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If Starmer 2.0 means nothing else, perhaps it can mean this…

BREAKING: The UK is blocking Trump from using its airbases to attack Iran. Trump is irate. The UK is having a good news day.

Russian air defense continues to fail as Ukraine's home grown missiles continue to fly further into russia. Russians go ballistic - about Putin cancelling Telegram. The russian military is shrinking and so is their economy youtu.be/0TTpE_G5qH4?...

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

British Columbia property companies controlled by prominent developer Terry Hui are taking the federal government to court, claiming a tax bill of more than $91 million will jeopardize future construction projects if they're made to pay up after a 12-year audit by the Canada Revenue Agency.

🇨🇦 Elbows Up Canada 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 Support Canada 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 Boycott U.S. 🇨🇦

10% yesterday. 15% today. As Gorsuch wrote, could be “1 percent or 1,000,000 percent .. and he may change his mind at any time for nearly any reason.” 🤡 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

US Citizen, Ruben Ray Martinez, was shot 3 times through the driver's side window & killed on South Padre Island in Texas by Homeland Security Investigators while celebrating his 23rd birthday on March 15th, 2025. This DHS & #ICELawlessness must stop. Remember his name: Ruben Ray Martinez 💔

A tariff “refund” mostly goes to whoever wrote the tariff check: the importer of record. That’s not the same person who paid more at the register. So refunds -- if they're offered -- might sound like consumer relief, but in reality, they're corporate windfalls.

GOP Congressional candidate Madison Cawthorn calls for hanging people in the streets

🧵California and Colorado lead a lawsuit against the Trump administration claiming they illegally canceled climate mitigation projects in their states (and eleven other states that did not vote for Trump) while letting similar projects in red states go forward.

Must be nice to have a functioning Supreme Court.

we’re basically speed running the Iraq war but -Iran is 2x the population -Iran is 4x the geographical area -zero allies on board -UK potentially actively refusing to let us use their bases -they’re not even bothering to try to manufacture consent this time

On this one I am totally with Kristi. The agents need to go to the Zegna boutique in Rapid City. Perhaps she and Corey can fly them there for a shopping spree in their luxuriously-appointed, DHS-rented Boeing 737 MAX 8

While Brendan Carr is cracking down on Stephen Colbert and "The View," he's turning a blind eye to right-wing talk radio. Color us shocked! Watch the full episode of Power Lines on YouTube: youtu.be/GXv8-FAA6H0?... And add us to your podcast list on Apple or Spotify: www.status.news/power-lines

I predict The State of the Union will sound like an angry drunk who just got dropped by their other half on Valentine's Day. It's going to be epically bitter and messy.

UPDATE: Remember when Monty Fritts confirmed to us women who get abortions should face execution? —> x.com/thetnholler/... Now Jody Barrett & Pody have a bill to make it the law in Tennessee😳: www.newschannel5.com/news/tenn-bi...

US science is being turned over to Peter Thiel, who will kill it. Trump installed one longtime Thiel lieutenant as his science advisor. Now another Thiel lieutenant, Jim O'Neill, will head NSF. Both are the least-qualified ever, with NO science training. They're picked because they serve Thiel. 1/

📽️NEW: Rep. Dan Goldman explains the misuse of the DOJ, federal interference in elections and voter suppression efforts ahead of the midterms. Drawing on his experience as a former federal prosecutor, he also frames the SAVE America Act as a central pillar of a broader election-subversion strategy.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has blocked a request from US President Donald Trump to allow US forces to use UK air bases during any preemptive attack on Iran, saying it could break international law 🤣 #FAFO www.cnn.com/2026/02/20/e...

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

🚨BREAKING: In a decisive win for voters, the Utah Supreme Court dismissed the GOP legislature’s appeal in the state’s landmark redistricting case — clearing the way for a fairer congressional map to be used in the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The coverage on Trump's potential Iran invasion has been woefully inadequate. And that's before you consider that none of them say, "Iran already agreed to a nuke deal, Trump ripped it up, causing the problem he's currently facing."

They will face accountability one day.👇

Today's budget was another missed opportunity for the BC Government to get out of the business of subsidizing private religious schools.

Today, @gregorrobertson.bsky.social and I jointly announced that BC and the federal government have put forward $370 million to rapidly build 700+ supportive and transitional homes to seriously address homeslessness in BC.

Here’s a gift link to a Miami Herald story about Epstein’s pals who tried to help him develop a positive spin about his rape of children: / Steve Bannon, Trump ally / Ken Starr, ex-solicitor general / Kathyrn Ruemmler, Obama ex-deputy counsel / Michael Wolff, “journalist” / Noam Chomsky, academic

Donald Trump seriously expects us to believe that he read the SCOTUS dissenting opinions? Come on! 🤣

A 19-year-old Palestinian American was killed and four others injured as they tried to stop a group of armed illegal Israeli settlers from stealing their sheep in the occupied West Bank.

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."

TRUMP IN GEORGIA NOW: "What word have you not heard in the last two weeks?? AFFORDABILITY! Because I've WON. I've won affordability." So unbelievably #delulu. #EconSky

David Hockney 🐆🧡🖤

The goods trade deficit in 2025: highest in history. 🇺🇸 (via @horp.bsky.social)

The repeal of the 2009 “endangerment finding” is one of the biggest shifts in U.S. vehicle policy in a decade. Short-term: lower vehicle prices, higher profits. Long-term: fewer EVs, higher fuel costs, ~$33B in projected societal costs by 2030. Policy shapes markets. Markets shape outcomes. #econsky

While the 23-year-old's death was reported in March 2025, it was not made clear that a ICE agent fired the fatal shot.

They "know damn well that every word of my script last night was approved by CBS’ lawyers, who for the record approve every script that goes on the air.”

Trump ripped up a working Iran deal. Had nothing to replace it with. Once again governing by whim with no idea of consequences got us here.

One thing that could be different this time: Iran won’t be the only one with drone swarm capability. This could be the first major combat test of the US-made LUCAS drone. With as quickly as Israel established air dominance last time, that’s a major problem for Iran.

In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers and others. See what changes are in store for your county 👇

A lawyer who played a key role in Trump’s failed effort to overturn Wisconsin’s 2020 election results is now helping the DOJ seek access to the state’s full voter registration list. His absence in any previous DOJ voting case suggests he’s been newly hired into the department’s voting section.

Countries that do not embrace AI could be ‘left behind’, says OpenAI’s George Osborne

NEW: Rather than turn former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández over to immigration officials when he was released from prison less than four years into a 45-year sentence, the Trump administration paid to transport him 350 miles to a posh NYC hotel. By @keribla.bsky.social

"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:

NEW: The FDA has removed a webpage warning about dangerous therapies claiming to treat autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under RFK Jr. to discredit long-established science. By @megomatz.bsky.social

Someone doused Renee Good’s Minneapolis memorial and a nearby pile of wood with gasoline and started a fire at about 9 p.m. Tuesday.

Once again, for the hundredth time: Alberta could solve this with a simple PST. You'd be able to balance the budget *and* save non-renewable resource royalties for the future. But, of course, the self-appointed "fiscal conservatives" won't entertain the idea. #abpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Folks! Action! Pls repost! PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD FOR PROPOSED BALLROOM HAS BEGUN. Submit your comments on the ballroom or register to testify! First deadline is to the Commission of Fine Arts. DUE FEB. 18 by NOON ET. 2nd deadline is for NCPC: 3/4/26 NOON ET. savingplaces.org/public-comme...