The US Supreme Court on Thursday rescheduled their planned Friday closed-door conference on convicted felon President Trump’s petition for them to overturn the nearly $90 million in judgments he still owes rape victim EJ Carroll, Politico’s Josh Gerstein reports, adding “No reason given.”

It’s not a great sign for the department store predator-in-chief as, per SCOTUSblog, rescheduled petitions “overwhelmingly wind up being denied, sometimes with a justice writing an opinion respecting denial,” though just one such delay probably doesn’t definitely mean a denial.

Oh shut up! You’re trying to get us defeated in the midterms! Just go talk to them! Don’t need you black pilling on social media! I’m sure Pam will talk with you! You’re grandstanding here!!

— NtoAlaska🍊🍊🍊🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@GNucals) February 19, 2026

At the risk of becoming like BuzzFeed, Raw Story, and Mediaite by treating a thrice-upvoted reply as “newsworthy” this tiny anecdote of seemingly panicked enervation – even if it’s not entirely clear what the asshole is trying to say – is something, ain’t it? Aren’t the fanboys supposed to be pretty confident that their party has thus far escaped any serious damage from Epstein?

A new survey of Tennessee GOP primary voters by the Tennessee Firefly finds complete dimwit “life coach” Senator Marsha Blackburn leading Congressman John “Groomer” Rose 60.6 to 8.1 percent in the Volunteer State’s Republican gubernatorial primary race. It’s an embarrassing delta all the more insulting to Rose because he had launched his bid last February and Blackburn all but said “Nice campaign you got there. Would be a shame if another Republican with much higher statewide name ID jumped in five months later and completely fucked you over,” and did just that last August.

Missed it earlier this month but this is friggin insane: So desperate is Rose that a few weeks ago CNN reported he held out on his yes vote to fund the government for an assurance that convicted felon President Trump would stay neutral in the primary. Jesus Dork Mike Johnson told the network that “no promises” were made to Rose but it’s not clear whether Johnson was denying there’d been any quid pro quo whatsoever or if he was acknowledging there was but Rose did not get a solid commitment to a nondorsement. Guess he was too chickenshit to simply ask for the endorsement outright like he should’ve done the minute he launched his all-but-doomed bid nearly a year ago.

In a memo submitted to a federal court in Minnesota on Wednesday, convicted felon President Trump’s regime revealed that they’ve formulated a new legal rationale for detaining legally-present refugees, because their admission is conditional and subject to a mandatory review after one year,” and they may remain in custody “for the duration of the inspection and examination process.”

Sure sounds like they’re just going to halt the “inspection and examination process” and then force them to break and beg to be deported rather than rot in some rat -infested gulag indefinitely.

“DHS may arrest and detain a refugee who has lived in the United States for at least one year and has not yet acquired LPR status under INA § 209(a)(1), 8 USC § 1159(a)(1). This provision requires that unadjusted refugees ‘return or be returned to [DHS] custody’ for inspection and examination for admission to the United States. Refugees may be considered to have voluntarily returned to custody by submitting an application to adjust status and appearing at scheduled interviews or appointments pertaining to their adjustment of status application under INA § 209, 8 USC § 1159. However, if a refugee does not voluntarily return at the one-year mark, the statute provides that the alien ‘shall… be returned’ to DHS custody. This requires DHS to take the affirmative actions of locating, arresting, and taking the alien into custody. ‘Custody,’ as used in INA § 209(a)(1), 8 USC § 1159(a)(1), means detention. See Jennings v Rodriguez, 583 US 281, 307-08 (2018) (relying on ‘ordinary English usage to equate ‘detain’ and ‘custody’); see also 8 CFR § 241.4(1)(1) (providing for aliens released on an order of supervision to be ‘returned to custody’ based on a violation of conditions of release),” says one particularly insidiously-worded heads the Reich wins-tails refugees lose section of the memo.

Irony was raped, murdered, and buried in a shallow grave on a New Mexico ranch now owned by far right Texas State Comptroller candidate Don Huffines, but if it was still alive it would be well at home here as the Orange God Emperor propagates his bullshit self-image as a “peacemaker” while simultaneously on the brink of ordering another bombing campaign of Iran.

“I have learned with the deepest concern the news about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and suspicion of misconduct in public office. What now follows is the full, fair and proper process by which this issue is investigated in the appropriate manner and by the appropriate authorities.”

