Casar: He steals from working Americans to give to the rich. Donald Trump doesn't owe us a two-hour rambling speech. He owes the American people their money back.

"We must reject political violence of any kind," says Trump, who pardoned hundreds of violent rioters who participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection that he inspired.

I'll be honest, I'm pretty sure I have PTSD from this. I still wake up thinking about the article I need to write to save USAID.

The desks of Harper Moyski and Fletcher Merkel - two students killed in the shooting at Annunciation Catholic School - sit empty in the Capitol this week as a reminder of the horror of gun violence. The majority of Minnesotans agree, it’s time to ban assault weapons.

“My poll numbers are going through the roof! Sixty-eight percent! An amazingly high number. Nobody has ever seen anything like it.”

Live shot of the Justice Department trying to transcribe the 53 missing pages

I wish the New York Times hated rich pedophiles as much as they hate trans kids.

Not just Mississippi, they don't want ICE concentration camps in Tennessee either. You love to see it. h/t @marisakabas.bsky.social No body wants this.

Remember, this guy then killed an MIT professor while they were stumbling to catch up

All my life, Democrats have bent over backwards to run scrupulously scandal-free administrations, while Republicans have wallowed publicly and unapologetically in crime and corruption ... and Democrats have gotten zero advantage for it. Zilch.

It's worth reading Rahman's account of what happened to her, it's not that long. "...the glass of the passenger side window flew across my face. I yelled "I'm disabled!" at the hands grabbing me. An agent said, "TOO LATE."" www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

Breaking: Aiming to reverse recent changes to federal vaccine recommendations, 15 states led by Democrats announced on Tuesday that they were suing the Trump administration. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/h...

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It’s time for our legislators to take a lesson in courage from eighth graders like Lydia and stand up to the gun lobby.

MIT’s NANDA initiative found that 95% of generative AI deployments fail after interviewing 150 execs, surveying 350 workers, and analyzing 300 projects. The real “productivity gains” seem to come from layoffs and squeezing more work from fewer people not AI.

MINNESOTA: “116 bullets through the stained-glass windows. 2 students shot and killed. 2 survived gunshots injuries to the head. I am one of them… elected officials have a duty to protect us from guns.”

learning the last couple days that a lot of well-meaning people hold feelings about disabled people that are pretty close to eugenics

FLAG: Trump-related files are missing from DOJ's Epstein release. There's at least one witness for whom three 2019 FBI interviews are missing. That woman is the same person who, in a 2025 FBI presentation, is identified to have accused Trump of a sexual assault when she was between 13 and 15.

This is not a hypothetical fear. My piece focused on three countries — Brazil, South Korea, and Poland — where elected authoritarians were too blatant and their opponents did a good job persuading key audiences that the democratic threat was real. The result, in each case, was authoritarian defeat.

The fact that there’s a secret network of doulas going around Minneapolis to help with home births for parents afraid of ICE should be front-page news. These children, born in secrecy, are American citizens.

A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.

🚨 MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH: Moderna’s single-shot flu + COVID vaccine delivers strong 6-month immunity in early trial One dose of mRNA-1073 produced durable immunity against matched flu and SARS-CoV-2 strains a potential game-changer for respiratory virus protection.

There is no positive issue territory left for Trump, per our new Strength In Numbers/ @verasight.io poll. POTUS plans to focus on the economy in his SOTU 2nite. But shifting media focus back to a -30 issue is perhaps not the foolproof strategy he thinks it is. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/ahead-of-s...

Lee’s message is to fear immigrants. But fewer than 14% of nearly 400,000 people ICE arrested in Trump’s 1st yr had violent criminal charges or convictions. It’s autocratic fear-mongering. Manufacture a crisis, demonize the minority, and use the panic to justify power for the regime. zurl.co/GhBw1

For the first time since @projectsaltbox.bsky.social launched their DHS warehouse acquisition tracker, the number of canceled sales is higher than any of the other warehouse-related figures. We've reached a tipping point, folks. lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/b0...

A State Department message celebrating “Western Civilization” sparked backlash after Marco Rubio’s Munich remarks, with critics arguing the rhetoric erases the diverse historical roots of language, mathematics, and political development. https://bit.ly/3N2RoKx

JUST IMAGINE. (The whole thread, summarizing his article which is gift-linked at the end of the thread, is worth your time.)

Lisa Rubin explains how journalists have figured out the DOJ has withheld documents containing accusations of sexual assault against Donald Trump from their Epstein files releases

Rubin: "There is at least one witness for whom 3 interviews with the FBI in in 2019 are missing [from the Epstein files]. What's the big deal? We can also confirm she is the same person who in a 2025 FBI presentation is identified as accusing Trump of a sexual assault when she was between 13 and 15"

“Yesterday, I reviewed unredacted evidence logs at the Department Of Justice. Oversight Democrats can confirm that the DOJ appears to have illegally withheld FBI interviews with this survivor who accused President Trump of heinous crimes." - Rep. Robert Garcia in a new statement

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

(this verse though, from a song released in 1970) The way they pull you over, it's suspicious Yeah, for something that just ain't your fault If you complain, they're gonna get vicious Kick in your teeth and charge you with assault

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just an an addendum to this, last storm he offered $19/hour with a possible increase to $28/hour after a certain amount of time worked, but i imagine that number wasn’t attractive enough so this time he was just like, $30 for everyone. adaptability!

Yes, @brianbeutler.bsky.social is correct on billionaires. www.offmessage.net/p/the-case-f...

My home state of Minnesota just won the most medals (13!) out of any U.S. state at the Winter Olympics. That's Minnesota nice on the ice for Team USA 🇺🇸

bari canceled the event herself. god turley rules.

"While Trump suggested the lawmakers’ behavior was possibly punishable by death, a grand jury found no evidence of a crime."

SEN. WARREN: “.. Trump’s Jan. 20 deadline has come and gone, and no one is surprised that the big banks have not voluntarily cut credit card rates to help American families.” #$XLF www.foxnews.com/opinion/sen-...

Why do major media pretend these times are normal? Why no 5-alarm crisis coverage? “They haven’t received a press release to officially announce the arrival of the dictatorship, so they … think it’s safer to describe the symptoms without diagnosing the disease.” My free Stop the Presses newsletter.

Moms For Liberty named RJ May the South Carolina Legislator of the Year for 2023 for his efforts to protect children from the evils of the LGBTQ community. He was just sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison followed by 30 years of supervised probation for distributing child pornography.

Aide Wearily Begins 5th Explanation Of Why Trump Can’t Pardon Prince Andrew

The US Women’s Olympic Hockey team declines Trump’s invitation to attend the SOTU speech. meidasnews.com/news/trump-s...

This is exactly the kind of stuff that was getting played on a loop by cable news in 2024 when Biden was doing it as proof of his declining cognition.

Safety and alignment staff at Meta watched as AI speedrun deleted her inbox despite her repeated and emphatic instructions that it not do so. When it was done, the AI responded: “You're right to be upset… OK. That was wrong - it directly broke the rule you'd set. I'm sorry. It won't happen again.”

The anti-Bluesky discourse seems really overheated and dumb. It's a website, FFS. There's plenty of interesting discussion on it and a lot of smart people on it as well. It hasn't supplanted Twitter, true, but the idea that this represents some sort of major disqualifying failure is farcical.

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes. $9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst". Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….

He perjured himself

"Emails and documents in the massive Epstein release not yet reported reveal that Lutnick...and his company were financially interconnected with Epstein in the venture for at least six years." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...