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No matter the lies this administration spews from their firehose of falsehoods, we all know this is the truth.
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Sunday night’s ceremony saw several winners and attendees speak out against the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown.
Grammys 2026: Bad Bunny ‘Debí Tirar Más Fotos’ Wins Album Of The Year As He And Others Call Out ICE
Sunday night’s ceremony saw several winners and attendees speak out against the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown.
www.forbes.com
February 2, 2026 at 4:45 AM
Sunday night’s ceremony saw several winners and attendees speak out against the Trump administration’s sweeping immigration crackdown.
“All of these people are coming to me and saying, ‘Please, won’t you help me?.Please, won’t somebody do something to stop this onslaught of cruelty? We’re crying out in pain.’ And as a pastor, it’s my duty to stand between the abusers and the abused.”
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For Success at the Polls, Dems Look to the Pews
Can candidates of the cloth help the party close the ‘God gap’?
open.substack.com
February 2, 2026 at 6:08 AM
“All of these people are coming to me and saying, ‘Please, won’t you help me?.Please, won’t somebody do something to stop this onslaught of cruelty? We’re crying out in pain.’ And as a pastor, it’s my duty to stand between the abusers and the abused.”
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Even if you do your absolute damndest to read Elon's freshly released Epstein emails in a positive light, what you get is the story of a tech tycoon stating unambiguously that he wanted to attend an absolute rager on a sex criminal’s private island.
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Don’t You Dare ‘Misinterpret’ Elon Musk’s Epstein Emails. Just the Facts Are Bad Enough
Sorry, but what is the correct interpretation supposed to be?
gizmodo.com
February 2, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Even if you do your absolute damndest to read Elon's freshly released Epstein emails in a positive light, what you get is the story of a tech tycoon stating unambiguously that he wanted to attend an absolute rager on a sex criminal’s private island.
gizmodo.com/dont-you-dar...
gizmodo.com/dont-you-dar...
Police Who Once Backed ICE’s Mission Are Losing Faith in Its Tactics
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www.wsj.com/us-news/poli...
Police Who Once Backed ICE’s Mission Are Losing Faith in Its Tactics
In Minnesota and places where agents are deployed en masse, law-enforcement leaders are challenging whether they are adhering to the stated mission. ICE says its operations are lawful and targeted.
www.wsj.com
February 1, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Police Who Once Backed ICE’s Mission Are Losing Faith in Its Tactics
www.wsj.com/us-news/poli...
www.wsj.com/us-news/poli...
“The people who got the ability to impose their will on us here in this community have decided that our lives are not worth anything."
“Sacrificed,” he said. “For the benefit of the riches of these other people."
www.theringer.com/2026/01/21/f...
“Sacrificed,” he said. “For the benefit of the riches of these other people."
www.theringer.com/2026/01/21/f...
The Sins on the River Road Cannot Be Erased
How did a tiny industrial hub in Louisiana find itself at the center of America’s culture war? For St. John the Baptist Parish, the history is much deeper—and the costs of one age are stacked on the c...
www.theringer.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:59 PM
“The people who got the ability to impose their will on us here in this community have decided that our lives are not worth anything."
“Sacrificed,” he said. “For the benefit of the riches of these other people."
www.theringer.com/2026/01/21/f...
“Sacrificed,” he said. “For the benefit of the riches of these other people."
www.theringer.com/2026/01/21/f...
Trump's year of destroying America
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Trump’s Year of Anarchy
The unconstrained presidency and the end of American primacy.
www.foreignaffairs.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Trump's year of destroying America
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
“Melania” Is as Vacuous as Its Subject
It only makes sense that the film’s director is in the Epstein files.
theintercept.com/2026/02/01/m...
It only makes sense that the film’s director is in the Epstein files.
theintercept.com/2026/02/01/m...
“Melania” Is as Vacuous as Its Subject
Melania Trump seems so unfazed by the sins of her milieu, it only makes sense that the Amazon film’s director, Brett Ratner, is in the Epstein files.
theintercept.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:50 PM
“Melania” Is as Vacuous as Its Subject
It only makes sense that the film’s director is in the Epstein files.
theintercept.com/2026/02/01/m...
It only makes sense that the film’s director is in the Epstein files.
theintercept.com/2026/02/01/m...
Trump would rather spend tax dollars attacking Americans than helping them afford food and health care
theintercept.com/2026/01/29/t...
theintercept.com/2026/01/29/t...
Trump Has Already Spent $500 Million Deploying Troops to U.S. Cities
A report from the Congressional Budget Office reveals the immense expenses of the Trump administration’s military occupations.
theintercept.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:48 PM
Trump would rather spend tax dollars attacking Americans than helping them afford food and health care
theintercept.com/2026/01/29/t...
theintercept.com/2026/01/29/t...
The Farcical Case Against Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for Protest Reporting
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theintercept.com/2026/01/30/d...
The Farcical Case Against Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for Protest Reporting
The Justice Department is weaponizing a law intended to protect those seeking abortions to punish reporters covering anti-ICE activism.
theintercept.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:46 PM
The Farcical Case Against Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for Protest Reporting
theintercept.com/2026/01/30/d...
theintercept.com/2026/01/30/d...
He Witnessed an Earlier Shooting and Contradicted the Government's Narrative. Feds Pinned Him Down and Arrested Him at the Scene of Alex Pretti’s Killing.
theintercept.com/2026/01/31/m...
theintercept.com/2026/01/31/m...
He Witnessed an Earlier Shooting. Feds Arrested Him at the Scene of Alex Pretti’s Killing.
