BREAKING: @democracydefendersfund.org filed a FOIA request & OIG complaint with DoD demanding answers after Trump & Hegseth threatened to bomb Iran back to the Stone Age by attacking civilian power plants & bridges That's not just rhetoric--it is against international law & DoD's own policies -TN

"Small wonder that Clarence Thomas prefers the Gilded Age over the Progressive Era," writes @rbreich.bsky.social. "He’s the living embodiment of the Gilded Age’s public-be-damned excesses."

The DOJ violates the Epstein Files Transparency Act on the daily. So I'm suing Todd Blanche. As a journalist, I cannot report accurately on the Epstein Files if I cannot even read them. I am represented by @brendanballou.bsky.social & we seek to hold the DOJ accountable for its noncompliance.

"The structure whose supports our elites are steadily kicking down is also the one that props up their own personal safety from disaster and political invulnerability to accountability. And all of this can go away." me in @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...

The Hungarian election is about Russian oligarchy and its support of the international far right. That’s why Vance is there. He is a node in that network.

In what world is it okay for the Defense Secretary to make multi-million dollar investments in defense companies: a) Ever; b) In the run-up to starting a war in the Middle East FT has the scoop: www.ft.com/content/744e... In a functional democracy, he would offer his resignation tonight.

I have a crazy way of reporting on 'No Kings' that's different from the NYT...I go out and talk to protesters about what they think Sure, size matters, but so does the passion of a movement offering the 4-letter word that beats back dictators Hope My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

BREAKING: Trump regime bans green-card holders from getting Small Business Administration loans. Any small biz even partly owned by a green card holder is no longer eligible for SBA loans. Half of Fortune 500 companies were started by immigrants or their children. This will destroy the US economy.

BREAKING: I just motioned to subpoena Don Trump Jr. for funneling $670 million in taxpayer dollars to a critical minerals company he has financial stake in. 

Republicans left the hearing room.

In all the coverage of Trump’s tirades about Europeans it should be noted that they are dealing with a much longer, harder, bigger and more consequential war in their own backyard, in Ukraine – a war that they didn’t choose, and one that Trump’s war on Iran has made worse by enriching Russia.

Jim Acosta Warns of ‘Media Domination’ by Billionaire Trump Friend Ellison at Hearing on First Amendment www.mediaite.com/media/news/j... Very compelling testimony about Trump's attack on the press and media capture more broadly. #PressFreedom #Paramount @jimacosta.bsky.social

@jimacosta.bsky.social "Here is the breaking news: the news is broken." www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qzA... Insightful review of Trump's attacks on the media. #Paramount #PressFreedom

In a victory for church-state separation, a federal district court issued a permanent injunction today, prohibiting the school district from implementing an Arkansas law that requires public schools to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom and library. www.au.org/the-latest/p...

US-Israeli forces targeted an Iranian desalination plant first. Now Iran has targeted a desalination plant in Bahrain, which reportedly relies on desalination for 95% of its drinking water.

Israeli attacks on Lebanon have displaced more than half a million people.

Somewhere in Tehran, infants, young children, and the elderly are likely dying from respiratory distress, and we’ll never know their names.

In advance of what are likely final negotiations with Iran tomorrow, Secretary of State Rubio said earlier: “Iran poses a very grave threat to the United States…They are not enriching right now, but they are trying to get to the point where they ultimately can.”

US jets launched from Israel to strike Iran is perfect for the regime.

Let’s be clear: the Trump administration isn’t “pausing” funds to fight fraud. They’re weaponizing Medicaid to punish a state that rejects their extremism. They’d rather see a child lose coverage than see a Democratic governor succeed.

A woman who has accused both Trump and Epstein of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor decades earlier gave four interviews to the FBI. Summaries of three of those interviews were not released with the Epstein files. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

“Freedom of memory,” wrote the skiier Kateryna Kotsar on her glove. It also works the other way around: we need memory for freedom.

Join me for a live conversation with Paul Krugman. Monday, February 23rd, 1:00pm ET, on Thinking Live.

HOW IT STARTED: Trump accuses Obama of planning to start a war with Iran to get reelected. HOW IT’S GOING: Trump threatens to start a war with Iran.

I'm sure you're wondering how many paragraphs it took the NYT to note that the US-Iran crisis the world is facing was *deliberately created by Trump* when he exited the US-Iran nuclear deal in 2018 purely to spite a Black man he hated (Obama). Answer: 22.

I will be joining @jimacosta.bsky.social for a conversation on Monday, February 23rd, at 4:00pm ET.

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.

Your taxpayer dollars are being used to imprison children. CHILDREN. It is sick, but we cannot look away. I’m grateful Diana is home, and will continue to show up and fight for all children to be free.

On resisting authoritarianism. With Blue City Blues podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Rubio just made a speech to the European defense community in Munich that did not mention Ukraine. Or democracy. Or US business deals with Russia. Or the administration's plans to support the European far right. But there were lots of nice words about our common civilization.

(He did mention Ukraine in the answer to a question afterwards and said, more or less, that he does not know whether negotiations will succeed)

Once again, a reminder that the "free speech" crusaders were always cynics operating in bad faith