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DENMARK, THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO SENDING US YOUR MENTAL HOSPITAL SHIPS, BECAUSE DONNY WANTS TO SEND IMAGINARY BOATS TO "FIX" A NONEXISTENT CRISIS IN GREENLAND AND EVERY REPUBLICAN FALLS DOWN AND SAYS "OH THANK YOU, DEAR LEADER." IT'S ALL IN TODAY'S POWERFUL POST. LINK IS HERE: bit.ly/4cPf3bI

“.. I'm no political strategist, but I'd confidently say ‘you're about as popular as you were back when you fomented a rebellion to overturn a free-and-fair election’ is a suboptimal flex.” @rexhuppke.bsky.social @usatoday.com www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

A MOTHER JONES SCOOP! New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had a years-long business tie with the sex offender. This challenges his claim he had minimal contact with Epstein. The two were involved in a deal for six years, and an email shows they discussed it. @nlanard.bsky.social

My latest: Susan Rice is right. Now Netflix must choose. Support independent, pro-democracy media. subscribe to Democracy Docket now. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

The DoD now has more money than it knows what to do with. Imagine if we spent that money on healthcare or housing instead. "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” -MLK

Trump and the Republican Party illegally stole $175 billion from American businesses and consumers and is now refusing to give it back. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Trump: "I can use Licenses to do absolutely 'terrible' things to foreign countries"

According to Trump, two of his Supreme Court nominees are "incompetent." #OnlyTheBestPeople

At least she did something that can be appealed to the 11th circuit: Judge Cannon permanently blocks release of the Jack Smith second volume on the Trump prosecutions.

Trump is covering up the Epstein files. Trump is covering up the FBI video of border czar Tom Homan taking $50K in a bribery sting. Trump is still covering up his tax returns. The judge in Trump’s pocket, Aileen Cannon, is covering up the facts about Trump’s theft of classified government records.

Republican congressman Tony Gonzales, father of six, texted his female staffer at 12:51 a.m.: "Anal?" The woman later died after pouring gasoline on herself and lighting herself on fire. www.24sight.news/p/texts-from... @24sight.news

2/2 Full video: “Directed to Stand Down”: How NYPD Was Shut Out of the Epstein Case youtu.be/aA5XdssxGWQ?...

"Directed to Stand Down" What I discovered in the Epstein files on FBI/SDNY telling NYPD/Manhattan DA to back off Epstein investigations. At the time, Manhattan DA had reached out to a victim who'd just come forward. 1/2 Full video in second link

Trump: "Any Country that wants to 'play games' with the ridiculous supreme court decision, especially those that have 'Ripped Off' the US for years, and even decades, will be met with a much higher Tariff, and worse, than that which they just recently agreed to. BUYER BEWARE!!!"

"A new report reveals that Epstein rented at least six storage units across the U.S. between 2003 and 2019, where he stored computers, CDs, photographs, and other equipment removed from his properties...Authorities may never have searched these storage units..." open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...

"Trump’s job approval rating, which has hovered below the 40% mark since last autumn, stands at 36%, with 63% disapproving. Nearly half strongly disapprove of his job performance, while 19% strongly approve. " www.cnn.com/2026/02/23/p...

Nope!!!! #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #TrumpEpsteinFiles

Katyak: "It's so amazing to think what happened can happen, that I - the son of immigrants - can walk into court and say the highest person in the land got something wrong, and to do it not in some rinky dink traffic court but in that highest court in the land, and win - that's something remarkable"

Gallego: "They're going and racially profiling people and rounding up Americans until they can prove their citizenship. That money came from kicking millions and millions of Americans off Medicaid. It was the same bill. They cut Medicaid to expand ICE."

A convicted child predator moved freely among presidents and billionaires. The Epstein files don’t resolve a scandal—they expose a system where victims were delayed, evidence redacted, and power endured without accountability. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...

Me holding out for the Epstein files…

“It’s all part of the plan!”

Mr Speaker The President of the United States. State of the Union address 2026

APNEWS:- Ghislaine Maxwell fights release of more Epstein documents, calling disclosure law unconstitutional apnews.com/article/jeff...

