Voting matters www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Fulton Co elections expert: “In all 5 areas identified by ... the [search warrant] affidavit, there are a multitude of false or misleading statements or omissions. ... Once ... corrected, the affidavit loses any basis in reality.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

Latest: The U.S. military says it killed 11 more people overnight in strikes on boats it suspects of drug smuggling at sea, this time bombing targets on both sides of the Panama Canal. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

Slezkine and Shifrinson argue that the way to peace in the Russo-Ukraine war is de jure recognition of a new international border along the current front line. This argument is flawed. A 🧵: 1/8

Canada is now the first non-European country to be granted a membership in SAFE. This is a gamechanger program that means Canada can rearm our Canadian Armed Forces members more effectively and scale up our defence industries with more contracts overseas.

Sign of the times that there are multiple members of the Chicago Cubs who haven't been able to enter the U.S. because Trump's immigration crackdown has made getting visas impossible www.si.com/mlb/cubs/ons...

Explosions in Odesa, Ukraine. Russian drone hit apartment building, early reports say

Meanwhile, Kremlin spox Peskov said Russia will focus on “territorial concession demands”

We came in with a full proposal, fully prepared to bargain, and they started off with a presentation of telling us how bad we were doing,” said UAW Local 2359 president and plant worker Robert Hines. “To go publicly on CNBC to support the Trump administration’s positive views …..

Americans telling Europeans in Munich that US is committed to Article 5 would be important except that no one in US admin (or Congress) can speak for Donald Trump. And Trump has shown no indication that he would defend an ally. I would not recommend breathing sighs of relief as a policy for Europe.

Don't accept Russian-controlled territory de jure. Unnecessary+politically impossible for Ukr+morally wrong. Wrong to say non-recognition of Baltic incorporation by USSR had no impact. After 1991 Balts treated differently by both sides than other former Sovs. www.foreignaffairs.com/russia/price...

The Dow was at 43,488 when Trump took office. It just hit 50,000. So if you had invested $43,488 in the US, you would now have $50,000. But if you had invested the same amount in the rest of the world, you would now be worth $60,000. Lemme do a expla-youtube-nation www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYL5...

Ukrainian forces have lost Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad, now in Russian hands. Zone 1 east of Pokrovsk was closed off, then after Rodynske fell in zone 2, positions in zone 3 near Myrnohrad became untenable. Russian troops are now building up in western Pokrovsk toward Hryshyne and Bilytske. #Ukraine

The Trump administration has formally denied Minnesota law enforcement access to information and evidence from the FBI investigation into the shooting death of Alex Pretti by federal agents on Jan. 24 in Minneapolis.

Under Viktor Orbán, Hungary is consistently ranked as one of the two most corrupt (with Bulgaria) member states in the European Union And Marco Rubio just told Orban in Munich: "Trump is deeply committed to your success because your success is our success" www.reuters.com/world/europe...

Lots of nice words about our common white Christian civilization.

Exactly

Yes the rupture remains. Donald Trump is not going to defend a NATO ally under attack, hence the core of the alliance-Article 5-is not operable for the US while he’s president. Also Rubio’s tone was friendly if you’re a white Christian nationalist.

It is not legal to kill people simply because they are criminal suspects.

The @ACLU has filed a class action damages suit against federal & state officers over an Idaho immigration raid last October. 200 armed officers raided a horse-race festival, detaining 400 Latinos for 4 hrs. All adults & many teens ziptied & searched. 1/8 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Summer 2026 internships applications are now open! My office is hiring interns for the San Antonio and Washington, D.C. offices. We are looking for college students or recent grads who want to learn and contribute to the democratic process.

Raskin: What makes somebody a good lawyer? You have to identify with the people who are the victims of injustice — not with their perpetrators. So I would say to Pam Bondi: If you’re going to stand with the victimizers and not the victims, then you’re not a real lawyer.

