Heaven forbid the EU energy commissioner is making recommendations for Europeans to try to conserve energy following the crisis created by Trump and Israel attacking Iran.
Top Brussels Official Urges Europeans To Work From Home, Drive Less As Energy Crisis Deepens:
Note to Jesse Watters: NATO was founded in 1949. World War II ended in 1945. The Marshall Plan served US interests as well as the Europeans, and helped prevent Soviet expansion. And NATO is supposed to be for defensive purposes, not to help Trump and Bibi with their war of aggression against Iran.
But hey, why should anyone on Fox let a few facts get in the way of one of their rants?
Here's Watters on this Wednesday's The Five doing Putin's bidding by justifying Trump's constant attacks on NATO.
WATTERS: He has a lot of options. I have no clue what he's going to do.
NATO. Let's just say I'm very disappointed. Need we go through how much they owe us? We saved them twice from World Wars. We bailed them out with the Marshall Plan.
We even lowered our tariffs to zero so they could recover for decades. And then we helped them out with Ukraine. And all we want is a base. All we want is airspace for a little bit to knock out the world's number one sponsor of terror.
They can't give us that. These missiles are in range of their capitals, not ours. They get their oil from that strait. We don't. The least they could do is say okay and deal with the domestic blowback.
But to say no, well, like their economy is kind of murdered because they can't even sustain four weeks from an oil supply shock. Like come on, you're not going to send one vessel to the strait? You're going to wait till the hostilities are over?
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Frustrated that our NATO allies refused to help his sneak attack on Iran, Trump told Reuters he is absolutely considering withdrawing the US from the NATO alliance.
"I'll be discussing my disgust with NATO," he said of the speech. Asked if he was thinking about pulling out of NATO, he said: "Oh, absolutely without question. Wouldn't you do that if you were me?"
If Trump actually tried to withdraw from NATO, he would face serious legal challenges because, under the Constitution, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was ratified by the Senate and requires Senate approval to withdraw. In 2023, Congress passed a law that a president cannot withdraw from NATO unless two-thirds of the Senate approves.
We know Trump hates the US Constitution and all its restrictions on executive power, so it will not surprise anyone if he ignores the law to indulge his petulance.
The NATO Alliance was formed in 1949 to thwart any aggression from Russia. It has been a staple of security for all the member nations since then.
NATO was not formed as an attack mechanism so that a member nation could unceremoniously and aggressively attack another country, and then demand aid and assistance from the members.
It has been successful up until today.
Trump is like a spoiled child who pitches a fit when his mommy refuses to give him candy at bedtime. It is a worldwide embarrassment.
Just for context, the 14th Amendment includes,
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”
The W$J reports that our illegitimate and failed SCOTUS is going to hear the birthright citizenship case this week, and that Vulgarmort is already planning on how to spin defeat (assuming a fact not in evidence):
“The case, which will be argued Wednesday, tests Trump’s attempt to end birthright citizenship for the children of unlawful immigrants and temporary visitors. He has gotten trounced in the lower courts, and several conservative Supreme Court justices have already hinted, through little-noticed cues, that they may be skeptical, too.”
“A ruling against the president would further undercut Trump’s stated desire for a court that rubber-stamps his agenda. In the six weeks since the tariff decision, he has repeatedly disparaged the patriotism and loyalty of the justices who ruled against him.”
“’They sicken me, because they’re bad for our country,’ Trump said last week.”
“He also predicted on social media that the court “will find a way to come to the wrong conclusion” on birthright citizenship—an outcome, he said, that other nations would celebrate.”
So he’s prepping the mouthbreathers to blame THEM and not HIM.
Marie Antoinette Trump seems hellbent on turning the People’s House into some gaudy monument to his narcissism.
Not content with destroying the entire East Wing of the White House for the sake of his gold-plated ballroom or remodeling the Lincoln bathroom in his own garish image, Trump has now set his sights on wrecking the Treaty Room.
The Treaty Room is “one of the most historic rooms in the White House,” according to The New York Times. “Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and William McKinley used it as a Cabinet room, and it was where the Spanish-American War peace protocol of 1898, and the nuclear test ban treaty of 1963, were signed.” Presidents George W. Bush and Joe Biden have also made major wartime addresses from the room.
Trump thinks it should be turned into a guest bedroom. No doubt it will have all the vulgar details he is known for.
Over 7 million student loan borrowers enrolled in a Biden-era repayment scheme have been ordered to pick a new plan or risk being automatically placed on one vastly more expensive -- unless a higher court reinstates it.
Borrowers enrolled in the Saving on a Valuable Education plan will begin receiving notices about switching to other ways to repay starting Friday, according to the Department of Education. The Trump administration has long targeted SAVE, which was struck down by a federal court last week. (It is expected to be appealed.)
Loan servicers will now begin issuing notices giving borrowers 90 days to select a new repayment plan, department officials said. They will then resume making payments as soon as this summer.
Around half of those on the SAVE plan had incomes low enough to qualify for its zero-dollar monthly payment. The standard plan orders them to pay fixed payments over 10 years, leading to huge increases.
The brilliant idea dreamed up by administration frat boys was to plant a public narrative about classified information strongly indicating that Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei is gay.
