So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion. That's roughly $1 billion per day. $41,666,667 per hour. $11,574 per second. People do not want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

Trump assumed a war would be helpful. It would justify emergency powers. It would deflect from his failures. It would make him seem larger. But it is making him smaller, more hostage to what’s occurring than leader, more Netanyahu’s patsy than partner, another president sucked into a forever war.

Donald Trump cannot be trusted to lead America into war. He is unaccountable to America. He is lawless. He only seeks conflict to cover up for his failures. Congress must step up, reassert its power, and represent the American people. We do not want another forever war.

This is insane. Trying to convince these young people to embrace becoming cannon fodder. www.rawstory.com/military-267...

A report by Reuters found that courts ruled ICE illegally jailed people more than 4,400 times. The Trump administration's unlawful, anti-immigrant rampage must be checked. Tell Congress at aclu.org/stop_ice_attacks- to hold the line and rein in ICE's abuses now.

"Her release follows months of advocacy from community members and political leaders of both parties. Yu has operated her two West Valley restaurants for years, building a reputation for greeting customers with humor and kindness. She has no criminal record." www.12news.com/article/news...

What does it mean if the administration's strike on Iran wasn't lawful? It's not an abstract debate. First principles, like the rule of law, determine whether we live in a country governed by laws or by impulse. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Trump and Pete Hegseth want to give the Pentagon so much money that officials don’t even know how to spend it. That’s after gutting Medicaid, SNAP, and countless other programs that actually help people. Hello?

A mother and her three children were pepper-sprayed through an open window while their vehicle was still in motion by ICE agents who then callously sped away, leaving the blinded family to struggle for control of the car and call 911 for help. A drive-by federal assault.

ICE agents lied about searching for a missing person to improperly gain entry into a Columbia University residential building without a warrant where they ambushed and snatched a student in her university housing. State-sanctioned treachery.

“The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump.” www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

Trump’s grand plan to lower health care costs is to make changes to the Affordable Care Act that could increase a family’s yearly deductible to $31,000. That’s after he let ACA subsidies expire in his big, ugly bill. Remember: he doesn’t actually care about making your life better.

A federal judge in Louisiana could end telehealth access to medication abortion nationwide.    This lawsuit is a blatant attempt to ban abortion. Mifepristone has been safely used for 25 years. It's the most common method of abortion care in America. Women will suffer if access is restricted.

Breaking MS NOW: Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available. Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.

An ICE agent shot and killed 23-year-old U.S. citizen Ruben Ray Martinez in Texas almost an entire year ago and hid the shooting from the public. It’s only now coming to light, 11 months later, due to Freedom of Information Act requests. What else is the regime hiding from us?

Dear Kristi Noem: you’re tracking down ICE critics? I’m one of them https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/19/kristi-noem-ice-google-meta

So Georgia sent a letter of reprimand? That’s it? newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

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

Legal experts say ICE’s new “administrative warrant” policy that lets agents enter homes without judicial approval flies in the face of the Fourth Amendment’s protection against unreasonable search and seizure — the Constitution was written to keep government power in check, not enable self-issued-

Special for my friends in the media! Before you use numbers from a new DHS “economic impact analysis” in reporting on a new Trump prison camp, please consider that these reports appear to be (to use a technical term) horseshit. Helpful explanation here: projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/federal-ec...

ACLU: ICE FORCIBLY STERILIZING, AKA ABORTIONS, IN GA Immigration Detention and Coerced Sterilization: History Tragically Repeats Itself | American Civil Liberties Union share.google/8t7dxUZI7mek...

Roxbury, New Jersey www.tapinto.net/towns/roxbur...

“I am too scared to drive my 5-year-old daughter to school in my husband’s car. I’m terrified ICE will detain me and our daughter will end up alone,” she said. “This is just as scary as the war in Ukraine, except now we don’t have Dmytro with us..." www.thedailybeast.com/laughing-ice...

In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p

The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.

This isn’t some anonymous tip. This is sworn testimony, under penalty of perjury, from someone who said Trump threatened to kill her if she exposed Epstein’s sexual abuse.

Crossing climate tipping points "would lock the world into a new and hellish 'hothouse Earth' climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is on track to reach." Probably fine.

Buying sweets for your valentine? Here’s how big candy barons might be ripping you off.

In latest batshit screed, Trump calls Democrats “demented and evil.” So much for toning down the rhetoric.

"Warnings of ‘Permanent’ Damage to People and Planet as Trump EPA Set to Repeal Key Climate Rule" by @brettwilkins.bsky.social for @commondreams.org: www.commondreams.org/news/warning...

"A jury in Florida found the man guilty of five charges, including molesting a child under 12 and another under 16... "He tried to silence one victim by claiming he would receive $10 million from the Trump administration as restitution for Jan. 6 defendants... www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

The SAVE Act is unconstitutional. Plain and simple. Don't get fooled into thinking it's about saving elections for you, the voters; it's about saving the people in power from people voting them out of office... because it adds a poll tax. Read the 24th Amendment.

Jamie Raskin Just Schooled Congress: The Constitution Already Bans Theocracy (No “Anti-Sharia” Needed) democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

"Images obtained by CBS News appear to show the zip ties and bruised wrists of Anabel Romero's 14-year-old daughter SueHey, a U.S. citizen who was tending to her 6- and 8-year-old siblings when the agents descended on the crowd in military-style gear and herded them into a confined area."

🚨BREAKING: A Trump-backed, GOP effort to repeal a Utah law that could give Democrats one extra U.S. House seat appears to be unraveling after county officials flagged thousands of potentially invalid and fraudulent petition signatures. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Criticizing your country isn’t unpatriotic — this is 👇🏽

"She sustained a torn rotator cuff, concussion and bruised ribs during the incident and received medical treatment at a hospital..." www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

Ohh that's RICH @ohhthatsrich.bsky.social

This story is chilling...not because it’s loud, but because it’s quiet. www.jackhopkinsnow.com

"The new law forbids counties and local law enforcement from contracting with ICE. It mandates that public bodies terminate any existing immigration detention agreements and prohibits the use of public property for federal civil immigration detention..." kfoxtv.com/news/local/n...

Not once does this article call out, say, Fox "news" or Trump for spreading lies about San Francisco. It's just a bunch of credulous dolts who believed those lies. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

DOJ tried to delete this Epstein and co-conspirators open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.

For anyone who wondered how the Germans turned a blind eye to the Holocaust, we are living through the answer. We watched it start in real time. Do you remember last October? The details slip away fast but holding onto them helps us hold onto who we are joycevance.substack.com/p/we-are-not...

UNREAL! Congressional hearing Tuesday with US citizen Marimar Martinez who was shot by ICE. Rep Garcia notes how the ICE agent bragged to his friends about shooting her, writing 'I fired 5 rounds, and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book, boys." You can NOT reform ICE. Abolish and PROSECUTE ICE!!

Trump's big, ugly budget megabill gives ICE more agents than the FBI, more jails than the federal Bureau of Prisons, and a larger budget than most countries' militaries. Not one more penny for ICE.