I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party. We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.

"If there's anyone in the world, who would get away with the unspeakable, it’s Donald Trump," @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social says. Trump says he’s been "exonerated" in the Epstein files - so why are dozens of FBI witness interviews relating to allegations against him reportedly missing?

The FBI conducted four interviews with a Trump accuser in 2019, according to the Epstein files, but details of only one are included.

If another country suspects that Americans have drugs on their boat are they allowed to blow it up and kill everyone too, or are only we allowed to do that?

Trump has been declaring that America is in a constant state of emergency for the past year. Funny how he couldn't be bothered explaining these critical national emergencies when he reported on the state of the union yesterday. Bit of an omission there, Donnie.

One of the best parts of the SOTU. Classic.

Democracy is dying in America. ICE is a murderous secret police force. We’re about to bomb Iran for Israel. Your kids are shot at in school daily, and pedophiles run our government. There’s no healthcare, and your food is poisonous. We need real leaders - not career politicians.

"We must reject political violence of any kind," says Trump, who pardoned hundreds of violent rioters who participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection that he inspired.

Al Green didn’t last long.

Sometimes the lower rungs fall first. That’s how power protects itself. But gravity works on everyone. The powerful who enabled or participated in Epstein’s abuse won’t outrun consequences forever. Corruption collapses from the bottom up. Don’t lose faith. #TrumpIsGuilty

We, the people, will move this nation forward in November.

I have spoken to two people now who have told me that only part of their FBI interviews are in the released files, and the parts of their interviews that are missing include mentions of Trump. 1/

DOJ is transparent as mud: "According to NPR's review of three different sets of serial numbers stamped onto the files, there appear to be 53 pages of interview documents and notes missing from the public Epstein database." (Pertaining to a Trump accuser.) www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

Senator Booker, who will not be attending tonight's address: "We are at a point of extreme crisis. There should not be business as usual. And we should not treat tonight as just another State of the Union address."

It sure seems like every other country is holding their predators accountable, but in America we keep on protecting ours. It'd sure be nice to put all these perverts in jail where they belong and finally get justice for the victims.

www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n... FOUR YEARS AGO TODAY Russia thought it would take just days to seize UKRAINE. FOUR YEARS LATER WAR still raging. Today honor and salute the HEROES of UKRAINE Unstoppable Courage Brave & Strong #SLAVAUKRAINE

Dear U.S. Men’s Hockey Team, Your daughters are watching. #SheShed

#MidtermsMatter so #GoMichigan‼️🗳☑️✉️💙🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊 lf YOU do mail-in ballot be aware of #USPS changes to postmarking/dating of mail.👍 Make sure YOUR vote counts & IS counted‼️✊️✊️✊️

Federal grand juror on her experiences over last 1.5 yrs. In my experience w/the Epstein files, I found the evidence presented to be credible and believable. There are evil people in the world who are wired differently & are this depraved. These things really do happen-made her sick to her stomach.

Ukraine is the biggest and most consequential of all the American betrayals www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #Ukraine #Russia #Putin #NAFO #SlavaUkraini

The Trump tariffs are the highest tax increase on the American public since World War II Yes, you read that correctly What's worse, he did it while taking health insurance away from 20 million people And giving $75 billion to ICE so they can hunt US citizens #TrumpTariffChaos

Yup. That was when I realized, hey, they like that douchebag. I understand the euphoria of the moment, but I watched their faces & not a single 1 showed any concern that that asshole was celebrating as if he'd helped win the medal. In their midst celebrating like a drunken Make-A-Wish kid.

Newsom: It’s the last stop. There’s no Board of Peace here. You can’t reestablish a new Supreme Court with a billion-dollar tithe and 27 of your friends from overseas. It’s time this guy starts to understand that he cannot operate as an imperial president — that he is subject to the rule of law.

Bezos probably deducted Maui as his home office.

Professional political scientist here. I give you permission to skip the State of the Union and actually spend your time on something else. Anything else.

