Barbara Kaskosz

So painfully true words by President Obama.

Trump’s State of the Union Reminds Us The Republican Party Is Truly Lost More evidence that the Republican Party has been entirely transformed into the party of violence and authoritarianism.

“It is a hallmark of fascist politics that the ruling party becomes a kind of institutionalized gang…with cruelty and brutality as the organizing principles and violent bravado as the main form of political expression.”

www.liberalcurrents.com/trumps-state...

Epstein files contain explicit but unsubstantiated claim that Trump abused minor Department of Justice did not release FBI memos when it uploaded millions of pages of files beginning in December

Three unreleased memos that describe interviews conducted by the FBI in 2019 contain explicit but unsubstantiated claims that Trump sexually abused a woman when she was a minor with the assistance of Epstein, according to a Guardian review of those documents.

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

Andrew Weissmann on the missing documents from the Epstein files that include accusations of Donald Trump committing a crime: “One thing that is absolutely clear, we are seeing in my view a cover-up of monumental proportions.”

@weissmann.substack.com

Here is Senator Adam Schiff’s report “Armed for Violence”. ICE and CBP are becoming a new, heavily armed, and poorly trained police force. A new police force fiercely loyal to Trump plus a fast increasing number of detention centers — a really scary prospect.

www.schiff.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

Sen. Adam Schiff released a report “Armed for Violence” that documents an alarming increase in weaponry purchased by the DHS to arm ICE and CBP:

“We are building a no small army now that’s going to be policing our streets.”

Epstein files contain explicit but unsubstantiated claim that Trump abused minor Department of Justice did not release FBI memos when it uploaded millions of pages of files beginning in December

Three unreleased memos that describe interviews conducted by the FBI in 2019 contain explicit but unsubstantiated claims that Trump sexually abused a woman when she was a minor with the assistance of Epstein, according to a Guardian review of those documents.

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

Andrew Weissmann on the missing documents from the Epstein files that include accusations of Donald Trump committing a crime: “One thing that is absolutely clear, we are seeing in my view a cover-up of monumental proportions.”

@weissmann.substack.com

Here is Senator Adam Schiff’s report “Armed for Violence”. ICE and CBP are becoming a new, heavily armed, and poorly trained police force. A new police force fiercely loyal to Trump plus a fast increasing number of detention centers — a really scary prospect.

www.schiff.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

Sen. Adam Schiff released a report “Armed for Violence” that documents an alarming increase in weaponry purchased by the DHS to arm ICE and CBP:

“We are building a no small army now that’s going to be policing our streets.”

Judge Vows to End Trump Administration’s Noncompliance ‘One Way or Another’

The chief federal judge in Minnesota accused federal officials of continuing to disobey judicial orders related to immigration enforcement. The judge threatened to hold officials in criminal contempt so “one way or another, ICE will comply with this court’s orders.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/u...

How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account Our national project of elite impunity

Adam Serwer: “One way to look at the rise of Donald Trump is as part of a decades-long backlash among the American leadership class to the idea of accountability.”

@adamserwer.bsky.social

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Summers To Resign From Teaching Appointments, Relinquish University Professorship Over Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, relinquishing his University Professorship — Harvard’s highest...

Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard and his post as director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School over his ties to Epstein.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

YouTube video by MS NOW BREAKING: Hillary Clinton speaks after GOP’s Epstein deposition

FULL PRESSER by Hillary Clinton after her deposition today:

youtu.be/AeIKLR5EkyY?...

Paramount Wins Bidding War for Warner Discovery After Netflix Drops Out Netflix pulled the plug on its deal soon after Warner’s board determined Paramount’s revised offer was superior.

BREAKING: Paramount won the fight to buy Warner Bros. Discovery after Netflix backed down.

Paramount, led by Donald Trump’s ally David Ellison, will own not only Warner Bros. and HBO, but also CNN, TNT, and TBS.

CNN will be owned by Trump’s friend!

(Gift article)

www.wsj.com/business/med...

My real hope is in unpredictability of political changes. Everyone believed that the Soviet Union can only collapse as a result of WWIII. And then ‘poof’, no more USSR. Who could imagine a criminal president like Trump elected in America. His fall may be faster than his rise. The wind of history.

Judge Vows to End Trump Administration’s Noncompliance ‘One Way or Another’

The chief federal judge in Minnesota accused federal officials of continuing to disobey judicial orders related to immigration enforcement. The judge threatened to hold officials in criminal contempt so “one way or another, ICE will comply with this court’s orders.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/u...

How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account Our national project of elite impunity

Adam Serwer: “One way to look at the rise of Donald Trump is as part of a decades-long backlash among the American leadership class to the idea of accountability.”

@adamserwer.bsky.social

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Summers To Resign From Teaching Appointments, Relinquish University Professorship Over Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, relinquishing his University Professorship — Harvard’s highest...

Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard and his post as director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School over his ties to Epstein.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

It looks so today. But if Americans vote authoritarians out of power, the media will go where the audience and therefore the money is. When the wind of history blows, things can change overnight.

YouTube video by MS NOW BREAKING: Hillary Clinton speaks after GOP’s Epstein deposition

FULL PRESSER by Hillary Clinton after her deposition today:

youtu.be/AeIKLR5EkyY?...

Clinton: It then got at the end quite unusual because I started being asked about UFOs and a series of questions about Pizzagate. One of the most vile bogus conspiracy theories that was propagated on the internet.

Paramount Wins Bidding War for Warner Discovery After Netflix Drops Out Netflix pulled the plug on its deal soon after Warner’s board determined Paramount’s revised offer was superior.

BREAKING: Paramount won the fight to buy Warner Bros. Discovery after Netflix backed down.

Paramount, led by Donald Trump’s ally David Ellison, will own not only Warner Bros. and HBO, but also CNN, TNT, and TBS.

CNN will be owned by Trump’s friend!

(Gift article)

www.wsj.com/business/med...

YouTube video by MS NOW Sen. Warnock calls Trump ‘divisive demagogue’ after SOTU speech

Sen. Warnock on the #SOTU: “[Donald Trump] unleashes a kind of poison into our politics that divides neighbor against neighbor. […] It is a kind of wickedness being unleashed in the ether.”

youtube.com/shorts/L8QdC...

Tom Nichols describes last night’s State of the Union as “a vulgar, populist carnival” and that is exactly what Trump delivered.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Missing Epstein files include interviews with alleged Trump accuser A woman who came forward in July 2019 to accuse Jeffrey Epstein of assaulting and raping her several times in the 1980s, beginning when she was just 13, is also a Trump accuser featured in the Epstein...

MS NOW has confirmed: The DOJ has withheld notes and memos reflecting FBI interviews from its release of the Epstein files, including interviews with a woman who accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her when she was a minor.

@lawofruby.bsky.social

www.ms.now/news/epstein...

Fascism.

Andrew Weissmann on the Epstein files and the DOJ: “This is one where if there is no cover-up, why are they behaving like there is?”

@weissmann.substack.com

Tom Nichols: “There are people in the Republican Party who think it’s a hoot to post Nazi memes and to use language from the Third Reich, and I wrote it because we can’t keep ignoring this and pretending that it’s normal. The Republicans in fact do have a Nazi problem.”

@radiofreetom.bsky.social

Glenn Kessler, fact check columnist, pre-checks tonight’s #SOTU. Part 2: Trump’s favorite fibs and go-to lies on foreign policy and the economy.

@glennkessler.bsky.social