What Happened Today - 6 Feb 2026
What Happened Today – 6 Feb 2026
Remove Him…Yesterday
Trump’s late night Truth Social Posts
Rubio and Vance at the Olympics
Supreme Court Staff and NDA’s
Clinton testimony…Trump does not want it public
Jobs, Money, Strength of the Dollar
No Loyalty…No Job (Federal Workers)
Dulles/Penn Station Stunt
Gabbard is in HOT water
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Remove Him…Yesterday
When I woke up this morning I thought…I don’t have the energy or desire to go see what the news cycle was going to tell me and thought, my update today will just be: IMPEACH.
Yet…there’s news. So…here we go.
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Trump’s late night Truth Social Posts
Trump was completely out of control last night, and there’s no pretending otherwise. He blasted out this disgusting, racist meme where Barack and Michelle Obama are literally portrayed as apes at the end of some unhinged 2020 election conspiracy video, like we’re not in 2026 with a president who’s supposed to represent everybody but instead is leaning straight into Jim Crow–era dehumanization in the middle of Black History Month. The left lit him up, as they should – Democrats and Black leaders are calling it vile, racist, dangerous, and they’re flat‑out asking why this man is still anywhere near power, pointing out that comparing Black people to apes has a long, violent history and is not some “edgy joke” you shrug off. Even some on the right were clearly uncomfortable – you’ve got the hardcore MAGA types cheering or pretending it’s nothing, but a few Republicans, especially Black Republicans, are openly saying this went way too far and that the post needed to come down, while most of GOP leadership tried to hide behind “no comment” and let staff push nonsense about it being a mistake or taken out of context. And then there’s Karoline Levitt, doing what she always does: stomping out to a microphone to tell everyone the outrage is “fake,” insisting it was just a silly little meme showing Trump as king of the jungle and Democrats as cartoon characters, totally sidestepping the fact that the version Trump actually shared is laser‑focused on the Obamas as apes and nothing about that is normal, acceptable, or funny. She refused to say it was wrong, refused to apologize, and instead tried to turn it back on the media for supposedly ignoring “real issues,” as if the sitting president pumping out racist trash about a former president and first lady isn’t a real issue. At this point, saying it’s time to remove him feels almost too polite – we are well past the line where this is just “controversial” or “divisive.” This is the president openly broadcasting dehumanizing, racist garbage, his press operation gaslighting the country about it, and his party mostly too cowardly or complicit to say, “No, this is not who should be leading the United States.”
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Rubio and Vance at the Olympics
Rubio and Vance are over in Italy playing the “statesmen at the Olympics” game, doing the photo ops with Team USA, sitting rink‑side at women’s hockey, and leading the official U.S. delegation into the opening ceremony like everything back home isn’t on fire politically. They’re greeting athletes, grinning for cameras with their families, and trying to wrap themselves in Olympic unity messaging, while on the ground in Milan there’s real anger about ICE’s footprint at the Games and protests demanding U.S. agents get out, so no, they’re not exactly universally “welcomed” so much as tolerated as the face of Trump’s America. The IOC has literally had to tell fans not to boo Vance at the stadium, which tells you everything about how bad the vibes are when your vice president shows up and organizers are pre‑gaming crowd control because they know how unpopular this administration is with a lot of people overseas.
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Supreme Court Staff and NDA’s
The Supreme Court slapping NDAs on its own staff is exactly the kind of move that screams, “What are you hiding?” and they know it. Yes, obviously the internal give‑and‑take of how cases get decided has always been close hold – clerks are expected to be discreet, draft opinions don’t go flying out the door, that’s not new. What is new here is Roberts hauling everyone into a room after Trump got reelected and, in the wake of leaks and embarrassing reporting about pro‑Trump rulings and ethical messes, suddenly turning that old norms‑and‑honor‑system culture into formal, threat‑of‑legal‑action NDAs that cover clerks and staff across the board. Legal experts are basically saying these agreements look less like routine confidentiality and more like intimidation – they’re written to scare people out of talking about anything, including patterns of misconduct or internal pressure around cases that benefit this White House.
And no, this kind of broad gag order is not how the Court has traditionally handled itself. For years the expectation was cultural and professional: you kept quiet because that’s the norm of the institution, not because you signed some panic NDA mid‑term after a leak about a Trump immunity memo and the Dobbs draft blew up in their faces. There have been narrower confidentiality agreements before and clerks already had to agree not to spill deliberations, but this is Roberts “leveling up” to a sweeping contract that employees were reportedly pushed to sign after they’d already been inside the building, which is backwards and sends a clear message: we’re more interested in silencing insiders than fixing why trust in this Court is in the gutter. That’s exactly how a slide into a fascist‑style regime looks – not just the bad rulings, but the walls closing in: more secrecy, more gag orders, more punishment for talking while the Court keeps handing wins to the same president whose grip on power they’re helping cement.
