Stephanie Ruhle: This bridge will take toll money away from another bridge that connects Michigan and Canada, and that bridge is owned by a big Trump donor who, on Monday, had a meeting with Howard. Lutnick. Immediately following that meeting, poof, we no longer want this new bridge.

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.

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America has concentration camps.

I'm having a hard time reconciling the fact that the Appointments Clause is supposed to be an indispensable protection for liberty with the fact that DHS is operationally under the control of a special government employee who is not legally allowed to work more than 130 days a year.

there's fierce competition, but this is one of the most stomach-turning things I've read in some time

Just take a look at this and remember, Pam Bondi's concern here was not with any of the victims of these crimes but with the nosy Democrats who actually gave a shit about them.

NY FED: Consumers pay 90% of tariffs. CBO: Consumers pay *95%* of tariffs. www.crfb.org/papers/cbos-...

"While he rushes to place his name on monuments before he leaves office, he’s given every indication he’s fine leaving behind a trail of utter and complete destruction. In short, Donald J. Trump is a nihilist."

If Pam Bondi was a waitress.

KIM: There's reporting that FBI agents equipped with a signed warrant prepared to document blood splatter and bullet holes in Ms. Good's SUV. They received orders to stop supposedly from Kash Patel. Do you think a sufficient investigation is happening? LYONS: I can't speak to that

This is why some corporate dems remain timid in their push for accountability. They’re all subservient to wealth. Not the Constitution. Not rule of law. Burn the whole fucking thing down and let’s start anew.

The warrior ethos Hegseth has instilled used maximum lethality to intimidate, demoralize, hunt and kill the enemies of our country unhindered by politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement.

Good that the grand jury rejected this obviously illegal move to indict sitting Senators for making true statements. But horrifying that the government tried. The DOJ has been fully corrupted into a Trump propaganda arm. It will have to be rebuilt from the ground up www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

This whole thing today was pointless. Pam Bondi is just a tool. She’s Trump’s tool. Trump is the one who’s orchestrated this whole Epstein files coverup. He’s the boss. Trump is the one who should be testifying under oath.

1) The people in charge of this administration are blathering idiots! I'm former FAA, Air Traffic Control and military liaison for a large Air Traffic Facility that issues these Temporary Flight Restrictions (TFR's). I've issued dozens of these TFR's in my time acting as the military liaison.

Trump already indicted Rep. LaMonica McIver for protesting at ICE facility. Now he tried to indict 6 more Democrats. We have NEVER seen a President use DOJ like this before. Dems need to make it clear they will be prosecuting Trump AND all GOP co-conspirators. Plus declare His pardons are invalid!

"Uncharted waters" is lawyer code for we're stress testing democracy. And that and their executive privilege abuse should scare everyone.

It's staggering how this political eunuch has not just done nothing at all as Speaker of the House, but has actually worked to prevent his colleagues from doing anything at all as well. For all the right's fetishization of "originalism," this is a development that would've made the founders weep

The fact that her reaction is almost certainly opportunistic makes this more, not less, significant.

Emerging from his viewing of the UNRELEASED Epstein case files at Justice Dept, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) says: "The Dept of Justice has been in a cover-up mode for months... trying to sweep the entire thing under the rug"

It bears repeating that Tom Homan is a fucking psycho and Greg Bovino's exile means functionally nothing when it comes to what's happening on the ground in Minnesota.

You know what they’re going to store in those warehouses? People

Rep. Melanie Stansbury: "[Ghislaine Maxwell] used this opportunity to not only campaign for clemency as she has been doing but also to send a direct message…to POTUS that her silence can be bought through clemency."

Rep. Stansbury: "Multiple administration officials, including Howard Lutnick, Elon Musk…the Secretary of the Navy…Steve Bannon…and more than three dozen associates, family members, and individuals directly associated with Donald Trump are named in [the Epstein] files."

Trump finally accepts ownership of the current economy. In an interview with NBC, Trump says the U.S. is experiencing the Trump economy. "I'd say we're there now," he says. "I'm very proud of it." Trump is polling at near-historic lows because of his handling of the economy.

