Marissa Rothkopf

Oh, can't we keep anything nice? I love this giant bird. Brings me joy every time I see her. @mayor.nyc.gov please-oh-please can't she stay?

Nooo! She is my favorite. Why can't she stay!?!!?

Undaunted Trump ditches Noem — and allies refuse to support the war

Trump can be forced to retreat when Democrats go on attack, embarrass his incompetent and dishonest lackeys, and effectively deploy free media. That’s a strategy to be used again and again. My suggestion for the next Cabinet member: Attorney General Pam Bondi.
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send him my best!

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.

They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.

Fair.

🧵🧵🧵 Here's a thread with examples of the unfitness of Markwayne Mullin, Trump's choice to succeed Kristi Noem as Homeland Security secretary. 🧵🧵🧵

Tell me what you think…if Noem had been a man, Trump wouldn’t have fired them.

Markwayne Mullin?

From worst to omfgtheabsolutelybottomofthedumpster

dammit, woman, you beat me to it. I just posted it and scrolled and...You WIN.

Here's the @balint.house.gov exchange I wrote up earlier. Thanks to @atrupar.com for clipping it.

So now the total number of countries attacked by Trump is 8. 9 if you count his sending US military into US cities.

Emmanuel Damas in a patterned dress shirt and striped tie leaning against a metal railing on a sunny residential street with red brick rowhouses and flowering trees in the background.

Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday.

Damas came to the U.S. from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection.

A tooth infection.

1/3

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When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

totally was worth it.

Hiring a white, male insider to turn the brand around isn't what Target needs.

!!!!!!!!

This is the man who decided we should go to war.

Scenes from a personalist regime

You don't want to read this, but you should.

OK, that's enough internet for me for today.

Never has a nation so powerful put so much at risk so recklessly.

Not an exaggeration.

Live with Lt General Mark Hertling and Marissa Rothkopf: Leadership, Strength and Cookies YouTube video by The Secret Life of Cookies

Hours after the attack on Iran, I interviewed Lt. Gen@markhertling.bsky.social about the breaking news & his book "If I Don't Return" about his yrs as a soldier and leader..I cried reading it. Kindness and intelligence in a leader makes me weep these days. Pls watch.
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"You can be a genius and kind and one of those things does not have to come at the expense of the other."

Commands around the world, including U.S. Central Command in the Middle East, use Anthropic’s Claude AI tool, people familiar with the matter confirmed. Centcom declined to comment about specific systems being used in its ongoing operation against Iran. The command uses the tool for intelligence assessments, target identification and simulating battle scenarios even as tension between the company and Pentagon ratcheted up, the people said, highlighting how embedded the AI tools are in military operations.

The WSJ is reporting that AI, specifically Claude, was used in targeting for the attacks by the Epstein Empire.

That would mean the use of AI led directly to the massacre of 115 schoolchildren and 20 volleyball players.

www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

He is hubris in a suit, tie and red,white and blue pocket square.

I SWEAR I spit out my muesli when I read this.

Someone didn’t finish his copy of How to Make Friends and Influence People.

For real? I was there moments before @harrylitman.bsky.social. You could’ve come over and made soufflé in person…a live Secret life of Cookies podcast!

The Week Ahead February 27, 2026

Lots of tails wagging lots of dogs this week. Trump clearly wants you to forget there are documents about him missing from the Epstein files. But I devote most of this piece to a quiet phenomenon: federal judges, declaring war on ICE open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...