Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

Brendan Carr, head of the FCC, wrote the chapter on it in Project 2025. It’s hard to know what’s worse: The administration’s efforts to intimidate journalists or CBS’s willingness to cave in. Read here to understand the issues: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan... open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Maybe we should ask the guy that was president in 2019?

Speaking of jawboning, this is a very effective example of the art. Or at least, it was until Stephen Colbert refused to play along. But impt to note: Brendan Carr has NO POWER to abolish an exemption that Congress wrote into the equal time rules. He is bluffing here. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence

Trump recently suggested that he is getting ready to issue a new anti-voting executive order. Last time he issued one, we sued and won. If he does it again, we will sue and win. Trump knows this. It is why he and his allies hate and attack me. I will never back down or stop fighting for democracy.

"The version of Christianity that Trump's most devout supporters embrace (and he pretends to) has no room for Christ’s actual teachings. Anyone who references Jesus’s declarations to aid the sick, poor, and vulnerable is quickly labeled a socialist and/or antifa."

Equally culpable.

We have now entered the "His Opponents Are Afraid of Falling Out of Windows" stage of Donald Trump's emulation of Vladmir Putin.

First, read this and learn about the SAVE Act. Then call your senators. We can’t afford to let them impose a poll tax on our right to vote. joycevance.substack.com/p/voting-a-r...

This, from @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social, is really perfect. open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...

The Atlantic’s profile of Bondi has some wow. @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

It is going to be a great day for America and the Constitution when Mike Johnson is no longer Speaker.

Now we learn from Reps of both parties who saw the unredacted Epstein files today that Trump, Bondi, & Blanche are covering up the absolute worst things in the Epstein files to protect the wealthy, powerful and politically connected. DOJ is being run by criminal co-conspirators.

“ The same people who wanted two halftime shows wanted this”— Charles Mills

The president of Puerto Rico has a problem not understanding the language and is morally offended by the culture. He is also a pedophile and felon.

Bad Bunny: So uplifting. And the words in English on the billboard: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love.” Right on.

Making the US Olympic Team does not require you to be a cheerleader for the Trump administration.

A live look at the Turning Point All-American Super Bowl Halftime Show...

NEW: The Department of Justice is falling apart. Attorneys are leaving, courts are overwhelmed with immigration cases, and actual crimes are slipping through the cracks. Is that by design? Andy McCabe and I cover it all on today's UnJustified. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

McGregor was found liable for sexual assault in 2024 and the jury ordered him to pay the victim $257,000. He lost all his appeals.

The only thing I'm rooting for in this Super Bowl is that Bad Bunny performs in an adult version of Liam Ramos' bunny hat.

Trump depicting the Obamas as monkeys ain't a sign of strength. It's a sign his Obama obsession is eating what's left of his rotting brain.

Can we not know the name of the alleged staffer posting racist shit from Trump’s account, or would that be “doxing” too? 1. What is this person’s name? 2. How many of Trump’s posts, which impact the markets & foreign policy, are being made by this person? 3. Have they been fired?

Something orange and 80 is being is being kicked to the curb. But, sadly, not the *worst* thing that is orange and 80.

An open letter Jeff Bezos and Washington Post leadership:

So weird how this keeps happening. www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026...

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The Epstein Files is now the MAGA Bible.

L - 3 months ago. R - Today.

When you live among them, it is infuriating beyond description.

Truly insane

Polishing her Nuremberg defense.

History teaches that whenever “absolute immunity” asserts itself it eventually finds itself hanging at the end of a rope or standing in front of a firing squad or if they’re lucky, imprisoned or exiled.

How about Trump and the NRA have a gun fight over this on 5th Av

Windows PCs ‘Suddenly’ Fail After Microsoft’s New Update

A little extra love to Minnesota nurses today.

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

Since J6. Don’t underestimate what he can and will unleash as the midterm closes in.

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

Carney put crybaby Donnie in his feels.

1600 Pennsylvania Ave

Trump is building an army loyal to him alone, and paying them up to $250k/year. If you can’t see ICE for what it is yet, then you’re not going to until it’s too late.