CORRUPTION WATCH: The family of Commerce Secy Lutnick now gets pay outs of tens of billions or more in tariff refunds. The Fix Is In: Lutnick Family To Make Killing On Tariff Demise talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-f...

While Brendan Carr is cracking down on Stephen Colbert and "The View," he's turning a blind eye to right-wing talk radio. Color us shocked! Watch the full episode of Power Lines on YouTube: youtu.be/GXv8-FAA6H0?... And add us to your podcast list on Apple or Spotify: www.status.news/power-lines

"The people who are for the U.S. getting more entrenched in Israel's war with Iran—why? What is their rationale? Because it makes no sense politically." @timmiller.bsky.social and @michaeldweiss.bsky.social discuss the potential of war with Iran.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Wow, Obama said the justices were fools and lapdogs under the sway of foreign interests? That’s slipped my mind; boy, the tricks memory plays

WATCH: We asked Bully Rep. Gino Bulso (R-Brentwood) about his ongoing efforts to undermine marriage equality He won’t admit he’s trying overturn Obergefell, but tells us he’d “be happy to” defend his latest bill before the Supreme Court

“The initiative to have the Secret Service purchase suits happened because Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem disliked how a protective detail was dressed in the suits they bought for themselves, two sources familiar with the matter told @CNN.” w/ Holmes Lybrand

The American president is more insulated from accountability than a British royal. Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.

The Supreme Court ruling has helped the family of one man in particular: the architect of Trump’s tariffs himself. A firm headed by Lutnick’s sons was allowing its traders to purchase the rights to hundreds of millions of dollars of refunds in the event tariffs were struck down. trib.al/JcwQ9MT

Good News! The same mRNA platform used for COVID vaccines is now being personalized to fight aggressive breast cancer. buff.ly/PHcr1wu In a new study, custom tumor-targeting mRNA vaccines trained the immune system to attack the cancer. 10/14 patients cancer-free at 5 year mark! #medsky #oncsky

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search. But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections. newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

Democrats can now credibly call for the repeal of the Trump tax cuts and the clawing back of the additional ICE funding as a way of offsetting the revenue loss from the ending of the illegal tariffs.

A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing A 23-year-old American was shot last March in South Padre Island. ICE’s involvement in the shooting was not disclosed until this week.

Brace yourselves: Trump says he just signed an order to impose a 10% global tariff on top of the levies already in place after the Supreme Court ruled his sweeping emergency tariffs were illegal.

In the UK, they arrested a Prince who was found in the Epstein Files. Here in the US, the President instead released UFO files. Don’t get distracted. We know why—they are trying to protect their friends. But, we won’t stop until everyone is held to account.

TRUMP: THE U.S. WOULD OWE TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS IF THE SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST MY TARIFFS!!! SCOTUS: Maybe don’t illegally impose tariffs you don’t have the authority to implement, then dare the courts to stop you. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Her father fled China because he organized student protests during Tiananmen. He was a political refugee. The story of this family, and Alysa Liu, would have played out very differently today. This is what we're losing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...

Trump has suffered major losses recently — in both federal courts and the court of public opinion. It's why he lashes out at the media, spreads lies, attacks his political enemies, and tries to rig elections. These are the actions of a tyrant with his back against the wall. Be warned.

Cool to know that there are three votes on SCOTUS for *anything* Trump does. That's not concerning at all.

McConnell dunks on Trump.

You can still shoot a person on 5th avenue as long as it is not a corporate person

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Tough break for everyone banking on those tariff rebate checks.

This underscores another reason for Dems to emphasize criminal prosecutions in the upcoming campaign—at the very least it adds a risk consideration for all perpetrating these heinous acts, and might at least temper the worst abuses. Cc @hcrichardson.bsky.social

BREAKING: DOJ to investigate Supreme Court for mortgage fraud.

The Roberts Court has a clear set of guidelines: the president can do anything he pleases, so long as it does not violate the rights of the owning class.

The most shocking thing about this decision: 3 Justices would have let Trump use a statute that doesn’t mention tariffs to impose unrestricted ones.

It is pretty telling that it comes as something of a surprise that the Supreme Court sided with the Constitution over Trump.

Corporate Media roasted Obama for wearing a tan suit, but is uninterested in exploring allegations Trump raped children.

Our Elite are so insanely stupid & selfish & short-sighted that we need to spell this out for them, but if we do not hold top Trump officials accountable for their crimes against US they will keep trying to commit crimes against US. We did the no accountability thing under Biden, it did not work.

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NEW: The Supreme Court strikes down President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs. https://to.pbs.org/4kIlmjo

Key issue to bear in mind as you watch today's political response to the Supreme Court tariff decision: The Court didn't say that the US can't issue tariffs, simply that the President has to convince (the Republican-controlled) Congress first. If tariffs are great, that should be easy to do.

“The Brits and Americans were saying it was going to happen…But the French and Germans were telling him: ‘Don’t listen to this, it’s all nonsense.’” www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

30. Footnote 2 to today's thread. I mentioned how in South Korea, justice means insurrectionists get life in prison but here, they get criminal immunity. Here's @thelisagraves.bsky.social on what John Roberts did to the rule of law in America. www.graveinjustice.news/p/john-rober...

Virginia Giuffre is the hero in the EPSTEIN SCANDAL How she bravely became a key voice in bringing down Prince Andrew www.axios.com/2026/02/19/p...

This was here in Nashville yesterday…

Good morning to a country in the running for the most credulous and delusional on earth. USA. Stupid is just as dangerous as evil. Maybe more so. Stupidity has no limit.

Well, we can't afford groceries but good to know Trump gets his $400 million ballroom. apnews.com/article/trum...

"Unlike the 'meritocracy' they are trying to build in which white men are restored to their proper dominance, the Olympics are pretty close to a true meritocracy. Conservatives can’t whine that Simone Biles or Chloe Kim must have gotten their spots by pushing aside a more 'qualified' white athlete."

Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office. This is looting.

Arresting a former prince sends a message. And if a former president can testify on Capitol Hill, there’s no reason the current one can’t too—unless this is all about protecting Donald Trump. Insist that your representatives in Congress make that happen. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

"We are behind… How do I guarantee that if you show up to work today nothing's going to happen to you?" Construction company owner says ICE raids are decimating her workforce — After 15 years, she fears this will be her last year as projects fall weeks behind. (From @wcconews.bsky.social )

Wondering if any republicans in Congress who flipped out when Clinton and Lynch ran into each other, or wouldn’t shut up about Jack Smith “conspiring” with Biden, would have anything to say about this shit.

Totally normal political party you got there tiffinohio.net/posts/ohio-g...

Nailed it.

In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

*Alan Dershowitz* had the audacity in 2019 to demand @jkbjournalist.bsky.social be denied a Pulitzer for her Epstein work. www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14003/pulitz... Julie was right. The victims were right Julie's relentless, heroic journalism should be recognized. Give her the damn Pulitzer.

The sheer scale of the corruption - announced just today - is astounding and shameful.

I truly feel sorry for every American smart enough to realize that this makes the United States look like the dumbest nation on the planet.