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Great job, CBS management. By trying to not fight the fascists, you just broke their jaw.
And now, our feature presentation...
Cheers and Jeers for Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Note: There is no i in Sweden. There is no we in Iowa. But there’s both an i and a we in Zimbabwe. This observation, ladies and gentlemen, represents the pinnacle of human civilization. I believe the cockroaches can take it from here. —Mgr.
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By the Numbers:
9 days!!!
Days 'til the mad king slurs and slobbers his way through a State of the Union address: 6
Days 'til the National Fiery Foods & BBQ Show in Albuquerque: 9
Factor by which anti-Trump protests are more common, and larger, during this point in his second term than it was during his first term, according to G Elliott Morris: 4x
Number of Russian soldiers dying every month now to feed Putin's delusions of Ukrainian conquest: 30,000 – 35,000
Estimated percent of U.S. adults who identify as LGBTQ, according to the latest Gallup polling, up from 3.5% in Gallup's first 2012 poll: 9%
Amount Melania still needs to make to break even, three weeks after its release in over 1,700 theatres: $60 million
Current U.S. Olympic Medal Count
Gold: 6 Silver: 10 Bronze: 5
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Mid-week Rapture Index: 177 (including 3 tribulation temples and 1 murderer for Jesus). Soul Protection Factor 12 lotion is recommended if you’ll be walking amongst the heathen today.
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Puppy Pic of the Day: In Sao Paulo, now you and your Woozle can rest for eternity together…
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CHEERS to racism-washing. It might be valid to add Rev. Jesse Jackson to the long list of people who died (at 84, in his case) because of Donald Trump. It's quite possible that the civil rights titan—Rainbow Coalition founder and the last of the men on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel when Rev. King was assassinated—heard that the Mad King had ordered removal of references to slavery at the site of our nation's founding and said that's enough for me, I'm outta here. But if it's any consolation, on the day Jackson passed a federal judge threw reality back in Trump's face:
U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe issued a preliminary injunction ordering the Trump administration to restore the President's House Site—an outdoor exhibit opened in 2010 where a house George Washington occupied once stood—to its original state before the National Park Service removed 34 educational panels and video presentations that referenced the nine people enslaved by Washington who lived and worked there. […]
The Presidents’ House site in Philadelphia, soon to be restored to its messy historical glory.
At multiple points in her opinion, Judge Rufe rebuked the Trump administration's argument that "it alone has the power to erase, alter, remove and hide historical accounts" by comparing their actions to those of Big Brother in Orwell's1984.
"As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell's 1984 now existed, with its motto 'Ignorance is Strength,' this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims—to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts. It does not," she wrote.
They should chisel her ruling on a plaque and add it to the site.
CHEERS to a brief moment of sanity from MAGA Land. I have a great idea! I haven't traveled over to the dark side in awhile, so let's slather ourselves in Purell and see what a prominent influencer on the right—in this case podcaster and former commando Shawn Ryan—has to say about AG Pam Bondi's appearance last week before the House Judiciary Committee. I bet he was so thrilled to hear from her that the Dow Industrials hit “50,000 dollars” that he forgot all about the Epstein scandal. Take it away, Ryan…
“Nobody gives a f*ck.
What you should be talking about is how you are going to investigate and prosecute any pedophiles that are running around on Epstein Island that you’re affiliated with. But we didn’t talk about that, did we? Oh, and what’s the excuse? What was the excuse? ‘If we prosecute everybody the whole system would go down.’
Shawn Ryan. (Artist’s sketch)
“Well, you know what that sounds like? That sounds like how Trump ran his campaign: ‘Let’s drain the swamp.’ Doesn’t that sound a lot like draining the swamp? It actually is drain the swamps served up to you on a fucking silver platter but you’re not gonna take it, are you? You’re gonna protect pedophiles! You’re going to protect pedophiles rather than go after them and hope that everybody’s happy that the Dow hit 50,000.
Are you fucking out of your mind?!”
Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln…
CHEERS to great discoveries. On this date in 1930, astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovered a new "dwarf planet" in our solar system. He called it Pluto. Republicans called it Home.
