Please explain to me, like I’m 5, how are we great?

The Trump administration will somehow make $10 billion off the TikTok deal The unusually large fee comes after the president brokered the sale of the company's US operations to investors allied with his administration.

The fee is about *70 percent* of the new US TikTok’s $14 billion valuation

The Save America Act would compel all 50 states to send their voter registration rolls to the DHS or that the DHS would then run the rolls through its ‘SAVE’ voter purge system.” 2/26/26

This is a good lesson for journalists: Use plain language to state true things clearly.

Post from Robert Reich - YouTube

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There’s no money for healthcare there’s no money for a snap. There’s no money to build housing for homeless but there is this.

After a series of fatal strikes involving civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan, Congress directed the Pentagon to reduce civilian casualties as part of a 2019 law. During the Biden administration, the Defense Department created the Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response initiative. The civilian mitigation teams – cut by 90% by Hegseth – work with military commanders on target planning, and making sure that targets are actually military sites. The teams help come up with "no strike" lists, including religious and cultural sites and schools

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children.

This is learned today:

Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%.
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"Fortunate Son" by CCR was written by John Fogerty in about 20 minutes, fueled by rage over the unfairness of the Vietnam War draft. The song critiques how wealthy, well-connected families used their influence to protect their sons from combat, while working-class young men were sent to fight

BREAKING: Pentagon Report: U.S. Attcked Elementary School in Iran

Despite attempts by Trump to claim otherwise, the U.S. military was responsible for killing at least 175 in a strike on a school in Iran.

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I think we are beyond "if".

AOC: The Pentagon has not passed an audit, and they are out here trying to kick people with disabilities off of Medicaid. It is corruption that is stealing from the public coffers — and that is the actual waste, fraud, and abuse.

DOJ confirmed that 47,635 Epstein files have been removed.

That’s ANOTHER 47,635 reasons why we need ACCOUNTABILITY!

A budget is a moral document.

Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports.
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So did JD Pritzker on Illinois.

Now with no one to tell him no.

Katie Britt's Sad Confusion about and Complicity in Misallocation of HSI - emptywheel Katie Britt accuses Democrats of taking HSI off its job hunting down child sex predators. But under Senator Britt's oversight, Stephen Miller already did that.

Reup: It's not Democrats who've taken HSI investigators off their search for child sex predators.

Stephen Miller already did that.

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FRIENDS,

I am thrilled to announce the release of my first children's book, 'HERE and NOW and SMALL and CLOSE, arriving June 23rd!
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It's a hopeful, spirited reminder for kids and adults that we all have agency in creating a kinder, more compassionate planet.

www.mediaite.com Mike Johnson Stands and Applauds After Trump Says ‘Congressional Action Won’t Be Necessary’ on New Tariffs

Mike Johnson Stands and Applauds After Trump Says ‘Congressional Action Won’t Be Necessary’ on New Tariffs Mediaite

Trump points at Democrats and says, "these people are crazy. I'm telling you. They're crazy." (Note that Pete Hegseth and the rest of the cabinet are standing and cheering.)

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

If only America hadn’t lost all of our free speech warriors in a freak accident in November 2024

When it comes to attacking Iran, the most urgent question is “why” not “what”. And this should not be in the 3rd-to-last paragraph! “Administration officials have been unclear what their objectives are” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/22/u...

While I'd love to see this, don't think it happened.

Toni Preckwinkle Urging Cook County Prosecutors to Pursue Criminal Charges Against Federal Immigration Agents Preckwinkle urged Cook County State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke to act “swiftly, proactively and transparently” in order to ensure accountability after agents have repeatedly used “excessive force...

In Chicago - Silverio Villegas-González news.wttw.com/2026/02/13/t...

The cover-up just never ends. Rest in peace, Ruben Ray Martinez.

ANd he said that was why he broke ties with Epstein, because Epstein was stealing workers from Mar-a-lago!