VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump & Elon get surprise bad news from judge in court
Brian Tyler Cohen and legal expert Glenn Kirschner break down the motion filed by 14 states in Judge Tanya Chutkan's court to immediately stop unelected billionaire Elon Musk from altering funding for any federal agency, firing anyone, accessing sensitive data, or otherwise "asserting control" over an agency.

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Fight over Trump’s firing of watchdog reaches Supreme Court
We all knew this was coming. After running into legal roadblock after legal roadblock, the Trump administration is now petitioning the Supreme Court to allow him to get away with illegally firing executive branch officials and nullify the restraining orders that judges have passed in recent days to stem the tide of Trump's flood-the-zone brand of executive overreach and extremism. “This Court should not allow the judiciary to govern by temporary restraining order and supplant the political accountability the Constitution ordains,” wrote acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris in an emergency application to SCOTUS. Trump has illegally fired a large swathe of executive branch officials, including a member of the National Labor Relations Board. It remains to be seen if the Supreme Court will, you know, uphold the law or greenlight Trump's dictatorship by executive order.

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Deb Haaland vows to protect us from Trump and his billionaire allies
Deb Haaland for Governor: Deb Haaland has fiercely fought for justice and delivered results for working people throughout her life, be it as an organizer, from the halls of Congress, or as Secretary of the Department of the Interior. She will always refuse to sit idly by while Trump and his un-elected billionaire allies unleash chaos across the country and give polluters free rein to destroy our pristine wilderness. We can help Deb fight back against Trump by electing her to the governor’s office in New Mexico. Will you chip in to help this fierce public servant answer the call to service once again?

Justice Department fires 20 immigration judges from backlogged courts amid major government cuts
America's immigration courts are already drowning in cases, and their jobs just got a lot harder with the unexplained and abrupt mass firing of immigration judges. The intent is clear; cut off the ability for migrants to obtain legal asylum by making it so their cases literally can't be heard and opening the door for them to be deported.

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Mass firings continue across nation’s health agencies
The gutting of the federal government and everyone who works for it is unfolding at a shocking pace, with thousands of probationary workers given the axe without a second thought. While the Trump team promises they're being methodical, people that actually work at the health agencies describe deep cuts that even hit some Trump political appointees, unaware which of their employees were being fired or why. “On day one, the new HHS secretary is gutting the agencies that would be necessary to make America healthy again,” said Reshma Ramachandran, a Yale health professor who chairs the FDA task force of the nonprofit Doctors for America. A disaster in waiting, especially as bird flu picks up steam around the world.

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MAGA influencer claims she gave birth to Elon Musk's 13th child
“Elon, we have been trying to communicate for the past several days and you have not responded," wrote the apparent new mother, right-wing writer Ashley St. Clair, on Twitter, in response to her baby daddy replying "Whoa" to one of Musk's fanboys posting “Ashley St. Clair plotted for half a decade to ensnare Elon Musk." It does not feel like a coincidence that St. Clair decided to reveal her baby's parentage on Valentines' Day, possibly out of frustration with a man obsessed with creating children by IVF — he has 13 — but has no interest in spending any time with most of them. “I was told to keep it secret. I was being asked to keep it a secret forever...I was completely isolated during my pregnancy. Every part of my career and everything I used to do I couldn’t do any more. I was told not to tell anybody,” said St. Clair. Musk has not directly responded to the revelations, but has responded to a fan asking if making another baby was one of his “side quests” by posting a crying laughing emoji. A true family values man indeed.

Hundreds of FAA probationary workers fired by Trump administration, union says
Two people were killed in a plane crash in Georgia over the weekend, the seventh major plane safety incident since Trump took office. So, naturally, he and his team fired hundreds of probationary FAA workers who maintain critical air traffic control infrastructure. Make it make sense.

Trump and Elon execute blatantly illegal power grab
Evergreen Action: Trump and his unelected billionaire crony have dragged our country into a constitutional crisis with his illegal efforts to cut TRILLIONS of dollars in federal funding. If he succeeds, all the programs that keep our water clean, our planes flying, our children fed and our schools teaching will all be gone for good. The good news is that Governor Josh Shapiro has just filed a major lawsuit against the Trump admin, joining a slew of other Democratic leaders in states across the country who are taking to the courthouse to stop Trump in his tracks. This is EXACTLY the kind of response we need to be seeing from every person in any kind of position of power! Will you send a message to your Congressperson demanding that they do everything they can to oppose Trump’s cuts to essential programs?

"Five alarm warning:" Possible DOGE access to private taxpayer data sparks outcry
Elon and his team of unelected children are now literally going after your bank account information, your tax records, and every other piece of information that we rely on the government to keep safe. The data is a closely guarded secret and unauthorized access to it is a felony, so naturally the DOGE team is trying to get their hands on it...for what, exactly, is unclear. Probably the "waste, fraud and abuse" of you having money in your bank account that could be in the bank accounts of billionaires.

Trump uses Air Force One to flyby the Daytona 500
Yeah, this seems like an administration that REALLY cares about efficient use of public funds.

Florida man shoots car 17 times after seeing "Palestinians" in it
Mordechai Brafman, 27, was arrested and charged with two counts of attempted murder after opening fire at a random car he believed contained Palestinians. He actually was shooting at two Israeli tourists, one of whom took to Facebook to post about the "anti-Semitic" attack and finished his post with "Death to Arabs." This incident demonstrates just how deeply anti-Palestinian hatred is ingrained in our society at large.