Re-posting a Jefferson quote, with a friendly reminder to Libertarians across the USA: Your freedom from government in your pursuits is entirely reliant on the rule of law in a democracy. Do you think a "Network State" will provide checks and balances on consolidated interests and monopolies?

Important refresh on religious liberty in the US. The subtext of Dan Patrick’s (no r.) little voice speech is major Constitutional challenges are on the way in phase two of this administration’s “Project.” Phase two will be led by Vance, and it will be an awful attack on education & women esp.

"I contemplate with reverence that act of the American people which declared their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State." -- Thomas Jefferson wapo.st/43YNcR4

Time to change that election fraud narrative! “The D@mn elections aren’t the problem” 🙏 ~Thomas Massie (R) Kentucky

Another big-tech backed anti-democracy flavored conference series, Dialog, unraveled by @davetroy.com. Rather than bringing together left and right thought leaders, it sounds more like Dialog is about bringing together pseudo intellectuals and big business interests. Fun times in a seminar setting!

Noticing a piece of the new “American flag blue” liner that was partially detached from the Reflecting Pool, David Hearn said he reached in to see what it felt like. Moments later, U.S. Park Police officers arrested him on a misdemeanor charge of destruction of government property. wapo.st/4xVNzcS

“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.” —Thomas Jefferson

“DOGE whistleblower's brake line was cut after Musk posted about him on X *** A police report confirms someone vandalized Dan Berulis’ car a day after Musk shared his identity online.” 6/15/26 … 1/ www.snopes.com/fact-check/m...

Way to go San Francisco's Ocean Beach!

* US JUDGE INDEFINITELY BLOCKS TRUMP'S ANTI-WEAPONIZATION FUND * US JUDGE SAYS WILL GIVE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION ONE WEEK TO GIVE SWORN STATEMENT THAT FUND WILL NOT GO FROWARD @reuters.com

Responses from Trump's lawyers are due on FRIDAY in federal court in Florida... where a group of retired federal judges are urging the court to investigate if there was "fraud" and "collusion" in Trump's lawsuit vs. his own I.R.S.

Great summary of Blanche's Anti-Weaponization Fund and its many flaws. This case is a stunning challenge to the Federal Courts and the Constitution. And by rejecting Senate amendments that would have blocked it, R's may have helped the Court reopen the case and investigate potential fraud.

It’s time for libertarians to see, esp given big tech’s reach, that democracies provide the only legitimate checks and balances on consolidated interests and monopolies that have plans to take your liberty and drug you with ketamine to keep you compliant. Literally. @davetroy.com

A precise and much needed retrospective from Mona Charen at The Bulwark. This is how pro-democracy conservatives and Never Trumpers can best help reverse this slide toward authoritarianism, and this deep cultural decay. Restate the facts clearly and regularly so the MAGA GOP can't hide.

"This is not just the most corrupt presidency in American history, it is among the most corrupt regimes on earth." And abject corruption on a mass scale, it turns out, is not politically popular. New from @monacharen.bsky.social:

The inevitable crisis for the American right is here. They can never rally around and vote for Trump again and the results of just one year of their ham-fisted Gov tear-down are in: Radically higher prices, morally indefensible scandals and policies, self-dealing corruption, and warmongering.

Today, on World Press Freedom Day, we reaffirm our duty to support and protect journalists so they can do their work free from pressure, intimidation, or harm.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social Tom, I haven't seen anything on the Joint Targeting Cycle from military policy experts like you or Mark Hertling. Did Trump's threats of mass destruction, recently tripled down on, actually prevent a large strike that Hegseth and Netanyahu may have been pushing for?

Are we witnessing the final unraveling of Donald Trump and the fragile coalition that brought him to power? His choice to pursue war in Iran has all but sealed his fate. My latest. america2.news/the-unraveli...

With Donald Trump’s presidency on the brink, we need to consider what President Vance brings along with him. Between Palantir, Tesla & SpaceX, the PayPal Mafia control a Death Star valued at nearly $4 trillion. “That’s no moon.” —Obi Wan Kenobi www.mind-war.com/p/death-star...

Ending Direct File will cost taxpayers billions of dollars—money that will flow into tax prep companies. It's time to stop giant companies from profiting off a process the government once made free. I have a bill to get Congress to reverse Trump’s decision to cancel Direct File.

@crow.house.gov The ceasefire is likely only a brief opportunity for Congress to stop crimes against humanity. Dems can make it clear that the GOP led Congress is choosing to ignore its responsibility to stop threatened war crimes. Impeachment or removal of POTUS is warranted,

We’ve been warned. When this administration repeatedly threatened the very civilization of 90M Iranians, it threatened the civilization of the USA. We now have a small window for Congress to prevent these war crimes from occurring. Whatever stopped this is only temporary without an act of Congress.

