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Republicans Are Suddenly Very, Very Worried About Holding the Senate
New Republic • Feb 16, 2026

Republicans Are Suddenly Very, Very Worried About Holding the Senate

With midterms on the horizon, Republicans fear their party is heading toward disaster—in the Senate as well as the House of Representatives.Some Senate Republicans are sounding the alarm that the caucus is not addressing critical issues ahead of the 2026 election season, namely affordability, which is predicted to be the top issue come November.The party has failed to pass major policy wins beyond Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act last July, suffering from a razor-thin legislative majority in Congress that has fractured at nearly every juncture, including basic government funding packages. And the possibility of pushing another GOP bill to curry favor with voters seems slim—just last week, Trump told his caucus that Republicans had “gotten everything passed that we need.”“We’re not going to win the midterm by going to the American people and saying, ‘Look, we passed 11 out of 12 appropriations bills and we confirmed all of President Trump’s nominees,’” Louisiana Senator John Kennedy told The Hill. “The American people don’t care. That’s not what, when moms and dads lie down to sleep at night and can’t—that’s not what they’re worried about. They’re worried about the cost of living.“In their minds, they’re tired of selling blood plasma to go grocery shopping,” Kennedy said.The 2026 agenda isn’t conducive to another legislative overhaul, either. This year earmarks significantly more time for lawmakers to spend in their home states than in Washington, a major departure from the 2025 calendar. That’s forced Republicans to focus on bills that absolutely must pass, such as government funding efforts, the farm bill, and the National Defense Authorization Act.The shift in priorities has left conservative lawmakers to fend for themselves, more fixated on the advertising efforts of their individual campaigns than working as a party to pass more legislation that would sway their districts.“Are we doing enough? We’re not doing anything,” Senator Tommy Tuberville, who is campaigning in Alabama’s gubernatorial race, remarked to The Hill. “Everybody’s working on getting elected.” Top Republicans are hitching their wagon to the aging success of the OBBA, hoping that the mid-2025 legislation can still win at the ballot box a year and a half after the fact.Meanwhile, Republicans are losing on a host of critical issues: The White House has so far failed to meaningfully address the fact that Trump was named in the Epstein files tens of thousands of times; the cost of living is boiling over; a conservative stonewall fueled the longest government shutdown in U.S. history; and immigration—the party’s terra firma—has buckled since ICE agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis in January.

MR FUN | 2/16/26
The Majority Report • Feb 16, 2026

MR FUN | 2/16/26

MAGA Congressman Makes Sick Post About Muslims and Dogs
New Republic • Feb 16, 2026

MAGA Congressman Makes Sick Post About Muslims and Dogs

Republican Congressman Randy Fine is still an idiotic, Islamaphobic bigot. On Sunday night, the lawmaker, known for his disturbing history of anti-Palestinian comments, wrote on X, “If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one.”Fine said he made the comment in response to what is clearly a joke from Nerdeen Kiswani, the founder of New York City–based Palestinian organizing network Within Our Lifetime. “Finally, NYC is coming to Islam. Dogs definitely have a place in society, just not as indoor pets,” she quipped last Thursday. “Like we’ve said all along, they are unclean.”“Lmao at the Zionists frothing at the mouth at this, thinking they’re  doing something. It’s obviously a joke,” Kiswani wrote later without mentioning Fine. “I don’t care if you have a dog, I do care if your dog is shitting everywhere and you’re not cleaning it.” Another post from Kiswani made clear it was a reference to people upset by the amount of dog shit left sitting on top of piles of frozen snow throughout the city.Only someone whose bigotry transcends logic would think that New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani would somehow decree that dogs could no longer be indoor pets (although there are certainly some valid questions around the conduct of urban dog owners). At this point, it’s obvious that Fine is that someone. This is the same congressman who has constantly celebrated the death and suffering that Israel has perpetrated in Gaza, stating, “The Palestinian cause is an evil one.… We nuked the Japanese twice [in World War II] in order to get unconditional surrender.” Fine’s comments have been widely condemned, especially as they come right before the beginning of Ramadan. “Resign now, you racist slob,” California Governor Gavin Newsom wrote. “Imagine if an American politician said this about Jews,” Parkland school shooting survivor and gun control activist Cameron Kasky said. “Disgusting bigotry,” Jake Tapper declared. Fine later responded to Tapper’s post with a screenshot of Kiswani’s post.“So you’re ok with this? What’s truly disgusting is a key Mamdani advisor saying we must give up our dogs because ‘NYC is coming to Islam.’ We will not be shamed into being conquered like the Europeans,” said Fine. “I choose my dog.If you’re man enough to debate me, I’ll come on your show.”Fine was born in Arizona, grew up in Kentucky, and lives in Melbourne Beach, Florida.This story has been updated.

Peter Thiel Is Unleashing a Neocolonial Billionaire Fantasy in Honduras
ZNet • Feb 16, 2026

Peter Thiel Is Unleashing a Neocolonial Billionaire Fantasy in Honduras

In April 2025, Peter Thiel’s Palantir made headlines after documents were released detailing its partnership with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to create ImmigrationOS, a massive database of information gathered from a variety of sources including the IRS, in order to surveil, detain, and deport immigrants. Thiel is not new to spearheading endeavors that aim to [...]

"The Alabama Solution": Oscar-Nominated Film Uses Prisoner Cellphones to Expose Deadly Prisons
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Democracy Now Video • Feb 16, 2026

"The Alabama Solution": Oscar-Nominated Film Uses Prisoner Cellphones to Expose Deadly Prisons

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