Jan Wagner

“Trump is not in control of the Iran War. Netanyahu is, and Kushner is his lackey.” Whether or not you fully agree with that statement, this piece is a must-read to understand better the influence of the Kahanist movement on current events and the push for “Greater Israel”:

@jkbjournalist Gift link: nytimes.com/2026/02/14/opi…

@TheLucasToday @EricLDaugh I wonder if you say the same about President Trump who accepts donations as a trade for pardons? Should he be in handcuffs?

@EricLDaugh $10,000 donation nine days after meeting with the people running the fraud. that's not a coincidence, that's a receipt. if a regular person did this they'd already be in handcuffs

🚨 BREAKING: Sen. Josh Hawley just pushed for a CRIMINAL INDICTMENT against Minnesota AG Keith Ellison because he tried HELPING fraudster avoid being caught "You took $10,000 from them 9 days after the meeting!" "YOU helped fraudsters defraud the state of $9B, and you got a FAT campaign contribution out of it! You ought to be INDICTED!" "They BEGGED you to help them — and YOU AGREED TO IT! It's ALL ON TAPE." "You said: send me the names of these folks investigating them. YOU SAID IT. 'I'll take the list, call the person at Education, and say, what's going on?!'" "They CAME to you asking for help getting investigators off their backs!" "Why'd you do it, why'd you help them?!" ELLISON: "I didn't do it!" HAWLEY: "That's not you? Is that a ventriloquist?! BS!" He's right, Ellison MUST be held accountable!

America is a failed state, taken over by organized crime. This was not an oversight hearing; it was a mafia lieutenant deliberately creating a scene to distract the cops, while the criminals escape out the back door. All of it was scripted. Count how many times she looks down while she touts the stock market with Epstein’s survivors behind her. She had at least three binders, at least one with opposition research on the Democrats. No information on survivors, or Epstein, or any actual criminals—but lots of ammunition to fire at representatives who were hired by the American people to look over her function. Worse, she had printouts of which unredacted Epstein files they had looked at, giving her advanced notice of what they might ask her—and what they know and don’t know. Surveillance state performance art. One important note, the stock market is one of the only things Trump cares about. That’s why this psychotic rant about it was written down and why she felt compelled to read it. This is a weakness being exploited by many. When it finally crashes, batten down. “The Dow is over $50,000. I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P is almost 7,000. And the Nasdaq smashing records. Americans, 401ks and retirement savings are booming. That's what we should be talking about. We should be talking about making Americans safe. We should be talking about what does a Dow have to do with anything? That's what they just asked. Are you kidding? The Dow has shattered 50,000 for the first time. This is crazy. They said it couldn't be done in four years. You have President Trump has done it in one year.”

Can I be prouder?!

The Super Bowl is played on a map written in Spanish 🇪🇸. San Francisco — Saint Francis — began as Mission San Francisco de Asís in 1776. Yerba Buena — good herbs, good land, good promise. Santa Clara — Saint Clare — where the game is played, near San José — Saint Joseph — another mission bell still echoing. To get there, you pass San Mateo and Palo Alto, past a thousand-year-old redwood that once guided explorers to the Bay. Beside the stadium flows San Tomás Aquino, quietly moving like memory. Everything here carries a name from another language, another time 🇪🇸 — even California, born from the pages of a 16th-century Spanish novel about a queen named Calafia. And when the game pauses at halftime, the world watches Bad Bunny 🇵🇷 take the stage. Puerto Rico’s voice. Latin rhythm. Global culture. Spain in the land 🇪🇸. Puerto Rico in the music 🇵🇷. America and World watching 🇺🇸. Before kickoff, before halftime, before the noise — history was already here.

@ElieNYC @thenation I recommend Sherilyn Ifill as the shadow elections czar. She’s such a great communicator and a clear thinker. She’s well-respected in Dem circles, right?

Trump and the Republicans are trying to rig the election. That's not being a "doomer," that's acknowledging reality. Democrats need a coordinated, national response to these coordinated, national attacks. We need an "Elections Czar" My latest solution in @thenation thenation.com/article/societ…

Listen to what this lady says. Every word. So important.

Immigration attorney details the unconstitutional abuses of ICE Nazis and the utter lawlessness of the pedophile führer and his fascist authoritarian regime. 😡😡😡👇

The president’s own ATM: Step 1: Sue govt agency for taxpayer’s money while being in charge of agency. Step 2.: Coerce agency into “substantial” settlement. Step 3: Approve settlement despite being the plaintiff. Step 4: Give taxpayers’ money to charity. #Philanthropy!

