Jen Hayden

MOE: +/ - 2.5 PTS FEBRUARY 25-27, 2026 OCBS NEWS POLL | YouGov HOW SHOULD THE U.S. APPROACH IRAN'S CURRENT LEADERSHIP? PRIOR TO START OF CONFLICT NEGOTIATE WITH THEM THROUGH DIPLOMACY PRESSURE THEM WITH SANCTIONS NOT GET INVOLVED REMOVE THEM FROM POWER WITH FORCE 38% 22% 22% 18%

MOE: +/- 2.5 PTS| FEBRUARY 25-27, 2026 @CBS NEWS POLL | YouGov TRUMP NEED APPROVAL FROM CONGRESS FOR MILITARY ACTION AGAINST IRAN? PRIOR TO START OF CONFLICT 74% NEEDS APPROVAL 26% DOES NOT NEED APPROVAL

CBS News conducts a poll.

It finds that only 18% of Americans advocate removing Iran's leadership "by force," and 74% say Trump needs congressional approval before starting a war.

So their headline is, "CBS News poll on Americans' views on Iran prior to conflict."

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Senator Tim Kaine to CNN: “I'm on two committees that give me access to a lot of classified information.

“There was no imminent threat from Iran to the United States that warrants sending our sons and daughters into yet another war in the Middle East.”

Our puppet President loaning out American troops and arms to whoever bids highest. We pay the costs, he rakes in the profits.

You know what DID age well?

“Every Republican president comes to office, cuts benefits for the poor, cuts taxes for the rich, raises prices, and then bombs a Middle East country.”

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social explains how Trump’s ‘anti-war’ campaign was a lie, noting the president has bombed seven countries in his second term.

It’s not just Medicaid funding they’re withholding to MN. It’s food assistance, child care assistance, social services, job training, safety testing, public health, disaster relief. SNAP. Free lunch for kids in school.

They hate us for loving our neighbors, and are collectively punishing us for it.

CHATTANOOGA: “DO Y’ALL HAVE A WARRANT? What’s the suspicion of crime, they’re brown?”

ICE trespasses on private property as they conduct their racial profiling terror campaign. An ex ICE lawyer just testified they are trained to disregard the law.

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Republican senator tells Americans struggling to afford rising beef prices to just eat something else:

"You have so many proteins to choose from."

Abstract flowers in a vase, oil pastels

Today in small paintings #art #painting

Really doing some work to defend the indefensible here.

In an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration - Bolts A change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.

NEW: The USPS changed its rules on how it postmarks ballots.

This may affect elections at every stage at which there's a mail deadline.

An underplayed one: VOTER REGISTRATION.

Many voters who send in their registration forms by mail could be postmarked late, missing out without realizing it.

"Lutnick and Epstein each signed a contract in 2012—four years after Epstein pleaded guilty to sex crimes—to invest in a digital ad technology company called AdFin Solutions Inc. The deal was dated just five days after Lutnick and his family visited Epstein on his private island. "

Gallego: "They're going and racially profiling people and rounding up Americans until they can prove their citizenship. That money came from kicking millions and millions of Americans off Medicaid. It was the same bill. They cut Medicaid to expand ICE."

New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had years-long business tie with sex offender The commerce secretary apparently still hasn't come clean on his connection with Epstein.

A MOTHER JONES SCOOP! New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had a years-long business tie with the sex offender. This challenges his claim he had minimal contact with Epstein. The two were involved in a deal for six years, and an email shows they discussed it. @nlanard.bsky.social

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

New GDP data falls far short, shows 2025 ended with weak economic growth In the first year of Trump’s second term, economic growth fell to a nine-year low, and domestic job growth fell to a 16-year low. It’s worth asking why.

As Trump rambles on about how “dead” the economy was, remember:

2024, under Biden: 1.45 million jobs
2025, under Trump: 181,000 jobs

2024, under Biden: 2.8% GDP growth
2025, under Trump: 2.2% GDP growth

The question for the White House is simple: Why did things get worse after Trump returned?

Hegseth invited Christian nationalist Doug Wilson to preach at Pentagon The self-described “paleo-Confederate” has argued that wives should submit to their husbands, women should be denied the vote and Christian slaveowners were on “firm scriptural ground.”

Christian nationalist pastor Doug Wilson, who has argued that women should be denied the right to vote and Christian slaveowners were on “firm scriptural ground,” led a worship service at the Pentagon at the invitation of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

As an attorney with occasional experience with the Equal Time rule, I can explain what's going on here and how the FCC's Brandon Carr is leveraging his position to force late night and daytime talk show hosts to exclude Democratic candidates.

First I need to explain the Equal Time rule itself. 1/

Let Them Fly First Class: Kristi Noem’s DHS Luxury Jet Scandal Inside Noem's flying palace. Plus: Pentagon demands obedient, deadly AI. The race to deploy untested nuclear reactors. Lawmakers move to rein in presidential pardons. And remembering Robert Duvall.

The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill.

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I have met this man in person longed before he became a national embarrassment, back when he was a local embarrassment here in KC. He’s got a severe case of small man syndrome.

This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.

Another way to make a billion dollars

Notable message from President Zelensky. The USA is clearly putting pressure on Ukraine to hand over more of its land to dictatorial Russia.

Good to see the Ukrainian pushback--but the USA should hang its head in shame.

Well, for the 5th day in a row, I woke up and started speaking Spanish to my cat. Benito Ocasio is still living rent free in my head.

Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.

It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.

Vought is a mass murderer.

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Police in Bloomington, MN just announced that one of the guys they arrested in an underage sex trafficking sting was a **background checker for ICE agents.**

He had a high security clearance in the Trump administration... and he was caught trying to abuse children. Sickening.

I’m old enough to remember when he swore he’d only hire the best people.

One of the figures repeatedly cited in the affidavit for the Fulton County FBI election center raid literally praised & gave credence to QAnon just weeks ago.

Disturbing on every level