Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine
“Whoever posted a video on President Trump’s social media containing a racist animation of the Obamas as apes committed an own goal that overshadowed what otherwise would have been a great week for the administration. It shouldn’t have needed the GOP’s only black senator, Tim Scott, to decry the clip as racist for the post to be deleted and an apology issued by the White House. The one-minute video reposted late Thursday on Trump’s Truth Social account was about voter fraud in the 2020 election, one of the president’s favorite subjects. At the end, the video flashed for a split second to a clip of the Obamas from an old ‘Lion King’ meme depicting Democrats as animals, and Trump as a lion. It was obviously a mistake.” [editor’s note: So it’s not the person who posted the video “stirring up racial division,” it’s anyone who noticed and mentioned it? How … Clintonesque – TLK] (02/08/25)
https://nypost.com/2026/02/08/opinion/democrats-stir-up-racial-division-to-seize-political-power-time-we-stop-falling-for-their-hoaxes/
Source: Al Jazeera [Qatari state media]
“Iranian authorities have arrested four people on charges of attempting to ‘disrupt the country’s political and social order’ and working ‘for the benefit’ of Israel and the United States during the antigovernment protests last month. The arrests were made late on Sunday and early on Monday, and included prominent reformist politicians who have recently spoken critically about the theocratic establishment, according to Iranian media reports.” (02/09/26)
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/9/iran-arrests-prominent-reformists-over-deadly-january-unrest
Source: The Bulwark
“If National Review Will Cover This, It’s Bad.” (02/08/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xXm6xOwLAw
Source: Washington Post
by Kate Andrews
“The fallout from the latest release of files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is being called the biggest political scandal so far this century. Newspapers and television news are splashing fresh revelations daily. High-profile careers are crashing. The police are investigating. There are even whispers of ‘borrowed time’ for the country’s leader. Not in the United States, but in Britain. The enormous tranche of more than 3 million emails and other documents, photos and videos released by the Justice Department on Jan. 30 have created a minor headache in the White House and a major crisis in Whitehall.” (02/08/26)
https://archive.is/2hapf
Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid
“The people of Greenland have been fighting for their sovereignty from both Europe and their NATO-American overlords for generations, finally achieving home rule in 1979, voting to withdraw from the EU in 1985, and expanding home rule to a self-government agreement with a window to complete independence in 2009. This is what the actual people of Greenland overwhelmingly support; to be free of pompous white assholes from both sides of the Atlantic along with their toxic waste and petty pissing matches. But Denmark, dear tolerant socialist Denmark, continues to hold Greenland’s local government hostage with a 5 billion Kroner block grant that funds nearly all of their public services with the unspoken threat being that full independence would mean economic devastation.” (02/08/26)
https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2026/02/from-greenland-to-great-lakes-secession.html
Source: Foundation for Economic Education
by Joe Tabor
“More than five years after the failure of the so-called Fair Tax Amendment, Illinois politicians are still trying to eliminate the state constitution’s flat income tax protection and make it easier to raise state income taxes.” (02/08/26)
https://fee.org/articles/illinois-politicians-still-want-boosted-tax-power/
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“Jimmy Lai, the media mogul and prominent pro-democracy activist, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong for national security offences, a punishment his daughter said could mean ‘he will die a martyr behind bars.’ Claire Lai said the sentence was ‘heartbreakingly cruel’ given her 78-year-old father’s declining health, while her brother Sebastien Lai called the sentence ‘draconian’ and ‘devastating.’ … Lai was convicted in December on charges of sedition and conspiracy to collude with foreign forces. He had pleaded not guilty to all charges. … Lai is the founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily, a popular Hong Kong newspaper that supported the pro-democracy movement that swelled in the city in the 2010s. The movement was crushed in June 2020 by the imposition of a harsh national security law that criminalised most forms of dissent.” (02/09/26)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/09/jimmy-lai-sentencing-china-hong-kong-pro-democracy-businessman
Source: Free Talk Live
“Gen Z Dubbed the first gen dumber than the gen before :: Is their doing worse in school a sign they’re breaking through the matrix? :: The Boomers’ advantage and 2008 crash and the Dot Com bubble crash :: How much can AI replace surgeons? :: Reasons to avoid buying from an MLM :: Hillary and Bill Clinton want to testify in open court about Epstein :: ‘Qualified Imm-bull crap’ :: Surveillence cams in cars :: Runaway Prius incidents memoryholed :: They dumb us down in public school so we can’t stand up against them :: Don’t take the plea deal :: NH activists history :: Russell Kanning’s activist rampage :: ‘Snowball raid’ on a fed building :: Should we have a duty to help a cop? :: Cops are trained to lie :: Who deported more people? Obama or Trump? :: No victim, no crime :: 2026-02-08 Hosts: Bonnie, Rich E Rich, Bear Arms.” (02/08/26)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/ftl2026-02-08
Source: The Atlantic
by Idrees Kahloon
“There is an irony to the undying Jeffrey Epstein scandal: It may never be more than an annoyance for President Trump, who knew Epstein well, but it could topple British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who never met the sex-offender financier. Starmer has a 71 percent disapproval rating and leads the least popular British government since World War II. The reasons for the Labour Party leader’s deepening plight are moral, because decency and shame still matter in British politics. But they are also institutional. An American president is less democratically accountable than the British prime minister, because partisanship has disabled the checks that the Founders placed on the chief executive.” (02/08/26)
https://archive.is/iOTu2
Source: Hullabaloo
by Tom Sullivan
“Trumpism is a movement [Lionel] Trilling would still recognize as one that expresses itself ‘only in action or in irritable mental gestures which seek to resemble ideas.’ Memes and AI slop, in current parlance. Or in mass deportations and state-sanctioned street violence and murder. If those ‘gestures’ appear garbled, it is because the ‘the high priests of MAGA ideology,’ Stephen Miller and Russ Vought, are not driven not by coherent ideas. What drives them is visceral rage at cultural change that fails to center men as base as themselves. And by the congenital insecurity of Donald Trump himself.” (02/08/26)
https://digbysblog.net/2026/02/08/trumpisms-primal-scream/
