ICE Barbie’s Dream Plane…

How much damage can one man do? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/u...

The knock-on effects of the Trump admin’s efforts to obey the letter of the law while pulverizing its spirit… (Never mind how much it must cost to deport people to Cameroon instead of allowing them to simply live their lives.) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/w...

At this point, a North American trade pact without the US seems just as likely. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/b...

“While Mr. Mountbatten-Windsor had already been accused of sexual offenses, a new tranche of documents released by the U.S. DOJ…included a number of emails that suggested he may have shared confidential documents when working as a British trade envoy.” The price of admission?

The Fox News chyron reads "Latest Dem hoax" at the same time that Brendan Carr confirms that yes, the FCC would've "enforced the law" and gone after CBS had Colbert aired his interview with Talarico on TV

This is soviet union shit.

Incapable of taking about politics without making it sound like rape.

Great. I hope we didn’t agree to name it the Trump Tunnel.

“The changes at CDC are starting to feel irreversible. That’s in no small part because Kennedy and other health officials have spent the year chipping away at the public’s already shaky confidence in the CDC’s expertise — and at the concept of expertise itself.”

This is flying under the radar: Donald Trump FIRED the DOJ official in charge of suing Live Nation-Ticketmaster for monopolizing ticketing and hiking prices. Then, their stock jumped. If Trump's DOJ takes it easy on Ticketmaster, it'll be a slap in the face to every American.

So if you're keeping score. Ethylmercury, the kind that isn't dangerous in small amounts and you poop out can no longer be in vaccines but the bad mercury, methylmercury, that your body can't clear out well and remains in your bloodstream is ok!

Awfully hard to square the claims that ICE is focused on removing violent criminals that are so dangerous we can't let them be around with the fact that ICE tricks their targets by pretending to need help and waiting for neighborly types to respond by offering to help a stranger for free.

“G. Elliott Morris’s number (which I use as my canonical data point) is at 38.7%. Trump is now significantly below the abysmal public approval he had at this time in his first term, which is a genuine accomplishment.” 38.7% still sounds high to me. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-g...

“American forces blew up three boats overnight, killing 11 men in strikes in both the Eastern Pacific Ocean and Caribbean Sea, the military announced on Tuesday. The strikes raised the death toll in the U.S. campaign against people it accuses of drug smuggling at sea to at least 144.”

“In one of his first acts in office, the mayor directed agencies to, by July, find public places — parking lots, office buildings, libraries, hospital campuses — where at least 25,000 homes can be built over the next 10 years.” 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/n...

I’d say it was a Freudian slip, but he might be channeling another guy from Austria.

Does this mean I can finally — finally! — land a job as a violent criminal?

“public service”

Recent CBS News news: 1. Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes after two decades 2. Stephen Colbert reveals network won’t let him air interview with Dem 3. Producer says politics dictating what airs 4. Owner’s bid for CNN parent back on the table. 5. Not firing Epstein pal.

If you're wondering how CBS News under Bari Weiss is covering Stephen Colbert's stunning revelation that the network blocked his interview with a Texas Democrat... It isn't. Silence both on the air and online.

It’s always about the goddamn grift, isn’t it?

The U.S. killed 11 more civilians in boat strikes yesterday -- 8 in the Pacific Ocean and 3 in the Caribbean. We're tracking the increasing toll of these extrajudicial killings in a tracker @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

More leaks about Noem’s mismanagement of the Coast Guard - a new details of the whole blanket fiasco. It seems Noem and Lewandowski were in the air when they realized Noem had left her blanket behind. They demanded the plane turn around and when the pilot refused, they tried to fire him. In midair.

“The new orders moved search-and-rescue operations, which have long been the Coast Guard’s core mission, to a lower priority…” A higher priority? Deportation flights. Just another way that Trump/Miller’s rabid pursuit of illegals (or those who simply look illegal) is making us all less safe.

At least twice in this clip, the thought “I love Stephen Colbert” floated through my mind.

Even other pro-Trump DHS officials think DHS leadership under Noem is "evil." www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investi...

Somehow, my Nation piece about affordable housing and Mamdani is on the Washington Post website as part of a section called Ripple, a collection of “opinions across America.” www.washingtonpost.com/ripple/2026/...

Whether developers can move on building out Hudson Yards is tied to $2 billion in tentative public subsidies that still need approval from Mayor Zohran Mamdani. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

“We are losing units faster than we can replace them with new construction. It’s like we are running on a treadmill that’s going faster than you can run, and we’re falling backwards.” —developer Andrea Kretchmer on building affordable housing in NYC. My latest in the March issue of The Nation.

I can see why Trump is scared shitless of Talarico. He’s very compelling, particularly on the issue of church and state.

I’m impressed that Frederick Wiseman was still working in the 2020s. I had no idea. I guess it’s time to catch up. (He was the diametric opposite of the brothers Burns.) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/m...

In 2008, when Obama was elected, it was as if everything Jesse Jackson had worked for had been accomplished. And, at the same time, politics had left him in the dust. Now, it appears that his work will have to be redone by a new generation.

“When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was picked in November 2024 to become the next health secretary, public health experts worried that the longtime vaccine skeptic would wreak havoc on the fragile business of vaccine development.” Guess what? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...

This is ritual suicide. The Trump regime is handing out the Kool-Aid.

We are in no position to tell anyone else to reverse their decline.

Mad Magazine came up with the business model 50 or 60 years ago. It was a theme park called “Get It Out of Your System Land.”

Does that seem fair to you?

Q. At one point does the destruction of a nation’s institutions and values become the destruction of a nation?

joyce is going after elon again

Q. At one point does the destruction of a nation’s institutions and values become the destruction of a nation?

Q. At one point does the destruction of a nation’s institutions and values become the destruction of a nation?

“Radicalized by Basic Human Decency” is a good one. I’d wear that.

Are you one of nearly 70 million American women who changed their names when they got married? 🙋‍♀️ Republicans in Congress want to make it harder for you to vote. Tell your senator to oppose the SAVE Act. indivisible.org/actions/stop...

Mercado Central, a cooperative of small Central American businesses in Minneapolis, is still raising money to try to save itself from closure. It’s an institution and makes this community much richer. www.gofundme.com/f/help-save-...

The Project 2025 architect who promised to put federal employees “in trauma” is spending $15 million of former USAID funding—money that would have gone toward fighting HIV, polio, malaria, and other diseases—to bankroll his security detail. trib.al/TSV3cmb

He sympathized with Kavanaugh and was buds with Kenneth Starr. File under B, for Birds of a Feather. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I am old enough to remember when FedEx was renowned for their customer service. I was trying to redirect a wayward delivery. Attempts to intercede or, at least, speak to a human ended with AI repeatedly hanging up on me. I have seen the future and it sucks.

Remember when Roe was settled law? Remember when birthright citizenship was just an unquestioned feature of the 14th amendment? Remember when states and localities regulated guns all the time because of course the 2nd amendment wasn’t about individual self-defense?

Out of the frying pan?