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Clinton testimony…Trump does not want it public
The whole Clinton testimony saga is basically turning into a bad reality show, and Republicans are banking on people not paying attention to the fine print. Bill and Hillary have now agreed to sit for closed‑door depositions in the Epstein probe at the end of the month, and from the jump they’ve been saying: if you want to drag us in, do it in public so the country can see every question and every answer in real time, no selective editing, no Fox‑only clips stripped of context. What’s changed as of last night/this morning is not that they suddenly decided they don’t want it public; it’s that Comer and House Republicans are insisting on the opposite – closed‑door, videotaped depositions only – and then spinning it like the Clintons “caved” and are fine with everything being behind closed doors.
The excuse Comer’s crew is hiding behind is the usual sham “this is the normal process, depositions are always private, we’ll release what matters later,” which is exactly the problem: they want total control over what gets leaked and when, while pretending they’re the ones fighting for transparency. The Clintons’ lawyers have basically said the quiet part out loud – their fear is Republicans cherry‑picking the most out‑of‑context moments from hours of testimony, then weaponizing that for sound bites instead of letting people watch the full exchange and judge it for themselves. So when you see this sudden hard line on “no public hearing,” it’s not some high‑minded concern about protecting an investigation or victims; it’s about control and narrative, and it fits right into the larger pattern of this Trump‑era House majority: demand “answers” from your enemies, then shove everything into a black box where only your edited version ever sees daylight.
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Jobs, Money, Strength of the Dollar
The jobs picture right now is ugly and getting uglier, no matter how much they try to spin “low hire, low fire” as some kind of soft landing. Weekly jobless claims just jumped to around 231,000, the highest in months, job openings have fallen to their lowest level in more than five years, and private‑sector hiring barely crawled forward in January with something like 22,000 new jobs – that’s stall‑speed for an economy this size, not strength. The official January jobs report is delayed until next week thanks to the shutdown nonsense, but the expectations are already pathetic: maybe 70,000 payroll gains on top of December’s weak 50,000, and unemployment stuck in the mid‑4s, which is exactly what a labor market looks like when businesses are frozen, not thriving. You’ve got companies spooked by tariffs and overhyped AI spending, trimming at the edges and holding off on new hires, while regular people are the ones paying the price for all this “wait and see” boardroom cowardice.
The markets are basically having mood swings at this point. We just watched a risk‑off wave slam stocks on fresh labor‑market weakness and AI‑bubble fears, then a big snap‑back rally push the Dow back toward that ridiculous 50,000 milestone like everything’s fine; underneath the noise, what you really see is a market that doesn’t trust the foundation but is still chasing momentum because there’s nowhere else to go. Bitcoin is the perfect example of that: it ripped to insane levels, then got smacked down hard and is now wobbling in the mid‑60Ks, sitting on that $60K–$65K “line in the sand” while everyone argues whether this is just a brutal correction or the beginning of a real unwind. The dollar, meanwhile, keeps catching these little strength bursts every time rate‑cut hopes get pushed out and global nerves spike, which props it up in the short term but also tightens the screws on everyone else and feeds into the broader volatility. Put it all together and you’ve got a jobs market that’s clearly weakening, a stock market swinging between panic and denial, crypto flailing around key support, and a “strong” dollar acting less like a badge of honor and more like a warning siren that this whole setup is way more fragile than the White House wants to admit.
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No Loyalty…No Job (Federal Workers)
Trump’s new “at‑will” rule for federal workers is exactly what it looks like: a loyalty purge tool dressed up as “accountability.” The Office of Personnel Management just finalized this so‑called “Schedule Policy/Career” category, which will let the administration strip civil service protections from up to roughly 50,000 career employees in policy‑related roles and turn them into essentially at‑will workers who can be fired with almost no process and no meaningful right to appeal. These are not political appointees who come and go with each president; these are long‑time subject‑matter experts – people at agencies like CDC, EPA, DOJ, State – who are supposed to serve the public interest no matter who’s in the White House, and now they can be dumped because somebody decides they’re “subverting presidential directives” or not “aligned” enough.
