In the midst of the Epstein files revelations, this is the guy who Trump's defense secretary invites in to the Pentagon for an official U.S. government-endorsed religious service: (warning that story contains details of child sexual abuse and rape) www.vice.com/en/article/i...

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“Spending two to three times the cost to create what we already had access to makes absolutely no sense..." www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

NEW: Flight trackers show flights from the U.S. (including Denver) and Canada to Puerto Vallarta are being turned around amid unrest in the city following the killing of a cartel leader. apnews.com/article/jali...

Thank you to Greenland for providing emergency medical care to a US sailor on board the submarine, since we did not have adequate resources in the area to treat him. I’m sorry that our president felt the need to cover up our shortcomings with a deranged ghost hospital ship post.

Healthcare for Americans: “too expensive.” Hospital ships overseas: full steam ahead. And U.S. taxpayers foot the bill. Now do rural hospitals here at home.

"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...

Apparently, slavery was a blameless crime.

Well….crap.

The sale of Fort Collins’ Old Firehouse Books reveals how intangibles influence the book business

February 21, 2026

I wonder how uninsured Americans feel about the US sending a hospital ship to a country with free healthcare and 5 hospitals. 5 hospitals may not sound like much, but their entire population is 56,740. www.cnn.com/2026/02/21/p...

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

When Annabella realized her father wasn’t coming back, she went outside to look for him. Adonay Rodríguez, says he told ICE his daughter was home alone. Their response: “We’re not here for your daughter. We’re here for you.” Note: he came to the U.S. as a teenager and has no criminal record.

The most disturbing part is knowing ICE left a little girl alone and didn’t care. Annabella was six years old when her dad was detained by ICE while he was picking up their food order. She stayed inside, waiting. He never returned to her that day. 1/2

I’d like to believe the worst is over. I wish I could tell you (and myself) to relax. But I have to be honest with you: I fear worse is to come. This means you and I and all sane Americans cannot relax our vigilance. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-saving-the-last-best

Of course, this puts more of a burden, not less of one, on TSA and CBP personnel. abcnews.com/US/dhs-suspe...

Apple could make a new retro ipod nano and shit gold for a decade. Instead they’re doing AI capex plays nobody wants

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

Rep Jeff Hurd (R-CO) responds after President Trump withdraws his endorsement after Hurd voted against tariffs. Trump has now endorsed Hurd’s far right challenger.

"The Social Circle city manager was contacted by ICE... “They asked me to turn on the water,” he said of a 1m sq ft warehouse nearby that the government plans to use for locking up as many as 10,000 detainees. “I told them I’m not going to do it,” he said... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

50/50 it’s green men basically

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

"I cling to the hope that, sooner rather than later, the gaggle of nihilistic oligarchs now running the world will be similarly thrown from their proverbial saddles. Oh how I yearn for Elon Musk, for Peter Thiel, for Jared Kushner, for Donald Trump, to have their 'My kingdom for a horse!' moments!"

Don’t let anyone tell you we all don’t owe Ukrainians a tremendous debt.

There’s a lot going on in this story. America won’t survive if the glue holding it together is the idea that people with nothing will do the right thing so that people with everything can do whatever they want with no consequence and no regard for human rights law. people.com/farmer-86-re...

Can the Sunday show bookers please let their Republican guests know ahead of time that you are going to ask them specifics about Trump’s deranged “hospital boat” post so they can’t claim on the show they don’t know anything about it.

We are the laughingstock of the world because of our moronic and psychotic president. Deservedly so.

I can answer this one. The president of the United States is dangerously psychotic and no one in his political party will say it, nor will 95% of American media.

This is totally deranged. Greenlanders are reporting that they have absolutely no idea what the hell Trump is talking about.

You really have to work at being this stupid when obvious facts are readily available. The dipshit MAGA influencer echo chamber in all its glory:

Renee Good memorial today, 4 days after the arson. #minneapolis #nokings #iceout #ice #immigration #reneegood #abolishice

The fire set at Renee Good’s memorial, a site where many have gathered to grieve and heal, is heartbreaking and unacceptable. Renee was a mother of three loved by many, and we stand with those honoring her memory. www.startribune.com/renee-good-m...

Stop saying Trump wants to "nationalize elections." What he said was: "We should take over the voting, the voting in at least many—15 places. The Republicans ought to nationalize the voting.” "Take over the voting" and "nationalizing voting" is very different from the more sanitized language.

Love a mission-driven cafe. Thanks, Arboretum in Fort Collins, for the hospitality and blood orange latte.

NEW: President Trump withdraws his endorsement of Rep. Jeff Hurd (R-CO) over Hurd’s vote against Trump’s tariffs. Trump shifts his endorsement to longshot GOP challenger Hope Scheppelman.

What’s wrong with Trump’s plan to make Americans provide identification to register to vote and/or to vote? @staceyabrams.com & I explain how these benign-sounding proposals are being used to suppress the right to vote. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

This from the lawyer who successfully argued the tariff case before SCOTUS, casts huge doubt over the applicability of the statute the @POTUS is relying on to slap down a new 15 percent global tariff.

This one hits hard.

Important update: Trump raises tariffs to 15% as legal challenges begin. Large scale boycott of Trump’s State of the Union growing. MAGA rebukes Trump as he fails to accomplish key campaign promises. Largest military buildup since 9/11 as the U.S. prepares for war.

Donald Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell are on the same side, trying to keep Epstein documents secret.

Just to add to this, the biggest story in the world right now is straight men going to an island run by a pedophile sex trafficker who secured young girls for the ultra rich. Tech CEOs were regular attendees. And the conclusion you come to is … there’s a sinister gay mafia?! Come the fuck on.

Exactly

WTF?

The press has reported on yesterday’s Supreme Court decision as if it were only about tariffs. Wrong. It’s far bigger and even more important. Let me explain. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-supreme-courts-tariff-decision

Trump has forced American consumers to shoulder the burden of billions in illegal tariffs over the last year. Americans will not be paid back. But instead of apologizing, Trump is imposing new tariffs worldwide for no discernible reason.

Professor @sarasilverstein.bsky.social is someone to whom I listen on issues of health and history. This essay helps us to situate the present American health drama in the history of health care, and thereby to see much more clearly what we face. snyder.substack.com/p/consumptiv...