Check out this article from Cincinnati.com: Analysis: The layers behind how the #Bengals ended up with the NFL's worst defense www.cincinnati.com/story/sports...

U.S. Politics and the Nazi Regime substack.com/@dansewell1/...

An extraordinary new policy from the Defense Department that equates basic reporting methods to criminal activity has prompted a revolt among Pentagon journalists that could leave the nation's largest agency and the world's largest military without a press corps.

Trump interviewing for new BLS head: Q: What’s 2+2? A: 4 Trump: you’re dismissed; next! Q: What’s 2+2? A: 4. Trump: You’re dismissed; next! Q: What’s 2+2? A: How much do you want it to be? Trump: You’re hired!

apnews.com/article/mlb-... ball, take 2: The Braves take the MLB Speedway Classic at Bristol after rain suspension By Teresa M. Walker

Don’t Be Fooled: RFK Jr. Is Still Talking Down Vaccines www.thebulwark.com/p/dont-be-fo...

Full-page NYT ad from Walmart heiress, philanthropist

www.newsweek.com/howard-lutni... He doesn’t know Real America or Reality

Trump admin dismantling agency overseeing Radio and TV Marti, a Reagan era effort to promote democracy and get information to Cubans on the island, The Miami Herald reports

Republicans are desperate to change the subject from the Trump-Musk disaster. Too bad elections aren’t sooner

R.I.P. John Feinstein. Most powerful book probably was “A Season on the Brink” about Bobby Knight, but this is a good read about a different kind of basketball coach.

Wall Street tumbles 10% below its record for first 'correction' since 2023 on Trump's trade war: AP

Wary of stocks? Trump says invest in Trump Eggs for $60 each; “own eggs that were inspected by USDA before RFK Jr fired all the egg inspectors.” Cartons inscribed with Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” lyrics — Andy Borowitz in The Borowitz Report.

Putin says he agrees in principle with US proposal for 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine: AP

Trump administration to resume intelligence sharing and military aid for Ukraine; which says it would be open to a 30-day ceasefire with Russia, subject to Kremlin agreement: AP

Theory: Trump is tanking the U.S. economy to distract from his surrender of Ukraine 🇺🇦 to Putin

Bluesky CEO Makes A Jab At Mark Zuckerberg With Her T-Shirt

The Warning with Steve Schmidt steveschmidt.substack.com?r=rq2sa&utm_...

“Ma, Ma, where’s my Pa?” “Gone to run the White House, ha, ha, ha!”

www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025... A pro-Ukraine Republican voice

www.nbcnews.com/politics/sta... Putin targets Ukraine power sources, especially during winters

Vice President JD Vance found a way to get more air time than Shadow President Elon Musk

From Russia With Love for Donald Trump

Check out this article from Cincinnati.com: As a queer former teacher, I know Ohio's bathroom law will harm students | Opinion www.cincinnati.com/story/opinio...

Don’t Buy Friday: if you have an essential need, buy local. Boycotts got rid of South African apartheid. They can get rid of the South African running the White House.

Check out this article by media law attorney Jack Greiner in Cincinnati.com: Should AP refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America? | Strictly Legal www.cincinnati.com/story/opinio...

Don’t want to make liberal media happy; give money!

Teetotaler?

www.wvxu.org/politics/202... By Howard Wilkinson

If Lester Burnham were a federal employee responding to Elon’s demand for work description: “My job consists basically of masking my contempt for the a-holes in charge … and fantasizing about a life that doesn’t so closely resemble hell.”

Trump administration is firing 2,000 USAID workers and putting thousands of others on leave: AP report

Check out this article from Cincinnati.com: Trump might be overplaying his hand with onslaught of executive orders | Opinion www.cincinnati.com/story/opinio...

Ugh, getting out of hand (and out of his mind)

Hannity: America’s Goebbels

Sad. A Russian Puppet claims Ukraine “started the war” by getting invaded

Nbcsnl “Black Jeopardy” skit

In the opening monologue of Saturday Night Live 50th Anniversary, Steve Martin mocks Trump’s “Gulf of America” change and his Canada-immigration policy

“Secretary Kennedy will make death great again.”

Maybe send an envelope full of Pennies?

New executive orders rename it “the Atlantic City Ocean” and Presidents’ Day will become “President 45 and 47 Day;” Black History Month canceled because it teaches about diversity, equity and inclusion. Hard to separate fact from parody these days.

Brett Baier told Trump in their pre-Super Bowl interview that his first 3 weeks have been like “a no-huddle offense.” I’d say it’s an offense that ignores the referees.

Trump official (Russell Vought) orders federal consumer protection agency to stop work : AP reports