"The blood is on their hands," one group said of Democratic Sen. John Fetterman and the Republicans who blocked a war powers resolution on Iran.

"This will have huge implications for energy markets. Oil & gas companies may achieve huge windfall profits in a year that previously looked far less lucrative...and billions could see their energy bills soar" @commondreams.org @corbettjessica.bsky.social www.commondreams.org/news/iran-lng

"Your illegal tariff taxes have created an unprecedented affordability crisis, spiking prices for groceries, cars, clothes, electronics, and countless other household necessities," wrote state lawmakers, demanding that Trump refund Americans.

"FISA 702 has been abused in shocking ways," said a supporter of Mike Lee and Dick Durbin's SAFE Act. "If Congress genuinely cares about surveillance abuse, weaponization, and 'lawfare,' it needs to rein in this warrantless surveillance power."​

The US Secret Service announced that its agents and a local deputy fatally shot a man armed with a shotgun overnight at Mar-a-Lago while President Donald Trump and the first lady were at the White House.

"It will be a no thanks from here," Greenland's prime minister said of Trump's pledged hospital ship. "We have a public health service where treatment is free for citizens... It is not like that in the USA, where it costs money to go to the doctor."

After a flurry of overnight outrage, the Trump administration reversed plans to suspend the TSA PreCheck program during a partial shutdown of the US Department of Homeland Security.

"ICE murdered a Texan last March and we are only just learning about it now." "Ruben Ray Martinez, a 23-year-old." "It shouldn't take 11 months and a FOIA lawsuit to learn that the government killed someone." #Texas #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Demands for accountability are mounting after the release of internal records showing ICE fatally shot Ruben Martinez, a 23-year-old US citizen, almost a year ago in Texas.

"Three more people have been killed. This is murder. Demand Congress take action against these strikes now!" Amnesty International USA said of Trump's boat bombings.

"Donald Trump is a gangster with no respect for the rule of law and no understanding of economics," former Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer said of the president announcing a 15% tariff after losing at the Supreme Court.

"Federal incentives to target and profile will harm immigrant communities and have spillover effects on other communities already targeted by local law enforcement impacting immigrants and citizens alike," warned the head of FWD.us.

On Presidents Day, a federal judge compared the Trump administration removing displays about slavery from a historical site in Philadelphia to the actions of the propaganda agency in George Orwell's dystopian novel 1984.

"Republicans in Congress have the power to end these cost-raising policies, but instead are voting to rubber-stamp them and put more strain on their constituents,"​ a leader at Unrig Our Economy said of Trump tariffs.

The fifth hearing of the Religious Liberty Commission, a body est. by Trump via exec. order in 2025, was held yesterday at the Museum of the Bible and focused on combating antisemitism & the role of religious freedom in protecting Jewish Americans. During the hearing, Commissioner Carrie Prejean...

"Working families continue to struggle with unprecedented credit card debt and deserve to see Congress take legislative action to address this growing crisis," said a diverse coalition supporting a bipartisan bill for a 10% interest rate cap.

"I just want to apologize to everybody in the country for supporting this rotten, rotten man," said a three-time Trump voter who called in to C-SPAN.

"No one should have a copyright on Vance being booed. It belongs to the world."

A new report highlights the "growing gap between real-world climate risk and the economic analysis used to guide policy, supervision, and investment," while also warning that ambitious action "cannot await perfected models."

"Trump promised to lower costs for families on day one, but a year since he took office, grocery, housing, and healthcare costs are out of control," said Rep. Rashida Tlaib. "It's time to tax the rich, defund the oligarchy, and invest those funds in the needs of working families."​

"Trump's energy and climate policies, including his heedless preoccupation with exploiting Greenland and the rest of the Arctic for oil and gas resources, risk a far more rapid meltdown of the Arctic," one expert warned.

"This study underscores the cruelty and shortsightedness of the Trump administration's slashing of funding and weakening of protections for endangered species," said an expert at the Center for Biological Diversity, which just filed a FOIA suit in DC.

"Rubio's dangerously expansive vision to transform the United States into a colonizing power in the Americas must be challenged,"​ one watchdog leader said of the US secretary of state, who testified to the Senate about Trump's Venezuela policy.

