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Trump’s Relentless Self-Promotion Fosters an American Cult of Personality 🐔 🌮 🍊 🤡 Trump has engaged in self-aggrandizement unlike any of his predecessors, fostering a mythologized superhuman persona and making himself the inescapable force at home and around the world www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/u...
Trump’s Relentless Self-Promotion Fosters an American Cult of Personality
www.nytimes.com
February 15, 2026 at 2:53 PM
Trump’s Relentless Self-Promotion Fosters an American Cult of Personality 🐔 🌮 🍊 🤡 Trump has engaged in self-aggrandizement unlike any of his predecessors, fostering a mythologized superhuman persona and making himself the inescapable force at home and around the world www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/u...
Every time this two-ton, orange lout hits his steel-reinforced rack and plugs himself into his phone at night, he knows his days are numbered. He’s as unpopular as hell, his health is failing faster than Stephen Miller in a history class, and he’s scared to death. www.alternet.org/amp/naysayer...
Trump is rattled — and he may not be the force that shatters this country
Trump’s attacking America with abandon
www.alternet.org
February 15, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Every time this two-ton, orange lout hits his steel-reinforced rack and plugs himself into his phone at night, he knows his days are numbered. He’s as unpopular as hell, his health is failing faster than Stephen Miller in a history class, and he’s scared to death. www.alternet.org/amp/naysayer...
Measles is spreading in South Carolina. Could it make people vote for a pediatrician? 🤔🩺🩻 Annie Andrews is running for Lindsey Graham's Senate seat. She's one of several doctors seeking office during an election midterm year where health care issues are front and center. 19thnews.org/2026/02/anni...
Measles is spreading in South Carolina. Could it make people vote for a pediatrician?
Dr. Annie Andrews is running for Lindsey Graham's Senate seat. She's one of several doctors seeking office during an election midterm year where health care issues are front and center.
19thnews.org
February 15, 2026 at 2:35 PM
Measles is spreading in South Carolina. Could it make people vote for a pediatrician? 🤔🩺🩻 Annie Andrews is running for Lindsey Graham's Senate seat. She's one of several doctors seeking office during an election midterm year where health care issues are front and center. 19thnews.org/2026/02/anni...
It’s a kids’ party: Tears and lemonade are spilled; confetti balloons pop. Sunbeams through the windows illuminate floating dust motes — and, imperceptibly, microdroplets of mucus carrying the measles virus. Your daughter breathes that air, inhaling the virus. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
www.theatlantic.com
February 14, 2026 at 8:14 PM
It’s a kids’ party: Tears and lemonade are spilled; confetti balloons pop. Sunbeams through the windows illuminate floating dust motes — and, imperceptibly, microdroplets of mucus carrying the measles virus. Your daughter breathes that air, inhaling the virus. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Back of the envelope calculations on the relationship between distance metrics in mathematics and concepts of compulsion and conclusion in law and logic (with a nod toward Roman Jakobson on metaphor, metonymy, similarity and contiguity) 😋 With apologies for the remnants of my grocery shopping list
February 14, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Back of the envelope calculations on the relationship between distance metrics in mathematics and concepts of compulsion and conclusion in law and logic (with a nod toward Roman Jakobson on metaphor, metonymy, similarity and contiguity) 😋 With apologies for the remnants of my grocery shopping list
Matthew Moroun’s family runs the Ambassador Bridge — which will face competition from the Gordie Howe project — and has fought it for years. Extraordinarily, the President upended a major trade project right after that billionaire chatted with the Commerce Secretary. newrepublic.com/article/2064...
Trump Tirade Over Bridge to Canada Backfires, Handing Dems 2026 Weapon
His corrupt threat to block the opening of the Gordie Howe Bridge is about to become a big albatross around the necks of GOP candidates in pivotal Michigan.
newrepublic.com
February 12, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Matthew Moroun’s family runs the Ambassador Bridge — which will face competition from the Gordie Howe project — and has fought it for years. Extraordinarily, the President upended a major trade project right after that billionaire chatted with the Commerce Secretary. newrepublic.com/article/2064...
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This looked to be just one more Trumpian tantrum, which pops up when he sees something distressing on television or is spoken to by a woman without the self-abasement he demands. But this was something even worse: An episode that sums up Trumpian economics in all its stupidity and atavistic sleaze.
February 12, 2026 at 4:08 PM
This looked to be just one more Trumpian tantrum, which pops up when he sees something distressing on television or is spoken to by a woman without the self-abasement he demands. But this was something even worse: An episode that sums up Trumpian economics in all its stupidity and atavistic sleaze.
Trump Has a Bridge He Wants to Sell You 🐔🌮🍊🤡🌉 Trump’s closure of a trade route from Detroit to Windsor will help a billionaire and hurt basically everyone else www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Trump Has a Bridge He Wants to Sell You
The president’s closure of a trade route from Detroit to Windsor will help a billionaire and hurt basically everyone else.
www.theatlantic.com
February 12, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Trump Has a Bridge He Wants to Sell You 🐔🌮🍊🤡🌉 Trump’s closure of a trade route from Detroit to Windsor will help a billionaire and hurt basically everyone else www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
One man is causing an acceleration of civilizational collapse 🐔🌮🍊🤡 In Donald Trump’s hands, the perennial tools of power are becoming engines of destruction www.alternet.org/amp/great-un...