A man who contradicted the government narrative about a prior shooting found himself pinned to the ground and detained after Alex Pretti’s death.
theintercept.com
February 1, 2026 at 9:46 PM
He Witnessed an Earlier Shooting and Contradicted the Government's Narrative. Feds Pinned Him Down and Arrested Him at the Scene of Alex Pretti’s Killing.
theintercept.com/2026/01/31/m...
theintercept.com/2026/01/31/m...
-Jonathan Samuel
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February 1, 2026 at 8:22 PM
-Jonathan Samuel
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And what we do about it
February 1, 2026 at 8:14 PM
And what we do about it
DOJ in Crisis as Prosecutors Resign Over Blocked Probes Into Federal Agent Killings
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February 1, 2026 at 8:02 PM
DOJ in Crisis as Prosecutors Resign Over Blocked Probes Into Federal Agent Killings
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Nothing 'potential' about it
Chicago Orders Police to Document Potentially Illegal Federal Immigration Tactics www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
Chicago Orders Police to Document Potentially Illegal Federal Immigration Tactics www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
Chicago Orders Police to Document Potentially Illegal Federal Immigration Tactics
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Nothing 'potential' about it
Chicago Orders Police to Document Potentially Illegal Federal Immigration Tactics www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
Chicago Orders Police to Document Potentially Illegal Federal Immigration Tactics www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...
Huh. It's almost like Americans somehow don't like living under a corrupt racist dementia patient with a God complex
February 1, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Huh. It's almost like Americans somehow don't like living under a corrupt racist dementia patient with a God complex
The Trumptanic is sinking
Trump's approval among independents falls to a record low, as the issue landscape shifts ahead of 2026.
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Trump's approval among independents falls to a record low, as the issue landscape shifts ahead of 2026.
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Democrats hit historic high in Fox News Poll as GOP loses ground on key issues
Plus: Trump's approval among independents falls to a record low, and the issue landscape shifts ahead of 2026. Your weekly political data roundup for February 1, 2026.
open.substack.com
February 1, 2026 at 7:34 PM
The Trumptanic is sinking
Trump's approval among independents falls to a record low, as the issue landscape shifts ahead of 2026.
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
Trump's approval among independents falls to a record low, as the issue landscape shifts ahead of 2026.
open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
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"Between one and three out of every thousand children who get measles will die. During the decade before 1963, when the vaccine first became available, the annual toll in the United States was, on average, 48,000 hospitalized, 1,000 diagnosed with encephalitis, and between 400 and 500 dead."
February 1, 2026 at 7:27 PM
"Between one and three out of every thousand children who get measles will die. During the decade before 1963, when the vaccine first became available, the annual toll in the United States was, on average, 48,000 hospitalized, 1,000 diagnosed with encephalitis, and between 400 and 500 dead."
MCPDGA - Make Completely Preventable Diseases Great Again
The Measles Epidemic Continues to Get Worse.
The disease is exploding in South Carolina, we’re about to lose elimination status, and RFK Jr.’s team says it’s just the “cost of doing business.” (with the quacks and morons in the Trump administration)
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The disease is exploding in South Carolina, we’re about to lose elimination status, and RFK Jr.’s team says it’s just the “cost of doing business.” (with the quacks and morons in the Trump administration)
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
‘Frustrating and Demoralizing’: The Measles Comeback Gets Worse
The disease is exploding in South Carolina, we’re about to lose elimination status, and RFK Jr.’s team says it’s just the “cost of doing business.”
open.substack.com
February 1, 2026 at 7:25 PM
MCPDGA - Make Completely Preventable Diseases Great Again
The Measles Epidemic Continues to Get Worse.
The disease is exploding in South Carolina, we’re about to lose elimination status, and RFK Jr.’s team says it’s just the “cost of doing business.” (with the quacks and morons in the Trump administration)
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
The disease is exploding in South Carolina, we’re about to lose elimination status, and RFK Jr.’s team says it’s just the “cost of doing business.” (with the quacks and morons in the Trump administration)
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
‘Frustrating and Demoralizing’: The Measles Comeback Gets Worse
The disease is exploding in South Carolina, we’re about to lose elimination status, and RFK Jr.’s team says it’s just the “cost of doing business.”
open.substack.com
February 1, 2026 at 7:18 PM
The Measles Epidemic Continues to Get Worse.
The disease is exploding in South Carolina, we’re about to lose elimination status, and RFK Jr.’s team says it’s just the “cost of doing business.” (with the quacks and morons in the Trump administration)
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
The disease is exploding in South Carolina, we’re about to lose elimination status, and RFK Jr.’s team says it’s just the “cost of doing business.” (with the quacks and morons in the Trump administration)
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Try to live your life in such a way that's billions of people around the globe won't rejoice the second that you're dead.
February 1, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Try to live your life in such a way that's billions of people around the globe won't rejoice the second that you're dead.
Nice to see Canada's conservatives are just as incapable of learning as America's conservatives
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/w...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/w...
Canada’s Conservatives Give Their Trump-Inspired Leader a Second Chance
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Nice to see Canada's conservatives are just as incapable of learning as America's conservatives
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/w...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/w...
All you Trump fans who think that all of the violence, all of the surveillance, all the unconstitutional overreach is fine because you approve of who they're doing it to - remember, one day it can and will be used against you. Once you make the people the enemy, you don't get to choose the targets.
February 1, 2026 at 6:18 PM
All you Trump fans who think that all of the violence, all of the surveillance, all the unconstitutional overreach is fine because you approve of who they're doing it to - remember, one day it can and will be used against you. Once you make the people the enemy, you don't get to choose the targets.
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Keith Ellison: "The president is openly promoting authoritarianism and tyranny. That is what's happening in America. Most of us thought we would never see it, but here it is right in front of our eyes."
February 1, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Keith Ellison: "The president is openly promoting authoritarianism and tyranny. That is what's happening in America. Most of us thought we would never see it, but here it is right in front of our eyes."