Swing Blue Alliance
@swingbluealliance.org
Massachusetts' largest volunteer-led grassroots group dedicated to helping Democrats win in swing states.
https://swingbluealliance.org/
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Coverage of Andy Barr, a sitting Congressman and candidate for U.S. Senate, running an ad declaring, "It's not a sin to be white" -- a variation of a notorious white nationalist slogan
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Major corporations bankroll political ad featuring white supremacist slogan
Congressman Andy Barr (R-KY), who is running to replace Mitch McConnell in the United States Senate, released his first television ad earlier this month.
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February 17, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Coverage of Andy Barr, a sitting Congressman and candidate for U.S. Senate, running an ad declaring, "It's not a sin to be white" -- a variation of a notorious white nationalist slogan
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That last sentence? That's the strategy. They've been pretty open about it.
“They’re trapped in this little confinement cell, a dark cell with no sunlight, with multiple people,” said Shaan Chatterjee, an attorney at New England Immigration Law. “They’re basically torturing people into signing off on their own deportation.”
(Free article) www.sunjournal.com/2026/02/07/i...
(Free article) www.sunjournal.com/2026/02/07/i...
ICE detainees from Maine being held under ‘inhumane’ conditions in Mass. facility, attorneys say
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesperson said the allegations of overcrowding and lack of access to lawyers are false.
www.sunjournal.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:59 PM
That last sentence? That's the strategy. They've been pretty open about it.
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Rachel Maddox exposed the Republican governor of New Hampshire for working with ICE for a detention center that people of New Hampshire are totally against.
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Political catastrophe: Republican governor botches ICE prison decision
YouTube video by MS NOW
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February 17, 2026 at 2:00 PM
Rachel Maddox exposed the Republican governor of New Hampshire for working with ICE for a detention center that people of New Hampshire are totally against.
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Tax season is coming.
When you get a bit back on your return, I am begging you not to forget that they slapped you with tariffs and hiked your health bills.
And they gave the real money to the rich.
They're going to want praise and celebration. Don't give it to them.
When you get a bit back on your return, I am begging you not to forget that they slapped you with tariffs and hiked your health bills.
And they gave the real money to the rich.
They're going to want praise and celebration. Don't give it to them.
February 17, 2026 at 3:06 PM
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🚨 Breaking news in Epstein Case 🚨 The New Mexico Legislature has passed HR1 to convene a Truth Commission and investigate Epstein’s crimes in NM, including at Zorro Ranch—led by State Reps Andrea Romero and Marianna Anaya.
Full explainer here: youtu.be/DnOTfR_msPw?...
Full explainer here: youtu.be/DnOTfR_msPw?...
February 17, 2026 at 3:50 AM
🚨 Breaking news in Epstein Case 🚨 The New Mexico Legislature has passed HR1 to convene a Truth Commission and investigate Epstein’s crimes in NM, including at Zorro Ranch—led by State Reps Andrea Romero and Marianna Anaya.
Full explainer here: youtu.be/DnOTfR_msPw?...
Full explainer here: youtu.be/DnOTfR_msPw?...
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NEW: When North Carolina's GOP wanted to pass a bill last year to require that local governments comply with ICE, they were one vote down.
A Democratic lawmaker gave that decisive vote—as she has on other GOP bills.
Now, she faces a primary challenge from a progressive activist... in 14 days.
A Democratic lawmaker gave that decisive vote—as she has on other GOP bills.
Now, she faces a primary challenge from a progressive activist... in 14 days.
The Feds Targeted Charlotte. Now a Local Democrat Who Helped ICE Faces Voters. - Bolts
North Carolina lawmaker Carla Cunningham voted to mandate compliance with ICE, and derided immigrants on the House floor. The Democrat faces an intense March primary.
boltsmag.org
February 17, 2026 at 3:02 PM
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Horrible in general, but good for Talarico in particular. Why are they so scared of a youth pastor who says the minority America needs to worry about is the richest 1%?
“[James Talarico] was supposed to be here, but we were told in no uncertain terms by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast,” Colbert said.
Stephen Colbert blasted Brendan Carr after FCC scrutiny led CBS to pull an interview with Texas State Rep James Talarico. Instead, 'The Late Show' posted it to YouTube.
February 17, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Horrible in general, but good for Talarico in particular. Why are they so scared of a youth pastor who says the minority America needs to worry about is the richest 1%?
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In 2023, an Oregon program began providing 120 homeless youth with $1,000 every month.
Two years later, 94% of participants reported they were housed.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Two years later, 94% of participants reported they were housed.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Oregon tried giving homeless youth $1,000 a month with no strings attached. Here’s what happened
The program helped 94% of participants secure housing while building financial literacy skills that could break the cycle of homelessness.
www.oregonlive.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:56 PM
In 2023, an Oregon program began providing 120 homeless youth with $1,000 every month.
