At 6 – 9 pm MT I'm joining members of Congress attending the People's State of the Union in Washington, D.C. by Zoom tonight. Rep. Stansbury will be there. Sponsors are Moveon and Meidas Touch Network. If anyone else is interested, here is the link to sign up: https://mobilize.us/s/sUi68G
Albeit, as I said before, in addition to the Epstein Survivors, I would like to see in attendance the former college athlete survivors of medical sexual abuse who claim Jim Jordan knew all about it and did absolutely nothing to help them get justice.
I think I'm going back and forth between the MoveOn & Defiance events and am pleased there will be survivors in the house, as well as lots of empty seats AND a walkout. This is going to be good.
State of the Swamp shebang including Portland Frog brigade (good at navigating swamps) delivering copies of constitution to all R congressional offices this morning - register here for livestream (in person at National Press Club sold out)
I'm planning to watch Abigail Spanberger's rebuttal. I'll also check to see if my news-boosting postcards have arrived. If they have, I'll write a few postcards.
I’m organizing! Our school board has been taken over by MAGA and they are filing frivolous lawsuits against NY anti-discrimination policies. Using taxpayer money to pay for DC lawyers linked to right wing causes.
Two board seats are up in May and I am running with another determined soul to unseat both of the Moms for Liberty incumbents. These people need to get their F-ing hands off our schools. 🔥🐴
Simon, you point out that "Democrats lead Republicans 52% to 42% among Registered Voters". Do you happen to have the number for Likely Voters as well? Given the considerable difference in voter enthusiasm, I am wondering if that gap is even wider than the record 10-percent margin you noted.
For the most part it is too early for polls of likely voters, and I don't want to guess on something this important. But it is likely that it is higher with those most likely to vote.
Right now the Portland Frogs are delivering copies of the Constitution to members of Congress. Live streaming on Substack with Miles Taylor. Preshow for the State of the Swamp
"After Redactions Trump’s State of the Union to be Seventeen Seconds Long"
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) — In an announcement that raised eyebrows among political observers, the White House announced on Tuesday that, after redactions, Donald J. Trump’s State of the Union Address would be only seventeen seconds long.
Trump’s original text of the speech had included lengthy praise of such prominent administration figures as Elon Musk, Howard Lutnick, RFK Jr., and Dr. Oz, all of which had to be redacted “for undisclosed reasons,” the White House indicated.
In order to bulk the speech up to its seventeen-second runtime, Trump reportedly added the non sequitur “Thank you for your attention to this matter” to the end.
News of the speech’s length drew a strongly negative reaction in a new poll, with a broad majority of Americans calling seventeen seconds “too long.”
Simon, thank you for sharing the video from yesterday's shadow hearing. I'm always encouraged by Americans willing to stand up and speak the truth.
So glad to see you've added Elaine Luria to your list of candidates to support. She's great!
I called Congressman Raskin and Senators Alsobrooks and Van Hollen about clawing back the ICE expenditures and billionaire tax cuts now that the tariff money won't be there and about the need to keep discussing Trump's declining mental state. I'm working on postcards to NC voters and looking forward to Abigail Spanberger's speech tonight.
I don't think you understand the play back here. Trump was able to sell Republicans on the big ugly bill by inflating the tariff revenue to offset the tax cuts and increased expenditures. The big ugly may not have passed without the ruse. Now the revenues are gone, the logic for the expenditures disappears, and they are heavily exposed now. Higher deficits = higher interest rates = slower growth = lower revenues = vicious cycle. They are in deep shit.
Question: how many of these GOP quislings voted for the Big Ugly Farce believing or being willfully ignorant of the shaky legal foundation of Orange’s tariffs? Glad they’re in deep shit. They deserve to be voted out no matter how my question is answered!!!
All of them knew the tariffs were illegal. But they may have thought the stores would ultimately bail them out. It was a stupid gamble for our economy.
This is where you have Kristi Burke running for Congress in TN-01. Kids went and protest and they ended up getting suspende. They were protesting ICE and the cruelty for this administration. This is wrong. We need to be standing up for our children. It is https://youtu.be/WPr2UmdEmU4?si=JVDOfNqty4thbVOY to watch it. Think it.
Seeing the people sitting behind Mr. Schwenk nodding their heads in agreement was powerful. The bravery to speak about the current condition of training was inspiring. I want to hear from more people like him and less from this regime.
UGH - WaPo, I still have a login bc longtime sub even though cancelled after Harris endorsement fiasco. But even logged in, I can't get rid of the big RESUBSCRIBE NOW, SUCKERS popup. FU, Bezos. Also, re health insurance--as bad as those numbers are, that's not even including underinsured and/or insurance that's not accepted at your trusted MD that you've seen for years bc employer keeps changing providers due to astronomical increases bc of Big Ugly. GRR.
