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Wednesday, February 25, 2026
Skeets Of The Day
The Epstein-Trump files cover up / Trump's SOTU / back to reality / "War on Fraud" --
“In the longest SOTU in history, Trump doubled down on his most unpopular actions, celebrated violence, brutality and racism. And forced the GOP to cheer him. A recipe for a bad November (for them).” www.signorile.com/p/the-dismal...
— Michelangelo Signorile (@msignorile.bsky.social) February 25, 2026 at 9:44 AM
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THANK YOU JIMMY KIMMEL FOR GIVING THE REAL SOTU 👏👏👏👏👏
— 💙PaTresha 💙🎄🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@patresha10.bsky.social) February 25, 2026 at 10:47 AM
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Okay, let’s back to the real news. www.cnn.com/2026/02/24/u...
— Michelangelo Signorile (@msignorile.bsky.social) February 25, 2026 at 10:06 AM
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JD Vance, make this your first official act in the War on Fraud.. Unless you're just a ....fraud. #WarOnFraud #EpsteinFiles #SOTU
— Cortney McKee (@cortneymckee.bsky.social) February 24, 2026 at 11:44 PM
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JD Vance, get to work!
— Governor Newsom Press Office (@govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov) February 24, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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The time for playing nice is long past, Democrats --
democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly
— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) February 24, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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"Don't threaten us with a good time, Mike!" --
Don't threaten us with a good time, Mike.
— Lincoln Square (@lincolnsquare.media) February 25, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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Trump's words & New York Effing Times gloss-over / The Atlantic gets it right --
— Comfortably Numb (@numb.comfortab.ly) February 25, 2026 at 8:33 AM
Trump has lost America. But he will always have the beltway media.
— Sam Youngman (@samyoungman.bsky.social) February 25, 2026 at 9:53 AM
Now THAT is the kind of lead you need for coverage of a speech like Trump’s SOTU.
— Eric Deggans (@edeggans.bsky.social) February 25, 2026 at 9:48 AM
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Maybe Vance enjoyed the SOTU a bit too much? --
All that standing and sitting during Trump’s State of the Union got JD Vance all sexed up!
— Jimmy Kimmel Live (@jimmykimmellive.bsky.social) February 25, 2026 at 1:33 AM
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Mid-Week Song
Folk / pop singer songwriter Noah Kahan has a new album coming out on April 24, titled "The Great Divide." Our song choice today is the title song from that album. Enjoy.
QOTD: The Dem Response To The SOTU
Virginia's newly- elected Gov. Abigail Spanberger delivered the response to the lying and corrupt Malignant Fascist's State of the Union speech, which was a mind-numbing one hour and 47 minutes long recitation of lies, bragging, lunacy and slurs. Gov. Spanberger delivered the response from the historic House of Burgesses in Colonial Williamsburg, VA. A key excerpt from the Governor's speech:
"In his speech tonight, the President did what he always does: he lied, he scapegoated, and he distracted. He also offered no real solutions to our nation’s pressing challenges — so many of which he is actively making worse.
He tries to enrage us, to divide us, to pit us against one another. Neighbor against neighbor. And sometimes, he succeeds.
And so you have to ask: Who benefits from his rhetoric, his policies, his actions, and the short list of laws he’s pushed through this Republican Congress?
Somebody must be benefitting.
He’s enriching himself, his family, his friends. The scale of the corruption is unprecedented.
There’s the cover-up of the Epstein files.
The crypto scams.
Cozying up to foreign princes for airplanes and billionaires for ballrooms.
Putting his name and face on buildings all over our nation’s capital.
This is not what our founders envisioned.
So, I’ll ask again: Is the President working for you?
We all know the answer is no."
The full transcript is at this link. It's a powerful, point-by-point takedown of the sick MF and his slavish, venal party and cult in 13 minutes. She makes the argument that the MF is working for himself, his family, and his wealthy enablers, not for working Americans, while Dems are the party of working Americans. Well done, Governor.
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"A Dark Speech Filled With Divisive Lies"
ICYMI (we did), Stephen Colbert gives us a summary of last night's State of the Union lie fest, so we don't have to waste your time and ours with any further psycho-analysis.
BONUS: It was, as the folks at CNN fact checked, a lie fest. Or you could go with NPR, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, NBC News, ABC News, The New York Times or Politifact.
Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Trump SOTU Counter-Programming On TCM
There are many speeches and events planned to respond the Malignant Fascist's State of the Union address web of lies tonight. But here's what those sly folks at TCM are offering tonight in the time before and during the SOTU: a movie about FDR's --the greatest Democratic President -- fight against polio and then his political rise, followed during the SOTU time slot by a movie whose title and device is what the Malignant Fascist is infamous for:
Coincidence? We don't think so.
