I know we’re all just used to Trump living in his Mad King era, but this isn’t how this is supposed to work at all. The entire reason the Constitution puts this power in Congress is so that whether or not we go into a war of choice isn’t just one man’s decision. www.cnn.com/2026/02/18/p...

Revised National Parks Webpage Describes Harriet Tubman As Human Trafficker https://theonion.com/revised-national-parks-webpage-describes-harriet-tubman-as-human-trafficker/

"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)

The President is lying to the public: 1) For the past century, the federal government has been responsible for the Potomac Interceptor – not Maryland. The sewage pipe is on federal land. youtu.be/OKyIKHW8ONI

ICE is crushing Minneapolis economy. On the pod, Mayor Jacob Frey tallies up damage: $203 million overall $80 million small biz losses $5 million hotel cancellations 75K people food insecurity "Impact is staggering," Frey tells us. Bleeding city for being diverse: newrepublic.com/article/2066...

one reset I'd personally appreciate: behind the insistence that we must offer the electorate a little bigotry is the idea that commoners are more bigoted than the richer and more educated, who can be appealed to with high minded policy. but then you Ctrl+F "phrenology" in the Epstein files

and i think the example of washington — whose peer, in this regard, is frederick douglass — is a reminder that artifice and performance are important parts of democratic society, and that the contempt for virtue signaling is corrosive. virtue is meant to be signaled!

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

Bloomberg says we've spent $3B on Trump's invasion of Venezuela. Which is 6X more than the cancer, Alzheimer, diabetes, and heart disease cures they've cut to pay for it. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

That last sentence? That's the strategy. They've been pretty open about it.

The Chief Justice of the United States will literally change the rules of the Supreme Court of the United States instead of divesting in individual stocks.

Wow.

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison. Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water. Our priorities are so fucked.

hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message: - the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next - a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

The best case scenario is that Trump will waste $38 billion. The more likely outcome is that these will become warehouses of human suffering, and a permanent stain on America's history.

Every pro sports league in America is completely and totally in the pocket of gambling. Giannis Antetokounmpo just inked an endorsement deal with Kalshi. It is everywhere you look at every level of college and pro sports, and the mechanics are constantly getting easier and more addiction-promoting.

no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.

Roughly 2 USAIDs

USHURTs

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

Every state east of the Great Lakes is going to be hit hard by the repeal of this rule, because all the shit the midwest pumps into the air is carried by the jet stream to east coast. ctmirror.org/2026/02/12/e...

really interesting to me how many professional political commentators have basically retconned the draconian immigration enforcement policies of Obama and Biden out of existence and have completely swallowed the right wing narrative of immigration enforcement

BREAKING Judge Boasberg ORDERS the Trump admin to facilitate the return of the more than 100 men spirited out of the country last year without notice or a hearing. Plaintiffs may also submit habeas petitions from abroad, he says. Doc buff.ly/rccakD7

Seems like it was a bad idea to give these incompetent jokers tens of billions of dollars to buy all the military equipment and weaponry they can get their hands on

There is no world in which such agreement is legal. Pretty much anyone in the IRS who was involved with it when they first did it either resigned, or was fired for refusing to cooperate.

Initially, I read this as a quote attributed to DOJ, which would have been awesome.

Not all U.S. cities - DC is still occupied.

It’s interesting how we used to negotiate free trade agreements and now they’re just trade agreements. They are dropping the “free” from in front of lots of things these days: trade, speech, press, market, country.

“what we’re witnessing is…on the scale of the larger concentration camp systems in history—the Soviet Gulag, the Nazi concentration camps, & Chinese labor camps…The admin is actively aspiring to a system of that magnitude to reshape society to its racial, political & cultural prefs for generations”

I keep rereading this paragraph expecting the words to change

I guess they dined on the veranda?

This isn’t a setback. This is deliberately thwarting the research and development of safe and effective medicine.

Damnit. I wish we weren't responsible for this.

If this wasn't true I'd assume that the people doing the rankings were themselves on the take from the Trump administration.

And because they *want* ICE/CBP to have all the trappings of a rogue paramilitary organization - it's telegraphs that they're building a police state and that's in large part the point.

Habeas cases filed by immigrants claiming their detention is illegal have taken off to levels we have never seen before. Just look at that chart. www.propublica.org/article/habe...

This is why domestic "shuffle" flights between ICE detention centers have skyrocketed, much moreso than ICE deportation flights. When you are moved to a different jurisdiction, you have to refile your habeas petition all over again. They want to wear people down so they'll give up on their cases.

"If the government may simply seize *someone* without due process, there is no check on its ability to seize *anyone*." Perhaps the most fundamental check against tyranny. And it is gravely threatened.

ICE AGENTS ARE FOLLOWING OBSERVERS TO THEIR HOMES. THEY ARE DOING THE EXACT SHIT JOHNSON SAYS IS INTOLERABLE!

The self confidence it takes to race down a mountain is more than most of us will ever have, which makes it hard to put ourselves in her position now. Like with the racing itself, I just have to admire the human spirit that drives it.

The self confidence it takes to race down a mountain is more than most of us will ever have, which makes it hard to put ourselves in her position now. Like with the racing itself, we just have to admire the human spirit that drives it.

Everyone has a plan until they give themselves Mike Tyson’s face tattoos

BREAKING: “in my 24th year of my quest to settle the planet Mars, I have just been informed of a basic fact of celestial mechanics.”

Republicans just like bringing DC to heel and are largely indifferent to the disruption and cost it has for the city. This level of oversight has to end.

This whole thread...

A divided 5th Circuit greenlit ICE’s policy of detaining immigrants without bond, abandoning decades of practice and basic due process. Treating civil immigration cases like criminal punishment erodes the rule of law and human dignity.

I didn't believe that this post could be real.

The nice commercial about helping kids find their lost pets was the scariest thing I've seen in my life