Project 2025's plans included declaring anything have to do with LGB-and-especially-T a pornographic—and then banning all porn. "The bill goes on to further define “sexually oriented material” as anything broaching the topics of “gender dysphoria or transgenderism.”"

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

this is a great brief and it appropriately ends with a killshot: the simple observation that if trump's meaning held, the birthright clause would not have overturned dred scott, the one thing it was absolutely meant to do.

Independent media are fundamental to democracy. Fight for it.

Must watch from Sunday's show "Last Week from John Oliver" and his piece on Twitter and the cesspool of lies and disinformation it has become since Elon took over. youtu.be/p7ZG_xWYLzI?...

Mary Walsh, leaving after 46 years, says staffers told to ‘aim our reporting at a particular part of the political spectrum’

SecDef Hegseth Announces Trans Scouts In Scouting America Will Be Outed, Segregated open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

The SAVE Act is the next assault on democracy by this administration — and it might just be the biggest yet. @normornstein.bsky.social and @djrothkopf.bsky.social are back to discuss our democracy and the danger that threatens us. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o... youtu.be/8clqVSJnqiY

I did a big report on the capture of Turkey's media sector in 2013 and my contribution to this discussion is that the capture was only one step in a much larger process of consolidation

I’ve been advising people to read this Keynes essay for years. It. Accurately predicts our current situation.

Reports that the President is preparing a sweeping executive order to seize federal control over American elections are not only alarming, but they are also dangerous. Read our statement: www.lwv.org/newsroom/pre...

Let me offer a slight rebuttal on climate politics, beginning with us (enviros and Dems) having done a terrible job on climate communication for a long time. A legacy of bad work is not reason to stop work, it’s reason to do better work. 🧵

Why the Trump-Backed Save America Act Threatens Election Security Nationwide - Buried in the legislation is a mandate requiring every state to funnel voter data into a centralized voter-purge system controlled by the Trump administration. - READ FULL ARTICLE HERE: https://bit.ly/4rzfxYa

I'm getting David (CEO of Amaze Health) on Bluesky shortly! He's FULL of insight into the healthcare industry that no one else is talking about. @amazehealth.bsky.social This is a longer interview, but I'll be sharing clips soon.

How the Ellison takeover of CNN confirms what we already knew — the network Is done, because it has already lost the trust of its viewers by platforming liars and then equating facts with propaganda. open.substack.com/pub/saltypol...

If you’ve studied history — and you know I have — that’s the moment when the hair on the back of your neck should stand up… hartmannreport.com/p/is-a-secre...

Brazil arrived at the India AI Impact Summit with a clear mission to reinforce the need for digital sovereignty and multilateralism, but ran into a harsh reality, Tech Policy Press fellow Tatiana Dias writes.

Because of course they do.

The Trump administration is seeking to limit the safeguards protecting the editorial freedom of federally funded news groups that broadcast overseas, raising concerns that it could undermine an independent source of news in parts of the world with few of them. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

youtu.be/44Ea8LkcwD0?... #ProudBlue #USDemocracy Trump is circulating a plan that would allow him to nationalize the 2026 election by Executive order. This would strip states of their Constitutional duty to run elections. It will make mail in voting illegal while posting ICE Gestapo at the polls

2/ The new lane: Recall that the USPS quietly redefined what a “postmark” means. It is now the date USPS PROCESSES the mail, not necessarily the day you DROP IT OFF. Here's the PBS breakdown that I reported on in January here on bluesky www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

1/ URGENT UPDATE: I pushed today’s “How They Plan to Cheat” map thread about an hour ago. But I just found a new lane that snaps into place when you combine older reporting I did in Jan. with a Supreme Court ruling from two days ago. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy Oh, They #PlanToCheat

Wasn’t this a little too fortunate for the ICE-holes? If there weren’t so many fortunate deaths around these ICE-holes, I wouldn’t be so suspicious. #ProudBlue #ICE #RubenRayMartinez www.expressnews.com/news/article...