Today's Cartoons
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(R.J. Matson, CQ/ Roll Call)
(Jonathan Brown, caglecartoons.com)
(Dave Whamond, caglecartoons.com, Canada)
(Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press)
(Bob Englehart, caglecartoons.com)
(Ann Telnaes, anntelnaes.substack.com)
(Paul Duginski, caglecartoons.com; context here)
(Christopher Weyant, caglecartoons.com)
(Ed Wexler, caglecartoons.com)
(Jimmy Margulies, King Features)
(Dave Granlund, politicalcartoons.com)
(Mort Gerberg, @mortgerberg)
Skeets Of The Day
The Epstein - Trump files coverup: missing files relating to Trump pedo allegations --
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU
— NPR (@npr.org) February 24, 2026 at 5:11 AM
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Polls and economy tanking for the Malignant Fascist before his State of the Union --
To put this in perspective, Trump won noncollege (working class) voters by 56-43 in 2024. He's now utterly upside down with them at 41% approve to 58% disapprove. The MAGA coalition is falling apart.
— Greg Sargent (@gregsargent.bsky.social) February 24, 2026 at 8:07 AM
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NEW Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll: Ahead of SOTU, Trump's approval falls to new low of 37% — & just 20% among independents. Issue approval on immigration and deportations falls to new lows of -15, and voters say admin is spending on the wrong issues. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/ahead-of-s...
— G Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris.com) February 24, 2026 at 7:00 AM
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WINKLER: “.. Small businesses are suffering record bankruptcies .. The agricultural economy is sliding .. Optimism about the economy is no different than in early 2020 .. “.. That's the true State of the Union in 2026.” @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) February 24, 2026 at 8:18 AM
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The Malignant Fascist's memecoin scam enriched his family, as retail value evaporates --
The Trump family fleecing suckers. It’s what they do.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) February 24, 2026 at 6:56 AM
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What could possibly go wrong with using Musk's AI for military applications? --
Grok insists my dissertation adviser was a man I've never met and says my first book won several prizes that don't even exist but I'm sure it'll work out fine to give it access to classified defense systems.
— Kevin M. Kruse (@kevinmkruse.bsky.social) February 24, 2026 at 8:14 AM
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ICE trained officers to violate Constitutional rights contained in Fourth Amendment --
A revamped training program for ICE officers trains them to break the law and disrespect the constitution, ICE whistleblowers disclose. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/p...
— Scott Horton (@robertscotthorton.bsky.social) February 24, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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The corporate grab begins for refunds from the MF's illegal tariffs --
The logistics and freight company is the first major U.S. firm to sue for tariff refunds after the Supreme Court deemed Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ levies as unlawful.
— Forbes (@forbes.com) February 24, 2026 at 5:50 AM
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Won't happen because Trump's a coward, and anyway Putin won't let him --
ZELENSKY: “I hope to come here with Trump one day, so he can see what this war is really about… Putin is this war — the cause of its beginning and the obstacle to its end.” Powerful message to the resilient 🇺🇦 people from their president. Full: x.com/zelenskyyua/...
— The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) February 24, 2026 at 8:59 AM
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Proud of Olympic gold medal women's hockey team. The misogynist men's team? Nah --
I’m so fucking proud of the Olympic gold-winning US women's hockey team for declining to attend Trump's stupid State of the Union address.
— JoJoFromJerz (@jojofromjerz.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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QOTD: Trump's Continuing Tariff War
In his Substack column, Nobel laureate Paul Krugman discusses the ignorant Malignant Fascist's obsession with tariffs and his imagined power to levy them, despite its un-Constitutionality:
"In reality, by the time of the Supreme Court ruling, Trump’s assertion that tariffs are a magic elixir that solves all problems wasn’t convincing anyone. Independent voters disapproved of his tariff policy by a three-to-one margin. Accordingly, when the Court’s decision came down, some Democrats immediately worried that the ruling would help Trump politically, giving him an escape route from an unpopular and ineffectual policy. Here’s how G. Elliott Morris put it:
'As I see it, the Court, by striking down Trump’s tariffs, permitted him to defiantly retreat from one of his most unpopular policies; he could have simply blamed the judiciary and moved on.'"Yet he didn’t. Why?
"It has been clear from the beginning that a primary motivation for tariffs was that they empowered Trump personally. They allowed him to punish governments he didn’t like, demand subservience from other countries as the price of lower tariffs, and offer waivers and exemptions to companies that put money in his own pocket. And maybe Trump can’t bear the thought of losing that power." (our emphasis)
The point about offering using "waivers and exemptions" to tariffs for companies so that the MF could line his and his family's pockets is the single greatest motivator for him. Tariffs are a major tool for his extortion of companies and nations willing to pay bribes that benefit him and his corrupt family. For that reason, and because his megalomaniacal ego won't admit defeat, the tariff war will continue.
