Cartoon by Mike Luckovich.

Horrific details👇of ICE agents’ extreme racism and cruelty during a joint operation in Nashville with Tennessee officers. Grateful for this reporting: nashvillebanner.com/2026/02/19/i...

Finally, here is the news I broke at Law Dork earlier tonight — in a story I’ve been covering extensively. www.lawdork.com/p/exclusive-...

LEFT: Liam Ramos, imprisoned for being a child. RIGHT: Donald Trump, *not* imprisoned for raping children.

Yes, this is entirely in keeping with GOP thinking. Republicans don't see children as human. They are objects, playthings, places for men to vent their lust and rage.

Unintended ... unless the intention was to destroy the US economy. Don't let Trump's stupidity overshadow his malevolence. They are both always operating.

Your tax dollars paid for another Trump golf trip this morning. Trump left Mar-a-Lago (Spanish name by the way) at 9:07 AM and arrived at his nearby golf club at 9:14 AM. He doesn’t allow press access, so we have no official transparency into who Trump is meeting with and why.

Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."

Trump staff supplied applause during 'overtly political' speech to silent service members

Massie says Republicans who downplay Epstein files should be 'purged from our party'

The kids are alright

We have now entered the "His Opponents Are Afraid of Falling Out of Windows" stage of Donald Trump's emulation of Vladmir Putin.

Frost: When the people can't trust their government, that is the sign of a backsliding democracy. And it's part of the reason why people like Kristi Noem should not be in these positions anymore.

Since the start of Trump’s second term, the number of children in ICE detention has increased sixfold. In their letters, kids held at the Dilley center told us about missing their friends, being unable to go to school and feeling trapped.

Host: So when Donald Trump walked in, there were women in there who weren't fully clothed. Hughes: Correct. Women were not fully clothed when Donald Trump came in. Host: And some of those women were, what, as young as 15? Hughes: Yeah, as 15 years old.

Servicemembers thrown into chaos as Hegseth blacklists colleges they can attend

Trump, speaking to troops in North Carolina, is now attacking ex-governor and Democratic Senate candidate Roy Cooper as a "disaster" who was culpable for a woman getting her "throat slit" (note the total silence from the crowd)

Trump: "This year we're investing $1 trillion in our armed forces. The most we've ever spent. And next year it's being raised. In fact, we're gonna be building a number of battleships."

This tracks

First Thing: Trump repeals landmark climate finding in gift to ‘billionaire polluters’

Every single person or institution that has knuckled under to Trump has been humiliated. Every single person or institution that has stood up will be honored, and most have prevailed in the here-and-now. Even the Buddhist Monks Walk for Peace knows this. (See photo from yesterday in DC.)

📌Our DOJ is going after patriots like Mark Kelly and protecting pedophiles and pedophile-adjacent sickos like Trump and seemingly half his cabinet. THAT'S what law and order looks like under Republicans in America.

There’s a term for this experience (which I imagine many of us are having): Moral injury. Moral injury is the distress that occurs in response to betrayal by authority structures and being unable to prevent acts that go against one’s deeply held values and moral beliefs.

"I'm in fear for my life. People have been killed by the staff here." Seamus Culleton, an Irishman with a valid US work permit, has been held in an ICE detention center for over four months and calls it “a modern day concentration camp.”

Right now, as millions of pages filled with the most despicable, depraved atrocities human beings are capable of, cover every square inch of America’s collective consciousness, the pro-life Christians are nowhere to be found... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/to-pro-lif...

For Whom the Bridge Tolls Detroit billionaire, Matthew Moroun, met with Commerce Secretary Lutnick, “hours before President Trump said he would block the opening of a new bridge connecting Detroit to Canada…” The new bridge “would take away toll revenue from Mr. Moroun’s crossing...” Gift Link

Look who's moving to Florida 🙄 www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

Interesting. So Trump knew about Epstein's crimes since 2006... but at the same time he doesn't know anything. www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

From today: “The United States government is engaged in an active cover-up of the largest sex-trafficking and influence-peddling scandal in our history — and Donald Trump is right at the center of it.” -Rep. Stansbury

Fight. Hold them accountable. Demand structural reform. Think big. Don't negotiate with ourselves. Focus on the future. Dems don't have to agree on everything. But on these few core principles, it's time for candidates to sign on or get out of the way. open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...

