Lindsey Graham frets that Trump's advisers oppose Iran strike Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told Axios on Saturday that several people around President Trump are advising him not to bomb Iran. Graham urged the president to ignore them. www.axios.com/2026/02/22/g...

When the Trump administration awarded a $1.26 billion contract to operate a new detention center in Texas, it made headlines. Why? Because the company that won the job was so small, it operated out of a single-family home in Richmond, Virginia.

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US court rules HIV-positive people can be banned from military ➡️ https://bit.ly/4kVtnl9 📷 Getty

Do you know how much the typical worker would be making today if their wages had grown as much as CEO pay? This graph holds the shocking answer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lPPsrAMtTI

Dr. John Gartner, a former Johns Hopkins professor who said months ago that Trump was showing “clinical signs of dementia,”

Oh dear 😬

“You mentioned multiple times foreign influence over the supreme court. Do you have evidence of that?“ TRUMP: “You’re going to find out.” (Spoiler: no you won’t)

NEW: DHS left embedded comments in a PDF outlining its plans to warehouse immigrants, identifying the architects and laying bare the gross extent of its regulatory capture. Great scoop by @regret.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/metada...

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...

The calls for trans people to be quieter as we're wiped out are only going to increase, and you owe it to your sisters and brothers to get louder and louder.

Meet Rep. Monty Fritts— a Tennessee lawmaker running for governor. If you’re one of the millions of American women who’s had an abortion, he thinks that you should be given the death penalty

On the whole James Talarico/Colbert/Christianity thing

Knew this was coming. If you didnt get it before when they ran this ad during the Super Bowl, hopefully its very clear now: we are the 🐶’s! www.404media.co/leaked-email...

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. MAGA firebrand Lauren Boebert’s son has been charged with child abuse for a second time, after the lawmaker’s grandson allegedly wandered out of a property belonging to the family over the weekend. www.westword.com/news/lauren-...

"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)

The Epstein administration is covering up the Epstein files.

“Who the fuck are these men?” A decade after Trump took over the GOP, the Coeur d’Alene region of Idaho finds itself beset by a vexing mix of far-right activists and white nationalists who are trying to drive moderate voices out of political life.

The Trump regime deported a 2-month-old baby and his family after the infant was hospitalized following their detention at the Dilley family detention center. Rep. Joaquin Castro says the family was shipped off with only the money in their commissary — $190. The cruelty is endless.

‪Roger Sollenberger‬: The FBI interviewed an Epstein victim who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was underage not once — but at least FOUR times. But the document that shows those additional interviews appears to have been deleted from the DOJ website.

More than 50 activists gathered Tuesday (17 February) in Washington, D.C. to protest proposed federal rules that would restrict access to gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

The Cato Institute obtained internal Homeland Security data showing that 73% of those detained by ICE between Oct. 1 and Nov. 15 had NO criminal conviction and only 5% had a violent-crime conviction. GIFT link: www.wsj.com/opinion/mass...

KANSAS JUST ENACTED A BILL THAT INVALIDATES AND REVOKES THE DRIVER'S LICENSES OF TRANS PEOPLE. www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/...

I think one of the best things about Bluesky and one of the things that is going to keep it from ever becoming as big as other sites is that everyone here has a real internal mistrust and dislike of people selling us something, either literally for money or for some sort of other gain

Ben Reiff: Last year, Microsoft revoked the Israeli army’s access to AI & cloud tools after we revealed it was using them to store masses of surveillance data on Palestinians. Now, we can reveal that Microsoft is providing similar tools at scale to DHS. www.972mag.com/ice-microsof... .

A year ago, men in black dragged a woman out of a GOP town hall in Idaho. The video went viral. Here's the rest of the story:

According to The Washington Post, ICE is spending 38.3 billion dollars to buy warehouses across the country and turn them into detention centers... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/ice-is-spe...

This is a must-read piece of reporting. Make sure you get to the final scene...

The US Constitution gives Congress the power to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises” (Article I, Section 8), and requires that revenue-raising bills originate in the House of Representatives (Article I, Section 7). Tariffs are a form of duty, often experienced like a tax on imports.

25 years ago, a bunch of libertarians moved to NH to take over state government. Jason Osborne, one of those "Free Staters," has since risen to be majority leader in the state house. How is he fighting for "liberty?" By helping Stephen Miller build a 324,000-foot prison for migrants and refugees.

Incredible timeline we’re in

Ben Smith: I don’t know if Stephen Miller resigns before the midterms, resigns after the midterms, or sticks around. But this feels like that moment when a president puts a lot of confidence in one adviser to steer national policy in a direction that turns out to be politically disastrous.

In 2025—Earth's third warmest year on record—massive fires destroyed entire neighborhoods in Los Angeles, a deadly heatwave killed more than 24,000 in Europe and powerful storms triggered catastrophic flooding in Southeast Asia.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made some questionable statements about the United States' supposed roots in "Christian civilization" during a recent conference in Munich. Read more ➡️ ffrf.us/4bWK6Ch

Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by Mica Rosenberg.

The article that keeps on giving:

A look at the Wilder, ID raid. "This is how the truth gets buried. Not with silence, but with revisions."

ICE is arresting people at school dropoffs, on the way to church, and at routine check-ins at immigration offices as the Trump administration pursues its goal of deporting millions of people. 🎧 Listen on Reveal:

The less voters knew, the more they liked Trump in 2024. Not Anymore. Trump's youth votes have turned against him. gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-lost...

Everything about this story should fill you with horror and fury.

Every story out of Dilley makes me think of Rep. McIver asking DHS officials: "Do you think you're going to hell?"

"The Trump regime’s desire for domination is bottomless, but its capacity is not," writes @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social. "Donald Trump will not be able to steal this November’s midterm elections." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-cant...

My latest: In Donald Trump’s politics, there is no quiet part. Everything is intended to be said aloud for everyone to hear. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/in-t...

"Let’s just do it and be legends?" www.thebulwark.com/p/you-can-do...

The Trump administration has paid $128.5 mn for a warehouse in Social Circle, GA, which it now proposes to convert into a concentration camp. Only 2 yers ago, the facility was acquired for $29 mn by a Moscow-based real estate company, PNK.

This Presidents' Day, I'm reminded of all the promises our current president has broken. https://youtu.be/AcefFTXUcxU?si=Qd1tW-7ojQet2CuN

New hard data show the same pattern of intense anti-Trump backlash that polls do. Protests against Trump are happening at 4x the rate as 2017-18, and special election swings offer more data on the same point www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-back...

This is one of those areas where California can (and will) hold the line, simply due to how many cars get sold in this state. I remember the smog as a kid, and I’m sure plenty of others do too. We’re not going back to that.