is using, Flock and the state of surveillance in the US on Feb. 4, 12 pm ET Explore this post and more from the technology community

LIVE NOW: 404 Media is taking your questions on the state of surveillance in the US: from Flock cameras to tools Palantir made for ICE to find neighborhoods to raid.

Join us now (we have lots of great questions already and we'll try to get to as many as possible!)
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FOSTER: You agree it's a historic fact that during Republican presidencies without exception manufacturing employment dropped and the dollar got weaker?

BESSENT: I haven't seen the data

FOSTER: I presented it to you in a graph

BESSENT: I can't snap my fingers and create factories

Government attorney who told judge in ICE case, 'This job sucks,' removed from detail Julie Le made the remark while she was representing the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota, where federal officers are conducting a massive immigration crackdown.

Govt attorney who was representing the Justice Department in court is no longer detailed to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota after telling a judge her job “sucks” and asking to be held in contempt so she “could get 24 hours of sleep.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Breaking | Nine released Palestinian prisoners arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital this afternoon after being freed from Israeli prisons, local sources report. The group includes Mohammed Ahmed Daghmash (31), Mohammed Anwar Daghmash (37), Ahmed Iyad Al-Barawi (18), Mohammed Saib Al-Barawi (18), Karim Nafid Rumieh (20), Tariq Naim Al-Jalaa (29), Ahmed Ibrahim Al-Sha’er (22), Shadi Ramadan Al-Abd Al-Maqid (41), and Sakr Abdul Fattah Abu Shqoura (21). 📸 Photo from Shehab News shows the moment the nine freed prisoners arrived at the hospital in Gaza following their release.

Breaking | 9 released Palestinian prisoners arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital this afternoon after being freed from Israeli prisons, local sources report.

The group includes Mohammed Ahmed Daghmash (31), Mohammed Anwar Daghmash (37), Ahmed Iyad Al-Barawi (18), Mohammed Saib Al-Barawi (18)...

Watch: The moment 9 freed Palestinian detainees arrived at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital & reunited with their families, after being released from Israeli torture centers.

Of more than 9,300 Palestinians currently held in Israeli prisons & subjected to systematic torture, only about 1,300 have been...

The WaPo cuts are devastating. And to cut the Books section entirely makes the already bleak critical landscape even more bare. This was all preventable but Bezos, who could find the post I perpetuity without noticing it, is hellbent on destroying the Post. And for what?

Trump wants to take over voting. Mike Johnson is willing to help Trump raised the threat to the 2026 midterm elections to an entirely new level.

Trump made it clear he wants to call off the midterms.

He wished he had seized ballot boxes after he lost the 2020 presidential election, and turned the DOJ into an extension of his political will.

We need to realize it's up to us to defend free and fair elections, @marcelias.bsky.social writes.

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Abolish the whole DHS. That’s what I want as a “democratic” voter.

Heard the audio recording of him talking to the former Israeli prime minister where he misspells both Palantir and Andreessen with confidence and it was a really cogent reminder that evil men are almost always stupid

huh