One man is causing an acceleration of civilizational collapse
www.alternet.org
February 11, 2026 at 2:08 PM
One man is causing an acceleration of civilizational collapse 🐔🌮🍊🤡 In Donald Trump’s hands, the perennial tools of power are becoming engines of destruction www.alternet.org/amp/great-un...
What the Crypto Crash Reveals About Trump's Power 🐔🌮🍊🤡 Trump’s support was never a guarantee of the market’s stability www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
What the Crypto Crash Reveals About Trump's Power
The president’s support was never a guarantee of the market’s stability.
www.theatlantic.com
February 11, 2026 at 12:59 AM
What the Crypto Crash Reveals About Trump's Power 🐔🌮🍊🤡 Trump’s support was never a guarantee of the market’s stability www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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I just posted this item. The entire group of goons and buffoons lacks talent. bsky.app/profile/chen...
With Melania on the bottom shelf alongside various ham-fisted faith-based movies, Dinesh D’Souza hack jobs, and projects that threaten to includes Ben Shapiro cameos, it make you wonder: Can any rightwingers make great or even good art? 🍊🤡🐔🌮 Spoiler: No www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
From Melania to Kid Rock’s halftime show: why is Maga art so dreadful?
As the right stokes culture wars, their alternatives to ‘woke’ Hollywood prove to be shoddily made and uninspired
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 9:00 PM
I just posted this item. The entire group of goons and buffoons lacks talent. bsky.app/profile/chen...
With Melania on the bottom shelf alongside various ham-fisted faith-based movies, Dinesh D’Souza hack jobs, and projects that threaten to includes Ben Shapiro cameos, it make you wonder: Can any rightwingers make great or even good art? 🍊🤡🐔🌮 Spoiler: No www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
From Melania to Kid Rock’s halftime show: why is Maga art so dreadful?
As the right stokes culture wars, their alternatives to ‘woke’ Hollywood prove to be shoddily made and uninspired
www.theguardian.com
February 10, 2026 at 8:59 PM
With Melania on the bottom shelf alongside various ham-fisted faith-based movies, Dinesh D’Souza hack jobs, and projects that threaten to includes Ben Shapiro cameos, it make you wonder: Can any rightwingers make great or even good art? 🍊🤡🐔🌮 Spoiler: No www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
None of the fake grievance that birthed Kid Rock's All-American Halftime Show made it onto the stage. Bad Bunny wasn’t mentioned. There was no attempt to say why a Puerto Rican performing at halftime was so offensive that this alternate universe needed to exist. www.jezebel.com/turning-poin...
I Wasted 30 Minutes of My Life Watching the Turning Point USA Halftime Show So You Don’t Have To
It’s hard to mount a culture war when your big counteroffensive looks like a youth-group lock-in made up of kids who found God in a megachurch but lost their personality somewhere in suburban Atlanta....
www.jezebel.com
February 10, 2026 at 6:27 PM
None of the fake grievance that birthed Kid Rock's All-American Halftime Show made it onto the stage. Bad Bunny wasn’t mentioned. There was no attempt to say why a Puerto Rican performing at halftime was so offensive that this alternate universe needed to exist. www.jezebel.com/turning-poin...
The people want affordability. After initially calling the concept a “hoax,” Trump has begun unveiling his own agenda to bring down prices and increase Americans’ purchasing power. But each of his proposals would make the affordability problem worse, not better. www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026...
The One Tiny Problem With Trump’s Affordability Agenda
His proposals to lower prices are all more likely to raise them.
www.theatlantic.com
February 10, 2026 at 4:05 PM
The people want affordability. After initially calling the concept a “hoax,” Trump has begun unveiling his own agenda to bring down prices and increase Americans’ purchasing power. But each of his proposals would make the affordability problem worse, not better. www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026...
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I'm absolutely certain he will do everything to "ensure the midterms can't be rigged" (which will of course only be a possibility in blue states). He has already broken so many laws a few more won't matter anymore.
February 9, 2026 at 4:39 PM
I'm absolutely certain he will do everything to "ensure the midterms can't be rigged" (which will of course only be a possibility in blue states). He has already broken so many laws a few more won't matter anymore.
We’re 10 months away from the midterms. Let’s take stock: We have a corrupt and incompetent president whom we are powerless to rein in. When the time comes to rein him in, he will do everything he can to nullify the electoral process and reverse the voters’ will. newrepublic.com/article/2063...
The Trump Bubble Is Impregnable for Now—but Boy,
Is It Going to Burst
The president is on collision course with an accountability moment. Either he or our democracy will prevail.
newrepublic.com
February 9, 2026 at 1:57 PM
We’re 10 months away from the midterms. Let’s take stock: We have a corrupt and incompetent president whom we are powerless to rein in. When the time comes to rein him in, he will do everything he can to nullify the electoral process and reverse the voters’ will. newrepublic.com/article/2063...
