So for all you “leave NATO” dummies out there, wanna explain how we defend ourselves without them?

Britain, France, Germany, the GCC (Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Oman) are currently knocking down Iranian missiles and drones.

And this is just Iran. Not a peer.

Just reupping this image from my newsletter last week, that I hope people will feel free to save and liberally spred around the interwebs. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

It will be tough for America’s global reputation to recover after this absolutely shameful vote.

Stay mad.

#TheAmericanHolocaust

In tonight's speech, the president did what he does best: celebrate himself. But if anyone was looking for leadership focused on easing their current economic pain, he made clear that they'll need to look elsewhere.

James P. McGovern: “He's going to say the economy is great, the tariffs are working, he's ending wars - not starting them, and he's going to spew all kinds of nonsense—

The problem, Mr. Speaker, is the facts are the facts — and the fact is that his economy sucks”

Plans for proposed ICE facility in Merrimack, N.H., won’t move forward, governor says - The Boston Globe “We can breathe easy again,” said the chair of the Merrimack Town Council, which had opposed the warehouse.

“Today, the people of Merrimack and all of New Hampshire proved that organized, local voices are more powerful than a federal agency’s ruthless expansion,” she said. “This is a victory for us and all of New England but it is not the end of the fight.”

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/24/m...

Buttigieg: “The reason a lot of real people watch the State of the Union is they want to know what it’s going to mean to them…You tune in to see if your president can tell you how he’s going to make your life better, especially because this president has made your life worse.”

The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes.

$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst".

Renee Good and Alex Pretti were unavailable for comment….

Senator Warnock:
The President just gave himself a big round of applause for two hours. He doesn't deserve a round of applause, he deserves to be fired.

Me: LOUD applause.

Christian Nationalists are treating the Epstein files like they treat their Bibles and our Constitution: They are *ignoring* them.

Very Interesting…..

We are still waiting for the rest of the Epstein files. Stop breaking the law, #pambondi

You might think that the inhumane conditions at America's concentration camps is because of this administration's usual lazy incompetence, but, no, it's because of this administration's usual vicious cruelty.

Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny was a Russian lawyer, opposition leader, anti-corruption activist and political prisoner. He was recognised by Amnesty International as a prisoner of conscience and was awarded the Sakharov Prize for his work on human rights.

Puritanical Pixie Mike Johnson: "Well, golly gosh darn it! Can you imagine if those meanies in the judiciary made our secret police follow that due process hooey in the dang Constitution? What an OUTRAGEOUS suggestion! Convenience over Constitution!"

This part

STOP THE PRESSES!!! Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) is concerned!!! (Federal agents are currently operating in a surge to the state of Maine, but let's not get all fussy about it).

MAGA Mike SHUTS DOWN House after Trump COVER UP FAILS YouTube video by MeidasTouch

MAGA MIKE has shut down the House again after ICE shot & killed another protestor. He knows that the Senate will not pass the bill that the House passed last week after the shooting. So he rather shut down the House to cause another Government Shutdown & fire more workers.
youtu.be/UaUTcONIX0E?...

I'm sure a few ICE agents suspect this already, but it seems very clear that DJT, Miller & Bovino WANT an ICE agent to get killed. They need their own martyr. There is a reason they are putting them in increasingly volatile situations.

Top Catholic Clerics Denounce U.S. Foreign Policy

With the rise of German fascism in the 1930s and 1940s, the Roman Catholic Church silently decided to protect its real estate over its congregants.

There are creeping signs that the church may take a more moral position in the face of American fascism in the 2020s.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/u...

Greg Bovino and Kristi Noem being kicked out of Minnesota on the same day underscores how devastatingly bad the PR has been for the administration after it ham-handedly sent in hotheaded, untrained ICE goons to harass residents of Minneapolis. Because people across America saw it on video.