But the idea was fabricated and pushed behind the scenes by a cohort of Trump advisers, US government personnel, and MAGA associates, two people with knowledge of the matter and another two sources briefed on it told Zeteo reporters.
They've been laughing about it since. (You know, dick jokes.) “We wanted to mindfuck [the Iranians] with gay shit,” one of the sources says. Another source – a Trump administration official familiar with how this all went down – adds that one of their MAGA group chats is titled, simply: “gayatollah.”
By late Thursday night, the White House had not responded to our request for comment. However, not long after we emailed our comment request, Trump suddenly appeared on TV blabbing about the topic.
The president was asked by Fox’s Jesse Watters if the CIA had told him that the new supreme leader is gay. “Well, they did say that, but I don’t know if it was only them,” Trump replied. “I think a lot of people are saying that, which puts him off to a bad start in that particular country.”
Mark Zuckerberg's behemoth social media company, which houses Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, and Threads, lost BIG in New Mexico court today. The lawsuit is the first of its kind - a state sued and won against a major tech company for the harm its platform caused young people.
The jury ordered Meta to pay the maximum penalty - $5,000 per violation - which totaled $375 million in civil penalties. Meta was specifically found liable for misleading consumers about the safety of their platform, which included child sexual exploitation.
Following the verdict, New Mexico attorney general Raúl Torrez put out a statement:
"The jury’s verdict is a historic victory for every child and family who has paid the price for Meta’s choice to put profits over kids’ safety. Meta executives knew their products harmed children, disregarded warnings from their own employees, and lied to the public about what they knew. Today the jury joined families, educators, and child safety experts in saying enough is enough.”
The lawsuit followed a massive investigation by the Guardian, published in April 2023, that showed how Facebook and Instagram were being exploited for child sex trafficking.
Meta plans to appeal and put out a statement saying:
Border Czar Tom Homan made an appearance on this Sunday's State of the Union on CNN, and was asked about Trump's threat to send his ICE thugs to airports across the country to supposedly help TSA agents with the long security lines caused by TSA staffing shortages following a partial government shutdown.
Trump announced those agents were going to deploy this Monday, although there's no confirmation as to which airports they would be deployed at. When Dana Bash tried to pin Homan down on just how exactly any of this was going to work, Homan was short on specifics and had to admit that the ICE agents are not trained to handle most of the work TSA agents do, and they would not be operating any X-ray equipment.
BASH: President Trump posted on TRUTH Social -- quote -- "If the radical left Democrats don't immediately sign an agreement to let our country, in particular, our airports, be free and safe again, I will move our brilliant and patriotic ICE agents to the airports, where they will do security like no one has ever seen before."
Now, in a subsequent post, he said that he instructed ICE agents to be ready by Monday. And now the president is saying that you, sir, are going to be in charge. How is that going to work? Are ICE agents going to move into American airports starting tomorrow, Monday?
HOMAN: Yes.
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When I first heard this aria, it knocked me down.
ClassicFM: "Known in German as ‘Der Hölle Rache’, this is an utterly stunning aria of vocal power and virtuosity from Mozart’s late opera The Magic Flute. It’s written for dramatic coloratura soprano and demands huge range and vocal might, as well as colour and agility. Listen out for vicious long runs and famous staccato notes up to a top F as the mother of the opera’s heroine, Pamina, vents her considerable rage."
Soprano Diana Damrau rips her way through this monumental work.
This was a 2025 performance from the Royal Ballet and Opera.
Open thread.
Pete Kegseth is going to need an extra shot of tequila tonight to soothe his hurt fee fees after losing a big court case today regarding press access to the Pentagon. Here is what happened: In October 2025, Hegseth attempted to force news organizations to sign some sort of document related to their reporting, effectively limiting what they could say, even if the information was unclassified. That was a huge departure from previous administrations.
The policy led to dozens of journalists being effectively shut out of the Pentagon because they refused to sign the insane policy. Included in the exodus were the Washington Post and the New York Times. In their place, dozens of right wing and internet personalities signed and were granted journalist passes. Utter insanity.
Well, the New York Times and one of its reporters, Julian Barnes, SUED. And they won! A federal judge in DC on Friday struck down the Department of Defenses new policy, deeming it unconstitutional.
The judge referenced the war in Iran, stating that it is “more important than ever that the public have access to information from a variety of perspectives about what its government is doing.”
The DOJ had no comment, but Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell posted on twitter that they plan to appeal.
Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) made an appearance on this Thursday's The Source with Kaitlan Collins on CNN, and was asked by Collins about the Pentagon’s emerging plan to seek $200 billion in additional military spending to pay for Trump and Bibi's Iran war, and Perry came up with this doozy for how to fund it: Have the Iranians pay for the US to wage war against them.
COLLINS: Obviously you are a lawmaker. What's your initial reaction to the Pentagon seeking $200 billion for this war? Is that something you'd vote yes on?
PERRY: Well, that's the beginning of the... that's the offer on the table, right? We... all of Congress, including Republicans and Democrats, are going to want to see the granular details of what that involves.
Remember, the administration also asked for $1.5 trillion in military spending to rearm, refit, retool the production lines and so on and so forth. Is this part of that or is that separate? So we've got a long way to go. That's the initial offer on the table, but we have questions that are reasonable that we will get answered. And, you know, we're going to have a say in this thing. So we're going to work it out.
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Trump's minion was back at it again, trying to put some lipstick on this giant pig his idiot boss has inflicted all of us in the United States and the rest of the world, for that matter, with his attack on Iran.
Miller made an appearance on Fox's The Ingraham Angle. After first pushing back against Ingraham, asking why securing the Strait of Hormuz was taking so long, given the progress Miller and others keep claiming is happening, Miller insisted that the operation has moved remarkably fast compared to historical norms.
After showing a clip of NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte stating that allies universally agree the Strait of Hormuz must reopen, and that NATO members are actively coordinating on how to achieve that, Ingraham tried to pin Miller down on which members those were, since none have said publicly that they'd help.
Miller then launched into another one of his diatribes, insisting that this has been one of the greatest military victories EVER!!! and pretending Trump is some genius military strategist.
INGRAHAM: Obviously, that's Rutte. Have any NATO members told you that they're going to help? Because so far, France, Germany, UK have been adamant that this is not their problem.
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On Tuesday, NBC's Meet the Press NOW ran a segment on reactions to increasing fuel costs, during which political reporter Jonathan Allen interviewed Amanda Robbins, a Pennsylvania local, at a Millersburg gas station, and let's just say that the three-time Trump voter is no longer pleased with how things are going with Donald J. Trump at the helm.
Are Trump supporters coming out of the fog? Signs point to yes, but there is still a good faction of his base that seems incapable of letting go of their orange pissdaddy, who, for some strange reason, has a hold on his cult-like following.
"Let's take a listen to one more woman whom we spoke with," Allen said. "If you could say something to President Trump and he was going to hear you right now, what would it be?"
"You're a worthless pile of shit," she said.
"And you voted for him how many times?" Allen asked.
"Three times," Ms. Robbins replied. "That was my bad. Apparently, I'm an idiot."
Well, yeah, she has a point. She was repeatedly warned. As for the three others Allen interviewed, they're sticking by their guy. The other Trump supporters Allen interviewed expressed a willingness to absorb higher pump prices, citing either their backing of the war effort or their confidence in Trump as their reasons.
Trump was none too happy with a reporter from ABC for daring to ask him about the disgusting fundraising email his PAC sent out, raising money off of the dead troops who were killed in Kuwait.
As we already discussed here, the email used an image from the dignified transfer honoring six fallen US soldiers, and it promised access to the president’s “private national security briefings.”
NEW: A fundraising email from President Donald Trump’s political action committee has a provocative pitch: using an image from Saturday’s dignified transfer honoring six fallen US soldiers, it promises access to the president’s “private national security briefings.”… pic.twitter.com/D2CEYk4j4h
— Andrew Kaczynski (@KFILE) March 13, 2026
Here's the exchange from this Sunday aboard Air Force One, where Trump took some questions from reporters. What a nasty piece of work this nutjob is.
REPORTER: Your PAC sent out a fundraising email trying to make money off the dignified transfer. Do you think this is appropriate?
TRUMP: Well, I was at the transfer.
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Just how desperate are the Republicans to pass the SAVE Act? Well, Ron Johnson is willing to blame the Democrats for saving democracy if it doesn't get passed! He said as much to Eric Bolling on his show on Real Russian Voice, er, Real American Voice:
ROJO: The first point is if we can't pass the Save America Act, blame the Democrats. They're the ones that refuse to, you know, agree to vote for any controls over our election process to make sure that your legitimate vote is not canceled out by fraudulent act. That is Democrats, because that kind of control, the Save America Act, it's existential to their plan of being a one-party nation. So it's the Democrats' fault.
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President Donald Trump defended the easing sanctions on Russian oil, excusing reports that the nation’s dictator, Vladimir Putin, has been assisting Iran in its war efforts against the U.S.
“I think [Putin] might be helping [Iran] a little bit,” Trump said during his call-in to Fox News on Friday. “And he probably thinks we're helping Ukraine, right?”
At least 13 U.S. soldiers have died since the start of the war. Trump’s decision to launch a war with Iran is a boon for Putin, creating chaos in the oil markets.
During a Fox News interview this morning, Trump explained there is no military objective that would signal the end of his Iranian war, only when he gets a feeling deep inside his bones.
If the USA had a credible Congress, it would have called a meeting right now to discuss Trump's malignant thoughts on the Iran war that he started on a whim after being prodded by warmongers inside and outside the US.
TRUMP: I'm doing something about it, and I had to take an excursion. We had the greatest economy in history, we do, we still do. Oh, this will bounce right back. When it's over, and I don't think it's going to be long. When it's over, this is going to bounce right back so fast.
KILMEADE: When are you going to know when it's over?
TRUMP: When I feel it.
KILMEADE: Okay.
TRUMP: When I feel it in my bones.
KILMEADE: Will you ask anybody in particular would that be some of these a joint decision with people?
TRUMP: I have great people.
There is nothing great about Trump, including his economy.
