I love that every 72 hours or so Donald Trump tries to just quit the war in Iran

Is there any modern equivalent of a country starting a war they fundamentally don't have the stones for and then losing it so thoroughly and so quickly

I knew Debra Messing went nuts when she visited Israel after 10/7 and said she felt safer there than in NYC.

We know many Americans are low info voters. So I can't figure out where the low-info voters who were so horrified about Cheney found out about the appearances? They aren't political obsessives. I also can't grok why it's good for progressives like Ro to roll with MTG now. Seems a double standard

tbh I'm mystified about why anyone would trust Platner at all. It seems to all be about "I like the cut of his jib!" The things he's done in his life place him in a maga or maga adjacent space.

Omar seems to have sincerely held views - does Platner? He's a candidate saying stuff with no track record anywhere in his entire life to back it up. That concerns me.

And the #1 thing people can learn from Mamdani isn't "be a socialist" - it's literally do the thing and then BRAG ABOUT IT

Zohran and Kathy showing all y’all what vote blue no matter who means in practice. Get your heads right.

ICE and BP have $170B that still has sometbing like $165B left in it that is available for obligation through 2029

Getting DHS approps fenced off was some leg jiu-jitsu that no one at this place is gonna give Dems credit for, but no one at either agency is missing paychecks if annual approps lapse

It's fair for them to explain why she didn't participate, so they can head off a bunch of people online screaming that she was being mistreated. She was treated the same as everyone else, but that's not what she's after.

Do we know these folks are center right scolds, or do we just assume because Kat did a thing and we back whatever thing Kat does?

Lorde donates merchandise proceeds from Minneapolis shows to immigrant rights groups Pop singer Lorde will donate money she made on merchandise sales from her sold-out Minneapolis shows last fall to two Minnesota immigrant rights groups, she shared in a post on Instagram on Tuesday.

Pop singer Lorde will donate the $204,000 she made on merchandise sales from her sold-out Minneapolis shows last fall to two Minnesota immigrant rights groups.

Here's Soon-Yi Previn, wife of Woody Allen, who was groomed by Allen as a teenager, defending Anthony Wiener and saying the 15-year-old girl he preyed on should "feel ashamed of herself" for manipulating him into a sexual relationship.

One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office.

Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.

Attorneys for man killed by off-duty ICE agent call on California A.G. to investigate Attorneys for Keith Porter Jr. — who was shot and killed by an off-duty ICE agent on New Year's Eve — called for California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta to take over the investigation of the incident, claiming the LAPD won't conduct a fair review.

Attorneys for man killed by off-duty ICE agent call on California A.G. to investigate

New York Attorney General to Deploy Observers to Document ICE Raids

NEW: Letitia James, the New York attorney general, announced that her office will deploy "legal observers" to document ICE activity in NY.

Her office says the effort is the first of its kind by an AG.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/n...

voting third party is for SURE an epic strat though. That one has saved us so many times.

Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano, 11 years old. In dreadful ICE detention for nearly a month.

Same with the Access Hollywood tape. Most journos wouldn't bother to ask Republicans about it if it came out today. Because Republicans have learned that all they need to say is"didn't see it" or "Trump's a jokester" - they are under no pressure to condemn or criticize.

Uh oh now you're critiquing their failures, watch out

omg @randyrainbow.bsky.social please

Jeffries' message—take money from violent law enforcement and instead fund social services—is pretty straightforwardly the argument of the defund police movement. 1

Americans in Paris stand with Springfield, OH.
NO ICE. Not there. Not anywhere.

#NoICE #ICEout #ICEoutforGood #DeICEUSA #SpringfieldOH #AmericansAbroad #ParisProtest #DefendDemocracy

This reminds me of Ashton Kutcher, defender of children, slayer of abusers! Except his rapist friend, of course.

and then they start going, "well, state violence is bad ergo i must punch Will Stancil in the face so i can do the arson"

MAGA Adult Male assaults Texas High School students protesting ICE

I love how meshing protest discourses right now implies a class of people who believe that diversity of tactics includes burning toxic shit in residential areas full of marginalized people but doesn't include warning them with whistles or telling the press about the illegal shit happening.

Crazy to see the UK responding to the Epstein files with actual consequences—there apparently shame and the rule of law still have some weight

"Joe Biden failed us on our Southern border." Nope. Talarico is spreading disinformation. Kenny breaks down everything Joe Biden introduced a bill on day one for the Southern border.

Because creating trust networks and community on the ground takes time and effort and isn't something you can easily share for clout. A lot of quiet activity creating a lot of goodwill and connections has to happen to bring people together like in MN. And that trust breaks when people are careless.

No offense but if anything MN puts the lie to the idea that popular resistance takes a bunch of time and preparation by established activists who are allegedly quietly building goodwill. Mostly I see those people upset that it's succeeding and trying to gatekeep the normal people out of it