We have a cost of living emergency in America. And what was Donald Trump's response? He mocked Americans and the term "affordability."

How does an office too understaffed to respond to detainees’ release petitions or obey release orders once issued or file status reports have staff to appeal a vacated civil contempt fine where the only defense was to beg for the “good graces” of the court? www.lawfaremedia.org/article/less...

If you were wondering whether MN's most senior GOP lawmaker would betray his own constituents to curry Trump's favor, worry no longer.

Dr Oz: "We're announcing a 6 month national moratorium blocking all new enrollments for durable medical equipment -- prosthesis, orthotics -- supplies across the board."

Trump's SOTU Report Card Vision: D Decorum: D- Honesty: F Length: F Overall: A+

Cool cool. And we want to take humans out of the kill chain. 🤦‍♂️

"We must reject political violence of any kind," says Trump, who pardoned hundreds of violent rioters who participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection that he inspired.

Really? REALLY?

NEW: Remember when the government rounded up dozens of unaccompanied children in the middle of the night and tried to summarily deport them? A Trump-appointed judge entered an injunction barring their removal. But lawyers for the children say the government is trying to circumvent that order.

Programming note! MS NOW's special State of the Union coverage starts tomorrow at 7pmET with @jenpsaki.bsky.social and then Rachel and the gang jump on at 8pmET. Should be weird!

This is quite possibly the dumbest — and most dangerous — idea ever. Grok is unreliable and frequently manipulated by Elon based on whatever bender he’s on. Will this version of Grok be air-gapped from the public version? Will they share knowledge repositories? What a shitshow.

The agency eliminated 240 hours of “vital classes” from a mandatory 580-hour training program, including instruction about the legal boundaries for the use of force, how to safely handle firearms, and the proper way to detain and arrest immigrants. wapo.st/4aS06mU

Please shoot me.

ICE tackles and arrests New Jersey father outside his home, leaving his 6-year-old first-grade daughter at home alone. She goes out looking for him. "I got my boots and changed my clothes. I wanted to find some help to find my dad..." www.ms.now/the-weekend-...

It’s insane how they vacillate between lies depending on what they want to do, and crazier that people just believe them. Want to look strong? WE COMPLETELY OBLITERATED IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM! 💪💥 Want to bomb Iran? Iran is a week away from bomb-grade material!! 😱

Stop trying to make like there's some kind of grand strategy or secret plan at work. It's not that. Truly. It's the simplest thing you can possibly imagine. Don't think "four-dimensional chess" Think "toddler + cheerios" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/b...

Judge Cannon blocked the release of Volume II of the Jack Smith report, saying she "strains to find" an example of a report released after "initiating criminal charges that did not result in a finding of guilt." Most of John Durham's were *acquitted.* He released a report. buff.ly/k0PEueG

The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

Just when you thought the #EpsteinAdministration couldn't degrade our country any further:

5 years ago Part of my pandemic writing: 30 years of Losing My Religion athensmusicjunkie.com/2021/02/22/3...

Infringing on our rights AND wasting our money. ICE is a failed experiment. Shut them down.

Harmeet Dhillon Confesses She Blew Off Her Don Lemon Homework emptywheel.net/harmeet-dhil...

In case you missed it americansongwriter.com/watch-an-ani...

“Hanging that banner should put to rest any doubt that Donald Trump has hijacked the independence of the Justice Department. He — not the American people — is the only client DOJ’s current leadership serves." www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Brendan Carr, head of the FCC, wrote the chapter on it in Project 2025. It’s hard to know what’s worse: The administration’s efforts to intimidate journalists or CBS’s willingness to cave in. Read here to understand the issues: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan... open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website

I told you they’d come after Veterans’ benefits. www.stripes.com/veterans/202...

Counterpoint: Don’t upload your medical records to any LLM. That’s fucking insane.

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

👀 Invoking Orwell, a federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore panels and historical acknowledgments of the history of slavery that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Back when Nazi Barbie claimed to be against human trafficking …. I wonder if any part of her soul remembers that she said this for an ad.

Watching the administration try to tweet their way through this Epstein fallout is really something. Wise man once said: if you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

Pam Bondi is now freeing accused drug dealers bc her demand that AUSAs do unethical things got all the prosecutors to quit. www.startribune.com/case-dismiss...

Given repeated opportunities, AG Bondi repeatedly refuses to apologize for exposing the identities, sensitive information, and photographs of Epstein victims, attacking lawmakers for asking the question.

These guys’ #Pageant40 tour starts Wednesday night in Denver— an excellent interview in PASTE Magazine 🎸 tinyurl.com/JasonMichael...

DM me? We used to get hundreds of highly qualified applicants for a single job posting. Good prosecutors are increasingly hesitant to work for this DOJ.

This isn’t about convicting Don Lemon. It’s unlikely that will happen. It’s about intimidating journalists & making them censure themselves out of fear of consequences. It’s about eroding the free press because the administration can’t afford the criticism.

Ashland, Virginia: "Despite widespread hazardous road conditions and icy weather from the recent winter storm, more than a thousand residents from across Greater Richmond made their opposition clear..." www.vpm.org/news/2026-01...

Watch live versions of two songs by Pylon Reenactment Society from our album Magnet Factory. They were performed nearly two years ago in Jason & Kay’s backyard for Neighborhoods/ @floodmagazine.bsky.social YouTube: youtu.be/633MmGwIsRY?...

Source: ICE to begin using empty Melania theaters as temporary detention facilities.

Now on Substack open.substack.com/pub/represen...

🚨BREAKING: Outrage and grave concern about the midterm elections followed in the wake of the FBI’s court-authorized raid of the Fulton County, Georgia elections office Wednesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Some members of the Trump administration painted Alex Pretti as a violent instigator because he was carrying a loaded gun while protesting. But licensed gun owners can do so under both Minnesota state law and federal law. www.snopes.com/fact-check/m...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

They won’t investigate the murders of Good or Pretti, but they’ll investigate fake 2020 election fraud. www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

This is just misleading. There is a big difference between saying state resources can’t be used to enforce fed’l civil immigration policy & local cops refusing to assist fed’l partners in an emergency. Deliberately conflating the two is disingenuous.

This is going to make a very interesting lawsuit.