Lawrence O'Donnell went on a great rant last night about tariff refunds, pointing out that the US Treasury is quite capable of issuing accurate refunds - they do it every year after tax season. I want my $1700!
Looking forward to the multiple alternative SOTU events tonight, and happy Spanberger & Padilla will be the official Dem response. I know they will bring the heat. Speaking of heat, happy to have heat & internet again - my absence here yesterday was due to power outage, and it snowed for over 24 hours producing 20 inches. Spent the day shoveling, then bundled under blankets with cat in lap & catching up on reading. Resting and working on news boosting postcards today (lack of heat takes it out of you - I kept thinking of those souls in Ukraine who've dealt with such conditions for YEARS partially due to ORANGE). Keep going!
We had about 18 on top of the 19 we had last month. Another 4 inches tomorrow morning and other storms on the horizon. At least we didn't lose power!!! Spent the day reading a terrific novel. It calmed me down.
be of good cheer...the sun is already stronger and lots of the snow is evaporating; meteorological spring begins march 1. and next year is an el nino which is typically warm and rainy. but, i do think the two storms we had were awesome to behold. 22 inches here, all snow and no sleet like the last one.
I asked about you on the board yesterday and was worried cause I know the storm hit your region hard. Sorry it was so challenging. Glad to see you back and in fightin' form.
Thank you, I appreciate that! It was a lot, for sure. :) But like I said, I kept thinking of the poor folks in Ukraine who've had literally YEARS of no power, no heat, sporadic shortages, and just outright terror. It wasn't that bad, all things considered. :)
I know. I kvetched about first-world problems: Sunday night into Monday dawn, the snowplows were so loud and diligent that I couldn't really get any sleep. Every couple of hours, they'd be working around my block.
A vast amount of statistics; One example: The result, according to graphics in Ip’s column: From 1980 to 2025, corporate profits have grown to nearly 12 percent of gross domestic income, up from 7 percent, while labor’s share has fallen to less than 52 percent in 2025 from about 58 percent in 1980.
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This is a comment about your discussion with Colette Delawalla and Dr. Norton with Stand Up for Science. Simon, you made a comment about how the MAHA Moms are on our side and they should know it. I recently read, and I will find the reference and forward it, an analysis of MAHA, including the Moms, and that as usual big money is at the bottom of all the evil. The Maha movement is heavily subsidized by the natural/health/supplements industry. Those moms are full supporters, and users of their products, which almost always do not have any scientific basis. Hence their skepticism of science, because they are true believers in the benefits of fake remedies, and the very hard sell it would be to bring them over to the stand-up for science side.
This is not exactly true. While there is big "wellness" money behind this the MAGA Moms are Moms who want the best for their kids, and while some may be in the corrupt "wellness" camp many may not be but have become politically active for good reasons. Our job to convince them we are the party of health and wellness and not the Rs.
Also the wellness industry is not all bad. I'm a big believer in Holistic and natural health approaches. I raised my kid on both allopathic and naturopathic wisdom. It's a great combo. So yes - there's money in the wellness industry but it's not all quackery - we need to be discriminating - Besides the focus here should be getting those mom's on our side and support them in every effort to keep their kids healthy.
I agree that the MAHA moms are overwhelmingly science skeptics and although it’s tempting to see them as potential coalition partners, it will be a shallow alliance IMO. But I would definitely take shallow allies to resoundingly defeat Republicans.
WOW. Reported about an hour ago on MS NOW: Trump-related files missing from DOJ's Epstein file release. Lisa Rubin provides a very clear explanation of what happened in this clip.
In "Evangelicals, Trump and the cost of silence in America," a recent editorial in the Seattle Times, retired evangelical pastor Timothy Dale White gently argues for some soul-searching among his co-religionists.
He piece ends this way:
"Franklin Graham has publicly endorsed President Trump. That endorsement is especially sobering given that his father, the Rev. Billy Graham, later said endorsing President Richard Nixon was the greatest regret of his public life. History is trying to teach us something here. Many younger believers are listening, and many are leaving evangelicalism, not because faith has failed them, but because they no longer recognize it in our silence or our loyalty.
"This moment does not require evangelicals to agree politically. It asks for honesty, humility and the courage to speak when silence becomes complicity. When truth is traded for loyalty, democracy weakens, cruelty hardens and the damage does not stop with politics; it shapes the nation our children will inherit."
If Trump begins to lose a significant chunk of evangelical voters, I would not be surprised to see his approval ratings sink to the level of Nixon during Watergate.
