The last polio case in the United States was detected in 2022 in an unvaccinated adult who became paralyzed from the illness 💉 None have been diagnosed since. As measles has shown, outbreaks can spread quickly in communities with large unvaccinated populations. www.commondreams.org/news/polio-o...

Conservatives have failed to rally the public behind their cultural crusades 🙄 Instead of being offended by Bad Bunny’s Latino culture, people are listening to his music. Instead of being disgusted by LGBTQ+ athletes, the public cheers them on as fellow Americans. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

If it were possible to give Trump the reception most Americans would like to see him get at the State of the Union, he would take his place at the podium, and as his flunkies cheer him, a load of the foulest barnyard feces would be released from the ceiling, burying Trump, JD and Mike Johnson.

Trump is proudly ignorant of America's civic traditions. Worse, he has contempt for them. He is interested in unlimited power and in squeezing every corrupt dollar out of the presidency. He desperately needs sycophancy, a hallmark of a weak man and a fascistic leader. newrepublic.com/article/2068...

Trump has a blunt, transactional worldview. He sees curbs on his tariff leverage as weakening the US against rivals he perceives as endlessly exploiting the world's most powerful economy. The Supreme Court ruling may undermine his trade war. www.cnn.com/2026/02/23/p...

The Gallup poll once seemed to be the voice of the people. The Gallup poll now suffers the fate of the big three broadcast networks, bowling leagues, and roast beef for Sunday dinner — institutions did not survive in a more divided and mutually suspicious America. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Six of the nine justices on the Supreme Court were appointed by Republican presidents. In its decision invalidating Trump’s tariffs, those six jurists split down the middle. Three held Trump's tariffs unlawful. The other three dissented in favor of Trump's power grab. reason.com/2026/02/20/g...

The Supreme Court Delivers Trump a Humiliating Gift 🐔🌮🍊🤡 Finally, a check on the president’s tariff powers www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

“Donald Trump is very unpatriotic and disloyal to our Constitution” 🐔 🌮 🍊🤡

The severity of Americans’ discontent seems difficult to explain with objective factors. Consumer sentiment is now lower than it was during the Great Recession. Voters’ outrage reflects shifts in what they are experiencing economically and how they see that experience. www.vox.com/politics/479...

Moin Morning all Buongiorno Bergamo 😊🎼☕️☕️🌷🐝💪🏼🇪🇺✊🏼☮️⚽️

By addressing perceived shortcomings of America’s friends instead of threats posed by its foes, Marco Rubio revealed not only the Trump administration’s dangerously naive strategy for managing what is becoming — thanks to Trump — a treacherously multipolar world www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Habe die Nase absolut voll von dem Geschneie !

Trump’s Relentless Self-Promotion Fosters an American Cult of Personality 🐔 🌮 🍊 🤡 Trump has engaged in self-aggrandizement unlike any of his predecessors, fostering a mythologized superhuman persona and making himself the inescapable force at home and around the world www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/u...

Every time this two-ton, orange lout hits his steel-reinforced rack and plugs himself into his phone at night, he knows his days are numbered. He’s as unpopular as hell, his health is failing faster than Stephen Miller in a history class, and he’s scared to death. www.alternet.org/amp/naysayer...

Measles is spreading in South Carolina. Could it make people vote for a pediatrician? 🤔🩺🩻 Annie Andrews is running for Lindsey Graham's Senate seat. She's one of several doctors seeking office during an election midterm year where health care issues are front and center. 19thnews.org/2026/02/anni...

It’s a kids’ party: Tears and lemonade are spilled; confetti balloons pop. Sunbeams through the windows illuminate floating dust motes — and, imperceptibly, microdroplets of mucus carrying the measles virus. Your daughter breathes that air, inhaling the virus. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Back of the envelope calculations on the relationship between distance metrics in mathematics and concepts of compulsion and conclusion in law and logic (with a nod toward Roman Jakobson on metaphor, metonymy, similarity and contiguity) 😋 With apologies for the remnants of my grocery shopping list

Matthew Moroun’s family runs the Ambassador Bridge — which will face competition from the Gordie Howe project — and has fought it for years. Extraordinarily, the President upended a major trade project right after that billionaire chatted with the Commerce Secretary. newrepublic.com/article/2064...

This looked to be just one more Trumpian tantrum, which pops up when he sees something distressing on television or is spoken to by a woman without the self-abasement he demands. But this was something even worse: An episode that sums up Trumpian economics in all its stupidity and atavistic sleaze.

Trump Has a Bridge He Wants to Sell You 🐔🌮🍊🤡🌉 Trump’s closure of a trade route from Detroit to Windsor will help a billionaire and hurt basically everyone else www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

One man is causing an acceleration of civilizational collapse 🐔🌮🍊🤡 In Donald Trump’s hands, the perennial tools of power are becoming engines of destruction www.alternet.org/amp/great-un...

What the Crypto Crash Reveals About Trump's Power 🐔🌮🍊🤡 Trump’s support was never a guarantee of the market’s stability www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

I just posted this item. The entire group of goons and buffoons lacks talent. bsky.app/profile/chen...

