This is my state of the union #SOTU www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYnE...

Stop trying to make like there's some kind of grand strategy or secret plan at work. It's not that. Truly. It's the simplest thing you can possibly imagine. Don't think "four-dimensional chess" Think "toddler + cheerios" www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/b...

Calling it SAVE Act helps MAGA. It’s the Voter Elimination Act. They name everything deliberately; repetition breeds familiarity, increases comfort & approval. We should not parrot their talking points (“Citizens United” “Alligator Alcatraz” “immigration enforcement”.)

This agency is irredeemable. They filled it with racist shithead Nazis and it's got to go.

TSA pre-check should not exist in the first place

Abolish ICE and start over. They are polluted culture of lies, violence and impunity. Rotten to the very core and HUGE WASTE OF MONEY. Tear it down and start again.   www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

They all just wanted in on it. “Swamp,” my ass.

Uncle Jeffy Tiedrich says today in his newsletter: "Here’s one sure way you can tell you’re living in a shithole country: when the following two headlines appear one after another."

Hey, Austin Smith! Thanks for proving once more that with Reich-Wingers, every accusation is a confession. #ElectionFraud #AustinSmith #TPUSA

So the previous strikes didn’t “totally obliterate” their nuclear capability then? The same lies and propaganda over and over

"If you want to know who took all of your money, it's the people with all of the money." — Anat Shenker-Osorio

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

And the poetry he invented was easy to understand; He knew human folly like the back of his hand, And was greatly interested in armies and fleets; When he laughed, respectable senators burst with laughter, And when he cried the little children died in the streets. Epitaph on a Tyrant #BookWormSat

You just know that “Did Women Ruin the Workplace?” bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique

Washington’s refusal to regulate AI is a corruption story. Just ask Donald Trump and Speaker Mike Johnson.

Top story tonight on: ABC World News Tonight: Trump tariff defeat NBC Nightly News: Trump tariff defeat PBS NewsHour: Trump tariff defeat CBC The National: Trump tariff defeat Sky News The Wrap: Trump tariff defeat CBS Evening News: Bomb cyclone might hit

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

Pritzker’s invoice to White House: (via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Somewhere there's a data center where the GPUs are glowing like supercritical nuclear rods, inhaling the trees and small animals and water and air all around it, mulching the people standing nearby for extra power, to produce "intelligence" that could not pass first grade

"AI is the future" The future:

People are very worked up about The Mandalorian and Grogu. The movie isnt out yet! Relax! See it or dont, but jeez it's tiresome people hating everything before they see it #starwars

I feel like Tom Gores and the Pistons should be included here, his private equity firm owns the prison phone monopoly, it's at least adjacent to the DHS concentration camp industrial complex.

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

One thing that may dramatically shake up our political life on this planet is the advent of a strong new El Niño. (Also our, you know, life life) billmckibben.substack.com/p/an-el-nino...

Burying the lede in paragraph 21: "At the White House, officials said they still believe that they can proceed with their attempts to dissolve the department and relocate its staff this year, arguing that the new funding legislation did not explicitly prevent them from doing so."

Yet another impeachable offense for when people who believe in the Constitution get control of Congress

What a disgrace. #Climate impacts will be devastating. The immediate impacts will be disgusting. Have #asthma? Good fucking luck! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/c...

Remember when we thought you could look up to a president?

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

Last July, I wrote a follow up to "Fascism and the English Language" specifically covering immigrant rights language. Concentration camps was correct then & is now. So too is not using "immigration" as qualifier for acts that are crimes. contrarian.substack.com/p/fascism-an...

This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.

Here's the thing: This was true in 2024. In the very same surveys where media shouted from rooftops that majorities supported "mass deportation" MORE people supported having people stay. But the latter didn't merit airtime. Chart credit: @mikepod.bsky.social

Just as ICE and CBP have no legitimate role in "election security" neither does the head of DHS. The mere existence of this press conference should be a scandal, much less this tone-deaf comment.

I really don't care about anyone's "he can't do this because states run elections!" argument. This is an explicit pledge to rule lawlessly by the commander-in-chief of the world's most powerful military, who is also currently constructing a nationwide system of detention camps.

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Nuremberg Trials.

TRICKLE UP!!!💯💯🤬🤬🤬💯💯 tRumpstein's budget chief Russell Vought reportedly DIVERTED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS EARMARKED FOR USAID!!! THE FEDERAL AGENCY THAT ONCE PROVIDED GLOBAL HUMANITARIAN AND ECONOMIC AID 😪 IN ORDER TO PAY FOR HIS SECURITY DETAIL!!! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Swalwell: ICE agents shot Alex Pretti and Renee Good. And the only person in the world who has been held accountable by DHS is the pilot who somehow forgot to move Kristi Noem’s blankie.

As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues. About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”

So infuriating.

I forgot who said it, but “genocide by rug pull” really is an apt phrase for this outcome.

Vaguely recall how Biden admin emails to Twitter were the biggest attack on free speech ever. There was a whole twitter files thing about that. Curious where are Elon, Taibbi, Bari and crew on this?

"Democratic politicians urgently need to adopt the GOP view of public opinion—that it’s movable, and it’s their job to move it." newrepublic.com/article/2058...

oh so just dumb luck these idiots didn’t shoot down a passenger aircraft

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

Bondi getting appropriately savaged for citing Culver City

A flurry of MAGA names turned on Pam Bondi after her wild meltdown in front of Congress.

Blondi caught holding proof she covered up disgusting crimes and spied on Congress. #Epsteingate www.rawstory.com/pam-bondi-26...