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BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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END BRIEF SANITY BREAK
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CHEERS to stalling for America's future. 185 years ago today, on February 18, 1841, the first continuous filibuster in the U.S. Senate began. It lasted until March 11. Before you read about the details below, you might want to whip up a li’l Filibuster cocktail. Good—let us proceed:
Until the late 1830s, the filibuster remained a solely theoretical option, never actually exercised. The first Senate filibuster occurred in 1837.
Your filibuster is served.
In 1841, a defining moment came during debate on a bill to charter the Second Bank of the United States. Senator Henry Clay tried to end the debate via majority vote, and Senator William R. King threatened a filibuster, saying that Clay "may make his arrangements at his boarding house for the winter." Other senators sided with King, and Clay backed down. The word “filibuster” was derived from the Dutch word meaning “pirate.”
Filibuster or not, there’s one thing we’ll never have to worry about: senators running out of words.
CHEERS to today's Helpful Money Hint…from CPA Billeh (degree pending since the 1970s, but they say it's in the mail). Yesterday we saw this headline at the NBC news site: Tax season is here. Here's what you need to know for stress-free filing. Sure, you could immerse yourself in their intricate web of tips and tricks. But I like my way better. It served me well last year, and I offer it to you now free of charge:
Step 1 Be born.
Step 2 Wait for a United States president to hire an unqualified, brain-fried South African white supremacist billionaire to gut the Internal Revenue Service.
Step 3 Once you’re sure that the only employee at the IRS is Gladys the cleaning lady, fill out your tax forms using nothing but the number "0" for your income.
Step 4 On the space marked "Refund due," write in "$1,000,000,000."
Step 5 Sign your tax form "Jeff Bezos."
Step 6 Sit back and wait for that sweet, sweet refund to hit your bank account.
One small catch: since there's no one at the IRS, you'll have to either travel to Washington, D.C. to process your own refund, or hack into the system yourself if you prefer doing it from home. The login is "IRSLOGIN" and the password is "PASSWORD12345." Good luck, and remember to allocate at least five bucks to charity or you're going to Hell.
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Twenty years ago in C&J: February 18, 2006
BIG BUCKET OF JEERS to that big bucket of slime, Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas. In his world, if you rob a bank, but you happen to be his good buddy, he'll "work with you" to "reach a deal" to change the law making it legal for you (but no one else, of course) to rob banks. And thus President Bush gets a free pass for ignoring the FISA law and spying on innocent Americans—much the way, say, a king would. Senator Roberts, by the way, will be unavailable today from 10 to 10:30, as he is getting fitted for a powdered wig. [2/18/26 Update: Roberts, who left the Senate five years ago, turns 90 in April. I wonder if he’s figured out yet that I’ve been the one bribing the nurse’s to short-sheet his bed every afternoon at the nursing home.]
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And just one more…
CHEERS to previews of coming attractions. Guys! Gals! Big news! Yesterday our Keyboard Kingpin took a break from betting at the horsey track to let us know that the NEW and IMPROVED Daily Kos is on schedule and will soon be ready to dazzle our gorgeous blogger eyes. Bells! Whistles! Buttons! Pixels! Wires! This baby's got it all, and you'll love it or your money back…
Everything loads instantly. No jitter. No lag. No mysterious pauses while the server gathers its thoughts. It’s just … there. Smooth. Clean. Responsive. It makes the existing site feel like molasses in comparison.
Best new feature of Daily Kos 4.0: a coffee maker.
We’ve been talking internally for years about what this project could be. To finally see it. To click through it. To feel it working. It honestly fills me with joy.
Because this is what modern code feels like. Lightweight. Efficient. Purpose-built. Not layers of legacy systems piled on top of each other over 20+ years, but streamlined architecture built on current standards and optimized frameworks. The page isn’t fighting itself anymore.
It just works.
And here's more good news: there will be a version of the "old" front page for us "old" timers. I think we can all agree that, thanks to this late-breaking development, Kos deserves—say it with me—the Nobel Peace Prize.
Have a happy humpday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?
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Today's Shameless C&J Testimonial
"Resign now, you kiddie pool-splashing slob."
—Gov. Gavin Newsom
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