That Week In American History
Jimmy Kimmel was back last night from a week off and had a lot of Trump-Epstein file distractions to cover. Once again, a full, honest, and funny/infuriating recap that you won't get from the compromised media. He includes a new feature "This Day in American History," inspired by Trump lickspittle FCC chair Brendan Carr.
Ukraine Marks Four Year Anniversary Of Russian Invasion
Today marks the fourth anniversary of Trump puppet-master and war criminal Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was joined by seven prime ministers and four foreign ministers from European countries to show support for the country's fight against the imperial ambitions of Putin's Russia:
More than a dozen senior European officials were in the Ukrainian capital on Tuesday in a show of support on the fourth anniversary of Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine — a grim milestone in a war that has killed tens of thousands of people and put European leaders on edge about the scale of Moscow’s ambitions on the continent.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was defiant despite the devastating toll — insisting that Russia has not “broken Ukrainians” nor triumphed in the war.
Zelenskyy said his country has withstood the onslaught by Russia’s bigger and better equipped army, which over the past year of fighting captured just 0.79% of Ukraine’s territory, according to the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think tank.
“Looking back at the beginning of the invasion and reflecting on today, we have every right to say: we have defended our independence, we have not lost our statehood,” Zelenskyy said on social media, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin has “not achieved his goals.”
“He has not broken Ukrainians; he has not won this war,” Zelenskyy said. [snip]
The number of soldiers killed, injured or missing on both sides could reach 2 million by spring, with Russia sustaining the largest number of troop deaths for any major power in any conflict since World War II, a report last month from the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimated.
European leaders see their countries’ own security at stake in Ukraine amid concerns about Putin’s wider goals and has demanded its leaders be consulted in the ongoing U.S.-brokered talks.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz wrote on X that “for four years, every day and every night has been a nightmare for the Ukrainians — and not just for them, but for us all. Because war is back in Europe.”
“We will only end it by being strong together, because the fate of Ukraine is our fate,” he added...
Unfortunately, the Malignant Fascist and his regime don't see it that
way. The MF has the corrupt team of Witkoff and son-in-law Kushner happy to bargain
away Ukrainian land seized by the invaders for "peace," ignoring the lessons of the last 100 years about appeasing tyrants (except, we suppose, what's
expected of you when you're working for one). On the other hand, the American public strongly supports Ukraine in its fight against Russia, specifically that it shouldn't cede Donbas to Russia for "peace," as the Malignant Fascist would have them do.
So what high level
representative did the US send to the observation?
The only American listed among the official guests in Kyiv ceremonies was Lt. Gen. Curtis Buzzard, a U.S. officer who represents NATO in Ukraine.
Not even the US Ambassador or Li'l Marco could make it? Another sad milestone for Ukraine, as well as one for an America in decline and retreat.
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Monday, February 23, 2026
QOTD: The Queen of Hearts President
Psychotherapist Dr. John Gartner, appearing on the Daily Beast Podcast with Joanna Coles, talks about the deranged Malignant Fascist's mental decline and erratic behavior, his sundowning, all the symptoms of frontotemporal dementia, a degenerative disease that in Gartner's professional opinion has the MF in its grip:
As the brakes, the inhibitions, the self-awareness of the frontal lobe starts to deteriorate, people start to act out in aggressive and chaotic and impulsive ways that can be very dangerous, and gets very quickly out of control. [snip]
The worst possible deficit you could have is in someone who has control of the nuclear arsenal, who makes decisions about going to war or peace. And he's making these decisions in an arbitrary, confused and paranoid way. It's like the Queen of Hearts is in control of our military. [snip]
He has very little intellectual curiosity, very little capacity to concentrate, very little interest in anything, and anything having to do with the country. He's only interested in himself, aggrandizing himself, and putting his name on things, his picture on things.
But the Justice Department makes it particularly creepy because, of course, he's persecuting his enemies and shielding his friends and taking their name out of the Epstein files. And so, Big Brother's Justice Department. Justice is what Big Brother says it is." (our emphasis)
Gartner makes the point in the interview that in frontotemporal dementia, the manifestation is not in memory loss, as it would be with Alzheimer's disease, but in the behavior that's exhibited by the MF: the sundowning, verbal stumbles, rage and lack of impulse control. There will come a point when the decline will be so obvious that even his delusional cult will have to acknowledge his severe dementia.
BONUS: Armed trespasser shot and killed at the MF's Florida estate was a MAGAt disillusioned with the MF's Epstein - Trump files coverup. Can you hear the ice cracking underneath him?
