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So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.
Breaking News: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, was arrested in Britain on suspicion of misconduct in public office over his links to Jeffrey Epstein, the BBC said.
UK Police Arrest Former Prince Andrew Over Epstein Ties: Live Updates
The British police on Thursday arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor on suspicion of criminal activity linked to the Epstein files.
nyti.ms
February 19, 2026 at 10:50 AM
So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.
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UK: Prince Andrew arrested.
South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.
Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.
USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.
South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.
Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.
USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.
February 19, 2026 at 1:08 PM
UK: Prince Andrew arrested.
South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.
Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.
USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.
South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.
Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.
USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.
Make it stop
Trump: "This building was built for peace. Nobody knew what to name it, and then Marco named it after me. I had nothing to do with it. I swear. They said, 'There's a surprise coming.' I thought they were gonna give me a lot of money or something. Maybe cash. Can always use some extra cash."
February 19, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Make it stop
Trump is naming himself president for life of this ridiculous "board" so he can meddle in geopolitics after he's out of office on behalf of his and his buddies' bank accounts.
Whether anyone would participate after he's out of power remains to be seen but he's determined to remain in the spotlight
Whether anyone would participate after he's out of power remains to be seen but he's determined to remain in the spotlight
February 19, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Trump is naming himself president for life of this ridiculous "board" so he can meddle in geopolitics after he's out of office on behalf of his and his buddies' bank accounts.
Whether anyone would participate after he's out of power remains to be seen but he's determined to remain in the spotlight
Whether anyone would participate after he's out of power remains to be seen but he's determined to remain in the spotlight
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So much of what Trump does is fake. Board of peace is fake. Venezuelan regime change was fake. Credit card interest caps were fake. Wall was fake. Its all about optics, the apperance of winning. Its all comms and marketing to make the base believe in the spectacle. But its not real and never was
more than two hours into this "Board of Peace" meeting, we are now enduring random world leader open mic time and Trump's eyes are closed
February 19, 2026 at 4:50 PM
So much of what Trump does is fake. Board of peace is fake. Venezuelan regime change was fake. Credit card interest caps were fake. Wall was fake. Its all about optics, the apperance of winning. Its all comms and marketing to make the base believe in the spectacle. But its not real and never was
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In this entire piece there is not a hint of even a semblance of a legal argument for how a war of this scale would be legal or authorized.
There is quite simply no legal or constitutional authority for Trump to launch a war of choice against Iran.
None. Zero. Nothing.
There is quite simply no legal or constitutional authority for Trump to launch a war of choice against Iran.
None. Zero. Nothing.
U.S. Military Moves Into Place for Possible Strikes in Iran
www.nytimes.com
February 19, 2026 at 2:01 AM
In this entire piece there is not a hint of even a semblance of a legal argument for how a war of this scale would be legal or authorized.
There is quite simply no legal or constitutional authority for Trump to launch a war of choice against Iran.
None. Zero. Nothing.
There is quite simply no legal or constitutional authority for Trump to launch a war of choice against Iran.
None. Zero. Nothing.
If Trump does back down, the vast amount of money being spent to assemble the military just so he can "negotiate" the only way he knows how --- with threats and blackmail --- is criminal. The military isn't his toy to deploy whenever he wants to throw his weight around.
February 19, 2026 at 1:57 AM
If Trump does back down, the vast amount of money being spent to assemble the military just so he can "negotiate" the only way he knows how --- with threats and blackmail --- is criminal. The military isn't his toy to deploy whenever he wants to throw his weight around.
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While you're waiting for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's No Kings tour, here's the mighty Nils Lofgren (@leftylofgren.bsky.social) taking a turn.
(@amylofgren.bsky.social)
(@amylofgren.bsky.social)
Nils Lofgren - No Kings No Hate No Fear
YouTube video by Nils Lofgren
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February 19, 2026 at 1:29 AM
While you're waiting for Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's No Kings tour, here's the mighty Nils Lofgren (@leftylofgren.bsky.social) taking a turn.
(@amylofgren.bsky.social)
(@amylofgren.bsky.social)
Starting a war with Iran is obviously the best way to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
You see he'll start it and eventually it will stop and he will claim that he ended it. Kind of like an arsonist with a bucket of water.
Genius.
You see he'll start it and eventually it will stop and he will claim that he ended it. Kind of like an arsonist with a bucket of water.
Genius.
February 19, 2026 at 1:25 AM
Starting a war with Iran is obviously the best way to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
You see he'll start it and eventually it will stop and he will claim that he ended it. Kind of like an arsonist with a bucket of water.
Genius.
You see he'll start it and eventually it will stop and he will claim that he ended it. Kind of like an arsonist with a bucket of water.
Genius.
Right. I suspect he'll make this decision the way he made the decision to pardon every one of the J6 criminals: "Fuck it... Just do it."
He is spending a lot of time thinking about this… lol
February 19, 2026 at 1:03 AM
Right. I suspect he'll make this decision the way he made the decision to pardon every one of the J6 criminals: "Fuck it... Just do it."
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OH MY GOD I just realized this is about Black History Month and I may die of mortification
Trump: "Do we love Nicki Minaj? She was here a couple of weeks ago. So beautiful. Her skin so beautiful. I said, 'Nicki, so beautiful.' Her nails, her nails they're like that long. I said, 'Nicki, are they real?' She said she didn't want to get into that."
February 19, 2026 at 12:26 AM
OH MY GOD I just realized this is about Black History Month and I may die of mortification
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The same media raking AOC over the coals won't give two shits that Trump doesn't even know what cushy Caribbean ambassadorship he appointed a failed Senate candidate to
Trump: "Herschel Walker, speaking about loyal. How good a football player was Herschel? Now he's ambassador to the Bahamas. I don't know. Bahamas. Bermuda. Is he Bahamas? Whatever. It's a nice place."
