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Episode 2: The Concentration Camps Are Here (With Andrea Pitzer) Podcast Episode · Here We Come · February 23 · 1h 22m

VERY worth your time: two of my activist role models - @eladn.bsky.social + @andreapitzer.bsky.social - had a candid and thorough conversation on the intersecting moral, political, and humanitarian crises of US concentration camps.

You'll hear them say it's not too late to turn it around. Listen!

Senator calls for DEA to provide info on "incredibly disturbing" Epstein drug investigation Federal drug enforcement investigators targeted Jeffrey Epstein and 14 others in a yearslong probe first reported by CBS News.

This is a big one. A newly uncovered document has revealed the existence of a mystery Epstein investigation. It was spearheaded by the DEA and involved drug trafficking and money laundering. Epstein was one of 15 targets. The other 14 names are redacted. I've got questions.

Welp

Presumably JD Vance is going to be right on this waste fraud and abuse right?

February 26, 2026 It appears the State of the Union was the marker for the White House to launch directly into campaign mode.

February 26, 2026

Trump says this is not happening. Which is why he spent his State of the Union speech honoring sports teams and awarding military medals.

The report estimates that the average selling price of smartphones will rise 14% this year to an all-time high of $523, while manufacturers will no longer be able to make phones that cost less than $100. https://cnn.it/3OD4Bdw

Congress and the courts are refusing to give Trump what he wants, so he’s concocting a new plan to seize control of the election. Here’s what you need to know: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Elon Musk’s Secret Web of Companies in Texas

Elon Musk, 54, has quietly built an empire of more than 90 companies and other legal entities in Texas, which have amassed a vast collection of assets, a great deal of it gifted to him by Texas, courtesy of the Texas GOP.

Iran Is Far From Building ICBMs, Experts Say, Despite Trump’s Warning of a Looming Threat The U.S. is demanding Tehran curb its missile ambitions, but Iran denies seeking an intercontinental ballistic missile.

Iran would need to master significant technological challenges before it could field an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of striking the U.S. homeland, according to U.S. intelligence estimates.

Anthropic CEO Amodei says Pentagon's threats 'do not change our position' on AI Anthropic said its negotiations with the DoD are still ongoing.

Finally, a CEO with a real spine in this new era!

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the company “cannot in good conscience” agree to allow the Department of Defense to use its AI models in all lawful use cases.

www.cnbc.com/2026/02/26/a...

Hill added $34 billion in unrequested defense program funds Congress added billions of dollars beyond the Pentagon’s budget request for research and procurement projects that receive little scrutiny.

Congress diverted an extra $34 billion in taxpayer funds to unrequested projects for the military contractors bankrolling their election campaigns.

I assume right-wing influencers are going to film themselves banging on the doors of the Pentagon demanding they pass an audit now, right?

Inside the upheaval at the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office Nearly half its lawyers have left since President Trump’s return, leading to dismissed criminal cases, stalled fraud prosecutions and a rare contempt citation against a Justice Department attorney.

Nearly half the lawyers at the U.S. Attorney's Office have left since President Trump’s return, leading to dismissed criminal cases, stalled fraud prosecutions and a rare contempt citation against a Justice Department attorney.

Harrowing 911 calls capture children’s medical emergencies at Texas ICE facility Texas emergency crews dispatched nearly a dozen times in six months, according to call logs

Harrowing 911 calls from ICE detention center reveal children unable to breathe, suffering seizures and broken bones: report

The DOJ dumped millions of Epstein files and called it transparency, but key FBI interviews naming Trump in abuse allegations were missing. If evidence about a sitting president is being withheld, that’s not transparency that’s a cover up.

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

We tracked all the brands and people showing up to support Flavor Flav in hosting the US Women's Hockey Team and other female medalists in Las Vegas (this probably isn't even half of them) 🇺🇸 #olympic... TikTok video by OffBall

www.tiktok.com/t/ZThGHWCjM/

When FlavorFlav invited the U.S. women’s hockey team to a party in Vegas, he probably had NO idea what he was kicking off (or maybe he did).

But brands know where the money is. Women earn more, spend more and love to travel.

The joke is on those guys who mocked the

The Sierra Nevadas of California. Pushing past a smooth grooved tree trunk in the foreground, a bright blue lane gives rise to trees and ultimately snow capped mountains. This is 10k feet.

The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat. - Cicely Tyson

Pic of the day
#photography

This administration is telling every AI company in the country, your ethics stop where our desire for unchecked power begins. Refuse to build systems for dragnet surveillance and autonomous killing, and we will come after your bottom line—an authoritarian incentive structure. #holdfast

The entire Democratic strategy debate — "moderate" or move left? fight or compromise? — is based on a misreading of data. Voters don't think Dems are too progressive; they think Dems are weak. The actual math on what to do about this isn't even close!
New: www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

cartoon of republicans driving a convertible off a cliff labeled "America". One says "never thought americans were this dumb", the other replies "who cares, i got mine"

#SOTU

911 calls capture kids burning with fever, struggling to breathe at ICE detention center EMS crews were called to the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in Texas at least 11 times since September for children in medical distress, records show.

‪Mike Hixenbaugh‬: We obtained 911 audio from the Texas detention center housing hundreds of immigrant kids and their parents. Since mid-September, EMS crews have been dispatched to Dilley at least 11 times to treat children in medical distress. Burning fevers. Low oxygen. Seizures. A broken leg.

One ring in the darkness bind them

Same Brutal ICE. Now Stealthier. ICE has learned how to be cruel and lawless without drawing so much attention to itself.

"Senate Democrats remain united in their insistence they would not vote to fund DHS until Donald Trump and Republicans agreed to real reforms. As they should—since the unbelievable scope of DHS’s lawlessness and brutality are becoming more obvious every day."

open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Vast web of cold gas observed at the heart of the Milky Way Astronomers have produced the largest and most detailed map ever made of the vast web of cold cosmic gas stretching across the heart of our galaxy, showing thread-like filaments resembling rivers of m...

Astronomers have produced the largest and most detailed map ever made of the vast web of cold cosmic gas stretching across the heart of our galaxy, showing thread-like filaments resembling rivers of material flowing through space reut.rs/40D8RME

Inflation is up to 3.6% year over year. This means it's up since Trump took over, and higher than where Biden held it dating back to June 2023. Trump's promise to immediately lower prices has completely failed, yet he insists it's all fixed.

Deputized for Disaster | American Civil Liberties Union Deputized for Disaster, details how the Trump administration is drastically expanding the federal 287(g) program to transform state and local law enforcement into a national deportation policing force...

A new ACLU report documenting ICE's expansion of the 287(g) program to build out a national deportation policing force.
The administration is enlisting thousands of state and local police to conduct dragnet-style enforcement.

www.aclu.org/press-releas...

www.aclu.org/publications...

Women in tight uniforms and maggots in the soft serve: Two ex-employees sue Trump’s N.J. golf club In separate lawsuits, former banquet server Maria Hadley and former clubhouse manager Justine Sacks describe Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster as hostile to female staffers.

"Women in tight uniforms and maggots in the soft serve: Two ex-employees sue Trump’s N.J. golf club"

Abraham Gutman for @inquirer.com

[How the heck did I miss this story from January?!]