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[WLN @wlnel12]

@bennyjohnson Flying is not a constitutional right, voting is. Big difference.

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

'Turn in your neighbors, and life will be better for you.'

Logic circa 1930s Germany, now DHS policy.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Trump reversed decades of national security objections to selling advanced AI chips to UAE. National security experts were alarmed.

But there was a secret. Before the deal, UAE had sent $187M to the Trumps and $31M to the Witkoffs in secret payments.

Mind blowing corruption.

[Andrew Weinstein @Weinsteinlaw]

This killing of Alex Pretti reveals a dark truth about the administration's view of gun rights: they are not universal. They are reserved for the "right" kind of people. If you are a MAGA supporter, your gun is a symbol of freedom. If you are a protester in Minneapolis, your gun is proof of terrorism.

The "right to bear arms" has been replaced by the "privilege to bear arms," contingent on political alignment. This is the hallmark of a militia state, not a constitutional republic.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump.

Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

[claire de lune @ClaireMPLS]

just as a general rule if there are a bunch of clergy peacefully protesting in the cold and you’re the one dragging them away in cuffs, there’s a 99.9% chance you’re on the wrong side of history

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

The President’s House slavery exhibits weren’t “political commentary.” They were basic historical education.

They taught that George Washington enslaved nine people while serving as president in Philadelphia, steps from the Liberty Bell. They named them: Oney Judge, Hercules, Austin, Moll, Giles, Paris, Richmond, Christopher Sheels, and Joe Richardson. The exhibit showed how Washington illegally rotated enslaved people every six months to dodge Pennsylvania’s emancipation law, and how he signed the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793, expanding federal power to hunt people who escaped bondage.

Visitors learned that enslaved people were skilled professionals, not “servants,” and that many resisted and escaped, even from the most powerful man in the country. Oney Judge fled to New Hampshire and stayed free for life. Hercules, Washington’s chef, escaped on Washington’s birthday. The exhibit made clear that slavery was enforced by law, violence, and the federal government itself, not just “the times.”

The site also used real archaeological remains from the house to show how enslaved quarters sat feet away from the rooms where the nation’s earliest laws were written. The core lesson was simple and uncomfortable: America’s founding ideals of liberty were built alongside, and sustained by, slavery.

That entire educational framework was dismantled in January 2026 under an order to remove material deemed to “disparage” the founders. What remains are mostly names, stripped of explanation. What was removed was context, accountability, and the ability for millions of visitors to learn the full story where it actually happened.

History wasn’t erased. The teaching of it was.

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

Erasing our history cheapens who we are. We are not a great nation in spite of our sins, but because we’ve found the strength to overcome them.

Trump’s attempt to whitewash the American story is wrong.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: Donald Trump is erasing American history because he doesn’t like what it says.

This is happening at Independence National Historical Park’s President’s House in Philadelphia, where exhibits on the people George Washington enslaved are being removed after Trump’s administration ordered reviews of content deemed to “disparage” America.

It’s state-sanctioned amnesia. You don’t honor history by hiding it. This is what Putin does. This is what Hitler did.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Sixteen years ago, the Supreme Court decided that corporations are people under the First Amendment.

Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors.

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

Never in the history of ever have the masked men demanding to see your papers been the good guys.

They aren’t now either.

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Attempting to criminalize the actions of an independent public servant, Fed Chair Jay Powell, for the sin of acting independently—in the public interest rather than the President's political interest—is an outrage. It's bad economics, bad politics, bad for the rule of law, bad for the public sector, bad for American credibility and bad for Americans.

[WLN @wlnel12]

@shannonrwatts @CNN @CNN This is disgusting!

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz just toured “Alligator Alcatraz” and came out shaking: “It’s 34 people per cage. They drink, brush, and defecate in the same tiny unit. The photos don’t come close to the stench of it.”

We’re packing human beings into kennel conditions, then calling it justice.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

When the American empire finally collapses, historians won’t be stunned by the greed of the elite; They’ll be stunned by the loyalty of the poor.

The working class didn’t just vote against their own interests. They worshipped the billionaires robbing them.

They slashed their own benefits, gutted their own healthcare, and cheered while the rich wrote off private jets as tax deductions.

Not because it helped them.
But because they were told it would hurt someone else.

And that, right there, is how you rig a democracy without ever breaking a single law.

[Rep. Jack Kimble @RepJackKimble]

If only there was some kind of government agency assigned to monitor and give advance warning. Something like a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That would be a great agency to fund well and never gut it's funding to give early warning to save lives in these situations.

[Christopher Martin 💙🤟👩🏻‍🦽‍➡️🌸⚾️ @ChrisMartin1961]

I’ve been thinking about this “Alligator Alcatraz” concentration camp down in Florida. As a student of the Concentration Camps of WWII, I wrote an entire graduate thesis on the psychology of those working there, I see many parallels to Nazi Germany in the early 1930’s. 1/3

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Man comes to the US from Lebanon. Starts out delivering pizzas, becomes a Nobel winning neuroscientist. Trump freezes his funding, he gets an email from China offering to move his lab “any city, any university I want" with guaranteed funding for 20 years.

What are we doing?

[Rep. Jake Auchincloss 🟧 @RepAuchincloss]

First: RFK Jr cancels funding that Harvard & MIT use to study the molecular basis of autism.

Then: RFK Jr. issues a report on autism with made-up scientific notations.

[This Week @ThisWeekABC]

Pres. Trump’s pardoning of political supporters and his family business ventures have raised ethics questions.

“Concerns Donald Trump’s second term is blurring the lines between the personal and political like never before,” @jayobtv reports. https://t.co/J7MDecuAzQ