I don't know what SCOTUS will do on birthright citizenship case, it's anybody's guess. But if they endorse Trump's diktat, the only response is defiance. Outright, open defiance by the states. A decision not just erroneous but illegitimate, beyond their power, null and void from the day it's issued.

Still can’t get over the House GOP rejecting a 100-0 bill from the Senate to fund TSA, Coast Guard, and FEMA and… just going on vacation. Complete abdication of duty.

In fairness it’s not like the consequences of having a mad king unilaterally take the country to war on a whim were so incredibly obvious that you could see it coming from the 18th and 19th centuries www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Republicans control the Presidency, the House, the Senate and the Courts. But they whine about voter fraud, and can’t fund the government.

The Supreme Court spent 3 hours on Monday arguing over whether to change a century and a half of election law in order to soothe Donald Trump's bruised ego. They just might. Because the GOP and their justices are beyond craven. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Elizabeth Banks

this turd

US media: Trump announces 15 point plan towards Iranian ceasefire. BBC News: US is negotiating with itself says Iranian spokesperson. Which one is more accurate? I think we know.

So much for Pam Bondi’s efforts to divert attention from the Epstein files by declaring the Dow Jones hit 50k…as the Trump-triggered oil crisis has caused a serious market plunge. Release the files. Hold Trump accountable for his probable pedophilia.

This is going to be the GOAT of didn’t age well takes

That’s funny, because Nate Swanson, who used to be the point guy on Iran at the NSC but got fired because of Laura Loomer, warned of this in an article written four days before the war started. It was called “Why Iran Will Escalate.”

There’s a reason I make a big fucking deal out of every single batshit bill—because more often than not the antiabortion legislation everyone ignores or dismisses ends up a major legislative trend. People need to wake up and realize conservatives are floating trial balloons CONSTANTLY

To journalists, it bears repeating: Do not trust: - Robert F. Kennedy Jr - Marty Makary - Mehmet Oz - Vinay Prasad - Jay Bhattacharya *They lie.* Do not take them at their word. They say one thing and do the exact opposite.

Killing people and destroying things “just for fun” is psychopathic behavior and even saying it is something only a psychopath would do and every U.S. news organization should be shouting that from the rooftops. Editors: Rise to the challenge of truth-telling or make room for someone who will.

All this was a choice. I can’t get over how all of this was a choice. A plurality of American voters saw corruption, bigotry, pandemic, economic crisis, coup attempt, and criminal conviction, then opted for more.

I'm sorry ma'am, but your son perished on Kharg Island in a valiant effort to create Wii Bowling meme videos for the White House X account. In the face of danger, he was not cringe; he was based to his last breath. Please have this commemorative Epic Fury challenge coin. Yes that's Punisher, ma'am

His whole life, Trump has always had someone else around to bail him out of the messes he creates: his father, Allen Weisselberg, the "adults in the room" in his first term. Now all those protectors are gone and he is openly begging for someone to save him from his own folly.

"I ASSUMED the US Military had an active plan to open the Strait." How can people who are paid to understand geopolitics be so bafflingly naive?

Every now and then, it's worth reminding yourself that every single crisis of Trump 2.0 -- the economic downturn, the chaos in our cities, the rising health crisis, the foreign wars -- has been a direct result of their own actions. If they'd done nothing at all, they'd be coasting comfortably.

I'm telling you, boring old lawyers are now going to ABA panels to applaud hostile retorts to MAGA panelists and yell "you're a clown" at them. A whole lot of people who merely furrowed their brows at Trump I are now seething with rage, and the Dem consultant class needs to wake up to that.

Americans are dying so that Kushner can make money

Yesterday, Jeffrey Epstein's former account testified, under oath, that the Epstein Estate paid a settlement to one of the women accusing Donald Trump of raping her as a minor, AFTER Epstein had died. This would end any other President instantly. But the press doesn't care.

