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and i wrote this a decade ago about jackson as the model response to trump-style politics www.slate.com/articles/new...
Demoralized Democrats Have a Road Map for Success in Trump’s America. It Was Written by Jesse Jackson.
Jesse Jackson first ran for president during the national farm bust of the early 1980s. Debt for farmers had exploded from $85 billion in 1976 to $216 ...
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February 17, 2026 at 1:36 PM
Hillary Clinton accuses Trump administration of Epstein files cover-up – US politics live
Hillary Clinton accuses Trump administration of Epstein files cover-up – US politics live
‘Get the files out’, says former secretary of state, adding that she and Bill Clinton have ‘nothing to hide’ President Trump has said Hillary Clinton “merely showed her anger” at the Munich security conference and called her a “really bad representative” of the US. Trump also said Gavin Newsom and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “shouldn’t be talking badly” about the US – but also, presumably, him – on “foreign soil”. Heading to D.C. Will give an Air Force One Press Conference, shortly. Marco was fantastic in Munich! AOC and Newscum were an embarrassment to our Nation. For one thing they shouldn’t be talking badly about the U.S.A., especially on “foreign soil.” They made fools of themselves, and always will! Crooked Hillary merely showed her anger and Trump Derangement. Really bad representatives of our now very successful Country! Donald Trump has piled pressure on Ukraine to reach a deal with Russia “fast” before US-brokered talks in Geneva on Tuesday. “Ukraine better come to the table, fast,” the US president told reporters onboard Air Force One while en route to Washington. Trump is pushing to end the conflict, which began when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, but two previous rounds of US-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi did not yield any signs of a breakthrough. Donald Trump has vented his fury against a green energy deal between the British government and California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, a likely future Democratic presidential candidate. “The UK’s got enough trouble without getting involved with Gavin Newscum,” Trump said in an interview with Politico, using the derogatory nickname he reserves for Newsom. “Gavin is a loser. Everything he’s touched turns to garbage. His state has gone to hell, and his environmental work is a disaster.” Trump’s most unbridled critics at this weekend’s Munich Security Conference were not Europeans but Americans – and not just Democratic politicians. A few Republicans, out of earshot of the US president’s favoured Fox News, have had the courage to challenge Trump’s diet of tariffs and unpredictability. Trump is committed to the success of the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orbán, because his leadership is crucial for US national interests, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has said. “President Trump is deeply committed to your success, because your success is our success,” Rubio said, standing next to Orbán at a joint press conference in Budapest. John Paulson, a hedge fund billionaire and one of Donald Trump’s earliest Wall Street backers, is planning to move an Ohio manufacturing plant to China despite heavy pushback from employees. Workers at the plant have called the relocation “a slap in our face”, after Paulson vocally defended domestic manufacturing, and are fighting to keep the plant open. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
February 17, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Trump and his administration want Americans to move on from Epstein. Meanwhile, other nations are taking the sex trafficking scandal seriously.

Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
February 15, 2026 at 8:51 PM
One week ago, the Trump administration tried to indict six sitting members of Congress for pretty clearly protected free speech: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Trump administration fails to indict Democrats involved in 'illegal orders' video
President Donald Trump had accused six Democratic lawmakers of "seditious behavior" after they urged members of the military and intelligence communities to refuse unlawful orders.
www.nbcnews.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Even far-right foreign leaders are getting sick of Trump’s meddling

Seldom, if ever, have U.S. presidents interceded as brazenly as Trump has done in foreign politics.
By @maxboot.bsky.social
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February 17, 2026 at 3:35 AM
This is a censorship state.

Is censorship a conservative value? Is that why Republicans are silent about this?

No, of course not. They are just happy to let Trump try to rig our politics because they benefit.
NEWS: CBS blocked Stephen Colbert from airing an interview with Texas State Rep. James Talarico and ordered him not to mention the cancellation over fear of FCC chair Brendan Carr.

Colbert went on air and revealed it anyway.

“He was supposed to be here, but… 1/
February 17, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Repeated instances of interference by Republicans in German politics was ok, until German Chancellor Merz met Governor Newsom in Munich. The Trump administration expresses its irritation regarding this meeting and describes it as „blunder“.

No, this is politics.
February 16, 2026 at 9:21 AM
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore an exhibit about slavery at a historic site in Philadelphia, quoting George Orwell’s ‘1984’ in her scathing decision.
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump Admin Ordered to Restore Slavery Exhibits Stripped From Historic Site in Philly
A judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore exhibits about slavery removed from the President's House Site in Philadelphia last month.
www.rollingstone.com
February 16, 2026 at 9:46 PM
“You have to vote for us,” Trump told the troops ..