Skeets Of The Day
The Epstein-Trump files coverup / redacted and buried, but not forgotten --
www.yahoo.com/news/article...
— Susan 🌻💙🌊🌎🌳🐄🐖🐑🐓 (@susancr.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 9:20 AM
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— God (@thegodpodcast.com) February 21, 2026 at 3:10 PM
Virginia Giuffre's family to attend State of the Union as guests of House Democrats #Pinks www.wusa9.com/article/news...
— Kat 🕊️💙🦋🇺🇦🌻🌊🟧🟦🌈🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🎭💖 (@smith83k.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 9:07 AM
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Trump's pocket judge still in cover up mode --
Breaking: The Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon has permanently blocked the release of special counsel Jack Smith's report on the classified documents case — saying releasing the report would be unfair to Trump and his co-defendants.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 9:20 AM
Trump's weakness on verge of State of the Union address weave --
Enten: "Trump's net approval rating. Look at the pre-SOTU polls. Look at that -- negative 27 points! My goodness gracious. Compare that to where he was in 2020, 2019, and 2017 -- minus 10, way lower now. The bottom line is Donald Trump has never been weaker going into a State of the Union."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 23, 2026 at 8:36 AM
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Trump's tariff "refunds" yet another swindle --
If retailers raised prices during tariffs, that doesn’t create a liability to each customer—it creates profit (or covers costs). So if or when tariff refunds arrive, the default outcome is: firms recoup, shoppers don’t. Bottom line: You aren't getting a penny back.
— Justin Wolfers (@justinwolfers.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 8:51 AM
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Trump's "bug eyed jackhole" FBI Director gets sloshed on your dime (btw, where are the Epstein files?) --
What expensive jet did Kash file there in? The bug eyed jackhole could not find a courtroom with a magnifying glass and a GPS device, but wedged his way into a hockey locker room in Italy.
— bmaz (@bmaz.bsky.social) February 22, 2026 at 10:17 PM
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The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) February 22, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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Kash Patel in 2023 slamming then FBI Head Chris Wray for using FBI jet for private events: “I’m just saying Chris Wray doesn’t need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacation. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.” Now he takes OUR jet everywhere to party!
— Dean Obeidallah (@deanobeidallah.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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The reason we're here is that tens of millions of people will punch a hole in a wall if they hear someone used food stamps to buy soda but they're fine if the right-wing podcaster turned fbi director uses his taxpayer funded private jet to go party whenever he feels like it bsky.app/profile/thed...
— Adam Serwer (@adamserwer.bsky.social) February 22, 2026 at 6:01 PM
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Trump's domestic terrorist organization and J6 insurrectionists --
The Venn diagram between ICE agents and Jan6ers is a big ass circle.
— Big Lord Bunny (@ceepain.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 10:05 AM
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"Leopards ate my face" party voter FAFO --
face-eating leopards yada yada yada www.nj.com/mosaic/2026/...
— Will Bunch (@willbunch.bsky.social) February 22, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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Earthlings' retirement plans? --
My retirement plan
— Todd [REDACTED] (@toddlambert.com) February 22, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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The Malignant Fascist Doubles Down On Tariffs
After the Supreme Court struck down his unlawful tariffs under the International Economic Emergency Powers Act, the mentally disturbed Malignant Fascist -- never one to accept defeat -- is pushing forward on temporary, widespread tariffs of 15% under another act. Data journalist G. Elliott Morris writes in his Strength In Numbers that the MF has picked the worst issues for him to continue fighting: tariffs (taxes of course) and flouting judicial rulings that he disagrees with:
"At a press conference, Trump called the majority justices — including three conservatives and two of his own appointees — a “disgrace to our nation” and his appointees “an embarrassment to their families.” The president announced new temporary tariffs of 10% on all imports via an obscure provision of a 1974 law, and then upped the rate to 15% via a post on his social media app. As of writing, a judge has not weighed in on the legality of these new taxes. Trump’s many other uses of emergency powers are in jeopardy, too.
But let’s focus on the narrow analytical question of how this will play with the public. In attacking the Court and doubling down on unpopular tariffs, the president has blundered a major political gift for the sake of ideology and a blind pursuit of his trade war. As I see it, the Court, by striking down Trump’s tariffs, permitted him to defiantly retreat from one of his most unpopular policies; he could have simply blamed the judiciary and moved on.
Instead, Trump put himself on the wrong side of two issues where supermajorities oppose him: tariffs, and obeying rulings by American judges." (our emphasis)
Morris point out that the MF is underwater by 19 points on the tariff issue, and that 82% of Americans say the MF must obey court rulings (including 76% of Republicans), but has chosen to ignore public opinion which is strongly against him. In these actions, the more he shows his authoritarian fascism to the public, the better the chances for Dems to expand their power.
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