Looking like Rehmet will win SD9, a +17 Trump district, by 15 points. The district hasn't elected a Democrat since 1991. Wow.
Hard to overstate how big a deal a Rehmet win would be. Tarrant County is the epicenter of Christian nationalism in Texas, an incubator for far-right policies, and nexus of billionaire Tim Dunn's network, which is riding hard for Wambsganss. Rehmet almost entirely funded by donations of $100 or less
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"If we have to hunt you down, the way they hunted down Nazis for decades, we will find your identities. We will find you. We will achieve justice. And we will do so under the Constitution and laws of the United States."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ft1...
Philly DA vows to prosecute ‘wannabe Nazi' ICE agents who violate the law
YouTube video by NBC10 Philadelphia
"You raise your voice, I erase your voice."
ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights.
Please share our new video of what's happening in our city.
youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXYMaybe if we give Homan $50K in a Cava bag ICE will GTFO.
gee whiz it would be really great if the opposition party smelled blood in the water right now and went on a full offensive to harness this spark of momentum
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imgaine getting sent packing with your ass in your own two hands by some of the nicest people in the world and then showing up in a city that is famous for booing santa claus
this is right. you don't have to work out every detail. start with no. go from there.
Senate Dems needn’t come to agreement on everything right now. That’s a path to the lowest common denominator. They simply have to agree to filibuster DHS approps. As to which of a host of anti-brutality and anti-authoritarian proposals to advance, let a thousand flowers bloom.
Kudos to the NYT editor who took “Appears to” out of the lead headline (finally)
So close, NYT! Just take out the "Appear to" and you're doing real journalism! (And even this is better than usual.)
If you are running for president you should make clear you’re gonna send Greg Bovino to prison
Can't believe I'm retweeting Bill fucking Kristol
Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.
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Pretti clearly did not brandish his gun. Which means the government is saying he was killed for legally exercising his right to carry.
It’s as clear-cut a violation of the Second Amendment as I can possibly imagine. And we’re about to see the bulk of the gun rights crowd defend his murder.
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That is an ICE agent pepper spraying a restrained victim in the face at close quarters; it's an unquestionable and indefensibly abusive use of excessive force that should (but won't) be criminally prosecuted as assault
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
The Democrats should shut down the government on this sentence alone.
Trump: "Sometimes you need a dictator."
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Nancy Lacore, who served in the Navy for 35 years as a Navy helicopter pilot, three-star admiral and the chief of the Navy Reserve, announced a run for South Carolina's 1st Congressional District
Navy admiral removed by Hegseth announces run for Congress
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Navy admiral removed by Hegseth announces run for Congress
Nancy Lacore served in the Navy for 35 years as a helicopter pilot, three-star admiral and the chief of the Navy Reserve.
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The Russian intelligence services intervene aggressively to attack a website that leaked the names of new ICE hires, proving that Kristi Noem was aggressively recruiting and deploying Jan 6 rioters, including the head of the Proud Boys, a violent white supremacist group.
Website that leaked info about ICE agents is down after ‘cyberattack,’ founder says
Founder of ICE List believes the ‘sophisticated’ cyberattack could have originated in Russia
telling the secret police they have immunity to harm & kill citizens really lays bare the hollowness of decades of right-wing GOP screeching about encroaching Big Government - it was never a problem they had with government per se, just that it wasn't being used to harm the people they wanted to
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@mattyglesias.bsky.social
I don't know why, but I've long noted how dismissive and sometimes downright smug you've been about this subject, so I thought you might want to see this:
www.cnn.com/2026/01/13/p... 
Pentagon bought device through undercover operation some investigators suspect is linked to Havana Syndrome | CNN Politics
The Defense Department has spent more than a year testing a device purchased in an undercover operation that some investigators think could be the cause of a series of mysterious ailments impacting sp...
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this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)
ICE detained Arlit Maria Martinez on her way to work. 2 days later, her 15 yo son died of cancer. They wouldn't let her out to say goodbye. The family had planned to move back to Mexico prior to the cancer diagnosis but stayed for his treatment. Now, Mr Martinez has lost his wife to ICE & his son.
Teen dies of cancer days after mother arrested by ICE: ‘She’s never gonna see him’
The mother's family pleaded with federal officers for her release from custody to say her final goodbyes to her son, but their requests went unanswered.
Klein: “What is, to you, the ‘rage economy’?”
Talarico: “The billionaires own the algorithms and the news networks.
They are selling us conflict right into our bloodstream, and they’re calling it connection.
And I think it’s left people starving for actual community.”
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??? Apparently Venezuela oil revenues will go into “offshore accounts” outside of the US Treasury, PBS reports.
OUT: Helping you pay for health care.
IN: Helping oil companies pay for their infrastructure in a foreign country.
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This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
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The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.
Holy. Shit.
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