Chris Murphy: "It's just so disgusting to listen to the president be waxing poetically about the drapes he's buying while there are six Americans who are dead. There are six families who are about to bury their children because of a war of choice that no one in this country wanted, an illegal war."

White House's "War Powers Report" to Congress for attack on Iran.⬇️ Two conspicuous absences: 1. The word "imminent" appears nowhere. There is thus no justification in the Report for proceeding without prior congressional authorization. 2. No reference to wellbeing/protection of Iranian people.

For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

After the Civil War, Carney became the first Black mail carrier in New Bedford, working for the postal service for 32 years. When he died in 1908, Massachusetts ordered all flags lowered to half-mast the first time the state had given such an honor to an African American.

No justification, no authorization from Congress, and no clear objective. But none of that matters to Donald Trump — and apparently neither do the safety and lives of American service members.

All we have to do is look at who's in Trump's Board of Peace... 🔊

Not only the best but the only way to support our troops is to vocally oppose a war of choice in Iran that's intended to protect Israel and the Epstein class, that wasn't necessary to protect America's national security, and that's purely designed to enrich Trump and his friends.

OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.

CNN is saying the Iranian attack happened after Trump “lost patience with negotiations”. I don’t believe it. The negotiations were cover. This was always the plan. The scale of the military buildup showed that.

Quick reactions after learning that no, nobody could stop him. 1/ goodauthority.org/news/trump-m... 1/

We had a deal to keep Iran from getting nukes! Trump backed out of it because he wanted to own Obama. Iran kept following its end of the deal for a year anyway, begging Trump to reenter the deal. Trump literally backed out of the no nukes deal and then initiated a war because of nukes. Insanity.

Friday roundup - Defense Secretary rips best-performing AI out of defense systems; pulls military personnel from receiving top education - DHS Secretary created security vulnerabilities at airports (WSJ report) - HHS Secretary is detached from reality⬇️

-Zero Congressional consultation or approval. -Zero preparation of public for need/consequences of war. -Zero evidence of thought about "OK, what might the other side do?" Next month. Next year. -Zero mention of anti-nuke agreement Trump voided, or Trump claim last year that nukes "obliterated."

Analysis | With Stephen Miller running America's domestic policy, Benjamin Netanyahu running its foreign policy, and Donald Trump heading up interior decorating and bribe-taking, the executive branch has tripled its efficiency.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

Trump bombed Iran. Here are multiple clips of Trump campaigning against endless wars, Middle East conflicts, and boasting that he will stop World War III.

There is no amount of money in the world that would lead me to fight a Vietnamese refugee that grew up in Louisiana (Also I really want to try a Korean style Po’ Boy)

the problem is their incompetence and hubris can only be so comforting in a country with vast news deserts where WAPO, Fox News, Sinclair, NYPost, TikTok, Twitter, CBS, CNN, Daily Caller, WSJ, Fox Business, LA Times, AM radio, Newsmax, OANN, are all chirping the same right wing agitprop

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. Of all the Cherokee Wizards or Witches, the most dreaded is the vampire Raven Mocker-the one that robs the

I wrote about the US funneling pregnant children in immigrant detention to a Texas facility where their rights can be more effectively restricted. I hear echoes of disappeared parents and kidnapped children in Argentina decades ago. In each case, the intent is to inflict deep generational trauma.

EARLY VOTING IS THE EASIEST VOTING! Why am I yelling? Because I can’t believe more people don’t take advantage of early voting where it’s available. My wife and I cast our ballots in the NC Democratic primary today - no lines and in and out! But act quick folks - early voting ends this Saturday!

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

Mass deportations aren’t a policy, they’re a Forever War. Years to execute, impossible to finish, and built on prison camps, contractors, and mercenary forces. Once this carceral machine exists, it feeds itself. That’s not border control, it’s a permanent domestic war state.

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Amazing “Snow Mannequin” created by Colette Komm in Central Park, New York City ☃️❄️

This really sums it up.

NEW: Judge Eric Tostrud, a Trump appointee, issued civil contempt sanctions against DOJ today for moving a man out of Minnesota against an order, not releasing him under the timeline ordered, and not returning him to Minnesota. [h/t @kyledcheney.bsky.social ]

How a Planned Disney World Vacation Turned Into Four Months in Immigration Detention A 9-year-old shares her story of being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.

NEW: The USPS changed its rules on how it postmarks ballots. This may affect elections at every stage at which there's a mail deadline. An underplayed one: VOTER REGISTRATION. Many voters who send in their registration forms by mail could be postmarked late, missing out without realizing it.

ICE deported Juana 36 weeks into her pregnancy over the weekend. She had been at Dilley trailer prison for three months with her two young children. She was fearful of giving birth while imprisoned.

Confirmed. My story here: gillianbrockell.ghost.io/breaking-sha...

The strangest thing about politics in Ohio is how often the voters speak clearly — and how rarely the politicians listen. The good news is that Ohioans can fix this — permanently — by putting a constitutional amendment back on the ballot in November, 2027. www.toledoblade.com/opinion/lett...

Quakertown, PA Yesterday #iceout

A British grandmother with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks. "So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,' Karen says."

My friend is a potter and she made a “Used Cybertruck” sculpture, complete with three raccoons crawling around it and a “No Parking” bumper just bc of course it got left in a no parking zone lol. I had to buy it.

Even though refugees CANNOT apply for green cards until one year after arrival, DHS now claims that the 1980 Refugee Act actually *requires* ICE to “detain and inspect” refugees who don’t have a green card at year one. Reaching this conclusion required overturning decades-old interpretations.

“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

Her father fled China because he organized student protests during Tiananmen. He was a political refugee. The story of this family, and Alysa Liu, would have played out very differently today. This is what we're losing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...

If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. —Shirley Chisholm Pic of the day #photography

More of this, please. The folks in this grassroots group are heroes. Haven Watch lives by the promise, “No One Walks Alone.” Day or night, they show up. When people are released from ICE detention, volunteers meet them in the cold, disoriented, and exhausted. Beautiful and devastating all at once.

Early primary voting has started in Texas. Vote BLUE no matter who.

ICE HAS COMMITTED YET ANOTHER ATROCITY! They deported & abandoned across the border little baby Juan Nicolás who's just 2-months-old & was unresponsive & hospitalized just this morning along with his 16-month-old sister & parents. The sick infant was only treated for a few hours. #ICELawlessness

Tomorrow, I’m leading a deposition of Les Wexner for oversight dems. Wexner was Epstein’s largest benefactor and contributor of wealth. Why? And what does he know? I have a bunch of questions, and I bet you do too.👇🏾

Early voting has started in the March 3rd Texas Democratic primaries! If you vote early in Dallas County, you can vote at ANY available voting location across the county! Take advantage of this great opportunity and get out there and #VOTE 🗳️

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Wow.

We must speak plainly about the agenda Elon Musk & other MAGA leaders are pushing. It’s white nationalism. There’s no room for Black, Hispanic/Latino, Asian, Native, Jewish or all other Americans in Musk’s monocultural vision. Multiculturalism is superior. We can’t allow Musk & others to end it.

Fed. judge holds that it likely violated the law for the Trump administration to remove displays and exhibits about enslaved people at President Washington's first official residence in Philadelphia. PI issued to stop Trump from trashing President's House. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...