In New Jersey, AIPAC went on the attack against a moderate Dem & former member of Congress, a longtime supporter of Israel who'd offered some criticism. They tried to help another Dem. The result appears to be fueling a 3rd candidate, the one who ran on the most left wing lane.

today's New Jersey primary is all about the collapse of the Dem party's mighty machine in NJ — their candidate is coming in 4th. a piece from 2024 in bolts that gives you a window into what's happening right now: boltsmag.org/new-jersey-p...

i'm still mind-boggled about that NYT headline about Katie Britt today, what is happening.

Is this good chat

A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Meanwhile that child that Katie Britt was so broken up about all week? Well the Trump administration is trying to figure out a way to deport him and his whole family bsky.app/profile/mprn...

Pay attention to this now. Trump is signaling his desire to rig the midterms.

My brilliant Bulwark colleague @chrisgherbert.bsky.social, who built the invaluable "Trump's Truth" tool for searching Trump's posts on Truth Social, recently added a stats page—so you can instantly see how many nutty late-night rants the president has been pumping out:

'Jimmy Kimmel Live!' presents a 1,400% hilarious supercut of Trump's prescription drug price claims.

The US government is spending taxpayer dollars to sue a 5-year-old refugee/kindergartener for seeking asylum here through the legal and proper channels when he was an infant

When your political movement is based on the claim that only those who are part of the movement are truly Americans, it follows that any election that you don't win is fraudulent, any legal ruling that doesn't go your way is illegitimate, and all protest is insurrection

I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.

There's exactly one normal man left on planet Earth.

I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside. What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there? I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

I’m not sure we’ve properly addressed how profoundly disturbing it is that America can largely shrug at the stashing of human beings in giant warehouses.

Sadly the current right-wing coalition government in Finland has foolishly cut the funding for the nation’s “Housing First” success story, and homelessness is predictably now on the rise again. That just reinforces the fact that such programs work, if lazy political ideology doesn’t get in the way.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

jeffrey epstein being the first domino for the financial crash, video game micro transactions, and Gamergate is making me lose my mind

So much of ICE and CBP’s violence is just them doing the violence — no even pretense that they’re under threat or that force is justified. They’re using pepper spray and tear gas to express annoyance.

This is why the 4th Amendment says “no person” — instead of “no citizen.” If only citizens have rights, then no one has rights because all they have to do is say you’re not a citizen and then you have no right to prove otherwise.

Yes, FBI? I’m calling to report a murder.

Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #abolishice #iceout #palantir #paloalto

I hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.

Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and Tom Homan are depraved, sociopathic, bigoted, and hate-filled sacks of shit.

Just like with Kilmer Abrego Garcia, the biggest sin any targeted immigrant can commit is winning battles — legal or PR battles — against the government, and they just won’t let those losses go

Spiking the Kamala Harris endorsement can be rationalized as something that was done on the opinion side of the newspaper so less dire, but management spiking a news story means the outlet is official dead.

He’s going to destroy both companies hell yes

We live in a timeline where US companies are being investigated by the EEOC for discrimination against White people because too many Black people got promoted. You can kiss my Black ass crying about “identity politics” Seriously. Fuck you.

Whoa. Cooked through. They clearly don't intend on covering the news. This isn't some opinion piece, this is from the media desk

Tens of thousands of comments were filed to try to block this rule, but this administration has no respect for democratic input and is determined to destroy all expertise in government.

Trump reportedly told Sen Schumer he’d release federal funds if Penn Station and Dulles airport were named after him. This is a crime. NY, VA? www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) tells reporters the Epstein files contain allegations that President Trump raped and threatened to kill children.

Michigan www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news...

In a win for voters, a Florida court dismissed an anti-voting lawsuit challenging some of the Census' methods for estimating the population, a critical process that determines U.S. House votes. The case was part of a broader effort to increase GOP representation by changing population count.

Gosh. What a surprise. www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-award...

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!

Not great. bsky.app/profile/eric...

If you won’t say this, you should not hold public office

I think it should probably be a bigger story that the president of the United States is a raving lunatic

There are drawdowns. And then there’s Melania Coin.

Tell her you think Trumpcoin can still recover

explaining to my wife that we're poor now because of the decline of TRON bsky.app/profile/pale...

Johnny Carson once said the fastest measurable unit of time is that which elapses between when a light turns green in NY and someone honks their horn. But the speed with which Trump's name will be torn off his monuments to himself when he's gone will be greater. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

NEW: Virginia Dems have unveiled their proposed 10-1 congressional map in response to GOP gerrymanders in other states. It targets 4 Republicans & has 10 Harris seats. It will be used in 2026 contingent upon an April 21 voter referendum. Interactive map+data: davesredistricting.org/join/20e0049...

Politico matches @punchbowlnews.bsky.social. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Can't forget that Maduro is a close Putin ally and this all could be a Russia-Witkoff-Kushner-Maduro ratfuc-ing operation in the US; and Maduro allowed he/his wife to be seized for a cut of the oil proceeds, to keep his party in power, and an eventual Trump pardon (like former Honduran President).

Yes. The folks who study election rumors and conspiracy theories are worried that a forced (and false) confession by Maduro (of 2020 election fraud) is a real possibility, and we’ve already seen some (wink, wink) foreshadowing of such a move.

here's more on what a federal immigration raid looks like to a 2-year-old girl. the latest in our @ms.now series Cities Under Siege. reported with @kaybguerrero.bsky.social. www.ms.now/news/ice-chi...

EXCLUSIVE: on Jan 22 we rolled up on a raid happening in South Minneapolis. we had no idea who they were taking. turns out it was a *two year old girl* and her dad on the way back from buying fruit. he had no criminal record. this is their story. youtu.be/yaeXlxJOAXU?...

Not one of these ass-munches can produce evidence of widespread voter fraud. They can't and won't because most of the (rare) cases are Republican voters.