Bret Carmichael

Release the Trumpstein files.

Tim Scott must feel great, sitting among a sea of white men as one tears down a sign that says black people are not apes.

And he’s just getting started…

Tim Cook Warned by CIA That China Could Move on Taiwan by 2027 Apple CEO Tim Cook was among a handful of top tech executives who attended a classified CIA briefing warning that China could attack Taiwan by 2027, according to a sweeping investigative report by The...

If the U.S. is embroiled in a conflict with Iran, it won’t have the scale to defend Taiwan even if it wants to.
www.macrumors.com/2026/02/24/t...

“America First Charity?” If Trump wanted a charity, he should have kept USAID. Instead, estimates have 500K+ people are dead because the US shuttered it.

Trump says Netflix will ‘pay the consequences’ if it doesn’t fire Susan Rice Rice said those who “take a knee to Trump” will be held accountable.

The part of free speech is at it again — threatening people for exercising their first amendment right.
www.theverge.com/policy/88288...

Trump raises global tariffs to 15% one day after Supreme Court decision The president is upping the ante by raising the tariffs to the highest limit allowed under a separate trade law.

This was obviously planned. Raising the tariffs from yesterday’s 10% to today’s 15% helps Trump create the illusion that he can still levy tariffs at will and without Congress. 15% is as high as he can go, and only for 149 more days.
www.axios.com/2026/02/21/t...
#USPolitics

Yeah, I don’t think this is true at all. He’s just riffing.

Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere The portal could potentially put Washington in the unfamiliar position of appearing to encourage citizens to flout local laws.

The U.S. government will host a website intending to help EU users circumvent content restrictions. This is the same U.S. government that dismantled VoA.
www.reuters.com/world/us-pla...

Hassett says authors of New York Fed tariff study should be disciplined: 'Worst paper I've ever seen' The NEC director ripped the report, saying that central bank researchers ignored key aspects of how the duties worked

“The people associated with this paper should presumably be disciplined, because what they’ve done…wouldn’t be accepted in a first-semester econ class.”

Like saying Americans don’t pay for tariffs? Are we talking that level of crazy?
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/h...

Anderson Cooper also left 60 Minutes.

What a headline. America has come a long way; from championing democracy and free elections to inserting itself in foreign elections to advance dictatorships.

Jim Jordan must be talking about Trump’s pardon of January 6th rioters.

“Thank you. I’ll use this extra FIFA trophy you’ve given me to bludgeon a seal pup.” 🦭

Another blow to Norway from Epstein files as diplomat quits Norway’s ambassador to Jordan and Iraq, Mona Juul, showed “a serious lapse in judgment,” Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said.

All over the world, revelations from the Epstein files are ending careers, except in the U.S. It’s all about money and politics here, so the powerful are completely insulted by the consequences of their actions.
www.politico.eu/article/norw...

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

“The worst of the worst.” Uh huh… So these children are the raping murderers that Trump and Noem are targeting.
www.propublica.org/article/life...

All 20 people watching from home were deeply moved. Trump wasn’t one of them, as evidenced by video showing the Mar-a-Lago crowd watching Bad Bunny.

Surprised he didn’t complain about all the cheerleaders being over 18.

100 people were paid only $10 to see this.

I’m not saying this is unpresidential, because it should be blatantly obvious.

I was just watching TV the other day. There was a recording of a violent murder by ICE agents who tacked a man to the ground and emptied ten rounds into him, taking him from his family. These are the people McCormick wants to stand behind. That was what the president ran on.

Europe begins its slow retreat from US dependence The EU aims to reduce reliance on America in areas such as technology, energy, payments and defense. That will take some time.

The U.S. will defend its interests against China by severing its military and trade bonds with NATO allies — causing the EU and Canada to re-risk from the U.S. and pushing Canada into trade deals with China. It’s the biggest own goal I’ve seen in my lifetime.
www.politico.eu/article/euro...

The Speaker of the House openly admits to abdicating his responsibilities. If he disagrees with the President, he does what the President says. There’s no need to continue an interview with a guy that has no agency.

Musk bet that the Epstein files would never see the light of day and that he could just lie his way through.

Boy, 5, Nabbed by ICE Is Now Sick in Detention Liam Conejo Ramos is said to be feverish, depressed, and barely responsive.

“The worst of the worst.” Uh huh, tell me more:

“Liam’s father, who, according to the family’s attorney, entered at a port of entry to seek asylum and has no criminal record, has been placed into deportation proceedings alongside his son.”
www.thedailybeast.com/boy-5-nabbed...

Greg Bovino Loses His Job The Border Patrol chief has been ousted from his role as “commander at large,” and will return to El Centro.

Trump’s feeling the heat, so it’s to start throwing people under the bus. If things don’t cool down, Noem’s probably next.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Republicans start raising concerns about Minneapolis shooting Most in the GOP are silent or backing the Trump administration, but a conspicuous few are speaking out.

Republicans are not growing a spine, as the article suggests. These are all people who are leaving of already getting primaried my Trump.
www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Bessent’s argument is that, you have the right to bear arms. If you do, ICE can shoot you, regardless of whether you draw your weapon, and even after they’ve taken it from you.

Compare what Noem said to the video.

For the sake of argument, let’s pretend this was a city’s local law enforcement. Let’s also assume that the man being subdued by multiple officers was an actual criminal. This would be murder. Police aren’t allowed to just kill people. We can stop pretending now.