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- Mike Johnson: "We had three Republican candidates who were ahead on election day in last cycle and every time a new tranche of ballots came in they just magically whittled away until their leads were lost. It looks on its face to be fraudulent. .... Can I prove it? No." * Who needs proof, right? *
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- Brian Tyler Cohen talks about the gigantic screwup by Republicans when they didn't realize they were setting precedent for Trump when they subpoenaed the Clintons’ to testify to Congress on the Epstein scandal
- Reposted by MikeMarc Elias: The biggest lie that Donald Trump is telling right now that we cannot normalize is this idea that states operate as his agents. The Constitution does not allow the president to have any role in federal elections.
- Marimar Martinez is a schoolteacher and U.S. citizen. She had no weapon or criminal record, and a CBP officer still shot her five times. That same officer then bragged about his horrific actions in a group chat.
- Democrats are laying out a list of demands that must be met in order for them to sign onto a Homeland Security funding bill before the money runs out next Friday. Also, a federal judge in Oregon has temporarily restricted federal agents' use of aggressive tactics towards protestors.
- Reposted by MikeWait! The public face of nationwide immigration enforcement, Gregory Bovino, said in a newly discovered email that his boss wasn’t the head of CBP. He reported to Corey Lewandowski instead. He’s a political operative with zero law-enforcement background calling the shots on immigration enforcement.
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- Immigration attorney says ICE agents are keeping all the immigrants’ money, jewelry, work visas and any state documentation they had on them when they were detained.
- Trump admitted his immigration crackdown in Minnesota could use a "softer touch" as the New York Times reports that the surge in immigration cases is pushing courts to the brink.
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- Reposted by MikeDemocracy dies in billionaire hands. [Cartoon by Michael de Adder]
- Reposted by MikeNew Quinnipiac poll: 63% of voters disapprove of ICE 60% want ICE out of Minneapolis 58% want Kristi Noem removed from office
- Rep. Greg Stanton (D): ..."How the hell does she still have a job? She needs to be fired today. ...And if not, we need to impeach her because of her incompetence. Her direct inaction, not getting urban search and rescue there in time led to the deaths of our fellow citizens in Texas."
- Marty Baron, former executive editor of the Washington Post, talks with Jen Psaki about what explains the total reversal in Jeff Bezos's attitude about the mission of the Washington Post. ....."Donald Trump is what happened"
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- Reposted by MikeIf 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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- @politicsgirl.bsky.social ... Attention all Second Amendment proponents ...
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- Chris Hayes on JD Vance saying he won’t apologize for labeling Alex Pretti an assassin: “The official story—promulgated by Kristi Noem, and Stephen Miller and JD Vance—was a lie. They are lying to you. They're lying to us. They know it. And in fact, they seem proud of it,”
- Senator Mark Warner reacts to a whistleblower complaint concerning DNI Tulsi Gabbard. "Somebody's not telling the truth about what they knew or who knew the law or didn't know the law. ... Either Tulsi Gabbard is completely ignorant of the law, or her lawyers didn't tell her truth or lied to her."
- Good example of religious hypocrisy .......
- Reposted by MikeThank 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.
- Trump’s border czar Tom Homan says 700 federal agents will be withdrawn from Minnesota (even though 2,000 agents will remain there), but insists “nothing’s changed” in the administration’s immigration crackdown. So basically, Greg Bovino leaving and Tom Homan taking charge has changed nothing.
- CNN: Do you believe Democrats should force Trump to testify if you retake control of Congress? Goldman: “If that's the precedent the Republicans are going to set, then we are going to follow that. And if that means that it's Donald Trump, you can be sure that we're going to use that same standard.”
- The convicted felon and serial fraudster admits that he'll tell the DOJ to give him $10 billion of TAXPAYERS’ money
- In Georgia, Fulton County is demanding the return of 2020 ballots seized during an FBI raid, warning it could suppress voter turnout, ... while Donald Trump calls for federal involvement in local elections and allies escalate rhetoric about policing polling sites.
- Reposted by MikeCNN: "New data shows January was the lowest months for job cuts since the 2009 Great Recession...layoffs way up, hiring ways down. During the month of January, US-based employers announced just over 108,000 layoffs. That's roughly double January 2025. In fact, this is the highest since January 2009"
- Reposted by MikeSir 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
- Reposted by MikeImagine if four years into our war in Iraq we had only occupied 20 percent of it and lost 1.2 million men. Would anyone say the US is winning? No? Then how in the hell can you say Russia is winning?!
- The 34-count convicted felon, adjudicated rapist and pedophile sitting in the White House is asking the country to move on from the Epstein investigation as the GOP-led House Oversight Committee presses ahead with high-profile depositions, including Ghislaine Maxwell and the Clintons.
- Jessica Tarlov: "The SAVE Act won't help America's elections. Quite the opposite. This will hurt more Republicans than Democrats. If Republicans get this through they'd be in for a rude awakening when women who have changed their names, young people, and people without passports struggle to vote."
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- MeidasTouch reports on hell breaking loose in the British Parliament over Trump and Epstein’s connection with Peter Mandelson, the former Ambassador to the United States, and how the growing scandal could topple Prime Minister Kier Starmer’s government.
- Reposted by MikeSen. Cynthia Lummis simps for the crypto industry on Maria Bartiromo's show next to a graphic showing that bitcoin has lost nearly 40 percent of its value in 6 months
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- Reposted by MikeNancy Pelosi warns press freedom is under attack after the arrest of an independent journalist, and on the same day the Washington Post, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, conducted mass layoffs of its reporters and editors worldwide. “America is in a crisis of conscience.” @pelosi.house.gov
- Economic analyst Steve Rattner fact checks three of Donald Trump's favorite lies on the economy and inflation
- Trump's 'Gaza Board of Piece' ......... www.thedp.com/article/2026...
