BREAKING: Federal judge blocks new DHS policy that would allow arrest of thousands of legal refugees. "The new policy turns the refugees’ American Dream into a dystopian nightmare," Judge Tunheim wrote. Tonight, at Law Dork:

The Anthropic dispute makes it clear that the Trump regime will not tolerate American businesses taking an ethical approach to emerging technology.

"We are dealing now with an allegation that the president of the US raped and sexually assaulted a child and is now using his DOJ to try to cover that up." If you want to understand latest Epstein revelations, @leahlitman.bsky.social explains them clearly on our pod: newrepublic.com/article/2070...

Trump delivered the longest State of the Union speech in our nation’s history last night. Yet he didn’t mention Epstein once, while Epstein survivors were in the room staring him dead in the eye. He wants us to move on—we won’t. I will continue demanding justice until the day it's served. Stay loud.

And another: www.wowt.com/2026/02/25/b...

She's hitting the TWO ideas EVERY Democratic candidate needs to: Affordability & Accountability. If there's a Dem running in this country this cycle who can't hit those two ideas & win? They should get out of politics. They did her staging correct too. Audiences help, big.

This may be the best SOTU response in...ever? Nailing all the right points: affordability, ICE abuses, corruption, Epstein. Not sure it matters, but Spanberger is providing Dems a good template for assailing Trump and offering alternative values and policies.

Best quote I heard tonight was Gov Abigail Spanberger on Trump’s immigration policy: “Every minute spent sowing fear is a minute not spent investigating murders, crimes against children, or the criminals defrauding seniors of their life savings.”

No matter what Trump talks about tonight, remember he only cares about 3 or 4 things: covering up the Epstein scandal, convincing people he won the 2020 election, stealing the 2024 election, and sometimes his ballroom.

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It's worth reading Rahman's account of what happened to her, it's not that long. "...the glass of the passenger side window flew across my face. I yelled "I'm disabled!" at the hands grabbing me. An agent said, "TOO LATE."" www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Breaking MS NOW: Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available. Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.

Straight up, the MONSTER who is going to give the State of the Union address tonight is a pedophile. Per NPR, Pam Bondi and pedophile protectors at the DOJ withheld and removed Epstein files related to Trump raping a 13-year-old. tinyurl.com/ms96zxme

Most of the Democrats in Arizona's congressional delegation feel they have somewhere better to be.

My excellent Senator!

Sen. Dick Durbin’s office says that a whistleblower disclosed that FBI Director Kash Patel said during a meeting with field offices last year that “If you have golf, hockey, fishing, or hunting and beautiful sights, you’re going to see a lot of me.”

FLAG: Trump-related files are missing from DOJ's Epstein release. There's at least one witness for whom three 2019 FBI interviews are missing. That woman is the same person who, in a 2025 FBI presentation, is identified to have accused Trump of a sexual assault when she was between 13 and 15.

I refuse to get used to our government murdering people on the high seas. If they can do it to these people, they can do it to you.

Virginia Giuffre's family on the arrest of ex-U.K. Ambassador Peter Mandelson: "The contrast with the continued inaction in the United States is undeniable. Survivors deserve transparency, swift investigation, and real justice, no matter who is implicated." Full statement

Former ICE agent: My first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a warrant. I watched ICE cut classes that teach our legal system, firearms training, use of force, lawful arrests, and the limits of officers' authority

is life just a series of days where you're tired in the afternoon and wide awake at night, running behind on weekly deadlines, and seeing pants get slim and big and then slim again over the years until you die?

BREAKING: Sen. Ruben Gallego will NOT attend the SOTU and will instead participate in the People’s State of the Union hosted by MeidasTouch and MoveOn.

Susan Rice saw this moment coming. She described it plainly, and she was right. Now, Netflix must decide which side of history it wants to be on. The right choice is obvious. The only question is whether Netflix has the courage to make it. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/susa...

BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

Pentagon officials are reportedly struggling to devise a plan to spend the extra $500 billion that US President Donald Trump wants to give the bloated, fraud-ridden agency in the next fiscal year, vindicating criticism of the funding proposal as immensely wasteful.

Nothing rattles the powerful like sunlight. A royal tied to Epstein allegations gets arrested, and now his photo is hanging in the Louvre like a warning label. 📌 Campaign group Everyone Hates Elon hung a photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor taken after his arrest in the Louvre.

If you were Jeffrey Epstein's very best friend for about 20 years, made 4,725 wire transfers to Epstein totalling more than $1.1 billion and are mentioned in the Epstein files more than a million times, I'm pretty sure you're a fucking pedophile.

Go New Jersey.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Spot on!! 🎯

“What I witnessed today and learned during our oversight visit at the ICE holding facility at the Mesa Gateway Airport was deeply disturbing — sickening, actually.” story via @jerodmacevoy.com

Katyal: "I was able to go to court - the son of immigrants-- & say on behalf of small businesses, 'Hey, this president is acting illegally.' I was able to present my case, have them ask really hard questions, & at the end of it they voted & we won. That is something extraordinary about this country"

Check out his bald spot.

NEW: SCOTUS' tariff ruling ripped out the heart of a central premise of Trump's presidency and made him look fallible at a time of mounting threats to his power. "This was an important case to me," Trump said in an understatement. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

NEW: Natasha Korecki at NBC reports that in light of the SCOTUS tariff ruling, Gov. Pritzker sent President Donald Trump an invoice of $8.6 billion.

Former close protection officers to Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor are being asked to “consider carefully whether anything they saw or heard” may be relevant to the Metropolitan police’s review of the Epstein files, the force said. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

America's gun psychopathy continues: *56* mass shootings so far in 2026. 💔😡💔 #GunsDontMakeUsSafer The latest, with 4 people wounded, in Atlanta, Ga.: www.atlantanewsfirst.com/2026/02/19/4...

The American president is more insulated from accountability than a British royal. Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.

The National Governors Association has confirmed that they are pulling out of the annual meeting at the White House after the orange felon declined to invite two Democratic Governors. Good. Governors don’t answer to him.

BREAKING: SCOTUS holds in a 6-3 decision that Trump's tariffs imposed pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) are not authorized as he exceeded his authority.

Epstein is now Donald Trump’s worst issue. And interest in our investigation is at an all-time high. The bad news for Trump is we are just getting started. We will get justice.

‘We’re just one Epstein story away from Trump announcing that UFOs are real’ - Seth Meyers, 25 July 2025

Epstein files give some prosecutors plenty to investigate The Justice Department had said there was nothing that warranted public disclosure before the files were released.

Botstein palled around with Epstein for years and helped launder his reputation. The Epsteins cannot exist without the Botsteins. It's time for accountability katemanne.substack.com/p/bards-pres...

The Supreme Court has delivered an overdue rebuke to Donald Trump on tariffs ft.trib.al/4VreLoH

No surprise here. trump's accursed DOJ is corrupt to its very core. Hair Hitler's not going to sue anyone who has or may accuse him of being a pedo as all these accusations, allegations and revelations fly around because he fears the discovery process that would make his guilt too obvious to deny.

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