Thank you, Marc!

Trump’s Minnesota Retreat Points to the Power of Public Anger

"Trump doesn’t believe in anything except himself... When that resistance and those protests actually made his policies tremendously unpopular, he relented. And I think it’s a lesson that we should apply elsewhere when he engages in outrageous activities...”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

The Trump administration's move to revoke the EPA's “endangerment finding,” which determined that greenhouse gases pose a risk to public health, comes as scientists warn of a “point of no return” in global warming. @govjayinslee.bsky.social joins me @ 11 a.m. EST to discuss what's at stake. #Velshi

Let's be clear.

If the Constitution only applies to certain groups, you don't actually like the USA.

You are a traitor.

Stop flying that big ass flag like it has anything to do with you.

The latter for sure, but it’s not clear to me that most of them could change their laws prior to the midterms.

The ID executive order would just be laughed at.

Lets everyone go back to being pissed about Epstein

Hey guys, I understand you really want the left to stop calling you Nazis - and that’s fair - but maybe stop calling everything you disagree with communism.

Did you know that 89% of people polled want the Epstein files released?

That’s about as close to universal support as you will ever get on any issue.

What is Trump hiding?

It’s that time of year again.

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I’ll get as much as I can, and there are always some great members of the community who chip in too!

I would say that the EPA choosing to self-neuter wasn’t on my bingo card, but everyone should have seen this coming

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So to clarify the timeline:

Trump promises to release the Epstein files for his entire campaign.

Bondi says they’re on her desk.

Trump gets told he’s in them.

Bondi says whoopsies, turns out the Epstein files don’t actually exist.

This is *insane*

Think tanks are a vital feedback loop between government, academia, and the public.

There have been minor cancellations before, but dropping them wholesale is a dangerous precedent in insulating decision makers from criticism

I said this a couple weeks ago, but there’s some concern - particularly on the Hill - that Trump is largely inaccessible and that his staff is insulating him from even members of his own party.

Basically, all the crap the books accused Biden of doing.

After the dominion lawsuit, I don’t think there’s a chance in hell WSJ wasn’t prepared for this story. Trump going to war with Murdoch isn’t going to go well for him.

I suspect he’s hoping for a quick and easy settlement, and will withdraw the lawsuit if not. He’s unlikely to let it get to discovery

I feel like if we start showing proof of citizenship while just living our lives in America (which the law does not currently require), we are objecting in advance of such a law.

For now. Everyone is concerned, though - there’s absolutely no feeling of job security right now.

The maddening thing is that it doesn’t matter how good you are at your job, either - a lot of really, really good folks have been let go. Only fealty to the orange throne matters.

With this Cabinet? I’ll eat my hat if that happens. There’s a reason he picked a bunch of unqualified sycophants

Hegseth and Elbridge Colby are ultimately making the majority of the decisions re: Ukraine aid.

Thankfully, after it gets reported and the White House figures out what’s happening (yes, that’s concerning) they seem to be reversing these decisions.

Insane that they’re finding out from the media.

I think so, yes. The biggest thing about protesting en mass like we are is that it reminds people that we aren’t 1939 Germany.

There’s a large, organized social and political resistance to this regime, and the message is clear:

We aren’t going to sleepwalk into a dictatorship.

There are a lot of concerns about Trump’s mental state. Multiple people on the Hill are complaining about their lack of access to Trump and that his handlers are keeping him insulated. He goes off script when they do talk.

Basically everything the books accused Biden’s team of doing.

I roll my eyes...

First, I’m sorry that you’re even having to worry about that possibility - it’s fucking gross.

Second, I think there’s about a zero percent chance that the lower courts DON’T declare his EO unconstitutional - birthright citizenship is literally in the damn constitution.

It was an utter embarrassment.

Caine was mostly ‘here’s the facts of the mission (with some weird top gun shit thrown in) and Pete is like ‘TRUMP IS JESUS AND FUCK YOU FOR ASKING QUESTIONS!!!’

It was the most disappointing presser I’ve ever seen from a secretary of defense.

Notice what the administration is doing by trying to portray anyone questioning the success of these strikes as anti-military.

It’s a deflection tactic. The mission was perfectly executed, we just don’t yet know if it was successful, and that’s OK - that’s what the IC is for.