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How about $350,000 within hours? The pitches flood small businesses: "No hidden fees, No BS." These financial lifelines are barely regulated and can turn into trip wires.
A shadowy industry is helping small businesses pay tariffs — at a high cost
How about $350,000 within hours? The pitches flood small businesses: "No hidden fees, No BS." These financial lifelines are barely regulated and can turn into trip wires.
n.pr
February 16, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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Thirty-three-year-old Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia will soon mark one year trapped in ICE detention. https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/16/leqaa_kordia
Why Is ICE Still Jailing Leqaa Kordia? Palestinian Protester Suffers Seizure After 11 Months Locked Up
Thirty-three-year-old Palestinian activist Leqaa Kordia will soon mark one year trapped in ICE detention. Kordia, who was born in East Jerusalem, first came to police attention when she was arrested d...
www.democracynow.org
February 16, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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Good morning everyone
President's Day CANCELLED

WE DON'T HAVE ONE

Nobody wants to celebrate Sex Predator Day
February 16, 2026 at 3:39 PM
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This is called money laundering.
February 16, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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Seems fair
February 15, 2026 at 10:20 PM
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Many people in South Africa, where Elon is from, died to create a genuinely multiracial polity. They were killed by people who thought like Elon.

The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough.

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1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 4:20 PM
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wealth concentration is already 200% as bad at is was in 2020. think about that
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
February 15, 2026 at 3:20 PM
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NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...
U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2026 at 2:25 AM
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Southcom strikes which illegally kill people on boats in the Carribean that three months ago elicited shocked headlines in US news media are now being reported in low priority spaces buried deep in news outlet websites.

Normalisation of what are in effect US military death squads.
February 15, 2026 at 10:28 AM
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This family has been through a lot, including mountains of medical debt. A lawyer working with the family has set up a gofundme. If you can help, please do!
Donate to Support for Alfredo and Julio’s Families After ICE Raid, organized by Ji Hae Kim
Most of you have seen the headlines about the ICE agents who shot a… Ji Hae Kim needs your support for Support for Alfredo and Julio’s Families After ICE Raid
www.gofundme.com
February 14, 2026 at 10:25 PM
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“The most extraordinary and worrying thing of what is going on in the United States is the scale of normalization that is happening."
Protecting Pedophile Predators: Carole Cadwalladr on Jeffrey Epstein & the Elite’s Veil of Silence
Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are accusing the Justice Department of covering up the names of co-conspirators of the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein as fallout from the Epstein files grows across th...
www.democracynow.org
February 14, 2026 at 10:36 PM
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The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.
February 14, 2026 at 4:12 PM
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The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it.

Seems kinda bad?
At least half a dozen top Trump administration officials appear in the Jeffrey Epstein files
The degree to which each individual was connected to Epstein varies significantly, from a single email to years of communications.
www.nbcnews.com
February 14, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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Polls are open, North Carolina! It's time to vote in the primary election.

🤝 Meet the candidates on your ballot at ncdp.org/candidates
📍 Early vote at any location in your county
🪪 Don't forget your voter ID
👯‍♂️ Grab a friend and go vote!
February 13, 2026 at 10:33 PM
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Taking a page from @joshtpm.bsky.social's book and starting to publish some more informal observations from the editors for paid subscribers
"Disqualify people from voting, stop people from voting, stop votes from being counted, and overturn the result. Those are the four broad areas." www.liberalcurrents.com/editors-note...
Editor's Notes: Gaming Out Antidemocratic Tactics
How worried should we be about election interference in 2026, exactly?
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 14, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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For those unaware, a quick primer on perhaps the most dangerous of the oligarchs.

Peter Thiel.
February 15, 2026 at 12:05 AM
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February 15, 2026 at 12:12 AM
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Absolutely insane that our elites are not screaming about this. We have a generation of leaders who have completely failed to internalize the values of democracy. People of no conviction whatsoever. Truly the iron cage.
Utterly unacceptable in a democracy. In a sane world, House Republicans would be drafting impeachment articles today and Senate Republicans would be preparing for a trial to convict and remove him from office
February 14, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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This is actually happening to children at the pedophile führer's concentration camp in San Antonio, Texas. 😳👇
February 15, 2026 at 12:24 AM
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🚨🚨IMPORTANT: Republicans’ partial government shutdown has started. Here’s what to expect and why it matters.
February 15, 2026 at 12:13 AM
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Pam Bondi confirmed that under the fascist authoritarian regime of the pedophile führer, America no longer has a functional constitutional republic. 😳👇
February 15, 2026 at 12:35 AM
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If the Democrats nominate @astroterry.bsky.social they will have a massively good shot at winning TX-9, a district they drew to be Republican. We have a shot to make Texas far more blue, and this is important. Vote Virts!
Honored to be endorsed by the @HoustonChron for Congressional District 9 in Texas- I will fight to level the playing field for the working people in our district!

CD9 is ground zero in the gerrymandering wars so let’s WIN this seat together!

www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/endo...
Democrats should rally behind Terry Virts in the 9th Congressional District
Democrats should rally behind astronaut Terry Virts in the 9th Congressional District, writes the editorial board.
www.houstonchronicle.com
February 14, 2026 at 9:32 PM
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And we haven't even thought about the #nationalsecurity implications of the #EpsteinPedoFiles
February 15, 2026 at 12:38 AM
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Update from yesterday, fire still raging:

Video: Translating Falasteen (Palestine) via X (@translatingpal)
February 14, 2026 at 5:41 PM