Chris Murphy: "It's just so disgusting to listen to the president be waxing poetically about the drapes he's buying while there are six Americans who are dead. There are six families who are about to bury their children because of a war of choice that no one in this country wanted, an illegal war."

The costs of this Iran war debacle will likely be more than the cost of extending the ACA health insurance subsidies. If you asked Americans, which do you want: another war in the Middle East or lower health care costs at home, is the margin 90 to 10? 95 to 5?

Modern tyranny is terror management. I wrote this essay in April 2025 and updated it in November. I'm posting it again now because my fear of this scenario has continued to grow. "The Next Terrorist Attack: And What Comes After" snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...

They went to war with Iran (which nobody in America was asking for) so they could conjure an excuse to allow ICE to keep murdering Americans and teargassing schools here at home with impunity (which nobody in America was asking for).

ICE has detained this high schooler for 10 months. Here’s what he and his classmates want you to know

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

it’s probably fine that this meme is one of the top posts on every military Reddit sub right now

The thing about the U.S. and Israel is that both of their leaders are trying to stay out of prison.

This Hounds song about Trump and Iran went viral 8 months ago and should go viral again, as it's equally applicable now. This is a war of choice that never should've happened. The 2015 Iran nuclear deal was working when Trump unilaterally axed it in 2018.

I am hopeful that the war in Iran will bring needed democratic change to … the United States of America.

I promise you that the government that murdered Alex Pretti and Renee Good does not give a flying fuck about the protests in Iran.

Trump regime knows by taking Medicaid--which is healthcare--from the vulnerable, many will die. That is the point. Again, we are at war. The Trump regime has already killed Americans with Renee Good, Alex Pretti and Ruben Ray Martinez. Now they will kill more because it's a Blue state.

“At this point, the shock would be if Trump doesn’t pull the trigger and pretty soon. He’s sent about half the currently available ships to the region…And the president and his team of ‘warriors’ are overdue for a dopamine hit of ‘lethality…’” www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-cons...

📌I guess it wasn't enough for the Trump regime to murder innocent Minnesota people in cold blood in their streets. Now they want to strip their Medicaid funding so thousands can die slowly. These Republicans are absolutely soulless and grotesque. And pro-life, my ass.

The DOJ has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from the public database of accusations against Epstein mentioning Trump. NPR doesn't post any BS. www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

Shah Alam, 56, did not speak English. He was lost. He could not see. Border Patrol didn't contact his family or lawyer. They left him on the streets of Buffalo, where he died five days later.

This is for anyone who thinks supporting a grieving family via GoFundMe is a grift. I hope this sheds a little light on why even your favorite actors might need financial help. My latest on substack. ❤️ open.substack.com/pub/alyssajm...

Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

These are just the people who have died in the last 7 weeks. Countless people have been injured or are suffering in detention centers. The continuing brutality of ICE agents should be attributed to Trump, Stephen Miller, & Secretary Kristi Noem, who are enabling & supporting them.

His blood pressure has got to be through the roof right now, so if anyone has a chance to ask him an aggressive question about the Epstein files, that really could make It happen today. Come on, reporters. We'll build statues in your honor.

Liberation Day has finally arrived

Palm Coast #Florida #VisibilityBrigade

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades. It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

This is a good read.

DID YOU KNOW... Trump is suing me, And you, And your kids, And your parents, And all of us for $10 billion dollars? ANDDDDDDD... We get to pay for the lawsuit & court expenses, too. Why don't you put that in a poll, Gallup? How do Americans feel about the Predator in Chief suing them for $10B?

When I picked up Liam from Dilley to go home, he was scared. He was taken away from his home, family, school, and was imprisoned. Liam is home now, but so many children remain. ICE must be disbanded and Dilley must close. #FreeOurChildren.

‘I felt safe in my shipwreck because I was far from the men with the yachts.’ Fucking hell … Sarah’s writing just gets better every year. Still peerless.

A friend just referred to Epstein as a "a Wikipedia intellectual" and I think that captures it.

We are Jersey Strong 💙

Y'all, ICE thugs are still terrorizing people in Minneapolis and St. Paul. They are counting on America looking away, and it's currently working. Please tell everyone you know, please reach out to people with huge followings, and ask them to help refocus our attention on the ongoing abuses.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

"To my knowledge I never left any of my four children on Rape Island." #Flex

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

Update on the plan to make The Handmaid's Tale a reality.

🧵1/4 Sat 2-7-26 @ The Hole in Petoskey. Approximately 90 people total in attendance with so many messages to our fellow Michiganders. It hit 12F by the time it concluded. @nomiindivisible.org @emmetcountydems.bsky.social @indivisible.org @maddow.bsky.social @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social

There is not one five year old American that is better off because we threw his classmate in a concentration camp. Period.

Amazing photos here

The world 🌎 has seen this before.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

I wrote about one of the worst aspects of the Epstein files www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/o...

Blumenthal: ICE and CBP are out of control. The practices of this agency have to be completely overhauled. It’s like a corporation in bankruptcy—either dissolved or reorganized. They’re morally bankrupt, legally bankrupt, and politically bankrupt.

A man taken into custody in Rochester Thursday by federal immigration agents and now held at the Whipple Federal Building in the Twin Cities is a recent organ transplant recipient who is without his needed anti-rejection medication, state Rep. Kim Hicks tells MPR News.

Every American needs to watch this:

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

Redistricting did not turn out how Trump wanted. So, now he is resorting to political prosecutions, ballot seizures and the threat of federal paramilitary to steal the 2026 midterms. He is normalizing the idea that his administration will take over ballot counting. We cannot let that happen.

"Senate Dems considered a requirement banning ICE agents from polling sites as a demand in negotiating the DHS funding bill. But that was not included in their final list..." Crazy idea: Given what Trump's said, update the "final list" to include it. politi.co/4t6pxt0