"Fact-checking does not fail because it is too weak; rather, it fails because it is aimed at persuasion on individual points of fact—a tactic the opponent has already abandoned. What MAGA is trying to do instead is build a culture of submission to an unaccountable authority."

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #MaskedThugs #lies #fascism
/8

"As Hannah Arendt put it in the last public interview she gave, 'If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. . . . With such a people you can then do what you please.'

Once this basic orientation is understood, it becomes clearer how familiar critiques and tactics miss the point."

~ Kaivan Shroff

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #MaskedThugs #lies #fascism
/7

thebulwark.com/p/does-dhs-flac…

Does DHS Flack Tricia McLaughlin Believe Her Own Lies?

She knows what her real audience wants to hear from her.

^{Kaivan Shroff (The Bulwark)}

"But now DOJ has just filed a motion to dismiss all the charges. Prosecutors said this in their motion to dismiss: 'Newly discovered evidence in this matter is materially inconsistent with the allegations in the Complaint Affidavit.'”

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #MaskedThugs #lies #fascism
/6

"'ATTEMPTED MURDER: An ICE officer is fighting for his life after he was allegedly ambushed with a shovel and a broom handle by 3 illegal immigrants during a traffic stop that quickly spiraled into a foot chase, a violent struggle, and gunfire.''

This is what Kristi Noem said right after the incident: 'What we saw last night in Minneapolis was an attempted murder of federal law enforcement.'”

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #MaskedThugs #lies #fascism
/5

“'Both officers have been placed on administrative leave. The US Attorney’s Office is investigating these false statements. Upon conclusion of the investigation, the officers may face termination of employment, as well as potential criminal prosecution.'

… This was the Fox headline on Jan 15:"

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #MaskedThugs #lies #fascism
/4

Largest Bribe in #American History

The largest bribe...so far.

#US #Trump #cryptocurrency #Crypto #Binance

youtube.com/watch?v=RE2pm3omzM…

"ICE Director Todd Lyons admitted in a statement today that ICE officers lied under oath in an investigation that led to criminal charges against two innocent men: 'Today, a joint review by ICE and DOJ of video evidence revealed that sworn testimony provided by two separate officers appears to have made untruthful statements.'”

~ Ron Filipkowski

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #MaskedThugs #lies #fascism
/3

meidasplus.com/p/today-in-poli…

Today in Politics, Bulletin 307. 2/13/26

… ICE Director Todd Lyons admitted in a statement today that ICE officers lied under oath in an investigation that led to criminal charges against two innocent men: “Today, a joint review by ICE and DOJ of video evidence revealed that sworn testimony…

^{Ron Filipkowski (Meidas+)}

"So that, you know, that that does kind of scare me a little bit that, you know,
Republicans seem to feel no shame about that or kind of compunction that, you know, it's really kind of an escalation of. you know, an authoritarian takeover in our country."

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #MaskedThugs #lies #fascism
/2

"The only reason that they are wearing masks is because they want impunity to commit crimes. And there's no other, at least to my knowledge, you know, comparable developed nation where that is a thing, you know, having basically secret police like that."

~ Aaron Rupar

#Trump #StephenMiller #KristiNoem #DHS #ICE #MaskedThugs #lies #fascism
/1

lincolnsquare.media/p/ices-las…

ICE's Lasting Scars on Minneapolis | It's The Democracy, Stupid with Public Notice's Aaron Rupar & Edwin Eisendrath

The ICE drawdown in the Twin Cities signals that Trump's losing the narrative. Aaron gives his perspective from the ground.

^{Edwin Eisendrath (Lincoln Square)}

Falls #Trump Demenz bekommt, wie würde man es merken?

#Verbaler Durchfall #deluxe: Trump auf Deutsch

Ächz... 😨

Just read @pluralistic's great article "The Nuremberg Caucus", which lays out a number of ways that our Democratic leadership *could* rise up to the moment of the Trump administration's fascist takeover, if they weren't a bunch of spineless cowards.

