Correcting typos: President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address took a turn about an hour in. Until that point, Trump largely lied a positive message — fabricating economic indicators, claiming responsibility for the Olympic men’s hockey team..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Boy, I think maybe outside of nuking the twin cities, "eastwinging" Dulles is the one thing that could get him impeached. wapo.st/4kTEQ4P

Corrected Headline: In an Intense Election Year, Trump's New Post Office Rules Enacted to Trip Up Voter Registration boltsmag.org/usps-postmar...

it would be illegal is Bondi did it on her own, but if she did it on the orders of The President, then it's an official act. And under Roberts vs The Constitution, IOKIYAAR

Shorter: Trump pitches SOTU to the Epstein Class

I'm looking forward to his explanation of the missing 50 pages in the SOTU tonight.

Corrected lead: An NPR investigation found the public database of Epstein files was incompetently cleansed of dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump by one little b*&^#h.

The fact that there’s a secret network of doulas going around Minneapolis to help with home births for parents afraid of ICE should be front-page news. These children, born in secrecy, are American citizens.

Current candidate for the search engine are: - FalseNeg - NotYouMister - LittleList - NoneMissed - FecalRoster - WeGotYouPegged www.wired.com/story/dhs-wa...

Corrected Headline: Following Susan Collins' courageous precedent expressing concern, behind closed doors, GOP lawmaker questioned ‘disturbing’ East Wing demolition wapo.st/4seVH4B

Corrected headline: "In his exit interview, General Caine foresees....

“I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!”

This is meaningless. He didn't poll the Epstein Class.

Corrected Headline: Lying about the State of the Union, Trump rants to Nation that hates him. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Corrected Headline: Trump Iran airstrikes decision to be guided by Iranian payoffs to Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

ETTD Everything Trump Touches Dies. In this case, and them we do.

Sparky's got my vote. BTW, he was erase the national debt by selling pieces of the ballroom and the gilded Tchotchkes world wide. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Never gets old.

Remember when he was preparing to buy Twitter and many of us were saying, but what about the racism?, and most people were indignantly insisting, "he's not racist!" Just like with Trump. And now here we are.

Magnificent Thread, tracing current ICE practices back to Founder's Original Intent. Alito's Septic Six Supremes opinion just writes itself.

Angie Craig: "They removed everyone from the ICE facility 30 minutes before we arrived — this is not the intent of the law. DHS is violating the law" Ilhan Omar: "What happened today is a blatant attempt to obstruct members of Congress from doing their oversight duties"

Shorter: Lie digbysblog.net/2026/02/21/o...

On the bright side, we will be able to pay off the national debt by selling Ziplock bags with small pieces of it. World Wide.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

George Wallace in 1962: "I started off talking about schools and highways and prisons and taxes and I couldn't make them listen. Then I began talking about n**rs and they stomped the floor." Donald Trump in 2023⬇️

Accurate Headline: Trump conspires to subvert European governments www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Testilying.

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Charges against Former Prince Andrew must be dropped if it’s determined that raping teenagers was an official act. by John Roberts (joined by Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett)

If it’s a tax on them, elites make it sound like a tax on you. If it’s a tax on you, they make you wonder if it’s a tax at all. When you understand that, you can see how the news media actually created conditions in which some middle-class Americans unknowingly voted for their own immiseration.

Mamdani: "$5.4 billion is a very steep mountain to climb ... We want to work with Albany to raise personal income taxes by 2% on the 33,000 New Yorkers earning more than $1 million per year and to raise corporate taxes on the most profitable corporations."

We wanted to understand how rugged English-Scots-Irish culture has shaped America. So we talked to three white South African billionaires at a sex party in the Bahamas.

The video in case you didn't see it. youtu.be/qcuCqpPvEls

Susan Collings is for the SAVE act but not eliminating the filibuster. So. Shorter: I am not concerned with prohibiting the 69 million married women who don't use their birth names from voting, but it should not degrade my senatorial prerogatives.

In honor of Lunar New Year, one of my all-time favorite maps: How dumplings spread around the world (tl;dr: It was largely, though not exclusively, the Mongol invasions!)

Correcting typo: Hegseth issued the directive Thursday, just ahead of Driscoll’s departure for Switzerland, where the Army secretary — in an unusual diplomatic role for the head of a military service — is participating in high-stakes discussions aimed at "surrendering to Russia." wapo.st/4kIMTkM

Hey, Boo #RobertDuvall

NYT hatchet job Compare with Sanewashing of everyone in the administration. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

“We’re seeing the stock market over one Tom Homan bribe.”

See also bsky.app/profile/marc... Shorter: Astro turf yesterday, Astro turf today, Astro turf tomorrow

RTFT (Read The Fine Thread) Shorter: Nothing New about the New Right. Corollary: Steve Miller is a racist self-hating Jew. h/t (as always) @hcrichardson.bsky.social

A hypothesis consistent with existing facts: 1) Trump is a fossil fuel asset. 2) Trump is a Chinese asset.

Corrected Headline: Trump Executive Order Forbids Climate to Change. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/c...

Trump is trying to get a Claremont guy, Jeremy Carl, into the state department. The position requires Senate confirmation. Carl touts "great replacement" theories and wrote that he thought the military should just shoot immigrants crossing the border www.salon.com/2026/02/12/w...

RTFT (Read the Fine Thread)

But it may justify a Kavanaugh stop. You know, arrest, cuffing, detention, for hours to days and then release in subzero weather somewhere in polar bear territory.

So, Jack Smith working with a subpoena to acquire general phone logs is a breech of privacy but the DOJ can just randomly spy on the congress people and their computer searches for no apparent reason? The cognitive dissonance of these people never ceases to astonish me.

But the number of people saying mean things is up 8000%

how serious the increasingly likely possibility that Russian intelligence services co-organised this operation for the security of the Polish state. Can only mean that they also possess compromising materials against many leaders still active today www.reuters.com/world/poland...