Susan McPherson

No, Pete Hegseth, the media’s job is to tell the truth and report on the good, the bad and the ugly.

Five Steps To Stay Informed And Stay Sane Where and how I get my news as a veteran journalist and mental health advocate

Some very valuable tips for us all from @anya1anya.bsky.social in her latest Substack.

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Breaking: Arkansas Democrats just flipped a Republican seat It's the ninth red-to-blue pickup in a special election in Trump's second term

JUST IN: Democrat Alex Holladay has flipped a GOP-held seat in *Arkansas*.

Republican Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders tried hard to delay this race and wanted the seat to stay vacant for 8+ months, but the courts told her to hold it today. If she was worried, she was right to be.

Our full recap:

Ann Telnaes

And there it is …

It's a great night to consider running for office. It's still not too late in some states to get on the ballot for 2026 -- and definitely not too early for 2027 or 2028. runforwhat.net

Breaking:

WASHINGTON (AP) — Roy Cooper wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in North Carolina primary election.

Scoop: Lutnick volunteers to testify on Epstein ties "I have done nothing wrong and I want to set the record straight."

Breaking Axios:

Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, once a neighbor of Jeffrey Epstein, has agreed to a closed-door interview with the House Oversight Committee over his ties to Epstein — ties that continued after Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from a minor.

EPIC FURY IS AN ANAGRAM FOR FORGET EPSTEIN

Stephen Colbert:
When it comes to launching this new war, the question everyone is asking is, to quote the President's favorite song: WHY?!

#TrumpEpsteinCoverUp

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Reminder: This is a women who shot and killed her puppy.

Trump's Iran War and the Article One crisis Congress's refusal to do its job is now the world's problem.

The founders could not have anticipated that Congress would simply stop doing its job, but that’s where we are now.

When we are on the other side of this slide into fascism, we’re going to have to figure out how to make members of Congress WORK!

Latest in @atrupar.com's PN via @snipy.bsky.social:

Trump’s war is messing with the fallout from Trump’s tariffs, which is messing from the fallout from Trump’s war on clean energy

When the media covers war, every other topic fades Trump will do anything to distract from the political damage of the Epstein files

You can be sure that this drastic change of subject (in the media) is all part of Trump’s plan.

So as citizens and news consumers, we need to be hyper-aware of what’s missing."

A critical warning from the brilliant @sulliview.bsky.social:

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Not exactly Eisenhower, is he?

NOTE
1 Pregnant because raped in custody
2 Moved to TX because the regime has anticipated a need to circumvent state laws regarding abortion, medical rights
3 the infants in question will likely be trafficked into evangelical adoption networks or be subject the consequences of a lack of medical care

Boom 💥💥

Q: "Do you think Trump should be deposed by this committee?"

HILLARY: "Absolutely. Trump has been held civilly liable for sexual assault by a jury of his peers. That is behavior that fits a pattern."

Wondering why our tax dollars are paying for a Congress at all anymore 😡

Opinion | Historians Confirm: Tomorrow Won’t Be Better Than Today

"When Trump refused to say whether he would accept the outcome of the election in 2016, people should have sensed the danger. And yet at the time, respected intellectuals told me that everything would be fine....All he wanted was to play golf or make money."

GIFT: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/o...

US moving pregnant immigrant girls to Texas to avoid providing abortions, critics say Ex-official calls transfer of unaccompanied girls as young as 13, many pregnant due to rape, a human rights violation

“White added that ‘making the decision for these girls whether they will give birth to their rapist’s baby’ is ‘an extraordinary human rights problem.’

‘Everyone attempts to write their politics on the bodies of these children,’ he said.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

in the latest example of how we're governed by the Make a Wish Administration, Melania Trump is presiding over a UN meeting

While Republicans parade around Hillary Clinton, they should remember that it was Ghislaine Maxwell who wrote to Melania Trump calling her “sweet pea.”

While Democrats are content with having accountability for everyone, Republicans seem to be using the Epstein files as a political football.

How about explaining why you are causing global mayhem and death to American service men and women instead of describing drapes and construction noise!

Brandon Straka: I’m at the Pentagon this morning for a briefing with @SecWar @PeteHegseth on the Iran strikes. Session starts in 10 minutes.

Here's a Jan. 6 rioter posing with a press pass before Pete Hegseth's press conference, just to give you a sense of the type of "journalists" who were in the Pentagon briefing room this morning.

Trump has no plan. This is a damning summary from The Economist’s Middle East Correspondent Gregg Carlstrom.

No, Trump Didn’t Make Historic Progress on Drug Prices Go ahead and guess which president did.

Trump wants to make his prescription drug deals a focus of the midterms

Here's what he's not telling you about them

NEW at @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/no-trump-d...

When the US Supreme Court struck down US import tariffs & ruled that Trump had unlawfully imposed them last April, the hero of the day was Schwartz, the owner of a small New York wine import company. He decided to sue the President of the United States himself, regardless of the risk.

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FFS!

Losing the War on Truth Iran and what to make of it

"Lying is an art, and Trump is an artist. But he is an artist of diminishing capacity; and he has now chosen to apply his art to war, a subject he finds appealing but about which he knows nothing except that he likes it."

By @timothysnyder.bsky.social

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The irrational strongman we’ve been warned about is here His name is Donald J. Trump.

“The fantasy monster that president after president has conjured up is real, and he is squatting orangely over his phone in the bathroom at Mar-A-Lago.”

@nberlat.bsky.social nails in @atrupar.com’s latest PN:

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