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“I guess”

Way to go MAGA

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

The FBI being on high alert for terrorist actions is important right now.

Too bad they fired and gutted their counterterrorism capacity

Lionel Hutz from the simpsons editing a business card which reads "PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST - NO MORE FOREVER WAR" to read "PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST? NO, MORE FOREVER WAR"

Americans Are Leaving the U.S. in Record Numbers More citizens are replanting overseas, drawn by a quality of life made easily affordable by the U.S.’s enviable salaries.

"The last time more people left the U.S. than moved in was 1935 and the destination of choice was the Soviet Union. More than 100,000 Americans applied to work the tractor plants, steel mills and factories of a communist dictatorship"

www.wsj.com/us-news/amer...

Al Green didn’t last long.

DOJ hides Trump-related Epstein files. And, what to know for the State of the Union An NPR investigation found that the DOJ withheld some Epstein files related to abuse allegations against Trump. And, what you need to know ahead of the president's State of the Union address tonight.

An NPR investigation found that the DOJ withheld some Epstein files related to abuse allegations against Trump. And, what you need to know ahead of the president's State of the Union address tonight. n.pr/4aT95Eh

Wow. What an incredible idea. We should write this system down on paper and call it, say, the Constitution

Opinion | One Man Stole $660 Million. He’ll Never Pay It Back.

“Illiberal governments tend to live or die by their ability to sustain corruption. They rely for support on a network of oligarchs, who in turn are tied to the administration’s success. It happened in Hungary, Turkey, Russia and increasingly, it is happening here.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

NEW: ICE Confiscates Children's Letters at Dilley Concentration Camp. I've filed a FOIA Request to Get Them ProPublica recently published heart-wrenching letters from children at Dilley. ICE then raided the dormitories to confiscate and destroy those letters. I've filed a Freedom of Information Act Request.

NEW: ICE has raided dormitories at the Dilley concentration camp to confiscate letters from children per @pabloreports.bsky.social. I have filed a FOIA request for them. @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social: the second we get anything, we will send it to you. 1/ www.muellershewrote.com/p/new-ice-co...

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.

It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

This is the reason behind the Trump
administration’s intense desire to ban Talarico content.

If they lose the evangelicals, they lose all their power.

Stephen Colbert responds to CBS disputing his claims that he was barred from airing the James Talarico interview:

"And for the lawyers to release this without even talking to me is really surprising. I don’t even know what to do with this crap. Hold on."

He then picks it up with a dog poop bag.

3.8 million YOUTUBE views already, plus video clips spreading thru every platform like a tsunami, plus every main stream media outlet talking about how Colbert’s interview of @jamestalarico.bsky.social was censored…

In one day, Trump, Carr’s FCC and CBS have made James Talarico nationally famous.

This is so powerful

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

—FDR, 1937

After an @wired.com article listed a building owned by Freeman Webb among those leased to ICE, the @nashvillescene.com posts a statement from FW (their publisher) - now run by Rep. Bob Freeman (D) - saying they “actively concealed” that ICE is involved
www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...

Says the guy who auctioned off little girls

Says the guy who trafficked little girls

Says the guy who raped little girls

Voter cheating, or electoral fraud, is extremely rare in the USA

Only 39 cases of voter fraud were ID'd in a recent election, a mere 0.000039% of over 100 million ballots cast

FBI Interviewed Trump Accuser, Epstein Files Show Trump was credibly accused of sexual assault in the Epstein files. It's unclear what became of the DOJ's investigation.

NEW: The FBI interview implicating Trump for raping and assaulting a 14 year old took place one day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell, and emails about the credible accusation came around the time Blanche visited Ghislaine Maxwell in pirson. substack.com/home/post/p-...

You cannot do a kindness too soon, because you never know how soon it will be too late. --Emerson ⏱
#ShareGreatNotHate

Raw Story: Pam Bondi has faced a “MAGA media backlash” after deflecting from a question about Jeffrey Epstein by pivoting to the strong performance of the economy, a backlash so fierce that one political expert suspects she might get the boot from Trump.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed

IUD

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

I hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.

2001: A Space Odyssey (including seeing it on opening day the first time)

Koyaanisqatsi

Eraserhead

It’s a Wonderful Life

Pink Floyd’s The Wall

Roger Tofte, founder of Oregon’s iconic Enchanted Forest theme park, dies at 96 On Friday, many people took to social media to share their condolences and fond memories of Tofte and the impact his amusement park left on their childhoods.

Tofte, who moved to Oregon when he was 5 years old, opened the fairytale theme park in Turner as a way to help families with young children find a place to come together and have fun.

He's planning on eliminating mail-in ballots knowing they're going to get crushed!

Amber Glenn, a queer Texan who started ice skating at the stonebriar mall in frisco at age 5, who plays magic the gathering, is an olympic gold medalist

Why do these racists think that a celebration of any of the many cultures and ethnicities that make up the melting pot that is America is an "erasure" of their own identity? It must be harrowing living day to day with such a fragile sense of self.