Trump's Caribbean Surge Nears $3 Billion Price Tag So Far The operations around Venezuela that eventually led to the capture of its president pulled in nearly a fifth of the US Navy’s surface fleet at a cost of more than $20 million a day.

Bloomberg says we've spent $3B on Trump's invasion of Venezuela.

Which is 6X more than the cancer, Alzheimer, diabetes, and heart disease cures they've cut to pay for it.

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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Our assignment is to embarrass fascist hack and Trump-panderer Bari Weiss by making sure this segment, which she banned from airing, gets more views on YouTube than it would have gotten on CBS. #StreisandEffect

Over 100 researchers from Johns Hopkins, Oxford, and more call for guardrails on some infectious disease datasets that could enable AI to design deadly viruses (Megan Morrone/Axios)

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United Farm Workers President Cesar Chavez (center right) is joined Presidential candidate Jesse Jackson (center left) during a farm workers support walk, June 4, 1988 in McFarland, California. (Photo by Bob Riha, Jr./Getty Images)

Jen and I mourn the loss of Rev. Jesse Jackson, one of America's greatest civil rights champions.

His footprints are found in every modern movement for justice.

Republicans are just openly arguing it's unreasonable for law enforcement to get warrants.

‘A deliberate policy to harm children’: Attorney on conditions children face in ICE detention Reports expose horrific conditions inside Dilley, a detention center in South Texas where hundreds of children are being held. Eric Lee, immigration attorney and partner at Lee & Godshall-Bennett, joi...

“The government kidnaps children; spirits them away to concentration camps… hundreds of miles from home; detains them for months in disease-infested conditions; deprives them of adequate food, potable water, and medical attention…. This is a deliberate policy… to harm children.” -Atty Eric Lee

“Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying ‘His color is not mine,’ or ‘His beliefs are strange & different,’ in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this nation.”

~President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965.

Image: National Portrait Gallery.

FWIW, I just emailed NYT's standards editor to ask about the paper's policy on this. Will update if I get a response.

The Project 2025 architect who promised to put federal employees “in trauma” is spending $15 million of former USAID funding—money that would have gone toward fighting HIV, polio, malaria, and other diseases—to bankroll his security detail. trib.al/TSV3cmb

There exists in me a new rage. This one is patient and calculating, and persists to the end of time and space and time. Our moment will come, ladies. In the meantime, sharpen those pitchforks. We ride when they least expect it.

I just did a hit on Newsmax where the opening question started like this: “Mike, some people say the Democrat Party doesn’t exist anymore.” Then the host immediately cut to a screenshot of Grok saying something and wanted my reaction to that, and I legitimately didn’t have one. It was so unserious.

Marco Rubio has turned out to be such a complete and total scumbag.

YouTube video by Jim Acosta Scott Galloway's Brutal Take on the "Epstein Class" – They've Damaged America

🚨🔅Scott Galloway's Brutal Take on the "Epstein Class" – They've Damaged America

Why Should You Care About Epstein? Because You're Not in the "Epstein Class"

Jim Acosta 2/15/2026
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#Epstein
#EpsteinFiles
#EpsteinGate
#EpsteinAndTrump
#EpsteinClass

Schumer on DHS reforms: "I believe Republicans will have no choice but to go along with us because it's so common sense"

⚠️ PSA - don’t take health advice from people who snort cocaine off toilet seats.

We are truly living in Idiocracy, and you can thank RFK Jr. for this outbreak.

It should have been a massive story that the FBI threatened Thomas Massie’s staff to stop pushing for the release of the Epstein files. Credit to Massie for staying relentless in this fight, even in the face of Trump’s threats.

🚨BREAKING: In a powerful moment, Hillary Clinton just shredded to pieces Donald Trump’s Ukraine policy. She’s right again.

<<taps sign>> Harming someone and demanding gratitude for it is what abusers do.

Part of the reason I respect Thomas Massie is because he’s standing up to Trump while running for re-election. A lot of these people only find courage after they leave or announce retirement—Thom Tillis, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Don Bacon, etc.

The US government will not stop sharing Nazi propaganda And their supporters are loving it.

Many of the phrases, images, and attached media used by the Trump administration aren’t just regular social media content.

They repurpose language, symbolism, and cultural references with direct connections to neo-Nazi and white supremacist movements.

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, one the administration has ignored.

"In at least 4,421 cases, more than 400 federal judges ruled since the beginning of October that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is holding people illegally as it carries out its mass-deportation campaign."
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I think we are going to have a Democratic-controlled Senate.

And all we will need for the leadership of that Democratic Senate to do is hold actual, real, impeachment trials.

As the Constitution requires.

Not the bullshit fake trials like the ones that the Senate held in 2020 and 2021...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Tell Your Senators: Vote NO on Voter Suppression | Indivisible

Let’s be clear: The GOP’s new voter suppression legislation (modeled on the SAVE Act) is unlikely to pass the Senate.

But with this attack on our voting rights ahead of the midterms, we can’t take anything for granted.

We've made it easy to find and understand the policy changes affecting how our civil service works. Learn more at civilservicearchive.org

In the wake of a flood of DOGE directives, Executive Orders, and memos, the pace of changes to the federal workplace has been difficult to record & understand. That’s why we built a tool to track changes, help us advocate for, rebuild, & revitalize the civil service. https://civilservicearchive.org/

Trump: ‘There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!’ "I have searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future," wrote Trump, who is not a lawyer.

Trump is saying that he will disregard Congress and issue an Excutive order that will violate the Constitution.

Here is my promise: If he does that, we will sue and we will win. Just like we did the last time. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This is what a rigged economy looks like.

A photo of a farm worker in the field with her hands making a heart with a Valentine's Day frame with little hearts around it and the words over the photo love the hands that feed us. Protect farm workers.

The Trump administration’s attacks on H-2A wage protections make it harder than ever for farm workers to earn fair pay. This #ValentinesDay, remember: Love means justice. Love means protection. Stand with farmworkers. Show love to the hands that feed us. ❤️#WeFeedYou

Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."