He’s wagging the dogs, he’s wagging the cats.

The people leading the U.S. war on Iran are a former “Fox & Friends” guest and a former “Fox & Friends” host.

I fear a coming wave of antisemitism. Israel, Kushner, Witkoff (perhaps Miller) can all be portrayed by the neo-Nazi movement "the Jews manipulated Trump into this." Especially if this war goes terribly wrong.

More like Bored of Peace, amirite folks

This is Trump's former AI adviser

American adults with a four-year college degree Hindus 70% Episcopalians 67% Jews 65% Agnostics 53% Atheists 48% Muslims 44% Buddhists 41% Catholics 35% National average 35% Evangelicals 29% https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/02/19/which-us-religious-groups-are-most-highly-educated/

“It’s Time for the Media to Press Trump on Allegations of Abusing a Minor” My latest for @washingtonmonthly.com washingtonmonthly.com/2026/02/27/t...

The latest Post-ABC Ipsos Poll has Abolish ICE net 13 pp oppose, but those same respondents favor kicking Noem to the curb on net by 21 pp www.washingtonpost.com/documents/d1...

A genuine punchline!

Breaking news: A federal judge found that the IRS violated federal law “approximately 42,695 times” when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials last summer.

This is such a well done piece that reports out, with hard data and interviews, something profound about what's gone wrong in this country. www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

Breaking WaPo: Pro-Trump activists who say they are in coordination with the White House are circulating a 17-page draft executive order that claims China interfered in the 2020 election as a basis to declare a national emergency that would unlock extraordinary presidential power over voting.

ICE "should be abolished, but also it should be prosecuted" - Democratic Rep. @sethmoulton.bsky.social, from the centrist wing of the party, tells me he wants his party leadership to go further than just reforming ICE. Doing that is "no longer believable." Full interview: zeteo.com/p/moulton-ic...

The first US Cabinet happened in 1789.

CNN's political director David Chalian warned: "...What we know about people who tune into SOTU addresses is that they tend to be fans of whichever president is giving the speech." He added: "The polling universe here is about 13 points more Republican than the overall population."

The fact military leaders didn't insist these honors be presented in a strictly non-partisan ceremony is frightening.

Trump spent all of 2 minutes talking about affordability during his SOTU address, according to NBC News — the same amount of time he spent talking about the performance of the U.S. men's olympic hockey team substack.com/profile/4791...

Arizonans in our dial group were not fans of Trump's immigration agenda (they were also confused about his comments on snow)

Rep. Al Green (D-Texas), who was carrying a sign saying “Black people aren't apes,” was escorted off the floor. This is the second consecutive year that Green has been removed removed from the president's address to Congress for protesting. https://wapo.st/3ZQywBr

"100% of jobs created under my administration have been in the private sector." -- President Trump in #SOTU He forgot to mention which part of the private sector.

Milkshake puck

We're doing a live dial group tonight! Here's Margie Omero to explain how we're going to learn what Americans are thinking of the #StateOfTheUnion in real time. Follow along to see more!

The 53 Pages story has now jumped to @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/02... “Congressional investigators identified missing materials after matching public files with case files …provided to [Maxwell’s] legal team … One… include[s] an allegation…that Trump sexually assaulted a minor”

Coffee-growing countries becoming too hot to cultivate beans, analysis finds. Five countries responsible for 75% of world’s coffee supply record average of 57 extra days of coffee-harming heat a year www.theguardian.com/environment/...

When President Donald Trump gives his State of the Union address Tuesday, he will face a public that increasingly questions his priorities and expresses broad doubts about whether his proposed policies are helping the nation, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS.

May have to make another batch of these today for blizzard snacking

Suprematism, by Nikolai Suetin, 1920-21, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

My "hot take" on the tariff decision is that Justice Alito would never stay silent amid a full-on SCOTUS food fight (which the many squabbling concurrences & dissents reflect), unless he was busy cooking up something else nefarious & genuinely awful in which he is writing for the majority. Sorry.

📢 BPS students: No school tomorrow, but please plan to help a neighbor shovel out after the snow stops falling

ICYMI: Ed Augustus becomes eighth member of Healey’s Cabinet to depart

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them

My child just made Chainsaw Man in Dress To Impress, which is good, I think?

A Ukrainian skeleton athlete was barred from competing at the Winter Olympics just hours before his race after refusing to remove a helmet honoring compatriots killed in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years

Birnam Wood has come to Dunsinane

Dump Truck, by Mikhail Evdokimovich Tkachev, 1956

10 year old: Lady Gaga came out of Left Shark there

Boston Sports Voltron forming

Ben Shapiro tap dance routine is not standing up to basic, not-even-difficult questioning on the New Yorker radio hour.

Bravo to bill for a correct (I think?) use of "glazing" here washingtonmonthly.com/2026/02/06/t...

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham

will lewis:

Breaking — Will Lewis out at the Washington Post. He just sent this email to staff (shared with me by staffer):

We just published database: @aclu.org plaintiffs' sworn declarations of ICE enforcement actions in Minnesota Devastating Racial profiling-arrests-headlock-handcuffs-shackles Mostly US citizens A big lesson here for Justice Kavanaugh. I believe he'll get it www.justsecurity.org/130745/minne... 🧵

Literal opposite of a Decembrist

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue