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AlterNet Crooks and Liars Daily Kos (Note: these articles are from RSS News Feeds websites, and are deleted after 30 days, February 19, 2026 at 5:39 AM EST Note to the decision-makers at the Gallup Organization, which for nearly 90 years has tracked presidential approval ratings: Capitulation never works. I learned this the hard way as a teen playing basketball on D.C. playgrounds. I regretted my fecklessness. February 19, 2026 at 5:29 AM EST This fight isn't really about immigration. It's about whether the Constitution still restrains government power at all. When elected officials call it a "nonstarter" to require federal agents to get a judicial warrant before kicking in doors, to give people bail or a trial before they face long-term prison, and to allow protests, they're not debating border policy, they're testing whether the Bill of Rights is still binding or has become merely decorative. February 19, 2026 at 5:09 AM EST In April 1912, a young Black woman named Clementine Barnabet confessed to murdering four families in and around Lafayette, Louisiana. The widespread news coverage at the time effectively branded her a serial killer. Her confession, however, did not align with the timeline of crimes that had gripped America's rice belt region with fear. Even today, her guilt is debated. February 19, 2026 at 5:03 AM EST When the early 2000s hit series "The West Wing" returned on Netflix in December 2025, it spurred conversation about how the idealistic political drama would play in Donald Trump's second term. The series features a Democratic presidential administration led by President Josiah "Jed" Bartlet, played by Martin Sheen, and his loyal White House staff negotiating political challenges with character, competence and a fair bit of humor. February 19, 2026 at 4:57 AM EST When Napoleon embarked upon a military expedition into Egypt in 1798, he brought with him a team of scholars, scientists and artists. Together, they produced the monumental "Description de l'Égypte," a massive, multivolume work about Egyptian geography, history and culture. At the time, the United States was a young nation with big aspirations, and Americans often viewed their country as an heir to the great civilizations of the past. The tales of ancient Egypt that emerged from Napoleon's travels became a source of fascination to Americans, though in different ways. February 18, 2026 at 8:41 PM EST A candidate for Republican House speaker in Alabama is facing ouster after his "profane tirade" about the Republican Party got leaked to the press. AL.com reports Stan Cooke, a candidate for chairmanship of the Alabama Republican Party, announced on Facebook that he would move to expel House Speaker Nathaniel Ledbetter from the party if he wins the chairmanship because of a comment Ledbetter let fly during a closed GOP House caucus meeting. February 18, 2026 at 6:24 PM EST New Republic columnist Greg Sargent says a grand jury may have laughed President Donald Trump's prosecutors out of court, but the details of the prosecutions suggest horrific abuses of power that carry no humor whatsoever. "Donald Trump's efforts to jail his Democratic enemies have thus far mostly been marked by ham-fisted, buffoonish failure," said Sargent, speaking on the politicized DOJ's war on Sen. Adam Schiff, (D-Calif.), former FBI Director James Comey, New York Attorney General Letitia James, and six Democratic lawmakers who produced a video that made Trump angry, which courts and juries have derailed. February 18, 2026 at 5:48 PM EST A jovial President Donald Trump hosted a Black History Month celebration on Wednesday, ad-libbing many remarks that drew online criticism. 'He's Not a Racist. He's My Friend' February 18, 2026 at 4:37 PM EST Former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum and conservative commentator Mona Charen bemoaned the killing blow to conservatism dealt by President Donald Trump. "With the rise of Trump, I saw the destruction of pretty much everything [conservative," Charen told Frum in an interview for the Atlantic. " " [H]e was also the antithesis of what I regarded as conservative virtues. So for example, he encouraged people to believe that he personally, through force of will, could solve huge problems that face us as a country. I thought that was the antithesis of everything that conservatism believed; it was Caesarism." February 18, 2026 at 4:18 PM EST Gizmodo reported on Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump's Wednesday Mar-a-Lago conference pushing their family crypto company, World Liberty Financial. "In many ways, it's a victory lap for the Trump family, a recognition that there is no mechanism available to stop the unprecedented corruption that's being done out in the open, as foreign governments and U.S.-based executives jostle to please the Trump regime and profit from their proximity to political power," reports Gizmodo. February 18, 2026 at 3:05 PM EST PsyPost reports a new study is revealing that average-intelligence men have a more conservative mentality, while gifted men and women tend to be more varied. The study, "Exploring exceptional minds: Political orientations of gifted adults," authored by Maximilian Krolo, Jörn R. Sparfeldt, and Detlef H. Rost, sought to discover if distinct political patterns emerge when comparing gifted adults to a control group of average intelligence. February 18, 2026 at 2:57 PM EST In recent months, President Donald Trump's administration has tried to bypass parts of the law to nab those it believes are in the United States illegally. In some cases, they have used "administrative warrants," which are not the same as judicial warrants, which require a judge's sign-off. However, in one recent case, they didn't even try that. That strategy is coming back to bite them as a Trump-appointed federal judge in Indiana demanded that Immigration and Customs Enforcement immediately release a Brazilian man he said was "unlawfully detained in violation of the laws or Constitution of the United States." |
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