Health Check

 

February 19, 2026

“You claim Biden’s staff covered up his health problems, and you look like you work part-time at a medical school as a cadaver in exchange for them saying how healthy you are.”
                         Paula Poundstone, February 13, 2026

Speaking of health, move over Life on Earth, here comes Coalie. What the fuck is Coalie you ask? Oh, ye of little stupidity. You are clearly attempting to stay mentally healthy by keeping your attention unpaid. Let us pay it for you…

Coalie is the Trump administration’s AI generated mascot for guess what – beautiful, clean coal.

This is fucking Coalie: He’s so cute.
He wants to watch you die. Slowly.

Here’s a much better mascot, ready to help out

Gritty, preparing for a shot on coal

Donald Epstein Trump, the Giant Orange Tumor on America's lung, just received the coal industry's version of the non-existent FIFA Peace Prize, crowning him The Undisputed Champion of Beautiful, Clean (Cough, Cough) Coal. What a pitiful lout. And just look at the faces of the three other people (below): the guy on the left looks like he is sucking on a lump of coal, the guy in the hard hat is looking for the exit, and the guy on the right is thinking that his entire life has led up to this moment and he just might be ending it all tomorrow. Meanwhile, Little Boy Orange is in awe of his specialness even as he is soiling himself.

This Health Check was brought to you by Fuck Donald Trump And The Whores He Rode In On, and by

THE Donald TRUMP
memorial EPSTEIN FILES

You know them, you love them, you don’t want to wait for the movie to come out to see all of them. It's the law.

I. Mangrey reporting. Nobody told me there'd be days like these.

Pic Of The Day – Jasmine On My Mind

File Under: Things We’d Like To See   

February 18, 2026

Current Texas representative Jasmine Crockett is running for the Senate in the Lone Star State. Early voting has just started in the Democratic primary. Crockett  has been relentless in calling out the insanity and illegality of the Fascist/Trump Party. There is really only one act she has not carried out in defense of truth, justice and the theoretical American way…

Most Americans would pay good money to see this

Speaking of Texas…

Tim Grimm – Broken Truth (live in San Antonio)

This has been your Paying Attention™ Pic Of The Day.

Make America Worse Again

Uncle Klan Wants You

February 18, 2026

It looks like we are not the only ones celebrating Black History Month. A federal judge was very displeased that Bland Dragon Donald Trump decided it would be a good idea to remove the slavery exhibit from the President’s House – where George Washington resided – which is part of Philadelphia's Independence National Historical Park, in the days leading up to Black History Month. This was yet another depredation in a growing list of attempts to whitewash American history by the Supreme Racist Trump. You know, the self-proclaimed “least racist person you’ve ever met”, with the exception of almost everyone you’ve ever met.

Apparently re-posting a video depicting America’s first Black president and his wife as apes wasn’t good enough to satisfy Trump’s raging bigotry.

Trump team prepares another assault on history in Philadelphia

On February 16^th U.S. District Court Judge Cynthia Rufe ruled that the son-of-a-Klan-fan must restore the exhibit to its original condition. Below are some highlights of the judge’s 40-page ruling

“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. The President's House is a component of Independence National Historical Park that commemorates the site of the first official presidential residence and the people who lived there, including people enslaved by President George Washington.”

“On January 22, 2026, the National Park Service ('NPS') removed panels, displays, and video exhibits that referenced slavery and information about the individuals enslaved at the President's House. There can be no prejudice to Defendants' restoration of the status quo as of January 21, 2026, which requires that Defendants reinstall all panels, displays, and video exhibits that were previously in place.”

In short, what the fuck is wrong with you assholes? You need to put everything back exactly the way it was before you fucked with it – right now! Then, get the fuck out of town and don’t come back unless you are invited. Capisce, fuckface?

If we are in fact living in Orwellian times, and ‘Ignorance is Strength’, then the Trump administration surely has super-powers.

So much fucking winning.

I. Mangrey reporting. These fuckers have got to go.

Schmuck Of The Day – Kad Rock

Anybody Wanna Buy A Bridge?

February 17, 2026

Kid Rock says he’s changing his name because he now walks with the lord. He apparently found God backstage between sets at his white power fake Super Bowl halftime show. Word has it he no longer condones the pedophilia he sang about years ago...well, not every day

Is that as in statutory rape, Kid?

I hear the Lord told him to go fuck himself.

This has been your Paying Attention™ Schmuck Of The Day. Schmuck on! 

The Donald Jeffrey Trump Memorial Jeffrey Epstein Files

February 17, 2026

Show Me The Files

Attorney General Pam Bondage came loaded for boor in her testy-moaning before Congress last week. She carried on like thirteen-year-old hopped up on goofballs, refused to answer any questions, spewed completely unrelated nonsense and lied her ass off. It was a performance that surely made Karens everywhere jealous, if not proud. It surely was what Daddy Donny wanted.

The stylings of Marty Two Bulls

The UK's Channel 4 News analyzed the emails in the latest batch of 3.5 million pages, they concluded, “Potentially only 2 percent of the information the FBI retrieved from Epstein’s homes” is what has been shared with the public.

Scam Bondi accidentally showing the percentage of Trumpstein files she’s released

A sample of partially redacted files: the margins are still clearly visible

Aren’t they beautiful? So neat. So tidy. All there in black and white. Mostly black. If only those documents could talk before they were suffocated into blackness. What might they say?

I am only spitballing here, but could it be

It is not easy redacting someone’s name from an unknown number of documents when that name – and who knows what else – appears several million times. Some say it would be easier to keep those files hidden from the public, and from anyone who might have legal recourse in mind.

Our interns are hard at work starting a rumor that within those millions, possibly billions, of Epstein Pedo-files still being held hostage by Trump (who, it must be remembered has the authority to release anything he wants to), there are hundreds, possibly thousands of photographs of Trump with underage girls. Allegedly. Or so it is said.

Whatever you do, please resist the temptation to spread this rumor, as it is completely unfounded. Or is it? We may never know.

I. Mangrey reporting. Actually, it wasn’t me, it was some nameless aide who has since been let go. 

Radio WTAF – Making The World Safe For Music

February 16, 2026

Paying Attention™ DJ Ariel Baddass is preferring to remain under the radar for reasons we will leave it up to her to share. She has asked me to continue working the turntable, etc.

Shit’s getting real out there. Folks are fed up with fascism; not that there was ever any tolerable level. But too many among us seem to be okay with the fascism and the philandering pedophiles fomenting it. They keep spitting right in our faces every fucking day, but we are not having it. Thousand people in the street, singing songs and carryin’ signs, mostly say ICE OUT, FUCK ICE, NO KINGS.

There are more protest songs than we can count, yet never enough, and new ones pop up almost as often as a sucker is born.

Anyway, today we’re going video with some live versions of a couple protest classics, and one brand new, old-school-style folk song straight from today's streets.

The Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth (Live At Monterey Pop Festival 1967)

Jefferson Airplane - Volunteers (Live at Woodstock Music & Art Fair, 1969)

And here’s the new one from Boston-based Evan Greer and friends

Evan Greer – “You Will Have to Come Through Us”

We’re always happy to take your requests and dedications, so drop us a line any time.

Broken News – MINNESOTA ACCOMPLISHED

Shame Over (Maybe)

February 15, 2026

“Get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, January 13, 2026,
after the execution of Renee Nicole Good by ICE
(as echoed by Frey’s ASL interpreter)

Minneapolis was brutalized and traumatized by Trump’s ICE ICE death squads. People were afraid to leave their homes, afraid to send their children to school. Businesses suffered, people injured, property damaged, two of course were executed in broad daylight. There will be no federal investigation into the execution of Renee Nicole Good, and the feds have appropriated all evidence of the obvious, flagrant crime and will not allow local authorities access.

On the heels of the announcement by fake-job-holder, and full-time bridge troll Tom Homan that Donald Jeffrey Epstein Trump’s ICE ICE would be packing up their military-style weapons, machinery of war, and hidden cache of dead bodies, and leaving the war-torn city they sought to destroy, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey should have had this to say:

Major combat operations in Minneapolis have ended. In the battle of Minneapolis, the good people of this city and their allies have prevailed. We have difficult work to do in Minneapolis. We are bringing order to parts of this city that have been ravaged by the president’s goons. Our mission continues...The War on Democracy continues, yet it is not endless. We do not know the day of final victory, but we have seen the turning of the tide.

They finally got the fuck out of Minneapolis...sort of

Thank you, Minneapolis and all those who kept the pressure on Trump, Noem, Bovino, Homan and Trump’s trigger-happy troglodytes, and finally caused those ratfuckers to get the fuck out of Minneapolis.*

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*Unfortunately, it remains unclear if and when the withdrawal will be complete, but the death squad surge does appear to be over. And Homan has threatened “If we need to come back, we’ll come back.”
 

This has been a Paying Attention™ Special Broken News report.

We now return you to your regularly scheduled resistance.

Headline Of The Day – Trump’s ICE ICE

Getting The Fuck Out Of Minneapolis?   

February 14, 2026

What exactly was it that you needed to do? Ruin the Minneapolis economy? Traumatize children and families? Execute innocent people? FUCK-UP ACCOMPLISHED

OPERATION METRO SCOURGE

Minneapolis was never anywhere near the top of the list of places with immigrant overload. Those are all in red states. 

 Or maybe not…we’ll see

Major combat operations in Minneapolis have ended. In the battle of Minneapolis, the Trump regime and ICE have prevailed. Our mission continues. And now our coalition is engaged in putting an end to freedom and democracy here and across this once great land.

This has been your Paying Attention™ Headline Of The Day.

Death By Epstein

Epstein Disbar Virus

February 14, 2026

It is finally time to take a break from everyone’s most reviled and favorite news story of the century, the newly branded

TRUMPSTEIN FILES^*

Just kidding, why would anyone want to stop watching the goose laying golden showers…I mean eggs.

Fucking Up With A Fancy Accent

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is taking big heat after Peter Mandelson, his appointee as ambassador to the United States was found to have landed in the Epstein Files. Calls for Starmer’s resignation are multiplying. As are the people still getting fucked by Epstein…at least they are all grown-ass men this time. And oh so consenting.

The most baffling, nauseating part of the story is Starmer is poised to lose his position for appointing Mandelson, who Starmer knew had ties to the pedophile sex trafficker before he appointed Mandelson. And yet the American president, a known 34-time convicted felon and adjudicated sex offender himself, seems safe in the job he is objectively sucking at. And, old Trumpy appears in the Epstein Files more than 1,000,000 times, and we’ve only been allowed to sniff briefly at 3,000,000 of what we are told are 6,000,000 files. What isn’t wrong with this picture?

Prince Andrew of England (or whatever the fuck his official title was), thanks to his association with Epstein, is now an ex-prince. Men the world over are having their lives turned to shit, except for the sleazy MAGAts scurrying around the Remains of The White House, like DOGE Douche Elon Musk, or Trump’s Guardian of Garbage Steve Bannon, or Clueless Commerce Secretary Howard “I’ll Never Go Near That Man Again Until I Do” Lutnick. And particularly the Big Cheeto. Bring him down! Bring him down! Take them all down! To Kristi Noem’s gravel pit.

And which batch of horrific Epstein Pedo-files do you think has the worst stuff in it? The batch we are so far permitted to sneak a peek at (which is patently illegal since by law the “Justice” Department must release ALL THE FILES by December 19, 2025, which should be any minute now), or the batch they are pretending they don’t need to release at all?

I cannot claim to know much about politics in the UK, but it would seem possible that being in the Epstein Files is a prerequisite for any sort of association with the Trump Reich. I just assumed that Trump demanded this of any ambassador to his America.

It’s possible Starmer had no choice. It’s also possible that he’s another bumbling idiot in keeping with what appear to be global norms here in the Whoring ‘20s.

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*Man, whatever is in those files must really be bad for old Fartenstein, because his flying monkeys are really working their little tails off trying to figure out how to protect him from letting the public in on it.

I. Mangrey, sitting here watching the wheels go round.