Trump's economy is horrific. People are taking a second job to pay for healthcare costs, and millions have lost access to healthcare because of the Big Ugly bill and his refusal to extend ACA subsidies.
Inflation has skyrocketed, and now fuel costs are rising because Trump declared war on Iran.
During another annoying helicopter press gaggle, Trump attacked a journalist for being a "rotten reporter" for refuting his election fraud conspiracy when she asked why the FBI confiscated Arizona's voter records for 2020, when Bill Barr, his own Attorney General said there was no fraud in Arizona.
On Monday, it was reported that the FBI obtained records relating to the 2020 election in Arizona to continue to pursue Trump's conspiracy theories over his brutal loss in 2020.
PBS NewsHour White House correspondent Liz Landers did what every reporter and journalist should do when confronted with Trump's insane lies that the 2020 election was stolen from him. Every reality based person knows all the evidence proves he got trounced by Joe Biden.
Landers did not go quietly in the night.
LANDERS: Sir, in Arizona, why did the FBI seize election records in that state?
TRUMP: Well, they probably thought the election was rigged, right?
LANDERS: It wasn't rigged, though.
TRUMP: Oh, really? How do you know?
LANDERS: Your own attorney general in 2020 said that there was not measurable voter fraud to change the outcome of the election.
TRUMP: I think it was rigged.
LANDERS: There's no evidence. Sir, where's the evidence for that? It wasn't rigged.
TRUMP: If you think it wasn’t rigged, you’re a rotten reporter!
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This was a very bad winter if you're concerned about the changing climate -- and of course you are.
Yale Climate Connections reports that Winter 2025-26 (December through February) was the second-warmest in U.S. records going back to 1895. The average temperature for the contiguous states was 37.13 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the monthly roundup released on March 9 by NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center. Given that the warmest winter on record was 2023-24, with 37.47 degrees F, the two warmest U.S. winters in 131 years of data have now occurred in the last three years.
Many parts of the northeastern half of the country, roughly from the Great Lakes into the Eastern Seaboard and Deep South, did see stretches of cold and snow that rivaled anything over the last few decades. Where you live, it might not have been a record-breaking winter at all – except for large stretches of the nation from the Great Plains westward, where many states and communities saw their warmest winter-long averages in more than a century of record-keeping.
Kai Trump, granddaughter of the president of the United States, made a video bragging about taking her Secret Service agents on a luxury shopping trip.
In a 20-minute YouTube video titled "I Brought My Secret Service to Erewhon," Kai Trump shared her experience shopping at the upscale grocery chain.
"Alright, guys, well, welcome back to the channel," the MAGA influencer began. "Right now, we are in Erewhon, which is in LA. This is to be an Erewhon video. and everything I get from Erewhon... Erewhon is the most expensive grocery store, pretty much out there. Everything's crazy expensive."
At one point, the president's granddaughter joked that the shipping trip was so expensive that she would have to "file for bankruptcy."
The spree came as a war in Iran started by Kai Trump's grandfather was causing gas prices to spike to over $3 a gallon in many states.
Commenters on X blasted her for the "tone deaf" shopping trip.
"Time to enlist, girly," one person wrote.
"Give me a break. Put a uniform on," Tracey Gallagher agreed.
If you're a fan of 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead, Zombieland, World War Z, The Walking Dead or any other zombie apocalypse movie or TV show, you can thank prolific science fiction and horror writer Richard Matheson for getting the modern, zombie apocalypse genre kick started with his 1954 novel, "I Am Legend". Like zombies themselves, the core ideas of the novel -- a global zombie plague, hordes of infected creatures threatening the last survivors, a quasi-scientific explanation for the disaster -- keep right on mutating and rising again to scare the crap out of audience, and the very first adaptation of the novel hit theaters on this day in 1964. It starred Vincent Price and Emma Danieli.
Matheson said the idea came when he was thinking about vampire stories like Dracula and wondered: what if there were just one vampire left in the modern world? Then he flipped the idea: what if there were one normal man left in a world full of vampires?
Free Thought Blogs: The rot is everywhere.
Washington Monthly: With Iran, Obama Displayed “The Art of the Deal.” Trump Didn’t.
Politicus USA: Trump Runs Away And Ignores Questions When Asked About Kristi Noem Firing.
With crude oil up over $25 a barrel since Trump and Israel attacked Iran, this guy's gas woes are only going to get exponentially worse in the coming days and weeks. Maybe next time, don't vote for the sociopath. Just a thought.
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Trump supporter flips out as he sees gas prices, proceeds to rip Trump sticker off of his vehicle and curse out the administration.
“How the f-ck can we take America back when these c-ck suckers don’t even support us?”
Donald Trump is already over his head in the dangerous Middle East war he just began and, when not dreaming about his $300 million Marie Antoinette Ballroom, he is dreaming of his next foreign adventure.
On Friday, CNN’s Dana Bash seemed more than a little surprised as she reported that Trump, “without being asked,” had “quickly turned to Cuba” after a statement about the current war. The New York Times called that statement “the latest in the shifting goals Mr. Trump has laid out for the war.” For those of you who have lost count, The Times was referring to the war with Iran, not Trump’s military attacks on Venezuela, Ecuador, Caribbean fishing boats, or party balloons over El Paso.
