VIDEO OF THE DAY: Bombshell new Trump scamgets exposed Brian Tyler Cohen breaks down the President's staggering $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS for leaking his tax returns...and how all that money would come directly from us, the taxpayers, straight into his pockets.

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From Epstein to Bezos, the ruling class is rotten to the core Jeet Heer, The Nation: "The release last Friday by the Department of Justice of roughly 3 million documents relating to the investigation of the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein has created a bizarre blame game among billionaires. Epstein was able to commit unspeakable crimes on a mass scale for decades with only a slap-on-the-wrist punishment because he was rich and well-connected. The new files help flesh out our sense of his social world, which was top-heavy with plutocrats such as the current commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick (who had earlier lied about the extent of his relationship with Epstein), Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates (whose marriage to his former wife Melinda was destroyed in large part by his relationship with Epstein), PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel, LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, and Tesla CEO Elon Musk (who, like Lutnick, had been deceptive about how often he interacted with Epstein).
These men all had relationships with Epstein after his 2008 conviction and jailing for sex trafficking minors; some also had deep business or philanthropic ties to Epstein. The Epstein files are a window into the world of the financial and political elite. What emerges from this window is an ugly sight. Epstein’s coterie transcended normal political divides. Gates and Hoffman are centrist liberals who tend to support Democrats, while Thiel, Lutnick, and Musk are all ardent right-wingers.
But their seeming partisan differences were as nothing compared to their common membership in the ruling class. After all, Bill Clinton and Donald Trump were both close Epstein associates. Epstein was a modern-day warlord, and a practitioner of “the shock doctrine." He thrived on fomenting upheaval—something that made him akin to the richest people in the world, who derive great profit from human misery. A billionaire is always a billionaire first and a citizen second. Whatever good they do is a matter of whim. Those of us who are not billionaires need to create strong guardrails to limit the power of plutocrats. The alternative is to live at the mercy of Jeffrey Epstein and his friends."

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Proven winner Mallory McMorrow launches bid to protect VITAL battleground Senate seat Mallory McMorrow for Senate: Progressive champion Mallory McMorrow gained national attention with her viral speech defending LGBTQ rights in the Michigan state Senate, and now she’s running to pick up the torch from retiring Senator Gary Peters. McMorrow has a proven history-making track record, having helped flip the Michigan Senate for the first time since the 80s and winning a blue trifecta. Now she’s ready to defeat MAGA extremist Mike Rogers and flip the US Senate blue. Will you chip in to jump-start her campaign?

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The hilarious decline of MAGA’s brief cultural relevance Alex Shepard, The New Republic: "Donald Trump is trying not to make a big deal of the fact that he won’t be attending Super Bowl LX when it kicks off on Sunday. The game, which is being held in Santa Clara, California, is just 'too far away,' said the president, who regularly flies across the world on a taxpayer-funded plane that solely exists to take him wherever he wants, whenever he wants. In the same interview, though, Trump did indicate another possible reason why he wasn’t attending: the Opening Ceremony and halftime show. The latter will feature a performance from Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny and the former will feature Bay Area punk rock band Green Day—both of whom have been sharply critical of the president, his administration, and, particularly in the case of Bad Bunny, ICE. 'I’m anti-them. I think it’s a terrible choice. All it does is sow hatred. Terrible,' Trump said. It’s tempting to dwell on the delicious irony in Trump’s statement: There is no one in recent American history who has sown more hatred than the president.
But it doesn’t matter. Trump wouldn’t be at the Super Bowl even if Kid Rock were performing alongside a host of country singers no one has heard of—which is, incidentally, the slate of the right-wing Turning Point USA’s 'alternative' halftime show, which is sure to attract dozens of viewers. Trump isn’t going to the Super Bowl because he is, one year into his term, more unpopular than he’s been since the January 6 insurrection. He knows that when the cameras inevitably found him in his box, he would be mercilessly and loudly booed. Staying home and stewing—and posting incessant (and most likely racist) drivel on Truth Social—is preferable. It’s still humiliating, just less so. Trump’s absence at Super Bowl LX, combined with TPUSA’s show, tells us where his second term is headed. A year ago, Trump had real cultural power, particularly in the sports world.
He attended Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans and was applauded. Pro athletes celebrated goals and touchdowns by breaking out the 'Trump dance.' There was wide concern that the right had achieved massive cultural power through influencers, popular YouTube shows, and comics. Now Trump is staying home, and the best counterprogramming his allies can come up with is a performance by one of the most talentless performers American culture has produced in the last quarter-century.
The biggest story of the last year is that Trump has, in a very short amount of time, squandered most of his political capital by running a belligerent, unlawful, and fascist regime. But the second biggest is that the right has squandered all of the cultural capital his election brought them. A year ago, it seemed like the right was on the verge of total dominance throughout American society. Now they’re back to pretending to like Kid Rock, while everyone in the country gets to enjoy the real Super Bowl halftime show."

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Trump posted something blatantly racist? What a surprise Arwa Mahdawi, The Guardian: "Despite Donald Trump’s war on woke, he hasn’t (yet) made Black History Month illegal. In fact, on Tuesday the president issued a proclamation declaring February 2026 to be a celebration of Black history and called 'upon public officials, educators, librarians, and all the people of the United States to observe this month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities.' Clearly he didn’t get his own memo because, two days later, during one of his frenetic late-night Truth Social ranting sessions, the president posted a racist video that depicted Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.
The minute-long video, made by a third party, amplified false claims that Trump won the 2020 election and showed the first Black president and first lady superimposed on the bodies of primates in a jungle setting, bobbing their heads to the song The Lion Sleeps Tonight. It would be wrong to call this a mask-off moment because there is no mask with Trump. While Trump’s latest exhibition of racism was hardly surprising, it was still shocking. Indeed, the image was so blatantly racist that even some of Trump’s allies were disgusted. Senator Tim Scott, for example, who was on Trump’s shortlist to be VP in 2024 and is the only Black Republican senator, wrote that the video was the 'most racist thing' he has seen from the Trump White House. You should probably pay a little bit more attention then, Tim!
There’s plenty of competition for that accolade. By rights, the Trump administration deleting the post wouldn’t be the end of this story. By rights, the outrage over this would mount and Trump would face serious consequences for his actions. I’m sure I don’t need to tell you this, but for the benefit of press secretary Leavitt, I’m going to spell it out: Trump’s stupid memes and social media posts matter. They matter because the president helps set the parameters of acceptable discourse. They matter because his bigotry emboldens others.
Most of all, they matter because they reflect his policies. It’s not just democracy that is dying in the US right now; it is common decency. Every day when I look at the news I wonder what on earth I am supposed to tell my four-year-old about how to succeed in a world where kindness and compassion seem to be hindrances to getting ahead. A world where it is the scum that rises to the top. The idea that we live in a meritocracy (a word coined by a man who used it satirically) has long been demonstrably false. Now, however, we seem to live in a malice-ocracy: the nastier, the crueler, the more self-serving you are, the better your chances of success."

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