Just got off the phone with President Trump.

In our meeting earlier, I shared my concerns about Columbia student Elaina Aghayeva, who was detained by ICE this morning.

He has just informed me that she will be released imminently. https://t.co/rvmTWpq83r

— Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@NYCMayor) February 26, 2026

“California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials are investigating the Feb 23, 2026, death of an incarcerated person at California State Prison, Sacramento as a homicide. At approximately 9:15 pm, staff observed incarcerated person John Cisneros unresponsive in his cell. Staff immediately responded, initiating life-saving measures and activating 911. Outside medical ambulance staff pronounced Cisneros deceased at 9:59 pm,” says a Cal DOC press release.

“Cisnero’s cellmate, Irvin Sanchez, was detained and removed from the cell. He has been placed in restricted housing pending an investigation by SAC Investigative Services Unit and the Sacramento District Attorney’s Office. The Office of the Inspector General has been notified. Cisneros, 49, was most recently received from Los Angeles County on July 6, 2015, sentenced to five years for second-degree robbery. While incarcerated, he was sentenced by Los Angeles County on Oct 16, 2017, to 28 years for penetration, oral copulation and attempted rape with force/violence/fear of immediate bodily injury. Sanchez, 34, was received from Los Angeles County on Feb 27, 2013. He was sentenced to 18 years for attempted second-degree murder with enhancements of street gang act and use of a firearm, and one year, four months for concealing a firearm in a vehicle.”

“SAC opened in 1986 and houses more than 2,200 medium, maximum, and high-security incarcerated persons. SAC offers academic classes and vocational programs and employs approximately 1,500 people,” the release continued with that gratuitous marketing plug at the end.

But hey, that’s great for Irv, finally getting rid of that son of a bitch. Jury would probably buy a self-defense claim and let him walk so he’s only got the next five years in the joint.

“Great news for America, and our wonderful White House! The Judge on the case of what will be the most beautiful Ballroom anywhere in the World, has just thrown out, and completely erased, the effort to stop its construction. As everyone knows, not one dollar of Taxpayer money is being spent, but rather, all money necessary to build this magnificent building is being put up by Patriot Donors and Contributors. The Ballroom construction, anticipated to also handle future Inaugurations and large State Visits, is ahead of schedule, and under budget. It will stand long into the future as a symbol to the Greatness of America!” posted convicted felon President Trump on Thursday, acting out an alternate reality in which he would have actually obeyed an adverse court order.

🚨BREAKING: The first image of Hillary Clinton testifying under oath about Jeffery Epstein to the Republican Oversight Committee.

This is the first time Hillary has had to answer real questions about Epstein. Clinton does not look happy.

Photo provided by Rep. Lauren Boebert. pic.twitter.com/mPtUyA4u5i

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 26, 2026

This is insane.

The deposition is being filmed. Hillary wanted it to be done LIVE on TV. The entire deposition will be released soon. Rep. Boebert gave me permission to post photo with credit.

Hillary is trying to get out of answering questions about Epstein because of a pic!?! https://t.co/bQmf4BMIIk

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) February 26, 2026

“Protein is getting a flavor upgrade: Introducing Doritos® Protein tortilla style chips, a new take on Doritos. Doritos Protein hits shelves next month with 10 grams of protein per one ounce serving and will be followed by a 17 grams of protein per single serve bag later this year. The new product is a strategic expansion for the brand into the rapidly growing protein snack category while maintaining the tasty, bold flavor and iconic crunch that has defined Doritos for generations,” says a press release from athletic performance brand Doritos, the consumption of which has long been publicly associated with triathletes, powerlifters, and other physically active consumers.

Acting on convicted felon President Trump’s batshit stupid Truth Social post from earlier this month where he claimed “There will be Voter ID for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not!” and that he’s “searched the depths of Legal Arguments not yet articulated or vetted on this subject, and will be presenting an irrefutable one in the very near future,” his most “Stop the Steal”-pilled allies claim to the Washington Post to have presented him with a 17 page draft executive order declaring a national emergency predicated on China having stolen the 2020 election from him.

“Under the Constitution, it’s the legislatures and states that really control how a state conducts its elections, and the president doesn’t have any power to do that,” said Trump’s former military school roommate Peter Ticktin, one of the drafters of the order, adding “But here we have a situation where the president is aware that there are foreign interests that are interfering in our election processes.”

“That causes a national emergency where the president has to be able to deal with it,” Ticktin, who along with Alina Habba in 2022 was hit with nearly $1 million in court sanctions over a failed lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, James Comey, and like 30 other defendants over the 2016 election and the Russia investigation, continued. Other longtime MAGA conspiracy twat Jerome Corsi, who looked like he was about to die of a heart attack in 2017, is still alive and involved with the effort.

The Post then writes that if the SAVE Act fails then he will try to move forward unilaterally with his deranged plan. John Thune on Wednesday told reporters that the SAVE Act will fail in the Senate.

The US Supreme Court on Thursday again rescheduled their planned Friday 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, again adding “No reason given.”

It’s a medium-bad 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. A second one signals a very serious increase a denial of certiorari. Could be that Clarence and Sam are fighting everyone else on this and keep asking them to push it back to delay the inevitable.

A disconcerting number of entertainment news website headlines printed on Thursday center on Hollywood actress Amanda Seyfried’s revelation that she was outfitted with a “prosthetic butthole” during a scene filmed for the 2025 historical drama musical The Testament of Ann Lee about the founder of the “Shakers” Christian sect, the plot of which evidently required a production costumer to design and fabricate a custom prosthetic anus and fake public hair “merkin” for Seyfried to wear.

It’s not clear why the director, Mona Fastvoid, couldn’t have just maybe set the scene differently as to merely imply the exposure rather than necessitating the prosthesis which, by its very nature and intent, was indistinguishable from the real thing to audiences who watched the film in theaters.

