Jill Sapphire Goldberg

Even Matt Walsh isn’t buying it

How many times are we going to hear these words before those who need to most finally listen?

Remember when the scariest thing was Sarah Palin?

ICE took their papers—and won’t give them back Immigrants are being released from detention without documents proving their status.

I won't ask "what next?" because the possibilities are too frightening.

President Trump’s State of the Union Variety Show Were you not entertained?

@radiofreetom.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

One of the best reviews of whatever that was last night,
from @radiofreetom.bsky.social.

“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...

“I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long,” wrote 9-year-old Susej, who said she had been held at Dilley detention center for more than 50 days.

In short(s)

Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the State of the Union:

Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the #SOTU:

White House post of an American Eagle mauling a Canada Goose

American gamesmanship

Thank you for sharing this. My mother, who just recently passed away, was always so grateful for the writers retreats she got to experience, and thy made just a huge difference in her work. I'll be reading with interest. www.pw.org/directory/wr...

V.O.S. Selections, Inc. v. Trump - Liberty Justice Center The Liberty Justice Center challenged the Trump Administration’s authority to unilaterally issue the “Liberation Day” tariffs, which are devastating small businesses across the country, and won!

Thou doth not bypass Congress.

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Excerpt from Justice Gorsuch

Interesting Justice Gorsuch excerpt:

Moroun donates $1M to MAGA fund days before Trump's bridge threat The Moroun donation to super PAC MAGA Inc. came just before the president threatened to prevent the opening of new bridge between the U.S. and Canada.

Yeah, the President is not making $ off his presidency.

Look how much Canadians hate the United States now It’s not just about the trade war. Nearly half of America’s neighbors to the north now think the U.S. is a bigger threat to world peace than Russia.

Yup. Basically, until you 🇺🇸 all become essentially Minnesotans, we will be, at the very least, wary.

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Clearly not with his basically absconding with huge sums of taxpayer $ and zero oversight. Another travesty where, if pushback doesn’t happen quickly, he just became more insidiously influential.

I rather appreciated how The Independent put it today:

“On Thursday, America woke up to the news that Andrew (the artist formerly known as Prince) had been arrested over serious allegations made in the Epstein files.”

Ça aurait pu être adressé depuis des décennies en facilitant l’accès à l’identification tout en luttant pour que ceux qui n’en ont pas (personnes sans domicile ou sans permis de conduire) puisse voter. Ça ne marche pas d’attendre des élections pour adresser des enjeux.

Olena Rohoza on X: "YOU WANTED A WALL, TRUMP? YOU’LL HAVE ONE. Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, responded to Trump’s threats: “So you voted to build a wall. Well then, dear Americans — even if geography isn’t your strong suit, and you see America as a country rather than a continent — you https://t.co/Hjs9ruOflf" / X YOU WANTED A WALL, TRUMP? YOU’LL HAVE ONE. Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, responded to Trump’s threats: “So you voted to build a wall. Well then, dear Americans — even if geography isn’t your strong suit, and you see America as a country rather than a continent — you https://t.co/Hjs9ruOflf

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Thomas Massie's Russia ties resurface ahead of Ukraine aid vote The Kentucky congressman has frequently sided with Moscow in House votes and resolutions down the years.

He has voted against aid to Ukraine a number of times and said that an alliance with Ukraine doesn’t serve US needs. He’s voted to pull out of NATO and has been soft on Russia when others were trying to investigate war crimes. www.newsweek.com/thomas-massi...

“Use the logic from ICE and just round up anyone mentioned in the files.”

Trump administration deported some migrants at a cost of $1 million each, Democratic report says | CNN Politics The Trump administration has spent more than $30 million to send migrants to far-flung countries that are not their own, including, in a few instances, paying over $1 million a person, a new report fr...

I know everyone's coping with some kind of "outrage exhaustion," but this seems so outrageously irresponsible, not to mention immoral and unconstitutional. I do give a *flying* f##k! www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...

I vigorously agree. My only point was to suggest that in fact, MSM should be covering these other stories as well. Surely there is a way not to diminish the critical importance of the entire Epstein case and to also acknowledge the non-ceasefire in Gaza, etc. But your point is well taken.

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

I keep checking what else is going on on planet Earth, but this regime just continues to regurgitate the worst of the worst.
"GIFT":

What does it say that there's so little coverage about Ukraine these days? I do not want to diminish the importance of the Epstein files, but despite competing for our attention, this is not an either/or situation.

How is Iran? Venezuela? Gaza? The woman charged with murder for a miscarriage? Etc.

And here we are again.

Trump makes "ceasefire" proposal.

Ukraine accepts it.

Russia rejects it.

Trump blames Ukraine.

This is now the 8th time.

It *is* Friday the 13th?

BREAKING: Vladimir Putin cancels peace talks with Ukraine, citing the Dow is around 50,000.

Cartoon by Michael De Adder with, among others, Ghislaine Maxwell on the pedestal getting a Gold Medal from Trump for "Women's synchronized pedophile protecting."

@deadder.skystack.xyz is spot on again, and while I may have a small grin, I am definitely not amused.