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Barbara Kaskosz, Ph.D., a mathematics professor at a university in New England. Concerned about democracy in America and the future of our country. ๐Ÿณ๏ธโ€๐ŸŒˆ Opinions expressed here are solely my own and do not reflect the views or opinions of my employer.

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Trumpโ€™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.

โ€œIt is a hallmark of fascist politics that the ruling party becomes a kind of institutionalized gangโ€ฆwith cruelty and brutality as the organizing principles and violent bravado as the main form of political expression.โ€

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

26.02.2026 11:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 790    ๐Ÿ” 252    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18    ๐Ÿ“Œ 12
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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...

27.02.2026 05:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Andrew Weissmann on the missing documents from the Epstein files that include accusations of Donald Trump committing a crime: โ€œOne thing that is absolutely clear, we are seeing in my view a cover-up of monumental proportions.โ€

@weissmann.substack.com

27.02.2026 05:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Here is Senator Adam Schiffโ€™s report โ€œArmed for Violenceโ€. 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 โ€” a really scary prospect.

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

27.02.2026 04:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Sen. Adam Schiff released a report โ€œArmed for Violenceโ€ that documents an alarming increase in weaponry purchased by the DHS to arm ICE and CBP:

โ€œWe are building a no small army now thatโ€™s going to be policing our streets.โ€

27.02.2026 04:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

27.02.2026 05:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Andrew Weissmann on the missing documents from the Epstein files that include accusations of Donald Trump committing a crime: โ€œOne thing that is absolutely clear, we are seeing in my view a cover-up of monumental proportions.โ€

@weissmann.substack.com

27.02.2026 05:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Here is Senator Adam Schiffโ€™s report โ€œArmed for Violenceโ€. 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 โ€” a really scary prospect.

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

27.02.2026 04:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Sen. Adam Schiff released a report โ€œArmed for Violenceโ€ that documents an alarming increase in weaponry purchased by the DHS to arm ICE and CBP:

โ€œWe are building a no small army now thatโ€™s going to be policing our streets.โ€

27.02.2026 04:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Judge Vows to End Trump Administrationโ€™s Noncompliance โ€˜One Way or Anotherโ€™

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 โ€œone way or another, ICE will comply with this courtโ€™s orders.โ€

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

27.02.2026 02:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account Our national project of elite impunity

Adam Serwer: โ€œOne 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.โ€

@adamserwer.bsky.social

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

27.02.2026 01:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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 โ€” Harvardโ€™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...

27.02.2026 00:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
BREAKING: Hillary Clinton speaks after GOPโ€™s Epstein deposition
YouTube video by MS NOW BREAKING: Hillary Clinton speaks after GOPโ€™s Epstein deposition

FULL PRESSER by Hillary Clinton after her deposition today:

youtu.be/AeIKLR5EkyY?...

27.02.2026 00:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Paramount Wins Bidding War for Warner Discovery After Netflix Drops Out Netflix pulled the plug on its deal soon after Warnerโ€™s board determined Paramountโ€™s revised offer was superior.

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

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

CNN will be owned by Trumpโ€™s friend!

(Gift article)

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

26.02.2026 23:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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 โ€˜poofโ€™, 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.

27.02.2026 02:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Judge Vows to End Trump Administrationโ€™s Noncompliance โ€˜One Way or Anotherโ€™

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 โ€œone way or another, ICE will comply with this courtโ€™s orders.โ€

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

27.02.2026 02:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How America Chose Not to Hold the Powerful to Account Our national project of elite impunity

Adam Serwer: โ€œOne 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.โ€

@adamserwer.bsky.social

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

27.02.2026 01:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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 โ€” Harvardโ€™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...

27.02.2026 00:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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.

27.02.2026 00:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
BREAKING: Hillary Clinton speaks after GOPโ€™s Epstein deposition
YouTube video by MS NOW BREAKING: Hillary Clinton speaks after GOPโ€™s Epstein deposition

FULL PRESSER by Hillary Clinton after her deposition today:

youtu.be/AeIKLR5EkyY?...

27.02.2026 00:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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.

26.02.2026 22:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18861    ๐Ÿ” 5239    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 919    ๐Ÿ“Œ 357
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Paramount Wins Bidding War for Warner Discovery After Netflix Drops Out Netflix pulled the plug on its deal soon after Warnerโ€™s board determined Paramountโ€™s revised offer was superior.

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

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

CNN will be owned by Trumpโ€™s friend!

(Gift article)

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

26.02.2026 23:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Sen. Warnock calls Trump โ€˜divisive demagogueโ€™ after SOTU speech
YouTube video by MS NOW Sen. Warnock calls Trump โ€˜divisive demagogueโ€™ after SOTU speech

Sen. Warnock on the #SOTU: โ€œ[Donald Trump] unleashes a kind of poison into our politics that divides neighbor against neighbor. [โ€ฆ] It is a kind of wickedness being unleashed in the ether.โ€

youtube.com/shorts/L8QdC...

25.02.2026 14:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tom Nichols describes last nightโ€™s State of the Union as โ€œa vulgar, populist carnivalโ€ and that is exactly what Trump delivered.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social

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

25.02.2026 14:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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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...

25.02.2026 13:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Fascism.

24.02.2026 22:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Andrew Weissmann on the Epstein files and the DOJ: โ€œThis is one where if there is no cover-up, why are they behaving like there is?โ€

@weissmann.substack.com

24.02.2026 22:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 65    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tom Nichols: โ€œThere are people in the Republican Party who think itโ€™s a hoot to post Nazi memes and to use language from the Third Reich, and I wrote it because we canโ€™t keep ignoring this and pretending that itโ€™s normal. The Republicans in fact do have a Nazi problem.โ€

@radiofreetom.bsky.social

24.02.2026 21:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1260    ๐Ÿ” 362    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 36    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14
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Glenn Kessler, fact check columnist, pre-checks tonightโ€™s #SOTU. Part 2: Trumpโ€™s favorite fibs and go-to lies on foreign policy and the economy.

@glennkessler.bsky.social

24.02.2026 20:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Glenn Kessler, fact check columnist, pre-checks tonightโ€™s #SOTU. Part 1: Trumpโ€™s favorite fibs and go-to lies on tariffs an immigration.

@glennkessler.bsky.social

24.02.2026 20:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0