The Washington Post points out there is no precise medical or legal definition of “late-term,” and “many doctors and scientists avoid that language, calling it imprecise and misleading.”
The Daily Beast also notes that only 1.3 percent of abortions are performed after 21 weeks of gestation, and the idea that a woman can get an abortion moments before giving birth is “not how medical care works.”
The use of “dog whistles” aka “coded” labels has been common for many years but until recently has been out of the mainstream of conversation. The current administration aided by a neer do well Congress has brought these “coded” statements and words to common use. Along with this common usage the administration has trashed agreements put in place to prevent war and improve trade. Tariffs (taxes) put in place to offset the “tax” policy that was supposed to benefit everyday Americans and threats to bad actors who were in a state of containment with the approval of our now alienated allies. The administration has in a few years undermined our economy, foreign affairs and put us on an isolation footing all because of “dog whistles”.
Robert De Niro Warns There’s ‘No Way’ Trump Ends 2nd Term in 2028 Without a Fight: ‘It’s Up to the People’ | Exclusive Video
The Academy Award winner unpacks the president’s approach to the upcoming midterms on “The Best People with Nicolle Wallace”
Tess Patton
Fri, February 20, 2026 at 10:28 AM CSTmin read
Robert De Niro on “The Best People with Nicolle Wallace” (Credit: MS NOW)
Robert De Niro warned MS NOW anchor Nicolle Wallace that President Donald Trump will not go willingly at the conclusion of his second term.
“He will never leave,” De Niro told Wallace in an exclusive “The Best People” clip obtained by TheWrap. “We have to make him leave. He jokes now about nationalizing the elections. He’s not joking. We’ve seen enough already.”
The Academy Award winner will appear on the anchor’s podcast Monday, but the exclusive video sees De Niro questioning Wallace’s claim that he will be gone in three years.
Trump has teased that he has not ruled out seeking a third term as president, despite the 22nd Amendment of the U.S. Constitution which prohibits this action. De Niro told Wallace that Americans should believe he means what he says.
“Let’s not kid ourselves,” he added. “He will not leave. It’s up to us to get rid of him.”
Watch the clip here:
Wallace clarified though what this assumption means for the midterms coming up later this year. She questioned whether or not the results will be respected.
The “Casino” actor responded that Trump will attempt to disrupt the midterm elections, so it is up to American citizens to ensure safe elections going forward.
This response comes as Trump claimed he wanted to federalize all elections earlier this month. The president told former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino on a podcast in Febuary that the Republicans should “take over voting” and “nationalize” it, which would in turn give the Trump Administration more control over the voting process.
“We have to make sure that like what he’s trying now, that all the polling places have people that can come there safely,” De Niro said. “That might mean citizens on the other side.”
“Peaceful organization,” Wallace clarified.
“It’s up to the people,” De Niro concluded.
The “Goodfellas” actor’s episode of “The Best People with Nicolle Wallace” will be available to stream on Monday.
Trump’s chief bigot, Stephen Miller, said on Fox News this month that immigrants to the United States bring problems that extend through generations.
“With a lot of these immigrant groups, not only is the first generation unsuccessful,” Miller claimed. “You see persistent issues in every subsequent generation. So you see consistent high rates of welfare use, consistent high rates of criminal activity, consistent failures to assimilate.”
In fact, the data show just the opposite. The children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren of most immigrants are models of upward mobility in America.
In a new paper, Princeton’s Leah Boustan, Stanford’s Ran Abramitzky, Elisa Jácome of Princeton, and Santiago Pérez of UC Davis used millions of father-son pairs spanning more than a century of U.S. history to show that immigrants today are no slower to move into the middle class than immigrants were a century ago.
In fact, no matter when their parents came to the U.S. or what country they came from, children of immigrants have higher rates of upward mobility than their U.S.-born peers.
Stephen Miller’s great-great-grandfather, Wolf-Leib Glosser, was born in a dirt-floor shack in the village of Antopol, a shtetl in what is now Belarus.
