Update from Michael Gold

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Clearly the religion test is not the answer. Perhaps food preferences?

Mullin’s most memorable quote: “Sometimes you just need a punch in the face.”

Agreed. How long did we hide under our desks?

We live in fear in IBMs because they’ll remove our geographical insulation.

Yes the other side of individual inconsequence is that there are billions of others doing their things in their milieus. This will not necessarily assist with your local problems, but as you say from the universal perspective it is comforting(?). Bottom line, humanity will live out its destiny.

Many, many, many. Makes you want to lie down.

DJT is a personality drunk on power. His use of the power of the federal government of the United States domestically has just been a testing ground for his ultimate binge of the use of American power on the international stage.His ultimate goal is to press the red button.

We’re prepared.
The last war we won was WW2

President Stephen Miller.

Pass it on.

Well yuh. Broken doesn’t even get near it. Onward!

I don’t know about you but I am rooting for Canada in tomorrow’s Olympic gold medal hockey match. Who’s with me? 8:10am eastern on NBC.

The classic glassy-eyed.

The Trump Effect.

He also refuses to comply with the Senate dress code. He prefers bermudas and flip-flops.

Not a doctor, but he had a stroke shortly after taking office.

The thing about names: they can be changed.

ICE moves out to the suburbs — The Verge We sat in a parking lot and waited. We watched, knowing we were being watched in return. Two men, masked and presumably armed, idled in a gray SUV. “They’re all on this fucking street now,” Lety, a li...

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Trump administration says it is ending its immigration surge in Minneapolis More than 4,000 undocumented immigrants have been apprehended since the operation began in November, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

Trump administration says it is ending its immigration surge in Minneapolis.

Georgia Ballot Inquiry Originated With Election Denier in Trump White House

Surprise surprise.

Judge expresses frustration with FBI seizure of Fulton County ballots — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A judge had dismissed one lawsuit and stayed another that sought access to Fulton County’s 2020 election ballots in a pair of decisions.

This judge has been involved in a lot of the cases in Atlanta involving Trump shenanigans, and is a really good guy, very even-handed.

He also handled the adoption case for my granddaughter, who recently became a member of our family.

Monday, February 09, 2026 ICE buys warehouse to detain immigrants

Local officials claiming they’re helpless because of supremacy clause. This county went overwhelmingly for Trump.

ICE Deportation Plans Ramping Up in Atlanta with New Location — Capital B Atlanta In January, College Park residents learned Immigration and Customs Enforcement was planning to open an office in their community, catching many unaware.

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ICE Deportation Plans Ramping Up in Atlanta with New Location - Capital B Atlanta

I agree. But what prompted that?

Just gonna drop this photo of January 6 insurrectionist Jake Lang destroying a "Prosecute ICE" sculpture in Minneapolis. He's been arrested for this, btw.

Good luck with that. It’s Friday.

Trump promises Schumer funding for NY tunnel project — if Penn Station and Dulles Airport are renamed after him | CNN Politics President Donald Trump told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer last month that he was finally prepared to drop his freeze on billions of dollars in funding for a major New York infrastructure projec...

“I won’t spend money on transportation infrastructure to make Americans’ lives better unless you name buildings after me” is a level of narcissism and corruption rarely seen, and it makes Trump sound like a big baby.
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I hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.

Jackhammering Into the Sewer A look through the Epstein files.

"They're jackhammering into the sewer and the whole house is shaking."

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That’s the best space — between small talk and shop talk. Where people connect — or decide not to.