In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Donald Trump announced a “war on fraud,” a term that the administration has used in increasingly broad and deceptive ways. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

reminder that OBBA did not represent the largest tax cuts in US history. but it was arguably the most regressive tax/spending bill in US history taxfoundation.org/blog/obbba-l...

Breaking MS NOW: Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available. Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.

And here are more detailed instructions on the process & how to comment, from the National Trust for Historic Preservation; the deadline for submitting comments is March 4th: savingplaces.org/public-comme...

Sam Altman wants you to think about how much energy it takes to “train a human.” His remarks are symbolic of everything wrong with the AI industry, Matteo Wong argues:

Where will ICE strike next? A leaked Palantir user manual obtained by @404media.co reveals how “aliens specifically targeted by Leadership” are attacked at the touch of a button. “Like Uber for authoritarians. Let’s call it repression as a service,” FPF’S @skiles.blue writes.

Christian nationalist pastor Doug Wilson, who has argued that women should be denied the right to vote and Christian slaveowners were on “firm scriptural ground,” led a worship service at the Pentagon at the invitation of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

From the Middle East to South Asia, fighting paused while political fights stayed intact. What does that pattern say about modern crisis diplomacy?

Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured? Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.

DHS is being more aggressive than ever targeting anonymous social media accounts that have spoken out against ICE, asking Big Tech to hand over information on users without signed judicial warrants story w/ @sheeraf.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Russian TV isn't the most accurate media, but it passed a milestone last week when it aired a fake news headline from Russia's own info-ops group Matryoshka, passing a made-up headline on a fake Le Parisien site as a real event Don't get high on your own supply, Russia theins.press/en/news/289380

“The most extraordinary and worrying thing of what is going on in the United States is the scale of normalization that is happening."

By me: Microsoft has fixed three zero-day bugs in Windows and Office that are being actively abused by hackers to break into people's computers. Microsoft said three of the exploits are now public. Google, which helped find the bugs, said one of them is under “widespread, active exploitation."

how bad do you have to fuck up to allow an exploit in fucking NOTEPAD

The Trump administration’s approach to foreign aid brings the U.S. “in line with authoritarian countries that have historically prioritized strategy over charity,” Hana Kiros writes:

You can't attend #MSC2026 in person? Good news: You can still follow everything that's happening! 📲 Sessions will be streamed live on our website and covered on social media. Stay tuned!

My new piece is up and it requires your URGENT ATTENTION! open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Both times I used Claude today it gave surprisingly bad answers. In this response, it claims that the current year is 2025.

The #CyberPolicyAwards organizing committee is pleased to announce the finalists in contention for the Atlas at the Third Annual Cyber Policy Awards™. After careful review of more than 85 submissions, the judges have selected 4 finalists per award category. 🏆 Learn more:

As terrible as what is happening right now to journalism, we actually should dismantle the romantic myths we have of the press in America. I teach in my class about colonial press censorship, and then how the independent press was a tool for the wealthy, white power holders to maintain dominance.

Christopher Steele, who used to head up MI6's Russia desk, told Tom Swarbrick that the latest Epstein files published by the DOJ on Friday show the extent of the connection between the disgraced paedophile financier and Russia.

The most predictable outcome of the Trump's hostility to immigrants is mass outsourcing of those jobs from the United States. This is another example of damage being done to the economy which will be hard to reverse in a few years when people finally figure out how badly Trump screwed things up.

It’s important to realize that the subtext of Trump freaking out at Kaitlan Collins when she asks him what he’d say to the Epstein survivors is that she may in practice be asking what he’d say to the *Trump* survivors, and they both know that. A well worded question

Former Comms Director for Nancy Mace responds to her claim today that she isn’t able to drink any alcohol because of a medical condition.

The messaging is already starting for whatever evidence Tulsi Gabbard is about to fabricate. REMEMBER: Every person in the Trump administration 1.0 said there was NO outcome determinative FOREIGN ELECTION INTERFERENCE in 2020.

Gabbard held this up for 8 months with a truckload of excuses from executive privilege to "It's too classified for Congress." They have FINALLY transmitted the whistleblower report to Congress. www.cbsnews.com/news/intelli...

America First, No New Wars, etc, etc.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

Being a person who has implemented age gates: if I put this as the age gate on a video game I would be prosecuted.

x.com/silascutler/... Researchers and observers have already noted toxic behaviors emerging on the platform, including harassment-style roleplay, anti-human rhetoric, and agents attempting to manipulate or deceive one another.

The Judge who ordered the release of five-year-old Liam wrote quite an opinion. Come read it with me. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Experts said the FBI’s seizing of ballots in Georgia triggered fears of federal interference in this year’s midterm elections: “It's a dramatic escalation … to expand federal control over our country's historically state-run election infrastructure.”

This is corruption on a breathtaking level. Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, an Abu Dhabi royal nicknamed the "spy sheikh", pumped $187mn into Trump family businesses. A WSJ team has the whole story, reported here for the first time. Remember: Jimmy Carter had to sell his peanut farm.

Just a reminder that our rapist President, who partied with a pedophile, sold out America and weakened our national security for millions from the UAE.

A reminder that the Kennedy Center is the literal and legal and congressional designated presidential memorial to JFK. This would be like Trump tearing down the Lincoln Memorial to build something “better.”

Dem veteran wins a stunning special election Saturday in a solid red Texas Senate district Trump carried by 17 points in 2024. The upset, against a Trump endorsed candidate, injects panic into the GOP and White House heading into November’s midterms. www.texastribune.org/2026/01/30/t...

In Printz v. United States, #SCOTUS held that the Constitution bars the federal government from forcing or otherwise compelling local or state governments to enforce federal law. The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia: tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...

We finally know what happened to DOJ's (frivolous) misconduct complaint against Chief Judge Boasberg: It was transferred by Chief Justice Roberts from the D.C. Circuit to Sixth Circuit Chief Judge Jeff Sutton, and Sutton dismissed it in a ... direct ... memorandum and order just two weeks later:

The senators had argued Blanche’s shutdown of crypto investigations would help support drug trafficking, child exploitation and scams. Now, they say their fears have been realized: Illicit crypto activities surged in 2025, a study found.

The president of the United States had his DOJ raid the Fulton County election office and seized ballots. This is clearly a dry run for 2026. Yet, this is treated by too many in legacy media as normal. I founded Democracy Docket in 2020 because you deserve better. Subscribe now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

Snow will gradually taper off overnight, though another burst or two of moderate snow is possible through early Sunday morning. From there, attention turns to single-digit wind chills to start February and the risk for black ice Sunday night and Monday morning.

Definitely a night to stay close to home.

Just got gassed pretty good at the labor union anti-ICE protest in Portland. Massive march, 5-10k strong. Vibes were very much liberal rather than radical. Lots of kids and older folks. They gassed the whole crowd as soon as it marched on ICE, in broad daylight.

Yes. The quickest shortcut is powering off your phone and Mac - they both require a password/passcode at first start

I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.

granular, practical, well organized info here: www.wired.com/story/how-to...

This rules so hard. In law school I remember people who wanted to be federal prosecutors spending three years doing everything they could to be maybe, possibly be competitive for an AUSA job someday. Now you just need to hop on X the everything app and DM a guy named Chad.