Two years later, 94% of participants reported they were housed.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Two years later, 94% of participants reported they were housed.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
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TODAY (Feb 17) Impeach, Convict, Remove, Defund
Today is a national day of action organized by 50501 with events happening across the nation in almost every state.
This is NOT a protest or a rally – this is a coordinated day of lobbying to hold our elected leaders accountable.
www.fiftyfifty.one
Today is a national day of action organized by 50501 with events happening across the nation in almost every state.
This is NOT a protest or a rally – this is a coordinated day of lobbying to hold our elected leaders accountable.
www.fiftyfifty.one
50501 — 50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement
Join the movement to uphold the Constitution and end executive overreach. 50 protests, 50 states, 1 day: #50501.
www.fiftyfifty.one
February 17, 2026 at 12:57 PM
TODAY (Feb 17) Impeach, Convict, Remove, Defund
Today is a national day of action organized by 50501 with events happening across the nation in almost every state.
This is NOT a protest or a rally – this is a coordinated day of lobbying to hold our elected leaders accountable.
www.fiftyfifty.one
Today is a national day of action organized by 50501 with events happening across the nation in almost every state.
This is NOT a protest or a rally – this is a coordinated day of lobbying to hold our elected leaders accountable.
www.fiftyfifty.one
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I know this makes me an extremist but I think our baby concentration camps should be abolished.
‘His life is in danger,’ U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility.
Two-month-old baby 'choking on his own vomit' while detained in Dilley
'His life is in danger,' U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility...
www.sacurrent.com
February 17, 2026 at 4:11 AM
I know this makes me an extremist but I think our baby concentration camps should be abolished.
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Stephen Colbert said that the FCC and CBS - which is in no way a compromised or complicit organization - wouldn’t allow him to broadcast an interview with Democratic State Rep James Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...
Colbert Doesn’t Give an FCC About Calling Out CBS
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:25 PM
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Does that seem fair to you?
February 16, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Does that seem fair to you?
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It's like ICE is completely ignoring every lesson that moderately competent police forces are forced to learn, like "don't do high speed chases in densely populated areas with low risk targets"
ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.
Savannah teacher killed in crash by man fleeing from ICE
According to the Chatham County Police Department, Monday morning’s fatal crash was the result of a chase between Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and a suspect.
www.wtoc.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:29 AM
It's like ICE is completely ignoring every lesson that moderately competent police forces are forced to learn, like "don't do high speed chases in densely populated areas with low risk targets"
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definitely seems like you're safer from any kind of punishment for being in the Epstein Files than for, say, just to pick two examples totally at random, attending a college protest for Gaza or tweeting that you weren't very sad Charlie Kirk died
Has anyone in the Epstein Files who didn’t do anything wrong been punished? Maybe someone who was at a meeting Epstein was at. Never went to the island, didn’t get money from him, nor had a bunch of friendly emails.
Anyone get arrested, fired, etc.? Because moral panics feature that sort of thing.
Anyone get arrested, fired, etc.? Because moral panics feature that sort of thing.
Noah Rothman on the Epstein files: "It is a witch hunt. It‘s a moral panic."
February 17, 2026 at 1:46 AM
definitely seems like you're safer from any kind of punishment for being in the Epstein Files than for, say, just to pick two examples totally at random, attending a college protest for Gaza or tweeting that you weren't very sad Charlie Kirk died
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Voting is a freedom specifically guaranteed in the Constitution; assaulting, abducting and murdering newcomers, people you suspect are, and anyone willing to protect them is a (granted, long time) evil practice.
Emmer: "Another reform they claim they want is they want ICE agents to identify themselves, to show identification. But they don't want identification for voters in elections. I mean, this stuff is just intellectually inconsistent."
February 16, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Voting is a freedom specifically guaranteed in the Constitution; assaulting, abducting and murdering newcomers, people you suspect are, and anyone willing to protect them is a (granted, long time) evil practice.
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This is glorious.
This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors.
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Welcome The Stranger
YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office
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February 17, 2026 at 12:13 AM
This is glorious.
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Via PBS News Hour, Marco Rubio, US Secretary of State, today endorsed Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
"Your sucess is our sucess," Rubio said.
Orbán, of course, has been the model for controlling the news media as a way to stay in power.
www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
"Your sucess is our sucess," Rubio said.
Orbán, of course, has been the model for controlling the news media as a way to stay in power.
www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...
Viktor Orbán’s Hail Mary.
I was editor in chief of Hungary’s most-read independent daily until a pro-government media network bought the newspaper. It’s the fifth time in thirty years that politics has cost me my job—and it’s ...
www.cjr.org
February 17, 2026 at 1:21 AM
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North Carolina - check your voter registration asap.
GOP scared and stripping voters off rolls is their only game plan. Don’t let them!
