1. On January 23, Crypto.com donated $5 million to MAGA Inc, Trump's primary Super PAC. (The donation was first disclosed in a FEC filing Friday night.) Less than 1 month later, on February 17, the Trump administration intervened on Crypto.com's behalf in a high-stakes federal lawsuit.

Trump pulled out of the World Health Organization. Now he wants to spend $2 BILLION per year to replicate the global disease surveillance system we already had—at nearly TRIPLE the cost.

Exclusive: An internal State Department email obtained by @hana-kiros.bsky.social reveals that the U.S. plans to end all of its current lifesaving aid to seven African countries.

Our avatar is an orange freak with clear mental issues. Not exactly rolling out the red carpet for visitors.

“However alarmed you are, it’s not enough.” Stop what you’re doing and read this incredible @jvl.bsky.social piece.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

Maternal mortality in Louisiana is literally 40x Greenland (41.9/100k to 1.0/100k). They should send hospital boat to Louisiana.

A MN protester accused of assaulting ICE officer had case dropped after vids showed no assault. LA protester accused of assaulting ICE w/ “hat” had case dropped; judge said govt acted in “bad faith” In Chicago, 92 ppl were arrested for assault/impeding ICE; 0 convicted DOJ keeps lying and losing:

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

wtf?

Is there any time, place, or context in which a government hanging enormous banners of the Leader’s face was not a sign of a diseased and authoritarian society? Because I certainly can’t think of one.

This is Mississippi’s largest employer. This seems pretty not good.

I honestly think one reason Millennials are so angry about all this is that many of us grew up during the brief period in American history where the official line was that we had won history *because* of our values, and most of us actually internalized that.

Full piece is paywalled, but as Cato was the source of the material released in FOIA litigation, I'll have more to say on this in the near future. Key point: FBI continues to withhold the closing FBI case record indicating they found no basis for voter fraud in Fulton County.

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

The leagues are going to need to grapple with selling their souls to the devil when their players start needing round-the-clock security because people lost their shirts on Kalshi, Polymarket, DraftKings, or DoofusBet & loansharks tell bettors it's a bullet to the head of the player or their kid.

We should try electing some kind of deliberative body that makes decisions about levying taxes.

It's not every day that the thieves come right out and tell you the money they stole from you ain't coming back.

Trump has never said anything as critical about Vladimir Putin or any Russian war criminal as he did today about the majority on the US Supreme Court.

They locked up a Colombian child coming to go to Disney World with her family. What the hell are we doing? And why in the world would anyone come here for the World Cup/Olympics? www.miaminewtimes.com/news/immigra...

1974 was an amazing year right?

I’ve been thinking about doing a meta story on this for a while: the second trump administration is so pathetically, world historically psychotic that you likely don’t know what’s happening with his labor department. It’s a constant stream of scandals and excess Constant.

Bolsonaro in prison, Yeon sentenced to prison, Andrew arrested on his birthday...and America still holding on to a 34 count felon as President.

If you find yourself having to say this…

Remember back in the day when Congress used to be in charge of appropriations?

This. Every damn bit of it.

This is good. Take your WaPo money and subscribe to the @bostonglobe.com

Trump's immigration approval hits new low, according to Reuters/Ipsos poll www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Wait, countries are allowed to do that? Damn.

libs getting the chamber of commerce in the national divorce, sure, why not, welcome aboard www.reuters.com/world/us-cou...

Love that AI, a thing we hate and don’t want, steals everything, ruins everything, shittifies everything. Drinks our water, plagiarizes our art, pisses all over our information fidelity, drives kids to suicide, serves the right-wing, and fucks up our devices and services. Good job, techbros!

Again, you can call me a novice on this kind of thing maybe, but I would think you’d have this stuff nailed down before you brought out the wrecking ball

That last sentence? That's the strategy. They've been pretty open about it.

Here’s a story about him with no paywall: www.military.com/daily-news/h...

The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill. open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...

About an obits page, you may think there is something dark or even macabre. On the contrary, obits tend to be celebrations of life. I have done a podcast with a New York Times obituarist, Clay Risen (@risenc.bsky.social). He has very interesting things to say. www.jaynordlinger.com/p/writer-of-...

This is just unconscionable man

Current state of things: One Fox News host casually declares that Epstein’s money comes from “Jewish billionaires” and a “Jewish banking family,” another responds that he was a “sex rabbi.” www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jes...

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

Dr Oz inviting ol Jeffrey to his V Day bash in 2016

“i never saw a bond company stooge stick his neck out like that before.” He was perfect in Life Aquatic.

Uhhhhhh

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Here’s the article by Robert Reich which outlines the corporations & banks investing in DHS & for-profit prisons: substack.com/home/post/p-...

"'We become their mother, their grandmother, their sister, their brother. We feed them, we clean them, we put them in the chair, we put them in bed. That’s awesome.'"

"construction jobs are way up" [EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER]

Can someone convince Flock they should also run a Super Bowl ad?

In any other administration, this would be a huge story. In this administration, it can barely get oxygen because it's buried under a daily torrent of destruction, criminality, and abuse of power. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/w...