Some really striking numbers in this new survey showing the flip in European public opinion about America. But bear in mind this is only Western Europe. In Eastern Europe, it has been harder to take the blinders from peoples' eyes. theguardian.com/world/2026/feb…

It’s very rare to hear boos at an Olympic opening ceremony. In my 22 Olympics it probably has happened but I sure don’t remember it. Vice President JD Vance just got booed when he appeared on the big screen. The US athletes, on the other hand, received loud cheers.

Was at the opening ceremony of ⁦Milano Cortina 2026⁩ Olympics. The one thing the press isn’t talking about was the spontaneous, rapturous applause & standing ovation the Ukrainian team got when they walked into the stadium. More than any other country Really heartwarming

There is no evidence of fraud. No matter how times The Maine Wire and its MAGA cheerleaders repeat this slander, it remains true that nobody has shown that anyone did anything wrong. They just love to smear Lewiston. themainewire.com/2026/02/duplic…

SCOOP: The NSA detected a phone call between foreign intelligence and a person close to Trump last spring. Whistleblower says that DNI Tulsi Gabbard blocked agency from sharing report and delivered it to White House chief of staff. theguardian.com/us-news/2026/f…

Since Steve Robinson loves awards so much, I hereby grant him the the first annual Shut the Hell Up Already Award For Vainglorious Racist Agitators. If he wants, I'll print up a certificate he can put on his wall.

Btw everyone that’s the area Trump opened. It’s gonna have very little impact on Maine fishermen if any at all.

The American Consulate in Nuuk has just issued a press release providing further details about the visit of a delegation of members of the U.S. Congress to the Greenlandic capital. The delegation, which includes both Republican and Democratic members of Congress, is led by Lisa

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

David Remnick's intro - Americans call it 'the lede' - on the assassination of the WaPo, is worth the The New Yorker sub alone.

The president is now attacking a US Olympian as a “Loser” and misrepresenting his words for his mild unspecified criticisms about things going on in the US right now.

Tonight, my friend Jimmy Lai was unjustly sentenced by Communist China to 20 years in prison for the “crime” of daring to think differently from the CCP and refusing to use his newspaper to spread CCP propaganda. Jimmy is 78 years old. He isn’t a threat to anyone, and this

China disgraces itself by sending Jimmy Lai to prison for 20 years for committing journalism. I hope Western governments will speak up for him.

‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September. Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record irishtimes.com/world/us/2026/…

I don't know why this hasn't received more publicity, but this fifty-foot sculpture was unveiled recently in South Dakota. It's called 'Dignity' and was done by artist Dale Lamphere to honor the women of the Sioux Nation .

It's astonishing to witness the improvement in public education--reading, math, attendance, grad rates--in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. But we're busy fighting culture wars rather than scaling up what these three states have done. Please do read: nytimes.com/2026/02/09/opi…

The sentencing of Jimmy Lai in Hong Kong is an unjust and tragic conclusion to this case. We urge the authorities to grant Mr. Lai humanitarian parole.

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Who could have ever imagined a president who can't get along with Canada? I mean, how is that even possible?