Revealed: Epstein cultivated relationship with CBP officer, causing US investigation Guardian review of US justice department files reveals Epstein interacted with six CBP officers. The officer investigated denied any knowledge of trafficking underage girls

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented.

Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling

Giant banner of Donald Trump hung at Justice Department headquarters | CNN Politics A large banner of Donald Trump was hung outside of the Justice Department headquarters in Washington, DC, Thursday, emphasizing the White House’s control over the nation’s top law enforcement branch t...

We are a nation of laws, not of men. This banner symbolizes a disgusting betrayal of our values.
www.cnn.com/2026/02/19/p...

MAHA Moms Turn Against Trump: ‘Women Feel Like They Were Lied to’

NEW: Trump has lost the MAHA moms. The glyphosate order was the final straw.

"Women feel like they were lied to." -- Alex Clark
"A betrayal" -- Zen Honeycutt

RFK has escaped the wrath of movement's leaders, if not the rank and file.w/ @hirokotabuchi.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/u...

This really is a great picture:

Over in the Bad Place, people keep trying to get Grok to disagree with my summary of the Save America Act, but Grok keeps telling them I’m right. #NoOnSave #ProtectOurData 1/

In unhinged brief, Wisconsin GOP compares not giving the Trump DOJ voters' personal data to Jim Crow The Wisconsin GOP delivered a culture war-addled screed complete with typographical errors, segregation-era comparisons, anti-immigrant panic and ad hominem attacks.

The Republican Party of Wisconsin filed a disturbing amicus brief Tuesday urging a federal court to force the Wisconsin Elections Commission to hand over the state’s unredacted voter rolls to Trump’s Justice Department www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office.

This is looting.

Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.

Why a Royal’s Arrest Exposes Trump’s Shameful Perversion of Justice In Britain, even a (former) royal is being hauled in to answer questions on Epstein. And yet here, impunity reigns.

OPINION | In Britain, even a (former) royal is being hauled in to answer questions on Epstein. And yet here, impunity reigns, writes @djrothkopf.bsky.social.

As usual, everything that Trump says about tariffs and trade is totally untrue—according to the economic statistics issued by his own administration.

RFK Jr/MAHA disciples, you got PLAYED.

And everyone else saw it coming except you.

Since every poll shows that Republicans are going to take a beating in the midterms for many reasons, they are looking for every possible way to rig elections everywhere. bsky.app/profile/blue...

Trump has given us no case for this war. What is it to accomplish? What are its objectives? How will we know if it is a success or a failure? But Rupert Murdoch and the usual MAGA talking heads, like Canadian-born Ted Cruz, are all in for this war, and indeed, any war.

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson This Week in Politics | Explainer

This Week in Politics | Explainer
Heather Cox Richardson @hcrichardson.bsky.social
Feb 17, 2026
We’re live here on YouTube and Facebook every Tuesday and Thursday at 6 pm Maine time (3 pm PM youtu.be/zp6q6sT0HQQ?...).

“If the President can, at his pleasure, send troops into any city, town, or hamlet…then there can be no difference whatever in this respect between the powers of the President and those of...the Czar of Russia.” Illinois's Guilded-Age Governor John Altgeld in 1895

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

New level of American exceptionalism unlocked

Excerpt from Feb 2026 Kendzior article "Shipwreck on Zombie Road" https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/shipwreck-on-zombie-road

I believe in redemption, but not for this. Not for predators and the people who protected them.
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/shipwreck-...

As a result of Gorelick’s actions, Kushner gained classified intelligence that he likely shared with or sold to foreign states, including Saudi Arabia, from which he pocketed two billion dollars, and Israel, to which he has been tied since birth due to his family’s long friendship with the Netanyahu family, to the point that Benjamin Netanyahu slept in Jared’s bed when visiting the United States. Garland has refused to investigate Kushner. A likely reason is that, were he to investigate Kushner – who remains a profound national security threat – he would also be investigating his best friend. It is one big club, and it is destroying our country.

From 2023, on Garland, Kushner, and more.
You need to grasp that the people who defended Garland and the DOJ did so to protect Epstein and his broader syndicate. That's why they were so vicious and obsessive about defending the DOJ during the Biden years:
sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/servants-o...

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

Only once people admit that the entire Ukraine-Russia negotiations process being orchestrated by the USA/Trump is first and last a sham designed to help Putin as much as possible (and provide massive payoffs to the administration), will people be able to discuss it honestly.

City leaders in Social Circle, GA, recapped last night a meeting with DHS that they say did not address any of their concerns regarding the ICE ‘mega processing’ warehouse the agency just bought.

A staggering study in ineptitude.

www.socialcirclega.gov/Home/Compone...

Man, just listen to this. Trump's effort to contain the Epstein scandal has failed, spectacularly.

Comrade Goddek reminds us that when a nuclear armed far right country uses made up history to commit genocide, we should call it out right through the Olympics.

Unless it's Russia. Then keep fucking politics out of the Olympics. If you don't want to die, surrender.

The greatest threat Russia presents right now is that it gains more at the negotiation table than it has achieved on the battlefield.

Russia’s maximalist demands cannot be met with a minimalist response.

Extract of my speech at Munich Security Conference ↓

OTD in 1951, 6 years after we "liberated them from fascism", Stalin received plans to deport "Jehovists" from Ukraine, Belorussia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania & Moldova.

Imagine mass deportations in this day & age..

February 18, 2026 Today Illinois governor J.B.

February 18, 2026

The Four Ways Trump Plans to Delegitimize this Fall’s Elections His goal here isn’t necessarily victory on the merits. It may be delay, uncertainty, and public doubt—especially in close races.

"Voter rolls...contain names, addresses, party affiliations[], and voting histories...In the wrong hands, they become instruments for advancing allegations of fraud or irregularity."

The Four Ways Trump Plans to Delegitimize this Fall’s Elections newrepublic.com/article/2066... via @newrepublic.com

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.

It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.