SCOOP — Tom Suozzi has a Democratic primary challenger in the NY-3 congressional race. Danielle Welch (@daniwelch.bsky.social), a public defender, has officially declared her candidacy. Welch gave me this comment about launching her campaign:

The men's hockey final was fun to watch. Almost as fun as the hockey final.

Use every tool in the NIMBY playbook. Karen for good.

New WaPo-ABC poll: Trump's approval stands at 39% positive and 60% negative among adults — including 47% who say they strongly disapprove. The last time Trump's disapproval touched 60% was shortly after the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Mountain View “allowed hundreds of unauthorized law enforcement agencies to search information captured by the city’s license plate cameras for more than a year.” Particularly important amid immigration enforcement. www.mv-voice.com/police/2026/...

Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, appears to have deleted his tweet after these Democrats responded

"In the first year of Trump’s second term, economic growth fell to a 9-year low, and domestic job growth fell to a 16-year low..." www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

And so if you really *mean* "never again" -- if you're serious about it -- then the time to intervene, the time to speak up, the time to stop it, is *when it is still small*. When it's just a casual slur. When it's just sports. When it's just asking questions. When it's framed as anti-PC.

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he’s so close to getting it

The other day I saw a video of an historian (maybe?) saying he didn’t understand why billionaires are opposed to being taxed more because “taxation is the compromise.” And that last ~500 years teaches us what happens when that compromise is not struck. Can’t stop thinking about it.

INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday. They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.

Democrats should run this year on returning tariff revenue to Americans. Trump already said today he’s going to fight this in the courts. An easy mode way to be on the right side of the affordability issue.

Local environmental groups and the city will start planting in March air-scrubbing greenery near I-880.

Page 34: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct."

Page 29: "Absent genuine, particularized necessity, the Fourth Amendment’s reasonableness requirement prohibits government officers from executing a civil arrest while systematically concealing their identities in a manner that eliminates contemporaneous and subsequent accountability."

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

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.

I would have hoped by now that some dude would have written an op Ed about how straight women’s reaction to Bad Bunny - a man at peace with himself, emoting publicly + queer culture - underscores that the Manosphere bros are performing heterosexuality for other men and have no idea what women like.

Every news story is now “State Senator Randy Pervert (R-Springfield) was indicted on 8 counts of lewd behavior with a child under 12 and has been put on paid leave from his two jobs as Border Patrol liaison and youth pastor at First Presbyterian (PCA) where parishioners say they were ‘blindsided.’”

Most DAMNING Trump-Epstein Allegation REMOVED by DOJ: www.thedailybeast.com/fbi-intervie...

Political cartoonists are on fire in this era 🔥 If only we had a real government or you know, a much bigger national strike that isn’t on a weekend.

Happening right in front of us www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

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...

The cover-up just never ends. Rest in peace, Ruben Ray Martinez.

Fun Fact II: The French Revolution was accelerated by famine from an Icelandic Volcano 30 years earlier. www.theguardian.com/world/2010/a...

a thread worth bookmarking for consequences

Why can't Schumer and Jeffries sound like this? (rhetorical)

We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose. “They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote. (Published Dec. 2024)

After taking a two-and-a-half-year hiatus from the sport, the 20 year-old has now won two gold medals at the Winter Olympics in Italy.

I hope the absolute dumbest people alive (the self-styled "free speech" advocates who spent years pretending campus leftists were the nation's greatest threat to free speech) are happy with all of these bans on "discussions."

This is an astonishing, extreme, and horrifying argument.

"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 ⚖️

This gives you a sense of scale of the Trump admin's new refugee detention policy; they are claiming that all 100,000 of these lawfully present refugees MUST be arrested and detained for "re-vetting" and interrogation about their status.

Must be nice to have a functioning Supreme Court.

Trump is privatizing imperialism -- the real purpose of the "Board of Peace." An important, original analysis from @nancyokail.bsky.social "There is an insidious shift underway: The monetization and privatization of foreign policy for personal enrichment." thehill.com/opinion/whit...

Three more miles of protected cycle tracks will make biking from Fruitvale to Lake Merritt and Downtown safer.

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

Ossoff: "If you live in a major democracy, and the nation's spy chief is showing up at raids on sensitive election sites, something has gone wrong."

JUST IN: Judge Provinzino in Minnesota has held a Justice Department attorney in civil contempt for violations of her order requiring the return of a released ICE detainee’s ID documents. He must pay $500 a day until the documents are returned.

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

"Before the journalists were released, the police confiscated their phones, cameras and laptops, saying the journalists had captured sensitive government information..."

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help. “A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

congrats to DC on achieving statehood

Law Dork published this memo tonight. It's important, DHS issued it & DOJ filed it a day before a key hearing in a Minnesota case, and it is not remotely available on PACER b/c a judge denied my request to open the docket to all. Support my independent legal journalism if you can. www.lawdork.com

The videos of Minnesotans waiting to greet people released at Whipple with coats and hugs get me every time. www.tiktok.com/t/ZThXuhUKE/

WSJ EDITORIAL BOARD: Trump’s tariffs are a tax on you. He’s using them as leverage to enrich himself and his family and his friends — and destroy our standing in the world, devastating farmers. Why aren’t you angrier? www.wsj.com/opinion/dona...

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.