Clay Ranck
@clayranck.bsky.social
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So the US is refitting new 747s, but also refitting the plane Trump got from Qatar, and now we’re repainting the existing planes also? So much money being wasted to please an addled old man.
The Kennedy-era paint colors on the exterior of aircraft in the U.S. Air Force presidential and VIP fleet are being replaced with a new design in President Trump's preferred palette.
U.S. Air Force VIP fleet being repainted in Trump's preferred palette, sources say
The Kennedy-era robin's egg blue that's currently on the planes is being updated to navy, red and gold.
cbsn.ws
February 18, 2026 at 5:02 AM
So the US is refitting new 747s, but also refitting the plane Trump got from Qatar, and now we’re repainting the existing planes also? So much money being wasted to please an addled old man.
The Pixies’ “Where is my Mind” has been stuck in my head for the last week because of the piano version from that commercial that’s been playing during the Olympics.
February 17, 2026 at 10:14 PM
The Pixies’ “Where is my Mind” has been stuck in my head for the last week because of the piano version from that commercial that’s been playing during the Olympics.
Angry JVL is the best JVL.
You should read this as though I'm shouting the entire time. www.thebulwark.com/p/george-w-b...
George W. Bush Can Suck It
He didn’t throw shade at Trump; he whitewashed authoritarianism.
www.thebulwark.com
February 17, 2026 at 9:49 PM
Angry JVL is the best JVL.
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“I am somebody” shaped how millions of us saw ourselves as kids, including me. That message mattered. It still does.
Rest in power, Jesse Jackson
🙏🏽
Rest in power, Jesse Jackson
🙏🏽
February 17, 2026 at 4:40 PM
“I am somebody” shaped how millions of us saw ourselves as kids, including me. That message mattered. It still does.
Rest in power, Jesse Jackson
🙏🏽
Rest in power, Jesse Jackson
🙏🏽
Corey Lewandowski:
February 17, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Corey Lewandowski:
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She and her husband secured their no-bid government contract bag and so it’s time to move on.
Breaking Politico:
Tricia McLaughlin, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's spokesperson and a known spreader of disinformation, is expected to inform colleagues Tuesday that she's leaving DHS.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
Tricia McLaughlin, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's spokesperson and a known spreader of disinformation, is expected to inform colleagues Tuesday that she's leaving DHS.
www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin to leave Trump administration
The move comes as public opinion has turned on the administration’s hardline immigration policies.
www.politico.com
February 17, 2026 at 5:06 PM
She and her husband secured their no-bid government contract bag and so it’s time to move on.
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This is how you live a life
February 17, 2026 at 2:32 AM
This is how you live a life
A short personal story. I was a Never Trump Republican that left the GOP and became a straight ticket Dem voter. During the 2020 primary, I thought about what I would do if Bernie Sanders beat Biden. I’m way to the right of Sanders, but I resolved that I’d vote for him over Trump.
February 17, 2026 at 8:45 AM
A short personal story. I was a Never Trump Republican that left the GOP and became a straight ticket Dem voter. During the 2020 primary, I thought about what I would do if Bernie Sanders beat Biden. I’m way to the right of Sanders, but I resolved that I’d vote for him over Trump.
These are depraved people who have accumulated so much money that they’re now living out their depraved fantasies. We have a civic duty to stop them from doing that.
Dude is quickly climbing the ranks of Most Dangerous Man Alive
February 17, 2026 at 8:15 AM
These are depraved people who have accumulated so much money that they’re now living out their depraved fantasies. We have a civic duty to stop them from doing that.
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Where he killed himself but the rope found was not the rope that actually killed him? That one?
February 17, 2026 at 4:10 AM
Where he killed himself but the rope found was not the rope that actually killed him? That one?
Advertise your account with a gif
February 17, 2026 at 8:07 AM
Advertise your account with a gif
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She’s on the wall for a reason
February 17, 2026 at 4:03 AM
She’s on the wall for a reason
As a former “reply guy” on Twitter, I’d encourage you to follow @xeynon.bsky.social. Always enjoy hearing his perspective, and I don’t think my old Twitter crowd knows him that well b/c I found him on Threads. But @shoe.bsky.social follows him (and me) so that is a mark against him (and me). 😂
She's my governor and honestly I could not be happier with her.
She is pragmatic and effective, and she gives no fucks whatsoever about bad faith Republican bullshit.
The Ice Queen of the Rappahannock.
