Source: NBC News
“Former senior FBI official David Sundberg announced Monday that he plans to run for Congress this year in Maryland’s 5th Congressional District. Sundberg is running for the seat being vacated by retiring Rep. Steny Hoyer, D-Md., which he has held since he won a special election in 1981. The district covers southern Maryland and portions of Prince George’s and Anne Arundel counties. Cook Political Report rates it as a solid Democratic seat in this year’s midterm elections. Sundberg, who joined the FBI in 2002, previously served as the assistant director in charge of its Washington field office during the Biden administration and was notified in late January 2025, just days after President Donald Trump took office, that he was going to lose his job. His termination was among a number of firings of top FBI officials at the beginning of Trump’s second term.” (02/23/26)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/trump-fired-ex-fbi-official-david-sundberg-run-congress-steny-hoyer-rcna260228
Source: SFGate
“President Donald Trump on Monday threatened countries around the world to abide by any tariff deals they agreed to despite the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down many of his far-reaching taxes on imports. And he said he wants a global tariff of 15%, up from 10% he had announced immediately after the ruling. The court’s Friday decision struck down tariffs Trump had imposed on nearly every country using an emergency powers law. But the Republican president won’t let go of his favorite tool for rewriting the rules of global commerce and applying international pressure. ‘Any Country that wants to ‘play games’ with the ridiculous supreme court decision, especially those that have ‘Ripped Off’ the U.S.A. for years, and even decades, will be met with a much higher Tariff, and worse, than that which they just recently agreed to,’ Trump posted Monday on Truth Social.” (02/23/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/the-latest-trump-says-he-ll-raise-tariffs-to-21843381.php
Source: AI Summer
“Kai Williams on the many masks LLMs wear.” (02/22/26)
https://www.aisummer.org/p/kai-williams-on-the-many-masks-llms
Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid
“I adored Chomsky growing up. I knew the man through his work as a tireless crusader for the voiceless and the disenfranchised. His writings strongly informed my own writings and beliefs. But his relationship with billionaire child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has been exposed to be far more significant and far more sinister than a handful of chance encounters. Quite the contrary, Chomsky appears to have been complicit in a garish attempt to rehabilitate this man’s flagging reputation in hopes of allowing him to get away with his sundry predations a second time. And once again, there is a line of well-intentioned, thoughtful people curling around the block, waiting on bated breath to make the same tired old excuses.” (02/22/26)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2026/02/a-message-to-valeria-chomsky-from.html
Source: In These Times
by Amie Stager
“For Eric Chornoby, leisure time is a ’luxury’ he can’t afford. He’s a union postal worker from Detroit who hasn’t gone on vacation in five years. ‘Everyone told me our generation was getting it good. I did what I was supposed to do. But no matter how hard I try, I cannot get ahead,’ Chornoby said at a rally in Washington, D.C., on February 7. Chornoby, along with other workers from the American Postal Workers Union’s (APWU) Young Members Committee, traveled to the U.S. Capitol to attend the first-ever march for young workers. Today, the federal minimum wage sits at $7.25 an hour, and it hasn’t been increased since 2009. Many states and cities have doubled their minimum wages, but workers want to see an increase at the federal level that’s adjusted for inflation.” (02/23/26)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/young-worker-march-washington-labor-federal-government
Source: ABC News
“North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was reelected to the top post of the ruling Workers’ Party, with delegates crediting him for bolstering the country’s nuclear arsenal and strengthening its regional standing, state media reported Monday. The report from the party congress, a major propaganda spectacle where Kim is expected to outline his political and military goals for the next five years, suggests he will double down on accelerating a nuclear arsenal already equipped with missiles capable of threatening Asian U.S. allies and the American mainland. The party also released a new roster for its powerful Central Committee that confirmed a generational shift in Kim’s leadership circle, with aging military chiefs and the 76-year-old head of Pyongyang’s rubber-stamp parliament among dozens replaced in the 138-member body.” (02/22/26)
https://abcnews.com/International/wireStory/kim-reelected-top-post-north-koreas-ruling-party-130396302
Source: Fountainhead Forum
“Agustin Almada and Max Marchi on Javier Milei’s labor laws.” (02/22/26)
https://rumble.com/v764jdm-ff-429-agustin-almada-and-max-marchi-on-javier-mileis-labor-laws.html
Source: Mother Jones
by Paul Hockenos
“Russia is bombing fossil-fueled power plants, so the country is building solar and wind.” (02/22/26)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/putin-tried-to-freeze-ukraine-instead-he-sparked-an-energy-revolution/
Source: Orange County Register
by Tom Campbell
“Last Friday’s U.S. Supreme Court tariff decision was a workmanlike exercise of statutory analysis. The reaction from the administration was not. President Trump impugned the integrity and patriotism of the justices, claiming that ‘the court has been swayed by foreign interests.’ … When Trump announced tariffs on any country that did not agree with his plans to seize Greenland, or increased tariffs on Brazil because Brazil’s Supreme Court refused to reverse the conviction of former President Bolsonaro, a friend of Trump, he was broadcasting to the court that his interpretation of the law had no limits. In light of those actual examples, it was a surprise that there were any justices willing to uphold the president’s view of his tariff power.” (02/22/26)
https://archive.is/JsCOd
Source: CBS News
“Violent clashes erupted in parts of western Mexico on Sunday amid a military operation that led to the death of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader, triggering widespread security concerns throughout the region. Mexican security forces killed Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, also known as ‘El Mencho,’ during an operation in the western state of Jalisco, Mexico’s Ministry of Defense said in a statement on X. It said he was wounded during the raid in the town of Tapalpa and died while being flown to Mexico City. The state of Jalisco is the base of the cartel known for trafficking huge quantities of fentanyl and other drugs to the United States.” (02/23/26)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/violence-mexico-jalisco-new-generation-cartel-killed-military-puerto-vallarta/
