By the way, there’s no audio feed of the arguments. The clerk said people who want to cover it have to travel to Louisiana in person

Tapping the sign…

A recent NYT op-ed blamed the Trump's regime's lawless violence on 'paganism' while conjuring Christianity as the source of good values. I think this is a terrible way to think about history and gets in the way of cleaning up the messes Christians have made. My latest from @religiondispatches.org

Look, Trump's Cabinet of sycophantic criminals won't invoke the 25th Amendment because it would end of their grifting, but that doesn't mean we all can't keep yelling at them to do it. Same goes with the House GOP and impeachment. Republicans can end this any time they wanted. Make them own it.

When asked today if he will call for Gonzales to resign, Very Pious Christian Mike Johnson said no. Hanging on to power is the first chapter in MAGA Mike’s Bible.

Hey, Democrats, go ahead and attend the State of the Union, but only if you react in real time with this silhouette as your spirit guide.

Future generations are going to be puzzled that the Epstein files sparked literal violence including an assassination attempt. This is going to look like the Masonic Panic of the 1820s in retrospect.

Former members of CIA’s Afghani death squads now scared of being deported. Amazingly complex and difficult story. This is why I love the NYT despite its execrable political coverage.

Have any of the people that lionized Ed Snowden ever shown the same enthusiasm for a Trump administration whistleblower?

As I told my undergrads at the start of the semester, I'm not asking you to write a paper about Little Rock's school desegregation because I don't know what happened there. Little Rock is just the topic. The act of researching, writing and editing the paper is the whole point.

Another fantastic use of time, money, and political capital from the regime.

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

A new filing today in Rabbit (Chicago 6) reveals that DOJ turned over new discovery on 2/12. It showed that @katmabu.bsky.social and four other defendants MOVED AWAY from the vehicle the 6 are accused of impeding. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.

"A Government Tariff Refund Bait and Switch" www.wsj.com/opinion/a-go... This x 10000:

I've heard many people say we'll need another Reconstruction after Trump, so I decided to dive into the history and look at what that would mean. The latest from my newsletter:

I am going with "fault the BBC and producers" because while it still would have been an awful moment in the room and they may have wanted to address it/talk to Delroy and Michael - it would have mostly stopped there. That they let this air and go online when other things did not is inexcusable.

The Kobayashi Maru Training Exercise for people with "In This House We Believe" signs in their yard.

"President Trump wants to attack Iran but the USS Gerald Ford's toilets are clogged with shit" is the sentence I blurt out as soon as I travel back in time to the 1990s. I am immediately and, quite understandably, tased.

Observers watching federal immigration enforcement in Maine who were told by agents they were "domestic terrorists" and would be added to a "database" or "watchlist" are now part of a new federal class action lawsuit. n.pr/4s6JWgo

I dunno what specifically happened to the College Republicans but for a decade now it's been a just-on-the-edge-of-neo-Nazi club for far-right conspiracy freaks. It used to be for boring Reaganite nerds, now it's all 'lizard people locked me in my house' stuff. Would love to know how that happened.

these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion

Me with a scoop/exclusive Five days after Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest, federal authorities “directed” NY law enforcement authorities to “stand down” their investigations related to Epstein, new documents released by the Department of Justice show. Part of new Timeline on NY and Epstein.

"Kavanaugh doesn’t need rigid legal reasoning. His 62-page wallop is not for you or Congress or the companies that sued the administration or anyone else. It’s for Trump, so that Trump can see just how far Kavanaugh will go in order to ensure that his power swallows that of Congress and the courts."

Within a month, US Men's Hockey players will be all over podcasts whining about how they've been "canceled" because of how often people give them a mere "that's nice" reaction. Trump had already soured the mood, then they cemented the connection to fascist politics by celebrating with Kash Patel.

"hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag" says the guy who totally understands cognition and intelligence, especially women's brains huge L for every institution on his bio

Another example of why our highest court shouldn't have the lowest ethics standards. As our @hannahstoryb.bsky.social has covered in @prospect.org, Justice Alito's extensive oil holdings should have propelled him to sit out from considering this case. And he's not the only justice with such ties.

it's hard to explain to normies who are not plugged in on this just how thin the theories of anti-trans authorities really are. These people simply cannot believe that the NYT and The Atlantic would both push folks who are so full of shit.

Over the weekend, Dawson Maloney of Albany, NY, died in what appears to be an attempted attack on a substation outside of Las Vegas. Police shared a photo of the books they found in his hotel room, which include literature popular with neo-Nazi accelerationists. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

NEW: The USPS changed its rules on how it postmarks ballots. This may affect elections at every stage at which there's a mail deadline. An underplayed one: VOTER REGISTRATION. Many voters who send in their registration forms by mail could be postmarked late, missing out without realizing it.

The motions are “unopposed” because Trump now sits on both sides of the case—as the defendant and as the glowering visage who looks out from tall banners on the walls of a subjugated DOJ—and Judge Cannon did not allow any of the third parties who sought to intervene to argue for disclosure.

it's going to be a major political project for the rest of our lives to remind the goldfish brained american electorate every 2 years what the conservative definition of "criminal" actually is

they need to import this to the Stanley Cup playoffs, watching hockey players be handed stuffed animals while they seethe is the new funniest thing in the world

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There was a coordinated campaign to convince people that scientists were liars. Americans were fed a deluge of this 👇 for years from all over, every angle. Today, these actors claim they merely want to restore trust in science, as if we can't see that they taking a wrecking ball to it.

when your defender falls on his ass your shooting percentage goes up to 95%, those are the rules

"Largest tariffs in 90 years" and also "largest trade deficit in 90 years." Seems like the policy didn't achieve its stated goal.

Fantasy/reality

I try to avoid petty insults. But anyone who equates a new federal statute duly enacted through bicameralism and present pursuant to Article I, Section 7 (Obamacare) with an executive order that unilaterally implements a president’s whims with no congressional input (IEEPA tariffs) is an idiot.

The funny or not so funny thing is, assuming they were somehow balloons that were carrying weed or even fentanyl (not withstanding balloons not really being controlable) apparently these clowns didn't think of a risk analysis to see if it merited blasting some military laser weapon over a city.

Very interesting story here -->

"Tech companies like Palantir now stock vending machines with nicotine pouches in the hopes of boosting their workers’ productivity."

quelle surprise www.tmz.com/2026/02/22/m...

congrats to everyone, well done, no notes

Some (as always) excellent writing by @jamellebouie.net.

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

The centrist surrender caucus will memory-hole this, but there was a time roughly a year ago when there was a brewing conventional wisdom that Trump’s opponents shouldn’t stand up to him on immigration, specifically. Trump lost his strongest issue the moment it was elevated to public discourse.