In case you haven't been following: The Texas Ag Commissioner is rapidly devolving into a knife fight, with incumbent Sid Miller, fresh off endorsements by Trump and a weightlifter named Tiny Meeker, attacking his opponent Nate Sheets over his alleged porn addiction and whether his honey is organic.

Exclusive: Democrats press Pam Bondi on Ghislaine Maxwell prison transfer -- point out the Epstein Files Transparency Act specifically requires release of all files related to Maxwell www.huffpost.com/entry/ghisla...

NEW– Trump's war on Iran boosts the global view of the US as a rogue actor, fueling instability, acting illogically+illegally & risking innocent lives Combined with his broader agenda + US record from Gaza to Iraq, international wariness of America is at new heights www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Howard Lutnick is testing the strength of the MAGA protection bubble against Epstein consequences. w/ @paulblumenthal.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/jeffre...

Does the president still want the Nobel Peace Prize or has he given up on that?

Trump has launched a new war against Iran for regime change and to obliterate the nuclear program he previously said was obliterated. He said today it will be “totally again obliterated”

Democrats set to grill Bill Clinton alongside Republicans today: “We have real questions that deserve serious answers from former President Clinton, and we have said from day one that Democrats want to talk to anyone," Rep Robert Garcia (D-Calif) said. www.huffpost.com/entry/bill-c...

Republicans ran out of way to ask Hillary Clinton if she knew Jeffrey Epstein so they started asking about UFOs and Pizzagate www.huffpost.com/entry/hillar...

Hopefully the committee can get to the bottom of this clear violation of House rules.

Chuck Schumer calls presser on missing Epstein Files: “There is a massive cover up going on in the Justice Department to protect Donald Trump and people associated with Jeffrey Epstein.” Says Senate Dems will visit unredacted files site.

DHS official and election denier Heather Honey told state election officials that ICE won't show up at the polls. www.huffpost.com/entry/dhs-ic...

Trumpism as "dread and circuses," by @paulblumenthal.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

"we should send them back from where they came — as fast as possible." Also, Rashida Tlaib came from *checks notes* Detroit, where she was born.

Talked SOTU on NPR’s 1A the1a.org/segments/unp...

I'm in the House chamber for Trump's SOTU and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich) is doing a Democratic rebuttal in real time from the floor, saying stuff like, "lies," "what's he talking about," while Trump rambles on... not sure he can hear her but I'm about the same distance as he is from her seat

Rep Troy Nehls, wearing a tie with Trump’s face on it, tells me he hopes the speech is three hours long

Looks like several FBI documents memorializing interviews w a Trump accuser are missing from the Epstein files www.huffpost.com/entry/epstei...

There are fewer than 500 ICE agents in Minnesota now, down from the ~3,000 who were swarming the state over the last two months amid Trump's ICE surge here, per Angie Craig's office. This # comes from convos Craig had with ICE officials last week in Minneapolis. (Believe them or not on this.)

Are Trump's new Section 122 tariffs also illegal? A lawyer for the plaintiffs in the case that struck down his IEEPA tariffs says it's "very likely" we're going to find out in court www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

NEW–Amid fears of a massive war, successful US-Iran diplomacy is increasingly hard to imagine Trapped in Iran’s brutal Evin Prison is an ailing American journalist whose case helps explain why: Reza Valizadeh New details here on the calculus among Trump/GOP/Tehran: www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

ICE raids have forced many immigrant workers in LA to make a horrific decision: go to work and risk arrest or stay home and risk eviction — which can force people to leave the U.S. LA officials say they oppose ICE but they've refused to pass eviction protections www.huffpost.com/entry/los-an...

As @svdate.bsky.social has pointed out, Trump is considering a strike against Iran over its nuclear program even though Trump said last year it had already been obliterated!

Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) is “playing the victim,” an attorney for Regina Santos-Aviles’ widower told HuffPost.

Rep Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) reportedly had an affair with an aide who later died by self-immolation 😬 www.huffpost.com/entry/tony-g...

This may be the most dangerous development of all. It will give Trump fake legal pretext to reject Nov election results. American democracy has like 9 months left. Trump says he will issue executive order to get voter-ID requirements before midterms www.cnbc.com/2026/02/13/t...

BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight. The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Dems seething at Bondi. “She is supposed to be the people’s attorney general, the people’s lawyer, but she had an audience of one yesterday,” Pramila Jayapal told me. “His name was Donald Trump. She is still acting like the personal attorney for Donald Trump www.huffpost.com/entry/pramil...

New: Corporate PAC $$$ is emerging as a major dividing line in Democratic primary battles, causing nasty fights in the Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan Senate races. www.huffpost.com/entry/the-mo...

Not only did the administration not accomplish its stated goal of targeting Somali fraud, it caused the US attorneys who were actually prosecuting the fraud to resign in disgust

Moderate Dems who voted for the old SAVE act don’t like the new SAVE America Act. Jared Golden told me the new bill is fundamentally different because it’s voter ID www.huffpost.com/entry/save-a...

This is not a gotcha question! Poverty numbers are one of the Census Bureau's most famous jobs.

I thought Johnson sounded less alarmist in response to this question (from me) than he did when speaking about illegal voting in 2024

A federal worker at the CFPB found out in December that she had a brain tumor that needed to be removed. The next month, Russ Vought unilaterally ended her agency's short-term disability plan. www.huffpost.com/entry/russel...

Ghislaine Maxwell refused to speak to the House Oversight Committee this morning in response to a subpoena -- but through her lawyer said she'd sing like a bird if President Trump lets her out of prison www.huffpost.com/entry/ghisla...

Why is it called “biathlon” instead of “ski shooting”?

HAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today. Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

I asked Ron Wyden what his cryptic letter to the CIA was all about. He wouldn't say. "I wrote it for a specific reason. That’s all I can say.” He did a similar thing before, in 2011, and illicit spy activities were later revealed by Edward Snowden www.huffpost.com/entry/ron-wy...

'If the Post is, in fact, losing $100 million a year, Bezos could absorb those losses for five years - for what he makes in a single week. It's not that Bezos can't afford the Post anymore, he just doesn't care. He'd rather suck up to Donald Trump.' bit.ly/My-Column

People should not do this.

Trump loves dictators

Exclusive: Ruben Gallego proposes $20 minimum wage www.huffpost.com/entry/ruben-...

Democrats today used new caveats in their demands for ICE masks www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

"I realized that the Post wasn’t the same paper that had recruited me, and that I didn’t want to work for an owner and publisher who couldn’t articulate a vision and confused contempt for the newsroom with a business plan." -- Ashley Parker, on why she jumped ship www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Trump's border czar Tom Homan announces he's removing 700 immigration officers from Minnesota, effective immediately.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

Not the most shocking outcome after many experienced prosecutors quit that office rather than do the administration's bidding

Wondering if people who don't live in DC get how utterly, hilariously delusional this is.

Jared Moskowitz says Trump should fire Noem. “Where’s the president from ‘The Apprentice’? Where’s that guy who America tuned in night after night to watch him fire people? All of a sudden, now he thinks firing is a weakness.” www.huffpost.com/entry/govern...

Republicans have given the Clintons a noon deadline to agree to deposition terms or face contempt of Congress www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Training material, which HuffPost obtained, shows the multiple ways agents didn’t follow agency rules.