DOD this year got a massive and unprecedented increase in their budget for a country not at war, now Trump and Hegseth want even more so they can play war with new toys. The defense budget should not be increased by another penny, let alone an absurd $500 billion.

Always loved some Johnny Rivers. This with the late, great Patrick McGoohan should bring back memories www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT5a...

Neal Katyal: "In America, the chief justice said only Congress can impose taxes on the American people, and that's what tariffs are. Tariffs are taxes."

Guessing that Iran strike just got more imminent. But certainly going to be a lot of ketchup flung. #Resist #ProudBlue #DemVoice1

We know exactly why. It is clear.

Thomas Massie: “Prince Andrew was just arrested — this was the metric I established for success of the Epstein Files Transparency Act that Rep. Ro Khanna & I got passed Now we need JUSTICE in the United States — It's time for Attorney General Pam Bondi & FBI Director Kash Patel to act”

1. DHS surges 3,000 officers to Minneapolis without doing anywhere near enough prep first. 2. Hundreds of habeas cases overwhelm local courts. 3. Dozens of DOJ lawyers quit in disgust/anger. 4. The DOJ brings in JAGs to cover. 5. A JAG was just held in contempt and fined $500/day for ICE's failures.

"I don't see any reason why we can't do what we did with opiates, what we did with tobacco. We need to regulate Big Tech," Scott Galloway tells Tim Miller. "All the problems you're talking about are fixable, and the illusion of complexity is what Big Tech wants you to be overrun with."

The interview with Talarico has been posted to YouTube: youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A

Chump Has Only Himself To Blame

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The Senate Minority Leader called a strict, Republican-backed voter ID bill "Jim Crow 2.0" during an interview on CNN.

Chris Murphy: "I sat with the kids for an hour. They saw things in these prisons they'll never forget. The bottom line is we have a constitutional obligation to only fund an administration that's operating lawfully. We cannot, we should not fund DHS if it committing these crimes."

A chart from this week’s newsletter: Guess who’s footing the bill for the tariffs! www.howtoreadthisch.art/may-your-lov...

Let me help expose one - I am 100% against the ICEstapo and will fight any attempt by the UK far right to bring anything similar to our streets.

NEW: @hcrichardson.bsky.social and I discuss republican clandestine spying, weaponization of the Justice Department, and failures of Pam Bondi. Never any paywalls, and you can subscribe for free. www.muellershewrote.com/p/heather-co...

What PM Støre says would be obvious to anyone, but not to Trump.

A woman in Lakewood, Colorado, suffered a heart attack after witnessing her husband’s kidnapping by ICE. The incident occurred on 2/14/26, at 1:00 p.m. MST.

“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔 (From @crindivisible.bsky.social )

how we got here

NEW EPISODE: Republicans know they’re on track to lose the 2026 midterms—and they’re trying to rig the election to stop it. I break down the Save America Act, the most sweeping voter suppression bill in a generation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYsx...

🚨 President Trump’s Claim of an “Irrefutable” Argument Supporting His Right to Unilaterally Impose Voter ID and Election Rules May Be Based on Insane Claim that Marriott Hotel Manager Found Secret Text in the Shadows of a Microfilm Copy of the U.S. Constitution electionlawblog.org?p=154326

The Trump administration has been barred from carrying out "warrantless" immigration enforcement operations in or "within 100 feet of the entrance" to various churches across the country. lawandcrime.com/high-profile...

Fascist regimes toast as if time belongs to them. Mussolini hung upside down. Ceaușescu faced the wall. Hitler took himself out with a bullet. Power swears it is eternal even when the rot begins to surface. The party always ends. It always ends. Do not kneel. This too shall pass.

Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.

NEW: Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found. The government keeps doing it nonetheless. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Swalwell: ICE agents shot Alex Pretti and Renee Good. And the only person in the world who has been held accountable by DHS is the pilot who somehow forgot to move Kristi Noem’s blankie.

Correct. Now is the time to be very clear on the fact that you don't give a fucking inch to fascists. Not on anything. Not ever. Everything they are doing is per se illegitimate. The very minimum you demand is an immediate, across-the-board return to regular democratic order and norms. Nothing less.

Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Trump’s White House is offering million-dollar donors special access to the President and official events — this time America’s 250th birthday. This latest pay-to-play arrangement undercuts already crumbling public trust.

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It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

This man has a point though. Having lived in neighborhoods heavily populated with Mexican immigrants, their music is completely incomprehensible to me, a person of Serbian descent who is used to white culture like accordions, brass instruments and ballads about criminals.

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

www.politico.com/live-updates... Senate Democrats BLOCK DHS FUNDING BILL It needed 60 votes and failed Vote 52-47 Fetterman only Democrat voting to advance No deflection from Republican side but even Rand Paul was a yes Thune changed vote to NO to allow him to bring it up later

The elderly president drew attention to his declining health after muttering unintelligible gibberish at an event celebrating him as the “Undisputed Champion of Coal.” trib.al/tDMNbKk

Every person on this list is in the Epstein files, after he was arrested in 2006. So they knew and still associated with him. That tells me one of two things happened— they participated, or they ignored it. MAGA: The pedophile arm of the Republican party. #SheShed

@heathergtv has a response for Bondi 👏🏼 🤣 #CulverCity

From @wired.com: “Federal records reveal ICE is secretly expanding into 150+ facilities across nearly every state — many near schools, medical offices, and places of worship… DHS asked the General Services Administration to hide lease listings and bypass normal procedures…”🤔

Throwback to Pam Bondi’s campaign ad for Florida AG: “I’ll fight to put human trafficking monsters where they belong. Behind bars.” The ad aged. The internet remembers.

easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”

“This is the cruelest and most arrogant group of people who have ever ascended to high office in the U.S. — and their cruelty and arrogance are matched only by their incompetence… This is the Epstein class.” @ossoff.senate.gov @ossoff.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/carl... bsky.app/profile/atru...

BREAKING: Pam Bondi appears to have just committed a federal crime by lying under oath. Ted lieu just caught her in a lie and called for her resignation live on TV.

Rep. Ted Lieu played video of Trump partying with Epstein for AG Pam Bondi. BONDI SNAPS: This is ridiculous! There’s no evidence Trump committed a crime! LIEu: I believe you just lied under oath. PAMMY JO: Don't ever accuse me of a crime! LIEU: I believe you just lied under oath. *shows proof*

We still don’t know why Maxwell was moved to a nicer jail

Why is DOJ tracking what members of Congress are searching for in the Epstein files? bsky.app/profile/atru...

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

If the SAVE Act doesn’t provide for a FREE voter ID to all eligible voters that is easily obtained with minimal hoops to jump through, it is a poll tax and voter suppression. Full stop.

Thank you, Julie Johnson, for speaking out against the grotesquely misnamed SAVE act. We need you to keep fighting for us in the House.