Dow 50,000!

It seems like Trump (and Patel) officially shit all over the US Hockey gold. The men’s players like Trump, Trump made a shitty sexist comment about the women’s team. What should be a cool moment for the country now has a giant shit streak on it.

President Trump just said, “We lifted 2.4 million Americans off of food stamps.” A reminder of what happened to those 2.4 million Americans:

Nashville remembers! www.nashvillescene.com/news/image-c...

My mom once won a contest where the prize was having Marcia Blackburn, Image Consultant, come help her reorganize her closet or something. Now Marcia Blackburn is a United States senator with thoughts on reorganizing national media. Cool. Cool cool cool.

Blackburn: "What we have seen with Apple News is they are biased against conservatives & it has to stop. So saying, 'Hey Tim Cook, in January, 400 articles went up -- 0 from right-leaning or conservatives groups. There is something wrong with this.' So how are they programming those LLMs?"

A significant number of Americans think that being racist should be free speech but calling someone racist should not be.

"Always, always, always concentration camps are an end run around the existing legal system. These people that are getting rounded up because whoever’s in power wants to do something that they can’t do using the letter of the law..." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

a guy who claimed to be named John Barron and sounded a lot like Trump called into C-SPAN to complain about the Supreme Court's tariff decision and call Hakeem Jeffries "a dope" (John Barron is a pseudonym Trump has used for himself when talking to journalists)

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

So. A globally disruptive, economically unsound, and whim-driven tariff policy turns out to be unconstitutional. Huh.

BIG: 6-3 decision written by Justice Roberts. Thomas, Alito, and Kavanaugh dissent.

Trump’s “you’re going to be finding out in ten days” about Iran is government by tv drama. Will they bomb Iran? Find out next week on the next episode of POTUS: ‘26

This thread is amazing…

Other countries hold leaders accountable. We do not.

RIP Reverend Jackson. A giant of civil rights and equality in America. I remember meeting Rev Jackson in the late 1990s. I was about 23 years old and running public affairs for a Chamber of Commerce in NH when the state was the lone holdout in recognizing MLK Day.

Every single day, Trump spews out literal gibberish, confuses names of countries, and makes absolutely no sense and have no coherent strategy. But as soon as a Dem, and especially a Dem woman, makes one small stumble, it's a major sign of unviability for office. apple.news/AEowXhXj8Rre...

As an attorney with occasional experience with the Equal Time rule, I can explain what's going on here and how the FCC's Brandon Carr is leveraging his position to force late night and daytime talk show hosts to exclude Democratic candidates. First I need to explain the Equal Time rule itself. 1/

The worst case scenario for an AOC presidential run in 2028 is that she’s setting herself up for 2032 or 2036. She is going to be president someday—it’s just a matter of time.

Wow! This is some top-notch investigative journalism. The report claims the 3 million Epstein files released are only 2% of the total. The massive scale of what’s still missing is hard to comprehend.

The acting director of ICE told Congress, under oath, that local law enforcement in Colorado leaked raid plans, allowing gang members to escape. After 9NEWS questioned ICE's claim and its timeline, ICE deleted the claim from its social media platforms.

Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured? Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

The $38.3 billion they are going to spend for interment camps could fund the annual budget of NASA, the EPA, and all clean energy R&D at the Department of Energy—combined.

Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.

Note the framing here: It’s “Democrats have refused to fund” DHS and not “Republicans refused to prohibit face masks” or “the two parties could not agree on how to reform the agency.” www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“Democrats are trying to impose guardrails on how Trump’s fascist paramilitary force looks and operates, and how Trump can deploy his fascist paramilitary force, when the truth is that his fascist paramilitary force must be eliminated.” From First Draft: zeteo.com/p/reforming-...

I will forever believe the Harris campaign peaked at “weird” and should have kept that messaging, because the correct response to this shit isn’t nuanced explanation of mRNA efficacy, it’s actually to spit out your drink in laughter and then incredulously say “the horse dewormer???”

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist. Cool. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Whether it's Bad Bunny giving his Grammy to a child or Kid Rock singing "I like ’em underage, see, some say that’s statutory but I say it’s mandatory," both artists have reached out to your nation's young people.

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

Two days after Trump posts a racist video, he now attacks Bad Bunny: "Nobody understands a word this guy is saying." He adds: "There is nothing inspirational about this mess." FYI: The billboard behind Bad Bunny read: "The only thing more powerful than hate is love." #SuperBowl

“Epstein class” is good framing

He's one in 360 million, but a lot of this joy he produces has a Ted Lasso feeling: Imagine a grown man who isn't a dick.

Regardless of one’s feeling about it, such a public response to a political leader is news, and deliberately failing to mention it is self-censorship. It’s like if reporters agreed not to report on the man who threw a shoe at George Bush. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

NBC editing out the booing of JD Vance is a disgrace. It’s an international event. Americans have the right to know what the world is saying. NBC has bowed down to Trump.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is a remarkable @nytimes.com split screen: A huge 3,526 word + photos profile on Sen Britt who "can't stop thinking about the boy ICE detained" But Rep Jaoquin Castro- who actually got Liam Ramos out of detention & back home- gets no interview, no pix, just 116 words inside a story. WOW.

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths 'I am their voice' NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

have thought this for a long time, but this sure feels like a good week us as a country to stop idolizing the billionaire class, and all those licking up to them. let's tax them instead.

They aren’t deescalating anything. They’re claiming new extra-constitutional powers. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/u...

STATEMENT FROM ABBE LOWELL, ATTORNEY FOR DON LEMON

The national Press Club released the following statement on the arrest of Don Lemon: "The world is watching closely, and the implications of this case extend far beyond any one reporter."

I assume the right wing libertarian, small government, freedom crowd is outraged about this.

This line ought to set off a huge alarm at MLS HQ: "The Loons were negotiating transfer deals with Slovenian midfielder Tomi Horvat and Dutch defender Cherrion Valerius, but both players cited concerns about life in Minnesota for them and their families as why they declined contracts with MNUFC."

What scares me most is that if they truly believe their own bs, then they have absolute certainty in their own righteousness, and then there is potentially no limits to how cruel and brutal they will be to prove their righteousness.