When you build a machine to target people based on gender, race, or any other identity, it ends up targeting Jews too. New deposition testimony shows a DOGE staffer flagged a Holocaust documentary—about Jewish women forced into slave labor by the Nazis—for termination. His reason is shocking. 🧵

Here's the truth: Senate Republicans could pay our TSA agents and fund FEMA today. In fact, they could've funded it last week. @democrats.senate.gov brought a simple, clean bill that would fund these essential agencies while we keep negotiating on ICE and CBP. Republicans blocked it.

KENNEDY: You said, 'Republicans think can troll their way to ethnic cleansing.' Did I read that correctly? BIER: DHS tweeted for 100m deportations. That would be ethnic cleansing! K: You don't think it's hyperbolic? B: I think advocating 100m deportations is ethnic cleansing. Yes. Your time is up

"Remember when they told you the war was costing $1 billion a day? Turns out it was $3 billion a day just for the munitions. Oops." x.com/jekavanagh/s... www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

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Justice Department pardon attorney Ed Martin is facing a formal disciplinary proceeding for alleged threats against the First Amendment rights of Georgetown Law and improper communications with a judge.

how are we still getting David Rivera stories in 2026

“I emerged from this briefing as dissatisfied and angry, frankly, as I have from any past briefing in my 15 years in the Senate. I am left with more questions than answers.”

iran’s face when you bomb their oil — the only reason it kept the strait open — and then they realize what it means they get to do now

The disconnect between the research and patient protections I navigate in day-to-day life and what these vandals were apparently able to do is absolutely unbelievable.

Holy shit - this would be very, very bad: "The databases, called “Numident” and the “Master Death File,” include records for more than 500 million living and dead Americans, including Social Security numbers, places and dates of birth, citizenship, race and ethnicity, and parents’ names."

It's going to have potentially devastating effects on global agriculture too -- a lot of the raw materials for fertilizer come through that strait.

Iran has begun laying mines in the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s most important energy chokepoint that carries about one-fifth of all crude oil, according to two people familiar with US intelligence reporting on the issue.

Totally normal market. Very relaxing.

Wow. Who could have foreseen this.

This is absolutely maddening. We “can’t afford” Medicaid, to help children with food insecurities or fund education but we can waste millions on these buffoons and their lavish lifestyles. $25 mil on Surf and Turf for Kegseth $200 mil for Kristi Noem’s mile-high-club.

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“Art is to console those who are broken by life.” ― Vincent van Gogh need my bed take care of yourselves🌿

Rescuers use heavy machinery to search for people following a landslide at Indonesia's biggest landfill. The landslide at Bantargebang in Bekasi buried trucks and food stalls, killing five people, with at least four more still missing 📸 Bay Ismoyo

The US Navy faces a very plausible risk of significant surface combatant losses in a future great power conflict. Not the precedent you want to be setting here.

Natibu was found submerged and stuck inside a water pipeline manhole. He arrived at Kaluku deeply traumatised — claustrophobic in his stable for a long time after. The Keepers earned his trust, slowly. This is the same elephant. No reservations about water whatsoever.www.sheldrickwild...

“The earth laughs in flowers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Think about that for a moment: a six-year-old child with a disability suddenly in a different country, separated from the country he has come to know, now surrounded by silence. The horror stories from this White House continue from ICE.”

Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.

Today, Father Pierre Al-Rai was killed by Israeli army artillery shelling.

Once upon a time, MAGA promised no more wars in the Middle East and a focus on strategic confrontation with China. The President just told his press conference he was fighting a war in the Middle East, partially to secure China’s oil supplies. Hope everyone is keeping up.

Alex Butterfield was Admin for the FAA after leaving the Nixon WH. He was forced out after the horrific Turkish Air crash near Paris that revealed a critical fault in the DC10. Butterfield pushed for changes at the FAA which did not go over well with DOT. He was, for sure, a fascinating man.

Rly hoping there's some #WITAOD tidbit in these depositions that hasn't come out. timestamp link: "They were closer to Elon, and, Elon was defacto [pauses, makes a face] the relationship with Trump. And so, prioroties coming from whoever's closest with Elon" he almost slipped! Elon defacto WHAT??

Pour one out for all those times in the last 20 years the Republican Party accused Democrats of being weak on foreign policy, apologizing to the rest of the world, & failing at everything in IR. Congrats to everyone who ate that up & made it a central point in the National Conversation™️. Well done.

WHELP.

A “criminal explosion" has hit a synagogue in Liège, Belgium. “A violent act of antisemitism," a local government spokeswoman told ABC News.

EU can no longer rely on 'rules-based' system against threats, von der Leyen says reut.rs/4sqZETM

The Grapes, Liverpool Retweets/Sharing appreciated 6th pub painted out of painting every Liverpool pub #Liverpoolpubs #Liverpool #ScousePubs

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Uhhh, the first lady of NYC liked a video of hamas killing dogs?

Human Miseries, from the Suite of Late Wood-Block Prints https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/1208287

Biggest boom yet in central Beirut. Just before 8 am here on a Monday…

This is SICK. Pure evil.

kinda wild that the guy who had been doing pre-war shuttle diplomacy to get this shit started is now posting like this

Hong Kong stocks sink alongside Asian markets after oil crosses US$100-SCMP

It’s even worse than that, because the administration’s policies have radically contracted admissions to PhD programs. Not only have they gotten rid of PhDs, they’ve bombed the pipeline of folks who might one day replace them. It’s scientific infrastructure terrorism.

In January, the inflation rate in a year was expected to be 2.3% Today, the inflation rate a year from now is expected to be 4.5% — or just about *double* what the forecast said a few weeks ago

BREAKING: Judge blocks Trump plan set to take effect Monday that would rapidly dismiss many/most? immigration appeals. Judge Randy Moss (Obama/DC) says DOJ has to complete notice-and-comment before such a change. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/27...

OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters." www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...

If you, or one of your loved ones, are one of those people who likes to eat food, you need to read this story. Because farmers from Poland to Australia to South Dakota are starting to freak out over the insane spike in fertilizer prices. Gift link ⤵️ www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The pre-markets look like the red wedding.

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ok this is at least very funny