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UNLOCKED- Calling Out "The Compatible Left" (w/ Gabriel Rockhill)
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Bad Faith • Feb 18, 2026

UNLOCKED- Calling Out "The Compatible Left" (w/ Gabriel Rockhill)

Trump Celebrates Black History Month by Listing All His Black Friends
New Republic • Feb 18, 2026

Trump Celebrates Black History Month by Listing All His Black Friends

Donald Trump’s celebration of Black History Month began with him rattling off the names of every Black person in his circle.In an extraordinarily on-the-nose, unscripted White House address, the president listed more than a dozen names of prominent Black Americans for no clear reason other than to curry favor with his predominantly nonwhite audience, leveraging the legacies and prestige of the name-dropped pals in order to bolster his own credibility.“Mike Tyson, boy I tell ya, Mike has been loyal to me. Whenever they come out, they say Trump is a racist, Trump’s a racist, Mike Tyson says, ‘He’s not a racist, he’s my friend, he’s been there from the beginning, good times and bad,’” Trump said. “But Mike Tyson’s a great guy and he’s so loyal. Always been loyal.”Trump: Mike Tyson. He has been loyal to me. Whenever they come out and they say Trump is a racist, Mike Tyson goes he's not a racist… Lawrence Taylor is a great friend. pic.twitter.com/TmW1jg0Rtj— Acyn (@Acyn) February 18, 2026“And Herschel Walker, speaking about loyal, how good a football player was Herschel? Now he’s the ambassador to the Bahamas,” Trump said, catching himself as he realized he couldn’t remember where he appointed the onetime Georgia wannabe politician. “I don’t know, Bahamas, Bermuda, is he Bahamas, Bermuda? Whatever! It’s a nice place.”Trump’s next mention was football player and civil rights activist Jim Brown, whom he referred to as “silent but deadly.” But he didn’t stop there.“By the way, Lawrence Taylor, great friend. Probably the greatest defensive player probably in the history of football, he’s a great friend of mine,” Trump continued.Trump also shouted out former Representative Alvida King, “pardon czar” Alice Johnson, HUD Director Scott Turner, former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, MAGA surrogate Corrin Rankin, Diandre Johnson, Agriculture Department Director of Private and Public Partnerships Director Bruce LeVell, and Senator Tim Scott.Trump even mentioned singer-rapper Nicki Minaj, who took a hard right turn toward MAGA Avenue three months ago when her vaccine skepticism—which by then had become a hallmark of the far right—veered into a larger conservative ideology. Last month, Minaj appeared beside the president for the unveiling of Trump Accounts, clutching his hand and hugging the alleged Epstein associate.

Trump Mixes Up Two Black Countries at Black History Month Event
New Republic • Feb 18, 2026

Trump Mixes Up Two Black Countries at Black History Month Event

President Trump mixed up two different Black Caribbean countries at a Black History Month event at the White House on Wednesday, suggesting that he couldn’t care less about them or the event.“Herschel Walker, speaking about loyal,” Trump said while apparently naming every single Black person he knew. “How good a football player was Herschel? Herschel Walker, now he’s ambassador to the Bahamas. I don’t know. Bahamas, Bermuda, Berhamas, whatever. A nice place!”Trump: Herschel Walker. Now he’s ambassador to the Bahamas. I don't know. The Bahamas, Bermuda, whatever. pic.twitter.com/Iu09VzUt7Z— Acyn (@Acyn) February 18, 2026Walker is ambassador to the Bahamas. This is just the president’s latest gaffe, as he mixed up Iceland and Greenland multiple times at Davos last month.

IHIP News: 🚨 Kristi Noem DEMANDS Private DATA of Anyone ANTI-ICE! Americans Are Under SURVEILLANCE!
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I've Had It Podcast • Feb 18, 2026

IHIP News: 🚨 Kristi Noem DEMANDS Private DATA of Anyone ANTI-ICE! Americans Are Under SURVEILLANCE!

Trump Appoints CDC Critic as Temporary Agency Head
New Republic • Feb 18, 2026

Trump Appoints CDC Critic as Temporary Agency Head

Jay Bhattacharya has been tapped to run the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—after spending years criticizing its pandemic response. Bhattacharya will continue his role as the director of the National Institutes of Health, as well as leading the CDC on an acting basis, four people familiar with personnel decisions told The Washington Post Wednesday. Bhattacharya has a history of undermining the CDC’s pandemic guidance. In 2020, the then NIH head, Dr. Francis Collins, labeled the former Stanford University physician and economist “fringe,” after Bhattacharya helped author the “Great Barrington Declaration,” which called for the end of the coronavirus lockdowns. In 2024, Bhattacharya criticized the CDC’s recommendation for widespread masking during the Covid-19 pandemic, calling it “pseudo science.”Bhattacharya will replace former Deputy Health Secretary Jim O’Neill, a market-fundamentalist Silicon Valley investor and longtime associate of billionaire Peter Thiel. Bhattacharya also has the support of powerful figures among Trump supporters, including Thiel, Joe Rogan, and Elon Musk, who claims Twitter suppressed Bhattacharya’s views before the Tesla founder bought the platform.O’Neill replaced Susan Monarez, the last Senate-approved CDC director, who was fired last summer after only 28 days in office. Monarez was ousted after she refused “to commit, in advance, to approving every” recommendation by the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, “regardless of scientific evidence” and “to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause.”But Bhattacharya may not be in lockstep with his boss, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., either. Earlier this month, Bhattacharya put himself at odds with the health secretary when he testified that he’d seen no evidence that vaccines cause autism.This story has been updated.

AI and Nationalism Are a Deadly Combination
Current Affairs • Feb 18, 2026

AI and Nationalism Are a Deadly Combination

Dario Amodei, the CEO of leading AI company Anthropic, has written a 19,000 word warning that AI technology could spell disaster for humanity. While insisting that he and his company are developing AI responsibly, Amodei says that we are facing unprecedented risks, in part because AI is soon going to have a much greater capacity to help people and governments commit crimes against humanity. AI models, Amodei says, are getting smarter all the time, and it may soon be possible for nefarious actors to commit absolute mayhem with them, including releasing engineered pathogens, creating child sex abuse images on a massive scale, killing people with swarms of tiny drones, manipulating and blackmailing millions of people simultaneously, and more. We are, he says, at a crucial moment that will determine whether our species is capable of dealing with an exponential increase in our power to inflict cruelty and destruction, and because the technology is advancing faster than anyone expected, “we have no time to waste.”

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