If this isn't abuse and fraud, I don't know what is. We have no government right now. This is what happens when you don't have a government. (you get abused)

WaPo is in disastrous shape, but this is a wild byline on a story like this. (For you youngs who forget this, Strobel was one of the few people who got the Iraq War right.) www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Jeffrey Epstein's estate and its two co-executors have agreed to pay as much as $35 million to resolve outstanding legal claims by his victims who haven't already reached settlements. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW PIECE: "They Jail Coup Plotters and Predators. We Shield Trump." READ -> www.blueamp.co/p/they-jail-... Trump Tariffs SCOTUS Decisions Epstein Victims

AZ Mohave County has a measles outbreak. This ruby red county, anti-vaxxer’s ignorance has put all people in the state at risk. Cases are now spreading to nearby Coconino County. Can we all agree that the entirety of public health matters? Your neighbors matter? Can we not epidemic again? #Pinks

If you can’t draw the line at genocide, then how can voters trust you to draw the line anywhere?

This is every day in the West Bank, in the name of my religion, and it is terrorism.

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At the end of the day, when every dollar of the massive slush fund of taxpayer money Republicans appropriated to DHS in 2025 is audited, we will find it to be the largest govt fraud scandal in history. In addition to ICE reforms, it will more than justify this shutdown.

New Mexico officials are reopening the investigation at Epstein’s Zorro Ranch. Let’s be clear: they’re investigating claims that girls may have been murdered and buried there. It’s a crime scene and should have been taken seriously years ago. Instead, here we are. Looking at a cold case.

ICYMI Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A #RELEASE_THE_TRUMP_EPSTEIN_FILES #RepStansbury #RepAOC #RepGabeVasquez #KeithOlbermann #digby56 #emptywheel #RepSwalwell #RepRaskin #RepJayapal #IlhanMN #RepDMP

Quick reax to SCOTUS ruling Trump's tariffs illegal.

"My big beautiful tariffs have fixed the economy!"

Neal Katyal: "In America, the chief justice said only Congress can impose taxes on the American people, and that's what tariffs are. Tariffs are taxes."

MAHA was always a con. It was always about the ego and ambition of a drug-addled narcissistic fraud.

Meanwhile, in Germany, the public weighs in on what they think of the Epstein Administration. #BrutalButAccurate

With only nine months before the midterms, Trump is plotting to prevent Democrats from taking control of Congress. But contrary to many doomsayers, it isn’t too late to protect the elections. @marcelias.bsky.social shares three voting laws every blue state should enact to do so👇

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

Now, at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-cha...

ICE detention centers are inhumane and deadly. Detention is a cruelty no one should endure - especially children and babies. We must end immigration detention and ensure the release of Juan Nicolás, Steven, and every single person held in the camps. Let's pass my Melt ICE Act now!

Individually, each post could easily be dismissed, but taken together, they seem to form something more deliberate: a stream of repurposed Nazi propaganda for the everyday person’s feed.

Truly sad to see that the destruction being unleashed by Bezos on the Post is even leading someone like @digiphile.bsky.social to cancel.

“The necrophile, lacking the necessary qualities to create, in his impotence finds it easy to destroy…” —Erich Fromm While most think necrophilia is a specific paraphilic perversion, the more classical definition explains the entire Trump regime. www.mind-war.com/p/dead-end-t...

What my friend Boris Nemtsov said about Putin can be said equally about similar leaders, including Donald Trump, Viktor Orbán, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Benjamin Netanyahu. And, not surprisingly, they form a club of mutual admiration.

This is from the press conference in Budapest. Please read it. CBS News comes up with a question prompting Rubio to defend Hungary’s continuous purchase of Russian gas (while “accidentally” referring to Orban as “President”) - Rubio then compares Hungary’s strategy to US “America First”.

Psst! L'il Marco Rubio? Don't Lecture Europe When You're One Face of a Chaotic Suicide Pact! emptywheel.net/psst-lil-mar...

Right-wing Heritage Foundation’s own data shows fewer than 100 noncitizens voted since 1982 (!!!) This is not a real problem. “The SAVE ACT is a Trojan horse to nationalize elections”: open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...

BREAKING: Felon47 has officially awarded himself the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Olympic gold, & Best Hair in America🏅 Ceremony scheduled in the bathroom mirror🪞 Next 🏅 Golden Participation Crown of Winning, #1 Big Boy trophy 🏆 #SheShed #DefendersofDemocracy #HappyPresidentDay #NotFelonDay

The community note is the icing on the cake.

what two adults do under a blanket is no one else's business bsky.app/profile/toma...

Records we obtained show that right-wing activists are urging North Carolina election officials to use an unproven software called ELLY to purge voter rolls. It was created by the same person who made the software behind mass voter challenges in 2024. ncnewsline.com/2026/02/13/c...

Senile Satan: “I don’t understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anyone. It’s pretty boring stuff. I think only pretty bad people, including the fake news, want to keep something like that going.”

Go Fuck Yourself, Megyn Kelly. The Sequel. open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

This week's Local Hero is Jason Green who was raised in Quince Orchard. After a dazzling career in gov & politics, Jason returned to his ancestral home & studied the complex, tragic & profoundly inspiring history of MoCo & the Black community here.

A local Limerick playwright did a play about the extras on John Ford's Rising of the Moon filming (staged on scene, so we got to see a church that is not normally open as part of watching it). It focused on the stale buns, reneged wages, and promised Porter. This, similarly, should become a play.

Jack Smith was sent a copy of Volume II to prepare for his testimony on the Hill, though he told Congress he didn't open it. So I think he has a copy, unless it was some kind of temporary access to a DOJ system like the DOJ Epstein Files computer terminals.

Trump's slurring speech sparks health concerns knewz.com/donald-trump...

Trump threatens Republicans as he suffers another humiliating defeat knewz.com/donald-trump...

Jasmine Crockett: Why are folks protecting a 34-count convicted felon while America crumbles? People are dying, rights are eroding and families are suffering? GOP priorities scream corruption. Demand better. Hold them accountable. The country's watching.

trump-epstein files x.com/charliekirk1...

Rabid right-winger, parent of a Parkland girl who was murdered and he **still** supported Republicans, Trump, and MAGA after her death has appeared to finally reach his breaking point with pedo POTUS.