Yes, he's rambling incoherently, but let's not overlook the fact that he looks and sounds like absolute dogshit.

"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."

When sociopathic non-scientists are given power over research, crimes occur: “It's a placebo-controlled study, so it planned to deprive 7,000 infants of the usual Hep B vaccine, and give birth doses to 7,000 others. In Guinea-Bissau, one in five adults have hepatitis B, which is very transmissible”

You don’t hear it much, probably due to corporate capture of media, but this is what FDR did that got the ‘33 Act and the ‘34 Act passed. generational anger at corporations funneled into aggressive legislation that would have been unthinkable ten years earlier.

it doesn't get enough attention that there is clearly something seriously wrong with the president's health and the White House is covering it up

This does not bode well for the State of the Union tomorrow.

“Not only has Congress not authorized such a war, but it has barely even debated it. The administration has not bothered to explain, either to Congress or the American people, why it might bomb Iran or what it hopes to achieve…This is how an autocracy goes to war.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/o...

Trump spent the last 8 months saying that "the nuclear threat of Iran was totally obliterated" by Operation Midnight Hammer which "set back Iran's ability to develop nuclear weapons for many years to come." Were they lying then or are they lying now?

Students from Chisholm Middle School and Newton High School in Kansas walked out this morning to protest ICE. The next generation is wide awake demanding justice, compassion, and humanity. #BlueCrew #ProudBlue #Resist #YouthPower #JusticeMatters #ICE #AbolishICE

When Samuel L. Jackson speaks, he speaks from lived experience. He’s calling out what many have felt for years that politics rooted in division and resentment harms young people, #LGBTQ+ communities, and anyone seen as “other.” #BlueCrew #ProudBlue #EqualityForAll #DemocracyDefenders #NoHate

Former ICE Employee: "I swore an oath to protect the nation when I signed up. I followed it when I resigned a little over a week ago. I am duty bound to report the legally required training program at the ICE academy is deficient, defective, and broken... #BlueCrew #ProudBlue #ICE #AbolishICE

Boycott the State of the Union open.substack.com/pub/robertre... Absolutely boycott the SOTU address. Robert Reich sums up why nicely, my favorite reason being: Trump is obsessed with ratings. Make his ratings suck and it will drive him over the edge. Plus, we know the SOTU. It Sucks. #BlueCrew

Ontario Premier Doug Ford slammed Donald Trump: “How can one person, one man, create so much turmoil around the world...I can't wait for the midterms."🇺🇸🇨🇦 #BlueCrew #ProudBlue #Resist #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

Robert De Niro on Donald Trump: “He’s an idiot. We’ve gotta get rid of him. He’s gonna ruin the country. Everything this country has worked for, represents, he is ruining it. I want my country back. There are more of us... #BlueCrew

These two morons deserve each other, but the rest of us are subject to their stupidity, corruption, incompetence, and villainy because of Trump.

So basically Trump can post that he’s sending a hospital ship to Greenland for no reason, then do absolutely nothing to actually send a hospital ship to Greenland because it was all a lie, and not one single Republican gets asked about it. That’s where we’re at.

At the end of the day, when every dollar of the massive slush fund of taxpayer money Republicans appropriated to DHS in 2025 is audited, we will find it to be the largest govt fraud scandal in history. In addition to ICE reforms, it will more than justify this shutdown.

This is totally deranged. Greenlanders are reporting that they have absolutely no idea what the hell Trump is talking about.

Of course, the irony of Trump’s post about us needing to send a “hospital boat” to Greenland was that it only emphasized the point that we, in fact, do not have any hospital ships in service right now that are available, while Greenlanders have free universal health care.

Farmer, 86, Rejects $15 Million Offer to Sell His Land to Data Center Developers: ‘Not Interested in Destroying My Farms’ Pennsylvania farmer Mervin Raudabaugh sold development rights to a land trust for $1.9 million instead.

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