We now know why Trump was so desperate to win the Nobel Peace Prize. It was an Orwellian plan to claim “war is peace” as he kills civilians running small boats in the Caribbean and Pacific and as he threatens to end civilization in Iran. The GOP owns this 1984, I mean Project 2025, madness.

We've been warned that war crimes are imminent. Congress has no choice but to vote to stop this war before that happens. Faced with irrational communications, we cannot assume ending a civilization is hyperbole and we cannot assume military commanders can simply refuse "illegal orders".

Targeting civilians would, in fact, be a war crime. This man is deranged, unstable, and unfit to lead. He thinks this is a game. Republicans need to find their backbone, rein him in, and end this reckless war before more innocent lives are lost and this escalates into something far worse.

Congress must act immediately and pass a concurrent resolution under the War Powers Act to stop all military action. STRATCOM, given all the recent firings, and given all of this admin’s irrational communications, cannot be relied upon to follow the law as intended. It’s up to Congress now.

For the bottom 40% of families, California taxes are LOWER than states like Florida and Texas. In fact, 16 other states tax LOW-WAGE earners MORE than California taxes our HIGH-WAGE earners. The evidence is clear, and the numbers don't lie.

A worldwide sell-off for stocks is slamming onto Wall Street Tuesday, and oil prices are leaping even higher as worries rise that the war with Iran is widening and may do more sustained damage to the global economy than feared.

Trump Boys Try Trading In George Washington Portrait At GameStop https://theonion.com/trump-boys-try-trading-in-george-washington-portrait-at-gamestop/

Trump’s war against Iran is illegal and a betrayal of the American people. Congress cannot allow Trump to drag yet another generation into a forever war.

Americans do not want another forever war in the Middle East. Congress must return to DC immediately to reassert its war powers.

“Bitcoin Suddenly Plunges As Markets Brace For Iran War Price Crash” 2/28/26

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New 15% global tariffs not only break several just made trade agreements, they’re also not legal under Section 122 as claimed. Even the Trump admin started this in August. MAJOR SCOOP and incredible reporting here: open.substack.com/pub/populari...

“Not only has Congress not authorized such a war, but it has barely even debated it. The administration has not bothered to explain, either to Congress or the American people, why it might bomb Iran or what it hopes to achieve…This is how an autocracy goes to war.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/o...

“Fuck the poor! Fuck the poor!” That’s how the March for Billionaires kicked off on February 7 in Pacific Heights, one of San Francisco’s wealthiest neighborhoods, near a stretch of mansions known as Billionaires’ Row. We went to see whether the event was satire or sincere. The answer was… yes.

BREAKING: I read the new version of the “Save America Act” (S. 1383) so u don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Point 1 is new. It requires that all 50 states send their voter rolls to the DHS to run thru DHS’s faulty “SAVE” voter purge program. Points 6 & 7 are new too. Tell ur Senators #NoOnSAVE 1/

This tracks. We are likely to see a lot of new Massies as the GOP plots a path for R’s in congress to find themselves on the right side of the Epstein-(insert powerful co-conspirator here) criminal enterprise.

Required reading. The victims deserve justice and the paper trail Dave Troy continues to uncover leads to Epstein running a large “controlled burn operation” for both the criminal and civil claims against him and a lot of lawyers are involved. Their greed and apparent misogyny needs accountability.

I don’t think enough people know that the GOP’s “Save America Act” would establish voter purge programs using data systems that experts say are unreliable. These systems reek of DOGE & thus of Elon Musk who is *heavily* promoting the Act. Thread.

“We’re the only country in the world that has mail in ballots”. - Senile Satan

I read the Trump-backed voter suppression bill, the so-called “Save America Act,” so you don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Please tell your Senators to vote NO on this abomination: 202-224-3121. TY. 1/

While we hope accountability, legal and political, comes to Epstein pals who considered themselves well above the law and well above the humanity of their victims, we need the social context Troy is establishing in this series to help understand today, what money and technology in politics intends.

This is a big scoop and further details the scope of the far-right insurgency within the US. The “Chairman for life,” setup itself is an overt challenge to the constitution. Troy’s reporting detailing the use of the USPTO to house the legal framework of a supranational org is critically important.

🚨SCOOP: Trump's Board of Peace trademarks are being held by the United States Patent and Trademark Office, an apparently unprecedented use of executive branch power to protect the interests of a murkily defined supranational organization. america2.news/board-of-pea...

💯%, thanks for the article. Hegseth’s threats are further evidence, if anyone needs it, that America faces a far-right insurgency, not just a grifting, egomaniacal Presidency. Let this insurgency circle the wagons around its empty unAmerican policies, then starve it of oxygen like Nichols does here.