Trump Nominates an Apostle of ‘White Erasure’ for the State Department

White House stands by State Department nominee who complains that "white Americans are increasingly second-class citizens," warns of "white erasure" and says "the Jews love to see themselves as oppressed." @camcgrady.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

“On known trafficking routes”

That’s it. That’s the justification.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...

Novus ordo seclorum.

Bullshit.

The Kids Aren’t Alright in Dilley A baby who needs medicine. A toddler whose detained mom may have breast cancer. A suicide attempt.

Shut down Dilley.

www.thebulwark.com/p/kids-arent...

If you think there’s NOTHING in our heritage (or in any nation’s) to be unapologetic about, you’re a fool. A dangerous fool.

So You Lied About Your Relationship With a Sex Trafficker. Now What? Howard Lutnick searches for a way out of his Epstein pickle.

I only met him once. Disgusting person, never wanted anything to do with him. Well I stopped by his private island. But only because I was boating past it. And did business with him. Disgusting person. Good businessman. Nice island.

Countries that are large, rich in minerals or strategically located will have more leverage. Others may face worse conditions.

"African countries are expected to buy American products, grant America access to their health data and align policies to the administration’s health agenda.

American aid to Africa comes with more strings attached A new crop of health deals is unlikely to meet the needs of recipient countries

Transactional Trap: "Since September the Trump administration has been on a deal-making spree, signing bilateral health agreements worth about $11bn with the governments of more than a dozen African countries. these are transactional deals, not needs-based grants

www.economist.com/middle-east-...

people falsely assume that it's easy to get a copy of one's birth certificate...

guess Trump told him he was "grandfathered" and won't be stripped of his birthright citizenship...

This is a huge glaring issue right now. Courts generally ARE doing fairly well, even including significant number of Trump appointees. The corruption is concentrated in scotus.

This Is What Destroying the Vaccine Market Looks Like A shocking move by RFK Jr.’s team has the industry spooked—for good reason.

Jonathan Cohn: "This was not a decision to reject the Moderna vaccine. It was a refusal even to think about approving it." That's right. Consideration would lead directly to approval. And RFKJr isn't having that.

Not at all surprised. Deutsche Bank was also a major lender to DJT, lending him over $2 billion despite his bankruptcies and their internal warnings...

A newly unsealed FBI interview shows an entire Deutsche Bank staff team internally tried to cut ties with Jeffrey Epstein in 2015, after seeing wires to young women. One compliance officer says she was later pushed out and fired after raising the issue. Management kept the accounts open.

not sure she understands how elections are supposed to work

Photos of Fort Worth monks’ 2,300-mile journey to Washington The Buddhist monks' 15-week walk from Fort Worth to Washington covered roughly 2,300 miles.

A Walk for Peace: photos of Fort Worth monks’ journey to Washington www.texastribune.org/2026/02/14/t...

Farmers Are Aging. Their Kids Don’t Want to Be in the Family Business. A fifth-generation farmer stares down a future in which his land is no longer tended by someone in the family. It’s new territory for everyone.

"The number of farmers in America has been shrinking for years, but rising costs and weak commodity prices are pushing more families out at a faster rate....

Those left are aging; there are more farmers 75 and older than under the age of 35"

www.wsj.com/business/fam...

How dangerous is Donald Trump’s “endangerment” decision? It removes a cornerstone of climate regulation

By denying the threat that greenhouse gases pose to human health, Donald Trump has made the requirement to regulate them disappear. The consequences will be catastrophic for future generations of Americans. www.economist.com/united-state...

The SAVE Act and the Myth of a Voter Fraud Crisis Congress proposes sweeping documentation barriers to combat a form of fraud Americans are more likely to experience as a lightning strike than at a polling place.

The Rational League looks at the SAVE Act: “A political movement that insists on solving a problem the data cannot substantiate is not engaged in reform. It is redefining the electorate through procedural filtration…[and] structural barriers…the issue is not fraud prevention but power allocation.”

Seems much more coherent and lacking in CAPS than his usual posts. I hope DJT is OK....

The Swamp Is Doing Just Fine | National Review Andy McCarthy’s series on the Trump family’s UAE entanglement is essential reading.

Amazing to me that neither Schumer nor Jeffries can manage competent discussion of the Binance scandal, but you can read an excellent synopsis of it here in National Review. www.nationalreview.com/the-weekend-...

DHS Cites Cuba And Venezuela As Law Enforcement Models For ICE In a social media post, DHS listed Cuba and Venezuela among the models for certain law enforcement practices used by ICE.

Kristi Noem's DHS searches totalitarian states around the globe for ideas. 'In a Feb 11 social media post, the Department of Homeland Security listed oppressive regimes like Cuba and Venezuela among the models for certain law enforcement practices used by ICE agents.' www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Christopher Weyant, Boston Globe

Trump vows voter ID requirements for the midterms, 'whether approved by Congress or not' In social media posts on Friday, the president said that if Congress failed to approve legislation mandating voter ID, he would issue an executive order.

In which the ever astute Nate Persily flags the five different moves afoot by Trump to steal the 2026 midterm elections. www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

The Bathrobe Lady is Sam Strozas, a reporter for Minnesota Public Radio. The photograph is stunnig.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

ICE Agents Menaced Minnesota Protesters at Their Homes, Filings Say

As part of its established procedures, ICE sends agents to pound on the doors of protesters at home and tell them "We know who you are and we're coming for you." The tactics of incompetent state terrorism.

Broken bones, burning eyes: How Trump's DHS deploys 'less lethal' weapons on protesters Federal immigration officers have repeatedly used force in ways that appear to violate their own policies or general policing guidelines, NBC News found.

Federal immigration officers have repeatedly used lethal or near-lethal force in ways that appear to violate their own published policies or general policing guidelines. The pattern is so consistent that it signals that published policies have been superseded by unpublished ones encouraging violence