I decided to email it to my two state senators as well as my house rep. I recommend everyone else should do the same. Even if they don't go through with the aggressive responses Cory talks about, maybe they'll at least realize that the public wants them to do fucking *something*.

pluralistic.net/2026/02/10/mil…

(Also if you wanna get your 3 congressmen's contact info, go here):

congress.gov/members/find-your…

#USPol #Trump #Nuremberg #fascism #democracy

EXCLUSIVE: Marco Rubio Is Deliberately Blocking Trump From Cuba Talks
The Secretary of State has told the president that talks are happening with high-level Cuban officials. No such talks exist. Purported negotiations in #Mexico? Actual fake news.
dropsitenews.com/p/marco-rubio…

from #DropSiteNews
Ryan Grim, Noah Kulwin, and José Luis Granados Ceja
Feb 09, 2026

A crisis is rapidly developing in #Cuba, as the #Trump administration’s efforts to block fuel from reaching the island have become increasingly effective since an executive order threatened tariffs on any country trading with Cuba. Mexican President #ClaudiaSheinbaum has buckled under the pressure and halted #oil deliveries to Cuba.

Meanwhile, back in Washington, President Trump claims that negotiations are underway to resolve the standoff. That, it turns out, is simply false—a lie being told to him by Secretary of State #MarcoRubio as part of his ambitious play to overthrow the Cuban government.

#news #politics #USpol

EXCLUSIVE: Marco Rubio Is Deliberately Blocking Trump From Cuba Talks

The Secretary of State has told the president that talks are happening with high-level Cuban officials. No such talks exist. Purported negotiations in Mexico? Actual fake news.

^{Ryan Grim (Drop Site News)}

Wow.

The only moment this lapdog looks up is when the name "Trump" falls

#Bondi #Trump #USPol

youtube.com/watch?v=Ztgu0gkZxR…

#Trump is no longer appealing the injunction against using the #NationalGuard in #Portland #Oregon.

That probably means #SCOTUS made it clear in private they weren't going to overturn this. And/or military leaders said in private they would not follow unlawful orders.

This should be bigger news outside Oregon, no? Y'all, he has nobody but his brownshirts in #ICE and that ain't enough guys to stop the midterms.

opb.org/article/2026/02/06/tru…

Trump administration asks court to drop its appeal over Oregon National Guard deployment

The decision leaves in place a permanent injunction from November that blocked troops from deploying to Portland.

^{Conrad Wilson (OPB)}

#Democrats demand new restrictions to #Trump #immigration crackdown & threaten a #DHS shutdown

Democratic leaders say a proposal from the White House is “incomplete & insufficient” as they are demanding new restrictions on Trump’s immigration crackdown & threatening a shutdown of the Homeland Security Department.

#law #DueProcess #ICE #CBP #UseOfForce #CivilRights
apnews.com/article/democrats-i…

Immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have filed more than 18,000 challenges in federal court.

The cases, known as habeas petitions, total more than were filed under the last three administrations combined, including Trump’s first term.
propublica.org/article/habeas-…

#News #Immigration #ICE #Law #USPolitics #Trump #Immigrants #Legal

Immigrants Who Say Their Detention Is Illegal Have Filed More Than 18,000 Cases. It’s a Historic High.

Immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have filed more than 18,000 challenges in federal court. This total is more than were filed under the last three administrations combined — including Trump’s first term.

^{cengiz.yar@propublica.org (ProPublica)}

Ghislaine Maxwell -> Trump:

"You give me a pardon and I give you one!"

#Epstein #Trump

1/4
MS NOW:
'All over the files': Maddow names names of people in Trump's orbit in the Epstein files

Maddow:
“John Phelan, the billionaire art collector whom...Trump appointed to oversee the US Navy appears to have traveled on at least two transatlantic flights with Jeffrey Epstein. The flight manifests Lists Epstein, Phelan and a handful of other men...
youtube.com/watch?v=NSKw1Fv0rA…

#Trump #Epstein #EpsteinFiles

🇨🇦 Inside the Right-Wing Movement Pushing #Alberta to Secede From #Canada

#Trump officials have repeatedly met with secessionist leaders from the province, which has large oil and gas deposits.
By Nora Loreto,
Published Feb 9, 2026

truthout.org/articles/inside-t…

#elbowsup #toronto #montreal #vancouver #winnipeg #halifax #ontario #quebec #cdnpoli #democracy #sovereignty @politics @democracy @journalismandcomment #media #fossilfuels #fascism #imperialism #venezuela #iran #nigeria #cuba #greenland #oil

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Right... "the whole system" of pedophilia offerings, served up with travel, private island, patrons like Clarence Thomas, money laundering on a global level, assisted by cash-king #Trump and BFF #Epstein....