The guardrails that have kept America safe are now his playthings. Like a baby with a rattle.

@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
February 15, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Trump is still President, Howard Lutnick is still Sec of Commerce, and the broligarchs, Musk and Thiel, are giving money to both sides of the aisle.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The Epstein files have brought a wave of resignations and investigations
A number of prominent figures have stepped down or are facing investigations after their communications with Jeffrey Epstein and his former longtime companion, Ghislaine Maxwell, were released last mo...
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February 17, 2026 at 9:55 PM
Per WSJ reporting, Trump is lying when he plays dumb about Noem’s affair with Lewandowski. GIFT LINK:
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
February 17, 2026 at 2:06 AM
When will Republicans, veterans organizations, & retired military officers speak up about this? No president in the history of the Republic has done this. Yet Trump, Vance, & Hegseth do it constantly. It betrays the most important core value of our military-no partisan politics.
February 14, 2026 at 11:59 AM
MAGA voted to cut government spending. Trump spent $133k per head to deport 300 people.

#leopardsatemyface #Politics #News
US spent $40 million on roughly 300 deportations to third nations, Democratic report finds
The Trump administration spent at least $40 million to deport roughly 300 migrants to countries other than their own, according to a report compiled by the Democratic staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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February 17, 2026 at 2:35 AM
"Donald Trump is not the disease of our politics, he’s just the worst symptom. The disease is the system that allows big corporations to buy and sell politicians in ways that leave them rigging the system against us."
February 14, 2026 at 7:11 AM
it really seems like “entered politics during the Trump era” is a dividing line among Dems, it’s hard to write all of this off as a game when one of your very first political experiences was a literal mob invading the capitol at the behest of some of your colleagues
A lot of the '18 House members were personally shocked at seeing Republicans do exactly this sort of thing in the press, then say hello in the hallway and try to play it off like it was just all in the game.
February 17, 2026 at 2:39 AM
Sports can't be separated from politics, and athletes are well within their rights to criticize Trump on the world stage. interc.pt/4cj2qpt
February 17, 2026 at 7:05 PM

Donald Trump is not the disease of your politics hes a road sign
February 15, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Trump trashes so many norms that it’s easy to overlook how outlandish some of his actions are. Take his habit of formally endorsing candidates in other countries’ elections. Seldom, if ever, have presidents interjected themselves as brazenly as Trump has done in foreign politics. wapo.st/4aEwTvC
Opinion | Even far-right foreign leaders are getting sick of Trump’s meddling
Seldom, if ever, have U.S. presidents interceded as brazenly as Trump has done in foreign politics.
wapo.st
February 16, 2026 at 12:50 PM
"Most members of Generation Z were still children when Trump came down the escalator…They don’t view Trump as sui generis or beyond the pale, because he’s been the dominant force in our politics for as long as they’ve been politically aware."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Disappointment of Young Trump Voters
Americans under 30 swung to the right in 2024, but they’re not getting what they voted for.
www.theatlantic.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:53 AM
My Trump-supporting cousin-in-law just texted my husband to say he encountered this Mother Jones on social media, read it, realized I wrote it, and told him to tell me I’m doing good work and to keep going.

Things are changing, y’all.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICE deportation flights are getting longer and crueler
A private equity–owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.
www.motherjones.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:54 PM
A newly surfaced 2011 email from Jeffrey Epstein referencing a planned call with Donald Trump appears to undercut Trump’s claim he hadn’t spoken to Epstein since the early 2000s. Read the full story at bit.ly/46VSgr1

#Trump #Epstein #VirginiaGiuffre #Politics #News
February 16, 2026 at 7:07 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“Trump, his aides and many of his supporters haven’t purged contempt from our politics. They’ve mainstreamed it. Purified it. Industrialized it. It’s their push-a-button pushback against everyone who challenges them,” argues Frank Bruni.
Opinion | Pam Bondi and the MAGA Brand of Insult Politics
Insult everyone. Answer for nothing.
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February 17, 2026 at 12:45 AM
👀 'This is an especially big issue among young men. Researchers from Third Way, the moderate Democratic think-tank, have found particularly notable disagreement among young Republican men with how Trump is handling the issue.'

archive.ph/2026.02.16-1...

www.vox.com/politics/479...
Anti-system voters are turning on Trump over Epstein
And young Republicans are particularly enraged.
www.vox.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:29 PM
"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." .. (quote George Orwell, '1984') .. (cartoon Kevin Kallaugher) #politics #trump #ice
February 14, 2026 at 3:09 PM