With Melania on the bottom shelf alongside various ham-fisted faith-based movies, Dinesh D’Souza hack jobs, and projects that threaten to includes Ben Shapiro cameos, it make you wonder: Can any rightwingers make great or even good art? 🍊🤡🐔🌮 Spoiler: No www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

None of the fake grievance that birthed Kid Rock's All-American Halftime Show made it onto the stage. Bad Bunny wasn’t mentioned. There was no attempt to say why a Puerto Rican performing at halftime was so offensive that this alternate universe needed to exist. www.jezebel.com/turning-poin...

The people want affordability. After initially calling the concept a “hoax,” Trump has begun unveiling his own agenda to bring down prices and increase Americans’ purchasing power. But each of his proposals would make the affordability problem worse, not better. www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026...

I'm absolutely certain he will do everything to "ensure the midterms can't be rigged" (which will of course only be a possibility in blue states). He has already broken so many laws a few more won't matter anymore.

We’re 10 months away from the midterms. Let’s take stock: We have a corrupt and incompetent president whom we are powerless to rein in. When the time comes to rein him in, he will do everything he can to nullify the electoral process and reverse the voters’ will. newrepublic.com/article/2063...

The central lesson of chaos theory is not that small actions escalate into larger ones, but that our actions exist alongside others in a system so complex that individual effects are impossible to determine. We have to plead ignorance to the true causes of daily events. bigthink.com/books/life-l...

Our nation’s attempts at understanding ourselves are continuously undercut. For some single-issue voters, race is the single issue. Not the price of bacon or their religious convictions. Just the promise of having a safe space for prejudice in the White House. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Let Trump Keep Building Monuments to Himself 🍊🤡 Moments of abject abnormality highlight the self-serving nature of Trump’s presidency. He separates families. He sends masked agents to terrorize Americans. These moments force everyone to gaze upon Trump’s true face www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

Ich habe das Gefühl, dass er sich einfach am ganzen Land rächen will.

It is testimony to the marketing genius of Donald Trump that he never sold himself to Christians as one of them — pious, devoted, merciful, forgiving, irenic, biblically literate, a faithful husband and father. Instead, he sold himself as their protector. He didn’t hide his cruelty. It worked. 😳

The Evangelicals Who See Trump’s Viciousness As a Virtue 🐔🌮🍊🤡 At the National Prayer Breakfast, Donald Trump tested his audience’s commitment to Christian ethics www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

God help us 👀

Samuel Alito may be planning to retire at the end of the Supreme Court’s current term. Trump, and the Republicans in control of the Senate, will have time to confirm his replacement before the midterms. Republicans can replace him with someone 30 years younger. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

"On July 5th or thereabouts, bulldozers will start destroying the Kennedy Center 🍊🤡 Not because Trump has a plan. Just to hurt people. As with the East Wing, he'll destroy something beloved and replace it with a trashy substitute, a corrupt echo of something better." www.rawstory.com/amp/ex-repub...

The Trump administration is trying to convince the Supreme Court to overturn the consensus regarding birthright citizenship 🍊🤡 The argument asserts that birthright citizenship shouldn’t extend to children of people in the U.S. illegally or temporary visa holders news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

How Jeff Bezos Broke The Washington Post 🗞️ www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

A country that does not value opera is a country that doesn’t expect its art to reach new audiences or transgress traditional boundaries. Without the Kennedy Center, cultural life would narrow. Trump would rather knock down as much of the cultural world as he can. www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

A year ago, Donald Trump conducted a hostile takeover of the Kennedy Center. Trump said that he alone knew what the center needed. 🐔🌮🍊🤡 Trump now says that the center will close for two years. Trump thinks that a “silent majority” supports him. He made a bad bet. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Why is Trump so obsessed with the Kennedy Center? 🍊🤡🐔🌮 Trump has always loved theater. It’s never loved him back. www.vox.com/culture/4775...

Ich komme mir vor wie in einem schlechten dystopischen Film. 😬

Ich erinnere mich, als ich in Österreich und später in Deutschland studierte, daß zahlreiche Pestsäulen das Ende jener Erkrankung im ganzen Europa feierten 🏆 Ich kann nur vorstellen, wie ich und andere anständige Menschen das Ende der heutigen politischen Pest feiern würden 🎉🎊🍊🤡☠️

If America could survive wars, the Great Depression, and 9/11, “but we are taken down by political and religious polarization,” says pastor and political scientist Ryan Burge, “then we may not be as good as we once were.” newrepublic.com/article/2051...

Ammon Bundy Is All Alone 🐎 The anti-government militia leader can’t make sense of his allies’ support for ICE violence www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Dieser Kennedy ist ( um im Bild zu bleiben) die Pest( plague) für die amerikanische Bevölkerung. ☹️

Melania Trump's self-produced film, Melania, is less a documentary than an exercise in "power porn": glamour without intimacy, image without explanation www.thedailybeast.com/why-even-don...

A free article 💰 A New York Times interview with Minneapolis mayor Jacob Frey www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/m...