@indivisiblegconc.bsky.social @50501nc.bsky.social @swingbluealliance.org @jesscraven101.bsky.social @charlesgaba.com
GOP scared and stripping voters off rolls is their only game plan. Don’t let them!
@indivisiblegconc.bsky.social @50501nc.bsky.social @swingbluealliance.org @jesscraven101.bsky.social @charlesgaba.com
NEW: North Carolina’s GOP-led election board will send letters to over 241,000 voters whose driver’s license numbers or Social Security numbers did not match government databases.
Around 98k of those voters could be forced to cast provisional ballots, which could risk disenfranchisement.
Around 98k of those voters could be forced to cast provisional ballots, which could risk disenfranchisement.
North Carolina election board flags hundreds of thousands of voters for potential disenfranchisement
The new round of letters expands the scope of voters being flagged.
www.democracydocket.com
February 16, 2026 at 7:29 PM
North Carolina - check your voter registration asap.
GOP scared and stripping voters off rolls is their only game plan. Don’t let them!
@indivisiblegconc.bsky.social @50501nc.bsky.social @swingbluealliance.org @jesscraven101.bsky.social @charlesgaba.com
GOP scared and stripping voters off rolls is their only game plan. Don’t let them!
@indivisiblegconc.bsky.social @50501nc.bsky.social @swingbluealliance.org @jesscraven101.bsky.social @charlesgaba.com
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“There are places where it is appropriate to build housing, and I don’t believe this is one of them.”
Every time someone in a tony suburban community says something like this, they need to be pushed to say where it IS appropriate. Don’t let them off the hook. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/15/b...
Every time someone in a tony suburban community says something like this, they need to be pushed to say where it IS appropriate. Don’t let them off the hook. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/15/b...
The state wants to build housing on a parking lot in Wellesley. Residents are up in arms. - The Boston Globe
A proposal to build apartments near MassBay Community College has sparked a local backlash, illustrating how housing can be immensely complicated in Massachusetts.
www.bostonglobe.com
February 15, 2026 at 2:59 PM
“There are places where it is appropriate to build housing, and I don’t believe this is one of them.”
Every time someone in a tony suburban community says something like this, they need to be pushed to say where it IS appropriate. Don’t let them off the hook. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/15/b...
Every time someone in a tony suburban community says something like this, they need to be pushed to say where it IS appropriate. Don’t let them off the hook. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/15/b...
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So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.
It took only a 15-second clip of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt duking it out on a crumbling rooftop — made by A.I. with a two-sentence prompt and the click of a button — to draw swift outrage, and sizable fear, from Hollywood.
"It’s nothing short of terrifying," one scriptwriter said.
"It’s nothing short of terrifying," one scriptwriter said.
Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood
A 15-second clip created by an artificial intelligence tool owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance appears more cinematic than anything so far.
nyti.ms
February 16, 2026 at 8:36 PM
So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.
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Oh, okay. I'll bite.
The right to vote is enshrined in the Constitution.
The "right" of armed federal cops to arrest, beat, and kill people with anonymity is not.
The right to vote is enshrined in the Constitution.
The "right" of armed federal cops to arrest, beat, and kill people with anonymity is not.
Emmer: "Another reform they claim they want is they want ICE agents to identify themselves, to show identification. But they don't want identification for voters in elections. I mean, this stuff is just intellectually inconsistent."
February 16, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Oh, okay. I'll bite.
The right to vote is enshrined in the Constitution.
The "right" of armed federal cops to arrest, beat, and kill people with anonymity is not.
The right to vote is enshrined in the Constitution.
The "right" of armed federal cops to arrest, beat, and kill people with anonymity is not.
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After a year of spectacular deregulation, “the United States will essentially have no laws on the books that enforce how efficient America’s passenger cars and trucks should be.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/c...
With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
www.nytimes.com
February 16, 2026 at 8:41 PM
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The angel of abundance, the Dolly Lama of literacy, the distributor of almost a third of a billion books for kids.
The study found that children enrolled in Parton’s Imagination Library “were 5 times more likely to be interested in reading, 11 times more likely to be interested in books, and 15 times more likely to join in during shared reading, compared to children who aren't enrolled.”
February 16, 2026 at 4:52 PM
The angel of abundance, the Dolly Lama of literacy, the distributor of almost a third of a billion books for kids.
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The reality as Marco Rubio launches a massive effort, funded with US taxpayer dollars, to persuade Europeans that they made a big mistake rejecting fascism after WWII.
February 16, 2026 at 5:47 PM
The reality as Marco Rubio launches a massive effort, funded with US taxpayer dollars, to persuade Europeans that they made a big mistake rejecting fascism after WWII.
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read that first paragraph if nothing else:
Federal court orders Trump administration to restore historical panel exhibits at President’s House in Philadelphia.
Happy Presidents Day.
Happy Presidents Day.
February 16, 2026 at 6:48 PM
read that first paragraph if nothing else: