Open Thread

What’s on your mind?

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[BrotherMovesOn]

"What's on your mind?"
Well a Cabinet Secretary has been exposed as a liar and a sleazebag, for one. What's on yours?
Nothing to see here.
Let's bash some Olympic athletes. Ya, get 'em!

[Dr. Ed 2]

Very few men go whoring in front of their wives and children.

I think Bill Clinton did, but very few men do.

And it’s the scooter Libby issue, how much accuracy is fair to ask of any human being? And I am willing to extend this to Obama — whom I consider to be the antiChrist. *I* don’t remember exactly everyone I had lunch with in 2016!

We can envy the man having the resources to be going on vacation in a boat with his family and another family to the region, but is it fair to expect him to remember every beach, he stopped on, have lunch with someone who he knew, and remember, which vacation and which year he did it in? I know I couldn’t meet that standard.

Could you?

And as I can’t, I can’t ethically hold someone else to having a better memory than I do.

I was at UMass Amherst. Bill Cosby was at UM Amherst. I sometimes was in the same venue as Bill Cosby. Asked me to give you a defensive list of each and every time, add exactly where in campus each was, and i’ll tell you I have no freaking idea.

I’m not a defender of corrupt Democrats, but I do try to be fair and I don’t think — well I think Scooter Libby wasn’t treated fairly.

[Michael P]

You were spamming about that in yesterday's Open Thread, with no more point than today. Joe Biden was exposed as a vegetable whose major decisions were made by unelected stooges misusing the autopen and exploring a confused old man with a poor memory. I think all of his Cabinet secretaries were exposed as liars at various points, and most or all were sleazebags to boot.

[Commenter_XY]

The looming DHS shut down....

Team D: Please go for it, LOL. I can already see the commercial spots coming in September; a long reel of dead Americans, killed by illegal aliens. It will be an own goal.

Imagine the lines at airports since TSA will be on reduced schedules. Have fun.

And who exactly is Team D protecting by shutting down DHS? It isn't American citizens. They are gleefully protecting criminal illegal aliens: murderers, drug dealers, pedophiles, molesters, rapists, drunk drivers, burglars.

Yes...by all means, protect illegal aliens Team D. And loudly and proudly proclaim it across the land. Every death of an American citizen from an illegal alien will be on your hands.

[Brett Bellmore]

I was my understanding that the BBB already funded ICE for a couple years to come, and it's only the other parts of DHS that get shut down. Like, yes, the TSA. Or FEMA.

So I'm not quite clear what the Democrats think they're getting out of this, immigration enforcement will continue unabated, only the parts of DHS that they DO like will shut down.

[Dr. Ed 2]

Am I the only person noticing how close the Guthrie investigation has gotten to the Mexican border and wondering if she is in Mexico?

And the demographics that watches the Today show?

Right now, we’re hoping the woman gets safelyreturned to a family. Next October, well, it’ll be a different thing.

[Sarcastr0]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ice-is-cracking-down-people-who-follow-them-their-cars-2026-02-10/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=Social

Ringstrom had watched federal immigration officers for about 45 minutes as they sat in a parked car in her neighborhood on Thursday, January 29. When they started to move, she decided to follow along in her SUV, keeping a distance of multiple car lengths behind, she said.
At a roundabout, a Border Patrol agent approached her car and said, "Last time I'm going to warn you," according to video Ringstrom recorded on her phone.
The officers went right at a stop sign and she went left, she said. Several minutes later as she started to head back toward her house, multiple vehicles with federal officers stopped and arrested her, she said.

After her arrest, she was issued a citation, reviewed by Reuters, which said the court date was “TBD” - to be determined.
McLaughlin said Ringstrom "stalked law enforcement and attempted to obstruct law enforcement from performing their sworn duties.”

While new internal ICE guidance, reported by Reuters in late January, instructed officers not to engage with protesters, the encounters have not stopped.
Two videos in recent weeks verified by Reuters showed ICE officers drawing their weapons as they approached vehicles that allegedly had been following them.

In a separate incident, opens new tab on February 3, two ICE officers approached a car that had been following them, again, with guns drawn, according to video verified by Reuters and a DHS statement.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said the vehicle had been “stalking” and “obstructing” ICE officers.

Some Minnesota residents say they believe they are becoming the subject of an intimidation campaign.
In a suburb north of St. Paul on January 22, an ICE officer led a woman who was following his vehicle back to her house, making it clear that he knew her identity and address, Reuters-verified video filmed by the husband showed.
The woman’s husband spoke to the ICE officer outside of the couple’s house. When the husband questioned the tactic, the officer said, “You raise your voice, I erase your voice,” the video showed.
One ICE officer told Reuters they have led people following them back to their houses after running their license plates “to freak them out.”

There are other examples in the article. Smashing windows and unnecessary use of pepper spray.

ICE is directly going after observers.

This is not deescalation. They're drawing down on citizens early and often. ICE shooting someone again is still very much on the table.

[Malika la Maize]

A large Pride flag was quietly removed from the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan after a directive from the federal government, the latest step in the Trump administration’s nationwide assault on diversity initiatives and the second time in less than a year it has targeted the Greenwich Village site, which commemorates the birth of the L.G.B.T.Q. rights movement.

The flag’s removal came weeks after the Department of the Interior issued federal guidance on displaying “non-agency” flags in the National Park System, which includes a small park in front of the Stonewall Inn, the bar for which the federal monument is named.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/us/pride-flag-stonewall-inn-monument.html

[Malika la Maize]

Bad Bunny's halftime show averaged 128.2 million viewers from 8:15 to 8:30 p.m. ET. That would make it the fourth-most-watched halftime behind Kendrick Lamar (133.5 million, 2025), Michael Jackson (133.4 million, 1993) and Usher (129.3 million, 2024).…

The Turning Point USA halftime show featuring Kid Rock peaked at 5 million at one point on YouTube…. YouTube figures show there have been 21,208,583 views of the alternate halftime show through Tuesday night, according to the conservative organization's page. Bad Bunny's show has had 61,311,972 views on YouTube.

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47891761/super-bowl-lx-bad-bunny-half-fall-shy-ratings-records