Just to keep it straight ... It's Trump's Secretary of Homeland Security who's allegedly having a barely concealed affair with her married aide who tried to fire a Coast Guard pilot for not turning their luxury jet around mid-flight to go back and get her blankie ...

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented. Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling

Joe and Merrick didn't get rid of this guy and Chuck and Hakeem keep handing over your tax money to him. The VOTERS saved the country in 2020 and the people we put in power pissed all that hard work away. They're not leaders. Demand more from your candidates.

One could argue that the death of well-written sitcoms and dramas, and the rise of reality TV, brought us to this point. And ultimately, that all came down to TV that was cheap to produce but high on returns. We literally lost more carefully thought-out plot lines and cultural models.

Is it fair to say that the Trump regime is actually dumber than President Camacho's government in Idiocracy? Camacho, after all, ultimately empowers a smart guy (Luke Wilson) to actually solve society's problems. Ain't no Luke Wilson among the grifters and sycophants that surround Trump these days.

This is yet another example of a private institution capitulating to the federal government’s assault on transgender rights. In the face of these attacks, New York City will continue to be a refuge for the LGBTQIA+ community.

Nope. Out for me. We need to reset the country. Not coddle the fascists. We can talk about "working across the aisle" after prosecuting everyone in the Epstein Files and everyone in the current administration and a significant chunk of Congress.

Another example of why I hate so much the folks who tell us this stuff is inevitable. It doesn’t have to be this way! Often when communities see the stakes, they reject ubiquitous surveillance.

Today we are launching a new intitative of Stand With Minnesota—KeepMNHoused.com, a rent-relief campaign backed with a $1.5 matching fund from the Wilson Foundation. Thousands of MN families are at risk of eviction because of the ICE occupation’s lasting impacts. We can keep them housed.

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

Just another day I am grateful that l I did not build Democracy Docket on Substack. It's harder and more expensive, but it allows Democracy Docket to remain truly independent and pro-democracy. www.democracydocket.com

Watching other countries actually make their leaders and powerful men face consequences with jealousy.

ATTENTION BLUESKY you don't want to watch the State of the Union next week you want to watch a PowerPoint party telethon of your favorite Bluesky super posters delivering their most unhinged hot takes to raise money for mutual aid in Twin Cities and Portland Poster's Madness for a good cause!!!!

A DAY FOR CONSEQUENCES

FYI, @washingtonpost.com: Here is the 8:23 p.m. story you didn't credit in your 11:22 p.m. "breaking news" report. Please add credit. Thanks. —>

Blue Owl? The one that’s backing all the AI data centers? That Blue Owl?

Family, we have yet another huge endorsement today. March On, a coalition of fearless women across the country, are standing with the people of Kentucky and endorsing our campaign for U.S. Senate!!!

I’ve written 36,449 words and counting, baby! I’d say I’m about 2/3rds of the way to finishing the book manuscript.

I swear, the more info that keeps coming out from the Epstein files, the more I believe Charlie's dad in this scene from So I Married an Axe Murderer where he claims there's a secret society run by the wealthiest people in the world who control everything.

Me in 2008: "People may disagree with each other politically, but I believe with enough engagement and exchange of information, we can get people to see the humanity in others." Me in 2026: "YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF FUCKING MONSTERS!"

Y’know when the characters in a movie go to see a movie and it feels really meta? Well, with an “Ultimate Double Feature,” we play the first movie up until the point when they enter a cinema to watch a different film… then we play that film… then we go back to the first film to finish that story.

New — I wrote about WINNING for a change!

There’s a lot to investigate and report on from today’s stunning deposition of Les Wexner. But here’s something I can’t get over. I asked Mr. Wexner if the DOJ or FBI ever contacted him to ask him about Epstein and his crimes. He said NO. That’s outrageous and unforgivable.

THe fact that bluesky users confront these X using journalists about the morality of remaining on the Nazi csam is a public good - the reaction is the tell

This audience doesn’t want any and every journalist. They want a type of journalist who isn’t lying about the fact that media can’t be unbiased, who values morality and ethics over clicks and overlord messaging. And who is honest about the world. If you can be that, you’re most welcome here.

The people of Bluesky genuinely do not give a fuck about attracting more people to the site or ass-kissing journalists and personalities to come here. This is largely a group of countercultural progressives who are fucking tired of the very status quo people who come here to complain.

🚨ANOTHER MAJOR ENDORSEMENT 🚨 The Honorable Nina Turner, an unwavering voice for justice and working people, has now endorsed our campaign for U.S. Senate! This is a testament to the movement. The momentum is growing, and I am deeply honored.

This is Mitch McConnell’s last year in office. I’m the Democratic front runner to take his place.

I love this statement by @catebridget.bsky.social re AI

Why does anyone Democrat take money from AIPAC which actively harms Democrats? wapo.st/4tHnyM1

MAJOR ENDORSEMENT ALERT: I am beyond proud to announce Working Families Party is endorsing our campaign for U.S. Senate! There is a movement for real change growing across the country, and that movement is alive in Kentucky. After years of hard work, we are ready for this moment. Let’s win this!

I really wonder if the 20 and 30 somethings in Trump's White House are even really cognizant of how many of Nixon's men did jail time. I think all Trump cares about is that Nixon himself didn't.

There's a group chat and you ain't in it

Eye-popping amounts from crypto now pouring into Illinois

It's wild there's a fight at all. That the media isn't double and tripling down on this heinous shit is crazy. This is stuff the American people need to see. Stuff the world needs to see. These are the people influencing global politics and sucking up your tax money while trafficking and raping kids

Any Republican or Democrat who continues to support Palantir, takes money from them, or refuses to hold them accountable is not your friend and should not be supported.

Stephen Colbert responds to CBS disputing his claims that he was barred from airing the James Talarico interview: "And for the lawyers to release this without even talking to me is really surprising. I don’t even know what to do with this crap. Hold on." He then picks it up with a dog poop bag.

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

“The left is missing out on AI!” YEP. Most of us want to miss out! If it ever proves its actual usefulness to our actual lives, stops plagiarizing, and is no longer an environmental disaster, maybe we revisit. Burden of proof is on the industry. So far they’ve done the opposite of that!

So if you’re an AI guy who is miffed that we loathe your product, sorry, not our problem. As the meme goes, that’s not how any of this works. Go raise another 900 trillion in funding, make everyone else love and want and PAY for you (you know you have to do this eventually!) and leave us out of it.

I feel bad when I read people who say they hate writing, especially to the extent they’d let an LLM do it. Writing was the path to making me feel human and the emotional journey of doing it all the time fills me full of purpose. I refuse to believe I’m the only person who feels like this!

Tomorrow, the Oversight Committee will have the opportunity to question Les Wexner about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Survivors told us from day one: follow the money. That is exactly what we intend to do.

There must be trials. Not as an emotive aspiration, rhetorical meme, or empty threat. A concrete plan. A dedicated special court for it. Structural legislation and prosecutors and funding and all the rest of it. Everything necessary for it can be done constitutionally. All it takes is the will.

MAJOR: Twin Cities Tenants joins five labor unions, together repping 25,900 members, to launch a rent strike drive, vowing to withhold rent March 1 if @governorwalz.mn.gov fails to deliver an eviction moratorium and rent relief. If launched, this would be the largest US rent strike in 100+ years.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

there is an extremely simple answer to the "abandon trans rights" folks and it is "no" and also "fuck you"

One of these companies is Toka, which offers products that hack into specific vehicles to harvest real time location data, as well as onboard camera and even microphone feeds. Toka was co-founded by Epstein confidant/partner and former Israeli PM Ehud Barak.