There’s precedence there; I think Germany’s takeover of Poland was very friendly.
The only thing surprising about this is that it hadn’t happened sooner.
Smapti
February 27, 2026, 11:03pm
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“I said by Reconstruction, are you meaning the Civil War? That’s a fancy way of saying the Civil War, he said. That’s the first time that’s happened. We want every single and largely Hispanic vote.”
Monty
February 27, 2026, 11:25pm
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The felon’s so-called administration is evidencing (heheheh) multiple personality disorder.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he was ordering all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s technology following the company’s unusually public dispute with the Pentagon over artificial intelligence safety.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also said he was designating Anthropic as a supply chain risk, a move that could prevent U.S. military vendors from working with the company.
Hegseth’s remarks, delivered in a social media post, came shortly after the Pentagon’s deadline for Anthropic to allow unrestricted military use of its AI technology or face consequences — and nearly 24 hours after CEO Dario Amodei said his company “cannot in good conscience accede” to the Defense Department’s demands.
Trump’s comments came just over an hour before the Pentagon’s deadline for Anthropic to allow unrestricted military use of its AI technology or face consequences — and nearly 24 hours after CEO Dario Amodei said his company “cannot in good conscience accede” to the Defense Department’s demands.
Calling the company “Leftwing nut jobs,” the president said Anthropic made a mistake trying to strong-arm the Pentagon. Trump wrote on Truth Social that most agencies must immediately stop using Anthropic’s AI but gave the Pentagon a six-month period to phase out the technology that is already embedded in military platforms.
“We don’t need it, we don’t want it, and will not do business with them again!” Trump wrote.
Either it is safe or it is not safe.
But, under this outright clown show, my three sentences above are best rendered as:
It is both safe and it is not safe.
I’m starting to get a tad tired of this nonsense emanating from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Didn’t the felon say he loves the uneducated? War Criminal Pete has his back!
Washington — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday that the Pentagon would be canceling troops’ attendance at graduate programs at some of the nation’s top universities, calling them “woke breeding grounds of toxic indoctrination.”
“Today, just like we did with Harvard, I am ordering the complete and immediate cancellation of all Department of War attendance at institutions like Princeton, Columbia, MIT, Brown, Yale and many others, starting next academic year, 2026-2027,” Hegseth said in a video statement .
“We cannot and will not continue to send our most capable officers, senior officers, into graduate programs that undermine the very values they have sworn to uphold,” Hegseth said.
And let’s not forget about the military’s own war colleges. (Same link.)
The purge continues.
At least 10 FBI staffers who were involved in the investigation into President Donald Trump ’s mishandling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate have been fired, according to reports.
Kash Patel, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), allegedly ordered the firings, CNN reported, citing four people briefed on the matter. CBS News added that the employees had been ousted on Wednesday, Feb. 25.
The FBI Agents Association (FBIAA) — a non-profit organization which represents current and former FBI agents — slammed the firings in a statement obtained by PEOPLE. “The FBIAA condemns [the] unlawful termination of FBI Special Agents, which—like other firings by Director Patel—violates the due process rights of those who risk their lives to protect our country,” the organization said.
“These actions weaken the Bureau by stripping away critical expertise and destabilizing the workforce, undermining trust in leadership and jeopardizing the Bureau’s ability to meet its recruitment goals—ultimately putting the nation at greater risk,” the FBIAA insisted.
dougrb
February 27, 2026, 11:25pm
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I didn’t know there WERE private companies that manufacture weaponry.
A handful of private companies that manufacture weaponry and ammunition have already inked very lucrative contracts with the Department of Homeland Security
Private companies have manufactured weapons for as long as America has been a country. In 1798, Eli Whitney had a contract to make muskets for the government.
And of course there’s Dwight Eisenhower’s Farewell Address , in which he warned of the danger of the “military-industrial complex.”
Monty:
Washington — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday that the Pentagon would be canceling troops’ attendance at graduate programs at some of the nation’s top universities, calling them “woke breeding grounds of toxic indoctrination.”
Maybe Pete plans to resurrect Trump University. They can get some good indoctrination there.
Monty
February 28, 2026, 1:14am
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I wouldn’t be surprised in the least.
Monty
February 28, 2026, 4:22am
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DACA? What’s that supposed to mean: Deport All Children Anyway?
The Department of Homeland Security admitted to Congress this month that it deported dozens of unauthorized immigrants who are protected under U.S. law because they were brought as children to the United States, according to a letter made public Thursday.