The spin from Trump’s OPM and Karoline is infuriating: they’re out here saying this is just about performance, “strengthening a merit‑based workforce,” and making it easier to fire people who “aren’t doing their jobs” or “aren’t working on behalf of this president,” which is the tell – you’re not supposed to work for the president, you’re supposed to work for the country. Unions, watchdogs, and even some senators are calling it what it is: an end‑run around over a century of civil service law so they can replace nonpartisan professionals with ideological foot soldiers, gut whistleblower protections in practice, and scare anyone who might say “this is illegal” into silence. The rule takes effect in early March, agencies are already drawing up lists of who to reclassify, and once those names move into this new bucket, they lose access to the Merit Systems Protection Board and other key appeal mechanisms – meaning one political appointee’s grudge can end a career that used to be insulated from this kind of retaliation. It’s one more brick in the wall of this authoritarian project: capture the courts, gag the staff, and now bend the federal workforce into a tool that serves the leader personally instead of serving the public.
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Dulles/Penn Station Stunt
This Dulles/Penn Station stunt is pure Trump ego politics, and it’s as gross as it is corrupt. He literally told Schumer he’d unfreeze about $16 billion for the Gateway tunnel only if New York Penn Station and Washington Dulles were renamed after him – not in exchange for better safety standards, not labor protections, not anything that actually helps people, just slapping his name on two of the country’s biggest transit hubs like they’re another gaudy hotel on the strip. It’s not just stupid, it’s a constitutional and legal trainwreck: federal money for critical infrastructure is supposed to be allocated by Congress and administered under law, not dangled as a personal naming‑rights bribe to feed the president’s vanity, and that’s exactly why New York and New Jersey are now suing, arguing that the funding freeze itself is illegal and arbitrary.
On top of that, he doesn’t even have the basic facts straight – Schumer told him he doesn’t have the power to rename these places, because Penn Station is owned by Amtrak and Dulles is governed by separate federal and regional authorities, yet Trump is still trying to hold a massive, safety‑critical tunnel project hostage over something he can’t unilaterally deliver anyway. Lawmakers and local officials are openly calling the demand “ridiculous,” “arrogant,” and flat‑out illegal because it turns federal infrastructure money into a personal branding chip for one man’s cult of personality instead of a tool for the public good. This is the whole Trump project in a nutshell: people’s commutes, union jobs, and safety in a 100‑year tunnel are secondary to his need to see his name on everything, even if he has to bend the law, abuse his power, and treat half the country’s infrastructure like it’s just another prop in the Donald Trump Show.
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Gabbard is in HOT water
Gabbard is absolutely swimming in hot water right now, and you can feel everyone circling, even if Republicans are desperately trying to pretend this is all overblown. The core of it is that there’s a highly classified whistleblower complaint accusing her, as DNI, of basically playing politics with intelligence – allegedly restricting or slow‑walking a “highly classified” report for political reasons and possibly blocking it from getting to Congress the way the law requires. The complaint is so sensitive it’s been literally locked in a safe at the inspector general’s office, and this week the Gang of Eight and intel committee members finally got their hands on it in a “read and return” setup – no copies, no notes, just eyeballs in a secure room and then hand it back.
That public comment you’re referring to – about having looked at a classified document related to the charges – is part of this slow drip: members who’ve seen the complaint or the memo about it are going on camera to say, in carefully lawyered language, that it raises serious questions about whether she buried politically inconvenient intel for months while Trump was out screaming about a “stolen” 2020 election and sending her to stunt at that FBI raid in Georgia. Republicans on the intel committees are already trying to slam the brakes, pointing to the IG’s line that one of the allegations “did not appear credible” and claiming this is all a smear campaign cooked up by Trump’s enemies, but Democrats and watchdog groups are not letting it go – they’re hammering on the delay, the fact that Congress had to fight to even see the complaint, and the pattern of Gabbard inserting herself into domestic law enforcement and election‑related probes she has no business touching.
Speculation right now is basically in two buckets. One, that even if DOJ never brings a formal criminal case, this turns into a full‑blown congressional and public ethics scandal about the DNI using classification and process games to protect Trump and punish his enemies – the kind of thing that can wreck her credibility and, in a normal world, would get you pushed out of that job. Two, that if the Gang of Eight decides parts of the complaint can be summarized or declassified, we’re going to see a slow, ugly story emerge about exactly what intel was held back, who benefited, and whether laws around whistleblower reporting were flat‑out violated. For now, it’s all shadows and hints – “grave danger,” “serious harm to national security,” “urgent concern” – and that vacuum is why everyone’s buzzing about how big this might be. But the bottom line is: when your spy chief is under classified complaint for allegedly weaponizing intel for politics, showing up at FBI raids on domestic election sites, and needing a safe to hide paperwork from Congress, that is not some little side scandal – that is regime‑level rot, and it’s only going to get louder from here.
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So…another FULL day of chaos…all thanks to one man and the people he surrounded himself with. I’ll end where I started – REMOVE HIM.
Speak Truth! Keep speaking TRUTH!
Don’t Give up the Ship!
Go Cause Good Trouble, with Your Elbows Up!
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