“In this, as I have said before, they have our full and wholehearted support and co-operation. Let me state clearly: the law must take its course. As this process continues, it would not be right for me to comment further on this matter. Meanwhile, my family and I will continue in our duty and service to you all,” says King Charles in a statement after his Epstein pal little bro got pinched on Thursday.

Texas MAGA terrorist Abigail Shry, who in 2024 pleaded guilty to leaving racist, threatening voicemails to DC Judge Tanya Chutkan in 2023 and last November was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison, has failed to surrender by her reporting date on Tuesday and is supposedly being sought by law enforcement, CBS’s Scott MacFarlane reports but are they really looking for her?

BREAKING: The Rhode Island trans shooter tweeted YESTERDAY warning that you shouldn’t point out that “trans women” are really men or they will go “berserk.”

Transgender people are violent and a danger to society. pic.twitter.com/ZAhZQQd7na

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 17, 2026

It’s too bad that Charlie Kirk was fatally shot by the partner of a trans person in the middle of answering a question from a fan about mass shooting by trans people last September. The MAGA propaganda-industrial complex really could’ve used his wisdom on how to continue shitposting about Roberta Dorgan despite the, um, really freaking obvious reason why they stopped: Dorgan, who fatally shot ex-wife Rhonda and their Aiden during a high school hockey game on Monday, was also a hardcore Trump fan with a Nazi tattoo. “Trans my whole life… Post operation… Back Trump 100 percent love America they don’t stand for me. They don’t speak for me,” Dorgan posted in November 2024. Dorgan also said being called “to the right of Hitler” was “a compliment.”

All that and more is in a WPRI article headlined “Pawtucket rink shooter’s son set fire to Black church in North Providence in 2024.” Dorgan, also killed Monday under unclear circumstances, was the biological father of Kevin Colantonio, who is scheduled for release from federal prison in December 2029 after pleading guilty to the February 2024 racially-motivated arson of the Shiloh Gospel Temple in North Providence. “Gun everyone down that isn’t white, if one is white spread the gospel. Always give our bloodline a chance,” Colantonio wrote in his journal before the crime.

A court in South Korea on Thursday sentenced disgraced former President Yoon Suk-Yeol to life in prison over his very ill-advised and poorly executed December 2024 attempt to impose martial law because of some conspiracy theory bullshit he saw on YouTube, the Associated Press reports.

The conservative Yoon had potentially faced the death penalty and prosecutors had sought it though most observers had ultimately correctly called the life bid, leaving the door open for a commutation down the road by a future right wing government. A number of Yoon’s minions still face sentencing for their roles in the utterly moronic coup attempt – or have already learned their fate, among them former Prime Minister/Acting President Han Duck-Soo, who got 23 years in the clink.

Cops in Thames Valley, England on Thursday arrested Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, aka non-Prince Andrew, on charges of misconduct in public office over his abuse of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex-trafficking victims, Sky News reports an extremely dramatic escalation coming on Andy’s 66th bday.

“On February 17, 2026, at approximately 1116 hours, the Alaska Wildlife Troopers received a report from Barrett Alexander that he had shot a moose that had attacked his dog and caused injuries to the dog. The investigation revealed that Barrett shot the moose on the evening of 2-12 and did not notify Troopers until 2-17 which was required to be done immediately. Barrett also did not salvage the moose, which resulted in the meat becoming rancid. Barrett received citations for the violations, and the moose was donated to a trapper to use,” says a Tuesday dispatch report from the Alaska State Wildlife Troopers, Palmer detachment. It’s not clear which “trapper” was blessed with this unexpected windfall of rancid meat or what scavengers the carrion is meant to attract.

US military officials tell CNN that assets will be in place for another round of attacks on Iran by this weekend and it’s only a matter of whether convicted felon President Trump decides it’s go time.

The reasons for bombing Iran were not actually clear, however. Probably the Epstein files.

A Tuesday night vote of the Pittsylvania County, Virginia Board of Supervisors the question of censuring Republican member Timothy Dudley for shoplifting a pack of kratom a few months ago was not even close as the measure passed 6 to 1 with the lone vote opposed being Dudley’s, plainly took exception to being formally reprimanded for stealing the pills from an Arco gas station on November 25th, 2025, WSET reports on the democratic process working as our founders intended.

