White House says no one will be fired over the Signal scandal because no one involved was trying to cure cancer.

There IS a common thread shared among those profiting from Trumpism. It's THE SAME common thread that psychologist G M Gilbert observed at the Nuremberg trials: LACK OF EMPATHY. The lack of empathy omnipresent today isn't all underlying sociopathy. Some of it is imitative: Malignant Normality.

Oh crap now what?

New: "Lobbyist And Government Contractor Bought JD Vance’s Home For $170,000 Over Asking Price" me, for @forbes.com 1/

We're going to learn that Rubio has had extensive high level negotiations with Nigerian princes via facebook messenger.

MAGA Republican Rep. Rich McCormick (GA) was asked by a woman what he was going to do to “reign in the megalomaniac in the White House.” He tried to pivot to Biden, but his constituents kept saying, “Answer the question!” MAGA town halls are a dumpster fire everywhere, and I’m here for it.🔥

Hey why not put a binge-drinking Fox News pundit in charge of the Pentagon! The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The MAGAe when a judge calls them out for violating the Constitution:

This has been exposed as a lie. The money was an annuity to kids of parents who died: x.com/thetnholler/... He doesn’t care.

Trump Orders All Children Born Under Biden To Be Renamed After Confederate Generals theonion.com/trump-o...

There’s nothing more evil than seeing creepy scumbags like insurrection architect Mike Johnson and MAGA officials talking about their love of God or doing bullshit prayers for a criminal traitor in the WH whilst planning to take healthcare and social security away from people.

WHY THE FUCK IS HE TALKING ABOUT NOT SENDING OUT SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS?!!!!

Trump announced that Kelly Loeffler at the Small Business Administration will take over student loans from the Department of Education, while RFK Jr. will take over all special needs programs. This is a clusterfuck in the making! #ProudBlue #TrumpisaNationalDisgrace #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice

Fascists mad Americans live under the rule of law:

The Times spoke to people being trapped inside a Panama hotel after deportation from the US and the individual stories of horror are almost too much to bear www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/w...

Headline: Exploding rocket company to oversee changes to airplane safety. buff.ly/3X86gt4

a good example of how the world is getting dumber. the new politico playbook writer didn't know who FDR was until a reader told him about that whole "new deal" thing. this newsletter is read by every important person in DC.

The author of this piece was an associate WH counsel under Reagan. He has a very polite way of explaining that what Trump is doing with DOGE is a coup. wapo.st/4hSE7Ox

The American Bar Association has just called upon every attorney, regardless of their political views, to join them & stand up for the rule of law & at minimum insist that our government "follow the law." Every lawyer has an ethical responsibility to do so. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

1. EXCLUSIVE Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information. The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work

This is what local news orgs should be doing now: "In 2024, the Univ. of Alabama was in the top 1% of NIH-funded institutions. The university, Alabama’s largest public employer, has received more than $1 billion in NIH funding. NIH grants in Alabama supported 4,769 jobs" www.al.com/news/2025/02...

Gillibrand on WNYC today said one reason they're all falling in line is that they get death threats.

Two lawyers, one Yale educated, one Harvard educated; one the VP, one a senator, suggesting that decisions made by courts aren’t legitimate if they don’t like the outcome. This is dangerous territory.

Here is actual fraud and corruption: "(Gov) Noem and her office charged more than a half-million dollars during much of her tenure. Much of the former governor’s spending was on extravagant hotel suites, entertainment expenses and private airfare." www.thedakotascout.com/p/south-dako...

If true, this is the economic ballgame

What's happening in America is that, in the most literal sense, internet trolls have taken over the government.

Secretary of Defense Hegseth is introducing plans for the Navy's newest ship, the USS Donald J. Trump.

The right just makes up crap then cites it as fact. They are enemies of truth and strangers to integrity. (Gift article, please share.) t.co/N0emmAoEDc

Filed in District Court today. Judge Berman Jackson making sure the record will always be reflective of what really happened that day.

Dear Mexico, Canada, Panama, and Europe: 100 percent tariffs on Tesla.

This is very good

Dear Canada and Mexico, We’re so, so sorry. — Sane America

Fired Jan. 6 prosecutors were told they were terminated "based upon your actions in the prosecution of persons relating to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021," and cited Trump calling it a "grave national injustice."

Meanwhile, if you wanted a new state, Puerto Rico, Guam, Micronesia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Marianas, D.C. and American Samoa (the ones who didn't die of measles, thanks a bunch, RFK, Jr.) are just sitting there.

I just moved all of my retirement savings out of stocks and into "retiring now" funds. I recommend you consider something similar. The tariffs that stupid madman wants to impose could easily tank the US and even the global economy, causing a recession.

"The sofa beds have been installed so the team can work around the clock, the employee said." This is a coup, happening right in front of us, staged by people who know nothing at all about the US government. Which is, it bears remembering, the only one we have. www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

Chick-Fil-A Raptured theonion.com/chick-f...

To all those who wrote about every stutter, pause & word mix up of Biden's,hope y'all are paying attention.I'm no doctor, but Trump's dementia is OFF THE RAILS and is going to get more people killed. Those who are Weekend at Bernie's-ing it should be ashamed of themselves.It's a danger to our safety

Talking about how he's going to offer his opinion on what happened instead of waiting for the investigation. Insisting that the crash wasn't his fault (and was probably Biden's). The Trump presidency is back in full force.

"One poster on a Diablo subreddit called it 'unbelievably pathetic' that the world’s richest man would feel 'the need to cheat' in a video game to 'claim he is good at something' most people 'couldn't care less about.'" wapo.st/3WD95lz

Trump’s corrupt retribution against DOJ is now fully underway, with a series of moves over the past 24 hours that in any other era would be the defining political and legal story of the age. Today, it didn’t even make the front page of the NYT. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

This is no more than automated and deceptive plagiarism, stealing the work of others. It should be illegal. www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/insi...

Trump and his Magats cult of deplorables attack a Bishop (female) when she pleads with Trump to show mercy. Meanwhile, Trump and his Magat cult show reverence to the traitorous thugs Tarrio and Rhodes who Trump pardoned. There’s no hope for middle ground with this abomination party. #DemVoice1

It’s ironic—growing up, everyone laughed at the National Enquirer, knowing it was all sensationalized nonsense. Yet today, if something appears as a headline on social media, it’s immediately treated as fact. Critical thinking seems to have gone out the window in the digital age.

White House press sec Karoline Leavitt just revealed that her failed 2022 congressional campaign owes more than $300,000 in unpaid debts, with Leavitt failing to disclose for years that her campaign took in hundreds of thousands of dollars in inappropriate donations and never paid the money back.

This is a good column that points out how Donald Trump really has no effing clue how anything works. Our president is profoundly ignorant. wapo.st/3WzJb2a

A judge rules against Trump, the MAGA mob follows its usual script of blinding rage: