Wow.

Trump administration fails to appreciate the Streisand effect, again www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/b...

Trump’s propaganda czar Brendan Carr and Trump-controlled CBS refused to let Colbert air his interview with James Talarico. You can watch the interview here, and it already has 1.4M views. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

What’s one way we can rein in ICE? We can start by boycotting ICE’s corporate collaborators that are profiting from the agency’s cruelty. Watch.

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.

Colbert: “Let’s just call this what it is: Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV because all Trump does is watch TV. He’s like a toddler with too much screen time. He gets cranky and then drops a load in his diaper.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

Please watch, particularly if you’re a TX voter. This is the person who should be the next senator from Texas.

The interview with Talarico has been posted to YouTube: youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A

Stephen Colbert says he was told by CBS lawyers "in no uncertain terms" that he could not have Texas State Rep. James Talarico on his program. "Because my network clearly doesn't want us to talk about this, let's talk about this."

Someone tell Bari about the Streisand effect

Anderson Cooper is leaving his role as a correspondent on CBS News’s 60 Minutes after nearly 20 years with the program. He will not renew his CBS contract and is stepping away from that role. We hope more continue this trend it’s hard not to see CBS as state-run media.

He destroyed our economy and everyone knows it. Whatever he or his voters would like to believe about what he did, the numbers do not lie. We are seeing the worst job growth in over two decades and it is explicitly tied to bad decisions he made and then lied about. He's pathetic.

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

“As the airplane took off, Epstein started touching me forcibly in between my legs, and I freaked out. I realized, this is not a modeling opportunity, I've been kidnapped. They whisked me away to the island. I was stuck there. They never arranged any modeling opportunities, I was completely conned."

In a way, not surprising at all. Public officials like Dr. Birx (who was actually a respected expert on AIDS before Covid) and Fauci often restrained Trump's impulses and Trump hated it. He believes Covid cost him the election (and it did). His new appointees are a revenge against public health.

Blankiegate

MSNBC: Would you be willing to say yes to ICE needing to have judicial warrants before they can enter a home? GOP REP. DON BACON: I do support warrants. What's in the Constitution has to be done for everybody if you ask me. I'm not a lawyer.

Everybody knows that poors don't buy things!

Clearly, the lesson learned was that data is just a 4 letter word for buzzkill.

Fetterman on Maria Bartiromo's show gives Trump and the GOP political advice ahead of November's midterms

Rep. Buddy Carter on a teacher who was killed when ICE got into a high-speed chase with a man who had no criminal record: "She is a victim of Jon Ossoff, Chuck Schumer, and the Democrats ... they've got blood on their hands"

Fetterman proudly declared he would vote for restrictions on financial aid to Americans but would never vote for restrictions on financial aid to Israel. He did this on Fox News. he is purportedly a Democrat

NATO Ambassador Matthew Whitaker claims America has "bigger issues to deal with" than Europe

how can you say this out loud and not see the problem with it immediately

"When Lewandowski was told Noem's personal items had been left behind, including a heated blanket, he yelled at Coast Guard staff The pilot came out of cockpit to see what was happening & Lewandowski insisted plane return to collect Noem's items When he refused, Lewandowski announced he was fired"

The blanket thing and the puppy thing, while seemingly opposite in emotional impetus, together portray a pathologically disturbed personality that should not be approved for any position of authority

If Trump's seizure of Venezuela's oil is simply "diplomacy," so were Bonnie and Clyde's visits to banks.

I see the talking points have been issued, and they're going to parrot them no matter how stupid they are

This is why basic education standards should include the ability to form, understand, and critically analyze arguments. Without this ability, you may not be able to see the logical flaws in statements such as Mr. Steube's.

So we launched an unprovoked military operation, seized and sold a foreign country’s natural resources, and stashed the profits in a bank in Qatar. The Energy Secretary calls this “diplomacy,” but I don’t think that word means what he thinks it means.

Kids, the mines are calling!

I don’t think anyone acquainted with the Epstein files can deny that the Republican Party is sincerely committed to putting children to work.

You tried to overturn an election, and you continue lecturing us on how to conduct elections? A very special Presidents' Day fuck you.

Wow not only did Bari Weiss whiff on getting Anderson Cooper as evening news anchor, now AC is leaving 60 Minutes completely.

The “America First” crowd strikes again. 🙄

A hacker named Vincenzo Iozzo shares with Epstein a rumor that Peter Thiel was "bankrolling" the neo-Nazi white supremacist hacker troll known as "weev." Conversation is about financial strategies and "currencies."

Mark Alford just straight up saying that he doesn't want to follow the fourth amendment.

the sole purpose of this is to try to pressure dems on DHS funding (FEMA is one of the orgs directly impacted), and it’s not particularly subtle

Obama: "Ethically speaking, it's an atrocity in a country this wealthy we have people just on the streets, & we should insist on policies that recognize their full humanity. But we should also recognize the average person doesn't want to have to navigate around a tent city in the middle of downtown"

Obama: "At some point, you age out. You're not connected directly to the immediate struggles that folks are going through. I'm not making a hard and fast rule here, but I think Democrats do well when we have candidates who are plugged into the moment. To the zeitgeist. To the times."

“You want ICE agents to have to identify themselves before they try to kidnap or kill you, but you don’t want to have to present a birth certificate to be able to vote” I mean… yes

Imagine having so much diarrhea between your ears that you think this is a clever point.

Oh, okay. I'll bite. The right to vote is enshrined in the Constitution. The "right" of armed federal cops to arrest, beat, and kill people with anonymity is not.

Goldman: "If Trump wants to put his name on everything, as he does, then let's start calling this the Trump-Epstein files"

There is no constitutional right of law enforcement to detain me, throw me to the ground, and then put five bullets in my back while masked and unidentified. There is a right to vote.

Abortion rights and voting rights: two things that Republicans think are a Constitutional right for men but not for women.

Goldman: "Republicans have created distrust of our electoral system -- not based on evidence -- and then they're gonna say, 'Oh, we have to solve this mistrust we've created.' No. That's not how it works."

STARNES: The WSJ reports that Corey Lewandowski fired a Coast Guard pilot for leaving Kristi Noem's blanket behind on a plane. What do you think about that reporting? REP. PATRONIS: I believe that ICE and Kristi Noem and the crew at DHS have been doing their job