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Born and raised in NYS, now a South Carolinian husband and father. It’s Buster and Friday. I swear a lot. Follow at your own risk!

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The Supreme Court tried to save him from himself, but he's too stupid to grab the life preserver.

20.02.2026 18:36 — 👍 2054    🔁 319    💬 53    📌 19

This is a fake quote that was never said by anyone, which is precisely why it is in an image, has no link associated with it, and does not name the prosecutor.

Jesus Christ, people: fascism is here, and even on Bluesky people of good faith are failing even the most basic media literacy tests.

FFS.

20.02.2026 19:12 — 👍 38    🔁 12    💬 3    📌 0

Ok so agreed.

20.02.2026 18:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Mad let us grant him then

20.02.2026 18:27 — 👍 187    🔁 40    💬 0    📌 2

I have a vague recollection of these… 🤔

20.02.2026 18:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

While CSPAN is waiting for Trump to show up late for his own presser, they’re replaying tariff oral arguments featuring Neal Katyal fucking the Trump administration all the way up. :)

20.02.2026 17:59 — 👍 884    🔁 108    💬 26    📌 5

Massive opportunity for some reporter to grow a spine and ask a pointed question about Epstein.

20.02.2026 17:08 — 👍 20    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

lol “he never had the cards”, nicely put

20.02.2026 17:56 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump’s Commerce Secretary Loves Tariffs. His Former Investment Bank Is Taking Bets Against Them A subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, which is run by the sons of US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, is letting clients essentially bet that President Donald Trump’s tariffs will be struck down in cou...

In July, we reported that a subsidiary of Cantor Fitzgerald, which is run by the sons of US commerce secretary Howard Lutnick, was letting clients essentially bet that President Donald Trump’s tariffs would be struck down in court. www.wired.com/story/cantor...

20.02.2026 17:38 — 👍 105    🔁 34    💬 4    📌 3
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The FBI interviewed one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims four times over her allegation that Donald Trump assaulted her when she was underage—but most accusations against the president appear to have been removed from the government’s documents.
trib.al/t8cm1D1

19.02.2026 20:52 — 👍 1608    🔁 996    💬 157    📌 69
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Breaking News.....Trump administration releases first UFO photo!!!

20.02.2026 16:14 — 👍 56    🔁 8    💬 8    📌 1

Two issues I'm pondering. One is that you can't move this many people without inflicting tremendous physical and psychological harm on those deported and on society itself. The second is that left in place for years, mass detention on a whole new level will be normalized. It rarely vanishes. [1/3]

20.02.2026 15:24 — 👍 1021    🔁 421    💬 33    📌 19

3/ THE question is whether those Justices will recognize same problem in other contexts.

Indeed, DOJ makes similar claims in use of military domestically:

President gets to call the emergency, President gets to unlock extraordinary powers, courts don't get to review.

SCOTUS calls that out here.

20.02.2026 15:59 — 👍 213    🔁 36    💬 5    📌 2

Trump will have a plan to reconstruct a lot of his tariffs after this SCOTUS ruling through a combination of other legal authorities (232, 301, 122). But those authorities are more narrow and process-intensive, so he has lost the ability to just rapidly slap tariffs on any country on a day's notice

20.02.2026 15:45 — 👍 1742    🔁 328    💬 75    📌 21
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A fake ICE tip line reveals neighbors reporting neighbors A Nashville comedian’s deportation hotline, set up as a joke, has gone viral among viewers who say it shows the “banality of evil personified” in the U.S. immigration crackdown.

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

20.02.2026 12:02 — 👍 4430    🔁 1612    💬 155    📌 251

SCOTUS ruled 6–3 that Trump exceeded his authority by imposing broad tariffs under Int Emergency Economic Powers Act—“law does not authorize president to levy tariffs”

This blocks sweeping “reciprocal” & country-based duties but does not affect separate sector-specific tariffs (steel and aluminum)

20.02.2026 15:26 — 👍 584    🔁 146    💬 31    📌 13

We want our money back.

