Conservatives and Republicans regularly say things like, "Democrats don't complain when serial killers kill people (bad) so why do they complain when cops kill people, which is good, obviously??? Check mate!!!"
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, appears to have deleted his tweet after these Democrats responded
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur.bsky.social) February 23, 2026 at 5:05 AM
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Everyone is shocked and will forget by tomorrow when they lie again.
Hoping for a tariff refund? Don’t hold your breath. Winning at the Supreme Court was the easy part. To understand what comes next, consider how the government survived the legal skirmishes that led to its loss last week.
From the earliest challenges at the Court of International Trade, Justice Department lawyers made one consistent argument against preliminary injunctions: “Plaintiffs face no harm from a stay; they can fully remedy any harms by obtaining a refund of any tariffs ultimately held invalid,” to quote a 2025 government motion. Justice Department lawyers entered formal stipulations in Princess Awesome v. CBP and a January 2026 consolidated proceeding, each promising not to contest the court’s authority to order reliquidation after a final decision. The courts denied the injunctions, refusing to suspend liquidation (the process that finalizes tariff payments) in direct reliance on those assurances. Yet the government now appears ready to litigate those very promises.
I am not going to try to decipher Trump's latest screed about his powers to bully other countries. The main point is he was never interested in "deals" and, as his long career showed us, he never feels bound by them anyway.
He first seized on tariffs because he has some broken brain understanding of trade balances and who actually pays them, but then kept pushing the tariff button because it got him attention and because he realized it was a good bullying tool.
It should not have taken the geniuses in the rest of the world this long to realize that you don't cave to bullies.
Europe has warned that trade deals struck with the U.S. could now be at risk after President Donald Trump unveiled a new global 15% tariff on all imports at the weekend.
Trump’s move came after the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday struck down his global tariffs policy, implemented last spring, that had upset the long-standing global trading order.
There are no deals! That is the whole thing with President Deals! That is his whole career! The art of the deal is breaking them!
...as I was writing this:
European Parliament negotiators on Monday suspended the EU-US trade pact, as threats from Washington and a US Supreme Court ruling cast doubt over the validity of the 2025 agreement.
and then:
I know the thing that most likely sparked Trump's hospital ship claim is Greenland rescuing a US Navy sub crewmember, but we're still missing the middle bit of this chain as far as I have seen?
I keep trying to construct possibilities and failing.
Senate Republicans are coming under intense pressure from President Trump and right-wing colleagues to embark on an old-fashioned filibuster fight in an effort to ram through a voter identification bill that their party regards as crucial to salvaging their dimming chances of winning the midterm elections.
Free speech is threatened when institutions listen to public pressure from the wrong sorts of people - the people who don't have have newspaper columns and who disagree with me! - and not when (looks around at the United States, 2026).
I have an idea. Why don't we force these onto every machine in the country, give them super-admin* access permissions by default, and have them send everything unecrypted into the generalized plagiarism machine. What could go wrong?
Oh I forgot - make sure it has access to everyone's passwords and bank/card information so it can do whatever it is supposed to do more efficiently.
*I don't know if "super-admin access permissions" is a thing but you get my point.
