"We negotiate with bombs"

I know it’s been said infinity times at this point but IMAGINE IF BIDEN SAID THIS

BREAKING: 49 Senate Republicans just VOTED DOWN our simple bill to pay TSA workers. Republicans have now blocked TSA pay SEVEN times. It’s a slap in the face to the men and women who have been working without a paycheck for weeks.

The cost of fresh vegetables is up a stunning FORTY EIGHT PERCENT from February 2025: www.bls.gov/news.release...

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Where to begin with this

What is this if not regurgitating a political smokescreen? The military has already acknowledged it hit the school and doesn’t need Hegseth’s “vows” to complete understanding how it happened.

This thread. 💔

5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open. Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

WTI crude oil price One month ago: $63 Now: $101

42 States tax the top 1 percent at a lower rate than the lowest 20 percent. #Econsky #ProgressiveTax #Inequality

real life or a leak of tonight SNL's cold open? You decide

Seems that this should have been dealt with *before* we started this war.

Follow the money.

MAGA's lawlessness in a nutshell.

It's time for American libertarians to accept that the more pressing statist threat now comes from the American right.

Running your war from a private club for millionaires — ahead of a $1 million-a-plate dinner — is a choice.

In several rounds of intense negotiations, Tehreran was unable to match the bribes to the Trump family offered by its regional rivals Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE.

OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.

Trump in 2011: “Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He’s weak and he’s ineffective.”

“President Trump's decision to bomb Iran is indefensible. This was not about preempting an imminent threat—it was a strategically misguided power play, with no discernible endgame,” Cato Institute’s Jon Hoffman says.

Jack Shanahan, retired US Air Force General and first Director of the Department of Defense Joint Artificial Intelligence Center:

About time.

Big Headlines for lies, smaller headlines for truth.

Over the weekend, Dawson Maloney of Albany, NY, died in what appears to be an attempted attack on a substation outside of Las Vegas. Police shared a photo of the books they found in his hotel room, which include literature popular with neo-Nazi accelerationists. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

Listen to Maria Farmer. She’s not chasing headlines, she’s describing years of intimidation, silence, and retaliation faced by Epstein survivors. This isn’t about gossip or politics, it’s about believing victims and understanding how power works to exhaust, harass, and erase them.

Anyone else notice that while Trump will not defend Europe, he goes out of his way to defend Netanyahu? Not Israel, Bibi...

The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

To my mind, this is the single tweet that explains 95% of the energy behind the MAGA movement.

Reality check: The vast majority of Republicans are complicit and should be treated as such.

Great to see the new House Oversight Democrats’ report on the schemes behind DOGE's creation, the benefits it offered the billionaire class, and the harms it brought to taxpayers, federal workers, and public services. 🧵 oversightdemocrats.house.gov/imo/media/do...

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A reminder of what we're really dealing with, the same old ideas and attitudes.

1) Great WSJ piece about Noem's diva/clown/Cruella show at DHS. 2) We spent lots of time in SD during/after her time as gov. Little residual home-state love. 3) WSJ at least tiptoes around elephant-in-room: Kristi-and-Corey saga. 4) Pilot/blanket story is classic. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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

Trump is trying to get a Claremont guy, Jeremy Carl, into the state department. The position requires Senate confirmation. Carl touts "great replacement" theories and wrote that he thought the military should just shoot immigrants crossing the border www.salon.com/2026/02/12/w...

ICE just indiscriminately stopped a citizen at a bus stop in front of the co-op. If this is how they treat the President of the Minneapolis City Council who is legally observing, just think of what they’re doing to everyone else in our City.

Here's what DHS doesn't want you to know: Working for ICE is one of the safest jobs in America — and last year was the second-safest year for the agency on record. And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once. The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

U.S. workers are earning the smallest share of the economic pie since 1947, when federal data collection began, per More Perfect Union.

"While his father Steve Witkoff acts as President Trump’s all-purpose special envoy, 32-year-old Zach Witkoff now heads up World Liberty, which has doled out at least $1.4 billion to both families" extraordinary reporting from @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

More than half the drugs on the TrumpRx site have a cheaper generic version on the market. Pristiq, an antidepressant, is available with a TrumpRx coupon for ~$200 for a 30-day supply. A generic version is on GoodRx for less than $30 and Mark Cuban's CostPlusDrugs for $16.65.

Trump’s advisors told him he was going to be booed mercilessly, so he isn’t going this year and he’s canceling the F-22 flyover too.

Huh.

To recap the White House's official position, the racist video was posted erroneously by a staffer and they took it down, but even if it was posted on purpose, the outrage would have been fake because the post was fine and inspired by the Lion King

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’