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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 21, 2026 at 6:04 AM EST Warning: Some of the events and depictions in this article are disturbing in nature. As the revelations and debate continue about the millions of files related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and their international ties to wealth, privilege, and perversity, the idea of a sophisticated network of elites sexually preying upon children is not just a modern facet of an internet-connected world, but eerily similar to a scandal that was centered in Michigan more than half a century ago. February 21, 2026 at 5:31 AM EST The other day, an old musician friend of mine in Nashville, sent along a zinger he knew would wind me up. He's only too aware I'm an easy target these days, because try as I might to stay loose during this relentless GOP attack on America, I'm wound tighter than one of his piano strings. February 20, 2026 at 10:17 PM EST Former Republican strategist Steve Schmidt swore the American people will eventually come face to face with the colossal depths of President Donald Trump's corruption and the fraud of his administration's top lieutenants Schmidt was a guest on Jim Acosta's Friday "Jim Acosta Show" podcast when the conversation veered from the Supreme Court's Friday decision to yank Trump's illegal exploitation of an emergency order to impose tariffs at his whim. February 20, 2026 at 9:31 PM EST The conservative learning Wall Street Journal blasted President Donald Trump for "smearing" members of the Supreme Court who overruled his unilateral tariff policy Friday. "President Trump owes the Supreme Court an apology -- to the individual Justices he smeared on Friday and the institution itself," WSJ reported. "Mr. Trump doubtless won't offer one, but his rant in response to his tariff defeat at the Court was arguably the worst moment of his Presidency." February 20, 2026 at 8:51 PM EST New York Times Colunist and podcaster Ezra Klein asked two people familiar with the Trump White House and past administrations to describe how the late-night diving and social media-obsessed President Donald Trump spends his days. "He wakes up late," said Atlantic staff writer Michael Scherer. "[Former President Barack] Obama would start work very early in the Oval Office and work until dinnertime, and then he'd go back to the residence. Trump comes down later in the morning. I think on an average day he's in front of live cameras, if he's at the White House " one to three hours in a day. " And I think the rest of the time is much more freeform. I don't think the drive towards efficiency and structure is something that interests him." February 20, 2026 at 8:26 PM EST Let it be said that President Donald Trump's people know how to put on a show New York Times reporter Chris Cameron noted that The White House "turned down the lights for President Trump's news conference on Friday after the Supreme Court decision that struck down his sweeping tariffs," as if in response to the president's smoldering mood. February 20, 2026 at 7:06 PM EST CNN reports a federal judge tore into the Justice Department on Friday for failing to inform him of a law that could have undermined a federal search warrant. The law that government lawyers omitted applied to protections granted to journalists to protect them from government searches and seizures. The Privacy Protection Act of 1980 is designed to protect journalists and newsrooms from government searches and seizures of a reporter's work product materials unless the reporter is personally the subject of a criminal investigation or prosecution. But CNN reports federal lawyers failed to cite it. February 20, 2026 at 5:18 PM EST NBC News reports "a visibly irritated President Donald Trump" blasted the Supreme Court on Friday for striking down unilateral tariffs he had imposed under an economic emergency law. Before stalking off, Trump assailed the conservative justices of the court who he had apparently expected to rule in alignment with him -- as they already have on many of Trump's more controversial policies. February 20, 2026 at 5:13 PM EST Costco's decision to buck President Donald Trump appears to have paid off now that a majority od Supreme Court Justices have destroyed his self-appointed power to impose arbitrary international tariffs at the whim of a social media post "Back in December, I wrote about how Costco became the first major retailer -- and the largest company -- to sue the Trump administration over tariffs. At the time, the question practically asked itself: brilliant or insane?" said Inc. reporter Bill Murphy. "Two months later, there is a much clearer answer." February 20, 2026 at 2:54 PM EST Raw Story reports President Donald Trump raged at the Supreme Court on Friday for snatching away his ability to wield unilateral tariffs to punish nations that make him angry. The courts, complete with its conservative majority -- many appointed by Trump -- ruled against his claimed authority to impose tariffs, sending Trump on a tear of vowing to circumvent the court with tariff "alternatives." Trump called the decision a "ridiculous opinion," and accused conservative members of the court who sided against him of a kind of betrayal, and said he was "ashamed" of them. February 20, 2026 at 2:48 PM EST Savannah Crisley joined the co-hosts of "The View" on Friday at the "Hot Topics" table. She has been invited to the show to fill in for Republican Alyssa Farah Griffin, who is on maternity leave. Crisley's parents are the reality television personalities and former felons who were jailed after being found guilty of federal bank fraud and tax evasion. It was thanks to her that her parents were able to get a pardon from President Donald Trump. February 20, 2026 at 2:37 PM EST Political commentator and strategist James Carville says the Epstein files scandal is not ever going to go away. "It's never gonna go away, and if you think about it, it can't go away," Carville told to Al Hunt on their Politicon podcast. |
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