"If Trump begins to lose a significant chunk of evangelical voters, I would not be surprised to see his approval ratings sink to the level of Nixon during Watergate."
...which got down into the mid 20s. It's a slow steady decline, until it accelerates.
Next milestone would be 33-66, i.e. 2-1 against. Bring it on!
I'm very concerned about the SAVE Act as well. I read somewhere that Susan Collins has declared she'll vote for it. It would seem to me that doing so would hurt her re-election but Maine is, politically, a weird state.
Instead of watching Trump’s "State of the Union" speech, what are You doing tonight?
I’m watching virtually with Defiance.org and the State of the Swamp
https://www.defiance.org
me too!
At 6 – 9 pm MT I'm joining members of Congress attending the People's State of the Union in Washington, D.C. by Zoom tonight. Rep. Stansbury will be there. Sponsors are Moveon and Meidas Touch Network. If anyone else is interested, here is the link to sign up: https://mobilize.us/s/sUi68G
More info here: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5751650-democrats-protest-trump-state-of-the-union/
Then I will catch the rebuttal by Abigail Spanberger later. I will rely on Simon's reports tomorrow about what The Cheato said.
I'm heartened that a dozen or more Congressional Democrats will be bringing Epstein survivors to the address at the joint session of Congress. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/house-democrats-bringing-jeffrey-epstein-survivors-trumps-state-union-rcna260285
Me too Me too
Meidas for me.
You can do both!
Ditto for me.
Albeit, as I said before, in addition to the Epstein Survivors, I would like to see in attendance the former college athlete survivors of medical sexual abuse who claim Jim Jordan knew all about it and did absolutely nothing to help them get justice.
I think I'm going back and forth between the MoveOn & Defiance events and am pleased there will be survivors in the house, as well as lots of empty seats AND a walkout. This is going to be good.
chaos @ SOTU! just what he deserves!
Me too, I plan to toggle between the two alternatives.
I can't listen to Trump for more than 30 seconds at a stretch. Too hard on my blood pressure.
I have had to resort to wall squats when I hear him to bring down my blood pressure.
One thing - perhaps the ONLY thing - I'll be grateful to him for: My quads are getting super-strong.
His voice and face repel me. If he comes on, I push the mute button.
1 on the computer and 1 on the phone!!
Tuning into Meidas and Defiance. I will alternate between the two.
State of the Swamp shebang including Portland Frog brigade (good at navigating swamps) delivering copies of constitution to all R congressional offices this morning - register here for livestream (in person at National Press Club sold out)
https://www.defiance.org/sotu-press-release
Filling orders for my postcard hub for the VA Redistricting campaign. I have over 40 orders for almost 4K names!
Fantastic 👏
Anything other than that.
I'm so torn! I signed up for the two alternatives, but I want to see the train wreck, too. NPR reports this:
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/24/nx-s1-5723968/epstein-files-trump-accusation-maxwell
So he'll be even more crazed, and I kind of want to see it live. I literally will try to watch all three simultaneously on my 13" laptop. Whew!
I'm planning to watch Abigail Spanberger's rebuttal. I'll also check to see if my news-boosting postcards have arrived. If they have, I'll write a few postcards.
I’m organizing! Our school board has been taken over by MAGA and they are filing frivolous lawsuits against NY anti-discrimination policies. Using taxpayer money to pay for DC lawyers linked to right wing causes.
Two board seats are up in May and I am running with another determined soul to unseat both of the Moms for Liberty incumbents. These people need to get their F-ing hands off our schools. 🔥🐴
Simon, you point out that "Democrats lead Republicans 52% to 42% among Registered Voters". Do you happen to have the number for Likely Voters as well? Given the considerable difference in voter enthusiasm, I am wondering if that gap is even wider than the record 10-percent margin you noted.
For the most part it is too early for polls of likely voters, and I don't want to guess on something this important. But it is likely that it is higher with those most likely to vote.
And how does the 10-point gap compare with 2018? I’m certainly encouraged by the trend lines!
Right now the Portland Frogs are delivering copies of the Constitution to members of Congress. Live streaming on Substack with Miles Taylor. Preshow for the State of the Swamp
NICE
A local interview of the Portland Frog Brigade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQeXdIITRyQ
love it, thanks for link - iirc "doing what we do best, being ridiculous"
Love it.
I hope they've underlined the sections the Felon-in-Chief has violated and the sections describing Congress's authority.
Andy Borowitz’s satire nails it once again:
"After Redactions Trump’s State of the Union to be Seventeen Seconds Long"
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) — In an announcement that raised eyebrows among political observers, the White House announced on Tuesday that, after redactions, Donald J. Trump’s State of the Union Address would be only seventeen seconds long.
