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Today marks 14 years since 17-year-old, unarmed Trayvon Martin was shot and killed while walking home. 14 years later, we’re still demanding a country where our children can walk home in peace — without being treated like a threat.

“On the merits, its detentions are illegal,” the judge wrote. “[The government] knows this.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/n...

This week's cover @thelancet.com

Remember, ICE only goes after "the worst of the worst" -- murderers, rapists, drug traffickers and, apparently, Ivy League students cramming for a Genetics exam.

The second you leave this country for even a few days, you realize the place you call home is decaying at an almost exponential pace. The realization that you don't have to live like this is stark, and that nobody in power is taking tangible actions to fix it in your lifetime is even starker.

C’mon NYT. “Woman who was a minor?” Can‘t bring yourself to say “child?”

Here’s a thought for James Comer. There IS a First Lady who has had a relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. And it’s not Hillary Clinton. It might be worthwhile for Comer to subpoena the First Lady who actually knows Epstein. You know, just to see what she knows.

Julie Brown has been the best single reporter on the subject, and this particular piece demonstrates the stupefying extent of the Epstein conspiracy…before it became an open conspiracy by the people in possession of our entire federal government. bsky.app/profile/jkbj...

Financial Times exclusive: Tens of thousands of internal emails and documents released by the US Department of Justice as part of the Epstein files paint for the first time a vivid picture of how Deutsche Bank rolled out the red carpet for the serial sexual abuser. ft.trib.al/6lAW6ay

Talked to Roger Sollenberger who was first to report on the DOJ covering up the transcripts of 3 FBI interviews with an underage Trump accuser in the Epstein Files. Reporting since been confirmed by NPR/WSJ. Big story. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqCx...

It is very hard not to have a safe choice to use the bathroom in public. It may be impossible to continue living, working, eating, etc without a valid driver's license if your life was built around driving and the assumption that your license wouldn't be invalidated overnight by the legislature.

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"The president had DOJ illegally cover up documents about allegations he sexually assaulted a child after Congress specifically passed a law requiring they be disclosed" is, in and of itself, enough to merit rapid removal from office regardless of how true or credible the underlying allegation is.

Short and to the point. An independent team of virologists and experts, most of the SAGO group assembled after the WHO disbanded the original inquiry, finds no reason to favor any hypothesis above zoonosis for the pandemic. Buries the DEFUSE distraction in a few paras. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The State of the Union as speech is a stupid tradition in a country that can't handle substance. It was stupid when Democratic presidents did it. It is Idiocracy-level stupid now. The next president should go back to sending a letter to Congress.

Our kids won’t have jobs due to AI but at least they can gamble on everything.

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.

Mainstream media with Trump.

Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.” They pulled a Target.

This is quite possibly the dumbest — and most dangerous — idea ever. Grok is unreliable and frequently manipulated by Elon based on whatever bender he’s on. Will this version of Grok be air-gapped from the public version? Will they share knowledge repositories? What a shitshow.

Is much of NYT's and Politico's hysterically misinformed reporting out of Munich really explained by misogyny? Pretty much so, yes.

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes. $9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….

"Directed to Stand Down" What I discovered in the Epstein files on FBI/SDNY telling NYPD/Manhattan DA to back off Epstein investigations. At the time, Manhattan DA had reached out to a victim who'd just come forward. 1/2 Full video in second link

In 2018, the top FBI agent in Los Angeles held a single meeting of his senior staff during an MLB playoff game at Dodger Stadium. It was the end of his 25-year FBI career. www.politico.com/news/2020/08...

They can’t figure out how to spend the extra $500 billion they gave themselves for the military, but cut our healthcare and food assistance because they said they couldn’t afford it.

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

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newsone.com/6850568/body... Black man found hanging in Marietta ga. a couple of days ago. No news coverage again. Likely not a suicide as they are again trying to say. Statistically speaking Black people don’t hang ourselves from trees. Any guess of who would do this?!

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search. But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections. newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

He'd nuke us to feel better about himself.

Cool to know that there are three votes on SCOTUS for *anything* Trump does. That's not concerning at all.

Chris Murphy on Trump’s State of the Union address: “These aren’t normal times and showing up for this speech puts a veneer of legitimacy on the corruption and lawlessness that has defined his second term”

The fake news will say I said what I said in the previous sentence.

I just want all you Kazakhs to understand I don't like you that way.

The US trade deficit, which Trump has vowed to reduce, remained almost exactly the same in 2025 ($901 billion) as it was in 2024 ($903 billion) as steep tariffs scrambled trade but did not halt it. @anaswanson.bsky.social @bencasselman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/b...

1. DHS surges 3,000 officers to Minneapolis without doing anywhere near enough prep first. 2. Hundreds of habeas cases overwhelm local courts. 3. Dozens of DOJ lawyers quit in disgust/anger. 4. The DOJ brings in JAGs to cover. 5. A JAG was just held in contempt and fined $500/day for ICE's failures.

How much would you pay the U.S. Treasury to tell Trump to shut up? I think I’d pay a lot. We could clear more money than the tariffs, I bet, if we put him in a room and made him listen to Americans telling him to shut his pie hole.

There’s a lot to investigate and report on from today’s stunning deposition of Les Wexner. But here’s something I can’t get over. I asked Mr. Wexner if the DOJ or FBI ever contacted him to ask him about Epstein and his crimes. He said NO. That’s outrageous and unforgivable.

A patient of mine had to contact me from a burner phone (his had been confiscated by police) and is due in court because he was posting about ICE activity-- in other cities. He was told he is accused of being a "threat to national security" A 66 year old disabled man just posting on Facebook....

So the Israeli government installed the surveillance system in the Epstein townhouse in Manhattan, while the Russian GRU installed the surveillance system on Epstein Island. Quite something. x.com/academic_la/...

The good news is, on earth 2 we used the gazillion dollars we collected in tariffs to pay off the debt in full.

Yes, exactly this. There's a major opening here: All the attention to ICE brutality has awakened people to their social, economic, and communal ties to immigrants in their midst, which should allow Dems to restate the case for making it easier for them to get right with the law:

"russia wants peace on their own terms" is the equivalent of "the Taliban want to educate women differently". We'd all mock and reject the second framing. Stop whitewashing russia and its intentions.

Marco’s speeches are so mid they sound like they were written by an 8th grader using ChatGPT. Setting aside the fact that they’re pro fascism, which we apparently have to, they’re worthless platitudes delivered via a tiny man with perpetual cotton mouth.

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...

I know this makes me an extremist but I think our baby concentration camps should be abolished.

"If we have to follow the law and constitution we won't be allowed to break the law and violate the constitution" says man sworn to uphold the constitution.