Patel’s aides said he had to go to Italy to review security for the Olympic Games. (That would be the Olympic Games that are just ending now.)

So the previous strikes didn’t “totally obliterate” their nuclear capability then? The same lies and propaganda over and over

Department of Justice says that Kash Patel flew on a government plane to attend the Olympics men’s hockey finals in order to personally track down a Nancy Guthrie lead; girlfriend there as backup.

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And while Mexico is going up in flames.

The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...

What the fuck we have a rapist pedophile president.

This is totally deranged. Greenlanders are reporting that they have absolutely no idea what the hell Trump is talking about.

This is somewhere between 40-50% of deployable US air power (and it’s still growing). On a scale with the Gulf Wars.

i encourage people to continue sending these things around as they discover them because my ability to convey how much insane shit is in there is clearly capped out

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

Another instance showing that Donald Trump is the whiniest, saddest, most petulant little crybaby ever to hold high office. I'd tell him to cry harder but I'm not sure it's possible.

JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.

In a sane timeline, this sentence alone would be the end of this guy’s career.

Katie Pavlich: Why is the left radicalizing students to leave school when the country has a 54% rate of not being able to read? BTC: The lowest literacy rates are in red states. Katie: That's actually not true. BTC: [accurately lists off the red states with the lowest literacy rates in the US]

The arrested state senate staffer is the chair of the Anchorage Young Republicans—or was until the news broke yesterday. alaskabeacon.com/briefs/alask...

How China is reporting on the Epstein Files.

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

yeah this is pretty detailed and specific given the date it was released and how much of it checks out

Jessica Tarlov broke down how Trump's tariff policies cost the average American family $1000, 90% of the cost of tariffs were paid by American consumers, and the latest GDP rating was well below expectations.

An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.

Conspiracy to defraud the US, contempt of Congress, unauthorized disclose of classified information, computer fraud and unauthorized access, conspiracy to violate civil service laws: take your pick! badfaithtimes.com/the-bad-bad-...

This case is insane: ICE shot and killed a citizen last March then *hid it for a year.* The young man they killed had no criminal history. All we know about shooting is from internal ICE docs. We don't know officers' names. We don't have footage. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

Collins stood silently in the Oval Office clutching a red MAGA hat as Trump told lies about our elections and repeated his call for the federal government to take over vote counting in certain parts of the country. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/susa...

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Video: Diligent Denizen via X (@DiligentDenizen)

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study. The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

NEW: As expected, SCOTUS invalidates tariffs. Billionaires don’t like it when you mess with the markets. Alito, Thomas, and Kavanaugh dissent. Importers will now get refunds on costs they’ve already passed on to us, making the rich even richer.

Clarence Thomas is batshit insane

Neal Katyal: "In America, the chief justice said only Congress can impose taxes on the American people, and that's what tariffs are. Tariffs are taxes."

By choosing not to publicly release three FBI interviews with an underage Trump accuser—interviews the DOJ gave Ghislaine Maxwell at trial—Trump's DOJ has allowed Maxwell to retain potential blackmail over the president. But that leverage over Trump vanishes if DOJ made them public, as law requires

BREAKING: CNN uncovered multiple unredacted videos inside DOJ Epstein files, including footage where a girl says she is just 15 years old. These files sat in government custody for years.

NEW: I caught the DOJ deleting a record showing Ghislaine Maxwell has potential blackmail on Trump. The document reveals that DOJ gave Maxwell's lawyers three FBI interviews with an underage Trump accuser that have not been released to the public. sollenbergerrc.substack.com/p/doj-delete...

Personally, I think it’s bad that a wildly corrupt pedophile with dementia is President of the United States and is trying to make himself dictator for life.

Whoopsy… #TrumpEpsteinCoverUp

Yes! And it can't come soon enough!

“A federal agent fired shots through the driver’s side window”. Sound familiar? That’s exactly how Renee Nicole Good was killed. This 23 year old lost his life and ICE’s involvement was covered up for a year. They’re killing people and hiding the evidence.

“… Prince Andrew? I don’t know. I just wish her well, frankly … “

Virginia Giuffre’s Brother: It was disgraceful that Bondi couldn't even acknowledge us because if they did that, then they would admit wrongdoing. Our president can't do that. The reason is he is potentially implicated in these files. He may have to answer some questions himself.

Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office. This is looting.

DOOCY: On Prince Andrew, do you think American associates of Jeffrey Epstein will wind up in handcuffs too? TRUMP: I'm the expert in a way because I've been totally exonerated. That's very nice. I can actually speak about it very nicely. I think it's a shame. I did nothing.

NASHVILLE: “They used a permanent marker on his skin because they were keeping score.”😕 Senator @jeffyarbro.bsky.social lets loose after this horrific report about @TNHighwayPatrol & ICE blatantly racial profiling and terrorizing immigrants: nashvillebanner.com/2026/02/19/i...

The President is taking a *pre-noon* nap. In public. At his big event. On World Peace. This will go mostly unremarked upon outside here. Meanwhile, the commentary class thinks it deeply important to inform you that AOC said "uhm" a few times in response to a question on the same topic a few days ago

“hasn’t yet decided what the purpose of an attack would be” Might be a reason that the U.S. Constitution doesn’t leave decisions on the use of force to the erratic whims of one man.

Almost 250 years after we broke with George III, the question must now be faced: Are we a monarchy or a nation of laws? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/fascist-dictator-or-16th-century

Rest in power, Virginia Giuffre. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“I totally like chicks, that’s how you know I didn’t blow Clinton. Anyway, I think these tariffs are tough but fair”