Responding to an inquiry from Senate Democrats , Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem acknowledged in the Feb. 11 letter that immigration officers detained as many as 261 recipients of Deferred Action for Child Arrivals, often referred to as Dreamers. Eighty-six of them were deported, Noem added.
The Obama-era DACA program was designed to prevent unauthorized immigrants who came to the United States as children before 2012 from being deported. The program allows Dreamers to work and study in the United States, provided they continue to clear federal background checks when their status is up for renewal.
In the letter, Noem claimed that 241 of the 261 people who were detained had “criminal histories,” but did not elaborate on the charges they faced. Since the Trump administration returned to the White House, U.S. immigration officers have detained and sometimes deported individuals accused, but not convicted, of minor infractions of U.S. law, including traffic infractions and nonviolent misdemeanors.
Noem also noted that DACA is “a temporary forbearance from removal within the authority of the Secretary of Homeland Security. It comes with no right or entitlement to remain in the United States indefinitely.”
So, basically, Cruella de Vile says the program’s only applies when she says it applies and these people are criminals but she won’t say what crimes.
And I thought Dean Wormer’s line about double secret probation was just comedic writing. I had no idea it was foretelling how our government would be working.
Nothing to fear here. The stable genius has applied his legal knowledge to how Americans vote.
Donald Trump could declare a national emergency over apparent Chinese election interference, it has been claimed.
The move would allow the US president to exert presidential powers over elections, imposing voter ID requirements and banning mail-in ballots, according to The Washington Post.
Peter Ticktin, a lawyer behind a draft executive order apparently seen by Mr Trump, said the president was “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,” he continued.
& the felon weighed in. (The bolding is mine.)
Mr Trump has vowed to impose voter ID requirements himself by November’s mid-terms if congress fails to pass similar legislation, warning that Democrats will otherwise attempt to “cheat”.
“I have 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,” the president said on his Truth Social platform on Feb 13.
In a subsequent post the same day, he added: “I will be presenting them shortly, in the form of an Executive Order.”
He says he’s not considering it. That means he’s already decided!
President Trump on Friday shrugged off reports that he could consider declaring a national emergency around the midterm elections.
“Who told you that?” Trump told reporters, when asked about the possibility.
“No,” he said when asked if he was looking at the idea. “I’ve never heard about it.”
Never heard of it? Scroll up for the proof that he’s lying yet again. And he had this to say about the elections. The bolding is mine.
Every day is Day 1 of the rest of the dictatorship.
Who needs secret elections?
The Department of Justice on Thursday sued five additional states, requesting that their election data be shared with the Trump administration amid its push for access to voter rolls from states across the country.
Four states President Donald Trump carried in the last three presidential elections — Utah, Oklahoma, Kentucky and West Virginia — were slapped with the latest legal action, along with New Jersey.
The DOJ has now sued more than two dozen states in efforts to access election records, with most of the states being controlled by Democrats.
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon suggested that state election officials were “choosing to fight us in court rather than show their work” with voter roll access.
No kidding! It’s their obligation , their duty , to figh you authoritarians to protect the privacy of the voting public in their jurisdictions.
No doubt she wishes she could just take them out back and shoot them.
Kristi Noem is grateful to Elon Musk for ratting out her own staff.
Noem, 54, accused Department of Homeland Security employees of installing spyware on her devices and credited the tech billionaire with exposing them in an hour-long sitdown with MAGA podcaster Patrick Bet-David , released Thursday.
“I’ll tell you, Patrick, even from the time I came into this office, it was—Elon and his team were extremely helpful to me,” she said. “They helped me identify that some of my own employees in my department had downloaded software on my phone and my laptop to spy on me, to record our meetings.”
“They had done that to several of the politicals,” she continued. “And so we ended up bringing in people, and that was something that, if you didn’t have those technology experts here in the department looking at all of our laptops and our phones and recognizing that kind of software, it would still be happening today.”
Noem did not provide evidence to back her claims. When reached for comment, the DHS said it would let Noem’s post “speak for itself.”
“Without evidence” must be her mantra.
Nurses are fleeing the felon.
Droves of American nurses are packing up and taking their life-saving skills north, opting for Canada over President Donald Trump’s America.
Amid deep cuts to public health and medical research , as well as the declassification of nursing as a “professional” degree, a wave of American nurses has fled to Canada, NPR reports.
For many, Canada’s progressive policies and single-payer healthcare are a draw, according to the outlet. Others left over fears that political tensions in Trump’s America are boiling over into violence. Amy Miller, a nurse practitioner, noted that federal immigration agents killed ICU nurse Alex Pretti, 37, just a few days after she moved to Canada.
