Senate Dem looking at funding Trump's war, per Politico:
Jack Reed (RI): @reed.senate.gov
Gary Peters (MI): @peters.senate.gov
Tim Kaine (VA): @kaine.senate.gov
Elissa Slotkin (MI): @slotkin.senate.gov
Chris Coons (DE): @coons.senate.gov
Jeanne Shaheen (NH): @shaheen.senate.gov
This is what weak and insecure people think confidence looks like: buffoonish bluster and swagger, like a 12-year-old bully. It doesn‘t inspire trust or security. It inspires grave concern for the lives of the people serving our nation whose fate is in the hands of these overcompensating oafs.
There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.
Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.
House Republicans are publicly cheering Trump’s Iran war. Privately, many are worried.
For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.
These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20
We've renamed the DOD the Department of War. Our troops are Warfighters. No of course we're not "at war" you dumb lib
When the Iraq War really went south, the initial assurances from Bush administration officials, with their serious and sober analysis, came back to haunt them.
This cutesy jokes from Pete Hegseth -- not known for his sobriety in any case -- sound dumb now but they are going to age like raw milk.
we have a psychotic, murderous, christian nationalist as secretary of defense
3 Things about Operation Epstein Fury:
1) It appears WH is hiding Trump bc he is especially unfit right now, yet he ordered unilateral war (which is quickly spreading) on his own.
2) Iran quickly demonstrated to Trump he needs Europe.
3) Iran quickly demonstrated Ukraine has some cards. [corrected]
The latest from YouGov (n ~ 1.6k adults):
Approval of Iran strikes: -10
Approval of Trump's handling of Iran: -15
Should Congress approve wars first: Yes +31
Will intervention make Iran better/worse off: Worse off +20
yougov.com/en-us/search...
I don’t think that we need to think Anthropic are heroes of the resistance or whatever, but I do think it’s illuminating who is able to see a couple years down the road and think “oh shit, I might be held liable for this stuff” in a way that, say, Planatir clearly isn’t.
State of the contusion
Here's a rare (maybe unique) preview of tonight's SOTU that's totally worth reading, from @nicholsuprising.bsky.social: www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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
The Roberts Court has a clear set of guidelines: the president can do anything he pleases, so long as it does not violate the rights of the owning class.
If I know anything about John Roberts he's gutting the VRA on Tuesday
Rest in power, Virginia Giuffre.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Rest in power to the civil rights icon Jesse Jackson, who was an inspiration for his great city of Chicago, this nation, and the whole world.
And for my party. Because if Jesse Jackson had not run for president, there would be no @workingfamilies.org.
ICE/CBP have gone unfunded for 3 days; how about 3 years? The best way to claw back the $170 billion immigration enforcement surge in the Big Beautiful Bill is to just claw it back. The 2nd-best way is to slowly drain it by never funding the underlying appropriation. @ryanlcooper.com makes the case:
Simply hilarious stuff in Andrew Yang's latest email breathlessly echoing warnings of the impending uselessness of humans in an LLM dominated world
New: The Trump arrest of @donlemonofficial.bsky.social has backfired, giving biggest boost of his online career. In two weeks, he's gained 300k on Instagram, 140k on YouTube, 73% on Substack and started selling arrest-themed merch. "They elevated me," he said in interview wapo.st/3OfiGxz
ICE is spending $38 billion to open detention centers and field offices all across the country — including RIGHT HERE in Essex County.
They want to move into a building in Roseland that's right next to a childcare center.
Hell no.
www.wired.com/story/ice-ex...
“The Constitution does not permit the government to arrest thousands of individuals and then disregard their constitutional rights because it would be too challenging to honor those rights.“
It will start sooner than that and hit both major parties. I still don't think the magnitude has been fully priced in.
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.
At the time, Kristi Noem called this ”an attempted murder of federal law enforcement.”
And now?
Charges dropped.
New evidence is “materially inconsistent with the allegations.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...
