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Melissa Johnson

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February 9, 2026 Last night’s thirteen-minute Super Bowl half-time show featuring Bad Bunny had more watchers than any other halftime show in history: an estimated 135 million watched live, while millions more have st...

February 9, 2026

10.02.2026 06:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1274    πŸ” 387    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 43

They will be warehousing people.

And treating them as objects.

These are concentration camps.

10.02.2026 01:58 β€” πŸ‘ 627    πŸ” 269    πŸ’¬ 34    πŸ“Œ 6
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Ghislaine Maxwell invokes Fifth Amendment in closed deposition The convicted sex trafficker was not expected to answer questions at a virtual closed-door deposition before the House Oversight Committee.

My analysis of this here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-week-a...

www.ms.now/news/ghislai...

09.02.2026 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 664    πŸ” 221    πŸ’¬ 75    πŸ“Œ 13
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February 8, 2026 On February 9, 1950, Senator Joe McCarthy (R-WI) stood up in front of the Republican Women’s Club of Wheeling, West Virginia, at a gathering to celebrate President Abraham Lincoln’s birthday.

February 8, 2026

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Olympic athletes carrying the flame of democracy as we head into a week of important hearings on the Hill. These are not times for people who don’t like anything that challenges their comfortable existence. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

09.02.2026 13:19 β€” πŸ‘ 834    πŸ” 169    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 3

loved every second of Bad Bunny. That message of inclusion and a celebration of cultures like Puerto Rico’s is just what America needs right now. Plus, his music just gets you in motion. 10/10

09.02.2026 01:36 β€” πŸ‘ 31577    πŸ” 3937    πŸ’¬ 679    πŸ“Œ 155
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February 7, 2026 Yesterday two right-wing circuit judges signed off on the Trump administration’s new mass detention policy: the extraordinary assertion that vast numbers of noncitizens throughout the country can be a...

February 7, 2026

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Massie on Howard Lutnick: "He should just resign. Three people in Great Britain resigned for less than what we've seen Howard Lutnick lie about. He clearly went to the island, if we believe what's in these files. He was in business with Jeffrey Epstein."

08.02.2026 16:29 β€” πŸ‘ 24354    πŸ” 7647    πŸ’¬ 723    πŸ“Œ 355
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February 6, 2026 Late last night, President Donald J.

February 6, 2026

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A Few Thoughts for Those Who Can't Sleep -- February 6 Edition YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman

Some of my thoughts about the racist so-called β€œmeme” posted by DJT.

www.youtube.com/live/hC-bAJQ...

07.02.2026 05:05 β€” πŸ‘ 162    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 3
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We are not Nazis. Also: No Kings, No Dictators.

If you don’t know Alberto CastaΓ±eda MondragΓ³n’s story, the story of his arrest by ICE, read here: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

07.02.2026 00:01 β€” πŸ‘ 587    πŸ” 213    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 4
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We are not Nazis. Also: No Kings, No Dictators.

For anyone who wondered how the Germans turned a blind eye to the Holocaust, we are living through the answer. We watched it start in real time. Do you remember last October? The details slip away fast but holding onto them helps us hold onto who we are joycevance.substack.com/p/we-are-not...

06.02.2026 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 1877    πŸ” 670    πŸ’¬ 48    πŸ“Œ 34

I sincerely hope that JD Vance gets this reaction every single place he goes.

06.02.2026 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 11787    πŸ” 1533    πŸ’¬ 257    πŸ“Œ 59
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February 5, 2026 The past two days have seen a growing struggle between Democrats, who are demanding accountability from the Trump administration, and Republicans trying to hide what the administration is up to.

February 5, 2026

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This is truly incredible.

Shakespeare speaking to RIGHT NOWβ€”on the β€œmountainish” inhumanity of punishing and casting out strangers from your country.

05.02.2026 16:09 β€” πŸ‘ 404    πŸ” 122    πŸ’¬ 20    πŸ“Œ 6

I don’t consider the Bill of Rights β€œunrealistic.”

05.02.2026 22:25 β€” πŸ‘ 267    πŸ” 80    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2
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The Supreme Court’s one-line decision in the California Prop 50 gerrymandering case went the right way, but it hides a larger truth. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

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February 4, 2026 On the heels of last weekend’s special election in Texas, President Donald J.

February 4, 2026

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Apparently.

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February 3, 2026 Yesterday, the day before Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s termination of Haiti’s Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation, U.S.

February 3, 2026

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"ai sycophancy" is not always harmful
In the wrong situation it can be profoundly damaging, but sycophancy is a hard problem because for information technology to work it must often take us at our word.
Mike Caulfield
Feb 03, 2026

"ai sycophancy" is not always harmful In the wrong situation it can be profoundly damaging, but sycophancy is a hard problem because for information technology to work it must often take us at our word. Mike Caulfield Feb 03, 2026

New post on that Anthropic paper and a problem with defining sycophancy as AI not saying you are wrong. And more broadly a problem with conceptualizing these things as opinionated chatbots. open.substack.com/pub/mikecaul...

04.02.2026 13:09 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Walz demands DHS stop detaining Minnesota children In a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, Walz demanded details about how many Minnesota kids are in detention facilities.

They’re taking children from Minnesota and locking them up like criminals in detention camps in Texas.

For the love of God, send our kids home and bring an end to this nightmare.

www.startribune.com/walz-demands...

04.02.2026 01:35 β€” πŸ‘ 18321    πŸ” 5771    πŸ’¬ 852    πŸ“Œ 307
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Donald Trump has been telling us that if he doesn't like the outcome of the elections he will seize ballots. He wants Republicans to take control of voting. He wants to take over elections in Democratic states.

People should be concerned and we all need to be ready.

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A Few Thoughts for Those Who Can't Sleep YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman

Hello folks:

I'm entirely pooped tonight -- too pooped to offer "A Few Thoughts for Those Who Can't Sleep."

But I WILL be back tomorrow.

In the meantime, here's yesterday's episode, on people in Florida hiding Haitians from our government...

www.youtube.com/live/vVDWYgv...

04.02.2026 02:48 β€” πŸ‘ 124    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 1
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Today was one of those days where it was difficult to keep up with everything of significance that happened. Here’s a little help that should get you up to speed on at least some of it. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

03.02.2026 05:44 β€” πŸ‘ 603    πŸ” 150    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 11

Bill Clinton testified under oath about Monica Lewinsky. He will now testify under oath about Epstein. There is no excuse for Donald Trump doing that too. Either you want to learn the truth about Epstein’s crimes & who else was involved or you don’t.

03.02.2026 14:01 β€” πŸ‘ 3455    πŸ” 782    πŸ’¬ 114    πŸ“Œ 26
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Today In Court What a prosecutor in Minnesota said

A young prosecutor tells a judge what’s really going on joycevance.substack.com/p/today-in-c...

04.02.2026 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 835    πŸ” 248    πŸ’¬ 27    πŸ“Œ 12

Here we go….

02.02.2026 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 2227    πŸ” 782    πŸ’¬ 139    πŸ“Œ 35

Folks:

This is important.

SHEARβ€”the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic (a GREAT organization)β€”is tracking examples of the regime erasing history.

More at the link below.

02.02.2026 22:55 β€” πŸ‘ 904    πŸ” 547    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 12

Watching people say "even Google admits they were spying on people" and sharing an AI Overview screenshot that summarizes what people have (falsely) alleged is more 2016 than I wanted to be this morning

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