Just visited with Liam and his father at Dilley detention center. I demanded his release and told him how much his family, his school, and our country loves him and is praying for him.

"Systemic change is needed 'from the cradle to the grave' of plastic production, use, and disposal," said one expert. "Much more ambitious action from governments and industry transparency is needed to curb this growing global plastics public health crisis."

Authorities in Arizona confirmed that an unidentified person is in critical condition after a Tuesday morning shooting that involved US Border Patrol.

"The US withdrawal from the Paris Agreement sets a disturbing precedent that seeks to instigate a race to the bottom, and, along with its withdrawal from other major global climate pacts, aims to dismantle the global system of cooperation on climate action."

“NASA Releases Global Temperature Data Without Mentioning ‘Climate Change’" | Article by @corbettjessica.bsky.social for @commondreams.org: www.commondreams.org/news/trump-c...

"The First Amendment unequivocally protects the right to observe, monitor, and take pictures and video of government officials conducting their duties in public," says the National Coalition Against Censorship.

As protests against immigration operations continued in Minnesota, Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar argued that justice Renee Nicole Good requires impeaching Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.

Democratic officials and voters battling President Donald Trump's attempt to bully Republican state lawmakers to rig congressional maps for the GOP ahead of the November midterm elections recorded key wins in California and Virginia.

Greenland PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen: "If we have to choose between the US & Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark. We choose the EU." "Greenland does not want to be owned by the US. Greenland does not want to be governed by the US" he later added.

Are ICE agents trained to shoot with one hand and film their murder with their phone in the other? gotta ask

"US military power is being used as a de facto security force for the president's corporate donors and their oil interests, leaving the American taxpayer to effectively subsidize a security force for Big Oil."

Congressmen Ro Khanna and Thomas Massie asked a federal judge to appoint a "special master and/or independent monitor" to ensure that the US Department of Justice actually releases its Jeffrey Epstein files.

"Today's vote represents a glimmer of hope for the 22 million Americans desperately trying to hold onto affordable health coverage for themselves and their families."

"This goes beyond broken promises of peacemaking. Trump is launching an illegal assault on Venezuela​."

Are we at war with Venezuela?!? I don't know. You don't know either. It sure would be nice to have a legitimate Pentagon press corps right about now.

Rubio has confirmed (via BBC) Maduro will stand trial in the U.S. Fucking hell, call your reps.

500 Richest People Gained Record $2.2 Trillion in 2025, Fueling Calls for Wealth Tax

Two top Senate Democrats are demanding answers from the White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles, about her access to the Epstein files and whether she's involved in their "bungled and potentially illegal partial release."

"I'm hopeful that my new trial will end with me being freed, because I simply lost my pregnancy at home because of an infection," said Brooke Shoemaker, an Alabamian who has already spent five years in prison.

"The Trump administration is, once again, using the full weight of the federal government to intimidate, censor, and silence voices they disagree with," said one critic as Trump banned five Europeans who fight online disinformation from the US.

"Trump is killing jobs, raising energy costs, and harming the planet," Sen. Tim Kaine said of the administration halting five wind projects. "Grinch!"​

Despite publicly seeking a Nobel Peace Prize, President Donald Trump said that "we will retaliate" after US Central Command announced that a solo Islamic State gunman killed three Americans and wounded three others.

"We either take action, or we bury more of our kids," a gun violence prevention advocate said after a deadly shooting at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

"This outrageous decision to pull the rug out from under the thousands of people who came to the US lawfully to reunite with their families is shocking," said one critic of a new Trump administration attack on immigrants.

"Noem's decision to rip up the union contract for 47,000 TSA officers is an illegal act of retaliatory union busting that should cause concern for every person who steps foot in an airport," said the AFGE president.

"Stop ICE raids! The power of Christ compels you!" a CodePink protester dressed as a priest shouted at US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem during a House hearing. "End deportations! The power of Christ compels you! Love thy neighbor! The power of Christ compels you!"

Over two years into Israel's genocidal assault on and blockade of the Gaza Strip, the death toll continues to rise: 8-month-old Rahaf Abu Jazar died of exposure after floodwaters hit her family's tent in Khan Younis.