Saturday Report 2/14/26 — One of Trump’s top allies and private-White-House-dinner guests is now calling for all American women to be imprisoned in the ICE Concentration Camps...

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— Corrupt adjudicated rapist brags that he’s going to rig the November elections to prevent millions of women and minorities from voting, even if Congress won’t help him. The two SAVE Acts the House has passed — which would prevent tens of millions of low-income people and as many as 80 million married women from voting this fall — are both languishing in the Senate where they’ll be the certain victims of a Democratic filibuster. As a result, Trump just posted to his Nazi-infested social media site: “There will be Voter I.D. for the Midterm Elections, whether approved by Congress or not! Also, the People of our Country are insisting on Citizenship, and No Mail-In Ballots, with exceptions for Military, Disability, Illness, or Travel.” Cornered rats are the most dangerous, and Trump knows how to read polls as well as anybody else. He’s getting increasingly frightened and thus increasingly dangerous. Stay alert, and call your Democratic members of Congress (202-224-3121) to encourage them to stand up for our right to vote without challenges or interference.

— Convicted felon brags that he’s willing to destroy our grandchildren’s lives in exchange for a few hundred million dollars from the fossil fuel industry. Seriously. Trump gave a speech to a group of fossil fuel executives where he told them that if they’d help him win the 2024 election with big money, he’d do for them “anything you want.” They paid up and now we and our future generations are going to suffer. It’s hard to imagine anything more disgustingly self-centered, more pathetically transactional, or more fundamentally evil. Thursday, Trump announced that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is doing away with their scientific finding that greenhouse gasses harm human health, so virtually all regulation of those gases will soon be gone. This is a crime against our nation, our planet, and all life.
What’s even more shocking is the seeming lack of outrage coming from the bigwigs in the Democratic Party, who could have used this as a teaching moment that might even break through to Fox viewers. Tell the stories of the people who died in the fires in LA and Hawaii, the floods across the Midwest and South, the amped up hurricanes, etc. Real people are really dying right now from climate change. Add to that the explosion in home insurance prices and the collapse of housing values in high-risk places, and the harms aren’t just measured in human lives but in trillions of dollars annually, as well. Not to mention the hundreds of billions in profits the fossil fuel industry is making and the absurd private-jet-and-luxury-yacht lifestyles of their CEOs and it’s a story tailor-made for savvy politicians.

— Cruel psychopaths in the Trump regime have figured out a new way to waste taxpayer dollars to make the lives of migrants miserable. They’re sending immigrants from America to countries they’ve never visited (often on continents they’ve never visited, particularly Africa) and handing them over to governments that don’t respect human rights and often engage in torture. It’s costing a fortune in your taxpayer dollars and seems to have no value other than delighting the sadists overseeing the program and the racists who make up the MAGA base. Senator Jean Shaheen and Democrats on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee just released a horrific report detailing the gruesome practice. Every time you think this bunch of dime-store Nazis has hit a moral rock bottom they discover or invent a new low…

— One of Trump’s top allies and private-White-House-dinner guests is now calling for all American women to be imprisoned in the ICE Concentration Camps and only let out when he and his friends personally approve of them. Misogyny has always been at the core of fascism, and proud white supremacist and Trump fanboy Nick Fuentes is embracing it. The 27-year-old incel with over a million followers on Twitter, who brags he’s never had sex with a woman because his Catholicism prevents him from doing so before marriage, shared this sweet little message with the world this week:
“Women get sent to the gulags first, obviously. Which women? All women. Every woman. Every woman and girl is sent to the gulags. We will determine who the good ones are after the fact. Well, what about the good ones? What about the trad ones? First of all, there are no trad ones or good ones. Second of all, we will determine which ones are acceptable after they’re all imprisoned. Then we will let them out.
“You have to do it because those are our political enemies. You want to know our number -- This is unironically just true. The number one political enemy in America is women. Straight up, I’m just telling you. I’m telling it like it is. People might say it’s Jews, it’s Democrats, it’s white liberals, it’s leftists, it’s the Chinese. Our number one political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned.
“They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They’re the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people. You know, when you -- I want you to understand something. When you’re sympathetic to poor people, you’re sympathetic to brown people because brown people are poor. OK? Not all poor people are brown, but most brown people are poor. So women are making us sympathetic to poor people, aka brown people. Women are making us sympathetic to George Floyd. Women are the reason that their fertility rate is low because they’re getting educated and they attack every man as a rapist and a pedophile and they’re henpecking and controlling all the men.
“So just like Hitler imprisoned Gypsies, Jews, communists, you know, all of his political rivals, we have to do the same thing with women. And we’ll sort it out. We’ll find the good ones. They can prove themselves. Then we’ll let them go.
“So they go to the gulag first. They go to the breeding gulags. The good ones will be liberated. The bad ones will toil in the mines forever.”
Sorry to inflict that on you, but it’s important that you know that tens of millions of young white American men agree with the sentiment, which Fuentes blasted to his followers and has since been repeatedly echoed throughout the so-called “manosphere.”

