FBI, St. Paul police probing ICE arrest that resulted in skull fractures - The Associated Press apple.news/Ae--AG53oSV2...

CBS can try to obey in advance by pressuring Stephen Colbert to silence his interview with James Talarico, the gifted communicate running for the U.S. Senate in Texas, but people can see what’s happening—& can listen to the convo on YouTube. Brendan Carr & the FCC’s free speech attack will backfire.

We're really not quite grasping how momentous it is that one of Europe's most pressing geostrategic challenges is figuring out how to rely less on the United States.

Bari Weiss & her CBS overlords are losing just as they deserve to.

"Dignity and professionalism are hard to find these days. Redemption is even less fashionable. You have to be capable of guilt or shame to even think about that sort of thing."

Wait, did the SAVE Act already pass and they forgot to tell voters? No! I’m going to need an update on this. I hope she was able to cast her ballot in the primary. Texans, if this is happening to you, post your story with the polling location. Put it on blast. And report it.

Trump keeps saying he has been exonerated. He hasn't been exonerated. Maybe his peers have exonerated him. His peers are the other pedophiles he associates with.

Even far-right foreign leaders are getting sick of Trump’s meddling Seldom, if ever, have U.S. presidents interceded as brazenly as Trump has done in foreign politics. By @maxboot.bsky.social archive.md/2026.02.16-1...

Stephen Colbert responds to CBS disputing his claims that he was barred from airing the James Talarico interview: "And for the lawyers to release this without even talking to me is really surprising. I don’t even know what to do with this crap. Hold on." He then picks it up with a dog poop bag.

Great News: Americans Are Standing Up. Terrible News For Trump: We’re Winning.

youtu.be/gwdHz1Xnfm0?... This powerful speech by George Will feels like the Edward R Murrow moment that destroyed McCarthyism. May this mark the beginning of the end of Trumpism.

Nope. Not even close. The convicted felon thinks that boats sink because they are heavy that the sound from windmills causes cancer and that we can irrigate the sierras with water from Canada to keep the tumbleweeds from drying up and Catching Fire. He's the dumbest person to ever speak in public.

No. I didn't care much for Bush but Trump is definitely more stupid.

Yup! www.reuters.com/world/allega...

Stephen Colbert says newly MAGAfied CBS is blocking him from interviewing Democrats. His days at CBS are probably numbered. Either Trump forces him out or he decides to leave rather than doing a censored show. But where should he go?

Congratulations and brava to the most decorated Black Winter Olympian of all time. Happy Black History Month, Elana! You are part of history!

Australia prepares for the future. www.commondreams.org/opinion/sout...

We should be seeing and hearing less of Stephen Miller as there will be longer periods of daylight soon.

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😳 Texas is one of the states that is already using the DHS’s “Save” voter purge system. The Act would require that every state use it. The system has already demonstrated an error rate as high as 14%. It links to an SSA database compromised by DOGE. #NoOnSave #ProtectOurVotes 1/

This tracks The National Geographic voice caps it off though ☠️

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People fixin to wake up about the progressive movement in Texas.

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BREAKING: I read the new version of the “Save America Act” (S. 1383) so u don’t have to. Here’s my summary. Point 1 is new. It requires that all 50 states send their voter rolls to the DHS to run thru DHS’s faulty “SAVE” voter purge program. Points 6 & 7 are new too. Tell ur Senators #NoOnSAVE 1/

He loves these things that make him look powerful when he's feeling impotent and weak.

Wow…. Jennifer Jenkins doesn’t hold back when asked about Randy Fine.

He's awful. I hope she smokes him.

Yeah, there it is. Most watched Late Show video of the year — in its first 24 hours online. (It appears to have been posted at midnight because that's when it rolled over to 1 day.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ... It is easily going to be over 4 million views still tonight.

Also, just as a comparison note: In the week of Feb. 1, Nielsen ratings counted an average total audience of 2.32 million viewers for Colbert. latenighter.com/news/ratings...

In less than 24 hours, Colbert's interview with Talarico is at more than 3.8 million YouTube views. The video is already one of the two most watched videos on the Late Show's YouTube page this year.

February 17, 2026

Ben Smith: I don’t know if Stephen Miller resigns before the midterms, resigns after the midterms, or sticks around. But this feels like that moment when a president puts a lot of confidence in one adviser to steer national policy in a direction that turns out to be politically disastrous.

Trump will never admit he was wrong, and Miller is the person he most likes and counts on. I think Miller will stay and Trump will double down.

"The lesson here is pretty straightforward: When people lose agency over decisions about their own bodies, they don’t just lose trust in a specific policy. They lose trust in the system’s right to decide for them at all."

Trump's going to be so mad that she smiled for Colbert, but not him.

Oklahoma’s Kevin Stitt has weathered criticism from President Trump ahead of a meeting of governors at the White House this week. on.wsj.com/4rX2TSH

Trump: It’s a hoax. We should move on. Trump’s DOJ: There’s nothing to investigate. The UN: The revelations suggest a global criminal enterprise…a number of the abuses meet the legal threshold of crimes against humanity. www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Well! Hot damn. 🔥🔥🔥 You in trouble, girls. 💥💣💥 My King; Jack gonna get yah!

BREAKING: The US Dept of Defense has just blacklisted military personnel from taking courses at most of America's top universities, including Harvard, Yale, MIT, and Johns Hopkins. Why?! We can’t have any educated competent people who might question the legality of his or Trump's orders. Sad.

Trump just barely above Viktor Orban.

Republicans are arsonists running as firefighters. Vote for Democrats!

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I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

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.

We are off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸 www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

starting to get the feeling that Kristi Noem will not in fact win the 2028 presidential election