Stacie

(AI, obviously). A carton of milk in the style of the old "Missing Child" pictures urging the public to keep an eye out for The Legislative Branch.

I'm so glad I'm not a Maine voter. My deeply held principle of "Dems must elect younger candidates" is colliding right into my "No Nazis, ever" posture. I'd definitely end up voting for Mills, but I'd be pretty mad about my options. There's also a Bush running for gov on the GOP side. Wild stuff.

congress sounds cool i wish it was real

I feel like we need to put a picture of the Legislative Branch on milk cartons. Maybe someone will recognize it and we'll be able to track it down.

This place can't possibly be secure against a well-managed drone swarm.

James Franco being executed by hanging. "First time?" he asks, as though he's been hanged before.

hey gen z welcome to republican governance

Yup.

Suspended, apparently.

More like Epstein Fury amirite?

I must have missed the "making its case" phase of this shit.

Wait, we're giving up our nukes?

Such a great show.

Do you know that there's a Bush running for governor in Maine? Sane, Bush Republican. Might be healthy? Jonathan Bush. I'm anti-Bush in our politics in general, but what if he makes the GOP sane again? Tricky. Won't vote for him for president.

We should sell Texas to China.

Welfare misuse scandal highlights wealth divide in Mississippi Temporary Assistance for Needy Families is supposed to help some of the poorest people, and Mississippi has long been one of the poorest states in the U.S.

www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...

I live not in a Western state and have not followed him closely. These seem bad.

Is this a "he might pardon Tina Peterson" criticism?

The mail thing is also troubling. Like, you think Colorado and Washington State have dirty elections?

"At minute 151, when he veered from a story about an orgy on Pat Sajak's boat to complaining about how John Roberts smells like cauliflower, it dawned on me that his presidency was not, in fact, on more stable ground."

I wonder if his friend Jeffrey helped him cook up that rug pull.

I don't usually consume their stuff on YouTube, but I would have watched the video Woke Bill Kristol Observes ICE With Will Stancil over and over and over again.

Did Bill take you up on it?

That's an exceptionally good username, Martial Law Abiding Citizen.

"Many of the people abducted by the government are taken without cause. When the government runs out of excuses to hold them, or is forced to release them by the courts, they send them out the front door of the Whipple Building, often in the dead of night. Alone. No cell phone. No jacket. In the freezing cold and snow. A civic group called Haven Watch now stands guard at Whipple around the clock so that former prisoners of the regime do not freeze to death after release. While we were at Whipple talking to observers, a mother and two small children emerged from the building. They had nothing with them other than the clothes on their backs. It was about 15 degrees, the day after an unexpected snow. The three small humans haltingly made their way across the ice and slush in the road. Someone from Haven Watch met them and ushered them into a warm car."

From @jvl.bsky.social's Saturday Triad.

US citizen shot and killed by federal immigration agent last year, new records show Shooting death of Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, in Texas was not publicly disclosed by Department of Homeland Security

Pretty clear that the goons are trained to shoot into vehicles for non-compliance and then lie and say they were rammed. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This dude is such a broken mess.

Top DHS spokesperson who became a face of Trump immigration policy is leaving Tricia McLaughlin has become the public face defending the Trump administration's mass deportation policy and immigration tactics over the past year.

Incredible that @npr.org opted not to mention the $200M that DHS paid to McLaughlin's husband's firm. www.npr.org/2026/02/17/g...

Does he not realize these are statements that will be used against him in court?

CY 2025 Year-Over-Year Highlights: 1) Bankruptcy filings including all chapters totaled 565,759, an 11% increase from the CY2024 total of 508,953. 2) Commercial chapter 11 filings increased 1 percent to 7,893 in CY 2025 from the 7,893 filings recorded in CY2024. 3) Commercial filings were 31,810, a 5 percent increase in CY2025 compared to the 30,201 filed in CY2024. 4) Subchapter V small business elections increased 11 percent to 2,446 in CY2025 from the 2,202 filings last year. 5) Individual filings increased 12% to 533,949, up from the CY2024 individual filing total of 478,752.

Is the wage growth in the room with us right now, JD?

Stated differently: MAGA is best viewed as a group of children who think the rest of us have cooties.