Barton Lorimor

The FBI Director, a hockey nut, flew the FBI jet to Italy to...uh...inspect security, prior to the Olympics and World Cup. So be grateful:

In Alaska, now-supersized ACA premiums after the expiring enhanced subsidies can top $50K per year for a 64-year-old couple, plus deductibles, copays, etc.

“.. I regret suggesting the authors should be disciplined for their research. Indeed, I retract that suggestion,” Hassett’s statement read. “I was upset ..

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Still blows my mind that my medication, Emgality, is like $1,000 with insurance but if I print out a special cheat code from the manufacturer's website its $35. And they don't automatically give this cheat code to people so that elderly and sick people end up accidentally paying full price.

Bill Mazeroski, 89, Whose 9th-Inning Blast Made Pirates Champs, Is Dead It was Game 7 of the 1960 World Series, when an infielder known for his glove, not his bat, crushed the powerful Yankees with one swing, bringing joy to Pittsburgh.

Breaking News: Bill Mazeroski, who in 1960 hit one of the most famous home runs in World Series history to deliver a championship win for the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 9th inning of Game 7, has died at 89.

Crowell & Moring, Sidley Austin have "filed at least 150 cases seeking refunds at the trade court since Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariff announcement."

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Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

We’ve seen the same question come up repeatedly in response to this post.

Prosecutors have a duty under ethical rules to disclose to judges not only the laws that support their position, but also adverse authority that undermines it.

Official Arlington Heights statement says Bears ‘have repeatedly assured the Village that the news regarding Indiana does not mean that they have made any decisions on a final site location’

Come use that experience to do the thing instead of monitoring it!

The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.

"I saw this on @capitolfax.bsky.social, the idea of the Bears using Indiana trolls to push this narrative only to have to fight those trolls for themselves: You couldn't have scripted this any better if you were trying to write a comedy..."

The referenced post >> capitolfax.com/2026/02/19/c...

"The reality is the people who are fighting about [where the new Chicago Bears stadium should be] are getting priced out no matter where the new stadium is."

@funkycoldluis.bsky.social of @bn-bears.bsky.social at around 25:30 >>

The podcast link to my radio hit on 104.3 The Score today. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed yapping.

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Standing behind the Seal of the President of the United States at a proclaimed Board of Peace event, Donald Trump says he has ordered "incredible" 22 updated B2 bombers.

An Alan Moore novel IRL

What about the 2 million unreleased Epstein files tho

Christopher Walken

Say it, baby!

I could see why that might be top of mind today on the Bears beat.

March 17 will be my third election as a judge in Sangamon County. I love it. I'm lucky to be able to do it. Plenty of openings still available for the Primary!

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How can you win the thing that is a Democratic hoax?

Wow.

So, you've NEVER been to Johnnie's Beef?!

“.. Shameful — but in a way useful,” he wrote in a post on X on Thursday. “No one should any longer pretend we have a ‘Department of Justice.’ We have a Department of Trump.”

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Vintage Chicago Tribune: Five phases of Rev. Jesse Jackson’s legendary life There are some aspects of the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s life that might have been forgotten. Here’s a look back at them.

Vintage Chicago Tribune: Five phases of Rev. Jesse Jackson’s legendary life

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright was responding to EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen’s comments in late January that the bloc intended to reduce reliance on U.S. LNG following the Trump administration’s threats to seize control of Greenland, a Danish territory. “I think, Commissioner Jørgensen’s comments are very unfortunate. The United States is a rock-solid supplier of energy. You can’t have a better partner,” Wright told journalists after closed-door talks with other ministers at the International Energy Agency (IEA) in Paris. “We’ve never used energy as a political weapon. Never,” he said.

wut

@politico.eu >>

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Hey, that’s me!

UPDATE: Pritzker talks about Bears: "They asked us not to move forward" with the bill yesterday. "Now they’re saying to us that that statement is not some confirmation that they’re moving to Indiana, but rather that Indiana had asked them to say that" capitolfax.com/2026/02/19/c...

The advice I give anyone before they start a newsletter is to host it on a platform where they own the intellectual property rights.

Content management platforms come and go. Terms & conditions change, too. Self-hosting is more labor intensive, but the only sure way to avoid IP and M&A issues.

= The Vatican earlier this month refuted reports that the pope might travel to the U.S. for the celebrations this year, with the press office stating: "The pope will not go to the United States in 2026." =

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Andrew arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office as King says 'law must take its course' - live updates It comes after Thames Valley Police said they were assessing a complaint over the alleged sharing of confidential material by the former prince with Jeffrey Epstein.

= [The arrest] comes after Thames Valley Police said they were assessing a complaint over the alleged sharing of confidential material by the former prince with late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

Andrew, who turns 66 today, has previously denied any wrongdoing ... =

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