So I asked her a bunch of questions, beginning with the choice to write this as "creative nonfiction," which she kindly answered! Interview here: www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...

War criminals hold their first “Board of Peace” meeting.

I can say from personal experience that Putin is threatened by strong women. As I argue in a new piece in @foreignaffairs.com, he and his fellow autocrats have reason to fear us: Defending women's rights and combating authoritarianism is the same fight. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Let me explain what this genuinely EVIL memo does. The admin is doubling down on its plan to arrest, detain, and interrogate tens of thousands of legally present refugees; people already vetted who’ve lived here legally for 1+ year. Hundreds were arrested in Minnesota before a court blocked this.

There's a decent chance he falls asleep and topples out of that chair.

He has 3 sons. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Samuel Alito in December chastised a federal judge for refusing to believe the GOP-held Texas legislature was acting in "good faith" when it created the most racist electoral maps in U.S. history. https://badfaithtimes.com/alito-theres-no-way-to-prove-these-jim-crow-electoral-maps-are-racist/

The rest of the world are seeing unredacted Trump-Epstein files while Pam Bondi says the case is closed with zero arrests. The UK and other countries are doing what Pam Bondi refuses to do. #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

We must stop every single proposed concentration camp. www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...

The Corey Lewandowski Suite at the DHS Mile High Club. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

The White House was designated a museum "by Congress in 1961. The Committee for the Preservation of the White House, founded by President Lyndon Johnson, approves any changes to the State Rooms of the White House." Everything he touches turns. www.architecturaldigest.com/story/everyt...

🇵🇱 Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski: 📌 “If Putin succeeds in conquering Ukraine, we will be next, and the cost of stopping him at Poland’s border would be far higher.”

Our sincere apologies to anyone who preferred preschool cost $2,100 a month. @governor.ca.gov Gavin Newsom made it FREE for all 4-year-olds — while also making historic investments to support the child care workforce.

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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

Why did The Justice Department DELETE these files? WE NEED ANSWERS NOW!

"The Shadow President," @andykroll.bsky.social's deep dive into Russell Vought, has just won a George Polk award for political reporting. The piece chronicles Vought’s rise from the Senate mailroom to his position as one of the most influential players in the Trump administration. Read it here:

Remember: no judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're simply taking Trump's word for it. He’s unilaterally acting as judge, jury, and executioner. This is a danger to us all. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/17/us-military-boats-strikes

This is the guy Trump first wanted for the job so he could help bury the Epstein files.

Why does someone who overstayed their visa need to be held in shackles? Does any child belong in a prison camp? Does anybody deserve to be underfed, or brutalized, or denied medical care? presswatchers.org/2026/02/the-...

"When somebody lies to Congress, whether under oath or not, it's what we call a 1001 statement – under 18 USC section 1001 – false statements to Congress – each false state you make to congress carries with it up to five years in prison." Glenn Kirschner

We must stick together and be brave and strong 💕 I found out today that the SSA is training new phone help to tell ppl who express thoughts of self harm to tell them “Suicide is an option” This is being reported by Michael Phelan who is the head of SS Works legit org www.govexec.com/management/2...

Trump won the war against women. Women are the focused target of MAGA’s rage. Epstein class versus the rest of us

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Wordpress offers 'AI' to generate blog summaries. I don't use it. But I just finished a data-intensive, highly-charged post proving it takes just 3.5% of a population engaged in nonviolent protest to overthrow a government. I wanted to see how it handled that. It wouldn't. Post due tomorrow...

Behold, citizens of Maine, including the 54% of you who don’t have passports and might have trouble registering to vote. This here is your “moderate.”

Fulton County is the only reason any DEM ever wins statewide in Georgia.

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I know the majority of my followers don’t mask, but I want you to imagine you have a disability - any kind. You need a wheelchair, a hearing aid - to safely access the world. Now imagine someone a liberal with a massive platform says you’re unneighborly and untrustworthy for using it.

This is a truly horrifying memo. It says that the policy of the US government will now be to proactively seek out and arrest likely tens of thousands of refugees who entered legally under Biden and subject them to detention, where they will be interrogated about their status.

In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

There are no time bounds specified for the detention and review process. There's nothing to prevent DHS detaining refugees indefinitely. They will do so to fill the for-profit concentration camps they are creating. It's another corrupt scheme to line the pockets of Trump's extended cabal members.

It seems like the original point of this 1-year check in was to evaluate refugees for a grant of permanent residency, now they want it to use it to detain people and possibly deport them if they can't get permanent residency. Just sick and twisted.

Research is no longer allowed to be truthful if it is negative to the Trump Republican regime

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I went to Ohio to get the truth from Les Wexner, the billionaire who funded Jeffrey Epstein. Instead, we got completely implausible denials and “I don’t recall” answers. Sadly not one GOP member showed up. Child rape should not be a partisan issue. But we will keep pursuing justice.

‘The United States government is engaged in an active cover-up of the largest sex-trafficking and influence peddling scandal in our history, and Donald Trump is right at the center of it.’- House Oversight Democrat Rep. Stansbury

I remember everything re: creepy drunk liar Kavanaugh that no doubt raped his mates. Dr. Ford sacrificed a lot to warn us & threatened for yrs. Trump demanded FBI to not investigate too much as he said. GOP SCOTUS been on the take for decades & now we have 6 @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social dirty USA

Donald Trump is in the Epstein files THOUSANDS of times, including highly disturbing allegations against him. These allegations need to be seriously looked at.

Dozens of Minnesota GOP lawmakers propose bill to criminalize residential protesting #MN #ICEOUT #1A #FDT #WalterHudson www.yahoo.com/news/article...

What innocent people do.

The only way we get out of this mess is by reaffirming our values as Americans & simply only electing people who will abide by them: welcoming the stranger, the belief that each human has inalienable rights, that we are stronger in our diversity. & to treat each other as HUMANS, not animals.

Does he even listen to himself?

AP: Federal judge rules Kilmar Abrego Garcia can't be re-detained by immigration authorities. Good, he's been through enough! #ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans

This is how Trump/GOP is going to try and steal the midterms. www.ms.now/news/memo-sh...

Our hearts are with Oklahoma and Kansas. California knows the devastation these wildfires leave behind. We’re praying for our fellow Americans — and stand ready to help however we can.

In this entire piece there is not a hint of even a semblance of a legal argument for how a war of this scale would be legal or authorized. There is quite simply no legal or constitutional authority for Trump to launch a war of choice against Iran. None. Zero. Nothing.

TRIE! THREE RESISTANCE IS EVERYWHERE Trump's legacy is dissolving before his tired, evil eyes.