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The rage over affordability issues has everything to do with the public’s exhaustion with being ripped off. Understanding this is the first step toward building a real politics of affordability. The next is to embrace open conflict with the corporate villains extorting the public. trib.al/8ZOXHFg

Europe answers Trump's call on Ukraine "We are spending real money, whereas the U.S. is actually making money on this war," said Poland's foreign minister.

European governments and institutions surged military aid to Ukraine by 67% and financial and humanitarian support by 59% in 2025 while the United States effectively stopped financial aid to the battered country altogether. www.axios.com/2026/02/19/u...

ICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin Cities Some people who observe ICE activity are skeptical about a large scale drawdown of agents in the state. There are indications that activity has decreased in the Twin Cities, but has continued outside ...

Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help.

“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Headline card with text at the top that reads: "Exclusive: ICE reliance on Microsoft surged amid immigration crackdown, documents show". A photo illustration below collages photos of ICE and document screenshots.

ICE deepened its reliance on Microsoft’s cloud technology last year as the agency ramped up arrest and deportation operations, leaked documents reveal.

Mark Zuckerberg Is Done With Politics He was once a backer of liberal causes. Then everyone seemed to turn on him. Now he wants to stay away from politics — if that's possible. By Theodore Schleifer and Mike Isaac Theodore Schleifer reports on wealthy political donors and Mike Isaac reports on Meta and Silicon Valley. Published Sept. 24, 2024 Updated Sept. 27, 2024 Leer en español It was only a little more than a decade ago that Mark Zuckerberg had few qualms about airing his politics. Earnest and optimistic - perhaps naïvely so - he rushed onto the national stage to discuss issues he cared about: immigration, social justice, inequality, democracy in action. He penned

Schleifer & @teddyschleifer X.com NEWS: Meta is about to start a $65 million midterms push — its biggest political effort in its 20 years in business. Meta is standing up two super PACs that this week will drop money in races in Texas and Illinois to push A.l. Exclusive w/ @matt_zdun.

Started/going

Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...

In honor of DHS spokesliar Tricia McLaughlin's resignation, let's revisit how her husband's company won a $220 million no-bid contract to run a stupid propaganda campaign featuring her boss, Kristi Noem, bashing immigrants while sitting on a horse in front of Mt. Rushmore.

Headline card with text at the top that reads: "The number of US-aligned countries in the UN has crashed under Trump". Two separate cluster of circles below show that during Obama and Biden years 46 countries were aligned with the US compared to 7 during Trump years.

Analysis shows that the world is moving closer to China, as Trump’s isolationism rears its head at the United Nations.

Also they use kids and grandchildren as bait www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

US EPA plans to loosen mercury rules for coal plants this week, NYT reports The Trump administration plans to loosen restrictions on coal-burning power plants this week, allowing them to emit more hazardous pollutants including mercury, the New York Times reported on Wednesda...

Trump clears the way for power plants to dump more mercury into the atmosphere.

Someone should ask Karoline if the president needed an ID to get on Epstein's plane

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

Renee Good memorial site in south Minneapolis doused in gasoline Damage was minimal but police are investigating.

Someone doused Renee Good’s Minneapolis memorial and a nearby pile of wood with gasoline and started a fire at about 9 p.m. Tuesday.

Trump wants to prosecute anti-fascists as terrorists. This Texas trial will test his power. A July 4 shooting at an ICE detention center could change the way the federal government prosecutes activists.

“For the first time, federal prosecutors are seeking to convict protesters — most of them American citizens — on charges related to domestic terrorism. The outcome will test whether President Donald Trump’s yearslong campaign to brand leftist activists as terrorists can succeed in the courts.”

His constituents don't get a pass for sending him to Congress

New report highlights systemic failures behind DC plane crash that right-wing media blamed on DEI

A new report highlights the systemic failures that led to the DCA plane crash that Trump and right-wing media blamed on DEI

The incident was just the start of Trump and his allies responding to tragedies by rushing out a political narrative before facts can be established

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Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

This from the woman who's still screaming about the Bad Bunny halftime show

Elon Musk is a monstrous hatemonger and if you're still merrily posting bullshit on X like it's a normal place I'm judging you.

Then you don't have a Constitution

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

I'm sure that joke was much funnier at Davos

This is what a rigged economy looks like.

Electricity Bills Got More Expensive In 2025—Despite Trump’s Promise To Reduce Utility Costs Americans closest to new data centers will be more affected by rising utility costs, economists said.

Americans closest to new data centers will be more affected by rising utility costs, economists said.

You need to know about the SAVE Act, which recently passed in the House.

So here's a crash course from reporter Ari Berman on how the sweeping voter restriction bill could disenfranchise millions of Americans

Just as ICE and CBP have no legitimate role in "election security" neither does the head of DHS. The mere existence of this press conference should be a scandal, much less this tone-deaf comment.

Nazi-level depravity. But God forbid we call them Nazis.

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

When the Supreme Court allowed immigration agents to consider race during sweeps, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said that citizens shouldn’t be concerned because agents will “promptly let the individual go.”

For these Americans, that wasn’t true.

(Published Oct. 2025)

interesting that these people — and fellow travelers like bari weiss — insist on large, expensive security details. they are status markers, i suppose.