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  The Daily Wrap Up 26 Feb. 2026 Feb 27   [Transcript edited for clarity, length and flow] Watch on Youtube  HERE I was in DC, which those of you who saw my tweet would know, because I had the great misfortune of going to the DOJ to visit Donald’s big brother banner, which was pretty revolting. As I said, it was the visual equivalent of his rhetorical fascism at the State of the Union. Of course, the news never, ever, ever stops anymore. Today, The New York Times is reporting that about  10 FBI employees , including some longtime agents, people who are actually good at their jobs and understand how to investigate things like, I don’t know,  the kidnapping of Savannah Guthrie’s mother or the murder of American citizens on American soil by American agencies, were fired this week because of their work on the investigation into Donald’s handling, or I should say mishandling, or I should say stealing, of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. The firings happened just h...

The Daily Wrap Up 26 Feb. 2026 Feb 27   [Transcript edited for clarity, length and flow] Watch on Youtube  HERE I was in DC, which those of you who saw my tweet would know, because I had the great misfortune of going to the DOJ to visit Donald’s big brother banner, which was pretty revolting. As I said, it was the visual equivalent of his rhetorical fascism at the State of the Union. Of course, the news never, ever, ever stops anymore. Today, The New York Times is reporting that about 10 FBI employees , including some longtime agents, people who are actually good at their jobs and understand how to investigate things like, I don’t know, the kidnapping of Savannah Guthrie’s mother or the murder of American citizens on American soil by American agencies, were fired this week because of their work on the investigation into Donald’s handling, or I should say mishandling, or I should say stealing, of classified documents at Mar-a-Lago. The firings happened just hours after FBI Dire...

  The Cruelty Is the Policy The destruction of USAID, the loss of America’s soft power, and genocide Mary L Trump Nov 23 “Let’s kill poor people.” Regarding the United States Agency for International Development (U.S.A.I.D), Atul Gawande writes in  The New Yorker : On a budget of just twenty-four dollars per American—out of the fifteen thousand dollars in taxes paid per person last year—they had saved lives at an almost unimaginable scale. An independent, peer-reviewed analysis in  The Lancet  estimated that U.S.A.I.D. assistance had saved ninety-two million lives over two decades. Despite that, when Donald came into office, he almost immediately defunded the organization. There are many reasons that defunding an agency like U.S.A.I.D. was a horrific idea. Doing so hobbled America’s ability to deploy soft power which is a vital tool it has used in the past to create alliances, spread democracy, and expand its global influence. Leaving a soft power void for our advers...