For much the same reasons my great-grandparents came to America — vicious pogroms that threatened his life — Wolf-Leib came to Ellis Island on January 7, 1903, with $8 in his pockets. Though fluent in Polish, Russian, and Yiddish, he understood no English.
The family settled in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a booming coal and steel town, where they rose from peddling goods to owning a haberdashery and then owning a chain of supermarkets and discount department stores, run by Sam and Sam’s son, Izzy (Stephen Miller’s maternal grandfather).
Two generations later, in 1985, came little Stephen — who developed such a visceral hate for immigrants that he makes up lies about them that have no bearing on reality.
In a little more than 11 months, Stephen and his boss have made sweeping changes to limit legal immigration to America.
On his first day back in office, Trump signed an executive order declaring that children born to undocumented immigrants and to some temporary foreign residents would no longer be granted citizenship automatically.
The executive order, which was paused by the courts, could throw into doubt the citizenship of hundreds of thousands of babies born each year. Miller and his boss want the Supreme Court to uphold that executive order.
After the horrific shooting of two National Guard members on November 26 by a gunman identified by authorities as an Afghan national, Trump halted naturalizations for people from many African and Middle Eastern countries.
Trump is also threatening to strip U.S. citizenship from naturalized migrants “who undermine domestic tranquillity.” He plans to deport foreigners deemed to be “non-compatible with Western Civilization” and aims to detain even more migrants in jail or in warehouses — in the U.S. or in other countries — without due process.
In addition to the unconstitutionality of such actions, they stir up the worst nativist and racist impulses in America — blaming and scapegoating entire groups of people.
As they make their case to crack down on illegal and legal immigration, Miller and Trump have targeted Minnesota’s Somali community — seizing on an investigation into fraud that took place in pockets of the Somali diaspora in the state to denounce the entire community, which Trump has called “garbage.”
Let’s be clear. Apart from Native Americans, we are all immigrants — all descended from “foreigners.” Some of our ancestors came here eagerly; some came because they were no longer safe in their homelands; some came enslaved.
Almost all of us are mongrels — of mixed nationalities, mixed ethnicities, mixed races, mixed creeds. While we maintain our own traditions, we also embrace the ideals of this nation.
You can go to Japan to live, but you cannot become Japanese. You can go to France to live and not become a Frenchman. You can go to live in Germany or Turkey, and you won’t become a German or a Turk. But … anybody from any corner of the world can come to America to live and become an American. A person becomes an American by adopting America’s principles, especially those principles summarized in the “self-evident truths” of the Declaration of Independence, such as “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Reagan understood that America is a set of aspirations and ideals more than it is a nationality.
Miller and Trump want to fuel bigotry. Like dictators before him, Trump’s road to tyranny is paved with stones hurled at “them.” His entire project depends on hate.
America is better than Trump and his chief bigot.
We won’t buy their hate. To the contrary, we’ll call out bigots. We won’t tolerate intolerance. We’ll protect hardworking members of our community. We’ll alert them when ICE is lurking.
We will not succumb to the ravings of a venomous president who wants us to hate each other — or his bigoted sidekick.
It is pretty obvious by now that facts riles up the liars no matter the party. It seems that all purveyors of non facts get upset when presented with facts and counter with more non facts or personal attacks.
Sixes 2 A
We’re doing what best for you
autocrats, dictators, people in power all seem to tell us that what they are doing to us is for our own good and somehow many of us believe it. If we are paying attention, we can see that the GOP is doing and saying the same thing while enacting repressive laws on
voting, reproduction and installing “their choice of judges” while stopping passage of infrastructure legislation. Is this for our own good?
No truth in poLItics, neither party
Dishonesty appears to be the bedrock of politics and unfortunately too many voters are accepting it.
Botch already backing TOTUS for 2024
Botch McConnell in a play to remain in power has already endorsed TOTUS for a 2024 Presidential run-Is it possible that his (Mitch) constituents are blind and numb?
