"It took the [dictator]'s [on-]crack economic team only nine months to understand what my 13-year-old understands, which is you can't grow bananas in the United States." www.lincolnsquare.media/p/how-will-t...

"The face of a narcissistic, values-free attitude." www.thenextmove.org/p/eileen-gu-...

"The United States is reportedly hesitating over whether to fulfill its next arms sales to Taiwan out of concern that it could derail U.S. [dictator] Donald Trump’s upcoming visit to Beijing." understandingwar.org/research/chi...

"[T]he worst part of the bill is that ultimately it conflates killing with care. And so it subtly and covertly confers on patients the entirely spurious 'duty' not to be burdensome at the end of life." www.nationalreview.com/corner/will-...

"There is something revealing about a discourse in which anything short of toleration for the incontinent unhoused is tantamount to fascism." www.nationalreview.com/2026/02/to-t...

"Donald Trump’s escalating war against anyone who refuses to show total loyalty, including his own appointees." www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-war...

Because Trump likes Tucker Carlson. Trump loves Tucker Carlson. Because Tucker Carlson worships Trump. And loves the taste of his ass. I'd have thought that was obvious by now. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-wont-t...

"British authorities arrested Peter Mandelson, the [Britain]’s former ambassador to the U.S., amid an investigation into potential misconduct while in public office and his ties to Jeffrey Epstein." Exit question: Why didn't he seek political asylum here? www.axios.com/2026/02/23/p...

"Democrat Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown sued the Trump [regime], [futilely] seeking to block the Homeland Security Department from constructing a new [concentration camp] in Maryland." abcnews.com/US/maryland-...

The U.S. Supreme Court will - its IEEPA decision from last Friday not withstanding - of course, overturn this ruling. apnews.com/article/redi...

I suspect that the Trump regime is reserving to itself the right to shoot down U.S. civilian aircraft at their whim. But only the "right" ones. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/u...

Another day, another war crime. "At least 150 people have been [murdered] by these strikes." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/u...

"[Aspiring Supreme Court Justice] Aileen Cannon permanently blocked [DOC] from releasing the second volume of former special counsel Jack Smith’s report on his investigation into Trump’s mishandling of classified documents and obstruction of justice." www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-c...

"On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned in the Knesset that an Iranian attack on Israel would be 'perhaps the gravest mistake in their history'.” www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-an...

"Officials have demonstrated a penchant for mixing business and pleasure at taxpayer expense." Shamelessly and flauntingly. Like they have total immunity. Which, as long as they keep blowing Trump, they will. Cultists see, cultists do. thedispatch.com/article/pate...

"Deployed parents, air raids, and underground school — with weapons training." thedispatch.com/article/ukra...

"The address has devolved from its intended purpose into a political pep rally." I think you answered your own headline question, @kewhittington.bsky.social. Woodrow Wilson started it. Only the Apocalypse will ever end it. thedispatch.com/article/stat...

Never. And no, consumers are not entitled to them, as consumers did not directly pay them. They would instead take them directly out of Trump's fat ass (electorally), if America was still a constitutional republic. Which it is not. www.lincolnsquare.media/p/hey-trump-...

"CBS destroyed the best Star Trek ever made. Between 2004 and 2016, fans created productions so good that Gene Roddenberry's son called them canon. Then CBS sued them out of existence right before launching Discovery." www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n6E...

That "secret sauce" is far from the only championship ingredient. And the @mariners.com fall considerably short in those other categories. sports.mynorthwest.com/brock-and-sa...

"{The] backlash [from 'progressives'] after Mayor Mamdani dared to take a single common-sense step toward protecting homeless New Yorkers." www.nationalreview.com/news/compass...

"Even [liberal] analysts have thrown cold water on ['progressives''] self-flattering narratives." www.nationalreview.com/2026/02/woul...

"[T]he hardening myths about COVID, the collapse of USAID, and the dangerous assault on American science." www.thebulwark.com/p/health-in-...

"[T]he Kash Patel Olympics controversy — from the FBI jet questions to that now-viral hockey locker room moment." www.thebulwark.com/p/did-taxpay...

"As has become a pattern, the use of force isn’t part of a coherent plan." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-cons...

"What a cruel irony: a place predicated on immigrants being part of our social fabric at the same spot anti-immigrant forces ripped that social fabric apart." www.thebulwark.com/p/alex-prett...

"The Fed chair is deploying strategies to help fortify the 112- year-old institution's independence." They won't be enough. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

How could anyone ever think Donald Trump is an autocrat? www.cnbc.com/2026/02/22/t...

"Chi[Comm] state-run media reported that [Red] China’s navy tracked and monitored an Australian warship that traveled in the Taiwan Strait." www.reuters.com/world/china/...

"A Ukrainian police officer was killed, and 24 others were wounded, following blasts in Lviv that police later determined came from 'homemade explosive devices.' Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the attack was orchestrated by Russia." www.reuters.com/world/police...

"James Hundley, a longtime Virginia litigator, was set to succeed [completely unqualified and illegally installed] Lindsey Halligan as interim U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia." Halligan will be re-installed in Hundley's place, no doubt. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

Another day, another war crime. Even on the ocean floor, they're really piling up. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

"[A] majority of people held at an Al-Hol detention camp in Syria, which included suspected ISIS [jihadists], have escaped during a 5-hour security vacuum when the SDF withdrew and Syrian [al Qaeda] government forces had yet to secure the camp." www.wsj.com/world/middle...

"A new Bureau of Economic Analysis report published on Friday found that the personal consumption expenditures price index — the Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation metric — increased 0.4% in December 2025 from the previous month." www.reuters.com/business/us-...

"The judicial branch has shown the legislative branch it can slow Donald Trump’s power grabs." The problem is that the legislative branch under its current misstewardship has no desire or intention of anything but aiding and abetting Trump's power grabs. thedispatch.com/newsletter/w...

Erik Lamkin's comfort drink. Also Nathan Figueroa's. Be sure to give them some the next time you see either of them.

This one's gotta hurt for the Canucks. I can sympathize. I just wish this game had been against the Russians. It would have brought the house down to see both teams come out in the same uniforms and the U.S. team transparently take the dive. sports.mynorthwest.com/nhl/seattle-...

Some generals are always fighting the last war. McVay should be a lot more focused on fixing his god-awful special teams unit instead. Watch them pull off a trade for Joe Burrow to replace Matt Stafford, though. You can just see that happening. sports.mynorthwest.com/nfl/seattle-...

Hard to argue with that. It really is just a question of when. And where, if John Schneider or the new owners choose to be stubborn about it. sports.mynorthwest.com/nfl/seattle-...

"Ukrainian forces continue to hold defensive lines and push back Russian advances in southern Ukraine." understandingwar.org/research/rus...

"[W]hat happened when ICE began targeting families in her school district." www.thebulwark.com/p/minnesota-...

Perhaps, just maybe, @citizencohn.bsky.social, "environmentalists on the ['progressive'] left" and the "Make America [Dead] Again movement" are two sides of the same lunatic coin. Worm Brain is the day-glo obvious link, after all. www.thebulwark.com/p/maha-meltd...

"After the Supreme Court ruled Trump’s tariffs illegal, he responded by saying he’ll keep doing them anyway." See, I told you so. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BaY...