Susan Laufer

For all those who didn't watch tonight, allow me to summarize:

The liar lied again.

The President announced a war on fraud.

You can begin with the most corrupt administration in American history.

The Trump Cartel.

Trump claims he "lifted" 2.4 million people "off of food stamps" ... those were literally the people kicked off of SNAP by the work requirements he implemented.

YouTube video by Static Multimedia Movies & TV THRESHOLD (2026) - Official Trailer | Jessie Diggins Documentary

Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqbe...

Threshold, the Untold Story of Jessie Diggins, Premieres on NBC’s Peacock Threshold, a feature-length documentary centered on Olympic champion, four-time Olympic medalist and the most successful American cross country skier in history, Jessie Diggins, premieres today, Feb. ...

It's out, streaming on Peacock! My son Yaniv's latest documentary as editor: www.usskiandsnowboard.org/news/thresho...
Link to the trailer in the comments.

There were semi trucks full of dead bodies in NYC

The president, who drones on about protecting women’s sports, publicly mocked the women’s gold-medal hockey team. A reminder this was never about protecting women’s sports and it was always about transphobia and misogyny.

Disgusting display by the US men's hockey team as they laugh along with a violent misogynist as he mocks the women's team. No solidarity among Olympians with these guys.

Trump Says He Is Sending Hospital Ship to Greenland It wasn’t clear what prompted the decision or nor was it clear why the people of Greenland need a hospital ship.

“It isn’t clear why the people of Greenland need the hospital ship. Greenland’s government provides free healthcare to the population. The White House didn’t respond to a request for more information.”

Clarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP Donor Island-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me tha...

Our Pulitzer-winning "Friends of the Court" series began with this story that revealed how SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas had, for 20+ years, been treated to undisclosed luxury vacations by real estate titan and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow.

(Published April 2023)

US Citizen, Ruben Ray Martinez, was shot 3 times through the driver's side window & killed on South Padre Island in Texas by Homeland Security Investigators while celebrating his 23rd birthday on March 15th, 2025.

This DHS & #ICELawlessness must stop.

Remember his name: Ruben Ray Martinez
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Cuckoo for cocoa puffs

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Inside Trump’s ICE Concentration Camps “This system is designed to punish, not protect”

open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

Ted Lieu says the full, unreleased Epstein files show Donald Trump r**ing children.

Justice Dept. Lawyer Is Found in Contempt by Federal Judge

🚨DOJ Lawyer is Found in Contempt by Federal Judge 🚨

A long fuse on this one ... Boasberg, Xinis, Schiltz, and now Provinzino

Free gift link ... www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/u...

Exclusive | The Accomplice Who Was Going to Testify Against Jeffrey Epstein—Then Went Dark Model scout Jean-Luc Brunel was negotiating to provide prosecutors with evidence against the sex offender in 2016 but ultimately backed out.

New via WSJ: French modeling scout Jean-Luc Brunel was secretly negotiating in 2016 with lawyers representing Epstein's victims, according to DOJ files.

Brunel's lawyer told them his client recruited girls for Epstein and had incriminating photographs.

Then Brunel went dark.

The cost of the measles outbreak in Texas With cuts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Texas and other states will have to spend more on public health. The biggest expense of a measles outbreak is the public health response in...

The cost of the 2019 measles outbreak with 71 cases in Texas.
“Our analysis of the cost of our measles outbreak was $47,479 per case.”

Overall, the cost was just over $3 million.

Melnick said the Texas outbreak was much more expensive—mainly because of the number of hospitalizations.

Very important story about the mechanisms the administration is (ab)using to try to rush its vision into reality and many people working to stop it.

The United Nations says the Epstein files point to the existence of a “global criminal enterprise” that has committed crimes against humanity, yet the Trump White House is just like… sorry, there’s not enough evidence to prosecute anybody in these files. Insane.

Me too. Not only a mental wreck worrying about the newborn but a physical wreck recovering from the birth and trying to establish breastfeeding with a sick baby. Awful!!

“Lorth Sim, a Cambodian national, died in ICE custody on Monday, the seventh since the start of the year and nearly the 40th since Trump took office. ICE has not updated its website to reflect this latest detainee death as of the time of this writing.”

Report: Staff at Dilley raiding cells to confiscate kids' letters and drawings detailing conditions inside A child detained in Dilley for eight months draws a picture of home. This photo was supplied to the Current by attorney Eric Lee. It's unknown whether

Report: Staff at Dilley raiding cells to confiscate kids' letters and drawings detailing conditions inside www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

We are the laughing stock of the world.

AOC: “You are the Attorney General of the United States of America & you don't want to hold anyone of these pedophiles accountable — resign or be impeached"

Warning: Awful Epstein file. From girl's journal describing her recruitment via false modeling promises, repeated abuse, forced impregnation as a "human incubator" for elite "gene pools," & traumatic birth in Palm Bch where the infant was stolen by Ghislaine Maxwell.
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕

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