A reminder that the administration spent the day before it launched a war in the Middle East feuding with tech companies over whether and how the AI models the Pentagon buys will be restrained from autonomously killing people.

Just a reminder: instead of an actual diplomat, we sent Trump’s deeply compromised son-in-law as the lead negotiator to avert war with Iran. popular.info/p/deeply-con...

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

This is a big one. A newly uncovered document has revealed the existence of a mystery Epstein investigation. It was spearheaded by the DEA and involved drug trafficking and money laundering. Epstein was one of 15 targets. The other 14 names are redacted. I've got questions.

Liver's cheap because there's low demand for it. If everyone started eating it, it would become expensive. And even if everyone loved it, it's only recommended that you eat it once a week, or you risk vitamin A toxicity. Would be nice if the secretary of HEALTH knew that!

Shameful doesn’t begin to cover it. But also malpractice when there may be a war on. Not just a waste of the Secretary’s time. It also undermines military effectiveness to signal you’ll treat people this way. Not news of course. Still shameful and stupid. Read @jaylyall.bsky.social for receipts.

Are the folks who told us don’t worry, Trump is just bluffing to push the negotiations having any second thoughts? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Robert Garcia: We are demanding that Trump officially come in and testify in front of the Oversight Committee. He appears in the Epstein Files next to Jeffrey and Ghislaine Maxwell almost more than anybody else, and that the press and public be allowed inside the depositions.

Russ Vought is refusing to release the scientific research funding allocated to the NIH by Congress. “We want them in trauma”. Mission accomplished.

“As far as I can tell, not a single Republican lawmaker has informed the public that the Save America Act would compel all 50 states to send their voter registration rolls to the DHS or that the DHS would then run the rolls through its ‘SAVE’ voter purge system.” 2/26/26 …1/

« The historians’ brief — authored by Professor Martha S. Jones and Professor Kate Masur — centers on the pre–Civil War advocacy of free Black Americans for a broad and inclusive principle of birthright citizenship. » www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Unacceptable. The Trump administration must be held accountable for this violation of privacy.

Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.

Oscar has lived in Charlotte since he was two y.o. He has been trying to become a U.S. citizen since 2018. Luis Duque, “We were on our way to work, We share the same car, so I usually drop him off first.” ICE told Oscar his options: self-deport to Mexico or wait for 3 or 4 months to see a judge.

Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.

Corporations and ultra-rich individuals with numerous business interests cannot be trusted to prioritize the public’s right to know over their own bottom lines. When billionaire conglomerates take control of media, it’s not a win for free speech. It’s a win for oligarchy.

They essentially eliminated all requirements to protect groundwater from radioactive waste

Donald Trump says he wants tariffs to replace income taxes, BUT HE'S COLLECTING BOTH TAXES, AND IT'S KILLING THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. And Trump declared all of these taxes without Congress. And says he'll do it all over again. #TrumpAffordabilityMeltdown

Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Trump: "This is the Golden Age of America."

It’s really hard to get people to understand the danger of RFK Jr., but I’ll never stop trying.

“The Court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt — again and again and again — to force the United States government to comply with court orders." minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/27/c...

this is a great brief and it appropriately ends with a killshot: the simple observation that if trump's meaning held, the birthright clause would not have overturned dred scott, the one thing it was absolutely meant to do.

Trump’s billionaire allies will now own CNN, Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ and NY Post — plus 185+ local tv stations and news in 100 markets. They also control X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp, TikTok, Truth and Twitch. This is all by design to manipulate and surveil us. Pay attention.

Someone was abducted in St Anthony this morning at 6 AM near 29th Ave & Silver Lake Road. And then at 8 AM we saw at least 5 agents out of their vehicles at 26th & Jackson near Walgreens before they dispersed into the neighborhood. This isn’t over. We still need people keeping watch & staying safe.

Elon Musk’s Secret Web of Companies in Texas www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/t...

Realized today that I'm working on the last and final project of the now-defunct Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). Which is the official history of US public media, with Allison Perlman (Irvine), and Mike Janssen (Current).

Hey GOP why not make Hillary and bills deposition on Epstein public, as the request?

1. First, it was NPR. Then it was MS Now. Then it was CNN. Now it’s the Times. All four media organizations have determined that files are missing from the tranche of documents related to child-sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein that was released by the US Department of Justice.

New from me at @documentedny.bsky.social : New Trump plan: stop processing work permits for asylum-seekers until the asylum application backlog goes down. But they’re not gonna put more people on fixing that backlog. Which they estimate could take 173 YEARS. documentedny.com/2026/02/27/y...

Katie Britt never votes against Trump, but the press really wants to make this image happen.

Good job, New York Times. Directly calling Trump's case for war with Iran based on "false" claims that "do not hold up." In the headline, top of the homepage. And no hedging with "critics say." I don't think they ever did that in the lead up to Iraq, and rarely do anything like it for Trump's lies.

US urges its citizens to leave Israel immediately amid strike threat on Iran

Please keep writing about Nurul Amin Shah Alam. They killed this man. It's a system wide problem that resulted in his death. Every step of the way it was a travesty of justice. This is how immigration law intersects with criminal law. ICE and CBP. Read this and ask why do we fund this? Why?

They dropped off Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a blind refugee who didn't speak English, at a CLOSED Tim Hortons. 5 miles away from his home. He never made it. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation. “I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”

SCOOP: Noem's DHS has acquired at least NINE new jets in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/noems-luxury...

Latest update from Columbia prez re: the abduction of their student this morning. DHS is fucking deranged. “The agents gained entry by stating they were police searching for a missing child. Our security cameras captured the agents in the hallway showing pictures of the alleged missing child.”

A car chase in Newark involving ICE agents led to a crash that injured several people, including three children, the city’s mayor said on Wednesday.

DHS acknowledges that its SAVE voter-purge system was reengineered with the involvement of the Musk-aligned DOGE & “it can now query data from an SSA database called ‘Numident.’ That database was mishandled by DOGE per SSA’s own admission (in a recent court filing) and…a whistleblower disclosure…”

"I need you to help us I have been detained for 23 days with my mom and my 3-year-old sister. I cry a lot I want to get out of here..." - Seven-year-old Mathias Bermeo, a hostage at the Dilley concentration camp in Texas

§ 190.26 Criminal impersonation in the first degree. A person is guilty of criminal impersonation in the first degree when he: 1. Pretends to be a police officer [...] or wears or displays without authority, any uniform, badge or other insignia or facsimile thereof

This is both an act of war *and* a war crime, as it is similar to cutting off water or destroying power plants. It's designed to kill civilians.

We are way too tolerant of everything the Trump administration is doing and we're going to regret it

This is deeply illegal, breaking the Medicaid statute and the ICA. States are entitled to funding from federal govt to help pay for Medicaid. Providing less than the statute calls for is open and shut illegal, more akin to the impoundments Nixon lost unilaterally before SCOTUS than anything so far.

Very hard to figure out why women wouldn't want to live in the United States

In shocking news, Columbia University's decision to appease fascist demands did not buy them reprieve, it encouraged the fascists to make more demands and conduct more abuses. If only there were precedent for this. Maybe Columbia's leaders could ask the history or political science departments.

Has either Democratic leader said one word today about a class of people being ordered to hand in their IDs?