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Did JD Vance thank Greenland yet for providing emergency medical care to our US sailor?

this kid was spirited away to a "short-term residency program" owned by Bethany Christian Services, an evangelical adoption agency connected to Betsy DeVos

If this is an impression, it's the best I've ever heard.

Holy shit: they folded immediately after this @pamherd.bsky.social skeet
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/22/t...

Reading people. Body language. Knowing how to connect with people totally unlike you and with different backgrounds and beliefs. Defusing tense situations. Gaining trust. High endurance, pain tolerance, and work ethic. Reaction time. Prioritizing order of execution. Anticipating people’s needs. Tons

Classless.

Uncle Jeffy Tiedrich says today in his newsletter:

"Here’s one sure way you can tell you’re living in a shithole country: when the following two headlines appear one after another."

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Opinion | What Exactly Is a ‘Concentration Camp’?

"Always, always, always concentration camps are an end run around the existing legal system. These people that are getting rounded up because whoever’s in power wants to do something that they can’t do using the letter of the law..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/o...

We are the laughingstock of the world because of our moronic and psychotic president. Deservedly so.

Republicans: It shouldn't be up to the courts to decide how we run the country.
Also Republicans: If you want your money back it's nothing to do with us, ask the courts.

Jeffries on Fox News Sunday: "We believe this moment should be used to make dramatic changes to ICE that are bold, transformational, and meaningful ... these are basic, common sense demands."

It’s fascinating that the MAGAs really seem to think fucking up American air travel out of pure spite (by suddenly shutting down TSA Precheck and Global Entry) on a day where a blizzard is hitting the entire Northeast will make people like them *more*

“Not Ready for Prime Time.” A Federal Tool to Check Voter Citizenship Keeps Making Mistakes. The Department of Homeland Security pushed out the revamped tool while it was still adding data. That led to widespread misidentification, particularly for citizens born outside the U.S.

A federal tool to identify noncitizens on voter rolls keeps making mistakes.

“This is not ready for prime time,” a county clerk in Missouri said. “And I’m not going to risk the security and the constitutional rights of my voters for bad data.”

If you hear people complaining, remind them that Dems offered to split out ICE and CPB and fund everything else, including TSA. Republicans said no.

This is either Trump himself which would be pathetic, or it's someone pretending to be Trump which would be hilarious.

13 controversial redactions from the Epstein files — and what we’re learning about them | CNN Politics This has been a big week in the long-running — and still very much not-over — saga of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Names of co-conspirators and authors of incriminating emails were redacted in violation of Epstein Files Transparency Act. Congress should demand answers.
www.cnn.com/2026/02/09/p...

It seems to me that the Governor of Louisiana should be primarily concerned with the health care situation in Louisiana rather than Greenland, but maybe this ‘America First’ thing has nuances to it.

Remarkable: Trump has achieved the distinction of being a Republican president who's deeply unpopular on *both* the economy *and* immigration. Those are traditional GOP strengths, and he's thrown away both of them.

Trumpism is a catastrophic failure.

New from me:

newrepublic.com/article/2068...

Children are being arrested and detained during the time of the Epstein files, and no one is making the connection?

ICE detained a Minnesota teen, labeled him an ‘unaccompanied minor,’ and lost him The Trump administration is apprehending and designating immigrant kids as “unaccompanied,” even as their parents in the U.S. search for them.

The Trump administration is apprehending and designating immigrant kids as “unaccompanied,” even as their parents in the U.S. search for them.

Ghislaine Maxwell fights release of more Epstein documents, calling disclosure law unconstitutional Lawyers for imprisoned British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell are fighting the requested release of 90,000 pages related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell, saying a law used to force the...

Lawyers for Ghislaine Maxwell are fighting the requested public release of 90,000 pages related to Jeffrey Epstein and Maxwell, saying a law used to force the release is unconstitutional. The docs are from a civil defamation lawsuit brought a decade ago by the late Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre.

GOOD NEWS: The world’s largest steam-producing heat pump is now online in Finland, delivering 12 MW of superheated steam from waste heat and CO₂-free electricity.

Proof that industrial heat can be electrified at scale.

www.pv-magazine.com/2026/02/19/w...

BASH: Let's start with the big question -- will you refund the roughly $134 billion taken by these tariffs?

BESSENT: That's not the big question. That's bad framing

BASH: Refunds are clearly gonna be up to you

BESSENT: No no no. It's not up to me or the administration. It's up to the lower court

Drawing of a puppy taking out the trash to a dumpster with the caption; "If it costs your peace it has to go"

Taking out the trash

Palm Beach County sheriff: "At 1:30, the security detail detected that an individual had made his way into the inner perimeter of Mar-a-Lago...they confronted a white man that was carrying a gas can and a shotgun. He was ordered to drop them at which time he raised the shotgun. He was neutralized."

Trump said, let me find the the most corrupt fool among my real estate cronies in NY and put him in charge of negotiating an end to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Of course, the irony of Trump’s post about us needing to send a “hospital boat” to Greenland was that it only emphasized the point that we, in fact, do not have any hospital ships in service right now that are available, while Greenlanders have free universal health care.

One of the greatest bollard walks in history.
#WorldBollardAssociation

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