A man with a shotgun and a fuel can was shot and killed after breaching the secure perimeter at Mar a Lago. Side note: Trump isn’t in Florida this weekend. Going to file this under “stupid games, stupid prizes” Stop testing Secret Service - they WILL kill you.

By the time he’s done, I’ll bet that at least a quarter of the national debt will just be money he stole.

What’s wrong with Trump’s plan to make Americans provide identification to register to vote and/or to vote? @staceyabrams.com & I explain how these benign-sounding proposals are being used to suppress the right to vote. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

I just want to live in a country where the leader can’t enrich themselves with our tax dollars, the government does what the people want, and the wealthy have to follow the laws. You know, like a democracy.

I can answer this one. The president of the United States is dangerously psychotic and no one in his political party will say it, nor will 95% of American media.

I’ve written about this multiple times, but MOST countries aren’t prepared for this kind of war. I don’t think folks understand how much combat has evolved during the Russo-Ukrainian war. It’s unrecognizable from other modern conflicts. www.thetimes.com/business/com...

I believe in giving credit where it’s due. Hang the entire Gorsuch concurrence in the Louvre. Master class in telling your colleagues they’ve lost their fucking minds.

Pritzker demands a $1,700 refund per family for the people of Illinois after Trump's tariffs were ruled unconstitutional. Dems, pay attention. This is your midterms message.

Did you see that Pritzker sent Trump an $8.6 billion invoice for his tariffs? I think “Trump is stealing your money, we’re going to give it back to you” is an great message for Democrats, and if they add “oh, and we’re also going to bring these criminals to justice,” even better.

This was supposed to be the response to this question: bsky.app/profile/angr...

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.

Trump acknowledges that Democrats would be better off packing the court. YES THEY WOULD. IF DEMS WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO ME ABOIT THIS, I HAVE EXTENSIVE NOTES

If we don’t call for the camps to be closed, no one will The history of Guantanamo tells us exactly what happens when people with good intentions confuse a dirty bandage with a cure.

Iran is also in a state of diminished capacity to respond than they were in his first term. I'm sure action against Iran is sold to him as low-hanging fruit.

Ossoff: "There are some folks who are doomscrolling in the fetal position. Every day there is a new outrage. It's easy I know to fear that maybe we could lose our republic. I think what John Lewis would tell us is it's up to us. We have the power to right the ship. Nobody is gonna do it for us."

New in PN: How MAGA learned to love Christian persecution "Some on the hard right think is religion amounts to a punitive impulse: the desire to punish perceived evildoers and transgressors, even when they are fellow Christians."

No WAY.

"It is difficult to comprehend the level of state-sponsored criminality we are witnessing because our country has never experienced anything like it."- #NYDailyNews (wait'll ya experience the midterms...) #AccountabilityIsComing ⚖️

The former Prince Andrew was arrested today because of revelations in the Epstein Files. At no time has his brother, the King Of England, called the files a hoax, covered up or redacted any perpetrator’s names. Because he isn’t one of them. You see, an innocent person wouldn’t do that.

reported by reuters, link to the ruling in the story www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

The underlying decision is HUGE. Judge Sykes vacated under the APA "Matter of Yajure-Hurtado," the decision from the Board of Immigration Appeals that had blessed the Trump admin's new interpretation of a 1996 law to deny the right to seek bond to huge swathes of people it takes into custody.

Editorials from New York Times and Washington Post. My advice: support pro-democracy independent media. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

Texans: After nearly three decades in charge, “we can fix it” sounds like a confession.

New — I wrote about WINNING for a change!

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Ho-lee Shit. This is phenomenally good news. Department of Education rolls back— for now— its attempts to destroy Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility initiatives. Keep an eye on them, of course, and watch for the hidden knife, always, but for now: Fantastic news.

CA IS SUING TRUMP FOR ILLEGALLY TERMINATING $1.2B IN CONGRESSIONALLY APPROVED FUNDING FOR THE NATION’S LARGEST HYDROGEN HUB He defied Congress, jeopardized 200K jobs and risked billions in health savings We won’t let political retaliation wreck our economy or hand clean energy leadership to China

Harris knows the answer. Bartiroma doesn't even need to ask it because she know the answer too. Trump can create whatever EO he wants and has. He's routinely issued EOs that are patently unenforceable. EO's are not the law. Liars. Flat out liars. Hucksters. All of them.

"The rest of us need to follow in Minnesota’s footsteps. And not just when DHS launches a surge in a particular city. We need the grass-roots, spontaneous exercise of civic leadership in the fight against authoritarianism on every front for the next three years." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Also noting that when asked about all these details, Jeanine Pirro's office declined to comment -->

Counterpoint: Don’t upload your medical records to any LLM. That’s fucking insane.

Last year, surveillance giant Palantir (who got an 8-figure contract from ICE) paid $0 in federal income tax despite making $1.5 BILLION, partly due to new tax cuts in Trump's Big, Beautiful Bill. They cut Medicaid & SNAP to pay for this. This monstrosity must be reversed.

My latest for Liberal Currents. A substantial portion of conservatives want to be rich people in a poor country because it affords them a greater sense of hierarchy and power. We misunderstand that at our peril, but making it clear and not affording them the benefit of the doubt could save us.

Colbert: “Let’s just call this what it is: Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV because all Trump does is watch TV. He’s like a toddler with too much screen time. He gets cranky and then drops a load in his diaper.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

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...

Stephen Colbert said that the FCC and CBS - which is in no way a compromised or complicit organization - wouldn’t allow him to broadcast an interview with Democratic State Rep James Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Incredible.

Recent CBS News news: 1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades 2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem 3. Producer says politics dictating what airs 4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table. 5. Not firing Epstein pal.

Donald Trump said today that "Republicans should say, we want to take over. We should take over the voting." My life's work is to prevent that from happening. I started Democracy Docket as a critical tool in the fight for free and fair elections. Support its work by subscribing now. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

Every time you speak up - and every time you don't - there are people watching and learning about you and the world you help create.

Abolish ICE!

Art speaks and endures

I understand MAGAs have no interest in how laws work until they affect them, but the rest of us do: we need to know if ICE engaged in a pursuit, and if so whether this man was wanted for a status offense or serious crime. If the former, ICE caused this.

Trump’s so-called Department of War is threatening to cut ties with Anthropic because it won’t help the Pentagon conduct mass surveillance on Americans or make fully autonomous weapons that the administration can use however it likes. Anthropic refused unfettered use. newrepublic.com/post/206631/...

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison. Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water. Our priorities are so fucked.

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