Trump says "these are the richest people in the world through their countries," then gavels out the 3 hour (!) Board of Peace meeting. YMCA starts blasting.

You don’t experience politics in speeches. You experience it in grocery bills, canceled classes, hospital closures, and family stress. My new column “Going Deeper” looks at one ordinary day — and how Washington follows people home. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

VARNEY: We were told coal is the dirtiest fuel & there are more CO2 emissions than from gas. Is that no longer true? BURGUM: It's true, but then the question goes back to reversal of the endangerment finding, which is, is CO2 a pollutant or something that helps plants grow? We know it's the latter

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

Today with @smith.senate.gov and @hcrichardson.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/w4Pahmm...

Avel Gordly, one of Oregon’s most influential civil rights champions and a politician who was often referred to as the “conscience of the state Senate” for her strong moral compass, died at home on Monday. She was 79. www.klcc.org/politics-gov...

South Korean president leads a self-coup: life in prison. American president leads a self-coup: he's reinstalled in power by election and proceeds to rule as a dictator. Which state is a functioning democracy?

Lots of substance here at Trump’s Bored of Peace meeting.

Trump has issued an executive order invoking the Defense Production Act of 1950, a law that allows a president to direct and prioritize industrial production in the name of national defense.

$413,000 per bed. Insanity. While they cut health care, food assistance, etc.

We must stop every single proposed concentration camp. www.kjzz.org/the-show/202...

Uh huh... www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Why is it that we have money for war but not to feed the poor?! (Tupac was ahead of his time.) To be clear Congress hasn’t been called in, at all, yet according to reports, this out of control President is inching towards a war in Iran. We must check his power!

JD Vance takes the mic and immediately attempts to tell a joke. He doesn't get a single laugh. Not. Even. One.

Trump this morning: a rambling display of senile dementia on display in front of world leaders. bsky.app/profile/theb...

This entire thing is a complete clown show. Everyone in attendance should feel like a fool.

Jen Rubin: MAGA bad faith attacks on “wokeness” and left-wing “censorship” were always a smokescreen for eradicating history of non-whites, normalizing racism, silencing critics, and foisting Christian nationalism on the rest of us.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is set to visit the Arctic region in March, including Greenland, highlighting the importance of the region for the EU.

Insider trading is a chapter of the Epstein saga that has not gotten enough attention. Perhaps Andrew’s arrest will change that. apnews.com/article/brit...

U2 is the latest band to release new music in the wake of the deadly Minneapolis ICE shootings, following Bruce Springsteen’s tribute track to Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both shot and killed by ICE agents.

Since every poll shows that Republicans are going to take a beating in the midterms for many reasons, they are looking for every possible way to rig elections everywhere. bsky.app/profile/blue...

Trump has given us no case for this war. What is it to accomplish? What are its objectives? How will we know if it is a success or a failure? But Rupert Murdoch and the usual MAGA talking heads, like Canadian-born Ted Cruz, are all in for this war, and indeed, any war.

UPDATE: ICE confirms — and then quickly denies — buying a warehouse in Roxbury, NJ. They claim they sent a sale announcement email to a writer at Gothamist by mistake. This marks the third retraction ICE has issued today.

“If the President can, at his pleasure, send troops into any city, town, or hamlet…then there can be no difference whatever in this respect between the powers of the President and those of...the Czar of Russia.” Illinois's Guilded-Age Governor John Altgeld in 1895

odd scenes in DC as Trump's "Board of Peace" world leaders stand around waiting for Trump while his playlist blares in the background

ANDREW SCHULZ (who supported Trump): “This was a breaking point for me. I didn’t think what’s happening right now with ICE could happen in America.”

Chris Geidner: Two senior DHS officials on Wednesday issued a new, significantly more detailed memorandum seeking to justify rounding up and detaining certain refugees in America—6 days after the Justice Department filed a one-paragraph DHS memo from December in court to justify the actions.

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

RFK Jr says he now supports Trump on this. MAHA was always a con. Started / Going

Andrew arrested, UK launches criminal investigation into Mandelson for his ties to Epstein, Paris re-opens case into Epstein ally Jean Luc Brunel, French authorities raid Twitter HQs... Meanwhile, an active cover-up by the Trump Admin and the GOP in America.

He's claiming he was conned. Does this look like someone who was conned into sex deviance?

The buried lede here is that the woman he had an affair with committed suicide through self immolation

🔥⚖️👀 Here's a text between Steve Bannon & Epstein where they are discussing what turns into the NYS criminal case against Trump. Bannon says "Cohen has always been the key that picks the trump org lock-- and thus trump" www.justice.gov/epstein/file... #doj #epstein #files #bannon #trumporg

It needs to be said clearly that it would be absolutely insane for the United States to start a war of aggression against Iran. If anyone thinks that Trump gives a rip about democracy or human rights you are kidding yourself. It’ll be another campaign of domination and plunder.

The Fox News chyron reads "Latest Dem hoax" at the same time that Brendan Carr confirms that yes, the FCC would've "enforced the law" and gone after CBS had Colbert aired his interview with Talarico on TV

Sickening

Oregon never wanted or needed this massive influx of National Guard members — this withdrawal is welcome news. And it happened because folks like you raised your voices. Your voice is such a powerful tool.

Absolutely amazing!

U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe initially ordered the restoration on Monday without setting a deadline. She later clarified the order, directing the Trump administration to restore the 34 slavery-related panels at the President’s House in Philadelphia by 5 p.m. ET on Friday

AXIOS: “The Trump administration is closer to a major war in the Middle East than most Americans realize. It could begin very soon.” Is Iran in the Epstein files? www.axios.com/2026/02/18/i...

Much more here on ICE reversing course (and retracting their initial statements) on two proposed Trump prison camps, from the indispensible team at Project Salt Box: projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/ice-issued...

Elon Musk *claims* he agrees with the teachings of Jesus. So he’s now in favor of socialism? Matthew 19:21: “If thou want to be perfect, go and sell all you possessions and give to the poor.”

New Mexico is pursuing long-overdue answers by investigating Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch through a new subcommittee that was just created by the New Mexico House. I’ve got the details, including why the state’s AG’s Office stopped investigating Epstein back in 2019. youtu.be/eTfTAvLSv6Q?...

Seems like a good time to revisit this conversation between @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @jamestalarico.bsky.social youtu.be/nuDS-WX2yv4?...

Everyone, practice your "shocked" face. Pamela Jo Bondi *lied* to Congress when she testified that "there is no evidence that Donald Trump has committed a crime." www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYMs...

Trump: "Herschel Walker, speaking about loyal. How good a football player was Herschel? Now he's ambassador to the Bahamas. I don't know. Bahamas. Bermuda. Is he Bahamas? Whatever. It's a nice place."

The president picks and chooses which intelligence he wants to follow as it suits him, the FBI director claimed.

Trump: "Frankly, if these radical left lunatic Democrats would come and say, 'Please, help us, please,' we'd stop crimes all over the place. Sometimes we have to force ourselves upon them because they're so bad."