@me4us.bsky.social
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This is wrong. Federal workers care for our veterans, make sure our communities are safe, help seniors get the benefits they’ve earned & much more. They have a right to collective bargaining rights & protections to do that work. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
Trump Strips Job Protections From Thousands of Federal Workers
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:25 PM
This is wrong. Federal workers care for our veterans, make sure our communities are safe, help seniors get the benefits they’ve earned & much more. They have a right to collective bargaining rights & protections to do that work. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...
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Wishing former Capitol police officer Harry Dunn the best in his run for Congress. If anyone deserves to win, it's him.
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time.com/7368907/harr...
time.com
February 5, 2026 at 11:05 PM
Wishing former Capitol police officer Harry Dunn the best in his run for Congress. If anyone deserves to win, it's him.
time.com/7368907/harr...
time.com/7368907/harr...
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The Kennedy Center’s two‑year shutdown is being sold as routine maintenance.
It isn’t.
It’s a political act with real consequences for how a nation understands itself, and who gets to shape that understanding.
I wrote a new essay about what’s really happening.
It isn’t.
It’s a political act with real consequences for how a nation understands itself, and who gets to shape that understanding.
I wrote a new essay about what’s really happening.
The Shuttered Stage: Why Trump Is Really Closing the Kennedy Center
Behind the two-year "revitalization" is a strategic retreat from a historic cultural rejection—and a calculated attempt to overwrite the American story.
andrewweinstein.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:15 AM
The Kennedy Center’s two‑year shutdown is being sold as routine maintenance.
It isn’t.
It’s a political act with real consequences for how a nation understands itself, and who gets to shape that understanding.
I wrote a new essay about what’s really happening.
It isn’t.
It’s a political act with real consequences for how a nation understands itself, and who gets to shape that understanding.
I wrote a new essay about what’s really happening.
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“I know they would do anything, that they would hurt people, that they’ve murdered people... I know that intellectually. But I still did not expect them to gas a chill, friendly protest full of nurses and teachers and children and the elderly.”
www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
February 6, 2026 at 1:11 AM
“I know they would do anything, that they would hurt people, that they’ve murdered people... I know that intellectually. But I still did not expect them to gas a chill, friendly protest full of nurses and teachers and children and the elderly.”
www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
www.theverge.com/policy/87278...
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So the kids no longer
Say someone has swag
Or rizz…
Now they say
‘They’ve got AURA’
And bitch…
ZOHRAN’s got
ALL the aura✨
Democratic socialism
FOR THE WIN
#Mm
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Say someone has swag
Or rizz…
Now they say
‘They’ve got AURA’
And bitch…
ZOHRAN’s got
ALL the aura✨
Democratic socialism
FOR THE WIN
#Mm
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
February 6, 2026 at 4:38 AM
So the kids no longer
Say someone has swag
Or rizz…
Now they say
‘They’ve got AURA’
And bitch…
ZOHRAN’s got
ALL the aura✨
Democratic socialism
FOR THE WIN
#Mm
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Say someone has swag
Or rizz…
Now they say
‘They’ve got AURA’
And bitch…
ZOHRAN’s got
ALL the aura✨
Democratic socialism
FOR THE WIN
#Mm
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #abolishice #iceout #palantir #paloalto
February 6, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #abolishice #iceout #palantir #paloalto
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This is — arguably — a bigger journalistic scandal than Bari pulling the 60 Minutes CECOT report.
Scoop: As Washington Post leadership laid off hundreds of staffers this week, exec editor Matt Murray blocked the paper’s media desk from covering the cuts, spiking a pre-written story despite internal lobbying
www.status.news/p/ms-now-cro...
www.status.news/p/ms-now-cro...
MS NOW’s Crooked Play
MS NOW’s push into video podcasts is accelerating, with the progressive network now in advanced discussions to license popular digital shows for air from Crooked Media and others, Status has learned.
www.status.news
February 6, 2026 at 4:30 AM
This is — arguably — a bigger journalistic scandal than Bari pulling the 60 Minutes CECOT report.
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Courage is contagious. Let’s keep going.
wow -- with Trump standing behind him, a man (not sure who he is) offers this prayer: "We pray that he would be mindful of the poor and that he would be invested in the alleviation of suffering happening in the families preparing to bury their loved ones in Minneapolis."
February 5, 2026 at 3:49 PM
Courage is contagious. Let’s keep going.
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This morning at the Minnesota State Capitol.
An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.
An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.
February 5, 2026 at 3:26 PM
This morning at the Minnesota State Capitol.
An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.
An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 11:50 AM
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
#Pinks #ProudBlue
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February 5, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program.
This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE.
Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE.
Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
Virginia’s New Governor Ends ICE Program. Local Contracts Remain, For Now. - Bolts
Abigail Spanberger left the 287(g) program, which empowered state law enforcement to detain immigrants. Will Democrats also bar local police and sheriffs from the program?
boltsmag.org
February 4, 2026 at 10:36 PM
NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program.
This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE.
Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE.
Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
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How people with disabilities could bear the burden of Medicaid funding cuts www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
#FundHealthcareOverICE
#FundHealthcareOverICE
How people with disabilities could bear the burden of Medicaid funding cuts
According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act will slash more than a trillion dollars in federal spending from Medicaid and the Children’s...
www.pbs.org
February 3, 2026 at 6:16 PM
How people with disabilities could bear the burden of Medicaid funding cuts www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
#FundHealthcareOverICE
#FundHealthcareOverICE
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BREAKING: We @democracydefendersfund.org filed NEW FOIA REQUESTS to get the facts on "Border Czar" Tom Homan
Homan is in MN, but he shouldn't even be in government
He allegedly received $50K in BRIBES but they buried the investigation
Meanwhile immigration facilities are seeing HUGE profits -TN
Homan is in MN, but he shouldn't even be in government
He allegedly received $50K in BRIBES but they buried the investigation
Meanwhile immigration facilities are seeing HUGE profits -TN
February 3, 2026 at 6:46 PM
BREAKING: We @democracydefendersfund.org filed NEW FOIA REQUESTS to get the facts on "Border Czar" Tom Homan
Homan is in MN, but he shouldn't even be in government
He allegedly received $50K in BRIBES but they buried the investigation
Meanwhile immigration facilities are seeing HUGE profits -TN
Homan is in MN, but he shouldn't even be in government
He allegedly received $50K in BRIBES but they buried the investigation
Meanwhile immigration facilities are seeing HUGE profits -TN
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Health Care Providers Warn of Impacts of Increased ICE Presence at Health Care Facilities
www.kff.org/quick-take/h...
#FundHealthcareOverICE
www.kff.org/quick-take/h...
#FundHealthcareOverICE
Health Care Providers Warn of Impacts of Increased ICE Presence at Health Care Facilities
The presence of ICE at hospitals and health care facilities represents a reversal in policy under the Trump administration from previous policy that had protected against enforcement in these and other...
www.kff.org
February 3, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Health Care Providers Warn of Impacts of Increased ICE Presence at Health Care Facilities
www.kff.org/quick-take/h...
#FundHealthcareOverICE
www.kff.org/quick-take/h...
#FundHealthcareOverICE
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Jeffrey Epstein: "I have met some very bad people. None as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body."
February 3, 2026 at 5:49 PM
Jeffrey Epstein: "I have met some very bad people. None as bad as Trump. Not one decent cell in his body."
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A Minneapolis Winter Like No Other
Photographer Philip Cheung covered Russian invasion of Ukraine, LA fires, June LA ICE surge
In Minneapolis, he photographed local residents’ evolving resistance to ICE invasion
www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...
Photographer Philip Cheung covered Russian invasion of Ukraine, LA fires, June LA ICE surge
In Minneapolis, he photographed local residents’ evolving resistance to ICE invasion
www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...
A Minneapolis Winter Like No Other
A new series of photographs documents residents’ evolving resistance to the surge of ICE agents in their city.
www.newyorker.com
February 3, 2026 at 6:48 PM
A Minneapolis Winter Like No Other
Photographer Philip Cheung covered Russian invasion of Ukraine, LA fires, June LA ICE surge
In Minneapolis, he photographed local residents’ evolving resistance to ICE invasion
www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...
Photographer Philip Cheung covered Russian invasion of Ukraine, LA fires, June LA ICE surge
In Minneapolis, he photographed local residents’ evolving resistance to ICE invasion
www.newyorker.com/culture/phot...
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Proof that MAGA Mike has no soul.
“Some have complained the force has been excessive… I don’t know.”
Johnson dismisses people beaten, shot, detained, and terrorized by the state. Shrugging at violence from the Speaker’s chair signals approval.
#FundHealthcareOverICE
“Some have complained the force has been excessive… I don’t know.”
Johnson dismisses people beaten, shot, detained, and terrorized by the state. Shrugging at violence from the Speaker’s chair signals approval.
#FundHealthcareOverICE
February 3, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Proof that MAGA Mike has no soul.
“Some have complained the force has been excessive… I don’t know.”
Johnson dismisses people beaten, shot, detained, and terrorized by the state. Shrugging at violence from the Speaker’s chair signals approval.
#FundHealthcareOverICE
“Some have complained the force has been excessive… I don’t know.”
Johnson dismisses people beaten, shot, detained, and terrorized by the state. Shrugging at violence from the Speaker’s chair signals approval.
#FundHealthcareOverICE
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5) ICE also begins warehouse buying spree to convert into immigration detention facilities.
Gift 🎁🔗
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Gift 🎁🔗
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
February 3, 2026 at 1:32 AM
5) ICE also begins warehouse buying spree to convert into immigration detention facilities.
Gift 🎁🔗
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Gift 🎁🔗
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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A top U.A.E. royal secretly bought nearly half of Trump’s crypto company. Months later, the U.A.E. was approved to receive sensitive U.S. AI chips. Trump’s family reportedly pocketed close to $200 million. No clear separation between public duty and private profit.
That’s not “America First.”
That’s not “America First.”
United Arab Emirates' 'Spy Sheikh' bought secret stake in Trump crypto company: WSJ
“This is corruption, plain and simple," said Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee.
www.cnbc.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:06 AM
A top U.A.E. royal secretly bought nearly half of Trump’s crypto company. Months later, the U.A.E. was approved to receive sensitive U.S. AI chips. Trump’s family reportedly pocketed close to $200 million. No clear separation between public duty and private profit.
That’s not “America First.”
That’s not “America First.”
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February 2, 2026 at 6:15 AM
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Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs speech for Song of the Year:
“As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”
“As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”
February 2, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs speech for Song of the Year:
“As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”
“As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”
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BREAKING: ICE and Border Patrol are beating a 16 year old like a grown enemy soldier. Guns out. Heads slammed into concrete. This country is rotting in real time.
February 1, 2026 at 8:22 PM
BREAKING: ICE and Border Patrol are beating a 16 year old like a grown enemy soldier. Guns out. Heads slammed into concrete. This country is rotting in real time.