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Black Hawk in early 1800’s called todays condition

Trump has more photos w/ Epstein than i have w/my grandma & more than i have of my nieces at Easter. More than most ppl have of any 1 of their acquaintances. The only ppl I have that many photos w/are my closest friends. There r more photos of them together than there are trans athletes in the NCAA.

Troy Jackson after Collins takes credit for rural healthcare cuts in big beautiful bill not being as bad as they could've been even though she voted to advance the bill: "Sen. Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"

Troy Jackson: "As late as 2024, the FBI was circling around Sen. Collins ... then when President Trump came back, his administration dismantled the investigation. Now she votes with Donald Trump 96% of the time. Look, I don't owe Donald Trump nothing."

"What will it take for you to admit you are ever wrong?" -- Troy Jackson nails Susan Collins on her vote to confirm Kavanaugh, 8 years to the day after Collins cast the vote that doomed Roe v Wade

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Even Russia’s submarines benefit from Trump/Russia, yet the press has more or less stopped noticing the rhinoceros in the living room.

Really looking forward to the reactionary centrists and legacy media denouncing this and demanding that every GOP elected they interview reacts to it for the next several months. JKLOL. That obviously won't happen.

A cluster of advocacy groups that boast veteran lawyers, voting experts and ex-judges have expanded legal challenges to Trump’s authoritarian executive orders on voting and other presidential actions they see as a “war” on the rule of law in the US.

NEW: In 2025, CEOs of low-wage companies made millions underpaying their workers. When those workers faced attacks by ICE, CEOs were silent — or worse, complicit. Workers deserve better. #LaborDay 🧵:

Over the past year, DoorDash — whose CEO, Tony Xu, enjoys billionaire status — reportedly failed to provide drivers basic guidance even as they faced targeting by ICE.

Home Depot stores have been specifically targeted for ICE raids, resulting in chaos and violence. The chain took no apparent action.

Jeff Bezos — one of the richest men on Earth — and Amazon spared no influence to protect their own drivers, nor to end their collusion with ICE.

Target, headquartered in Minnesota, failed to heed calls for action during the ICE surge this year.

While raking in millions, Dollar General leadership sent memos pressuring managers to give workers over to ICE.

MS NOW: Troops fighting against Iran and alleged drug smugglers say they're being asked to violate international law. Orgs that help service members leave the military as conscientious objectors are seeing a large increase in concerns over U.S. strikes against alleged drug boats and inside Iran.

The United States government just agreed to pay $1.8 billion to the United States president, approved by the president's own personal lawyer who represented him when he was convicted of 34 criminal counts. This is the biggest scandal in all of American political history.

VAN HOLLEN: Will individuals who assaulted Capitol Hill police officers be eligible for this fund? BLANCHE: Anybody in this country is eligible to apply if they believe they are a victim of weaponization

@gottalaff.bsky.social I can think of no clearer sign that Trump and his oligarchs have achieved control of the American media than Trump's planned appearance at the WH Correspondents Dinner. Since 2017, Trump only does friendly audiences. #ThisIsAmericaNow #AmericanClownEmperor […]

Jeffries: "The last thing the American people need is for untrained ICE agents to be deployed at airports all across the country, potentially to brutalize or in some instances kill them. We've already seen how ICE conducts itself."

So let me get this straight: We can’t find the budget to pay our actual TSA agents, but we’ve got plenty of cash to bus in ICE agents with zero experience to do their jobs? Efficiency at its finest. What a slap in the face to the people who actually know what they’re doing.

NEW: Chief election officials are demanding that Trump's Homeland Security pick Sen. Mullin refrain from sending ICE agents to polls during midterms. “Trump and his administration have used ICE to terrorize and intimidate Americans.” -- Colorado Sec. of State Jena Griswold.

Just re-upping this from a month ago.

The Deputy Attorney General just rescinded the policy against no knock warrants in most cases. That policy was an important public safety measure. Restricting their use saved lives. Breonna Taylor died because of one. www.cnn.com/2022/02/22/u...

🤥 @KristiNoem today: “I didn’t call Alex Pretti a domestic terrorist.” FLASHBACK: she sure did 👇🏽

wow -- Tillis goes ballistic on Noem, telling her "what we've seen is a disaster under your leadership"

Seems like the media should at least express some curiosity about this. open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

Our federal government killed a disabled genocide survivor and is covering up for a child rapist. And that is just today’s news. It is just unconscionable to be treating this as normal or acceptable in any way. www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...

“I want the Chicago Bears to stay in Chicago,” says Gov. JB Pritzker as the team weighs moving across state lines to Hammond, Indiana. “But also—I’m not going to be shaken down.”

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕 (From @andertoon.bsky.social )

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

How strange.

"ICE guys are pretty miserable. I don’t think morale is particularly high for them. They’re freezing, they’re getting shouted at. They can’t go anywhere without being tailed by 5 cars. They get out and immediately there's a crowd of 100 people shouting at them, blowing whistles as loud as they can."

On the very same day that Bezos published a climate-downplaying op-ed by newly Epstein-linked climate denier Bjorn Lomborg:

For those keeping score at home:

TUSCON, Ariz. (AP) — 'Today Show' host Savannah Guthrie posts message to her mother‘s kidnapper asking to provide proof she is alive. www.instagram.com/p/DUW3mpqD8q...

If Jeff Bezos had any strength of character he would pay someone to take the newspaper he's destroyed off his hands and contribute money to a trust to restore it.

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“Trump and his allies are now straight up telling us that they plan to try everything they can to interfere in the midterms—including using ICE agents,” says Chris Hayes. Civil rights expert Sherrilyn Ifill joins to discuss that and more.

“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”

please remember that no matter how many “ICE is losing in MN” articles you read today, there is still a very real, urgent, ongoing crisis in Minnesota. people need food and they need rent money. that has not changed.

SHAHEEN: It's been reported that the oil sold for $500 million and $300 million went to Venezuelan government. What happened to the other $200 million? RUBIO: It's still sitting in the account is my understanding SHAHEEN: The account in Qatar? RUBIO: Yes

Is Trump's Commerce Secretary boosting AI data centers to line the pockets of his own family while jacking up electricity costs for you? I'm pressing for an investigation now.

Sen. Blumenthal making a very good point.

On both right and left, there's anger about the recent assessments of Russia's threat to the UK and the rest of Europe, and about the need for us to prepare to meet it. There's a lot I could say here (as my students know), but most of it boils down to two things. 🧵

BAIER: You don't think this is about oil -- it's about drugs? THUNE: I think it's about drugs. And obviously there is an energy component in everything in this day and age

The Free Press's take on climate change is not news, it's polluter propaganda--a foreboding sign for climate coverage at CBS News.