Tonight's the State of the Union. I used to look forward to it. Now I simply dread it. One of the lead stories today proclaims today being the 4th anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Dump continues lying, but we no longer have the Washington Post, or any other "news" entity keeping a running count of them. Maybe someone will tonight? The military buildup continues around Iran. I hope Taco D'ump intervenes. There's so much more to discuss today so we will... no guest today, just us radical Democratic leftists (sorry, I can't bring myself to use "Democrat" as they do, even in jest...)

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Whether we like it or not, Mondays keep coming. And despite some wins, we still have that orange pile of shit lying about everything, and a so-called news media that won't date contradict him as he continues spewing his lies. Tomorrow night, he'll deliver his State of the Union address where he'll continue to lie. He made that clear when he spoke this morning and lied about everything from his margin of victory in '24 (no, he did NOT win by a landslide), to the fact that he DOES have to go to Congress to get approval of tariffs (he said he didn't). And he said he'll lie tomorrow night too.

There's lots more on top of that. Thankfully, Jonathan Larsen will be here from TheFuckingNews.substack.com to help me wade through the mountain of much he spews.

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We've been waiting for this decision from the Supreme Extreme Court for months now, and thankfully, three of the usual INjustices decided to follow the constitution this time and ruled against the orange liar-in-chief! Ding Dong, Trump's Tariffs are dead. That's where Marcy Wheeler and I started today on our weekly get-together to discuss much of what happened since we spoke last Friday. And we continued from there... Find Marcy Wheeler at emptywheel.net, and here each Friday!

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Alex Lawson has been executive director of Social Security Works for longer than the 16+ years that I've known him, fighting to save and expand Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and speaking truth to power everywhere to everyone. Today he joined me for the whole hour and brought it, including our plans for the People's State of the Union address Tuesday evening, Feb 24, while the orange liar-in-chief spews his lies to whomever will listen to him.

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The questions are never-ending. I'll just have to figure out which ones to ask Chris Geidner, who covers all things court and law related at lawdork.com, as he returns to the show today.. Already today, Chris told us that in cases brought by the NEA and AFT, there are now final court orders: Last year's anti-DEI "Dear Colleague" letter is vacated and unenforceable. DOJ/DOE gave up the fight, dismissing the appeal and case in the Fourth Circuit and subsequently dismissing the the second case with a stipulation. And yesterday, a Bush-appointed judge in PA ruled against the administration about removing a display about slavery, as the idiot in charge wants to rewrite history. And lots more...

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I'm back today but barely... Today is the Chinese Lunar New Year - the start of the Year of the Horse. It's also Mardi Gras or Fat Tuesday. I didn't sleep last night and had to be up early today for a CT scan... and my guest fell through. This should be fun

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We've reached another Friday, so that means that Marcy Wheeler takes a quick break from emptywheel.net to join us to discuss much of what happened this week and, as usual, there was a lot. And because it all centers around the shit that the orange blob has pushed on us, there's a whole lot of bad. But, as Marcy reminds us, so much is in flux... so keep that in mind, as minds are changing, and opening... The more you LEARN.... 

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Heads are still spinning everywhere, thanks to Dump's Bimbo General Pam Blondi and the show she put on yesterday in front of the House Judiciary Committee and the world. She already showed us her slam book and angry act, and it didn't work the first time. Why she thought it would this time is beyond my understanding of stupidity. We'll talk about that and some other news in real time... Then Jason Leopold will take some time out of his very busy day dealing with FOIA documents, writing his weekly FOIA Files newsletter, co-hosting his "Disclosure" podcast, and I think I read something about producing a movie? Jason is a dear friend of mine, but we speak too infrequently. We'll fix that today!

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The horrendous excuse for a human being Pam Bondi appeared on Capitol Hill today to answer questions from the House Judiciary Committee about the Epstein files and whatever else they want to ask her about. It really didn't matter because she refused to answer any questions at all. She did as she has in prior hearings, deflecting, accusing and snidely smirking. She is a despicable kisser of the dick-tator's ass. I'm just surprised I haven't seen the brown shit smeared all over her face. I did pull clips, but frankly, I'd rather sit back and let my favorite legal authority - the brilliant Lisa Graves, author of "Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights" - explain wtaf Blondi is doing today.

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We have a lot of frozen territory to cover today. That's because ICE and its superiors at HSI and CBP were on Capitol Hill today for questions from the House Homeland Security Committee.. I watched it so you didn't have to, and I've got clips . Plus the latest on the Epstein files, Spocko on Bad Bunny and more...

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