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Rubin: "There is at least one witness for whom 3 interviews with the FBI in in 2019 are missing [from the Epstein files]. What's the big deal? We can also confirm she is the same person who in a 2025 FBI presentation is identified as accusing Trump of a sexual assault when she was between 13 and 15"

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

It's not that Americans "feel" like prices are up, as so many commentators like to say, it's that prices ARE way up. US households are expected to spend $995 on heating this winter, up $84 from last year. Electric heating projected to rise 12.2%. Households using gas expected to see costs rise 8.4%.

She’s raised almost $20m to help Minnesota – she thinks you can do it too Ashley Fairbanks launched Stand with Minnesota as ICE raids rocked her home town – now donations are pouring in, and families’ rent is being paid

I need to address this immediately, because I am WAY too Minnesotan to ever claim credit for this.

I built a thing to point the fire hose of people's generosity in the right direction. That's it.

I am thankful for the piece, because hopefully it means people will donate more money.

We Analyzed 300 Texas Accounts on a White Supremacist Dating Site. The Data Explains a Lot About Politics Right Now. About the state of extremism in the U.S.

Some excellent work from The Barbed Wire: We Analyzed 300 Texas Accounts on a White Supremacist Dating Site. The Data Explains a Lot About Politics Right Now. thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/24/3...

I can see Fox & institutional republicans wanting him to back off from things like ICE brutality & threatening NATO allies so they can all just get back to their top priority of getting big tax breaks for rich people…

Another Minnesota federal judge issues contempt finding over feds violating court orders The judge said the Trump administration owes a man $568, the cost of his plane ticket home from immigration custody.

Minnesota's federal judiciary has issued another civil contempt finding against the U.S. government tied to violations of orders in immigration cases.

Judge Tostrud found the Trump admin in civil contempt for transferring an immigrant to Texas and releasing him without his belongings in January.

Yes. The sad fact of humanity is that many, many folks just don’t care about things until they’re personally affected. So if they hear that ICE got $50 billion while their health insurance premiums have quadrupled, they’re gonna be pissed off.

My god, that’s horrible. Our health care system (if it can even be called a “system”) is a sick joke.

My guess would be things like health care costs skyrocketing while Trump very publicly obsesses about building a giant gold-plated ballroom, buying Greenland, etc. He couldn’t make it any plainer that he doesn’t have the slightest interest in helping solve the problems of ordinary citizens.

These numbers are ... quite something. Trump doesn't have net positive approval on a single issue that Elliott is polling.

That caught my eye too. I guess “custom” does a better job of implying that he’s some kind of vain prima donna celebrity than just mentioning a logo.

Morning Digest: Wisconsin GOP seeks to curtail veto power that extended school funding 400 years Governors have wielded the "Vanna White" veto for a century, despite many crackdowns

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers of Wisconsin made national news in 2023 by using his unique partial veto power to extend school funding 400 years longer than Republicans had wanted. The GOP is now asking voters to approve a constitutional amendment to prevent his successors from having this ability.

Elizabeth Warren: "This one is to me not even open or arguable. How would the US government keep money that the Supreme Court said it did not legally collect from American businesses, that it did not legally take away from American families that ultimately paid this?"

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🚨BREAKING: Federal Court three-judge panel DENIES republican motion for a preliminary injunction to block Utah's new congressional map from going in to effect. The new map will stand for the 2026 midterms. Democrats will likely gain 1 seat! www.democracydocket.com/cases/utah-c...

Donald Trump's Violent Mentality is Quite Literally Biblical One could be forgiven for coming away from Leighton Woodhouse’s “Donald Trump, Pagan King” op-ed in the New York Times with the nagging suspicion that he hasn’t actually read the biblical or ‘Pagan’ w...

A recent NYT op-ed blamed the Trump's regime's lawless violence on 'paganism' while conjuring Christianity as the source of good values. I think this is a terrible way to think about history and gets in the way of cleaning up the messes Christians have made. My latest from @religiondispatches.org

NEW: Local officials blocked from visiting migrants at Portsmouth airport who were stranded on ICE deportation plane for 14 hours.

Full writethru with new images:
gillianbrockell.ghost.io/breaking-sha...

Meet my State of the Union guest, Jeremy Schumacher.

Without ACA tax credits, his health insurance costs jumped 288%.

An $11,000 increase.

Trump sold out the American people to give billionaires another tax break.

Instead of Greenland, Governor Landry Might Want to Send the Hospital Boat to Louisiana Trump’s plan to send a hospital ship to Greenland ignores that Greenlanders already have universal care, while US health outcomes lag badly.

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry should focus more on providing healthcare to the people of Louisiana than the people of Greenland, who already have free healthcare cepr.net/publications...

I like how they're giving mandatory rest breaks and self nourishment time to a fucking chatbot but expecting their new hires to put in 80 hour weeks and sleep at their desks

"As Trump prepares to address the nation Tuesday evening, his approval rating stands at 39% positive and 60% negative, including 47% who say they strongly disapprove.

The last time Trump’s disapproval touched 60% was shortly after the Jan. 6th attack..."

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I don't get it either.

Trump is actually doing even worse on immigration (-18 points) than he is on the economy (-16 points) in the new WaPo poll. Tariffs are -30. These are both supposed to be GOP strengths. Trumpism is a massive debacle, with the public widely rejecting the main pillars of MAGA right wing nationalism:

The odds started at zero. They havent gone anywhere from that. We were never getting these checks bc they were fake to begin with.

US lawmakers seek release of double amputee from Georgia ICE detention Congress members write to Kristi Noem to express ‘grave concern’ over detention of Georgia barber Rodney Taylor

20 members of Congress are finally speaking out for Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s now spent more than a year in an ICE camp.

He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when they detained him.

He’s been denied his prosthetics, placed in solitary & his health is declining:

I like listening to longer-form video while i'm walking the dogs or whatever, but yeah: if i see a 5-minute video essay on some subject i'm interested in, my first thought is always that it would be much faster & more convenient to just quickly read it in written form.

Does Legal Immigration Still Exist? Refugees and visa holders aren’t gang members or drug runners—but they are the easiest to locate and lock up.

For today's What Next, I got to talk to @jonathanblitzer.bsky.social about USCIS and the questionable future of legal immigration in the US. slate.com/podcasts/wha...

I honestly don't understand what they think the end-game is here. Vance can lie all he wants, but those factories don't exist. Is the plan to just keep lying for the next 3 years, telling everyone that the great Trump "boom" is just around the corner? Or do they actually believe the lies now?

ICE whistleblower comes forward to testify before Congress Ryan Schwank, a former ICE academy instructor, is expected to testify that ICE “is lying to Congress and the American people” about its training program.

Breaking MS NOW:

An ICE whistleblower is expected to testify at a congressional forum today that the agency is "lying to Congress and the American people" about its training of new recruits.

Ryan Schwank was an ICE academy instructor for new recruits before he resigned earlier this month.

Why a generous super PAC donation makes Trump’s ‘Bridgegate’ look even worse Given the recent pattern, it’s tough to ignore the pay-for-play appearances in an administration for which corruption allegations have become the norm.

The pattern of MAGA PAC donors getting what they want is striking, but Trump’s Bridgegate is special:

- Jan 16: billionaire writes a check to Trump-aligned super PAC
- Feb 9: billionaire meets with Howard Lutnick
- Feb 9: Trump abandons his own position and says what the billionaire wanted to hear