Blake Terzini

The Supreme Court ruling has helped the family of one man in particular: the architect of Trump’s tariffs himself.

A firm headed by Lutnick’s sons was allowing its traders to purchase the rights to hundreds of millions of dollars of refunds in the event tariffs were struck down. trib.al/JcwQ9MT

This has aged well

#OtD 19 Feb 1954 Brazilian football legend, dictatorship-resistor and co-founder of Corinthians Democracy, Sócrates, was born. Moved to Italy and told a journalist "I'm here to read Gramsci in original language and study the history of the workers' movt" www.tiktok.com/@workingclas...

I love how MAGA spent all day yesterday swearing up and down that the government didn’t try to stop CBS from airing Colbert’s interview with Talarico—only for Brendan Carr to hop on Fox News tonight and basically say, “yeah, of course we did that shit.”

A line curve showing number of awards for fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025 across NSF. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies well below curves for other fiscal years.

NSF Update

Funding curve overall. A little bit of progress in the past week, but only a little bit.

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And don’t forget “we will deport green card holders who criticized certain social media content”
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Stephen Colbert and the First Amendment As if CBS hasn’t drawn enough fire for tampering with 60 Minutes’ journalistic integrity, on Monday, Stephen Colbert shared that he was told by the network’s lawyers that he couldn’t have Texas Democr...

Brendan Carr, head of the FCC, wrote the chapter on it in Project 2025. It’s hard to know what’s worse: The administration’s efforts to intimidate journalists or CBS’s willingness to cave in. Read here to understand the issues: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Veterans slam new VA rule for determining disability ratings The new rule states that a disability level must be based on how well a veteran functions while on medication and not on the underlying impairment.

I told you they’d come after Veterans’ benefits. www.stripes.com/veterans/202...

Raided the camps to confiscate the letters from the kidnapped kids.

Classic Good Guy behavior.

From 2017

Civil rights icon Jesse Jackson dies at 84 A cause of death was not immediately given but Jackson’s family said he died peacefully surrounded by loved ones

BREAKING | Civil rights icon Jesse Jackson has died
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#OtD 16 Feb 1963 Spies for Peace broke into secret UK govt bunker, RSG 6. They stole classified documents showing that they had built network of bunkers to protect key government officials while the general population was annihilated in nuclear war stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8781...

State Department orders nonprofit libraries to stop processing passport applications The State Department has ordered nonprofit public libraries to stop taking passport applications, cutting off a popular local service.

This scheme to make passports harder to obtain comes as Republicans are trying to make passports one of the few documents that can be presented in order to be permitted to register to vote.

You can understand media consolidation into the hands of the very wealthy not just as a product of wealth concentration but also as a means to defend it, with Bezos at the Post being the most obvious example

This is a huge glaring issue right now. Courts generally ARE doing fairly well, even including significant number of Trump appointees. The corruption is concentrated in scotus.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney X.com BREAKING: ICE director Todd LYONS says the two officers involved in the Jan. 14 chase/ shooting incident appear to have lied under oath and are being investigated by DOJ. This comes after DHS Secretary Kristi Noem defended them as firing in self-defense. politico.com/news/ 2026/02/1... Attributable to Todd Lyons: Today, a joint review by ICE and the Department of Justice (DO) of video evidence has revealed that sworn testimony provided by two separate officers appears to have made untruthful statements. Both officers have been immediately placed on administrative leave pending the completion of a thorough internal investigation. Lying under oath is a serious federal offense. The U.S. Attorney's Office is actively investigating these false statements. Upon conclusion of the investigation, the officers may face termination of employment, as well as potential criminal prosecution. The men and women of ICE are entrusted with upholding the rule of law and are held to the highest standards of professionalism, integrity, and ethical conduct. Violations of this sacred sworn oath will not be tolerated. ICE remains fully committed to transparency, accountability, and the fair enforcement of our nation's immigration laws.

WOW. Incredible. This is the case in which DHS claimed that ICE officers had been attacked with a shovel and fired back in self-defense. Evidence since suggests an ICE officer fired through a closed door and struck someone on the other side.

Will DHS retract the prior claims?

U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections

NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

ICE deportation flights are getting longer and crueler A private equity–owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.

My Trump-supporting cousin-in-law just texted my husband to say he encountered this Mother Jones on social media, read it, realized I wrote it, and told him to tell me I’m doing good work and to keep going.

Things are changing, y’all.

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Saboteurs: Wrecking the US for generations by contributing to the spread of disease.

Immigration surge in Minnesota to end. DHS nears shutdown. Live updates The drawdown comes amid the continued fallout from the fatal shootings of Alex Pretti and Renee Nicole Good by federal agents in Minneapolis.

As Homan announces the end of Trump's siege of Minneapolis, two-thirds of the homicides committed in the city were perpetrated by DHS agents on innocent US citizens. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation

Accounts like this are important to record for future generations the villains of our generation that deserve special condemnation for making our world and its future more dangerous, more unhealthy, more chaotic. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.

The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel

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With a history of bigotry and racism, Trump nominee Jeremy Carl gets a Senate hearing - Salon.com Carl has tried to gloss over his comments about anti-white racism and Great Replacement theory

Trump is trying to get a Claremont guy, Jeremy Carl, into the state department. The position requires Senate confirmation.
Carl touts "great replacement" theories and wrote that he thought the military should just shoot immigrants crossing the border
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"ICE is a legitimate federal law enforcement agency" is not the type of thing you say if you're winning the argument

Not enough people are talking about the fact that the GOP’s disenfranchising SAVE act would disproportionately risk the voting rights of approximately *69 million* married women in the US.

Read that again.

69 MILLION married women.

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This is what the gop is going to face for the next 3 years. Stuttering delusional old white guys dumbfounded when someone replies “of course I am in favor of my constitutional rights, why do you hate this country?” every time they assert the secret police should be able to kill you for talking back.

Trump University.

She really just said why are you talking about the mass coverup of child rape when you should be talking about money

Invoking wealthy class solidarity to excuse sex crimes against children is sorta the Epstein Class in a nutshell