Planning a new military adventure barely a week into the current one seems a tad reckless, doncha' think? It hardly inspires confidence in the military team of Commander Bone Spurs Trump and TV-host-turned-Secretary of Defense Pete “WhiskeyLeaks” Hegseth. To put it mildly.
“Cuba is going to fall pretty soon, by the way,” Trump reportedly remarked. Like it was a little detail he almost forgot.
The worst Speaker of the House in modern history, Rep Mike Johnson told the media today that the United States is not at war with Iran, even after multiple Republicans, Donald Trump, and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth have repeatedly said we are.
Johnson made the statements after the House voted against passing the Iran War Powers resolution.
"As you know, the War Powers Resolution failed; that is the right result," Johnson said. "We are not at war. We have no intention of being at war."
The President and the Department of Defense have made this very clear. The Department of War has made it very clear.
One has to wonder why Jebus Johnson lies so much.
On March 2nd, during a presser, SecDef Hegseth said this, "We didn't start this war, but under President Trump, we are finishing it.
Oh darn! The DoJ has dropped an investigation into former President Joe Biden's nefarious use of an autopen, a person briefed on the matter told NBC News.
The highly respected Justice Department pardon attorney Ed Martin opened the probe while he was interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. It wound down recently under Jeanine Pirro, the current U.S. attorney, who is a longtime Trump ally and former Fox News host.
The autopen case was never presented to a grand jury, unlike the case that Pirro's office tried to bring forward last month against six members of Congress who participated in a social media video that urged members of the military and intelligence communities not to follow unlawful orders.
Seems it's difficult to bring a criminal case when there is not even a readily identifiable and applicable criminal statute. Huh, imagine that. I guess the criminal statute that exists only in the Golden King's mind isn't enough?
But wait! Our Esteemed Supreme Court says presidents are immune from prosecution, anyway! I'm so confused!
Charlie Kirk Show hosts Blake Neff and Andrew Kolvet called for journalist Mehdi Hasan, a naturalized U.S. citizen, to be deported because he opposed the Department of Education hanging a banner of Kirk because he called college a "scam."
During a Monday Charlie Kirk show broadcast, Neff and Kolvet appeared irate about Hasan's opposition to President Donald Trump's Education Department's decision to celebrate Kirk.
"And so some very nasty people. I don't think we need to really pull any punches there. They're gross people," Neff said. "They deserve to be absolutely excoriated for this insane attack against Charlie. And of course, we are talking about none other than Mehdi Hasan."
Neff called Hasan a "foreigner" despite his American citizenship.
"Well, he had to say, first Democratic presidential candidate who publicly pledges to tear down this particular banner on day one of his or her administration gets an immediate bump in their presidential primary polling," Kolvet explained of the British-born journalist. "Go back to whatever hellhole you came from and go terrorize the people there."
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna once again lives up to her name. The Trump sycophant made an appearance on MS Now's The Weekend Primetime this Sunday, and was pressed by all of the hosts on the justification for Trump and Israel's strikes on Iran and Trump's refusal to go to Congress for authorization, and the MAGA apologist defended the strikes as "targeted" and "strategic" — not an act of war — and said Congress would not vote on a war declaration.
Luna's nonsense drew lots of pushback from Catherine Rampell, Elise Jordan, and Ayman Mohyeldin.
After Luna insisted that "it is not the intention of the U.S. government to invade. That is not what is happening. These are isolated, strategic, large-scale attacks," Rampell pushed back. "I'm sorry. You say it's not the intention of the U.S. government to invade? Did we not just invade?"
"We are not invading. Are you saying boots-on-the-ground there? Because I'm not," Luna insisted. "And I've been told directly by the State Department and the White House that that's not the intention."
The exchange grew heated at Rampell cut in: "I mean, we just killed the leader of the country."
Luna continued to insist that "strategic military strikes and invasions are two totally different things," and said she was told by Hegseth that "strategic strikes are not war," which was countered by Rampell noting that even Trump was calling it a war.
Kamala Harris has endorsed Rep. Jasmine Crockett in the Democratic primary race for the Texas Senate race, her most significant endorsement since leaving office 13 months ago.
Crockett is in the final days of a close contest with James Talarico, a state representative who has built a substantial following on social media. Crockett has crafted her image as a bare-knuckled partisan fighter in an era in which Democratic voters like candidates who vocally oppose Trump.
The endorsement from Harris, first reported by The Texas Tribune, came in a recorded phone message sent to Texas Democrats.
“Texas has the chance to send a fighter like Jasmine Crockett to the United States Senate,” Ms. Harris says. “Jasmine has the experience and record to hold Donald Trump and his billionaire cronies accountable.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham has been making the rounds since Trump and Israel launched their attack on Iran, heaping praise on Dear Leader and pretending everything is going to go wonderfully, rather than admit they just opened up a can of worms with no idea what comes next with the chaos they unleashed on the region.
It was more of the same on this Sunday's Meet the Press, with Graham getting extremely testy with host Kristen Welker when she pressed him on how we make sure the regime that replaces the one we just took out isn't worse.
