Terre-Strial

They’re raping people on your dime.

A budget is a moral document.

If it’s true that the United States bombed an elementary school and killed scores of children it is an unfathomable crime. I have never been more disgusted to be an American.

NEW: U.S. officials say Russia is providing Iran with intelligence to target American forces in the Middle East, including the locations of U.S. warships and aircraft, WaPo reports. Pete Hegseth recently said Russia is “not really a factor here.”

The fuck kind of answer is this

Strong women don’t ask the powerful for permission.

They hold them accountable.

Elizabeth Warren proves it every day.

Elizabeth Warren didn’t come to Washington to play nice with billionaires.

She came to fight for the rest of us.

#SheShed
#StrongWomen

Kristi Noem has used $200M+ in taxpayer funds to pay firms with close ties to her top aides to make anti-immigrant PSAs.

Her luxury jets will cost taxpayers nearly $300M.

Trump's lackeys rail against "government waste," but are happy to pilfer taxpayer funds for themselves.

Is it a Quasi-War? Not quite. The No-Explanation War

Tomorrow on my live podcast History Matters:

The No-Explanation War

Let’s talk.

Friday 10AM ET
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“You’re a U.S. senator!”

Bernie stops Noem’s replacement from literally trying to fight someone👇🏽

This should go great

Markwayne Mullin, hours after federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti:

"Tell me what crime ICE is doing, other than doing their job"

Obama calls on Virginians to vote for redistricting in special election “Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy, but right now they are under threat,” Obama said.

🚨BREAKING: A day before early voting begins in Virginia’s redistricting referendum, Barack Obama called on Virginians to vote in favor of a state constitutional amendment allowing the legislature to redraw its congressional map to counter GOP gerrymanders. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

🇺🇦🦅 The Pentagon and at least one Gulf government are in talks to buy interceptors from Ukraine to repel Iranian drone attacks, — FT

Ukraine has been the first to use mass-produced interceptors, costing several thousand dollars, to destroy Russian versions of the Shahed.

This is the man who is now in charge of US Homeland Security.

Congress needs to end this illegal war.

I’m calling on all my colleagues to vote yes on the bipartisan War Powers Resolution today.

PAT RYAN: 'Does the US want to be the policeman of the Middle East getting nothing but spending precious lives & trillions.' Rng a bell?

COLBY: Defer to you

R: That was Trump. How about this - 'we simply cannot afford to get enmeshed in a Middle East war'

C: Defer to you

R: That was actually you

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

Homeland Security wants Social Media sites to expose Anti-ICE Accounts!!!!

The Government is trampling on our CIVIL LIBERTIES!!!!!

#ICE

#Iran

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

The competition for the dumbest member of the United States Senate has just heated up with the elimination of one its strongest contestants!!

Moskowitz: "Let me congratulate the former Homeland Security Secretary on her appointment to be the Shield of Americas, which I'm pretty sure the president came up with when he watched the last Avengers movie"

"Demand is so great that programs to mentor attorneys to file habeas cases are emerging...

“I’m on all these listservs where people are saying, who can help me in Arizona, who can help me in Mississippi, and people are stepping up and helping each other...”

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

“Markwayne Mullin could not remember if we were at war THIS WEEK.

His state has one of the highest crime rates in the country - with a murder rate 40% higher than California's…

This erratic, unstable man is now in charge of HOMELAND SECURITY.

@gavinnewsom.bsky.social

Trump fires Homeland Security Secretary Noem after mounting criticism over her leadership Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin says he has no idea how quickly his nomination to replace Kristi Noem at the Department of Homeland Security will move.

We’re glad that Kristi Noem has been fired and she should face real accountability for DHS’ rampant violence.

But Noem’s firing doesn’t suddenly solve the crisis at DHS. Swapping personnel without changing course is not accountability — it’s a spin tactic. What we really need is structural change.

And she's out, not even an hour later.

Trump is presenting Mullin's appointment as automatic, but he still has to go through Senate confirmation hearings like everyone else. They're usually deferential to their colleagues, but I think this guy for this post in this election year might prompt issues

Pete Hegseth Treats Fallen American Soldiers as a PR Problem His use of the Iran war dead to attack the media was disgraceful.

Pete Hegseth, if he does not resign, should at least get out of the way and let better men than him talk to the nation and to the press.

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The Humiliation of J. D. Vance Trump’s war with Iran shows that, within the administration, the vice president’s opinions matter less and less.

Also good signs:
"The VP was not in MAL w/Trump as he oversaw the attack. The admin released a photo of him running a secondary meeting at the WH, flanked by a can of Diet Mountain Dew and a sullen-looking Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.

But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.

That's roughly $1 billion per day.

$41,666,667 per hour.

$11,574 per second.

People do not want this.

They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.