😕 ugly stuff here from the nashville banner… nashvillebanner.com/2026/02/19/i...

“It is time to acknowledge what has become tragically obvious: the Trump administration is operating as a massive criminal enterprise.”

This absolutely captures it. Instead of "Trump Administration," we should say "Trump Syndicate."

#TrumpSyndicate

As the pedophile führer's ICE Nazis are ordered to release people they've kidnapped, they do it in the dead of night to make sure it's as cruel and brutal as possible. Fortunately, compassionate Patriots are there to meet them and make sure they're ok and driven to their homes.

Congress: he can’t go to war without us!!!

I mean… technically, you’re right.

Maybe do something about it other than a strongly worded letter.

Ben Smith: I don’t know if Stephen Miller resigns before the midterms, resigns after the midterms, or sticks around. But this feels like that moment when a president puts a lot of confidence in one adviser to steer national policy in a direction that turns out to be politically disastrous.

Yet again Trump’s authoritarianism backfires: “Rocket boosters under Talarico’s campaign… 5 million views… $2.5 million in donations…”

Alternate headline: “47% lie to pollsters”

Ted Lieu: “Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times. In those files, there are highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump raping children … of Donald Trump threatening to kill children. So I encourage the press to go look at these allegations.”

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature

Trump’s propaganda czar Brendan Carr and Trump-controlled CBS refused to let Colbert air his interview with James Talarico. You can watch the interview here, and it already has 1.4M views. youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

—FDR, 1937

Screenshot of a post by Team Talarico quoting James Talarico saying national media never ask him about housing or prescription drug costs, only about trans athletes. He argues billionaires are the real minority harming the country, while trans and undocumented people each make up about 1% of the population. Below is a photo of Talarico speaking on MSNBC with a Texas flag behind him.

This is their whole M.O. right here.

honestly tired of trying to convince people that trump's immigration policy is not really about violent undocumented immigrants or even just undocumented immigrants, but immigrants in general and even non-white people more broadly.

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕

(From @andertoon.bsky.social )

Palantir made $1.8 billion in 2025 by helping ICE deport people How surveillance company Palantir made record profits helping the Trump administration with 'unusual operations.'

This should infuriate everyone.

Palantir must be destroyed.

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Contact Your MOC

The so-called Save America Act will force 21 million American citizens to produce passports or birth certificates just to register to vote. Most do not have them ready. Turning paperwork into a barrier is a poll tax by another name. #HandsOffHerVote social.demcast.com/s/L9X3k1fQ

WATCH: “IT’S A SMASH & GRAB JOB.”

Sen. @jeffyarbro.bsky.social says @GovBillLee’s vouchers are a redistribution of wealth from TN taxpayers to wealthy families with kids already in private schools

Lee wants to double the program while the public schools don’t even keep up with inflation🤔

Trying to understand: the Constitution gives Congress the power to impose tariffs. The President imposes tariffs without Congress. Congress passes a law rescinding his tariffs. The President then vetos that law. Seems like something’s wrong here.

Screenshot of an X post by Micah (@micah_erfan) claiming that Trump’s name appeared 38,000 times in redacted Epstein files and over 1,000,000 times in unredacted files, calling it a violation of the Epstein Transparency Act and stating that people should go to prison. Below is a highlighted excerpt from an Axios interview with Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) stating that when he searched President Trump’s name in the unredacted Epstein files, it came up “more than a million times.”

More than One. Million. Times.

This is Pamela Jo Bondi contemptuously flipping her hair (which is SCREAMING for some purple shampoo) when asked to acknowledge the Epstein survivors seated directly behind her. She couldn't even be bothered to turn her head.

What a rude and deeply unpleasant person.

Sad that this is triggering to so many

MAGA: “I ain’t watching the halftime show!!!! I’m watching the pro-family TPUSA one headlined by KID ROCK MAGAAA!!!!”

Kid Rock song:

“ladies, young ladies, I like 'em underage, see. Some say that's statutory (but I say that's mandatory)”

Schultz: We hear over and over again, “Make America Great Again.” They haven’t even tried to make America good.

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'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Bad Bunny at the Grammys: "Before I say thanks to God, I want to say ICE out. We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens, we are humans, and we are Americans."

"The Fulton County raid is a test run for messing with election administrators and the counting of ballots in the midterm elections in 2026..."

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