WELKER: Senator history tells us just how complicated regime change is. we saw that when Saddam Hussein was ousted, and the terror threat and group moved in. How will the United States make sure that the next Iranian government isn't worse than the current regime?
GRAHAM: It's not our job to pick the next Iranian government. I don't remember being attacked by Iraq any time, you know, in the past. Iraq is complicated, but, you know, we have a relationship with Iraq.
It's up to Iran to pick your leader. It's not my job. It's not President Trump's job. We're not going to occupy the country. We're going give the people of Iran a chance to do something they've never had before, chart their own destiny.
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During Trump's State of the Union speech on Tuesday, he claimed inflation was "plummeting" under his leadership, and he used bogus information to defend his erroneous claims.
"Today our border is secure, our spirit is restored, inflation is plummeting, incomes are rising fast, the roaring economy is roaring like never before, and our enemies are scared," he said.
Today's PPI report proved him wrong as inflation was much hotter than expected, which has driven the markets way down in early trading.
CNBC reported, "The core PPI, which excludes volatile food and energy prices, increased a seasonally adjusted 0.8%, more than the 0.6% gain in December and well ahead of the Dow Jones consensus estimate for 0.3%".
That's a huge gain.
I tuned in to Maria Bartiromo's morning program to see how she handled the bad news in the inflation report, and the MAGA Queen did her best to make it seem like it's not a big deal.
When Stuart Varney opened up his program, he did not try to sugarcoat the results.
VARNEY: The question of the day, is inflation cooling?
Answer, looking at the Producer Price Index, no, it is not cooling.
It's hotter.
This is what used to be called the Wholesale Price Index. It measures costs to business.
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There's this substack, "Strength In Numbers," run by a data guy, G. Elliott Morris. He used to be the editorial director of Data Analytics at ABC News, where he ran the data-journalism website FiveThirtyEight. Before that, he was the data journalist for The Economist, and runs his own consulting firm, Morris Predictive Insights.
And he just came up with some interesting polling on Democrats versus Republicans.
In his new February poll, 53% of U.S. adults say the Democratic Party is out of touch with the concerns of most Americans. An identical percentage — 53% — say the same about Republicans.
He tested out the "Democrats are too liberal and need to tack to the center" theory, and concluded the opposite.
"When Americans say Democrats are “out of touch” they don’t only — or even primarily — mean “too progressive.” This type of thinking is another example of people committing the Strategist’s Fallacy instead of thinking about what is really being measured by the poll question being asked.
But it's pretty wonky, go read the whole thing. He concludes:
Sen Elizabeth Warren spoke with CNN's Kaitlan Collins about the SCOTUS ruling on Trump's tariffs. She didn't mince any words:
WARREN: Well, let's be clear. It should not just go to a handful of giant corporations who have the legal capacity to go in and sue the federal government. In that case, they win twice. That is, that they get the tariff refund, but they also got the higher prices when they pass those tariff costs along. This money needs to go back to the American people. You know, the studies are out there now. They show that the American people are the ones who actually paid the cost. And yeah, we've done refunds before. This is an opportunity to give this money back to the American people, and right now it is the responsibility of the Treasury Department to sit down and work out a plan to give that money back to American families. This is not rocket science. Give them back the money. You know how much you took in. You know that American families paid for it; give them back the money.
COLLINS: I don't believe you voted for the president's Supreme Court picks. But I wonder what you made of his attacks today, particularly on Amy Coney Barrett and Neil Gorsuch, saying that they're an embarrassment to their families.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made an appearance on this Sunday's State of the Union on CNN and was asked repeatedly by host Dana Bash whether or not the administration was going to refund Trump's emergency tariffs that the Supreme Court just ruled were illegal, and Bessent basically said they're going to tie this up in the courts again for as long as possible.
BASH: I do want to start with the big question. Will you refund the roughly $134 billion in revenue taken by these emergency tariffs?
BESSENT: Well, Dana, that's not the big question. Let's just level set here. What the Supreme Court did was a very narrow reading of the president's authority under the IEEPA tariffs.
We have other tariff authorities which have been functioning -- Section 232 tariffs, Section 301 tariffs. And Dana, when you say it's a big question, that's bad framing, because the Supreme Court didn't even address that. The Supreme Court remanded it down to a lower court. And we will follow what they say, but that could be weeks or months when we hear them. So the Supreme Court did not address refunds.
BASH: Sure, they didn't address refunds. That is clearly going to be up to you, which is why...
BESSENT: No, no, no, no, Dana. It is not up to me.
BASH: Not you...
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Heartland Signal shared the closing comments of Illinois Governor JB Pritzker's State of the State address, and I want to inject it straight into my veins. He's reassuring us that America still loves its people, but it's saying it in a way we might not be used to hearing it:
It's not speaking in anthems, or flags, or ostentatious displays of patriotism. It will never come from the people who say the only way to love America is to hate Americans. Love is found in every act of courage, large and small, taken to preserve the country we once knew. You will find it in homes, schools, churches, and art. It is there; it has not been squashed.
