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Well done, Seahawks!
February 9, 2026 at 3:43 AM
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“Nobody understood it and also the message was offensive!”
Trump crashes out over Bad Bunny’s halftime show
February 9, 2026 at 2:21 AM
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This is really what separates Trump from Stephen Miller. He'll make it 11/14ths of the way through the 14 words and then stop to complain about Mike Tirico.
it's so funny that he wedged in a complaint about the new kickoff rule at the end there lmao
Trump crashes out over Bad Bunny’s halftime show
February 9, 2026 at 2:26 AM
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So Trump fired a Cuban-American secretary of the Navy and replaced him with a white guy on the Epstein list. That tracks.
February 8, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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Since Trump's return, here are the total # of legislative seats each party has flipped:

Democrats: 26

Republicans: zero docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
February 8, 2026 at 3:20 AM
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And leaving aside the obvious, unlike what the Post's MAGA editors are doing "both sides gerrymander > unilateral disarmament" isn't even hypocritical! It's a logical corollary to the underlying premise that voters should get equal representation!
When Republicans do it / When Democrats do it
February 8, 2026 at 2:23 AM
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🚨 ICE tackled Mubashir Hussen, a 20-year-old U.S. citizen, in Minneapolis — ignoring his ID, detaining him without cause, then releasing him after checking his passport.

This isn’t a mistake. It’s policy and bonuses even if false. PAXIS could have helped. Help us scale this work: paxis.app
February 7, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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BREAKING: Trump says he 'didn't make a mistake' with his racist video post.

Q:  "A number of Republicans are calling on you to apologize for that post. Is that something you're going to do?"

Trump: "No, I didn't make a mistake."

He adds later: "I guess it was a take off on the Lion King."
February 7, 2026 at 1:25 AM
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So he personally admits now that a staffer did not post this without his knowledge
Trump doubles down on his racist video: I looked at the first part and it was really about voter fraud... Then I gave it to the people. Generally, they look at the whole thing, but I guess somebody didn't.
February 7, 2026 at 12:48 AM
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Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved.

DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.
EXCLUSIVE: Terez Metry was 13 when her family fled to Tennessee from Egypt in 2011. Then, they left her behind. She only recently discovered she had an order of removal from 2011. But she was following the legal path to citizenship. On Monday, at a routine DHS meeting, Metry was detained.
Immigration process turns sour for an Antioch woman - Nashville Banner
Terez Metry, a dental assistant in Middle Tennessee with no criminal history, was detained by ICE during an interview as she followed legal steps toward citizenship.
nashvillebanner.com
February 6, 2026 at 10:00 PM
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Trump posted more than 60 times on Truth Social last night, but he handed his phone to an “unknown staffer” when the video depicting the Obamas as apes was posted?

GTFOH
February 6, 2026 at 11:03 PM
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VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.
February 6, 2026 at 6:40 PM
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This is also what Trump said when he retweeted a post in 2015 that suggested Iowans were brain damaged by Monsanto leading to their preferring Ben Carson.
February 6, 2026 at 5:26 PM
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To recap the White House's official position, the racist video was posted erroneously by a staffer and they took it down, but even if it was posted on purpose, the outrage would have been fake because the post was fine and inspired by the Lion King
February 6, 2026 at 5:09 PM
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POLITICO reporting that the White House has now claimed the ape video was an accident and removed it.
February 6, 2026 at 5:05 PM
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Racism has been central to Trump and his movement since he came down the escalator. He is a racist. His people are racists. His defenders are racists. His supporters are racists. His party is a party of racists. If they want to disprove that, they can. But it's important to know they don't want to.
February 6, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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The Wright Museums Instagram page is HILARIOUS. Think The Office but it's the staff at a Museum for Black History. Better believe this is on my list of places to visit.
Gentle Spades
"I'm a veteran"
February 6, 2026 at 8:23 AM
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NEW: Records reviewed by WIRED show DHS’s facial recognition app (Mobile Fortify) isn’t designed to actually "verify" identity—despite DHS claims and its agents relying on its matches to support probable cause in the field.
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
ICE has used Mobile Fortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after DHS abandoned its own privacy r...
www.wired.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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Every president from Nixon on released their tax returns, but Trump -- who insisted he would follow that custom -- repeatedly refused to do that. So finally they were leaked, showing he paid only $750 in 2016 and nothing in 2017.

He's now demanding all of us, who *did* pay our full taxes, pay him.
Donald Trump’s frivolous $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over his leaked tax returns, if he were to win or get a settlement, would be paid entirely by U.S. taxpayers. trib.al/eiYvT8m
February 5, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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February 5, 2026 at 8:54 PM
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yikes ok, unfollowing now. really enjoyed her exhibit at the louvre, had no idea she’s in the epstein files.
Starting to think these weren’t really applied with the consideration required by law
February 5, 2026 at 6:34 PM
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"I knew he was a child rapist so I thought if I told him he might like to rape her that would help her get the job, I was doing her a favor you see" is perhaps not the iron-clad defense David Gelernter thinks it is.

You'll also be shocked to learn Gelernter is a huge Trump fan
This is the Yale professor's explanation for why he described the physical attractiveness of a student in an email to Epstein. He explicitly says he regrets nothing about their association.

Again, I'm so happy Yale hired David Brooks to restore trust.

yaledailynews.com/articles/gel...
February 5, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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He cannot be clearer. There is no difference to him between bombing random fishermen on boats and shooting Americans protesters in the face
I swear this clip is not edited. Trump pivots from downplaying the killing of Renee Good and Alex Pretti ("two people out of tens of thousands and you get bad publicity") to in the very next breath claiming "we've been very tough on the waters," leaving Tom Llamas baffled ("the waters?")
February 5, 2026 at 4:30 AM
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Yes his brain is both smooth and worm-eaten. But also in his world anything short of death is fine, and even death is just like ugh why are we still talking about this
Trump: I hate even talking about ICE. 2 people out of tens of thousands and you get bad publicity.

Host: But it was 2 Americans who died—

Trump: We have the smallest trucks. We've been very tough on the waters

Host: The waters?

Trump: The waters where we knock out boats
February 5, 2026 at 3:50 AM
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i am trying not to joke about the Epstein stuff because it's so horrible but there's also this ridiculous element where it's like... discovering Dracula is real, he's taken over human society at the highest levels, he's involved in tons of evil and also he's a huge dipshit
February 5, 2026 at 3:43 AM