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The Trump Administration Is Ending Aid That It Says Saves Lives The State Department will let lifesaving projects expire because “there is no strong nexus between the humanitarian response and U.S. national interests,” according to an internal email.

Every time you think they can't get any more horrible, they manage to top themselves. The "What Can You Do For Me?" doctrine in full effect.

www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

Kinda bonkers that only one of the three countries slated to host the next World Cup will be able to assure traveling supporters of a safe experience. Move all the matches to Canada, I say.

America in a single image.

Hell yes. Bank shot magnificence.

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

The collective joy for the men’s hockey team victory lasted like an hour before they were partying with Kash Patel and FaceTiming Trump and reminding everyone what they’re all about

My "hot take" on the tariff decision is that Justice Alito would never stay silent amid a full-on SCOTUS food fight (which the many squabbling concurrences & dissents reflect), unless he was busy cooking up something else nefarious & genuinely awful in which he is writing for the majority.

Sorry.

Wanted Canada to win because fuck every last bit of this. Everything about all of this smears every accmplishment with the shit of this administration. Unless an athlete comes out and says, "Fuck all of that," they are suspect.

German soccer club say proposed U.S. tour ‘does not fit our values’, citing ICE actions Werder Bremen had provisionally been planning to spend a week between Minnesota and Detroit in May, playing two friendly matches.

German club Werder Bremen decide against a summer tour to U.S because right now it ‘does not fit our values’, citing ICE actions. The story from @sebsb.bsky.social & @colinmillar.bsky.social is really interesting and so are the comments.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/705...

Mind, this is what Trump and Republicans do on the regular. so ...

Another thing for the Dems to be too stupid to mess up, saying "Apparently the Republicans do believe in socialized medicine for some people, just not Americans."

P.S. ... LOUISIANA??!!

I support this as a way to force eradication of clutter, it should be noted.

Programs that people have paid for, it is worth noting. So many pieces are framing these like they are some sort of service provided by the government. Whether via credit card credit or someone paying themselves, Global Entry is paid for by users. The Dems have another "looka these assholes" moment.

News item: "new SpongeBob movie streaming now." Photo of a live action blond lady in winter clothes with a sniper rifle in a snowy tundra looking bleak.

Wow that franchise took a dark turn

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

The kids are alright. More crucially, the Republicans and their policies, which are serving as catalysts for all of this, are losing an entire generation of future voters. I mean, their gun lust should already have ensured young folks wouldn't vote for them, but ...

I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.

still unclear to me how the species made it this far

I don’t know what FIFA was thinking when they went all in on Trump. Did they think, “oh the racists will make an exception for us?”

They will not. Fans should stay at home.

Without blowing up boats of killing anyone. Imagine that.

Chicago people stand on business.

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

yeah i mentioned last year how many people will be happy to do the work of the state for “love of country” and nationalism. they did it in the soviet union. you always kept your ear to the door. people used the threat of turning you in to keep power and control. also to flame personal dislike

Good. The best way to deal with an asshole is to never visit their home. Only problem with this post is there should be a picture of Orange Menace instead of an airport.

Newly released records show a US citizen was shot and killed in Texas by a federal immigration agent last year during a late-night traffic encounter that was not publicly disclosed by the Department of Homeland Security. https://cnn.it/4kOEKvg

👀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...

Pritzker’s invoice to White House:

(via @nbcnews.com) @govpritzker.illinois.gov

He sent Trump an invoice, which is hilarious.

Today in Politics, Bulletin 312. 2/20/26 … Trump had perhaps the worst day of his presidency so far - the Supreme Court overturned many of his tariffs, the 4th quarter GDP number was terrible, and inflation is rising again.

Today in Politics, Bulletin 312. Everything you need to know about what happened today in politics. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

So of course, the answer to the question "Why doesn't Mikey Mike and the Junky Bunch just approve tariffs in Congress," is because it would be political suicide as even the Dems wouldn't be stupid enough not to scream about Congress passing a tax increase on to Americans. And the Senate? "Haha, no."