This is a hell of a headline:

Utterly unacceptable in a democracy. In a sane world, House Republicans would be drafting impeachment articles today and Senate Republicans would be preparing for a trial to convict and remove him from office

The SAVE Act is not about saving election integrity. Non-citizens rarely vote. 0.0001% of the total votes cast in 2016, according to a Brennan Center study. When Georgia audited its voter rolls in 2022, election officials were unable to identify a single instance of a noncitizen casting a ballot.

The only thing surprising in this story is the frog part.

Article 5 is the core of NATO, a collective defense organization. Article 5 means nothing to Donald Trump. NATO still exists, but it’s not the same organization it was when Article 5 was real for the US. And please don’t start w/ ambiguity of Article 5. It meant something before. It doesn’t to Trump

This administration is trying to kill us.

This administration is trying to kill us.

Ukrainians are now saying that Russia lost 9000 more men in January that it was able to recruit. This is a key part of Ukrainian strategy. united24media.com/latest-news/...

under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime

#Ukraine Situation report Feb 11, 2026

There is increasing evidence that the atrocities committed by Russian forces during its escalation of Ukraine were a systemic effort to terrorize Ukraine and Ukrainians. www.spiegel.de/internationa... (1/2)

From @wired.com: “Federal records reveal ICE is secretly expanding into 150+ facilities across nearly every state — many near schools, medical offices, and places of worship… DHS asked the General Services Administration to hide lease listings and bypass normal procedures…”🤔

WSJ editorial board hits FDA: It’s hard to recall a regulator who has done as much damage to medical innovation in as little time as Vinay Prasad who rejected Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine without even a cursory review. www.wsj.com/opinion/vina...

What is the point of this chart & concept? Do folks expect the dollar to appreciate always & forever? The $ has appreciated by about 30% since 2011. It is 10% down from its 21st century high in January 2025. Exchange rates are not stocks, or GDP. "Normal" or "good" does not mean "always going up."

America under Trump & Vance.

The Trump administration has failed to indict Democratic lawmakers over a video urging members of the military and intelligence communities not to comply with unlawful orders..

The economy produced roughly the same number of jobs in Joe Biden’s last full month in office as it produced in Donald Trump’s first full year in office.

During her 11 months as the de facto leader of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, Kari Lake has wasted millions of dollars and done profound damage to America’s foreign broadcasters, and to America’s ability to communicate with the world www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

in fact you do not have to show your ID when you board a train in the united states, you only need to show your ticket (which can be purchased without an ID)

Chris Murphy: "I sat with the kids for an hour. They saw things in these prisons they'll never forget. The bottom line is we have a constitutional obligation to only fund an administration that's operating lawfully. We cannot, we should not fund DHS if it committing these crimes."

Russia loses 820 people, 235 units of special equipment over day - General Staff #Ukraine

"Images obtained by CBS News appear to show the zip ties and bruised wrists of Anabel Romero's 14-year-old daughter SueHey, a U.S. citizen who was tending to her 6- and 8-year-old siblings when the agents descended on the crowd in military-style gear and herded them into a confined area."

We know from slower-to-arrive, more-reliable admin data that job growth was slower during 2024-2025 than initial monthly #JobsReport estimates based on quick-to-arrive, less-reliable employer surveys. Every year, BLS does a benchmark revision to incorporate the more-reliable info. Read more.

The CIA scrubbing the World Factbook from the web may not seem like a big deal in itself, but it's a symptom of something larger: the Trump administration's war on government usefulness. My latest at Public Notice: www.publicnotice.co/p/cia-world-...

This teenager saved his neighbor's dog from drowning in a freezing pond. This is Bernard. His family contacted emergency services right away, but high school senior Hugh Pinneo got to Bernard first. Hugh said he's "just glad I acted that day and saved the dog's life." We are too. 12/10 for all

Navarro has repeatedly (and falsely) claimed that "illegals" were taking the jobs of Americans, including in this very interview. If that's the case, then why is he now warning that job growth will slow amidst mass deportations? Shouldn't this be boom times for native-born workers?