February 19, 2026 at 12:14 AM
The same media raking AOC over the coals won't give two shits that Trump doesn't even know what cushy Caribbean ambassadorship he appointed a failed Senate candidate to
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The first assistant Chris Rufo hired in 2021 was a Pepe the frog loving fan of “groyper mom” Michelle Malkin. That guy worked for him for 3+ years before going to work for Russell Vought in the Trump administration last year. So Rufo can miss me with the “I’m shocked by Fuentes’s popularity.”
February 17, 2026 at 11:07 PM
The first assistant Chris Rufo hired in 2021 was a Pepe the frog loving fan of “groyper mom” Michelle Malkin. That guy worked for him for 3+ years before going to work for Russell Vought in the Trump administration last year. So Rufo can miss me with the “I’m shocked by Fuentes’s popularity.”
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The neo-conservatives —who Trump despises for their imperial foreign policy stance — are on the verge of seeing their biggest wet dream come true with our Outlaw Prez launching, together with Bibi Netanyahu, the war against Iran that they’ve all been been hankering for since the ‘80s.
February 18, 2026 at 11:31 PM
The neo-conservatives —who Trump despises for their imperial foreign policy stance — are on the verge of seeing their biggest wet dream come true with our Outlaw Prez launching, together with Bibi Netanyahu, the war against Iran that they’ve all been been hankering for since the ‘80s.
Do they ask him for his citizenship, his marriage certificate, birth certificate and check his signature or just look at the date of birth and give him the beer?
Oh, and by the way, I really doubt he's getting carded.He doesn't exactly look like a teenager.
Oh, and by the way, I really doubt he's getting carded.He doesn't exactly look like a teenager.
Sen. Mike Rounds makes the case for voter ID: "Look, I can't even buy a Coors Light without showing my ID"
February 18, 2026 at 4:52 AM
Do they ask him for his citizenship, his marriage certificate, birth certificate and check his signature or just look at the date of birth and give him the beer?
Oh, and by the way, I really doubt he's getting carded.He doesn't exactly look like a teenager.
Oh, and by the way, I really doubt he's getting carded.He doesn't exactly look like a teenager.
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Hahaha sure bring your marriage certificate, normal country
Sen. Mike Rounds on concerns that women will be disenfranchised by the SAVE America Act: "If you get married, you show them your marriage certificate and you're on your way once again"
February 17, 2026 at 9:56 PM
Hahaha sure bring your marriage certificate, normal country
I thought she was incredibly impressive. This is garbage.
Absolutely enraging headline.
There's another world leader who has a lot more power and actually stumbles quite a bit more than AOC. Really curious why the Times doesn't frame his comments as having "some stumbles" as well!
There's another world leader who has a lot more power and actually stumbles quite a bit more than AOC. Really curious why the Times doesn't frame his comments as having "some stumbles" as well!
February 17, 2026 at 1:04 AM
I thought she was incredibly impressive. This is garbage.
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Defendants form a version of “antifa” that a prosecutor in the case described as an “anti-President Trump and anti-ICE movement,” but that experts warn tips dangerously toward an attempt to prosecute based on ideology. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/guilt-b...
Guilt by Association: First ‘Antifa’ Case Sweeps Anti-Trump Activists Into One Terrorism Conspiracy
This article is part of TPM’s ongoing “Creating the Enemy Within” project,...
talkingpointsmemo.com
February 16, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Defendants form a version of “antifa” that a prosecutor in the case described as an “anti-President Trump and anti-ICE movement,” but that experts warn tips dangerously toward an attempt to prosecute based on ideology. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/guilt-b...
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What a filmmaker. I might need to do his films after Farocki's. A master of the form.
February 16, 2026 at 9:07 PM
What a filmmaker. I might need to do his films after Farocki's. A master of the form.
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there’s a reason philosophy and religion have an extremely long history of treating ambition as a necessary evil - at best.
genuinely not trying to throw shade here, I think most of us have gotten stuck in this kind of loop at some point for something (even if just a stupid video game) but I honestly think the single most mentally healthy thing that’s happened to me in the last decade is losing all my ambition
Token Anxiety
i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
February 15, 2026 at 7:27 PM
there’s a reason philosophy and religion have an extremely long history of treating ambition as a necessary evil - at best.
Yep. And Latinos and African Americans have been here from the very beginning.Not to mention the Native Americans. Is he aware of where the names of half the states, towns and cities in America came from? What an idiot.
And of course the Scots-Irish were Protestants, often Confederates, granted whiteness long before the bedraggled Irish Catholics, who were often compared poorly to Black people in culture, intelligence, hygeine, mores. What a frickin' idiot.
February 15, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Yep. And Latinos and African Americans have been here from the very beginning.Not to mention the Native Americans. Is he aware of where the names of half the states, towns and cities in America came from? What an idiot.
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some past “multicultural economic zones” you may recall include the Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the British Empire.
while all of these had significant problems “no one will die to defend them” was memorably not among them
while all of these had significant problems “no one will die to defend them” was memorably not among them
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 3:58 PM
some past “multicultural economic zones” you may recall include the Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the British Empire.
while all of these had significant problems “no one will die to defend them” was memorably not among them
while all of these had significant problems “no one will die to defend them” was memorably not among them
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Also, here’s a photo of people dying to defend a “multicultural economic zone”
February 15, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Also, here’s a photo of people dying to defend a “multicultural economic zone”
Same applies to Trump
Even if they never made it to the island, the fact they thought they could control the terms of interacting with him is repulsive. You can’t take a little money or leverage a few connections but keep him at arms length by being sufficiently clever. Anyone with integrity should know this.
February 15, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Same applies to Trump