— The Trump Housing Crisis is now officially here. Sales of previously-owned homes tanked 8.4% last month over December, leading the National Association of Realtors chief economist, Lawrence Yun, to proclaim we’re in “a new housing crisis.” Bloomberg, meanwhile, reported: “Delinquency rates on loans ranging from mortgages to credit cards rose to 4.8% of all outstanding US household debt in the fourth quarter, the highest level since 2017, driven by rising defaults among low-income and young borrowers.” Last quarter, Seeking Alpha reports, “Outstanding student loan debt stood at $1.66 trillion, 9.6% of loans were more than 90 days delinquent, and one million borrowers more than 120 days past due had their loans transferred to the Department of Education’s Default Resolution Group.” I’ve been pointing out for several months now that every indicator I have access to — advertising revenue in the radio/TV business and Substack subscriber revenue — are down in an way that’s identical to previous severe recessions. While the Trump Labor Department is insisting things are rosy, they also have an obnoxious habit of presenting happy numbers and then revising them downward months later, after the news cycle has moved on. I smell a rat.

— A Congressman who examined the Trump/Epstein Files (why don’t we all start calling them that? After all, Trump’s name is in them more than a million times according to Congressman Swalwell) says there’s a report of allegations that Trump and Epstein raped and murdered a young girl. And contemporary news confirms that she was found dead. While this is entirely uncorroborated, that’s apparently because the FBI decided not to follow up on the whistleblower lead. Congressman Ted Lieu (D-CA) tweeted to Trump’s shoeshine girl Pam Bondi: “Dear [Attorney General Bondi]: Since you creepily spied on the unredacted Epstein files I read, you know I read this one. ‘Witness calls FBI’s [National Threat Operations Center] and reports girl, later found dead, told him Trump and Epstein raped her.’ DOJ NEVER INTERVIEWS WITNESS. When will DOJ interview this witness?” After this week’s pathetic performance before Congress, refusal to even look at the victims, and radical redactions to protect wealthy powerful men, nobody’s holding their breath. And what happened to the Republicans who were so outraged about the FBI “spying” on the members of Congress who were apparently conspiring with Trump to make January 6th happen? They were quite literally screaming about the Executive Branch spying on the Legislative Branch, what they claimed was a violation of the separation of powers in the Constitution. Suddenly they’re very, very quiet. I never, in my entire life, thought it would be possible that the majority of elected Republicans in Congress and an entire administration would do everything they can to protect criminals like Epstein and Maxwell while crapping on their victims. But here we are.

— Once again, we have evidence that DHS/ICE has lied about an American citizen they shot five times trying to kill her. Montessori School teaching assistant and US citizen Marimar Martinez was shot five times for honking her car’s horn at a blacked-out SUV filled with loser ICE thugs. The wannabe killer, agent Charles Exum, even posted a text message to his colleagues bragging: “I fired 5 rounds and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.” He was congratulated personally by both Bovino and Trump, according to press reports. The alleged justification was that her car had “bumped” the ICE vehicle, but her lawyer fought hard and finally, after weeks, got the body cam video released and it turns out they bumped her car before trying to shoot her to death. How is this happening in America?

— Crazy Alert! Bob Kennedy boasts that he’s “not scared” of germs because he “Used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.” If Putin directed Trump to kill as many Americans as possible, Trump couldn’t have done better than to put a former heroin- and sex-addicted lawyer in charge of the nation’s public health. We’re now seeing mass outbreaks of deadly diseases, he just blocked a new flu vaccine that could save billions of lives in the event of a Bird Flu pandemic, and he’s changed our food recommendations to eat more heart attack- and stroke-causing animal products. This lawyer with no medical or scientific training whatsoever cut the head off a dead whale and tied it to the roof of his car, picked up a dead bear cub for food and dumped it in Central Park, and got a brain worm, presumably from eating road kill. Just the kind of guy you want advising your kids on public health…