Jennifer Weeks

Really insightful piece from @matthew-bunn.bsky.social on the Iran campaign…

This aged well.

Regime change from the air has a record unbroken by success.

Woody Allen

Trump Administration Live Updates: ICE Whistle-Blower Calls Training for New Agents ‘Deficient’ and ‘Broken’

“New cadets are graduating from the [ICE] academy despite widespread concerns among training staff that even in the final days of training, the cadets cannot demonstrate a solid grasp of the tactics or the law required to perform their jobs.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...

Trump team on damage control after Huckabee comments on Israel Senior administration officials have called Arab officials to explain that a Huckabee comment that Israel can control much of the Middle East did not signal a policy shift.

"That was just his opinion. And by the way, we'd really like you to chip in to rebuild Gaza, and also to buy our nuclear reactors." www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

This is a weirdly policy-wonky move for a guy like Hegseth who takes every opportunity to disavow his experience at the Kennedy School.

Why is Trump so desperate to revive conspiracy theories about the 2020 election?

Because he’s trying to create the pretext to interfere in 2026.

We see what he is doing and it will not work.

A longhaired cat with green eyes looks over its shoulder toward the light

I’d like to report a Renaissance painting #caturday #catsofbluesky

Pritzker demands a $1,700 refund per family for the people of Illinois after Trump's tariffs were ruled unconstitutional.

Dems, pay attention. This is your midterms message.

I saw Pretty Woman when it came out, and when we left the theater all my relatives were going “That was so sweet, she found her prince.” I said something about making audiences watch Taxi Driver right afterwards, and they all told me to lighten up.

For the umpteenth time, MAGA tries to suppress a voice it doesn't like and amplifies it instead.

Dan Rather shared the video in a Substack post and writes that "As of this writing on Tuesday afternoon, Colbert’s interview of Talarico, which streamed on YouTube, as well as X, TikTok and Instagram, has been viewed well over 15 million times."

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature

Senate candidate/Texas state rep. James Talarico in the Late Show clip that CBS's lawyers pulled on Monday night: "A threat to any of our First Amendment rights is a threat to all of our First Amendment rights." #polisky www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

Judge orders restoration of Philadelphia slavery exhibits Cynthia Rufe, a George W. Bush appointee, compared the administration’s effort to remove the panels to Orwell’s “1984.”

“An agency ... cannot arbitrarily decide what is true, based on its own whims or the whims of the new leadership.” #historysky #philly www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Rightly so

U.S. Sen. Warnock moves to block ICE detention warehouses in Georgia

Sen. Raphael Warnock filed an amendment to the DHS funding bill that would prohibit federal funds from being used to buy warehouses for immigrant detention in Georgia.

29K views · 994 reactions | Thirty years of concern. Never enough courage. | Janet Mills Thirty years of concern. Never enough courage.

"Susan Collins is concerned" has begged to become a campaign ad for years, and now Janet Mills has finally done it. www.facebook.com/reel/7767929...

Important 🧵: resistance in the US is large and growing, and almost entirely nonviolent. This is a big moment for democracy.

I am pleased to inform you that we are going to win

And their wives supporting them.

It depends on your experience at different times. I went to a prep school that ran from 4th to 12th grade and could not wait to get out of there through most of high school, so didn't keep ties up. College was a very different story. But yeah, wherever you make good friends, keep them

How the Democrats Can Play Offense on Immigration Typically, Democrats run for the hills when immigration comes up. But as two blue-state governors are showing, the winning play is actually to confront ICE and MAGA xenophobia head on.

The extraordinary courage of people who are documenting ICE atrocities in places like Minneapolis, at great personal risk, are also achieving something else: They're changing the public's mind about immigration. We have a rare opportunity here. 1/

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“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes. The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.

NEW: ProPublica and @texastribune.org found that DHS rushed a revamped tool to check voters’ citizenship into use while it was still adding data.

As a result, the tool has made persistent mistakes, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.

There is No Scientific Justification to Revoke the Endangerment Finding The U.S. EPA's decision to repeal the Endangerment Finding will limit the government's ability to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.

As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org

Years ago I said something to our pediatrician, who trained in South Africa, about a reported outbreak in a town with many non-vaxxers. He instantly turned serious and said "They should have to watch a child die of measles. It's awful. And it doesn't have to happen."

In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP.

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Trump administration losing credibility with judges and grand juries – a former federal judge explains why this is ‘remarkable and unprecedented’ Grand juries, historically rubber stamps for prosecutors’ attempts to indict, are rejecting the Trump administration’s moves to indict the president’s perceived enemies. That’s unprecedented.

"I am happy to see that the average citizen serving on a grand jury has retained what I think is a fundamental sense of fairness, even in the face of a pretty stacked deck" – former fed. judge on non-indictment for the "illegal orders" video theconversation.com/trump-admini...

A tabby cat curls in a tight circle on a red comforter, back legs extended straight out

Solomon demonstrates his Apostrophe move. The degree of difficulty is low, but he's got perfect execution – look at that back leg extension. Plus, if you flip him 180 degrees vertically, he's a comma #catsky #catolympics

According to multiple NYT sources, it wasn’t even military personnel at Fort Bliss that fired an anti-drone laser at alleged cartel drones. It was CBP who used the weapon on loan from DoD against a child’s party balloon they mistook for a drone. The Pentagon gave CBP an anti-aircraft weapon.