A sitting US president stole $500 million in another country’s oil money and transferred it into a personal account, and it’s barely making headlines

A group of nonprofits have filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Trump admin — arguing that its decision to remove the Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan this month violated a federal law that allows national parks and monuments to fly Confederate

How in the world can the The New York Times publish an article on how other countries deal with gerrymandering/districting and not make the observation that most countries use proportional electoral systems that make redistricting unimportant in the first place? nytimes.com/2026/02/18/us/…

PALLLLLY LIGHTS THE LAMP!

🔥 WATCH: “I feel much safer with undocumented immigrants than I EVER will with ICE agents!!!” Sheriff deputies descend on a WILSON COUNTY man as he spouts some hard truths in opposition to a rumored ICE detention center (which they have now backed off of)

I've long yearned for extra virgin olive oil flavored Tide pods!

Another example of why we need more people studying US politics in a comparative perspective. Or any comparative perspective at all really.

The Constitution begs to differ.

Yes, they should. 🇺🇸

Ordering flags at half-staff for Charlie Kirk but not for Rev. Jesse Jackson says everything.

Name one time Black folks warned y’all about a white politician and were wrong. I warned y’all about Andrew Cuomo for weeks and got dragged because he was the latest "savior." Then y’all saw he was trash. We are warning you now. James Talarico is not who you think he is.

This is a crime. If you read the Board of Peace charter, you understand it has nothing to do with the American government; it's a private entity Trump created for his own enrichment. This is an impeachable offense, and if this country were not broken he would be gone by tomorrow.

The math on this project should mass-humble every AI lab on the planet. 1 cubic millimeter. One-millionth of a human brain. Harvard and Google spent 10 years mapping it. The imaging alone took 326 days. They sliced the tissue into 5,000 wafers each 30 nanometers thick, ran them

Imprisoning a 9 year old for the crime of going to Disney World while brown. If this is what you voted for, please hurry up and die.

Well Trump won and all charges were consequently dismissed. You were a single issue voter in 2024, so you can shut the fuck up about any other issue now.

If your child dies of a preventable illness because you refused to vaccinate them, you should be charged with involuntary manslaughter.

Why did the #Olympics stop with skiing and shooting? Why not #skating and shooting? #Hockey and shooting? Can we really say someone is the best #curling player in the world if we don't make them stop in the middle of an end to take target practice with a rifle?

Five minutes after the scheduled start in the #NHL : Let's go to a commercial break. And when we come back, let's talk for ten minutes. Five minutes after the scheduled start in the #Olympics2026 : We've played six minutes.

So the country that... *check notes* - Threatened to invade European territory for a month - Implied multiple times that it might not support militarily its NATO allies in case of invasion - Launched a trade war specifically because it was unhappy Americans were buying European