Over the last twelve months, I've heard love start to shout here in Illinois. I heard it from the bicyclers who showed up in Little Village every day during Operation Midway Blitz to buy out tamale carts so the vendors could return to the safety of their homes. I heard it from the parishioners who formed human chains around churches so immigrants could worship. I heard it from the moms in the school pick-up line who whipped out their cameras and their whistles. I saw it in the face of every Midwesterner who put on their heaviest coat and protested outside on the coldest day.
I would be remiss if I did not include this powerful sentence: "Only the weakest of people believe that love is the weakest of weapons."
Isn't this special? The guy with boxes full of stolen classified documents at Mar-a-Lago is making thinly veiled threats against former President Barack Obama for telling a podcaster that aliens are real.
From Time: Barack Obama Says Aliens Are ‘Real,’ But They Aren’t Being Kept at Area 51:
Former President Barack Obama said in an interview published Saturday that aliens are “real,” but added that he hadn’t seen them.
Asked by progressive podcaster Brian Tyler Cohen about the existence of extraterrestrial life, the former president responded: “They’re real.”
“But I haven’t seen them. They’re not being kept at Area 51. There’s no underground facility—unless there’s this enormous conspiracy and they hid it from the President of the United States.”
Obama clarified his remarks the following day:
Obama’s answer was picked up by international media, as well as people on social media. On Sunday evening, Obama issued a statement to clarify his position.
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CNN is reporting that while Trump was having breakfast with some governors, he flew into an expletive-filled rage after the Supreme Court struck down his emergency tariffs.
CNN senior White House correspondent Kristin Holmes reported that Demented Donald fumed at the Supreme Court and called the ruling a "disgrace."
HOLMES: I am told that they are meeting, discussing how they are going to respond, but we have learned more about what happened in the room when President Trump was with those governors, and he learned of the Supreme Court decision.
Apparently, the breakfast had been going well, they were working together, and then President Trump became enraged.
He started ranting about the decision, not only calling it a disgrace, but started attacking the courts.
At one point, saying, these effing courts, but using the actual language there.
We know that President Trump does use expletives quite often when he is enraged, in particular.
From listening to Kevin Hassett on Fox Business, it appeared Trump and his scum-buckets thought the Supreme Court would rule in their favor.
But a 6-3 ruling is a complete rebuke of his ridiculous yo-yo tariffs.
We're still waiting for the official White House statement.
Will Trump wait until 3 AM to unleash his wrath on Truth Social?
Donald J. Trump rambled throughout his first Board of Peace meeting on Thursday. It didn't go down well for Vice President J.D. Vance, either, after he attempted to tell a "joke" about Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, which went down worse than Melania's ticket sales at the box office. No one laughed.
Trump spoke of the renaming of yet another entity in his name. The backstory: This month, the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. got a shiny new name slapped on it: the Donald J. Trump U.S. Institute of Peace. Because nothing says "peace" quite like a hostile takeover, amirite? The Trump administration muscled its way into controlling the organization, a move that, unsurprisingly, was not met with universal applause — and ended up being challenged in court.
And here comes the grift.
"This building was built for peace, and nobody knew what to name it," he falsely said. "And then Marco named it after me. I had nothing to do with it. I swear I didn't. I swear. I had no idea."
"They said, there's a surprise coming," he continued. "I didn't know the surprise. "I thought they were going to give me a lot of money or something, maybe cash. You can always use some extra cash."
"But I came, and they stopped the beautiful beast," he said. "I got out very safely, I'm sure, and looked up, and there it said, Donald J. Trump on the building. When I say that that had nothing to do — nobody believes it, and that's okay."
Oh, behold the leader of the free world: Donald Trump, current President of the United States. Yet somehow, in a shocking plot twist no one saw coming (except maybe everyone), the American people have decided that Bad Bunny - real name, Benito Antonio MartÃnez Ocasio - is the one who truly captures the spirit of the good ol' USA. We're sure Donald will take this poll calmly and thoughtfully.
According to a fresh Yahoo/YouGov poll, 42% of respondents picked the wildly popular artist as the better embodiment of American values, edging out Trump's measly 39%. This groundbreaking survey dropped just days after Bad Bunny's Super Bowl LX halftime extravaganza on February 8, where he apparently dazzled the nation so thoroughly that even the guy in the Oval Office couldn't compete. Who needs policy wins when you've got a performance that unites? Truly, the metrics of greatness have spoken, according to El Pais.
And Bad Bunny's show was so highly anticipated that even Donald Trump tuned in to hate-watch it, adding to the halftime show's ratings, which crushed Turning Point USA's alternative event, the "All-American Halftime Show."
A federal judge has ordered President Donald Trump's administration to return an exhibit on slavery to Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park.
In a 40-page ruling on Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Cynthia Rufe compared the Interior Department and Secretary Doug Burgum to George Orwell's "Ministry of Truth."
"As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984 now existed, with its motto 'Ignorance is Strength,' this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims—to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts. It does not," Rufe wrote. "The President's House is a component of Independence National Historical Park that commemorates the site of the first official presidential residence and the people who lived there, including people enslaved by President George Washington."
