And this is all he had to replace Noem.

There was a human fly fishing today so we sat and watched for a while. Then one of us tried to eat a dead crab, so we had to go home. #flyfishing #pnw #goldenretriever #photography #beach #Sunday

Andrew Darroch (@andrewdarroch) If you have skipped over this, here’s another chance.

substack.com/@andrewdarro...

I Am European

NEWS: In 2019, the Trump DOJ took over New Mexico’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch — telling the state to stand down and turn over its findings. According to officials and newly unsealed records, the probe soon fizzled after the federal takeover. Link to NYT reporting in reply.

Sen Chris Murphy (D-CT) to Face the Nation:

“I don't have any obligation to fund a Department of Homeland Security that is violating the law every day, just like I don't have any obligation to support this war that is illegal as well.”

A picture in the cabinet room. JD Vance is at the head of the table. Tulsi is to his right. Bessent is at the table. Pete Hegseth is not there.

Here's the picture of cabinet members in the White House monitoring the attack on Iran.

Also no Whiskey Pete.

As we kick off Women's History Month, Donald Trump is hell-bent on eroding the advancements that generations of women have made.

We're making it clear to the President that we won't go back in time in Illinois — we're fighting for a future that moves us forward.

"Just a week after the Supreme Court demolished the cornerstone of President Donald Trump’s tariff regime, questions are swirling about the legal foundation of his replacement tariffs," writes Matt Egan. | Analysis
https://cnn.it/4r67MYL

It’s really crazy how much I’ve been agreeing with Rep. Thomas Massie recently!

Optics.

@thedailybeast.bsky.social
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hosts-...

Even by cult standards, this is just bonkers.

So they have no plan. Got it.

Reminder that the CFTC is already mandated by law to prohibit these kinds of contracts and is abdicating its responsibility

Ms. Wilkins, the daughter of a financial specialist in the aerospace industry (her mother) and a global consumer products executive for Gillette (her father), had lived in London and Switzerland, and for a time attended elementary school at Collège du Léman in Geneva. She is originally from the Boston suburb of Weymouth, but likes to emphasize her time living in Arkansas. "There are just some things the limousine liberal will never understand from the coasts," she recently wrote.

Kash Patel’s girlfriend is exactly the sort of country singer you’d think she’d be. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

Pay Attention to What Trump Didn’t Say Hint: All the stuff that makes America great.

In an address that Trump framed by noting that this year is the 250th anniversary of our independence, one could be struck by the absence of several iconic American ideas.

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

I mean it's a SCIF with a perimeter barrier consisting of curtains so I think we're a little past ICD 705 already, even by TSWA standards

Tulsi Gabbard: "A war with Iran would make the war in Iraq look like a cakewalk. The devastation and the costs would be far greater than anything we've ever experienced before."

Why Attack Iran? Our Authoritarianism and Our Corruption

How to understand war with Iran? We must get away from propaganda. Facts suggest two interpretive frameworks: a foreign war as a mechanism to destroy democracy at home; and a foreign war as an element of personal corruption by the president of the United States.
snyder.substack.com/p/why-attack...

We're no more than a few hours away from the next phase of digital propaganda: unverified videos of "liberated people celebrating" will go viral. Many of these videos will later be revealed to have predated the illegal war, or be entirely unrelated to current events

Upshot: verify before amplifying

i'm still thinking about how DOGE set up a starlink terminal inside the WH complex and were plugging unsecured commercial devices into every server they could get access to

In 1973, a veto-proof majority of Congress took the position that POTUS’s constitutional powers to use military force are limited to:

1) declaration of war

2) specific statutory authorization

3) national emergency triggered by attack on U.S., its territories or possessions, or armed forces. 1/n

That's the plan, and to the extent the Trump admin even wanted to help (they don't), they illegally dismantled the mechanisms for it, like USAID.

It would've served our strategic interests greatly for millions of Iranians to see boxes and crates of vital supplies with U.S. flags on them. Oh well.

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

The details in this story are shocking, and I hope people will spend some time with it, despite the *gestures* EVERYTHING ELSE HAPPENING. Some of these details have been previously reported. Other big ones have not.

Gift link:

Reminder that Trump gutted VOA Farsi.

What else now

every single psycho thing Donald Trump does he does only because almost every single federally elected Republican has chosen unilaterally, independently, and with complete freedom to go along with it unconditionally