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'Love Is a Battlefield' Any examination of Trump’s attacks - via ICE specifically - on innocent men, women and children in the United States of America’s cities, towns and exurbs, that fails to take into account his decades ...

This week’s ‘Noel’s Notes’ is out now, all of my articles are named after songs. It still perplexes the uninitiated but there’s always a point to it. Happy Valentines. Link: open.substack.com/pub/noelcasl...

Trump's presidency is the Epstein administration.

Along these lines, I've been reading @profmsinha.bsky.social's book on Reconstruction and I strongly recommend it:
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How to register to vote and check your registration status For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

Eligible voters of the United States!

The @npr.org voter registration guide has been updated to help get you ready for the 2026 primary elections.

You can find deadlines and the links you need to register and check your registration status at npr.org/vote

Our nation has a poverty problem because it has a billionaire problem.

The lying is out of control. People need to go to prison. | Will Bunch The outrageous lies of the Trump regime, from ICE shootings to a commerce secretary's Epstein falsehoods, must be punished.

Gift article: "We won’t get anything resembling democracy until we clear that widespread debris, and that means sending a bunch of these liars to prison, because they are the real criminals. America desperately needs truth and consequences."

Bari Weiss protects predators. Not surprising, also a Leonard Leo flack.

If you only read one thing today, let it be this. ICE is not in retreat. What we saw in Minnesota is going to spread everywhere. Get ready, friends. Take a training. Connect with your neighbors. Find out which groups are already doing prep work and volunteer. Lock arms and love on your community.

Also really useful as Trump's favorables go underwater with white people (!!!).

Build some momentum.

2026 To date 2025 Full year Total Cases 910 2280 Age  Under 5 years 227 (25%) 582 (26%)  5-19 years 527 (58%) 1014 (44%)  20+ years 136 (15%) 671 (29%)  Age unknown 20 (2%) 13 (1%) Vaccination Status  Unvaccinated or Unknown 94% 93%

To my surprise, CDC is still tracking how many children RFK condemns to measles. Cases are getting younger and, of course, it is spreading faster.

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Epstein sympathized with Kavanaugh during supreme court confirmation, emails show Files show convicted sex abuser messaged with Ken Starr and others about Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford

Epstein & Kavanaugh

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YouTube video by Scott MacFarlane Reports NEW: As Trump politicizes Justice Dept, agency suffers another wave of regulations

NEW: As Trump politicizes Justice Dept… there’s another wave of damaging resignations

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No, ICE isn’t ‘retreating.’ It’s loading up to invade your town. | Will Bunch A much-hyped ICE pullback from Minneapolis is a blip in a looming nationwide surge of arrests, concentration camps.

MPLS was a great moral and practical victory for a new Trump-era resistance, but it was only the end of the beginning

15,000 new masked goons. 150 new ICE offices in every state, and a national network of warehouse concentration camps

My column on the battle ahead www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

YouTube video by Katie Phang Trump SPARKS Global CHAOS With SHOCKING MOVE!!

@theatlantic.com's Missy Ryan and @nancyayoussef.bsky.social joined me with the latest details on possible US action against Iran, how Sen. Mark Kelly’s cases have huge impacts on military retirees, & what it means not to have traditional access to the Pentagon anymore.

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Smith College and the Upside Down: The Surprising ‘Stranger Things’ Connection How one alum’s famous novel influenced season 5 of the hit show.

“L'Engle's commitment to her craft and her genre-bending literary talent left an indelible imprint on American literature, allowing generations of young women to see themselves represented in literature and inspiring them to pursue their own creative passions.’”

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Raising retirement age brandishes a keen two-edged challenge

Analysis: Talk of a 'silver tsunami' highlights the impact on those in the path of the billions in rising costs; it disregards those already gasping for breath in the wave. Jonathan Milne reports.

Thomas Massie Is No American Hero Rep. Thomas Massie has gained a following thanks to his pursuit of transparency with the Epstein files, but his track record reveals a strong alignment with Vladimir Putin.

Withdrawal from NATO. Abolishing the Federal Reserve. Terminating aid to Ukraine. These are the positions of both Vladimir Putin and Rep. Thomas Massie.

Epstein transparency is good — Massie is not, and shouldn’t be given power.
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Who has most access to the top? What 5 years of transport ministers’ diaries reveal

An analysis of former NZ transport ministers’ diaries shows which interest groups get face-to-face time with decision-makers – and which voices are largely absent.

Two words: wealth tax

Two cases and the grease that breaks democracy The obvious lesson many are drawing is that ordinary citizens are more reliable protectors of democracy than judges in black robes.

What happened in Fulton County last month is a tragedy for the future of free and fair elections.

If we want to prevent the scales from toppling over altogether, the events of the last month must serve as a necessary wake-up call for the federal judiciary, Marc Elias writes.

Transcript: Sen. Thom Tillis on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Feb. 15, 2026 The following is the transcript of the interview with Sen. Thom Tillis, Republican of North Carolina, that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Feb. 15, 2026.

Bari Weiss is still promoting her year old interview w Leonard Leo, every week at the bottom of Face the Nation.

Someone should tell Margaret Brennan that she is flacking for Leonard Leo.

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The US coup: one year on I re-publish my piece from a year ago. It's not yet over. But it's nearly there...

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Benny Johnson: " I'm not gonna apologize for Steve Bannon. I think Steve Bannon has a ton of questions that he needs to have answered. He does not look good in the Epstein files…Steve Bannon don't look great in the Epstein files, so he has to answer for it."

Trump is clowning his evangelical base He's not even bothering to pretend anymore.

"The version of Christianity that Trump's most devout supporters embrace (and he pretends to) has no room for Christ’s actual teachings. Anyone who references Jesus’s declarations to aid the sick, poor, and vulnerable is quickly labeled a socialist and/or antifa."

This project - tracking DHS's effort to build a massive detainment system - is among the most consequential acts of resistance right now.

Imagine an alternative history where the Third Reich had faced organized, angry local resistance in every place they tried to build a concentration camp. 1/

At some point, this is the goal here.

Maria Farmer is believed to be the first victim to report Epstein. Epstein & Maxwell assaulted her at Wexner’s Ohio estate, where she stayed in 1996 while working on an art project. She later learned Maxwell assaulted her underage sister at Epstein’s New Mexico ranch. archive.ph/2024.10.22-2...

Screenshots from some videos from the Files. This is probably the sort of footage Epstein had tons of.

These don't play well with Chrome...I had to open in Safari.

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YouTube video by MeidasTouch Trump CAUGHT in MAJOR AFFIDAVIT SCAM as DOCS UNSEALED!!!

AFTER ALL THIS TIME THEY USED THE FUCKING FAKED, DEBUNKED AFFADAVITS OF VOTER FRAUD TO JUSTIFY THE FUCKING ATLANTA RAID.

OMFG THIS COUNTRY IS SO LOST. IF OUR COURTS CAN'T AND WON'T STOP THIS (SEE SCOTUS) WHAT IS THE NEXT STEP? youtu.be/4qd9fG9JjNo?...