His GoFundMe is here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-le... - I donated a few days ago.

This is what Hess said: “It brings up mixed emotions to represent the US right now. I think it’s a little hard. There’s obviously a lot going on that I’m not the biggest fan of. Just because I wear the flag doesn't mean I represent everything that's going on in the US.”

> @usapolling.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/usapolli...

Another win! Democrat Chasity Martinez has won the Louisiana HD-60 special election. Martinez won 63%-37%. Trump carried the district by 13 points in 2024. 🌊

7 key questions that Ro Khanna wants to ask Ghislaine Maxwell when she appears before Oversight tomorrow that Todd Blanche did not ask. But unlike with Blanche, Maxwell will refuse to answer them. Why is she getting special treatment from DOJ? bsky.app/profile/meid...

Warner: "There is a very real threat without reforms at ICE that you could have ICE patrols around polling stations. And people say, 'Why would that matter if they're all American citizens?' We've seen ICE discriminate against Latinos ... you don't need to do a lot to discourage people from voting"

Schiff on Gabbard's involvement in Georgia: "All of this is intended to send a message and the message is, 'We will not tolerate or accept an election that we lose.' That's why in these budget discussions we need to make sure, among other things, that we don't have ICE agents at polling places."

Traitorous behavior…again

Schiff on the SAVE Act: "Jonathan, what you've just asked is essentially, Republicans have created distrust in the elections by making claims of nonexistent fraud, and shouldn't we use the distrust they've created in order to enact a voter suppression law?"

Gov. Wes Moore (D-MD) says he was uninvited from a bipartisan White House dinner for governors "As the nation’s only Black governor, I can’t ignore that being singled out for exclusion from this bipartisan tradition carries an added weight — whether that was the intent or not"

"The aggregate effect of Trump’s Perpetual Distraction Machine is disorienting for his opponents, who often find it impossible to respond effectively to an overwhelming fusillade of provocations or to effectively shine a spotlight on Trump’s missteps."

It’s insane that the Trump admin wants to double the already massive US military budget in just 2 years when we are not at war. Trump’s DOD budgets are a cesspool of corruption and grift for the military industrial complex, scammers and grifters, including Donald Trump, Jr.

Federal judge: "The presumption of regularity that has previously extended to [the United States Government] that it could be taken at its word—with little doubt about its intentions and stated purposes—no longer holds." This is in a case where the Trump admin sued Oregon.

How is this even legal? Officials in the Trump administration dangled the release of billions in stalled funding for the Hudson River rail tunnel on the condition that Senator Schumer spearhead an effort to rename prominent transit centers in New York City and Washington in Trump’s honor.

This is quite a quote from @rickhasen.bsky.social on possibility of Trump seizing ballot boxes: "It may take people in the streets protecting the offices where ballots are being tabulated. The Brooks Brothers riot would look very tame compared to what we might see in 2026." More here:

After attempting to eliminate mail-in ballots, demanding voter rolls in Democratic cities, raiding election centers, and fighting and failing to pass the SAVE Act, the authoritarians in power are being direct about their end game with ICE.

Q: Bannon recently said 'we're gonna have ICE surround the polls come November.' Is that something the president is considering? LEAVITT: I can't guarantee an ICE agent won't be around a polling location, but what I can tell you is I haven't heard the president discuss any formal plans

Steve Bannon said the federal government is planning to send ICE officers to patrol polling stations during the midterms. His comments come after Trump called for Republicans to “nationalize voting,” further escalating of interfere in this year’s elections.

he's so close to figuring it out!

The BEACON Act is a reverse Robin Hood scheme: taking money the VA desperately needs to continue caring for veterans and handing it to entities funded by wealthy benefactors, who go on to tout their role in helping America’s veterans.

OMG. He literally went with "they were no angels" which is the mocking phrase people use to point out how authorities try to minimize their law enforcement executions. And he's using it earnestly because he doesn't realize how it's actually used.

Putin's favorite testing out voting machines seems like a bad deal

It’s a reasonable cause for expulsion. And the parents of those who helped raise these young republicans and instill their values are not totally absolved of guilt either.

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