"On January 22, 2026, the National Park Service ('NPS') removed panels, displays, and video exhibits that referenced slavery and information about the individuals enslaved at the President's House," she noted before granting a preliminary injunction. "There can be no prejudice to Defendants' restoration of the status quo as of January 21, 2026, which requires that Defendants reinstall all panels, displays, and video exhibits that were previously in place."
It's hard to disagree with Eau Claire County chair Fred Kappus here. We shouldn't be defacing private property just because one party wants to protect pedophiles. The left should always be polite and respect people who protect pedophiles. And if Republicans want to keep as their slogan "PEDOPHILE PROTECTORS," then so be it. We should respect their choice.
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EAU CLAIRE, Wis. —The Republican Party of Eau Claire County headquarters was vandalized the weekend of Feb. 14, according to chairman Fred Kappus.
The words "pedophile protectors" were written in paint across the front of the building, along with it being egged.
"We don't need this to occur," Kappus said. "We have a lot of differences between the left and right. However, we should keep them civil."
Kappus said the RPECC is offering a $1,000 reward for information.
The Republican Party of Eau Claire County headquarters in Altoona, Wisconsin, was vandalized between Friday evening and Saturday morning.
Windows were spray-painted with “pedophile protectors,” and about a dozen eggs were thrown at the building. — WEAU pic.twitter.com/BFbBd9My0D— NewsWire (@NewsWire_US) February 15, 2026
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Oh, how absolutely unsurprising – Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is utterly baffled that anyone could take issue with her totally innocent musings about making sure "the right people" are voting for "the right leaders." She's graciously dismissed all the fuss as just good old common sense, because clearly that's all it was. Excuse me, I need to get a bucket so I can throw up.
When CNN's Jake Tapper dared to bring up her remarks to border czar Tom Homan on "State of the Union," Noem took to Xitter to express her deep sympathy for critics who must be so tired from their exhausting hobby of "manufacturing outrage" over her perfectly reasonable, not-at-all-concerning statements about who should get to participate in democracy.
Donald Trump was deeply remorseful about unleashing a racist video depicting former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as apes during Black History Month. Just kidding! When reporters confronted him, Trump insisted he "didn't make a mistake," while his team conveniently blamed a nameless staffer—who, naturally, faced zero consequences. Plot twist: Trump is the staffer.
Political commentator Brian Tyler Cohen sat down with Obama for a 47-minute interview that dropped on Saturday, where he asked the former president to weigh in on the video and other examples of "cruelty" coming from Trump and his crew.
"Well, first of all, I think it’s important to recognize that the majority of the American people find this behavior deeply troubling," Obama said. "It is true that it gets attention. It’s true that it’s a distraction. But as I’m traveling around the country, as you’re traveling around the country, you meet people, they still believe in decency, courtesy, kindness."
"There’s this sort of clown show that’s happening in social media and on television, and what is true is that there doesn’t seem to be any shame about this among people who used to feel like you had to have some sort of decorum and a sense of propriety and respect for the office, right?" he continued. "That’s been lost."
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed the highly controversial and violent ICE raids in Minneapolis was a resounding success, ignoring the murders of Renée Good and Alex Pretti by rogue mask-wearing agents.
When Tom Homan basically ended the operation in Minneapolis, MAGAts like Steve Bannon were furious because it meant surrender to the cult.
It was an admission that Stephen Miller's white nationalist goon squad went too far.
The truth can never be expressed if it is a negative for Demented Donald, so Trump's AI press bot joined Fox and Friends to deliver the MAGA propaganda report.
EARHARDT: So, Democrats, they were celebrating when Tom Homan announced that he was going to pull down the immigration operations in Minnesota. So what does this mean for immigration enforcement? I know a lot of people have been taken out that are here illegally, but there are thousands more.
How many was it, Brian? 13?
BRIAN: Yeah, 1,600.
EARHARDT: 1,600. 1,600 more that are still there, according to Tom Homan.
LEAVITT: The Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota has been a resounding success.
It has resulted in the detention and deportation of more than 4,000 illegal alien criminals. Let me repeat, 4,000 illegal alien criminals just from Minnesota alone.
And while the surge is coming to an end, immigration enforcement in Minnesota absolutely will not.
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CNBC host Steve Liesman rebuked Rep. Jason Smith for not taking responsibility over deplorable conditions in ICE detention centers, describing them as an embarrassment for the administration.
Congressman Smith joined Squawk Box to discuss the state of affairs on Trump's tariffs, reorganizing ICE, and the murders of Good and Pretti.
The mood got dark for Smith when Liesman began systematically attacking the DHS over its behavior in Minnesota and the immigration detention centers overall.
Liesman asked if the Border Patrol and ICE need to be reformed, which lead to some heated exchanges.
LIESMAN: There aren't two people dead as a result of problems in government that need to be reformed. I mean, in Minnesota, right?
I mean, there are people in the streets that are protesting the actions by this agency, and there isn't concern about what they might do with elections and picking up people off the streets in schools, right?
I mean, that's a different story. Are you not in favor of reform for ICE specifically?
Rep. Smith, as usual, refused to comment on an ongoing investigation and then blamed President Biden for having porous borders. Kernen let him spew his bullshit about the security of the border under Trump.
Then when asked about the detention centers, Smith did the both-sides jig and Liesman would not have it.
