IndyStar: Chicago Bears are 'committed' to Indiana move. Here's what needs to happen Indiana lawmakers announced they've struck a deal to potentially locate the Bears' new stadium in northwest Indiana, but it's not a done deal. www.indystar.com/story/news/p...

How’s Your Battery? (Your Thursday Three Things for Feb 19, 2026) www.linkedin.com/pulse/hows-y...

Brendan Carr, head of the FCC, wrote the chapter on it in Project 2025. It’s hard to know what’s worse: The administration’s efforts to intimidate journalists or CBS’s willingness to cave in. Read here to understand the issues: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan... open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

With the removal of a top Army spokesperson, Pete Hegseth has displayed a willingness to extend his firing campaign further down into the military’s ranks, Nancy A. Youssef and Missy Ryan report:

Jesse Jackson would certainly recognize The SAVE Act, which would require proof of citizenship to vote, as the latest MAGA disenfranchisement project. Adding to their never-ending assault to deprive Black and brown people access to the polls.

"Army officers do not choose their bosses. They serve where assigned, executing lawful orders in support of national policy. To punish an officer for having served under a particular senior leader is to misunderstand the very nature of military service." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

NEW: The FDA has removed a webpage warning about dangerous therapies claiming to treat autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under RFK Jr. to discredit long-established science. By @megomatz.bsky.social

Trump's election bill, the SAVE America Act, has 50 Senate votes but Democrats could block it share.google/tLErwzRH2qjC...

Warnock: "Jesus is a victim of identity theft in American politics and culture"

The Boi Tolo, Rio de Janeiro’s kind of roving marathon block party, has come to represent the glittery, gritty grass-roots carnival celebration far from the glamour of the official parades. nyti.ms/4rVu3Js

Audiences say they wouldn’t have watched the late-night host's interview with the Texas Democratic Senate candidate if it weren’t for CBS’s decision to block it.

IndyStar: Court documents reveal details about Beech Grove officer's killing A dispute over a car between Kenneth Terrell Johnson and his girlfriend escalated into a domestic disturbance, leading to the fatal shooting of Beech Grove Police Officer Brian Elliott. www.indystar.com/story/news/c...

Who's the GA politician meeting this moment in our democracy with the urgency it deserves?

Yes, Trump is the irritating and destructive byproduct of the systemic issues at hand, but he is not the root cause. The groups who support and enable racism are.

259 days until the November Midterm Elections!!! There’s just 259 days until the 2026 U.S. midterm elections on November 3!!!

Chip Roy on Fox News tries to explain why the SAVE America Act won't actually prevent women from voting

The California governor’s barb serves as a reminder to the president that many of the prominent right-wingers who helped him to victory have deserted him.

What an utter disgrace Marco Rubio is. "'I can say to you with confidence that President Trump is deeply committed to your success because your success is our success,' Rubio said during a joint press conference with Orban after their meeting." www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

Will Trump’s Immigration Raids Cost Republicans the Senate? One of the GOP’s best issues has become a liability, but Democrats still have an uphill climb | John McCormack https://thedispatch.com/article/republicans-democrats-senate-immigration/

"In a camera-free room, the incentive to seek information is stronger and the incentive to preen is weaker." | Jonah Goldberg in G-File https://thedispatch.com/newsletter/gfile/congress-cameras-performative-hearings-polling/

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published Feb. 2025)

From 2017

Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."

"It is beyond comprehension that the Senate confirmed this man to oversee America’s health. The risks are so immediate and constant that it can be difficult to keep track of them all." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

"Trump’s administration killed 2 Americans exercising their 1st Am rights & has harmed countless others. What would the Founding Fathers make of the president who leads the country for our 250th anniversary? Undoubtedly, they would see nothing in him to celebrate." open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

BREAKING: ICE released 31-year-old Mariela Sobrero just hours after we published a report from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social on her detention. Sobrero, who may have breast cancer, had been held for over a month at the Dilley facility in Texas with her three children.

Here's a look at some of the highlights worth watching from late-night TV.

Your Presidents' Day reminder that patriotism isn't about attacking immigrants, cutting taxes for the rich, or dividing us by race & faith. True patriots don't pander to divisiveness or hate. They work to confirm the "WE" in "We the People of the United States."

🚨BREAKING: A group of civil rights organizations including the NAACP have asked a federal court to protect voters’ personal information after the FBI seized ballots and other election materials during a raid on Fulton County. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

IndyStar: Domestic call leaves 1 officer killed, 1 injured and suspect captured A tip from a citizen led to the arrest of a man suspected of shooting two Beech Grove, Indiana, police officers, one fatally. www.indystar.com/story/news/c...

Good Stuff Is Happening Too sheilakennedy.net/2026/02/good...

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today. We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

Mark Warner, vice chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on elections: In the past, we’ve mostly seen foreign interference — my bigger fear now is domestic interference, some of that potentially originating inside the administration.

Good grief. Everyone knows they were just friends.

This is not the type of development you would normally expect a pharmaceutical company to broadcast. But that’s because there’s nothing normal about the way the federal government is behaving. The latest edition of The Breakdown from @citizencohn.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4694wEk

The Epstein Class is the by-product of an economy that emerged over the last two decades, from which this new elite has siphoned off vast amounts of wealth. Some thoughts... https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-squalor-of-the-epstein-class

Obama steals show at NBA All-stars. www.msn.com/en-us/sports...

7 highlights from CBS News town hall with Maryland Gov. Wes Moore: Trump, Epstein and whether he'll run for president

To be resumed when we can celebrate decency in the presidency…

Abigail Spanberger ran for governor of Virginia on her record as one of the most bipartisan members of the House. After her first weeks in office, critics on the right are calling her a witch, a “Bond villain” and dangerous. She sees it as a sign of her success. nyti.ms/3MO2wLb