There is no reason to believe Trump's foreign policy is designed to benefit America or Americans www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

UK reports record-breaking budget surplus of £30.4bn in surprise boost for Rachel Reeves

Can Europe survive without US defence? Surprisingly, the Baltic sea nations are showing the way | Elisabeth Braw

They said there was no money for Medicaid They said there was no money for student loans They said their was no money for SNAP BUT there is $10 BILLION for this 👇

What $70 million in taxpayer money buys: a private luxury jet for Kristi Noem and Corey Lewandowski to jet-set around on. And we’re supposed to believe it’s used for deporting undocumented immigrants.

France and Germany agreed to build the fighter jet of the future. Now they can’t agree who is in charge

A popular app in Denmark identifies American products so that Danes know not to buy them www.independent.co.uk/tech/us-boyc...

While we’ve been consumed by domestic chaos, something dangerous is unfolding abroad. America isn’t just stepping back — we’re abdicating leadership. And authoritarian actors are rushing to fill the vacuum. My latest essay explains why the stakes couldn’t be higher.

Widely Shared Principles Among Religions The Golden Rule Prohibitions on unjustified killing Honesty and prohibitions on deceit Care for the poor and vulnerable Respect for parents and elders Sexual restraint and fidelity Violations are immoral and deeply corrupt the soul.

🚨BREAKING: During a rambling rehash of false assertions of voter fraud, President Donald Trump claimed that Republicans will never lose an election “for 50 years” if his allies in Congress pass the SAVE America Act. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

New reports indicate FBI Director Kash Patel will take a private jet to the Olympics that will cost U.S. taxpayers $75,000.

This is hanging at DOJ

Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

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.

We are a nation of laws, not of men. This banner symbolizes a disgusting betrayal of our values. www.cnn.com/2026/02/19/p...

9 year old, with a valid tourist visa and hoping to visit Disney, was detained at Miami International Airport and held at the Dilley immigration detention center for four months.

Without a Congressional debate or decision. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Bad. www.northernnewsnow.com/2026/02/18/b...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perenni... Most religions share this common wisdom.

Rep Ted Lieu claims what 99.9999% of the world already thinks — the unredacted Epstein files contain allegations of Trump raping children. 😳👇

A French territory in North America, near Canada. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_P...

The world is entitled to know if our negotiators are entertaining side deals with Russia while negotiating for the United States. www.politico.eu/article/surp...

So, the US govt approach is: *We are going to scan tourists social media accounts and deny visas because of content we dislike, like mocking Trump and *We are going to allow foreigners a work-around to consume social media content their governments have banned, including hate speech

In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

Trump’s gilded ballroom has a political purpose. Long ago, a ballroom was less about "fun" and more about reinforcing the social hierarchy and the absolute authority of the monarch – exactly as he wants.

FYI, @washingtonpost.com: Here is the 8:23 p.m. story you didn't credit in your 11:22 p.m. "breaking news" report. Please add credit. Thanks. —>

“.. We could spend the whole day reacting to every buffoonish spectacle coming out of the White House, but that's exactly what they want: for us to lose focus … Don't be distracted by the noise; watch what they are doing to your rights while you stare at the screen.”

Six out of the original 9 tipping points have already been breached. Now there is one more. www.popularmechanics.com/science/envi...

I wrote about OuR hErItAgE. www.ms.now/opinion/elon...

The rush to indict the 6 Dems failed with the grand jury voting unanimously against it. The Keystone Kops nature of all this, however, should not blind us to how dangerous it remains. Trump will keep trying to jail Dems until he succeeds. All in this new piece: newrepublic.com/article/2066...

Column by Dr. Jordan Metzl: For decades, we have equated thinness with health, but it's time to change that. Consistent movement may or may not change your weight, but it always improves health. Here are some ways to add movement to your routine: https://wapo.st/3ZXoHkX

Pressure works, even with authoritarians like Trump & Vance.

Rather than turn former Honduran President Hernández over to immigration officials when he was released from prison just four years into a 45-year sentence for allowing traffickers to export more than 400 tons of cocaine to the U.S, the Trump administration paid to transport him to a posh NYC hotel.

NEW: Judges are asking increasingly pointed questions about why ICE is detaining pregnant/nursing mothers — and whether a 2021 policy sharply restricting the practice remains in force. They’ve ordered many released, warning of threats to safety/health. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Millions of Epstein files suggest the existence of a 'global criminal enterprise' that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council says.

A very detailed explanation of how FBI bamboozled a magistrate into authorizing a raid on Fulton County’s election offices by omitting critical information that would have totally undermined any probable cause claim. Pretty clear-cut case of calculated deception of the courts.

Trump-Epstein: www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...

A new poll found that a plurality of U.S. voters see President Donald Trump as "corrupt," "racist," and "cruel.

Bloomberg says we've spent $3B on Trump's invasion of Venezuela. Which is 6X more than the cancer, Alzheimer, diabetes, and heart disease cures they've cut to pay for it. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Tomorrow, the Oversight Committee will have the opportunity to question Les Wexner about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Survivors told us from day one: follow the money. That is exactly what we intend to do.

“Trump wants America to vote on his terms, or not at all“ thehill.com/opinion/whit...

That last sentence? That's the strategy. They've been pretty open about it.

He profits from his rotten name. apnews.com/article/trum...