20.02.2026 15:53 — 👍 2037    🔁 408    💬 114    📌 15
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Justice Samuel Alito Took Luxury Fishing Vacation With GOP Billionaire Who Later Had Cases Before the Court In the years after the undisclosed trip to Alaska, Republican megadonor Paul Singer’s hedge fund has repeatedly had business before the Supreme Court. Alito has never recused himself.

Shocking. Alito and Thomas wanted a bigger bribe which Trump could not deliver

www.propublica.org/article/samu...

20.02.2026 15:34 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Just realized how many lawyers they're going to need in the US Court of International trade, it's going to be fishing with dynamite for plaintiffs seeking to recoup tariffs paid IMO. Say it with me now, they have run out of lawyers.

20.02.2026 15:22 — 👍 843    🔁 150    💬 19    📌 16

Now investigate who invested in tariff refunds.

Start with Lutnick's kids and go from there.

20.02.2026 15:10 — 👍 27    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court.

Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business.

As well as everyone else who stepped up.

20.02.2026 15:14 — 👍 19801    🔁 5075    💬 270    📌 201

Qatar?

20.02.2026 15:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh no not a mess 🙄

20.02.2026 15:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ah thank you

20.02.2026 14:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This isn’t the first eugenic Nazi ass garbage he’s spewed about the homeless, is it? Something about injecting them with poison? Or was that another Fox propagandist? They’re all so interchangeable.

20.02.2026 13:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): I'm going to give the billionaires some advice because the wealth gap is the widest it's been since the roaring '20s, which Greg remembers was a lot of fun. And what happens, you have a great, great time and then the market tanks and then the politicians punish successful people, like FDR. So, you've got to get out ahead of this, and you've got to employ the bread and circuses strategy that they used to do in the ancient Roman times, when wealthy emperors used to just throw lavish banquets and festivals and make the gladiators fight. So, you feed and entertain the public in order to show how generous you are and maintain the social order.

So, if you're a billionaire in California, before the peasants start storming the castle, how about this? How about you buy everybody there a $1 value meal at McDonald's? How about you do an Oprah? Free cars! How about you buy maybe everybody in skid row a one-way ticket to Thailand? That also gets them out of town, or make the homeless people in skid row fight like gladiators. Entertain us. Do something big and bold.

JESSE WATTERS (CO-HOST): I'm going to give the billionaires some advice because the wealth gap is the widest it's been since the roaring '20s, which Greg remembers was a lot of fun. And what happens, you have a great, great time and then the market tanks and then the politicians punish successful people, like FDR. So, you've got to get out ahead of this, and you've got to employ the bread and circuses strategy that they used to do in the ancient Roman times, when wealthy emperors used to just throw lavish banquets and festivals and make the gladiators fight. So, you feed and entertain the public in order to show how generous you are and maintain the social order. So, if you're a billionaire in California, before the peasants start storming the castle, how about this? How about you buy everybody there a $1 value meal at McDonald's? How about you do an Oprah? Free cars! How about you buy maybe everybody in skid row a one-way ticket to Thailand? That also gets them out of town, or make the homeless people in skid row fight like gladiators. Entertain us. Do something big and bold.

Incredibly sick stuff. Jesse Watters says billionaires should “make the homeless people in skid row fight like gladiators” www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jes...

20.02.2026 13:37 — 👍 464    🔁 155    💬 75    📌 46

Dammit Star-Lord 😩

20.02.2026 13:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh gross I didn’t know she was like this.

20.02.2026 13:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ukrainian Women Tell Their Stories of Sexual Violence by Russian Soldiers

Ukrainian Women Tell Their Stories of Sexual Violence by Russian Soldiers www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/w...

20.02.2026 11:23 — 👍 37    🔁 29    💬 0    📌 1

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