The FCC can issue threats all day long, but it is powerless to carry them out. Such threats violate the First Amendment and will go nowhere. Broadcasters should continue covering the news, fiercely and independently, without fear of government pressure.

Crude prices aren't what will ultimately drive the necessary demand destruction should the Strait of Hormuz remain closed. That job will fall to refined product prices, the things we as consumers actually consume. Singapore spot jet fuel prices are there already, over $200/bbl

The Strategists. Newsday.com/matt

the president has no idea what he has set in motion. none. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

“Kristi Noem tried to upstage the President. And Trump would never stand for that. You can run an agency into the ground, and trample all over Americans’ constitutional rights, and use government funding like it’s your own personal slush fund. But you absolutely cannot steal Trump’s spotlight."

Allow me to translate the Senate Majority Leader: “No. I think Donald Trump has the authority to do whatever he wants. He is a king, and we bow before him. In fact, we Senate Republicans proudly & adoringly work for him. We took an oath to defend HIM, not the Constitution.”

Speaking with reporters Monday, B.C. Premier David Eby said the province is permanently adopting daylight time, starting Sunday, March 8. https://ow.ly/9E0T50Yol4s

“For the last 250 years in this country, it’s been the judges that say this is either constitutional or it isn’t…. [If] nobody’s going to enforce the Constitution, it becomes like the Constitution of Russia,” says Judge John Coughenour, a Ronald Reagan appointee. cbsn.ws/4bgCE3T

It wasn’t long ago that thousands of American families lost sons and daughters for a war with no end in sight. Trump is risking that again with Iran, and he’s doing it all without Congressional approval. The Senate needs to come back to Washington to do its job.

The fog of war #Iran #epsteinfiles

Shoppers in upstate New York month turned up a rare find while perusing a local antique store this month: a live owl resting peacefully among items on a shelf.

“To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” Judgment of the international Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany.

The Ohio EPA released a draft for a new permit that would allow data centers to release untreated wastewater directly into rivers and streams. www.nbc4i.com/news/local-n...

And the Lancet's editorial that goes with it www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I put President Trump’s immigration enforcement officials on notice. After he leaves office, federal agents and officials who have broken the law during this cruel mass deportation effort can still be prosecuted and held accountable for their violations of the Constitution and federal law.

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"A software engineer’s earnest effort to steer his new DJI robot vacuum with a video game controller inadvertently granted him a sneak peak into thousands of people’s homes. " www.popsci.com/technology/r...

Here's the documentary that 1.1 million Hungarians have watched over the past week, documenting the damage that Viktor Orban's regime has done to health, education and public transportation in Hungary with English subtitles: youtu.be/9NQEcLIiOpM?...

We Are Not Amused. Newsday.com/matt

Irish rockers U2 becomes the latest high-powered musical act to condemn the federal immigration raids with the surprise release of a six-track EP that kicks off with a song for Renée Good.

ICE attacks escalate further.... www.politico.com/cartoons/202...

The worst year for job growth, outside a recession, since 2003. This is what Trump calls the greatest economy in history.

We are living through dark, disturbing and dangerous times, but do not despair — the cavalry is coming! Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will be taking the stage this spring from Minneapolis to California to Texas to Washington, D.C. for the Land of Hope And Dreams American Tour.

The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill. open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...

One of President Trump’s oldest donors—Hedge fund billionaire John Paulson—raised $50.5M for Trump's 2024 presidential campaign and joined him in pushing his pro–domestic worker rhetoric, while leaving those same workers out to dry. trib.al/EDeaVHQ

Electricity Prices Down 30% in Australia Expose Idiocy of Trump's Attacks on Wind, Solar | South Australia is showing us is that wind, solar and battery power, when combined, are extremely inexpensive.

Leading with strength, generosity and compassion has been good for Americans and the world, but Donald Trump has abandoned these values. It’s no surprise when it’s what he’s doing at home too — abandoning working Americans to enrich himself and his billionaire buddies.

It's unchartered, but we can see the terrain: the territory ahead includes masked secret police taking people to concentration camps but not new vaccines. That's our reward for a system in which fewer than 20 people, all of them deranged and malicious, control over $3 trillion.

A member of Donald Trump's family on Saturday issued a stark warning about the president's strategy for controlling the corporate media.

Posting about ICE on Instagram is now enough to get you an “administrative subpoena.” 👀 @nytimes.com #$META www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Gift article: "We won’t get anything resembling democracy until we clear that widespread debris, and that means sending a bunch of these liars to prison, because they are the real criminals. America desperately needs truth and consequences."

Is there anyone in the Trump admin who isn’t a complete scumbag?

Democrats, do not be fooled. If you cave and approve DHS funding, they’ll be back and worse than last time. Republicans keep showing you their hand, stop shaking it.

Beginning in 1937–1938, the SS created a system of marking prisoners in concentration camps. Sewn onto uniforms, the color-coded badges identified the reason for an individual’s incarceration… The Nazis used this chart illustrating prisoner markings in the Dachau concentration camp.

I'm a Gallup pollster. You can contact them at [email protected] to let them know what you think of this.

Know what would be a tremendous act of love on Valentine's Day? Getting Congress to #ScrapTheCap on Social Security taxes! Sign our petition now and tell Congress to make sure everyone pays their fair share: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/congress-make-the-wealthy-pay-their-fair-share-4

Listen to Prof Galloway www.ms.now/news/scott-g...

Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties

Maybe the ice really IS all it’s cracked up to be on #LakeErie! 🧊 NOAA's #GOESEast (#GOES19) satellite captured a massive fracture forming in the lake ice on 2/8/26. It was approximately 80 miles long... WATCH: satlib.cira.colostate.edu/weather_medi... via NOAA NESDIS/CIRA

We pride ourselves on being a democracy and yet there’s a medieval theocratic anachronism in the heart of parliament: 26 bishops with automatic seats in the House of Lords. (The only other country in the world with clerics automatically entering a government is… Iran).

President Donald Trump's Department of Justice has moved to help MAGA influencer Steve Bannon erase evidence of his conviction for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 Committee."The

Data source: Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis fred.stlouisfed.org/categories/3... Calculations: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Donald Trump fired me for standing up to his abuses of power six years ago to the day. That fight isn’t over. I’m running to stand up for Floridians who are sick and tired of a rigged system and costs going up while DC politicians like Donald Trump get rich.

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