Linda maggi martz

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

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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.”

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!

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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

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."

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...

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.

Reminder that Trump gutted VOA Farsi.

What else now

Meanwhile Trump’s DOJ is still withholding records of a woman the FBI wanted to cooperate with for a criminal investigation into whether Trump raped her when she was a child

A United States senator from the president's own party, one who serves on the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, has no idea what's going on as America goes to war with Iran.

The president didn't bother to make the case for war in a marathon State of the Union address and then he fucked off to his sweaty gilded country club so he could literally phone in an unconstitutional war. Every single Democrat needs to be screaming about this at full volume.

Susie Wiles is wearing an Apple Watch during a highly classified meeting on Iran. Unreal.

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The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump. www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

Britain’s House of Commons has approved the release of papers related to former Prince Andrew’s appointment as a trade envoy.

🇪🇺🇺🇦 Von der Leyen in Ukraine: We will soon get our 20th sanctions package on Russia over the line. Our sanctions will keep draining Russia's revenues and weakening its war machine. Dear Volodymyr, This morning we honoured your fallen at the People's Memorial in Maidan Square.

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Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the #SOTU:

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Trump is bragging about working to eliminate fraud. Most of his presidential pardons have been for people convicted of money laundering and fraud to the tune of over $1 billion.

Trump takes credit for lower crime rates in Washington, DC after sending federal troops last year. Fact check: Since peaking in 2023, D.C. violent crime fell in 2024, before Trump took office, and has continued to fall at similar rates before and after federal intervention.

President Trump claimed he inherited a "stagnant economy" and it's now "roaring like never before." Growth in 2025, 2.2%, was lower than in every single year of the Biden administration.

listen to Trump's voice as he winds this speech down. he sounds totally spent.

Federal debt held by the public is forecasted to reach 156% by 2050. And unfortunately, projections have historically undershot reality. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart

In his State of the Union address Tuesday night, President Donald Trump announced a “war on fraud,” a term that the administration has used in increasingly broad and deceptive ways. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...