Laura Chapin

This is the 26th time I’ve posted this Doonesbury since 2015.

Alina Habba condemns Kamala Harris’s remarks at Reggie Jackson’s funeral. (It was Jesse Jackson).

Bonus points to anyone who has the 1st Amendment stones to do their job and verbally punch a bully in his tiny, tiny nuts.

I memorized not just numbers but the patterns on my phone.

NEW: After Gov Jared Polis (D) told me that Tina Peters must show contrition to gain clemency, an attorney for Peters now says she "has remorse."

Peters has long maintained she did "nothing wrong" in leading a breach of Colorado's voting systems and is a political prisoner.

The response is….comprehensive.

where i come down on this is that you either care about what Amanda is talking about or you do not. and if you don't that's your preference. i think these tools can be impressive. and i read to try to get closer to other people...to let them occupy real estate in my brain. these things are different

If you are watching Trump's presser right now, you are seeing beyond reasonable doubt a person not mentally suited for any position of responsibility. Even running a small store.

GOP members of the House and Senate: You are seeing this too.

Video appears to show U.S. cruise missile striking Iranian school compound The seven-second video was released by Iranian state media and directly contradicts statements made by President Trump, who said Iran was responsible for the strike.

The Iranian girls’ school was hit by a US tomahawk cruise missile. NPR has confirmed the footage.

Congrats to everbody who refused to vote for the smart Black lady with the big laugh for whatever bullshit reason you came up with.

Trump Aides Too Afraid to Take Off the $145 Shoes He Keeps Buying Them “Everybody’s afraid not to wear them,” one White House insider admitted.

Trump is obsessed with buying his aides shoes, and they’re too worried about igniting his wrath to take them off.

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

If you’re roughly my age, it’s wild to reflect on the optimism for the future Americans felt when Obama was elected — young Americans spontaneously took to the streets to celebrate! — and contrast with what we face today. The falloff over the past 18 years is hard to process.

Changed my header profile photo again because I really like this one I took on Saturday at teamLab borderless/Mori Art Museum in Tokyo of a little girl enjoying the art. Bluesky crops it so here's the full photo.

What the fuck is this?

If you need to be begged to fight fascism you're not on the moral high ground, my guy.

Every time I open a news app or site and this story isn’t being discussed or featured prominently I feel like I’m losing my mind. Do not look away.

Checking in on the president's family today as war spreads across the world and the global economy crashes

Deceitful, despicable, desperate Pick your adjective

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/deceitful-...

Kristi Noem is out Writing her political obituary

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/kristi-noe...

In first, CIA acknowledges 1953 coup it backed to overthrow leader of Iran was undemocratic While other American officials have made similar remarks in the past, the acknowledgment by the CIA in a podcast about the agency’s history comes as much of its official history of the coup still rema...

I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.

OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters."

www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...

Again, reporting the New York Times and other national outlets could have done had they not believed the Epstein story was tawdry and beneath them. bsky.app/profile/bgru...

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

The Post & Courier scoured court files, real-estate records, classified ads, local newspaper articles, parole and death records.

Much of it dates to the 1980s.

They also sent a reporter to the West Coast to retrace the victim’s and her mother’s accounts.

www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

This is an extraordinary reporting job by 2 Charleston journalists, meticulously fact-checking the Epstein victim who has accused Trump of abusive behavior.

Bottom line: Many details of what she told the FBI check out, though none relate directly to Trump.

www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...

ICE Detention of Teen Musicians Roils Texas Mariachi Community Two brothers who were recognized by their congresswoman last year, along with their parents and younger brother, are facing deportation.

Two brothers from South Texas and their high school mariachi bandmates were recognized by their congresswoman last June for winning a state mariachi competition. Nine months later, the brothers, along with their parents and younger brother, are in ICE detention and facing deportation.

And a hell of lot less credit than Obama got for negotiating & securing the Iran nuclear deal.
The DC media establisment loves war and hates peace. bsky.app/profile/pgou...

feels telling about American foreign policy punditry that while many decry the aimlessness of Trump’s monstrously wrong Iran war there were far more outraged columns over the harm done to US power and influence and standing and interests and example when Biden rightly withdrew from Afghanistan.

I'm a monthly donor to @mississippifreepress.org . Take some stones to do solid journalism in Mississippi.

It takes @donnerkay.bsky.social, a woman from Mississippi, to write the column rapist-enabling women in DC like Maureen Dowd and Bari Weiss are too busy sucking up to patriarchy to do.