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Re-watching BBC Sherlock S1 - A Study in Pink - after a very long time and can’t help smiling through the entire episode. It’s just so freakin’ clever.

If current cuts to the Federal Science Budget proposed by the White House are approved by Congress, that will far-and-away be the largest cut to science since the United States began funding it. Republicans & Democrats alike know there’s no surer path to Making America Not-Great

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D. Vance: "Because we have such a big problem with left-wing political violence... we really have to re-train the entire government to focus on the left-wing violence problem." FC: Data show right-wing violence far exceeds left-wing in frequency. (2025)

Trump: It was brought to my attention today that we’re the only country that does mail in voting. I call it mail in cheating.

NEW: President Trump makes four false claims in a 43-word post about Tina Peters. Peters is 70 (not 73), does not have cancer, was sentenced by a judge in Mesa County (not the Governor), and did not expose fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

Dear Christian, Undocumented immigrants can’t vote. It is a crime that results in prison and/or deportation. Only 68 instances of this has happened in the last 40 years, by the Heritage Foundation’s own report. Saying tons of undocumented immigrants are voting is a lie.

Just a reminder that the one guy who is single-handedly tanking the global economy by doubling the market price of oil is also the one guy who insisted on increasing US dependence on fossil fuel by canceling arrays of US solar and wind projects that were already under way.

You can't fact check a firehose of nonsense. These are literally made up numbers. People have given up even expecting the truth any more. #SOTU

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That’s the MAGA playbook!

Obama and Biden also followed the Constitution, giving all DUE PROCESS. MAGA believes Trump is some hero, removing illegal immigrants, like it’s never been done before. It’s been done before, without sending fear into schools & neighborhoods. Without the grandstanding displays.

For 200+ years, we managed elections without half the country melting down because their candidate couldn’t accept reality. Then Trump showed up and turned losing into a conspiracy industry. But sure… tell us again how everyone else broke democracy. 🙃

President Trump’s post threatening to block the opening of a major new US-Canada bridge was filled with important omissions and misleading claims. - Trump professed astonishment that the Canadian government would expect him to support the project. He didn’t mention that he explicitly endorsed the project in a 2017 joint statement with then-PM Trudeau, calling it a “vital economic link” and saying he looked forward to its quick completion. - Trump, complaining about Canada, said “we should own, perhaps, at least one half of this asset.” But the state of Michigan already owns half of the bridge. - Trump said, “I will not allow this bridge to open until the United States is fully compensated for everything we have given them.” But Canada paid for the entire bridge construction. - Trump complained about a Buy American waiver Obama granted the project, then claimed the waiver let Canada “not use any American products, including our Steel.” But the waiver actually allowed Canadian and US steel to be treated equally in consideration for the project, and numerous Canadian officials and Republican former Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder say some American steel was indeed used. (Also worth noting the Obama administration said it was granting the waiver out of a “basic notion of fairness” because the project was a “unique circumstance…under which Canada is assuming all financial liability and risk for the construction.”) Fact check: cnn.com/2026/02/10/pol…

Worth stating plainly: when Olympic athletes criticize the Trump agenda as damaging to American ideals and the GOP responds with threats and calls to silence them, it literally validates the criticism.

@GlenSPhoto @broadwaybabyto 😆 It’s true …. Trump is really deranged.

People are worried about how American athletes are representing America. Meanwhile Trump: Posts racist videos Calls female journalists piggy Tells women to “smile” when discussing pedophilia Has ICE killing people & getting away with it The athletes are not the problem.

People out here worried about how American athletes represent America but not worried about how the President represents America Make it make sense

President Trump has for years told fictional stories in which unnamed people refer to him as “sir.” He did another one yesterday at the National Prayer Breakfast — vividly describing how he supposedly got Sudanese authorities to release a persecuted Christian who was actually released during the Obama administration the year before Trump even began his run for office: cnn.com/2026/02/06/pol…