ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there. They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

🧵🧵🧵 Here's a thread with examples of the unfitness of Markwayne Mullin, Trump's choice to succeed Kristi Noem as Homeland Security secretary. 🧵🧵🧵

Tell me what you think…if Noem had been a man, Trump wouldn’t have fired them.

Markwayne Mullin? From worst to omfgtheabsolutelybottomofthedumpster

Here's the @balint.house.gov exchange I wrote up earlier. Thanks to @atrupar.com for clipping it.

So now the total number of countries attacked by Trump is 8. 9 if you count his sending US military into US cities.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday. Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection. A tooth infection. 1/3 tucson.com/news/local/b...

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

Hiring a white, male insider to turn the brand around isn't what Target needs.

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This is the man who decided we should go to war.

Scenes from a personalist regime

You don't want to read this, but you should.

OK, that's enough internet for me for today.

Never has a nation so powerful put so much at risk so recklessly. Not an exaggeration.

Hours after the attack on Iran, I interviewed Lt. [email protected] about the breaking news & his book "If I Don't Return" about his yrs as a soldier and leader..I cried reading it. Kindness and intelligence in a leader makes me weep these days. Pls watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYUn...

"You can be a genius and kind and one of those things does not have to come at the expense of the other."

The WSJ is reporting that AI, specifically Claude, was used in targeting for the attacks by the Epstein Empire. That would mean the use of AI led directly to the massacre of 115 schoolchildren and 20 volleyball players. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Someone didn’t finish his copy of How to Make Friends and Influence People.

Lots of tails wagging lots of dogs this week. Trump clearly wants you to forget there are documents about him missing from the Epstein files. But I devote most of this piece to a quiet phenomenon: federal judges, declaring war on ICE open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

complete insanity

pay attention.

What a morning to have Lt. General Mark Hertling as my guest. We discussed the latest w Iran, and why character, values and listening are vital to good leadership... (And his imp new book, If I Don't Return). A must-listen. @markhertling.bsky.social marissarothkopf.substack.com/p/live-at-10...

This is the Epstein War. There is no imminent threat from Iran. There is no public support or authorization for war. Regime change is highly unlikely. This is about a domestic threat to Trump not a foreign threat to the nation. Trump is desperate to change the conversation from the Epstein scandal.

JFC

This is a big one. A newly uncovered document has revealed the existence of a mystery Epstein investigation. It was spearheaded by the DEA and involved drug trafficking and money laundering. Epstein was one of 15 targets. The other 14 names are redacted. I've got questions.

Trump has hardly said a word about Iran over the past week, even in his State of the Union address. Congress is a bystander. There are no hearings, no debate, no public support. Whether America plunges into a unpredictable major war appears to rest on the whims of one man. tinyurl.com/2s3m42jv

Take the time and watch. Give it to yourself.

Might want to pair this with the other popular Times story: "More Americans are moving to other countries."

Remember, ICE only goes after "the worst of the worst" -- murderers, rapists, drug traffickers and, apparently, Ivy League students cramming for a Genetics exam.

In Homeland Security's latest act of indecency, it's seizing crayons from children who dare to draw what their life is like in immigration detention.

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Yes. This. And go look at your local newspaper or watch cable TV news and tell me where this scandal figures. Crickets. Just another allegation of rape and sexual assault. Just another DoJ cover up.

Coming soon to a warehouse near you

Your very own SOTU Bingo card is enclosed. Plus, what you can do to help democracy if u don’t want to watch the SOTU. And: a raspberry bakewell cake recipe. open.substack.com/pub/marissar...

how much more effing tone deaf can two people be www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/s...

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-...

Kudos to the USA women's hockey for declining the invitation to attend the SOTU. We were already cheering for you, and now? 🔥👏👏👏🔥

Phewsh. Now I feel safer. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

BREAKING: Platkin LLP & @democracydefendersfund.org are demanding an investigation into whether Trump profited off an abrupt national security policy reversal A foreign national secretly invested $500M into Trump’s crypto company shortly before Commerce approved AI chips for the same company!-TN

The great independent booksellers near my house is having a snow day sale, of 10% off books today until 5 PM, which makes it a great time to buy my cookbook, The Secret Life of Chocolate Chip Cookies. www.watchungbooksellers.com/item/CG57SFS...

The president was mocking them. The head of the FBI was boozing with the men.

“I’m just saying … bsky.app/profile/ronf...

This.

Please don't tell me when he takes credit for the Olympic hockey win...

Chocolate banana bread goes nicely with blizzard. I'm sure your neighbors have some funky looking bananas you can have if you promise to share. open.substack.com/pub/marissar...

What a rich fantasy life he has.

This

What about the 2 million unreleased Epstein files tho