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- Rep. Greg Stanton, D-Ariz., discusses ICE buying warehouses for a mass detention network ... and his calls for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem to resign.
- Reposted by MikeWow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event
- Reposted by MikeIf Jeff Bezos had any strength of character he would pay someone to take the newspaper he's destroyed off his hands and contribute money to a trust to restore it.
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- Trump is pulling 700 ICE and federal agents from Minneapolis * Leaving 2,000 agents still there * So basically, nothing has changed.
- Reposted by MikeGeoff Duncan: The average conversation with a Republican these days is, they put their arm around me, they look both ways and make sure the camera's not watching, and they'll say, hey, man, I'm proud of you for doing the right thing. Donald Trump doesn't care about the Constitution or enforcing it.
- The four Republican members of Congress from Minnesota have introduced a new bill this week that would revoke federal election funding to the state if the state does not comply with the administration's demands to hand over voter information to Trump's Department of Injustice.
- Reposted by MikeIf the GOP were honest: "It'll take a lot more than definitive proof with absolute scientific accuracy to change our minds that Trump isn't a criminal."
- Reposted by MikeThe Trump DOJ, led by Pamela Jo, lies and labels their political opponents “domestic terrorists” & they’re misusing an existing federal statute to jack-up routine prosecutions to "Material Support to Terrorism" cases. My take on this perversion of justice that targets us: youtu.be/R5BG26dtsXg?...
- Reposted by MikeSen. Mark Kelly: "I've heard from retired service members who already have changed what they say because of how Pete Hegseth has gone after me. So this isn't just about me. I'm just the first one through the breach here that has to stick up for the rights of all of us."
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- Trump says the GOP should take over and "nationalize" voting (sounds better than 'rigging'), with some Republican lawmakers alleging voter fraud and questioning election integrity in blue states. Steve Bannon says they will have ICE surround the polls in November to avoid the election being stolen.
- Jordan Klepper crashed the "Melania" premiere to ask attendees what they liked best about the bribe, ..... I mean, film Never mind that the guy who directed the "film" was in the Epstein files
- During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D) spoke about the Trump administration.
- Reposted by MikeJacob Frey: "The continued presence of 2,000 federal agents in a city that only has 600 police officers is still not deescalation"
- Reposted by Mike@samsteindc.bsky.social on Mike Johnson sowing distrust in our elections: “It's hard to imagine a more irresponsible statement from the Speaker of the House than that…Openly saying, I don't have evidence for what I'm suggesting, but I'm going to suggest it anyway.”
- Reposted by Mikea Republican witness in the GOP's "Somali Scammers" hearing details how he drives by childcare centers and looks at how many footprints in the snow there are to determine how many kids are there. Psycho stuff.
- Former Agriculture department officials and leaders of farm groups are warning of a "widespread collapse" of U.S. agriculture.
- Reposted by MikeMandela Barnes: There are folks who truly thought that Trump was going to make things better. They thought he was going to lower costs. I don’t disparage those folks at all. But what they’ve experienced in just the first year of his presidency has made them think much differently.…
- Reposted by MikeBREAKING: 10-year-old Minnesota student released from Texas facility. Jillian Frankel has the latest
- Reposted by MikeA coalition of Minnesota school districts and educators have filed a lawsuit today in the U.S. District Court of Minnesota seeking to block the Department of Homeland Security and ICE from conducting immigration enforcement activity in or near public schools.
- Reposted by MikeConway: If you want your lives to be better and you want this country to persevere for your kids, we need to impeach and remove this fascist fucker now, as soon as possible. And I know that language is tough, but that’s where we are.
- Reposted by MikeRep. Crow: Congressional Republicans gave a blank check to the administration to expand ICE, more than triple their budget, more than the budget of six of our NATO allied militaries, more than the budget of the US Marine Corps. They have hired people without background checks, without training.
- Reposted by MikeABSOLUTELY NOT. Do not bs us on this. Don’t even think about it. Not one single day of an extension.
- The Supreme Court denied the California GOP's request to block the state's new congressional map.
- Reposted by MikeIf you want to FINALLY watch Scott Bessent get pinned down on specifics about the illegal money laundering operation being conducted by the Trump admin from someone who knows WTF he’s talking about, this clip is your chance. Bessent gets destroyed.
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- Reposted by MikeCue the MAGA outrage in 3... 2... 1...
- MeidasTouch reports on Republicans getting mercilessly booed in the latest town hall in Mike Lawler’s district in New York
- Reposted by MikeMy favorite genre of Epstein emails are powerful people emailing WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN about how MeToo has gone too far and the woke mob must be stopped.
- Reposted by MikeMaybe the next time Trump/Rubio/Leavitt go to “it’s a brutal war on both sides” to talk about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, someone can follow up with the simple fact that Russia bombs civilian population centers daily and Ukraine does not at all.
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- Republicans worry a Democrat could win former GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's seat in Georgia. The special election will be a 21 candidate free-for-all with 16 Republicans in the running. It comes on the heels of last weekend's Democratic win in a Texas state Senate race.
- Reposted by MikeHeads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3
- Reposted by MikeThey’re taking children from Minnesota and locking them up like criminals in detention camps in Texas. For the love of God, send our kids home and bring an end to this nightmare. www.startribune.com/walz-demands...
- Donald Trump doubled down on his calls to "nationalize" elections, saying if states can't run them "honestly," then "somebody else should."
- Reposted by MikeWhat should alarm us about the Epstein files isn’t just the appalling details, which are horrific and criminal. It’s that here is a growing sense that there is small number of elite who see themselves as above the law.
