Under Unitary Executive Theory, I think this is an admission that Trump did it...

New video from @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social on her months of reporting on Gregory Bovino — and the legacy he leaves behind www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

something very funny about Republicans being like "ok so the White House says racist stuff all the time but--"

🎵Well, the editor said to the publisher, "A man ain't nothin' but man, And before I let that multbot beat me down I'll die with thesaurus-dot-com in my hand, Lord, Lord, I'll die with thesaurus-dot-com in my hand"🎶

Folks should consider actually reading the NYT Britt profile rather than just angrily complaining about a screenshot. It is ... not flattering!

“We’re bringing bitcoin to America and America is going to win the crypto revolution—that much I can tell you!” Eric enthused. “We finally have a competent president in the White House. And we have a president who loves this industry. And who is behind this industry 100 percent!”

Meanwhile, on the bitcoin farm...

6 vital lessons from Minnesota’s general strike

If the right wants to claim Bluey as the pop-culture model for the world they want, that's better than pretty much any alternative and we should enthusiastically encourage it

Kamala Harris could be governor of California and the de facto leader of the Democratic Party at basically the stroke of a pen. Instead she's going to... do some memes?

Trump at National Prayer Breakfast: "They rigged the second election. I had to win it. I needed it for my own ego. I would've had a bad ego for the rest of my life. Now I really have a big ego. Beating these lunatics was incredible ... The first time they said I didn't win the popular vote. I did"

Judges, and the people ICE is detaining, keep pointing out that this crisis is one of the administration's own making -- adopting a policy of mass detention without preparing for inevitable surge of legal battles. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Really makes you appreciate all the lawyers working "weekends and holidays" to *file* these habeas petitions—and who seem to be a lot less whiny than the government...

I cowrote a cover story!

Minneapolis is the violent reckoning the gun rights movement has long wanted -- from @thetrace.org

Our hot new MJ cover story on all the idiotic things Trump is doing to control America's 250 anniversary celebrations and ictate the presentation of US history and culture is online. Read it before the First Amendment gets canceled. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

* Helen of Troy * Santa Claus * Ariel Is there a fourth example out there? If so, we can make a whole Connections category...

If you've only clocked what's happened to the East Wing or the Kennedy Center...that's the tip of the iceberg. America's 250th birthday is being turned into a celebration of one man and his cult. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Incredible accounting of all the ways that Trump is trying to rewrite, abolish, bulldoze, destroy America's history and gaslight the public by @dfriedman.bsky.social and @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Here's an absolutely wild deep-dive from @dfriedman.bsky.social and @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social into Trump's all-out assault on America history and the bizarre political struggles among the alphabet soup of official 250th-anniversary organizations

whhyyyyyyy?

AND THEY BAILED! After all that, Watson just came on to announce that Bondi/Gabbard/Noem are not appearing at the NASS conference. Damn.

SCOOP from @samanthamichaels.bsky.social. The Trump admin is pressuring Minnesota federal prosecutors to criminally charge anti-ICE protesters based on weak, one-sided evidence. Those attorneys are PISSED. And more are resigning.

I visited hotels all over Minneapolis, went into back rooms & talked to the staff. They're afraid. One told me she resents how her undocumented coworkers spend their days cleaning the rooms of agents who are “hunting down their family members.” @notus.com: www.notus.org/immigration/...

Should the president who is flooding your neighborhood with heavily armed thugs be allowed to order the government to pay him $10 billion of your money because of his own administration's past negligence?

I usually don't release discarded draft versions but this feels like it might be useful today

"Who's city is it Chief? Bovino: "It's our fucking city." And that, in a nutshell, is the problem. It is not a democracy when men with guns and uniforms believe they have more control over a city than its residents.

In the first draft I had Homan speaking these words, but at the moment Bovino was the more visible face of the occupation so I swapped him out

Reading between the lines of Homan's reprehensible gangsterism, Trump is trying to find a way to withdraw and save face.

This is outrageous

If SCOTUS ultimately weighs in on the underlying recusal issue here, there had better be at least one footnote citing this thread

Hate crime hoaxes — and hoaxes about politically salient crimes generally — are common across the political spectrum, and cautious skepticism is good. Also, the attack on Ilhan Omar was not a hoax.

JD Vance's Holocaust message was fine. It's everything else he does that's appalling.

This @adamserwer.bsky.social dispatch from Minnesota is so good. You'll be glad you read it, I promise. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Me, feigning excitement: “Who’s ready for remote learning?” The 7 year-old, loud and (genuinely?) angry: “We already know how to use the remote!”

The more time they spend infighting the less time they spend uhhh outfighting

Katie Miller tweeting out Stephen’s comments casting blame on CBP. Comes after reporting of Noem shifting blame to Miller.

"Today there was National Guard at the Walmart—they kept on staring me and my two sisters up and down. I told them they’re not supposed to be here. I said, 'When are they leaving?' They said, 'We’re never leaving.'"

Here's some really upsetting video from the raid

If you can stomach it, please stop what you are doing and read this absolutely gutting story from @samanthamichaels.bsky.social about federal immigration agents terrorizing a family in Memphis

“They should see how my mom gets on her knees, starts crying..."

To save everyone time regarding the obvious question here... the answer is: "Both."

"The Court acknowledges that ordering the head of a federal agency to personally appear is an extraordinary step, but the extent of ICE's violation of court orders is likewise extraordinary, and lesser measures have been tried an failed."

NEW: A federal judge in Minnesota orders Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons to appear IN PERSON this Friday and explain why he shouldn't be held in contempt. "The court's patience is at an end," writes Bush-appointed Judge Patrick J Schiltz, who clerked for Scalia. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

A whole lot of people who think it's unfair to second-guess the split-second decisions of heavily armed, professional law enforcement agents are nonetheless perfectly willing to dissect whether the civilians killed by those agents followed some mystical proper procedure to avoid death

pretty wild statement re: Republican Chris Madel drop from race for MN governor: "Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."

The Harpers Letter was good actually. And many of its signers have been outspoken in denouncing Trump's abuses. (Many have not!)

He's announcing a new strategy for weaponizing the DOJ against protesters: "Separately, a major investigation is going on with respect to the massive 20 Billion Dollar, Plus, Welfare Fraud that has taken place in Minnesota, and is at least partially responsible for the violent organized protests"