It is time for everyone to speak up. And that includes, by the way all of our ex-presidents and most of our ex-former military leaders and others who held top offices who are choosing to remain relatively quiet on the sidelines. Now is a time for all not just to speak out but to be true activists.

“Our government is now the greatest enemy America and Americans face and frankly, it’s not even close” — @djrothkopf.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

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What Does Putin Have on Trump? Adam Kinzinger Demands Answers youtu.be/3NjyzGcl67E

no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.

Glad this is getting covered, but also… Completely surreal to read the NYT report on this as recently disclosed info, and just an allegation. This happened to every observer I know! It happened to me twice! I have it on video both times! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

Hey there Pam Bondi if you have nothing to hide why were you tracking what congressmen were searching on the Epstein files? Why uh…. Why…. Why so nervous?

under questioning by Rand Paul, ICE officials confirm that yelling at officers is not assault and recording officers is not a crime

The sudden Alito retirement rumors feel like a signal that the GOP is worried about losing the Senate in the midterms. One way to read this is that this summer/fall is the last *guaranteed* window where Trump/GOP senate could confirm a far-right Justice. (eg what RBG could’ve done in 2012.)

As we dig into this scandal, can we revisit the question about why the president's son-in-law, who has no formal role in this administration, keeps showing up at high-level negotiations with actual world leaders?

National suicide by a thousand cuts.

Will Bibi and Trump drag is into war with Iran? @jonatomic.bsky.social, @djrothkopf.bsky.social and connect the dots in this new Deep State Radio episode. After that we get into some really grim stuff. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The El Paso story is a perfect little slice of Trumpism. You take the combined incompetence of our Dep'ts of Transportation, Defense & Homeland Security and create a major public safety risk, shut down a major airport, alarm our neighbors that we are about attack them & shoot down a party balloon.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

Seems like it was a bad idea to give these incompetent jokers tens of billions of dollars to buy all the military equipment and weaponry they can get their hands on

Wow who could have ever foreseen a white woman using tears to manipulate power! I, for one, am stunned. (Yes it’s good character detail.)

ICE secretly told its officers that any time someone has been ordered removed, ICE can break down their door. It has been accepted for generations that the only thing which can authorize agents to break into your home is a warrant signed by a judge. No wonder ICE hid this memo!

the U.S. right wing conducted a massively-successful 50+ year propaganda campaign to impregnate the culture with the lie that all fact-based criticism of their unpopular policies has an inherent bias and should be discarded our feckless consolidated corporate press was generally happy to oblige

They’re trying to put democratically elected Senators in jail. This is not a drill. This is code red for American democracy.

This was interesting from Swalwell, normally a very combative interviewer of Trump admin officials. I think it was an attempt to get her off her prepared talking points, and it worked.

Marjorie, welcome to the resistance.

When people are afraid to go to work, afraid to shop, or afraid to gather in their community, it hurts families, neighborhoods, and our entire economy. If you can, show up for a small business and let’s continue to show the nation what it means to respond with care and decency.

SAY IT.

Was not expecting the “China is coming for our Stanley Cup playoffs” twist in this unhinged rant.

This isn’t about election integrity. It’s about making Americans believe democracy can’t be trusted. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Really strong case to be made for Ossoff 2028.

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The best insurance against dirty tricks is landslide margins of victory.

It's going to take a lot of different kinds of Democrats to win in November. But there are a few core principles on which we all need to agree. My latest. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

SEN. OSSOFF: “.. why are roving gangs of masked men — who look like they couldn’t pass the Army physical exam — dressed up like pretend Delta Force operators, on our streets, demanding papers, dragging people from their cars, and shooting people to death?” @acyn.bsky.social

A for-profit immigrant prison run by the company CoreCivic

My colleague got into Trump's sprawling family detention camp, which is full of toddlers, kids, & teens. - Kids have cut themselves or talked about suicide -There's worms & mold in food -300 kids have been held for 30+ days, far longer court settlement allows www.propublica.org/article/life...

The US deficit is approaching ww2 levels as a percent of GDP. Because of the “Big Beautiful Bill” that GOP voted for. We are spending more on INTEREST than on anything else including the military. This is a time bomb, and the GOP is responsible. Fiscal conservative my ass

This is a wild departure from past practices. All the talk of the “Worst of the Worst” is a lie. Usually between 50-75 percent of ICE deportees have criminal records. We’ve turned ICE from a crime-fighting org into a racial profiling and ethnic cleansing operation.

I’m a progressive from New Jersey. So I am delighted that within Bad Bunny’s powerful message of love and joy and inclusion there was also an unmistakable fuck you to Trump and MAGA and the forces of hate, violence and contempt for our basic human rights.

Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."

Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

Donald Trump always has a plan to get cash fast for himself, but never for you.

Across the country, ICE raids are being carried out with excessive force, little transparency, and devastating consequences for families. When enforcement looks like a military operation and accountability is absent, people get hurt and trust in law enforcement breaks down.

Trump supporters call it strong America-first decision making. The rest of the world sees one in which America aspires not to any pretense of moral leadership but simply to naked power, dominance and extractive self-interest.

More corrupt than all other administrations combined

NEW: The Trump admin certainly put on a show last week about changing tactics in Minnesota after ICE agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old VA nurse. Trump even suggested it's time for "a softer touch." Except residents say nothing has changed. At all. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

🔥 EVA VICTOR: “Fuck ICE. I hate ICE. ICE is evil, racist, and violent, and I don’t think it should exist… shut the fuck up, Ricky Gervais and Kevin O’Leary— I’m here for one night and I can say what i want.” (From @variety.com )

That highly classified whistleblower report Tulsi Gabbard covering up? Guardian reports it’s an NSA intercept of a call between a close Trump associate and “an individual associated with foreign intelligence.” Sounds similar to Trump’s campaign chair meeting Russian intel and sharing data in 2016.

Surprised that a guy who's been an outspoken, consistently repugnant racist for more than 50 yrs, who ran on a racist platform appealing to racists who have in turn consistently defended his racism and sought to capitalize on it because they are racist, should do something racist & anyone's shocked.

oh dear. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Otay Mesa "Detention Center" (prison camp) in San Diego, CA: lataco.com/captive-loti...

To me it feels more like the run up to the release of the “perfect phone call” that led to Trump’s first impeachment.

I asked Ron Wyden what his cryptic letter to the CIA was all about. He wouldn't say. "I wrote it for a specific reason. That’s all I can say.” He did a similar thing before, in 2011, and illicit spy activities were later revealed by Edward Snowden www.huffpost.com/entry/ron-wy...