She is pragmatic and effective, and she gives no fucks whatsoever about bad faith Republican bullshit.
The Ice Queen of the Rappahannock.
February 17, 2026 at 7:52 AM
As a former “reply guy” on Twitter, I’d encourage you to follow @xeynon.bsky.social. Always enjoy hearing his perspective, and I don’t think my old Twitter crowd knows him that well b/c I found him on Threads. But @shoe.bsky.social follows him (and me) so that is a mark against him (and me). 😂
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She's my governor and honestly I could not be happier with her.
She is pragmatic and effective, and she gives no fucks whatsoever about bad faith Republican bullshit.
The Ice Queen of the Rappahannock.
She is pragmatic and effective, and she gives no fucks whatsoever about bad faith Republican bullshit.
The Ice Queen of the Rappahannock.
February 17, 2026 at 4:27 AM
She's my governor and honestly I could not be happier with her.
She is pragmatic and effective, and she gives no fucks whatsoever about bad faith Republican bullshit.
The Ice Queen of the Rappahannock.
She is pragmatic and effective, and she gives no fucks whatsoever about bad faith Republican bullshit.
The Ice Queen of the Rappahannock.
You texted a former CIA agent and didn’t think she’d keep the receipts? These Republicans are amateurs.
This is a nice move in an interview www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...
February 17, 2026 at 7:21 AM
You texted a former CIA agent and didn’t think she’d keep the receipts? These Republicans are amateurs.
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Years and years of bitching and moaning about wastefraudabuse, only because they assumed everyone in government was as morally and lawfully bankrupt as they were
February 17, 2026 at 3:00 AM
Years and years of bitching and moaning about wastefraudabuse, only because they assumed everyone in government was as morally and lawfully bankrupt as they were
Why did I not pause the Olympic broadcast while I was making stir fry earlier so I could skip the local news tonight before the late night events?
a man in a suit and tie is smoking a cigarette .
Alt: Jonah Hill in a suit and tie puts his hand over his face
media.tenor.com
February 17, 2026 at 7:03 AM
Why did I not pause the Olympic broadcast while I was making stir fry earlier so I could skip the local news tonight before the late night events?
Kevin O’Leary going on CNN and suggesting other guests should move to other countries like Cuba or China is just wild. Bitch, you don’t even go here! You’re Canadian.
February 17, 2026 at 4:16 AM
Kevin O’Leary going on CNN and suggesting other guests should move to other countries like Cuba or China is just wild. Bitch, you don’t even go here! You’re Canadian.
More details on Kristi Noem’s fuck palace in the sky:
The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...
open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...
Let Them Fly First Class: Kristi Noem’s DHS Luxury Jet Scandal
Inside Noem's flying palace. Plus: Pentagon demands obedient, deadly AI. The race to deploy untested nuclear reactors. Lawmakers move to rein in presidential pardons. And remembering Robert Duvall.
open.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:38 AM
More details on Kristi Noem’s fuck palace in the sky:
There is a reason Ghislaine Maxwell is in a minimum security prison in Texas instead of the prison in Florida where she was being held, and it’s not because there’s a witch hunt going on.
Noah Rothman on the Epstein files: "It is a witch hunt. It‘s a moral panic."
February 17, 2026 at 3:19 AM
There is a reason Ghislaine Maxwell is in a minimum security prison in Texas instead of the prison in Florida where she was being held, and it’s not because there’s a witch hunt going on.
“triplesec def” is amazing 😂
well of fucking course the triplesec def is reading the statue pfp's demands to do a cultural revolution at the war colleges because of vague concerns about wokeness or some shit.
February 17, 2026 at 3:15 AM
“triplesec def” is amazing 😂
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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
February 16, 2026 at 11:52 PM
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
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There's always a grift.
Trump's plan to rename Dulles airport after himself is tied to plans to grift off the name change.
February 17, 2026 at 1:32 AM
There's always a grift.
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The fact that @nytimes.com will break its own rules in order to deliberately make a Democratic member of Congress look incompetent should indicate to everyone what the AG Sulzberger and editors think of their audience.
“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said….The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.”
From the New York Times’ “Guidelines on Integrity”
From the New York Times’ “Guidelines on Integrity”
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 11:39 PM
The fact that @nytimes.com will break its own rules in order to deliberately make a Democratic member of Congress look incompetent should indicate to everyone what the AG Sulzberger and editors think of their audience.