Despite there being no actual evidence it’s happening yet, Republicans in South Dakota are worried that their dog-murdering former at-large congresswoman, governor, and current US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem could within the next month abruptly launch a primary bid against sitting US Senator Mike Rounds – who is running for a third term – with these Mount Rushmore State Republicans telling the Atlantic that it would give her the staff and fundraising platform to insulate from an expected onslaught of House Dem oversight – and preempt the risk of Trump firing her.

Scumbag former-and-current Montana MAGA Congressman Ryan Zinke did something similar-ish back during Trump’s first failed administration, quitting his post as Secretary of the Interior in December 2018 just days before Dems retook the House gavels – though he didn’t actually run to return to his old seat until 2020. The House option is actually more readily accessible for Noem as current at-large South Dakota Congressman Dusty Johnson is running for governor.

A court in Tunisia on Thursday sentenced MP Ahmed Saidani to eight months in ‌prison over a Facebook post mocking President Kais Saied as the “supreme commander of sewage and rainwater drainage” who has had no real accomplishments in office, Reuters reports on Brendan Carr, Stephen Miller, Ron DeSantis, and convicted felon President Trump’s dream governing situation.

Ex-Victoria’s Secret CEO’s lawyer caught on hot mic jokingly threatening to ‘kill’ him at Epstein deposition https://t.co/hOTTctZEXw

— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 20, 2026

“Based on the tremendous interest shown, I will be directing the Secretary of War, and other relevant Departments and Agencies, to begin the process of identifying and releasing Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life, unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), and unidentified flying objects (UFOs), and any and all other information connected to these highly complex, but extremely interesting and important, matters. GOD BLESS AMERICA!” posted convicted felon President Trump on Thursday, sure seeming like there won’t be a long process of redacting his name from all the reports that he went into Area 51 and sexually molested the captive aliens there. Guess all those files have been properly disposed of and Trump will get away with the vile predations.

Lol. More seriously, that’s an interesting choices of words there, treating “Government files related to alien and extraterrestrial life” as if the subject matter were as undisputed as the fact that President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas in 1963. There’s no lingering controversy over whether JFK was shot dead, it’s the before, during, and after that are still questioned, hence the still widespread interest in seeing those particular files declassified and accessible to the public.

The whether of aliens is not exactly settled. Most likely Donald’s just drugged up and senile per usual but you never know with this fat crazy bastard who needs to be abducted and never returned.

Nancy Guthrie is still missing and yet FBI Director K$H Patel jetted to Milan on the taxpayers’ dime to go watch the USA men’s ice hockey squad take on Slovakia on Friday, MS Now reports.

“The Commission of Fine Arts just approved, unanimously, 6 to 0, with one recusal because he had a conflict in that he worked professionally on the job, the White House Ballroom. Great accolades were paid to the building’s beauty and scale. Thank you to the members of the Commission!” posted the Great Leader on Thursday, celebrating the approval for his glowing vision of a palatial monument to his glory. How humbling it must be to have been to have gained his favor and chosen for the Great Leader’s High Cultural Commission. His wisdom in the selection of the commission members showed unmatched prescience that they would approve of his vision! Praise be to the Great Leader.

May your day be blessed by his light and filled with thoughts of patriotic gratitude for his rule.

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.