In the past ten months alone, more than 1,000 U.S.-trained nurses have been cleared to work in British Columbia, home to Vancouver, according to the British Columbia College of Nurses and Midwives. By contrast, that figure was just 127 in 2024.
Monty
February 28, 2026, 5:34am
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War criminal Pete has won his hostile takeover of the BSA.
Scouting America will change several of its policies at the urging of the Pentagon, including one targeting transgender youths, if it wants to keep the U.S. military’s support, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced Friday.
Some of the changes mirror what the organization suggested to the Department of Justice earlier this year, which included discontinuing its Citizenship in Society merit badge and introducing a Military Service merit badge, the Pentagon said.
Under Hegseth, the Pentagon has taken aim at the military’s partnership with Scouting America, decrying its historic rebrand in 2024 from the Boy Scouts and other changes in recent years that he sees as part of “woke culture” efforts that he wants to root out.
Hegseth said in a video posted on X that he had been “seriously considering” ending all Scouting America support after the organization “lost their way” and became “greatly wounded” as diversity, equity and inclusion efforts “crept in” and “the focus on God as the ruler of the universe was watered down to include openness to humanism and Earth-centered pagan religions.”
Hegseth said the Pentagon will “vigorously review” the changes the organization has made over the past six months and will cease supporting Scouting America if it fails to comply.
“We hope that doesn’t happen, but it could,” he said. “Ideally, I believe the Boy Scouts should go back to being the Boy Scouts as originally founded, a group that develops boys into men. Maybe someday.”
In a statement released Friday, Scouting America said it is “proud to uphold our longstanding commitment to military families across the globe through a renewed, strengthened partnership” with the Pentagon.
“Today we are moving forward with implementing new programmatic elements that deliver on that mission: waiving registration fees for military families, launching a new merit badge focused on military service and veterans, and reinforcing our commitment to Scouting’s foundational ideas: leadership, character, duty to God, duty to country and service,” the group said.
What is it that ticked the war criminal regarding the Citizen in the Community merit badge ? I’ve no idea after reading the requirements at that link.
Two more unions are out.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Treasury Department has terminated its collective bargaining agreement with unionized workers employed at the Internal Revenue Service, the agency said Friday, in an escalation of President Donald Trump ’s push to exert more control over the federal workforce.
The union contract for the Bureau of the Fiscal Service was also terminated this week, according to two people familiar with the decision. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak with the media.
Workers at the IRS and the fiscal service bureau, which processes payments for the government, are represented by the National Treasury Employees Union . They were informed by agency leadership that Treasury terminated their collective bargaining agreements, using an executive order President Donald Trump signed last March as the authority for the terminations.
And here’s a kicker: by law, there must be a collective bargaining agreement in place at the IRS. (Same link.)
Doreen Greenwald, president of the Treasury employees union, said in a statement Friday that the IRS “cannot unilaterally end” its contract with the labor union. She said the federal sector labor statute requires the IRS to have a collective bargaining agreement “with the exclusive representative of its bargaining unit employees,” she said.
Monty
February 28, 2026, 7:46am
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He just blathered something about America’s never had a president before who’s willing to rescue the Iranian people. Did he forget he was one of those past presidents who “wasn’t willing”?
Alessan
February 28, 2026, 7:46am
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The air raid sirens went off around 8:00 here, and the whole building shuffled down to the bomb shelter. Turns out it was just a nation-wide system test, which make sense, but was still kind of annoying - I had a busy week, and I was hoping to catch up on some sleep. Oh well. It’ll probably be the real thing tomorrow, the night after and so on, so sleep won’t be much of an option.
Smapti
February 28, 2026, 7:51am
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I’m not well-versed enough yet to know if there’s a specific blessing for a friend in danger, but my thoughts and hopes are with you.
Monty
February 28, 2026, 7:59am
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Monty
February 28, 2026, 8:10am
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@Smapti @Alessan @all the people in the region who will suffer and die from this completely unnecessary debacle
תהילים קכ"א (Psalm 121)
Psalm 121
A Song of Ascents.
I lift up my eyes to the mountains: from where will my help come?
Alessan
February 28, 2026, 8:28am
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Another air raid siren. I’m guessing this one is for real. See you on the other side.
Monty
February 28, 2026, 8:31am
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Remind me of something here. Didn’t the convict pull out of the bilateral treaty with Iran that was keeping them from developing the tech he’s now using as the excuse for bombing Iran?