Trump asks Congress to supersize military budget, slash domestic programs The president’s fiscal 2027 budget request calls for Republicans to use a partisan process for enacting billions for the Pentagon.

Trump asks Congress to supersize military budget, slash domestic programs

Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

BREAKING: An investigation found that the Department of Defense has sent out outdated statements about the number of troops wounded or killed in Iran, appearing to engage in a “casualty cover-up." trib.al/0BdA1lY

@sarrah_bellus on Threads Trump rejected it on camera. Mark Zuckerberg has officially banned the ability to copy links on threads related to politics! Look at this. Donald Trump Now try to copy the link…

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This is amazing. If only democrats would try to explain this to the electorate. It’s a winning message all the way around.

Two of my favourite academics! An absolutely must watch discussion for folks desperate for facts.

Thanks @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @timothysnyder.bsky.social

Can’t wait for the next one! ♥️

"An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes."

Politics Chat, February 24, 2026 YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

@hcrichardson.bsky.social So great!! HCR’s State of the Union could also be used as a primer for anyone who needs to get up to speed.

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#MorningVibe

In 1954, Edward R. Murrow reminded us that disagreeing with those in power isn’t the same as being disloyal. He warned against letting fear take over & replacing evidence with accusations.

This is a call to courage. Freedom doesn’t protect itself.

We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done," journalist Garrett Graff wrote: "A superpower is [dying by] suicide because the [Republican] Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever. ~ Heather Cox Richardson ~

Once again, Republicans could stop all this right fucking now, but choose not to.

bsky.app/profile/nash... We must remain outraged at the inhumanity of this Regime. THIS is our defining moment as a Nation. We choose the legacy we leave for our Children.

Broken bones, burning eyes: How Trump's DHS deploys 'less lethal' weapons on protesters Federal immigration officers have repeatedly used force in ways that appear to violate their own policies or general policing guidelines, NBC News found.

Why are our taxpayer dollars funding our own torture?

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Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)

(around an image of a masked ICE agent holding a gun) Republicans "One Big Beautiful Bill' nearly tripled funding for ICE. That money came from your benefits: paid for by cuts to reproductive health care paid for by cuts to Medicare & Medicaid paid for by cuts to SNAP paid for by cuts to clean energy projects paid for by cuts to obesity prevention paid for by cuts to disaster response paid for by cuts to energy tax credits

The Senate Vote That Could Change Public Lands Forever This week Republicans are pushing a legal maneuver that would undo a century of public land protections — starting with America’s most beloved wilderness.

Amidst all the atrocities taking place in the U.S., please don't forget the imminent threat of being robbed of our public lands. Once this happens, to paraphrase Heather Cox Richardson, we will never get them back. (Sample letter to U.S. senators included in article.)

Lincoln’s words I come back to right now are

“We cannot escape history…We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves…We know how to save the Union. The world knows we do know how to save it…We shall nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope of earth.”

Imprison women for making men sympathetic to poors & coloreds!

Shock Poll: Americans Miss Joe Biden’s Economy Here’s what they’re worried about.

Jonathan V Last: "In 2023, the economy added 3 million jobs. In 2024, still under Biden, it added 2.2 million jobs. In 2025, under Trump, it added just 181,000 jobs. This is a story about an economy getting throttled by one man's capricious, destructive governance."

Trump & his goons are weaponizing the DOJ against anyone who disagrees with them.

They're trying to silence any dissent.

But the tide is turning. The American people are speaking up and fighting back.

Gary Kasparov: As I wrote, if you think a massive US Gulag is being built just for illegal immigrants, along with a federal paramilitary force as large as the Marines, you're a fool. Billions in unaccountable cash from Venezuelan oil, shock troops, and detention camps. This is not a drill.

They are warehousing human beings. Stephen Miller's vision for America is vast warehouses of people in concrete concentration camps, labor camps, death camps. And then CoreCivic and GeoGroup can bill the taxpayer billions for disappearing us into these warehouse gulags.

This well reported piece tracked 23 DHS warehouse purchase/lease attempts, how they have attempted to skirt local regs & officials, & avoid opposition.

"'If they are going to house people there, it is a death camp. I don’t say that lightly,' said Arizona Sen. Analise Ortiz." shorturl.at/fmMj9

Howard Lutnick faces bipartisan calls to resign over latest Epstein revelations Recently disclosed records suggest a closer relationship than the Commerce secretary previously indicated.

Secretary Howard Lutnick lied to the country about his ties to Epstein.

Now we learned that they were in business together.

He has no business being our Commerce Secretary.

He should resign.
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Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump's 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows The official DHS statistics, which had not been previously reported, provide the most detailed look yet into who ICE has arrested during the Trump administration's crackdown.

Less than 14% of nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in President Trump's first year back in the White House had charges or convictions for violent criminal offenses, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security document obtained by CBS News.

This whistle fights fascists I print whistles now. You can too.

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Posting again.

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Amid another wave of Trump lies about 2020 election, note today's analysis from elections security expert David Becker on Face the Nation

“Not only are our elections not rigged, they're as transparent, verifiable and secure as they’ve ever been, whether you like the outcome or not"