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If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Literal definition of Orwellian

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

When you read the actual stories behind each dollar, it gets even more absurd https://t.co/a1DdwHmzJL

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Sen. Mike Crapo just blocked Sen. Elizabeth Warren's last-ditch attempt to preserve the IRS's free Direct File program.

In the last election cycle, Crapo was the top GOP congressional recipient of campaign contributions from the corporate PAC of TurboTax's parent company.

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

Hegseth spent $93 billion in one month – roughly the cost of extending the ACA tax credits for THREE YEARS.  

But instead of lowering American’s healthcare costs, Hegseth used millions of taxpayer dollars on fruit baskets, Herman Miller recliners, ice cream machines, Alaskan King Crabs, and a Steinway & Sons grand piano.

A true grifter in every sense of the word.

[Ruben Gallego @RubenGallego]

We’re in a war in the Middle East nobody asked for. Almost every major industry lost jobs in February. Gas prices are skyrocketing. And the DOJ just released files alleging that the president sexually assaulted a 13 year old girl.

This is the state of the Trump presidency.

[Javier Blas @JavierBlas]

BREAKING: US Treasury eases oil sanctions on the Kremlin, allowing Indian refineries to buy the millions of barrels of Russian crude on floating storage until early April (the new rules cover all the oil already loaded in a tanker by March 5, 2026). Massive win for Putin.

[Mark S. Zaid @MarkSZaidEsq]

Yea, nothing shady or suspicious here.

This Administration doesn't care about appearances of impropiety - well, except when it is on the other side.

Such hypocrites and grifters.

Nothing like this should happen in any Administration. The American people deserve better.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Trump, July 19: "All three nuclear sites in Iran were completely destroyed and/or OBLITERATED. It would take years to bring them back into service."

Witkoff, Sunday: "They're probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material."

[NowThis Impact @nowthisimpact]

Trump said he was going after the ‘worst of the worst,’ but he pardoned this guy?

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

The stock market is up so we don’t have to prosecute pedophiles is one of the worst political messages i have ever heard.

[IGN @IGN]

Two Toronto comedians go back to the future – mockumentary style! – in the hilarious, audacious legacy sequel, Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie.

Our review: https://t.co/IHJsmCUiq5

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Bloomington police announce arrests in sex trafficking bust: "Rashad Johnson out of Maple Grove. This is the most disturbing arrest that we've had here. He is a backgrounder for ICE, Homeland Security, and federal agencies."

[Saturday Night Live @nbcsnl]

mom has something she needs to get off her chest

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

Brett Ratner with Epstein and a teenage girl.

Brett Ratner with our First Lady at the premiere of the Melania movie, which he directed.

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

The thing that gets me about the Challenger exploding is it’s often still treated as this massive surprise when there were engineers who spent YEARS trying to warn this exact thing would happen for the exact reason it did and they basically just got their careers destroyed for it

[James Brandt @j_e_brandt]

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:

"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

[Niko @NikoLeMieux]

Yesterday as I was walking through Minneapolis with a friend I saw this Lexus parked terribly and commented to him: “get a load of this asshole’s terrible parking.” By complete serendipity, as if the universe itself was saying "be kinder with your spoken thoughts," right at that moment I heard a voice say “hey that’s my car, ICE grabbed me, I’m so sorry!” come from the passenger of a Jeep slowly passing by; the Jeep driver said she was the sister of the Lexus’ owner and that the two of them had just come back from picking her up from Federal detention. I went to go talk to the Lexus’ driver, but first I read the note on the windshield:

“THIS WOMAN WAS TAKEN BY ICE. Please don’t hit or tow.” Neighbors put that there, and put a tarp over the window that ICE broke open so snow wouldn’t get in.

The Lexus driver, a short, brown haired white woman told me she lived in the area and was driving through looking for parking, when armed ICE agents speedily blocked off the street in front of her, and swarmed the white pickup truck in front of her grabbing its driver. She said people came from throughout the neighborhood with whistles to record them grabbing that driver, and as she was trying to leave, ICE agents swarmed her vehicle as well and proceeded to open her window and door and remove her from her car, slamming her facedown in the street. She said a Federal agent entered her vehicle and parked it like this, before taking her away. I don’t know the story of the pickup driver.

I'll be honest, I didn't really believe what I was hearing at first until she showed me the video that a neighbor filmed, confirming the whole story. I asked her to airdrop it to me so I could make this post.

This woman was just driving and minding her business one moment, and the next she was snatched, she told me that they said she was "obstructing an investigation." After 24 hours in Federal custody, they released her with only the white shirt she was wearing when I met her, into the -8F cold where her sister was waiting, and they didn't give her back her car keys. She came to make sure her vehicle was still there.

There's a lot of people on this platform making all sorts of excuses for the Federal government's despicable behavior in Minneapolis, but what it comes down to is this: they are out of control. They are Out. Of. Control.

This woman's story that I saw firsthand is emblematic of the institutional rot at the core of DHS, CBP, and ICE. The agents involved in both shootings this month were 8- and 10-year veterans, not untrained amateurs. There have been three homicides in Minneapolis thus far in 2026- 66% of them have been US citizens murdered by the Federal government. My city is being subjected to a full-fledged occupation by lawless, unprofessional, un-American thugs. They have gone far beyond their stated mission of removing violent criminals and illegal aliens. They have all of us looking at every SUV, every vehicle with out-of-state plates, every vehicle with more than 2 men in it with caution, scrutiny, and concern. Many of my friends have bought guns or have gone to get their conceal carry permits, to stay safe from their own government because it's better to be judged by twelve than to be carried by six.

Minneapolis will survive this and will come out stronger for it, because we learned in 2020 that there's no one coming to save us, it's up to us to show up for our friends and neighbors. But people need to know that if the Federal government are doing this to us: You're not safe. You're next.

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

An example of the de-industrializing effect of tariffs. Building a factory in the US is now more expensive, because the gear/inputs to run the factory are now more expensive.

[Damin Toell @damintoell]

Some people replying that it’s Minnesota’s fault for not cooperating with ICE, except Minnesota does cooperate with ICE on prisoner transfers and *he was already under an ICE detainer*, ICE knew he was there.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Witkoff and Kushner landed in Moscow.

It’s Witkoff’s 7th visit to Russia.

He has visited Ukraine 0 times.