LMFAO when you lay it out like this the absurdity is just STAGGERING.

Friends, I’m once again asking you to donate. But not to me! @claireforny is a union organizer, democratic socialist and my former Assembly colleague running for Congress in NY-7. Chip in today.

@realTuckFrumper #FundHealthcareStopICE

Even if you take the conservative defense of each ICE killing, you’re left with “We haphazardly scaled up a poorly trained police force to storm into neighborhoods that voted against the president, where we antagonize the local population until someone resists arrest, and then we kill them,” which is morally horrendous on top of being an absurd way to do immigration policy.

So important. What they say is not the story. That is never the story. What happened is the story. Write what happened.

Gavin Newsom, with ZERO fucks to give, telling the European press in Davos how European leaders need to deal with America's bullying psychotic shitstain. 🙌💪👏✊👇

Crisp summary of the basic facts of Good's murder in @meagankday's article yesterday. There just isn't an intellectually honest way to come to a different conclusion here. That's why every attempt to paint it as self-defense either distorts or omits at least some of these facts.

Now the White House wants everyone to believe the officer who shot Renee Good had internal bleeding because she rammed him with her car. If that were true, you’d see it clearly in at least one of the videos, and they would’ve been shouting it from the rooftops since day one. If that were true, they wouldn’t be blocking local officials from investigating. These people are fucking liars, and we have no reason to believe a word they say.

ICYMI — worthwhile analysis here. That above angle Trump used to claim Ross was hit was sped up to make the car look faster and hide that he was out of the way. He wasn’t hit, he dropped his phone. No wonder they won’t really investigate. Full: tiktok.com/t/ZThM17gQA/

Shared today by Bev Perry in the Expand Dem Values in the House and Senate Facebook group. I need to say something that's been bothering me for a while, and I'm saying it as a Marine Corps veteran who leans center-right. This isn't partisan. This is observation. We've slow-faded into accepting militarized police as normal, and nobody seems to notice or care. Even as a USMC pilot, I went through six months of infantry training as an officer before flight school. I've worn the gear. The helmet, the tactical vest, the whole kit. And I can tell you from experience, it changes you. There's a psychological shift that happens when you strap that stuff on. You feel different. You carry yourself different. You start seeing the environment differently. In the Marine Corps, that shift was appropriate because it's a combat culture and organization. But these are American streets. American citizens. And we've got law enforcement dressed like they're kicking down doors in Fallujah to serve warrants in suburbia. What happend to high standards and real policing tactics? Think Adam-12...Officers Reed and Malloy. Crisp uniforms. A revolver. A baton. High standards and professionalism. They looked like public servants because they were public servants. They de-escalated. They talked to people. They were part of the community. Now? Tactical gear, beards, ball caps, Oakley sunglasses, sleeve tattoos, and a tactical kit that would make special operators jealous. And we've turned it into a fetish. We celebrate it. We assume that because someone looks hard, they must be a professional. They're not. I loved the Marine Corps. But I'll be honest, I was also blinded by it for a while. Mission first. Unit over everything. And that mentality made sense in that context. But law enforcement doesn't get that critical examination. "Back the Blue" has become a shield against accountability. A blanket assumption that a badge plus gun equals hero. That tactical gear equals competence. It doesn't. Most people who join law enforcement aren't special operators. They're average people who desperately want to belong to something bigger than themselves. I understand that impulse deeply, it's why I joined the Marines. But wanting to belong doesn't make you qualified. Looking the part doesn't mean you can perform under pressure. And wrapping yourself in warrior aesthetics doesn't make you a warrior. Old school law enforcement represented something. Standards. Bearing. Discipline. Professionalism that was demonstrated, not costumed. A revolver and a baton meant you had to rely on your training, your words, your judgment, not overwhelming firepower. What I see now in law enforcement is the costume without the culture. The gear without the training. The authority without the accountability. Are there good people in law enforcement? Of course. I know some personally. But this reflexive "law enforcement can do no wrong" mentality is lazy, dangerous, and intellectually dishonest. A woman is dead. And before we sort ourselves into teams and start assigning blame, maybe we should ask harder questions: Why do we accept a militarized police force as normal? Why do we assume tactical gear equals tactical competence? Why have we let "Back the Blue" become a substitute for actual standards? I wore the uniform. I went through the training. I know what that gear does to your head. It shouldn't be normalized on American streets against American citizens. And we shouldn't pretend everyone wearing it is qualified to carry it. The fact that he called her a “fucking bitch” after he shot her three times should be a huge red flag for all of us.