Therese Flanagan, M.A.

Charlie Kirk dropped out of community college.

But when his country called for Trump to serve, his daddy’s tenant faked a bone spurs diagnosis so someone else could go in his place.

For everyone else, “that’s the way it is.” bsky.app/profile/meid...

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else.

We mustn’t let this war do so.

NEWS: In 2019, the Trump DOJ took over New Mexico’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch — telling the state to stand down and turn over its findings. According to officials and newly unsealed records, the probe soon fizzled after the federal takeover. Link to NYT reporting in reply.

Zero Republicans call for Benghazi-style hearings. No rightwing media outrage. Republicans dined off of 4 dead Americans in Benghazi for a decade, and yet 3 dead Americans at the hands of a GOP president who promised no new wars gets no pushback. Fuck these fake outrage ghouls.

It’s really crazy how much I’ve been agreeing with Rep. Thomas Massie recently!

The costs of this Iran war debacle will likely be more than the cost of extending the ACA health insurance subsidies.

If you asked Americans, which do you want: another war in the Middle East or lower health care costs at home, is the margin 90 to 10? 95 to 5?

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

NEW: Four federal judges have formed a firewall against ICE in West Virginia — and say they’ll punish state and federal officials of they continue detaining people in ways they have ruled illegal and unconstitutional.

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The U.S. Senate must be clear: no war with Iran.

The people leading the U.S. war on Iran are a former “Fox & Friends” guest and a former “Fox & Friends” host.

The next Big Lie is to taking shape right in front of us. Donald Trump will try to use this to assert illegal and unconstitutional powers over the 2026 elections.

Marjorie Taylor Greene unleashed on the Trump administration over its war with Iran, calling them “sick fucking liars.”

US-Israeli strike on girls' school kills at least 85 students, Iran's judiciary says At least 85 students have been killed in US-Israeli strikes that hit an Iranian girls' school in Hormozgan province, Iran's judiciary said on Saturday. Washington has not commented on the reported str...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

The President has launched our nation and our great military into a war of choice, risking American lives and resources, ignoring American law, and endangering our allies and partners. It does nothing to help with the urgent problems here at home that Americans face every day.

Voting rights groups sue Georgia for refusing to release voter purge records Without full access to the records, plaintiffs say they cannot determine whether eligible voters were wrongly removed.

🚨BREAKING: Pro-voting groups sued Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) for refusing to turn over key records related to his office’s sweeping 2025 voter roll purge — a purge that canceled nearly 471,000 registrations, about 6% of the state’s voters. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

It's not hyperbole to suggest that today we have a federal government that doesn't so much represent or resemble a federal administration as it does a family crime syndicate.

Kamala Harris endorses Rep. Jasmine Crockett in Texas Senate Democratic primary - UPI.com Former Vice President Kamala Harris has endorsed U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D.-Texas, in the Texas Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate.

Kamala Harris endorses Rep. Jasmine Crockett in Texas Senate Democratic primary https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2026/02/27/kamala-harris-jasmine-crockett-texas-senate-primary/7471772242405/

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.

How California Can Neuter “Citizens United” and Improve Democracy for Us All The Golden State has an opportunity to save American democracy from big corporate money

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"...individual states have the authority to limit corporate political activity and dark money spending, because states determine what powers corporations have...the power to define their form, limits, and privilege has belonged only to the states..."
#blueCrew

Federal courthouse in Nashville

HAPPENING NOW: Good morning from the federal courthouse in Nashville, Tennessee.

A federal judge is set to preside over an evidentiary hearing on whether the United States government is vindictively prosecuting Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

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Democrats — here's your campaign ad for 2026.

BREAKING: MEIDASTOUCH PEOPLE’S STATE OF THE UNION HITS 1 MILLION VIEWS IN FIRST 80 MINUTES.

Epstein Files Are Missing Records About Woman Who Made Claim Against Trump

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

This is an immensely significant document that continues to get virtually no attention in US media—but lots abroad. In Jul 2015, Epstein arranged a meeting between a known highest-level Russian intel operative, Sergey Belyakov and Peter Thiel,

Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie I am not suicidal. I eat healthy food. The brakes on my car and truck are in good shape. I practice good trigger discipline and never point a gun at anyone, including myself. There are no deep pools of water on my farm and I’m a pretty good swimmer. 2:53 PM · Feb 13, 2026 · 1.5M Views

INBOX: Rep. Thomas Massie, who has enraged Trump for his insistence on blocking tariffs and releasing the Epstein files according to the law, just issued what is widely known among Chinese dissidents as "a declaration of no suicidal intent" (不自殺聲明), a sign of extreme distress.

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

Usually that’s up to the voters, but not when political parties become cults.