"Less than a year after 'obliterating' Iran’s nuclear program, the administration is warning it is 'probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material.'...Meanwhile, the world will have its impression of a flailing superpower reinforced." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Here's the NYT piece and the key revelation: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/u...

Judges say Trump officials violated court orders on immigration 35 times since August, per NYT. Between this and tariff ruling, it's a reminder that the main pillars of MAGA nationalism (immig/tariffs) are the things most deeply entangled with his authoritarianism newrepublic.com/article/2068...

Today's "One First" goes deep into the snippy Gorsuch-Kagan exchange in the tariffs ruling, and why claims that the Democratic appointees vote in lockstep and are being inconsistent/hypocritical in statutory delegation cases are based upon a refusal to put the relevant cases/statutes side-by-side:

"Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth came to office openly hostile to his department’s legal culture and determined to change it. He is succeeding. One result is persistent lawbreaking by the Department of Defense...Congress has been sadly passive." open.substack.com/pub/executiv...

Tariffs: A story about a man obsessed with mid-19th century economic policy, the balance of powers and Supreme Court justices who decided to go with the U.S. Constitution over the delusions of a wanna be king. Tariffs and the court: sorrow, delusion, denial and heartbreak.

New in PN: The tariffs ruling is the right result from a terrible process "Even though this particular case turned out correctly, it highlights that the six conservative justices — even the ones who ruled against Trump — have radical anti-constitutional ideas about how American democracy works."

Trump has moved from pressuring the Supreme Court to rule for him on tariffs to pressuring the Supreme Court to rule for him on birthright citizenship: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

They aren’t checking on whether we’re obeying regulations – they’re monitoring those of us who don’t like what ICE is doing. Become a Lincoln Loyal member to read the latest from Retired FBI Assistant Director @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social www.lincolnsquare.media/p/hate-ice-s...

1. On January 23, Crypto.com donated $5 million to MAGA Inc, Trump's primary Super PAC. (The donation was first disclosed in a FEC filing Friday night.) Less than 1 month later, on February 17, the Trump administration intervened on Crypto.com's behalf in a high-stakes federal lawsuit.

"The President Must Be Removed From Office" Zeteo is calling today for Donald Trump to be democratically removed from office, via impeachment or the 25th Amendment. The evidence, as laid out by Zeteo's @andrewperez.bsky.social in today's First Draft, suggests he is unfit. zeteo.com/p/time-for-t...

Me with a scoop/exclusive Five days after Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest, federal authorities “directed” NY law enforcement authorities to “stand down” their investigations related to Epstein, new documents released by the Department of Justice show. Part of new Timeline on NY and Epstein.

Remember that picture of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in the back of a police car? They put it up in the freakin’ Louvre. 😆

Cannon repeatedly says that Trump's request to permanently bury the second volume of Smith's report is "unopposed" because, of course, Trump's Justice Department agreed. But free press groups opposed it! Cannon just denied their request to intervene. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Cannon scathingly suggests that Jack Smith violated her order dismissing the criminal case against Trump when he continued to prepare his report on the prosecution from transmission to DOJ. Calls it a "brazen stratagem" meant to "circumvent" her authority. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: Judge Aileen Cannon permanently forbids the Department of Justice from releasing Volume II of Jack Smith's report on his prosecution of Trump. Also bars DOJ from sharing "any information or conclusions" from the volume. A sweeping, perpetual gag order. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: Judge Aileen Cannon purports to bar DOJ from ever releasing of Volume II of Jack Smith’s report or “any information or conclusions in Volume Il.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Can't fuckin' believe I'm doing this but here goes: Twitter is a mind prison, a true jail of career advancement. I stopped posting on there and within months I became the CEO of The Onion and I'm not kidding. Went back on last year, felt worse, then left again.

The people who responded “agree” are not honest or trustworthy.

".. If the U.S. still wants to reduce its [trade] deficit, he argued, reining in its large fiscal deficits would be more effective than coercing other countries into importing more U.S. goods, but there is no sign of this happening." @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trad...