Also, what the fuck, why? Why? Sparing the actress’s modesty by use of the “prosthetic butthole” while true, absolves the director from not even fucking needing it in the first place. Jesus Christ what the hell is wrong with these people and are they really this hell-bent on forcing those of us in the middle of the political/cultural spectrum to have to qualify with “Okay, yeah that butthole thing in The Testament of Ann Lee was excessive, but” every time we knock MAGA Evangelicals’ constant overreactions to the “ungodly wickedness” of Hollywood? Fucking lefty film school edgelords.

“Why are you libs suddenly so interested in those 2019 FBI interviews with the woman who accused Trump of orally raping her and then punching her in the head when she bit him when Biden didn’t release those documents to the public either?!” is not really that much sarcastic of a summary of what fanboy Texas Congressman Pat Fallon is saying here. In fact it’s really just a condensation.

The “But Biden and Garland” shit is so well-worn by now you already know by heart why it’s meaningless in the current context. Instead there’s something important that Fox News did not mention here and requires a lengthy separate dismantling over the next few hours. Stay tuned.

Convicted felon President Trump’s long and dreadful Tuesday night State of the Union drew 28 million viewers, his lowest ever for any joint session speech a 40 percent drop from his 2019 address that drew 46.8 million, Deadline reports. Now sure, viewing habits keep shifting away from real cable and even seven years will show a difference, but it’s still down over 20 percent from even his March 4, 2025 not-actually-a-State of the Union’s audience of 36.6 million, per Nielsen’s data.

Butler Village, Ohio Mayor Wesley Dingus resigned from office on Tuesday, a swift and dramatic end to a scandal that had engulfed his administration after the revelation of a secret taping system in his teenage stepdaughter’s bedroom revealed his complicity in a break in of her hamper to sniff her panties while fondling himself after she had left for school last month, 19 News reports.

The now-disgraced Republican former leader transmitted his resignation to the village council on a ripped piece of legal pad on which he scribbled “Effective Immediately I, Wesley Dingus, resign as Village of Butler Mayor, not under stress but duress,” following his monitored release on $1,000 bond. Village council President Rick Thran is expected to take the oath of office at a meeting on Tuesday to assume leading Butlerians though he needs to “spend time in prayer” to think on it first.

Dingus is the first mayor in the village’s 178 year history to resign for sniffing panties.

World Economic Forum chairman Berge Brende on Thursday hung it up over his connections to Jeffrey Epstein, ZDF Heute reports on a big win for the confirmation bias of the MAGAmericans obsessed with the elitist international organization they think is the Illuminati and/or the reptiloids.

“As part of the ongoing investigation into the armed attack against a patrol vessel of the Border Guard Troops of the Ministry of the Interior, in the northeastern area of the El Pino channel, at Cayo Falcones, municipality of Corralillo, Villa Clara province, the following update is provided: Authorities have confirmed that the intercepted speedboat, registered in the State of Florida under number FL7726SH, was carrying 10 armed individuals who, according to preliminary statements by those detained, intended to carry out an infiltration for terrorist purposes. The following items were seized: assault rifles, handguns, improvised explosive devices (Molotov cocktails), body armor, telescopic sights, and camouflage uniforms,” said the Cuban embassy in a lengthy tweet Wednesday night.

The Villages, Florida’s most famous anti-MAGA patriot Ed McGinty wrote into the sunwashed golf cart maze’s website of record on Tuesday to express an inversion of the oldest Trump era cliche:

“My family has split apart. As an example I have two stepdaughters that I raised, and my son. We have not had much to agree on for almost 10 years. As many of my signs have said, if Trump ran as a Democrat, I would still be calling him a filthy pig, and ALL THE REPUBLICANS would, too. You know, and I know, you all know, he is a morally bankrupt human being. Why even Epstein said that. It’s never been party against party for me. It’s always been the lack of morals of Trump.”

“Some Trump voters this year seeing the inhuman treatment of Hispanics and white protestors, are moving to my side of the street. Most of my neighbors don’t like me because of my moral stand against him. PLEASE get this, I don’t care who does not like me protesting, against the most immoral man of my lifetime and I never will,” McGinty continued in the letter to Villages-News.com’s editors.

A well-documented phenomenon in public opinion polling is the tendency of a certain slice of respondents to mis-recall their vote in the previous presidential election, invariably always accumulating to the winner. This is no common that, in a Wednesday blog post elections egghead Lakshya Jain writes that “winner’s recall” is a widely understood term in the industry.

Obviously this is only observed when the respondents are named, known, and polled again at a later time, which is exactly how Jain now reports that because “the day after the 2024 election, our polling partner Verasight collected data from every respondent in its panel about whom they voted for” and did so again each time they re-engaged, that now he’s sharing a noticeable dropoff.

“Here’s what we’re finding: six percent of Trump voters — as determined by the recorded vote data we have, which we’ll treat as the ground truth — don’t even admit to voting for him in the last election,” Jain writes of his 12,180 respondents. “Approximately 15 percent of Trump’s 2024 voters disapproved of his job performance. Among this group, almost one in four didn’t admit to having voted for the president. Thirteen percent even falsely claimed to have voted for Kamala Harris, while 12 percent claimed they actually didn’t vote at all.” A table in the article shows this offset by 1.0 and 2.3 percent of Harris voters who claimed to have voted Trump or just not voted, respectively.

Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab, who is ethnically Lebanese like his first name but not his Anglo middle name or now-retired Swedish upmarket automotive marque last name, called it quits Wednesday after nine years serving now-renditioned dictator Nicolas Maduro’s former regime, Reuters reports on a repressive fascist apparently being allowed to just walk out in peace.