Opinion | I fact-checked Trump's speeches for years. Here's what to expect from his State of the Union address. Glenn Kessler on what he learned about debunking this president from his years running The Washington Post Fact Checker.

If you have time to read only one news article about tonight's state of the union before the speech, I think this piece by Glenn Kessler should be it:

www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Kash Patel’s use of jet delayed FBI team’s mass shooting response, whistleblower tells top senator Sen. Richard Durbin says FBI director’s “misplaced priorities” led to the delayed response to the Brown University shooting in December.

Breaking MS NOW:

Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available.

Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.

Kash Patel’s use of jet delayed FBI team’s mass shooting response, whistleblower tells top senator Sen. Richard Durbin says FBI director’s “misplaced priorities” led to the delayed response to the Brown University shooting in December.

oh dear

Kash Patel was using the FBI's private jet to visit his mom...

"The evidence response team instead had to drive through the night amid a snowstorm..."

www.ms.now/news/senator...

MAGA, yall good with mass domestic surveillance and autonomous weapons with no humans in the OODA loop?

Trump again claims Iran’s nuclear sites were destroyed and that they don’t have a program.

Is he lying about that? Or is Witkoff lying about Iran being a week away from a bomb?

And if the nuclear program was blown to smithereens, why are going to attack Iran? 🤨

It’s insane how they vacillate between lies depending on what they want to do, and crazier that people just believe them.

Want to look strong? WE COMPLETELY OBLITERATED IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM! 💪💥

Want to bomb Iran? Iran is a week away from bomb-grade material!! 😱

Trump: “I won affordability.”

Also Trump: “If SCOTUS doesn’t let me make things more expensive I will destroy countries”

Pritzker demands a $1,700 refund per family for the people of Illinois after Trump's tariffs were ruled unconstitutional.

Dems, pay attention. This is your midterms message.

"It is difficult to comprehend the level of state-sponsored criminality we are witnessing because our country has never experienced anything like it."- #NYDailyNews

(wait'll ya experience the midterms...)

#AccountabilityIsComing ⚖️

The Epstein administration needs a distraction and Bibi needs a war. It’s a match made in heaven

Opinion | One Man Stole $660 Million. He’ll Never Pay It Back.

“Illiberal governments tend to live or die by their ability to sustain corruption. They rely for support on a network of oligarchs, who in turn are tied to the administration’s success. It happened in Hungary, Turkey, Russia and increasingly, it is happening here.”

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

Holy shit.

A lot of people have suggested this, but I don’t think Lieu would make the allegation unless he had seen some evidence.

Meanwhile, in Germany, the public weighs in on what they think of the Epstein Administration.

#BrutalButAccurate

It's why I can't read the NT, Jesus never shuts the fuck up about the Dow.

ICE raid at apartment complex causes elementary students to run from their bus stop in NJ Thursday Students were seen running away from their bus stop on Thursday morning as ICE agents conducted an operation at an apartment in Lindenwold, NJ.

Nine and ten year olds, fleeing in fear.

www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/f...

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

"The tech companies can choose whether or not to provide the information...

"Google, Meta and Reddit complied with some of the requests..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Seeing as Kash also said Trump was mentioned less than 100 times in the Epstein files and that there was no proof Epstein was trafficking anyone…

I don’t believe this for a second.

In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

Why did convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein pay Ohio State University’s head of gynecology quarterly payments of thousands of dollars??? 😡😡
www.nbc4i.com/news/local-n...

‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record

www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

One million percent. And Schumer should have been given his walking papers 10 years ago.

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

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

Great. Everything is so fucked that somehow I agree with Greenwald.

He nails it here, though.

Head enforcer Bovino complained to CNN that media are making ICE thugs look like Nazis.
According to German magazine Der Spiegel, Bovino needs absolutely no help from media in that regard!

www.spiegel.de/ausland/greg...

You’re watching the administration lose control of the narrative in real time.

The more they show their supporters that they don’t give a shit about their gun rights, the worse it gets.

I’ve seen over a dozen right-wing commentators call out the propaganda. That’s progress.

Holy shit.

He was filming. He went over to help a lady that ICE shoved down. Agents engaged him.

His hands were on the pavement when he was shot.

He never had his hand on a weapon.

Cold blooded murder.

Republicans currently blaming everyone for the homicide except the people who pulled the trigger.

Minnesota is under attack