Cruz, Hawley, Johnson, modern JoeMcCarthy’s
Only in America can miscreants become lawmakers (or breakers?) and suffer no consequences
Higher standards-N/A to elected officials
We always thought it- politicians generally are suspect
Foxes have control of the henhouse
The GOP now has control of the US house and has proceeded to exact revenge on the DEMs for perceived and real (correct) sins against the party. This energy world be better used to actually strike an accord and govern instead of pursuing irrational and uninformed issues. The course being followed will certainly come back to
bite” them and further divide the voters.
Shiny objects no motive for support-The most prominent or shiniest object more distracting than useful
Flip flops are not just footwear-
ask Linsey Hop graham and Botch McConnell
Patton slap to GOP-all Cowards!
General Patton was reprimanded for slapping a GI who was suffering from what we now know as” battle fatigue”, he was wrong in what he did however he was ordered to apologize for it. We as voters need not apologize if we “Patton” slap our elected officials
2Tr tax cut or 2Tr stimulus?
The GOP happily passed a 2trillion dollar tax cut that benefitted themselves and big business yet balk against 2trillion to stimulate the economy and help the voters. No brainer on who to vote foTop of Form
r.
Why Do Balding heads require parting?
Just curious
Congress competing for standup Comic jobs?
Standups are more serious about their work than these neer do wells
Its Ok until you’re the victim
What happens to one affects us all and we should all be involved or be at least paying attention.
Possibly hoods in the Congressional closet?
Ron Johnson has made plain what we have always suspected of the GOP. Perhaps not all but too many to ignore and we should not let the Dems off the hook either.
Fist Bump ridiculed once, now gentrified
During Obama Presidency fist bump was ridiculed, not so “ghetto” now is it?
Amazing disgrace: current miscreant elected officials
There is no partisanship when elected officials disrespect the office for their personal gain, not the country and the voters who put them in office.
“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.”
Americans, not other countries, paid Trump’s tariffs in 2025
Daniel de Visé, USA TODAY
Sun, February 15, 2026 at 1:42 PM CST
American consumers and companies paid nearly 90% of the cost of President Donald Trump’s tariffs through late 2025, according to a new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
The study adds to a growing body of evidence indicating American families pay a price for Trump’s import taxes, despite the president’s assertion that the financial burden falls entirely on other countries.
Trump’s tariffs equated to a tax increase of $1,000 per household in 2025, according to a Feb. 6 report from the nonpartisan Tax Foundation. Households are expected to pay another $1,300 in 2026.
The tariffs are the largest U.S. tax increase since 1993, according to the Tax Foundation analysis. Tariffs are a tax − but on whom?
On the campaign trail in September 2024, promoting tariffs, Trump told supporters, “It’s not going to be a cost to you, it’s going to be a cost to another country.”
Trump repeated the claim in a Jan. 30 op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, writing, “The data shows that the burden, or ‘incidence,’ of the tariffs has fallen overwhelmingly on foreign producers and middlemen, including large corporations that are not from the U.S.”
The New York Fed study, published Feb. 12, suggests otherwise.
President Trump’s import tariffs are mostly a tax on Americans, a new report finds.
Through August 2025, 94% of the import taxes fell on American companies and consumers, according to the study. By November, the “pass-through” rate had dipped to 86%.
“In sum, U.S. firms and consumers continue to bear the bulk of the economic burden of the high tariffs imposed in 2025,” the researchers wrote.
“The study by the New York Fed confirms what most economists expected – U.S. consumers and businesses pay most of the costs from the Trump tariffs,” said Wayne Winegarden, senior fellow in economics at the Pacific Research Institute, a free-market think tank.
The Wall Street Journal seized on the report in a Feb. 13 editorial, opining, “No matter how often President Trump insists his tariffs are taxing foreigners to enrich the U.S., economic studies keep showing that Americans actually pay the bill.”
Through late 2025, tariffs added about 0.7 percentage points to the U.S. inflation rate, according to a November paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research. In other words, without tariffs, the inflation rate for September might have dropped from 3% to 2.3%.
Tariffs have elevated prices on many imported items
Trump’s tariffs have inflated prices across a host of imported items, an effect visible in the January inflation report. The price of household furnishings and supplies rose 3.8% from January 2025 to January 2026. Furniture and bedding prices rose 4%. Prices for dishes and flatware rose 5%.