Please, collapse the #TrumpVirus / #pstein "system" and replace it with #justice, #law, & #accountabilty!

#Trump is a disgusting racist wannabe dictator

#USPol #US

youtube.com/watch?v=b86QStj2VN…

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
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ProPublica went inside the detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.
propublica.org/article/life-in…

#News #ICE #Texas #Immigration #Immigrants #Children #Trump #USPolitics #Law

The Children of Dilley

ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of what comes next.

^{Anna.Donlan@propublica.org (ProPublica)}

The Federal Reserve bank just released a research paper showing that lower income locales have been hit with higher #food #inflation rates than rich locales — & the Fed says the culprit is market concentration (read: corporate monopolies)

levernews.com/big-grocerys-hid…

x.com/grahamformaine/status/20…

@povertyandinequality @politics #uspol #economy #monopoly #billionaires #foodsecurity #agriculture #starvation #environment #usa #resistance #democracy #trump #poverty #humanrights #health #justice @democracy

Pretty sure #Trump and company would hate it if this ad were boosted and boosted some more. You all know what to do.

thedailybeast.com/epstein-surv…

#USPol
#Survivors
#Epstein

Epstein Survivors Slam Pam Bondi in New Super Bowl Ad

The commercial demanded the DOJ release the entirety of the Epstein files.

^{Laura Esposito (The Daily Beast)}

It is not going to end well. Orwell (sorry but he was on the ball so to speak) got it right.

theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb…

If a US administration figure is booed at the Olympics, or a World Cup match, will American domestic broadcasts simply mute or avoid mentioning the crowd audio? If so, what happens when the world feed, or a foreign broadcaster, shows something else entirely? What happens when 40,000 phones in the stadium upload their own version in real time?

#USPol #Censorship #Trump

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US

The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden

^{Bryan Armen Graham (The Guardian)}

Und schon wieder wird ein AfD-Politiker zur besten Sendezeit präsentiert.
Titel der Sendung von Caren #miosga am so., 08.02.2926:
"Ist #Trump ein Vorbild für Deutschland, Herr #Chrupalla?"
ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/car…

Btw: Hier gehts zum Kontaktformular der Redaktion der Sendung von Carmen Miosga. Feel free
ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/car…

Kontakt zur Redaktion

Fragen, Feedback, Anregungen? Hier können Sie mit der Redaktion der Sendung Caren Miosga in Kontakt treten.

^ndr.de

🔥 Anybody else reaaally feel like review bombing this AD?

This quote sounds like a fitting review:
"Hello Mister President, congratulations!"
"Did you watch it?"
"No, I did not - I will see it on the news"
🤣 🤣 🤣

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melania_…

#Melania #Ad #News #MelaniaTrump #Trump #US #America #Unitedstates #Unitedstatesofamerica #politics #Epstein #USpol #Media #News #Post #Humor #Satire #Joke #Fun #Funny #portrait #politician

Trump's motto right now:
A troll post or comment a day,
keeps the full Epstein Files away.

#Trump #EpsteinFiles #USA #US #America #Unitedstates #Unitedstatesofamerica #politics #Epstein #USpol #Media #News #Post #Humor #Satire #Joke #Fun #Funny #portrait #politician #billionaire #donaldtrump #jeffreyepstein

So if you were wondering why Bezos was willing to sink $75 million into the melaina "I am eva braun" movie here is what $75 million get you

It saved Amazon 9 BILLION dollars this year alone

"Republicans’ tax cuts shaved billions off Amazon’s tax bill, new government filings show.

The company says it ran a $1.2 billion tax bill last year, down from $9 billion the previous year, and even as its profits jumped by 45 percent to nearly $90 billion."

Let that sink in: They Paid 1.2 billion ON 90 BILLION in profit THAT IS A TAX RATE of 1.3%

#melaniaTrump #amazon #bezos #taxes #bribe #politics #gop #trump #movie

politico.com/news/2026/02/06/a…

Aliya Rahman's statement after being abducted by ICE.

The transcript is in the posts below (courtesy of Jenny Carter on FB).

If you watch it, at the link below (it's on YouTube), I should mention I was crying by the end of her statement.

🧵⬇️

#Autistic #Neurodivergent #ICE #Fascism #Democracy #Racism #Minnesota #Trump #ActuallyAutistic (me) #BlackLivesMatter #Disabled

youtube.com/watch?v=zrcW8SZtYp…