The central lesson of chaos theory is not that small actions escalate into larger ones, but that our actions exist alongside others in a system so complex that individual effects are impossible to determine. We have to plead ignorance to the true causes of daily events. bigthink.com/books/life-l...
The profound life lesson at the heart of chaos theory
Chaos theory explains why tiny actions can shape entire lives, revealing the limits of prediction, control, and blame.
bigthink.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:19 AM
The central lesson of chaos theory is not that small actions escalate into larger ones, but that our actions exist alongside others in a system so complex that individual effects are impossible to determine. We have to plead ignorance to the true causes of daily events. bigthink.com/books/life-l...
Our nation’s attempts at understanding ourselves are continuously undercut. For some single-issue voters, race is the single issue. Not the price of bacon or their religious convictions. Just the promise of having a safe space for prejudice in the White House. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Column: Trump keeps reminding us why people support him. It's the racism
Why did Harris lose? A lot of single-issue voters just want a champion for their white supremacist worldview.
www.latimes.com
February 8, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Our nation’s attempts at understanding ourselves are continuously undercut. For some single-issue voters, race is the single issue. Not the price of bacon or their religious convictions. Just the promise of having a safe space for prejudice in the White House. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Let Trump Keep Building Monuments to Himself 🍊🤡 Moments of abject abnormality highlight the self-serving nature of Trump’s presidency. He separates families. He sends masked agents to terrorize Americans. These moments force everyone to gaze upon Trump’s true face www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
Let Trump Keep Building Monuments to Himself
The president’s penchant for gilded statues and self-glorification might at least help clarify the nature of his leadership.
www.theatlantic.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:49 PM
Let Trump Keep Building Monuments to Himself 🍊🤡 Moments of abject abnormality highlight the self-serving nature of Trump’s presidency. He separates families. He sends masked agents to terrorize Americans. These moments force everyone to gaze upon Trump’s true face www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...
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Ich habe das Gefühl, dass er sich einfach am ganzen Land rächen will.
February 7, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Ich habe das Gefühl, dass er sich einfach am ganzen Land rächen will.
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It is testimony to the marketing genius of Donald Trump that he never sold himself to Christians as one of them — pious, devoted, merciful, forgiving, irenic, biblically literate, a faithful husband and father. Instead, he sold himself as their protector. He didn’t hide his cruelty. It worked. 😳
February 6, 2026 at 8:45 PM
It is testimony to the marketing genius of Donald Trump that he never sold himself to Christians as one of them — pious, devoted, merciful, forgiving, irenic, biblically literate, a faithful husband and father. Instead, he sold himself as their protector. He didn’t hide his cruelty. It worked. 😳
The Evangelicals Who See Trump’s Viciousness As a Virtue 🐔🌮🍊🤡 At the National Prayer Breakfast, Donald Trump tested his audience’s commitment to Christian ethics www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Evangelicals Who See Trump’s Viciousness As a Virtue
At the National Prayer Breakfast, the president tested his audience’s commitment to Christian ethics.
www.theatlantic.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:42 PM
The Evangelicals Who See Trump’s Viciousness As a Virtue 🐔🌮🍊🤡 At the National Prayer Breakfast, Donald Trump tested his audience’s commitment to Christian ethics www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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God help us 👀
Samuel Alito may be planning to retire at the end of the Supreme Court’s current term. Trump, and the Republicans in control of the Senate, will have time to confirm his replacement before the midterms. Republicans can replace him with someone 30 years younger. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Is Samuel Alito Preparing to Disrobe?
In this installment of Elie v. US, our justice correspondent explores the week’s big legal news, including a possible Alito retirement. Also, the anti-trans mob’s latest target: tight clothing.
www.thenation.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:33 PM
God help us 👀
Samuel Alito may be planning to retire at the end of the Supreme Court’s current term. Trump, and the Republicans in control of the Senate, will have time to confirm his replacement before the midterms. Republicans can replace him with someone 30 years younger. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
Is Samuel Alito Preparing to Disrobe?
In this installment of Elie v. US, our justice correspondent explores the week’s big legal news, including a possible Alito retirement. Also, the anti-trans mob’s latest target: tight clothing.
www.thenation.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Samuel Alito may be planning to retire at the end of the Supreme Court’s current term. Trump, and the Republicans in control of the Senate, will have time to confirm his replacement before the midterms. Republicans can replace him with someone 30 years younger. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
"On July 5th or thereabouts, bulldozers will start destroying the Kennedy Center 🍊🤡 Not because Trump has a plan. Just to hurt people. As with the East Wing, he'll destroy something beloved and replace it with a trashy substitute, a corrupt echo of something better." www.rawstory.com/amp/ex-repub...
www.rawstory.com
February 6, 2026 at 7:16 PM
"On July 5th or thereabouts, bulldozers will start destroying the Kennedy Center 🍊🤡 Not because Trump has a plan. Just to hurt people. As with the East Wing, he'll destroy something beloved and replace it with a trashy substitute, a corrupt echo of something better." www.rawstory.com/amp/ex-repub...