Tariffs are complicated. The actual costs are typically split between exporters in one country and importers in another.
The New York Fed provided this example:
Imagine a foreign exporter charges $100 for a product, and the U.S. government imposes a 25% tariff. If the exporter doesn’t lower the price, the importer pays a $25 tariff, increasing the total price to $125. That means 100% of the tax falls on American consumers and companies.
In the same example, imagine the exporter responds to the tariff by lowering the price to $80. Now, the importer pays a $20 tariff, and the total import price remains $100. The exporter effectively absorbs all of the tax.
As it turned out, most exporters didn’t lower prices much in response to Trump’s tariffs. A 94% pass-through rate means the typical foreign exporter responded to a 10% tariff by reducing prices 0.6%, or 6 cents for every $10.
As exporters and importers absorbed the impact of Trump’s tariffs, their impact softened at every step. Some exporters trimmed prices. American companies found cheaper products from other countries or absorbed part of the tariff themselves.
In the end, roughly 20% of Trump’s tariffs reached actual consumers, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research paper.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Americans paid the tab for Trump’s tariffs in 2025
The United States has again reached a crossroad where good evil meet. The last time much like this one it was about economics- granted that there were and still are personal freedoms involved, and a national split occurred aka a “CIVIL WAR”. There are still remnants of that event remaining after 100 plus years, but many Americans have thankfully moved and some unfortunately have not! Now we have one if not the worst national leaders since Andrew Jackson. The difference is that we as a country have grown up intellectually (mostly) but that intellect has sometimes been rooted in the same biases from long ago. There has been a coopting of certain words and sayings as being Anti American, leftist, rightist or any of several “buzzwords” and sayings. One of the most recent is “DEI” also known as “Diversity, Equity, Inclusion”. I have tried hard to define or find a definition of this as a Radical, left Wing, right wing or Racist trope. It is nowhere close to the names or definitions used behind closed doors of our current Government. The current “Caligula” is as evil and self-centered as the original but multiplied by a cohort of sycophantic power grabbers who will be remembered in history for their evil deeds. How many can name or spell the names of the Nazi perpetrators of the death camp activities that led to millions being murdered? There are similarities to several of those activities to present day that gather people across the country, send them to other cities, state, and counties at the expense of the taxpayer (US!). Now there is a move to create camps (alligator Alcatraz, in Florida) that can house “illegal” migrants. It should be remembered that many migrants work here seasonally only, and many are awaiting asylum hearings but need to work to provide for their families yet they are swept up in ICE raids and incarcerated without due process.
The U.S. has always been the bellwether for other nations is spite of our past and missteps, now we are looked at with jaundiced eyes from our long-time world partners. Our long-time adversaries are becoming more aggressive as they laugh and shake hands with our mediocre state department. Our titular leader is little more than an adult with infantile thoughts expecting the country to follow him no matter what. There have been leaders like this for ages and all of them underestimated the public’s ability to accept their abuses of power. All despots fail spectacularly!
The few words recognizable from the “battle Hymn of the Republic” tell us that we need to keep fighting against the evils of the current Politics and administration. If your elected officials (the ones you voted for) are standing up for you, the next step is vote them out whenever the next election cycles arrive. The voters need to get out of their own way and vote for people who will work for you. You should keep in mind that electing anyone new is a crap shoot, but we have to keep playing since it’s the only game in town, especially if you are unwilling to get informed on facts.
Abel Meeropol (February 10, 1903 – October 29, 1986)[1] was an American songwriter and poet whose works were published under his pseudonym Lewis Allan. He wrote the poem and musical setting of “Strange Fruit” (1937), which was recorded by Billie Holiday.