Trump’s original text of the speech had included lengthy praise of such prominent administration figures as Elon Musk, Howard Lutnick, RFK Jr., and Dr. Oz, all of which had to be redacted “for undisclosed reasons,” the White House indicated.
In order to bulk the speech up to its seventeen-second runtime, Trump reportedly added the non sequitur “Thank you for your attention to this matter” to the end.
News of the speech’s length drew a strongly negative reaction in a new poll, with a broad majority of Americans calling seventeen seconds “too long.”
https://www.borowitzreport.com/p/after-redactions-trumps-state-of
Andy never fails to brighten my day. Thanks for sharing, ArcticStones!!
Love the 'seventeen seconds "too long"'
😂
Simon, thank you for sharing the video from yesterday's shadow hearing. I'm always encouraged by Americans willing to stand up and speak the truth.
So glad to see you've added Elaine Luria to your list of candidates to support. She's great!
I called Congressman Raskin and Senators Alsobrooks and Van Hollen about clawing back the ICE expenditures and billionaire tax cuts now that the tariff money won't be there and about the need to keep discussing Trump's declining mental state. I'm working on postcards to NC voters and looking forward to Abigail Spanberger's speech tonight.
Simon, the tariff revenue doesn't even begin to pay for his deficits.
& a big reason he doesn't want to refund it is because in his broken brain, that money is HIS..
I don't think you understand the play back here. Trump was able to sell Republicans on the big ugly bill by inflating the tariff revenue to offset the tax cuts and increased expenditures. The big ugly may not have passed without the ruse. Now the revenues are gone, the logic for the expenditures disappears, and they are heavily exposed now. Higher deficits = higher interest rates = slower growth = lower revenues = vicious cycle. They are in deep shit.
A true "House of Cards."
Question: how many of these GOP quislings voted for the Big Ugly Farce believing or being willfully ignorant of the shaky legal foundation of Orange’s tariffs? Glad they’re in deep shit. They deserve to be voted out no matter how my question is answered!!!
All of them knew the tariffs were illegal. But they may have thought the stores would ultimately bail them out. It was a stupid gamble for our economy.
This is where you have Kristi Burke running for Congress in TN-01. Kids went and protest and they ended up getting suspende. They were protesting ICE and the cruelty for this administration. This is wrong. We need to be standing up for our children. It is https://youtu.be/WPr2UmdEmU4?si=JVDOfNqty4thbVOY to watch it. Think it.
Seeing the people sitting behind Mr. Schwenk nodding their heads in agreement was powerful. The bravery to speak about the current condition of training was inspiring. I want to hear from more people like him and less from this regime.
UGH - WaPo, I still have a login bc longtime sub even though cancelled after Harris endorsement fiasco. But even logged in, I can't get rid of the big RESUBSCRIBE NOW, SUCKERS popup. FU, Bezos. Also, re health insurance--as bad as those numbers are, that's not even including underinsured and/or insurance that's not accepted at your trusted MD that you've seen for years bc employer keeps changing providers due to astronomical increases bc of Big Ugly. GRR.
Lawrence O'Donnell went on a great rant last night about tariff refunds, pointing out that the US Treasury is quite capable of issuing accurate refunds - they do it every year after tax season. I want my $1700!
Looking forward to the multiple alternative SOTU events tonight, and happy Spanberger & Padilla will be the official Dem response. I know they will bring the heat. Speaking of heat, happy to have heat & internet again - my absence here yesterday was due to power outage, and it snowed for over 24 hours producing 20 inches. Spent the day shoveling, then bundled under blankets with cat in lap & catching up on reading. Resting and working on news boosting postcards today (lack of heat takes it out of you - I kept thinking of those souls in Ukraine who've dealt with such conditions for YEARS partially due to ORANGE). Keep going!
I had not heard that Alex Padilla is also part of the response. Yesterday I called his office to boycott SOTU.
I saw that this morning as well.
Glad your power is back on! What a storm!!
We had about 18 on top of the 19 we had last month. Another 4 inches tomorrow morning and other storms on the horizon. At least we didn't lose power!!! Spent the day reading a terrific novel. It calmed me down.
be of good cheer...the sun is already stronger and lots of the snow is evaporating; meteorological spring begins march 1. and next year is an el nino which is typically warm and rainy. but, i do think the two storms we had were awesome to behold. 22 inches here, all snow and no sleet like the last one.
I asked about you on the board yesterday and was worried cause I know the storm hit your region hard. Sorry it was so challenging. Glad to see you back and in fightin' form.
