JD Vance: "To get on an airplane, you need voter ID. To buy a beer, you need voter ID."
https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/DVHIrbJiYU-?xmt=AQF0yQl8Mv08ig9me6YdqZ4aThscl0_1gkLt_siUv7wT4ZmD4Sa1eg0QqnVSXffvQDte5-fJ&slof=1

“Re-bliterate?”
https://www.threads.com/@dear_christians_dan/post/DVITCzoFVH1?xmt=AQF0350mU5OPdNPBcRxYIIwRfzeTIoF01m6bDNvW16Mqo5NkHPw5gXwy3YmFGbx6E2YJQRXq&slof=1

The bill is unlikely to become law, but it reveals how Democrats are starting to apply public pressure on a Trump administration that has shown little interest in trying to return tariff revenues (roughly $175 billion) after the Supreme Court announced its 6-3 ruling https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-refunds-senate-democrats-supreme-court-c2fc0ed663858a90bd2ddabf60aeda56#

“It is correct that we cancelled a planned trip to Minnesota in the United States. There were sporting, economic and political reasons for this,” a Werder Bremen spokesperson said. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/feb/20/werder-bremen-cancel-us-trip-minnesota-ice

Cities inside Jalisco State, such as Puerto Vallarta, Chapala, and Guadalajara, were among those affected by unrest due to killing of Nemesio “El Mencho” Oseguera Cervantes., along with cities in Baja California, Quintana Roo, Nayarit State and Sinaloa. https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news/mexico-el-mencho-killed-travel-chaos-02-23-26-intl-hnk

US farmers are rejecting multimillion-dollar datacenter bids for their land: ‘I’m not for sale’
Families are navigating the tough choice between unimaginable riches and the identity that comes with land
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/21/us-farmers-datacenters

The EU has a powerful tool at its disposal to retaliate — the bloc’s Anti-Coercion Instrument. It includes a raft of measures for blocking or restricting trade and investment from countries found to be putting undue pressure on EU member nations or corporations. https://apnews.com/article/eu-us-trump-tariffs-commission-trade-8c5f9fa35d9f0f13afef0ddbaf88b1f6

ICE held a British granny and her husband for 6 weeks because his visa had expired.

Karen Newton’s tourist visa was fine. She was still shackled and thrown in detention.

Why? Because she helped him pack.

They offered to buy flights back to the UK and were imprisoned instead
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice?CMP=share_btn_url

RIP https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6021388/2026/02/21/bill-mazeroski-dies-pittsburgh-pirates-legend/

Platner: We are all beginning to realize — right, left, Republican, Democrat — we are just there to be exploited by a small group of people who, in some ways, are kind of running the world for their own benefit.

And the Epstein files show that in glaring fashion.

The only way we’re going to move forward is by building the political power to hold all these people accountable and make sure that that kind of wealth doesn’t just get to be accrued anymore.
https://www.threads.com/@acynig/post/DVC-41JkVju?xmt=AQF0Y_0kKwRy8zmsuT0l1NpvlBs1GOKk9K5QA3wVuhCs0N6E9uzUWzp7vI0s80I4cbr6m2ZQ&slof=1

https://oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2026/02/20/feds-propose-opening-millions-of-acres-of-western-oregon-forests-to-1960s-logging-levels/

DHS is suspending the TSA PreCheck and Global Entry airport security programs as a partial government shutdown continues.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/22/homeland-security-suspends-tsa-precheck-global-entry-airport-security-programs

Trump, LITERALLY demanding Quid Pro Quo from the Justices he appointed.
https://www.threads.com/@stonekettle/post/DVBwUoTka1F?xmt=AQF0rcMdTvfE_bCWKHDodu13_wo1Ntt5JXti2Slf8FVEm6r6efhlv0IILJXjVz8Oa5H1VFs3&slof=1

https://cen.acs.org/policy/glyphosate-phosphorous-bayer-climate-endangerment-lawsuits-pesticide-liability-fda-nuclear-xenergy-triso-smr-nsf/104/web/2026/02

Evidence suggests Musk’s America PAC violated a Georgia state law prohibiting any person or entity, other than an authorized relative, to send an elector an absentee ballot application prefilled with the elector’s required information. https://newrepublic.com/post/206857/georgia-voter-fraud-elon-musk

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/20/trump-supreme-court-tariffs-ruling