Breaking news: A federal judge found that the IRS violated federal law “approximately 42,695 times” when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials last summer.

Somehow they’ve convinced themselves it’s worse to call people fascists or Nazis than it is to do horrible things that fascists and Nazis did.

the license criminalization scheme in Kansas...stripping immigrants of their legal status... all of this shows, and is meant to show, that the legal rights of disfavored groups are conditional and can be rescinded at will such discriminatory chaos is incompatible with a real inclusive democracy

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Sobering statistics for ABDs and TT. 67% of ABDs didn't get placed. Placement was only 38% TT.

If Congress doesn’t act, we won’t have a democracy left to save.

It is difficult to overstate how quickly & thoroughly & shamefully we have normalized “the president can use federal funding as a cudgel to punish blue states & only blue states on his whim” in our polity & society. Yet another thing that would have ended any other presidency in the modern era.

Please don’t do this because he’s never going to stop threatening other petro states 🤷‍♀️

Trump and Hegseth murder 11 more people on the high seas, and it barely makes a blip in the news cycle: www.cnn.com/2026/02/17/p...

So now the US is actively trying to undermine Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity? This administration is killing everything that American hegemony was built upon 😡😡😡 passblue.com/2026/02/24/u...

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It's no longer obvious to me that the Patriots of 1774 had stronger grievances against London than the Minnesotans of 2026 have against Washington.

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Measles was wiped out in the U.S. 25 years ago and now we’re already past 1,000 cases in February because vaccination rates dropped below the safety line. This is what happens when public health gets gutted and people stop trusting basic science.

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

1. Today, Jared Kushner is in Geneva representing the US in high-stakes negotiations with Iran. It is a last ditch effort to avoid war. But Kushner has debilitating financial conflicts that makes a deal less likely.

"Beset by scandal, facing multiple defeats in America’s courts, and hitting levels of unpopularity that would make President Richard Nixon nod with empathy, Trump turned the State of the Union into a vulgar, populist carnival." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump likely feels invincible after the killing of Soleimani, the bombing of Iran’s nuclear program, and the abduction of Maduro. But those were all “one and done” strikes. The military operation that Trump has threatened against Iran is potentially much larger—and riskier. on.cfr.org/4aQZ4Yn

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President Donald Trump has spent the last year boasting of his accomplishments while mocking the record of his predecessor, Joe Biden. But much of this bluster has been based on misinformation, which he again fell back on during his State of the Union address.

This year, interest payments on the federal debt will total more than $1 trillion, which is larger than the defense budget. Ten years from now, these payments will more than double, to a level close to discretionary spending for defense and domestic programs combined. www.wsj.com/opinion/amer...

Before Trump created a personalist regime, the modern presidency used to center on trying to pass legislation.

Maybe feed them more Tic Tac Toe 😂

Our instant poll of speech watchers, which found significant doubts that Trump is focusing on the nation’s most important problems or that he’ll lower the cost of living -- even among a friendly, GOP-heavy audience

trump is calling for banning congressional stock trading, but he leaves out the key detail: the reason there's a standstill right now is democrats want it to apply to trump and the white house, but trump issued a veto threat over that.

The President boasts of "no tax on tips", but this expires in 2028. He boasts of "no tax on overtime," but it is taxed, and the break expires in 2028. He boasts of "no tax on social security," but it is taxed, and his break expires in 2028. He also passed tax cuts for the rich. They're permanent.

President Trump just said, “We lifted 2.4 million Americans off of food stamps.” A reminder of what happened to those 2.4 million Americans:

Since this will likely come up in the SOTU: Yes, US stock markets are up since Trump took office (14%). But in the rest of the world, markets are up WAY more. Cumulative market gains are more than triple ours (43%)

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This would be an interesting test for the conservative members of my family who support him but are extremely religious.

The US Justice Department withheld testimony that Donald Trump sexually abused a girl when she was 13 or 14 - according to a source who viewed unredacted Epstein files. This is the worst scandal in US history and should be the biggest news story on the planet right now. www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

It’s perfect that my conflict class topic today is leaders (and diversionary uses of force)!

Corruption all the way down

On the one hand, the Trump administration is telling Europeans to take care of their own defense. On the other hand, they are supporting leaders and parties who are pro-Russian, opposed to European unity and don't want Europe to defend Ukraine or anything else. Which is the policy?

Apparently the old ways Putin wants to bring back are barrier troops

Absolutely shameful. Four years of war and the United States sends nobody to mark it.

“So what, if anything, can the mullahs do to avoid U.S. airstrikes? Stop repression? Stop their nuclear program? Stop their ballistic missile program? Stop their support for proxies? Or simply stop ruling Iran?”

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

Yes, pre 1776 norms

Also they heard that f***ing video of T mocking them 😡

Sometimes I wonder what my motivation is at this stage in my career. And it's this. Making sure small-minded men die mad about my inclusion. And propping the door open for as many smart and kind people as I can.

Ok, who leaked Caine’s concern? www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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The agency eliminated 240 hours of “vital classes” from a mandatory 580-hour training program, including instruction about the legal boundaries for the use of force, how to safely handle firearms, and the proper way to detain and arrest immigrants. wapo.st/4aS06mU

BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

I know there is a lot, but this really does break a part of me. It is so lawless on so many levels — and each individual boat strike is a choice.

Real bad lol. We are only seeing the front end of our civilizational destruction 😂

Corruption all the way down

"Antiseptic judicial rhetoric cannot do justice to what is happening" The opinion, by a Clinton appointee, says Trump admin's conduct is "beyond the reach of ordinary legal description. It is an assault on the constitutional order." reposting with alt text storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Nice piece. I would change the word “whether” in the last sentence to “when”.