Thank you, I appreciate that! It was a lot, for sure. :) But like I said, I kept thinking of the poor folks in Ukraine who've had literally YEARS of no power, no heat, sporadic shortages, and just outright terror. It wasn't that bad, all things considered. :)
I know. I kvetched about first-world problems: Sunday night into Monday dawn, the snowplows were so loud and diligent that I couldn't really get any sleep. Every couple of hours, they'd be working around my block.
An important article on the growth of income and wealth inequality by the superrich by Thomas Edsell. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/opinion/trump-1-percent-elites-taxes.html?nl=opinion-today&segment_id=215738 and how the superrich are funding Trump.
A vast amount of statistics; One example: The result, according to graphics in Ip’s column: From 1980 to 2025, corporate profits have grown to nearly 12 percent of gross domestic income, up from 7 percent, while labor’s share has fallen to less than 52 percent in 2025 from about 58 percent in 1980.
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This is a comment about your discussion with Colette Delawalla and Dr. Norton with Stand Up for Science. Simon, you made a comment about how the MAHA Moms are on our side and they should know it. I recently read, and I will find the reference and forward it, an analysis of MAHA, including the Moms, and that as usual big money is at the bottom of all the evil. The Maha movement is heavily subsidized by the natural/health/supplements industry. Those moms are full supporters, and users of their products, which almost always do not have any scientific basis. Hence their skepticism of science, because they are true believers in the benefits of fake remedies, and the very hard sell it would be to bring them over to the stand-up for science side.
This is not exactly true. While there is big "wellness" money behind this the MAGA Moms are Moms who want the best for their kids, and while some may be in the corrupt "wellness" camp many may not be but have become politically active for good reasons. Our job to convince them we are the party of health and wellness and not the Rs.
Also the wellness industry is not all bad. I'm a big believer in Holistic and natural health approaches. I raised my kid on both allopathic and naturopathic wisdom. It's a great combo. So yes - there's money in the wellness industry but it's not all quackery - we need to be discriminating - Besides the focus here should be getting those mom's on our side and support them in every effort to keep their kids healthy.
Totally agree.
I agree that the MAHA moms are overwhelmingly science skeptics and although it’s tempting to see them as potential coalition partners, it will be a shallow alliance IMO. But I would definitely take shallow allies to resoundingly defeat Republicans.
WOW. Reported about an hour ago on MS NOW: Trump-related files missing from DOJ's Epstein file release. Lisa Rubin provides a very clear explanation of what happened in this clip.
https://youtu.be/-_gFvJk-fPU?si=f0Y6tbtxzgOzcdet
Everyone please share this video on your networks.
The article from NPR:
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/24/nx-s1-5723968/epstein-files-trump-accusation-maxwell?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
And this is a good one from Status Kuo this morning. https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/three-head-spinning-epstein-developments
wow possible video evidence among other jaw-dropping information.
I am shocked, SHOCKED, to find missing files. Round up the usual suspects.
In "Evangelicals, Trump and the cost of silence in America," a recent editorial in the Seattle Times, retired evangelical pastor Timothy Dale White gently argues for some soul-searching among his co-religionists.
He piece ends this way:
"Franklin Graham has publicly endorsed President Trump. That endorsement is especially sobering given that his father, the Rev. Billy Graham, later said endorsing President Richard Nixon was the greatest regret of his public life. History is trying to teach us something here. Many younger believers are listening, and many are leaving evangelicalism, not because faith has failed them, but because they no longer recognize it in our silence or our loyalty.
"This moment does not require evangelicals to agree politically. It asks for honesty, humility and the courage to speak when silence becomes complicity. When truth is traded for loyalty, democracy weakens, cruelty hardens and the damage does not stop with politics; it shapes the nation our children will inherit."
If Trump begins to lose a significant chunk of evangelical voters, I would not be surprised to see his approval ratings sink to the level of Nixon during Watergate.
"If Trump begins to lose a significant chunk of evangelical voters, I would not be surprised to see his approval ratings sink to the level of Nixon during Watergate."
...which got down into the mid 20s. It's a slow steady decline, until it accelerates.
Next milestone would be 33-66, i.e. 2-1 against. Bring it on!
Thank you, Simon, for the Neil Katyal good news about small businesses to recoup from tariffs and the fire horse pic!!!
What are your thoughts on the Save America voting bill now in the Senate. This would be devastating.
I'm very concerned about the SAVE Act as well. I read somewhere that Susan Collins has declared she'll vote for it. It would seem to me that doing so would hurt her re-election but Maine is, politically, a weird state.
Congress would not pass it last year, and I anticipate even more rejection this time.