Early life
Meeropol was born in 1903 to Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants in the Bronx, New York.[2][3][4] He graduated from DeWitt Clinton High School in 1921 (his classmate Countee Cullen graduated in 1922) and earned a B.A. from City College of New York and an M.A. from Harvard University. Meeropol taught English at DeWitt Clinton for 17 years.[5] During his tenure as a high school teacher, Meeropol taught author and racial justice advocate James Baldwin.[6]
Song writing and poetry
The sheet music for ‘Vote I. for Ben’, written for Communist New York City Council candidate Benjamin J. Davis Jr., 1943
Meeropol wrote the anti-lynching poem “Strange Fruit” (1937), first published as “Bitter Fruit” in a teacher union publication. He later set it to music. The song was recorded and performed by Billie Holiday and Nina Simone.[7] Holiday notes in the book Lady Sings the Blues that she co-wrote the music to the song with Meeropol and Sonny White. The writers David Margolick and Hilton Als dismissed that claim in their work Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song, writing that hers was “an account that may set a record for most misinformation per column inch”. When challenged, Holiday—whose autobiography had been ghostwritten by William Dufty—claimed, “I ain’t never read that book.”[8] Meeropol wrote numerous other poems and songs, including the Frank Sinatra and Josh White hit “The House I Live In”.[9] He also wrote the libretto of Robert Kurka’s opera The Good Soldier Schweik, which was premiered in 1958 by the New York City Opera.
According to his adopted son Robert Meeropol, the songs “Strange Fruit” and “The House I Live In”, along with the Peggy Lee hit “Apples, Peaches and Cherries”, provided most of the royalty income of the family. “Apples, Peaches and Cherries” was translated into French by Sacha Distel and became a number one hit in France under the title “Scoubidou”. Meeropol filed a copyright infringement lawsuit over Distel’s plagiarism as Distel initially had claimed the song as his. After the case was settled, Meeropol started receiving the royalties.[10]
Meeropol published his work under the pseudonym of “Lewis Allan” in memory of the names of his two stillborn children.
Trumplestilskin went to Washington riding on a Jackass (and became one)
Upon arrival stabled the ass in the Whitehouse east wing
When the east wing became soiled by the ass, Trumpel tore it down
Trumpel the let the ass out into the Rose garden, once that was destroyed by the ass, Trumpel paved the Rose Garden over.
Trumpel assembled his cabinet from the folks he thought looked good on TV but would kiss his ass on demand.
Trumpel started or attacked several countries (and States) over perceived problems that threatened “national Security” without Congressional approval (ass backwards action)
Trumpel “tariffed” long time trade partners for no gain and made asses of the people who actually paid the Tariffs , (The voters of the United States) while mightily touting how much cash the government and the country is making. Again making asses out of the Congress (the law makers) and the voters.
The gilded cage made and envisioned by a Orange sprayed egotist is fading like the Faux gold created by Trumpelstilskin as his “Midas touch” dissolves into pyrite!
One reminder from the Bible (if true) the Israelites made an idol of Gold while Moses was on Mt. Sinai and brought condemnation on them all.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday pardoned former NFL players Joe Klecko, Nate Newton, Jamal Lewis, Travis Henry and the late Billy Cannon on Thursday.
The pardons were announced by White House “pardon czar” Alice Marie Johnson.
“As football reminds us, excellence is built on grit, grace, and the courage to rise again. So is our nation,” Johnson wrote on social media as she thanked Trump for his “continued commitment to second chances.”
Johnson said Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones “personally” shared the news with Newton, who won three Super Bowls with the team.
The White House did not return a request for comment Thursday night on why Trump pardoned the players.
Klecko, a former star for the New York Jets, pleaded guilty to perjury in 1993 after lying to a federal grand jury that was investigating insurance fraud. A defensive lineman, Klecko was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2023. He was a two-time Associated Press All-Pro and a four-time Pro Bowler.
Newton, an offensive lineman, pleaded guilty to a federal drug trafficking charge in 2002 after authorities discovered $10,000 in his pickup truck as well as 175 pounds of marijuana in an accompanying car driven by another man. Newton was a two-time All-Pro and a six-time Pro Bowler.
Lewis, formerly of the Baltimore Ravens and the Cleveland Browns, pleaded guilty in a drug case in which he used a cell phone to try to set up a drug deal not long after he was the fifth pick in the 2000 NFL draft. The running back was named an All-Pro once, a Pro Bowler once and the 2003 AP Offensive Player of the Year.
What about Colin Kaepernick who did nothing wrong!
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