Trump's tariffs cost the average American household $1,000 last year, according to new research from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation. abcnews.go.com/amp/Business...

Just learned that AIPAC has now jumped into a fourth open seat House race in Illinois, backing Melissa Conyears Ervin with what has been described as a $2.8 million buy (around $500k a week). This is straight up AIPAC, not a shell PAC, through United Democracy Project.

Idaho town reels after 100+ Hispanic residents arrested in federal raid at racetrack

Trump threatens Canada again: "Canada is building a massive bridge between Ontario and Michigan. I will not allow this bridge to open until the US is fully compensated for everything we have given them." The entire $6.4 billion cost for the bridge was funded entirely by Canada. #CdnPoli

He’s not losing the war, he’s winning with their funding, and ICE is building warehouses aka concentration camps around the country. One for $87 MILLION right outside Philly, because they’re preparing for a major attack on the community. www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/i...

Epstein survivors released an incredible ad during the Super Bowl.

According to the New Yorker, Donald Trump and his family profited off the presidency by an estimated $4 billion in 2025 — mostly through shady crypto deals. That amounts to $456,621 per hour. But how are you doing?

Around the world, politicians and businessmen are resigning from their positions because of the Epstein Files. Except in the United States. Here: Zero shame, zero consequences. We need resignations, investigations, impeachments, and punishments now. Should have been years ago.

Who did this?!

Sadistic MAGA lunatic Kash Patel has ordered officials in Minneapolis to stop their investigation of Renee Good’s brutal cold blooded murder out of fear it would contradict the propaganda put out by the MAGA regime. The FBI is being used as a tool to cover up murder. Fascism.

A Republican congressman sounded the alarm on Saturday about a newly revealed plot by the DOJ to, as he put it, "protect perpetrators" connected to Jeffrey Epstein.

MAGA: “I ain’t watching the halftime show!!!! I’m watching the pro-family TPUSA one headlined by KID ROCK MAGAAA!!!!” Kid Rock song: “ladies, young ladies, I like 'em underage, see. Some say that's statutory (but I say that's mandatory)”

As Trump threatens this year’s elections, he operates against the cold reality that he has never accepted an election he lost. He won’t accept it when he loses control of Congress this fall. He will try to overturn it however he can, with the full range of tools available to him as president.

WASH POST: “Dollar down 10% under Trump… the key to the dollar’s drop is the ripple effect of the president’s erratic policymaking, including abrupt stops and starts with tariffs and military action against a lengthening list of countries…” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Just days after his release from a Texas detention center, Liam Ramos, the 5-year-old boy in the bunny hat seen worldwide, now faces renewed efforts to deport him and his father, with the government seeking to dismiss their asylum claims without a full hearing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

This is heartbreaking. A woman is filming the pedophile führer's ICE Nazis as they kidnap a woman — only to realize it's her mother, who is a green card carrying legal resident. 🥹🥹🥹👇

Portland mayor: "To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave. "To those who continue to make these sickening decisions, go home, look in a mirror, and ask yourselves why you have gassed children..." content.govdelivery.com/accounts/ORP...

“I know they would do anything, that they would hurt people, that they’ve murdered people... I know that intellectually. But I still did not expect them to gas a chill, friendly protest full of nurses and teachers and children and the elderly.” www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

When you agree to pass 5 of 6 appropriations bills, then you later agree to pass funding for everything that is in the 6th bill except for one agency (ICE) that has already been prefunded in a previous bill, you are giving up every bit of leverage you have and selling out.