i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic.
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Steve Bannon says ICE will ‘surround the polls’ as Trump doubles down on taking over elections
Trump doubled down on his comments to nationalize voting Tuesday during an Oval Office press conference. “If you think about it, a state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” Trump sai...
In this year’s appropriations process, Trump and Republicans will be seeking another massive increase in military spending - $450B.
DOD budget was $870B in 2024. They want it to be $1.5T next year, nearly double in 2 years, with the national debt already accelerating at $38.5T.
This is not the way.
If Dem senators vote to extend the DHS CR again, they are instantly going to lose a tremendous amount of support from their base who have been in wait-and-see mode on this. I can only assume Dem senators considering this have completely lost touch with their voters. Don’t do it.
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Oh no. He will be hauled in front of multiple congressional committees multiple times. Don’t forget to thank James Comer for establishing the precedent.
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Jeff Bezos just fired hundreds of reporters at the Washington Post — including the Amazon reporter holding his OWN company accountable.
Reminder: Jeff Bezos' net worth is nearly $250,000,000.
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An open letter Jeff Bezos and Washington Post leadership:
A Letter to Jeff Bezos and The Washington Post
Dear Jeff Bezos and the leadership team of The Washington Post...
If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.
Democracy dies in oligarchy.
it’s genuinely reassuring to me that this is the most miserable and paranoid person in the entire world
I prefer Texas Republicans personally attacking each other over Texas Democrats personally attacking each other. Much less stressful and far more likely to produce a positive result.
The Founders wanted the states to run elections. And they have for 237 years.
Now Donald Trump wants to run them.
Thank you to everyone in CA including the elected officials and voters who successfully accomplished mid-decade redistricting to swiftly counter the attempted theft by Texas.
Action and tangible results are so much better than gripes and strongly worded letters.
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Your tax dollars at work, America. FBI agents working around the clock trying to prove Trump won Georgia in 2020 instead of investigating wealthy fraudsters and con artists because they don't get prosecuted anymore since Trump took office.
She was asking a question about whether the Epstein survivors have received justice. But Vance wants her to “smile and have some fun” while asking the president a question about trafficking victims.
bsky.app/profile/fact...Vance: There was a moment in the Oval Office, I wasn't even in there, but Trump was talking to Kaitlan Collins. Trump says, 'Why don't you ever smile?' And it's actually, like, so perceptive. Have some fun.
Exciting announcement from Jeff Bezos's reimagined Washington Post!
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"Over the last year the Post has been involved in almost monthly car wrecks." From July 2025!
The only question - which has gotten easier to answer since - is whether Jeff Bezos is killing it by accident, or on purpose.
@jvl.bsky.social from the archives:
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When Jeff Bezos bought WaPo, he immediately took control of the opinions section. Now, he's laying off hundreds of journalists, including those covering Amazon.
This isn’t a coincidence. It’s the result of billionaires with vested political agendas taking over our media.
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"In one year, they destroyed the federal government....We are used to the fact that the Justice Department is now a wholly owned legal service for going after Trump's enemies."
Robert Kagan joins
@timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:
"abolishing ICE"—ie breaking up and overhauling DHS—can only happen with both houses of congress and either a Dem in White House or a veto-proof majority.
worthy goal. but rather than circular firing squads over who has said it...what are the steps to get us closer to it.
"The Failing New York Times"
cc: Jeff Bezos
MAGA: This is what I voted for!!!
Of course, this is his misogyny again since he reserves special venom for female reporters. It also comes right after I was thinking to myself that Kaitlan was hitting him with some of the best questions he’s faced in a while.
bsky.app/profile/acyn...Trump attacking Kaitlan Collins for asking about justice for Epstein survivors: You are the worst reporter. I don’t think I’ve ever seen you smile. Your organization should be ashamed of you.
A follow up on this Jesse Watters clip from 3 weeks ago. The victim of ICE testified today before Congress that she was on her way to a 39th scheduled treatment at a traumatic brain injury center.
Former Comms Director for Nancy Mace responds to her claim today that she isn’t able to drink any alcohol because of a medical condition.
Good time to reup this post from last month.
James Comer is bringing Hillary Clinton before his committee to testify about Epstein despite having zero contact with him, but not Epstein’s neighbor Howard Lutnick who lied about his connections to Epstein over many years which is proven in the files.
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Never forget: Pam Bondi and Kash said there was nothing in the Epstein files back in March
“.. They couldn’t break me by arresting me,” Ms. Levy Armstrong said, “so they doctored an image to show the world a false iteration of that time to make me look weak.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...Well, my fellow Maine voters. Here is Susan Collins today paying tribute to her boss while holding her MAGA hat.
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I will once again ask - who did Ken Griffin endorse for President in 2024?
You don’t get to call this “law and order” while ICE raids occur near schools and houses of worship, violates court orders, and scares parents into guarding school doors. Even Republicans are saying it’s unacceptable. Enforce the law—but due process matters, and chaos doesn’t make us safer.
Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
DHS Hunts Down 67-Year-Old U.S. Citizen Who Criticized Them in Email
The Department of Homeland Security is using a little-known tool to go after its critics.
Important info from
@cato.org about how immigrants contribute to our country:
"The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023."
Facts matter.
🚨 Pritzker: The monsters responsible for unleashing this havoc on American cities, whether they were firing at civilians in the streets or calling the shots from their cushy offices in Washington, need to be investigated and prosecuted.
Per BBC, “Police specialising in combating cyber-crime, assisted by Europol, have raided the offices of Elon Musk's social media platform, X, in France.”
Musk's X office in France raided by Paris prosecutor
The Paris prosecutor says its cyber-crime unit is conducting a search of X's offices.
Just No.
1) Immigration judges aren't "judges." They are part of the executive branch.
2) ICE's administrative warrants aren't even signed by IJs.
3) A real judicial warrant is required for arrests in homes (absent exigency). Payton v. New York, 445 U.S. 573 (1980).
Q: You're a constitutional lawyer. Can you detail the 4th Amendment protections someone has if ICE approaches their home w/an administrative warrant?
MIKE JOHNSON: When ICE goes to execute a warrant, it's issued by an immigration judge, & that is a sufficient legal authority to go apprehend someone
“Imagine if we had to follow the law”
