Nadine Wiseman

Stop what you're doing and listen to this warning from @marcelias.bsky.social about the real reason for Trump's National Guard deployment in DC.

Yesterday, I met with a 12 year old boy in Oxnard, CA. His mom and dad have been fieldworkers for over 20 years. ICE agents snatched his parents from the fields and left this boy alone with no clue when he’ll see them again. A 6th grader.

Enjoy your evening... via Yo-Yo Ma X

Lutnick is, of course, a model of sycophantic ignorance in whom the Gods of Idiocy are well pleased. But wittingly or not, he expressed the essence of Trump 2.0 in all of its glittering hubris. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Lemme share something with you. A lot of semi-Trumpy types are saying Zelensky blew it. All he had to do was show up, shake hands, say Trump is great and sign the docs. He couldn't do that. But there are also people in DC who are not Trumpy who are saying the same thing. Now, big picture this ...

Mike Myers, Canadian legend, on SNL tonight.

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

Every abuser, ever.

Screenshot of Rubio while Trump and Vance berated Zelenskyy

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

“Any deal that allows Russia once again to avoid defeat would be a betrayal of the Ukrainians, a win for the Russians, and a blunder by the United States.” My latest. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-ukra...

Watch this. Share this. Demand more reporting like this.

Tonight in her newsletter, @hcrichardson.bsky.social quoting Maine Senator Angus King telling the Senate to wake up. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Item 2 on my “Five Things I Did Last Week” form email to Elon Musk. (See full column here: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...)

None of this has anything to do with effectiveness, or “lethality,” or promoting “warfighters," or any other buzzwords. It is praetorianism, plain and simple, and it is an assault on our military and our democracy. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

In case you were wondering!

Blumenthal: "What world is he living in? It is not only contrary to the facts and the truth but utterly despicable. A disgusting betrayal of a country that has bled and fought and died for freedom ... the president's surrender is pathetic and weak."

This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people. And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

Watch the full interview with @raskin.house.gov here and subscribe to support independent media:

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One thing that's hard to gauge: What is the line where four Senate Republicans would tell Trump no on something and *vote* that way. It hasn't happened yet. Whenever a potential decisive vote flirts with a defection, they have folded fast. Their social media or hallway complaints aren't votes.

"“All of it would be a real knee-slapper if it were the sequel to Dr. Strangelove. But it’s not. Also, there’s a problem with making a Dr. Strangelove sequel, because the first one ended with the start of World War III” michaelianblack.substack.com/p/come-on-ge...

With both RFK Jr and Gabbard confirmed, two people who rose to prominence spreading conspiracy theories about public health and national intelligence will now run the U.S. government agencies in charge of those areas. For someone studying these conspiracy theories for a decade... this is nauseating.

This says it all

Cuts to low income health care, tax cuts for multinational corporations Cuts to food assistance, tax cuts for estates over $14 MILLION Cuts to Ed grants & school lunches, tax breaks for businesses buying equipment The Trump agenda is a transfer of wealth from bottom to top

Until the cuffs come out, these folks don’t care about court orders.

Timely piece (no pun intended) by @abradschwartz.bsky.social on the media's complicity in McCarthyism's rise and the mistakes they're repeating today. time.com/7213586/medi...

One way to think about the DOGE effort is it's an outgrowth of 20 years of hardliner conservatives frustrated by their inability to get the votes in Congress to do what they want to do. 1/

✅ DEI Employers of the Day™ US Attorney General Pam Bondi will target private-sector DEI initiatives for potential “criminal investigation," Slate reports. But despite threats, 80 companies are standing firm on DEI, and the list is growing every day. Full list: www.impactivize.org/dei-employer...

A huge wave of good news from the dogs. Hopefully gives you all a lift 🥰 open.substack.com/pub/niallhar...

www.courtwatch.news/p/lawsuits-r...

We are at the US Treasury Department standing with our allies DEMANDING that tech oligarchs stay the hell away from essential programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid!

This is a longstanding pattern on the right -- they insist they are The Real Victims of some imagined abuse, which then justifies in their mind their own acts of abuse because they're just pushing back, see?

Any four Republican Senators could stop this at any time simply by threatening to block all action (or even caucus with the Democrats) if Trump doesn't make certain concessions. They won't, but that should be a much bigger story than whether the Democrats are doing everything that *they* can.

I just voted NO on RFK Jr. to lead HHS. None of his empty promises could undo the harm his past statements have already had on people’s health. He’s a flip-flopper, a conspiracy peddler, and a danger to our country. He’s driven by self-interest, not by protecting Americans.

This report is especially notable because it seems that, just hours before it was published, Treasury Secretary Bessent lied to GOP members of the House Financial Services Committee about this exact issue. (And props to @murray.senate.gov for calling BS on it.) www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Absolutely right. Once upon a time, playing politics with the debt ceiling was unthinkable. But during the Obama era, the GOP decided it was, in Mitch McConnell's words, "a hostage worth ransoming." They used it to force spending cuts; Dems should use it to rollback Musk's unconstitutional purges.

Jaime Raskin: “.,.We don't have a fourth branch of government called 'Elon Musk.'"

The ultimate irony that Pete Hegseth complains that we have lowered the standards to join the military while he asks Senators to lower the standards for confirming a Secretary of Defense. Thank Senators Duckworth and Peters for pointing this out.

Schatz: The drumbeat below all of this has to be that the policy of the Trump Administration is to rip regular people off. They’re transferring wealth from regular working people, the elderly, students, the disabled and shoving it to the wealthiest individuals that have ever walked this planet.

This language describes a coup. You have to be a government employee, subject to the rules & procedures that bind gov employees, to do this kind of work. This is a blatant abuse of the public trust by the Trump administration, a true 5-alarm fire. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

I do not recall a 24 hour or one week news cycle with more disturbing news about the state of the presidency and the US government in it than those of today and the past seven days. January 6 was nothing compared to this. But make no mistake, this too is the gov't being torn apart by a mob of thugs.

Among the many avenues Democrats need to be pushing *now* is: Trump, Musk, and their Republican enablers just compromised the personal and financial info of every American. This isn't hyperbole; it already happened. They broke all the cybersecurity protocols and are concealing what they're doing.

If you think that trans people are getting our rights ripped away "because the left went too far," you're a moron. Everything happening to us today was written up and planned by the Family Research Council in 2015. The document is still public. It's all there. www.frc.org/transgender#...