The “big picture” here, to use Axios lingo, is that for a year team Trump has destroyed important counter-terror tools and diverted counter-terror personnel to immigration enforcement.
And that Patel, Noem, & Gabbard have no qualifications and are riotously incompetent.
www.axios.com/2026/03/02/i...
Trio of people covered in dust and ash, including an elderly woman and a man carrying a woman in his arms. The street behind them is in flames.
Tehran tonight.
Twenty people were killed in a US–Israeli attack on Niloufar Square, a busy mixed residential and commercial neighborhood in Tehran.
(The photo was taken by Iran’s Student News Network and has been geolocated.)
Williamsport, Maryland:
projectsaltbox.substack.com/p/first-ice-...
Why did federal prosecutors ask New Mexico to drop its investigation into Zorro Ranch in 2019? And why are these files not in the file release by the DOJ under the Epstein Files Transparency Act?
If Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, who were NOT mentioned over a million times in the Epstein files, can testify before Congress about Jeffrey Epstein, then so can Donald J. Trump, who was.
A federal judge has found that the IRS violated federal law "approximately 42,695 times" when it shared confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials last summer.
There’s still an occupation on our state by the federal government.
We’re still asking community to patrol and observe the illegal actions committed by ICE.
Please continue to support our neighbors with mutual aid. Our neighbors are struggling to stay afloat.
Ask your electeds to do better.
Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties
Brianna Tucker @BriannaATucker The top @PostGuild donation to laid off workers is $10,000 from a donor named Dorothy Gilliam. If that's the Dorothy many of us are familiar with — who in 1961 was the first Black female reporter at The Washington Post — it's profoundly bittersweet: Anonymous $100 • Recent donation Dorothy Gilliam $10,000 • Top donation Linda McConnell $200•14 d 7:28 PM • Feb 24, 2026 • 1,669 Views
@briannatucker.bsky.social, former national politics breaking news reporter for the Washington Post, made this observation on X tonight.
The largest contribution to the union's fund for laid off Post staff came from the Post's first Black woman reporter.
www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...
Definitely the first State of the Union where the president talked about the military killing unarmed fishermen as a laugh line
Trump is lying.
Coffee is up 18.3%
Ground beef is up 17.2%
Cereal is up 6.2
Bananas are up 5.4%
Fish is up 5.1%
Cookies are up 5%
I’m getting a little sick of saying this, but I think it’s worth repeating, that this speech sounds no different than your average white nationalist website.
Trump’s lies and deception are at such a clip it’s nearly impossible to keep track, but, the blatant, inciteful racist & xenophobic rhetoric against the Somali community is too dangerous & disgusting to be ignored. No one should sit in that chamber giving audience to such hatred.
Ilhan Omar is the bravest woman in Congress and one of the most courageous in the country.
Every second of this State of the Union Address is either a lie, racist, or a racist lie.
democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly
Today is the four year anniversary of the barbaric full scale invasion against the peaceful people of Ukraine.
Peaceful, until roused to defend themselves….
Slava Ukrainii
Looks like Republican NIMBY-ism is our best defense against the United States of ICE. 🤷♂️
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU
this is an absolutely astonishing feat of independent journalism, top to bottom, and proves that the only way to truly fight billionaires is not being funded by them. just…read the whole thing.
Fascinating how many men are musing on Big Smart philosophical questions about AI while we're out here furiously trying to keep it from poisoning the environment & people, disempowering & dislocating workers, worsening inequality, weakening education, spreading propaganda & aiding authoritarianism.
The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump.
www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...
The only passenger in the car when an ICE officer shot and killed a U.S. citizen in Texas last year had planned to speak up and contradict the government’s account of the shooting. But the passenger, Joshua Orta, died in an unrelated car crash on Saturday.
Read more: nyti.ms/4qTVeDO
A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Totally illegal.
Tuesday Feb 18, 7 PM ET. Register for the zoom link.
Black History Month celebration on Zoom from Scarsdale Public Library with the wonderful author and physician Dr. Rita Woods. Join us!
www.scarsdalelibrary.org/event/virtua...
memoirland.substack.com/p/the-memoir...
Great interview. It's always nice to get a peek at my work through an author's eyes: "[Mad Creek has] an amazing commitment to publishing creative nonfiction, with a focus on essays." @saribotton.bsky.social