I just keep coming back around to, "there is a reason that no previous president did this foolish thing and it was not because they were weak, woke cowards, but because they could read a cost-benefit analysis."

it really is unfortunately this simple - we elected the stupidest narcissists absolutely convinced that they could just go and "assert warfighter dominance" or whatever, those pussy liberals didn't wanna FIGHT!!!, and are just now shocked that the enemy gets a vote too

How about an unflattering caricature of Hegseth? (cartoon from the archives)

Jim Cramer suggests on CNBC that Trump could “bomb Tehran into the Stone Age” until Iran reopens the strait, citing U.S. bombings of North Vietnam in the 1970s. Carl Quintanilla points out to him that Hanoi won that war.

Great job MAGA. Not only can you not afford groceries, you can’t afford gas or insurance and Trump has taken us to war. Are we great yet?

They've now killed four people -- three U.S. citizens and a Mexican national. They've shot several more. They've lied about all of them. They haven't shaded the truth. They haven't "misled" us. They've brazenly, knowingly lied while in possession of the evidence disproving their lies.

I think Hegseth is the most embarrassing person in any leadership position anywhere in the world, a 13-year-old boy pretending to be a man. On 60 Minutes: “The only ones that need to be worried right now are Iranians who think they're going to live.”

DONALD TRUMP KILLED 170 CHILDREN IN MINAB, IRAN AND THEN POSTED A SIZZLE REEL DECLARING "FLAWLESS VICTORY" We are the bad guys. We are the rogue nation we grew up being taught to fear and despise.

Congress could, and should, ban this. Impose the same rule nationwide as some states already have: if an incumbent doesn't file for reelection by the deadline, the window to file gets extended a week or two.

Interceptors are expensive and slow to produce, especially when compared with the relative speed of cheap ballistic missiles and drones. This quote nails it: “They can chuck garbage at us for substantially longer than we can chuck Lamborghinis at them.”

you know what? If you come on here and you say, "There is no use in voting. We're never getting out of this by voting," you're going to get pushback. And you should. If you have suggestions, fine. Make them, but right now, we are actually flipping districts that haven't been Democratic for 40 yrs

A disturbing and hypocritical ruling on so many levels. Especially the due process holding. The court JUST said there’s no deeply rooted right for women to control their own bodies. But there is a deeply rooted right for parents to know if their kids question their gender at school? Come on.

My opinion: Jamelle Bouie is the best national political columnist in America. This doesn’t mean he is always right or you always need to agree with him. But he consistently elevates the form. Conservatives and liberals who make deranged personal attacks on him just make themselves look bad.

Minnesota would like a word.

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

Personal opinion as always, there is no compelling reason to attack Iran, no sign we have a clear strategic goal and plan for the aftermath, the President failed to lay out a case to the American public, there is no legal authorization from the U.S. Congress and no international law justification

Ahh, the Lancet, which took 12 years to retract the Wakefield rubbish that helped deliver us Kennedy.

THREAD 🧵The Epstein Files exposed hundreds of mentions of rich, powerful people who were close with Epstein. These include President Trump, his closest allies, and appointees. Here's what we know:

Imagine if HEALTHCARE WAS FREE in America, as it is in Greenland. Just imagine. 🇺🇸🇬🇱

Jalisco and Guadalajara are tearing themselves apart right now. Thread. 1/

The amount of shit going down on this planet right now because of Donald Trump is truly unfathomable.

This one hits hard.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

First Vivek Ramaswamy went completely silent on the Epstein files while his Super PAC refused to return $100K in donations from an Epstein associate. Now Rob McColley refuses to say whether he’ll return the thousands he took from Wexner. Quite the duo.

We are a nation of laws, not of men. This banner symbolizes a disgusting betrayal of our values. www.cnn.com/2026/02/19/p...

Ossoff: "If you live in a major democracy, and the nation's spy chief is showing up at raids on sensitive election sites, something has gone wrong."