The FDA defines kratom as “a tropical tree (Mitragyna speciosa) native to Southeast Asia. Products prepared from kratom leaves are available in the US online and in brick-and-mortar stores. Kratom is often used to self-treat conditions such as pain, coughing, diarrhea, anxiety and depression, opioid use disorder, and opioid withdrawal, with regular kratom users self-reporting using less than 6g of botanical kratom per consumption, per several recent studies. An estimated 1.7 million Americans aged 12 and older used kratom in 2021, according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s National Survey on Drug Use and Health,” though it’s not clear if the text there predates Bobby Brainworm’s takeover of the agency. Maybe one of his lackeys fucked up and forgot to change it to say kratom is a wondrous miracle salve for any and all of your ailments.

Prior to the vote, Chairman Robert Tucker told the audience the censure was not retaliation against Dudley so much as their signaling to Pittsylvanians that it’s unfair of them to accuse the other six of condoning shoplifting of gas station remedies. Not really an exaggeration “We had a speaker tonight that wanted to lump us all together, but I wanna make sure that this board assured the public that we have laws and we have ethics, and that’s why we had to do what we have to do,” said Tucker.

The chickendicks at the NRCC and the RNC, joined by Virginia MAGA Congressmen Ben Cline and Morgan Griffith on Wednesday sued the Old Dominion State in a desperate bid to stop Democrats from nuking four of the five seats currently held by Republicans, the National Review reports.

Wages are climbing

Costs are falling

Our economy is thriving

This is the Trump Effect 🔥

— GOP (@GOP) February 18, 2026

Republican Texas Congressman Tony Gonzales on Wednesday was outraged that his far right gun freak primary challenger Brandon Herrera – who has his own liabilities – would dare politicize the tragic and horrific September suicide of Gonzales’s staffer Regina Aviles, the Texas Tribune reports.

“Similar behavior in our military would lead to court-martial and dismissal from service, and we should not hold the political leaders who oversee our armed services to a lower standard than the one to which our fighting men and women are held,” said Herrera in a statement after the San Antonio Express News reported on Tuesday that Aviles had texted a colleague in 2024 to tell him she “had an affair with our boss.” Nominating Gonzales again is a “risk we as a part cannot afford to take,” Herrera added in the oddly disciplined statement for a fucking extremist maniac like him.

Herrera, who came within 400 votes of beating Gonzales last cycle, has some baggage of his own as among the fans of his YouTube channel was Robin Westerman – the sick asshole who shot up a Catholic school in Minnesota, killing two kids last August. Herrera’s also close pals with “Demolitia” Nazi cosplayer Matt Carriker of failed Trump assassin Thomas Crooks’s t-shirt fame. So given the headwinds that Texas Republicans are facing with Latino voters Herrera might be just as risky.

Former top Fox News propagandist Tucker Carlson tells the Daily Mail he was confronted by “men who identified themselves as airport security” who confiscated his and his producer’s “passports, hauled our executive producer into a side room and then demanded to know what we spoke to Ambassador [Mike] Huckabee about,” following a taping of an interview with Huckabee in Israel’s David Ben Gurion airport on Wednesday. “It was bizarre. We’re now out of the country,” said Tucker.

Huckabee had invited Carlson to sit down to chat in response to accusations that the ambassador was not doing enough to prevent Christians from being persecuted in the country, which is kind of a touchy subject given the public execution of a highly influential Christian leader there in 33 AD.

Huckabee’s embassy denied anything happened, telling the shitty British rag that “It is not accurate that Israel only was going to let Tucker into the country for the interview. The only engagement the Embassy had with Israel about his visit was to coordinate his private plane landing as part of facilitating a seamless visit. It was Tucker who chose to only come into the country for a few hours and depart. And Tucker received the same positive treatment of any visitors to Israel.”

Tucker never actually left the airport premises, taping the Huckabee interview there. It’s unclear if the increasingly unsubtly antisemitic right wing influencer would’ve been allowed in the country.

Eight of the nine backcountry skiers who were hit Tuesday by a sudden avalanche near Castle Peak in California’s Sierra Nevada range were found dead by responders on Wednesday and the ninth remains missing, Reuters reports, citing an update from the Nevada County Sheriff’s Office.

Six survivors were rescued on Tuesday. The search for the final skier is still ongoing. Either way, it’s already the third-deadliest single avalanche in US history after the 1910 Wellington, Washington disaster when two trains were hit, killing 96, and the 1980 Mount Rainier avalanche that took the lives of 11 climbers. Which, when you think of it, for a country with a shit ton of mountains that get a shit ton of snow every year, the US’s avalanche safety record is pretty damn good.