"Trump’s campaign of violent mass deportations [is] becoming its own forever war... It has launched a huge arms buildup. And it also has what might be termed its very own war profiteers." @gregsargent.bsky.social digs into the deportation military-industrial complex. newrepublic.com/article/2069...

Most of this takes effect after what will be the November midterms.

After a decade of dithering, the Trump admin has outlined a plan to change Obamacare. And it is to make the coverage exponentially worse and send out of pocket costs to the moon—essentially to make it not health insurance—in the name of lowering premiums a little. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/h...

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

Netflix drops its bidding war for Warner Brothers and Paramount will soon own CNN and will turn into another CBS. This is a consolidation media which is against anti trust laws and will benefit the regime. Please call your AG esp if you have a democratic one and demand they sue to stop this.

Trump DOJ expands voter roll crusade, sues five more states — including four red ones The Justice Department sued 5 new states Thursday demanding access to their unredacted voter rolls — escalating a campaign that has been rejected by multiple federal courts www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Colorado borders Kansas. Here is a Colorado non-profit that helps trans people relocate, Trans Continental Pipeline. Please share. tcpipeline.org

The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English. He spent a year in jail for this.

There was a lot of talk among civil society folks between Trump terms about “tyrant-proofing” the presidency, and basically none of those reforms happened. But it looks like Trump is having much more success at doing the opposite—“freedom-proofing” the country in ways that will be very hard to undo…

The (political) choice in general & every day is between cynical & constructive, & cynical is the more negative, destructive choice. Our leaders have to balance many interests: economy, laws, int. relations. But they should never forget, in the end what they do is for people. #GoodMorning, everyone

The U.S. military used a laser to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone, members of Congress said Thursday, and the Federal Aviation Administration responded by closing more airspace near El Paso, Texas. apnews.com/article/mili...

SCOOP: Noem's DHS has acquired at least NINE new jets in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/noems-luxury...

gift/Will Bunch share.inquirer.com/ezIvGa

It's not over yet. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Let’s remember their glee (especially by @brianstelter.bsky.social and @jaketapper.bsky.social ) in dogpiling on Biden

Suffice to say, the mood inside CNN is not good tonight. “We are doomed," one staffer texted me. “The panic at CNN right now is off the charts,” an insider added. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cnn-david-...

In Metro Atlanta, Georgia, ICE goons stopped a family and used them as bait to lure the mother into an abduction on February 23, 2026.

The Ellisons (& therefore the #Pedo & #PedoProtection regime & #EpsteinClass), if the deal passes regulatory scrutiny, will own/influence: Oracle See-BS (CBS) Paramount Tiktok Warner Brothers ➡️ CNN This danger leaves Americans & democracy ripe for 24/7 propaganda. 🧾 www.npr.org/2026/02/26/n...

What did Trump officials tell the Netflix CEO today at the White House? Looks like crony capitalism with the President corrupting the merger process in favor of the billionaire Ellison family.

Financial Times exclusive: Tens of thousands of internal emails and documents released by the US Department of Justice as part of the Epstein files paint for the first time a vivid picture of how Deutsche Bank rolled out the red carpet for the serial sexual abuser. ft.trib.al/6lAW6ay

This concerns 8-year-old Maleeka “Mollie” Boone, whose body was found on Jan 16, a day after a turquoise alert was issued following her disappearance. I drove through the community of Coalmine where she was from today. This is a previous story I wrote www.azcentral.com/story/news/l...

Border Patrol reportedly did not alert the man's family that they'd released him at a Tim Hortons.

JUST IN: Maduro's lawyer says Treasury won't lift sanctions to let the Venezuelan government fund Maduro's criminal defense. Which means, without a change, Maduro can't afford a lawyer. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The additional pain and agony that they are purposely inflicting on people who are in need has hit a new level of low with this. No new enrollments for prosthetic devices. Unfucking real.

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...