#SendBarronToWar

The Pentagon is hanging the White House out to dry.
www.cnn.com/world/live-n...

A PSA from Thomas Massie:

BREAKING: Adolescent teenage boys have taken over the Pentagon.

Bring Congress back into session. Now. We should vote on Senator Kaine's War Powers Resolution today.

Fulton County officials argue FBI agent misled judge to seize ballots from 2020 election A Trump-appointed federal judge has ordered the agent to testify at an upcoming hearing this week.

Did an FBI agent intentionally mislead a judge so his agency could search Fulton County’s main election hub?

That’s the question of the hour.

And county officials argue the DOJ’s resistance to return sensitive election records might explain its nefarious, underlying intentions.

'IT ENDS TODAY': A federal judge in NJ says the Trump admin has continued to violate court orders in immigration cases and says he's prepared to haul in DOJ and DHS officials under oath. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Dems demand probe of Trump’s SAVE America Act website "This webpage appears to be a prima facie violation of restrictions on the use of appropriations for explicit appeals to the public to contact Members of Congress to support pending legislation."

🚨BREAKING: Top Democrats are asking Congress’ investigative arm to probe a White House website urging voters to support SAVE America Act — calling it a blatant violation of federal laws barring officials from using taxpayer dollars for partisan politics. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Lisa Rubin explains how journalists have figured out the DOJ has withheld documents containing accusations of sexual assault against Donald Trump from their Epstein files releases

Rubin: "There is at least one witness for whom 3 interviews with the FBI in in 2019 are missing [from the Epstein files]. What's the big deal? We can also confirm she is the same person who in a 2025 FBI presentation is identified as accusing Trump of a sexual assault when she was between 13 and 15"

Sam Altman Is Losing His Grip on Humanity You don’t “train a human”

Sam Altman wants you to think about how much energy it takes to “train a human.” His remarks are symbolic of everything wrong with the AI industry, Matteo Wong argues:

US Coast Guard removes swastika from training center, launches inquiry A drawing of a swastika that appeared at the U.S. Coast Guard's primary recruit training center in New Jersey was removed, and the incident has been referred for further investigation, the service said on Monday, adding that it condemned the display of hate symbols.

US Coast Guard removes swastika from training center, launches inquiry reut.rs/3OEWMnx

The Colbert Aftershock A week after Stephen Colbert’s on-air claim of censorship, the fallout has moved from late-night television to Capitol Hill, where Status has learned Democrats are demanding answers from Paramount and...

Scoop: Sen. Richard Blumenthal has written a letter to David Ellison demanding answers and records pertaining to Stephen Colbert's claim of FCC censorship.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/stephen-co...

Trump, July 19: "All three nuclear sites in Iran were completely destroyed and/or OBLITERATED. It would take years to bring them back into service."

Witkoff, Sunday: "They're probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material."

The Trump Administration Is Ending Aid That It Says Saves Lives The State Department will let lifesaving projects expire because “there is no strong nexus between the humanitarian response and U.S. national interests,” according to an internal email.

Exclusive: An internal State Department email obtained by @hana-kiros.bsky.social reveals that the U.S. plans to end all of its current lifesaving aid to seven African countries.

New Jersey has proposed the F.U.C.K.I.C.E Act. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

Again, I know it feels good to send a donation to someone who is finally going to send Mitch McConnell or Lindsey Graham packing, but you're going to see a *lot* more bang for your buck with less exciting but much more meaningful state legislative races.

This is a great way to do that:

Notably (a) this is meaningless in terms of the budget and (b) Republicans don't care about the budget anyway.

The sole purpose is to torment highly-skilled career officers because the Trump admin is filled with no-skills dilettantes who resent everyone with expertise and commitment to their work.

Vaguely recall the GOP screaming about academic freedom and that universities were "banning" the teaching of certain topics.

Surely, they're speaking out about this. Right?

A heist in broad daylight

NEWSMAX: Do you think Jeffrey Epstein killed himself?

REP. NANCY MACE: No, absolutely not. I think he was murdered. I don't know if it was an intel agency or what it is. The data from the videos cameras was erased.

To my knowledge, no ICE Enforcement and Removal officer has ever been shot by an immigrant.

Might be wrong but I don’t think so.

Journalists Arrested in Cameroon While Reporting on Trump’s Secretive Deportation Program

"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)

Allegations in Epstein files may amount to 'crimes against humanity,' UN experts say Millions of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a "global criminal enterprise" that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity,...

Yup!

www.reuters.com/world/allega...

...But the scrutiny of ABC weighed on CBS execs. There was a sense, I'm told, that the regulatory environment is uncertain, and that caution is warranted... and that's why network lawyers called Colbert's show. On CNN tonight, I called it an example of "obeying in advance."

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, it was the logical next move.

Thanks to the Trump administration, you can now just decide that you don’t know things—even if you do know them, @petridishes.bsky.social writes:

“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔

(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans