Some Olympic athletes commonsensically and even eloquently distinguish love of country from approval of Trump administration actions that are a blight upon the country.

Trump and MAGA squeal and whine.

Bullies are the most fragile snowflakes.

Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance:

“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”

Putin isn’t really winning. Europe needs to make that clear Behind Russia’s victory narrative in Ukraine is a system under strain. To fight back, the ‘middle powers’ must work harder on their own story

Peter Pomerantsev: "If Moldova, the poorest country in Europe with 2.4mn people, can defeat Russian hybrid attacks, why can’t the rest of the continent?"
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MAGA: “I ain’t watching the halftime show!!!! I’m watching the pro-family TPUSA one headlined by KID ROCK MAGAAA!!!!”

Kid Rock song:

“ladies, young ladies, I like 'em underage, see. Some say that's statutory (but I say that's mandatory)”

Prosecutors Began Investigating Renee Good’s Killing. Washington Told Them to Stop.

As FBI agents equipped with a signed warrant prepared to document blood spatter and bullet holes in Renee Good’s SUV, they were ordered to stop by officials in Washington worried that an investigation would contradict Trump’s version of events. @londonoe.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

Anne Applebaum on Trump's betrayal of Europe "They’re bewildered we’ve allowed this to happen."

"The American media makes things that are abnormal seem normal. The European press doesn’t do that. So you’ll see when they report on Trump’s rambling Davos speech, they will say it made no sense. In the US press, you’ll just see excerpts and an attempt to sanitize it." — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

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Ghislaine Maxwell’s Bombshell Filing Raises Questions About Epstein’s Hidden Network For more access to expert legal analysis, official court documents and breaking news coverage only available here at the intersection of law and politics, please consider becoming a paid subscriber.Le...

“Buried in a footnote of Ghislaine Maxwell’s court filing, she makes the bombshell claim that there are twenty-five accomplices of Jeffrey Epstein who entered into secret settlements and that there are four unnamed employee co-conspirators of Epstein.”

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The Epstein scandal is taking down Europe’s political class. In the US, they’re getting a pass. As Europe moves to address its shame, it’s highlighting the comparative lack of accountability in the U.S.

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Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level

JD Vance loudly booed at the Winter Olympics today.

‘I Didn’t Make a Mistake’: Trump Declines to Apologize for Racist Video of Obamas

Trump says he was the one who decided to post the video with racist imagery of the Obamas, not an anonymous aide, but says he didn't watch to the end before sending it to "the people" to post for him. But he has no regrets. "No, I didn’t make a mistake." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

There was a time when the office of the President of the United States stood as a symbol of integrity.

Leaders like President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama reminded the country what that standard looks like at its best.

smiling, good looking couple seated on a porch (soft focus garden behind them) elegantly dressed, the lady in a sleeveless dress, patterned top, banded at the waist with a softly pleated long white skirt, the man wearing a light colored suit with white shirt and striped tie - body language relaxed and intimate

Portrait of Michelle
and Barack Obama

former First Lady and
President of the US

📷 Pete Souza

Hillary was right about everything….

more than anything

not to mention doing it while out of town at pre-Super Bowl festivities

Demonstrating that Trump believes his cult will believe anything he tells them to believe, the White House announced that the shockingly racist meme posted on Trump's Truth Social account was posted by "a White House staffer."

It was posted in the middle of the night, so which "staffer" is that?

That's great. We support recovery efforts in EVERY state, for ALL Americans.

Speaking of which, Mr. President, PLEASE release the federal disaster aid you’re withholding from LA that will help people rebuild their homes.

The reaction of the Trump admin from Karoline Leavitt: “It’s a brutal war.”

That’s all you get. That’s the reaction.

Don’t forget to thank Trump, or Vance will get upset.

Trump's "Golden Age for America" is as fake as the Party City decorations he taped to the walls of the Oval Office.

“I know they would do anything, that they would hurt people, that they’ve murdered people... I know that intellectually. But I still did not expect them to gas a chill, friendly protest full of nurses and teachers and children and the elderly.”

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Canada’s auto industry is facing huge pressures, leaving workers and businesses in a state of uncertainty. So we’re taking control — and launching a new strategy that will transform the industry to be a global leader in electric vehicles.

I grew up with the Washington Post, wrote editorials for the Washington Post and published a column there for more than 15 years. To watch its owners destroy it, seemingly deliberately, in just a year and a half is devastating.

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If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

James Comer is bringing Hillary Clinton before his committee to testify about Epstein despite having zero contact with him, but not Epstein’s neighbor Howard Lutnick who lied about his connections to Epstein over many years which is proven in the files.

ICE halts "all movement" at Texas detention facility due to measles infections The measles​ cases at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center were detected Friday, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a statement to CBS News.

Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...