GovBrief Today #383

Feb 18, 2026 11:24 AM

GeorgeBounacos

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They're rewriting the stories they don't like.

DOJ expanded its probe into the officials who documented Russian election interference in 2016, not because seventeen agencies and a Republican Senate committee got it wrong, but because this administration didn't like what they found. Six groups sued the Interior Dept. today for stripping slavery, climate, and Indigenous exhibits from national parks. And HUD reopened an investigation into a Texas Muslim community that DOJ already cleared, because apparently one agency saying "nothing here" just means send another one.

Russia interfered in our election, the climate is changing, and this country was built on stolen land and enslaved labor. The world's scientists, historians, and investigators didn't all conspire to trick you. Don't let a government that finds the truth inconvenient convince you otherwise.

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[5] https://go.govbrief.today/colbert-talarico
[6] https://go.govbrief.today/parks-exhibits
[7] https://go.govbrief.today/irs-mistake-letter
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Thank you, George

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

#9 is the main reasons I never pursued my dream to join the Coast Guard. I couldn't stand the idea of being under the command of DHS.

1 month ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

1 month ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

# 10 - Training exercises on hitting live, moving targets. They're getting the troops ready for bigger battles.

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Thank you, OP.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The Talarico interview currently sits at 5,556,973 views.

Go add to the number: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ7Pz_59A&t=1s

1 month ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

#13 My very first thought was this guy must be white. And my second thought was this is another fake attack.
Those psychos are so trigger-happy, I really can’t see them NOT shooting someone running towards them with an assault weapon.

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

But he had "tactical gloves!"

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

#5 I hope Colbert sues for his right to broadcast an interview and rallies people to boycott CBS

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

He put the interview on his YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ7Pz_59A

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

A Smol!

1 month ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

Aaah, now I am going to have to check twice, every pea and bean I eat forever!

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

A Raisin

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

#4 is just wild, and so stupid. The only reason that anyone is against renewable energy is either brainwashed or sucking on Daddy Oil's dong

1 month ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

In the words of the politician "Why do we need to save the environment? Nobody's going to need this place after we're gone."

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Death cult. They genuinely want the world to burn because they think it'll make Jesus show up and they'll be rewarded for their crimes or, at least, they'll get to rule over the ashes as they kill the "unbelievers" who prevented Jesus from returning.

1 month ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Trumps donors doing the real messaging here. This is just like the bridge from Detroit to Canada. Once a millionaire friend gave him money and had a conversation, suddenly the new bridge is bad. Pay to play. Trump only knows what quid pro quo means because that's the only way he operates.

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It's almost hilarious. "STOP MAKING SCENARIOS WHERE RENEWABLE ENERGY IS TOTALLY VIABLE AND CHEAP!" "But it's just the truth?" "WE DON'T DO THAT HERE ANYMORE! COAL, CLEAN COAL! THE ... THE DOW IS OVER 50.000 DOLL... DRILL BABY, DRILL BABY!"

1 month ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Anybody else think he's acting like King Henry XIII?

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

He hasn't had melanoma beheaded yet so not yet.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

..."Yet."

1 month ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

14 - This is one of the 2 guys taken from Scotland against the wishes of the Scottish parliament I assume?

1 month ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

I thought Scotland helped, but it sounds like I'm misremembering.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I watched the debate in Holyrood on Telly, they were less than pleased. I think you might be remembering that the UK navy had to stop the ship for tRumpard et al to claim success. I would really like to believe that the persuing US coastguard were playing lame duck to prevent incident.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#3 What the fuck!? Only 53%! I realize the American media is barely covering this shit, but what the fuck. I have lost so much faith in my fellow humans.

1 month ago | Likes 66 Dislikes 0

I don't know about you, but nobody's polled me about this shit...

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And they didn't even dare to ask about trump covering up his own crimes. Just "epstein's crimes". Why would he care about covering for epstein? The guy is not only dead but was already convicted for being a child trafficker and rapist. He's covering his own ass instead. Some may have answered "No" for this reason. That's a terribly misleading poll

1 month ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I notice many polls will show the margin of error, but rarely the actual group size that was polled. A lot of them are only 200-2000 people that are theoretically a cross-section of different backgrounds and positions, but who knows?

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I don't believe Trump is trying to cover Epstein's crimes. I believe Trump is trying to cover his own crimes, which seem make up about 50% of the Epstein files.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Remember that polls are selective for people who answer polls. Older people are more likely to answer polls and older people are more likely to be "conservative".

1 month ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 1

To an extent.... But even if it was 60% of Americans that's still an inexcusably small number.

1 month ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I don't remember when I noticed studies don't include the demographic. It would render them useless, I imagine.

1 month ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

Well, PhD statistician here- given known sampling weights one can at least make an effort at reweighing for representativeness. Few high quality surveys are perfectly representative without weighting.

1 month ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

I don't think he's covering up Epstein's crimes. I think he's covering up his own.

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It's the same thing. Trump and Epstien were best friends. They were both involved in the same crimes. All these people were way too close with epstien, like Howard Lutnick who was caught lying about how he cut ties with Epstein, who he lived right next door to. Literally next door neighbor with Epstein...

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Right, but FOTUS would throw all of them under the bus if it would save himself. He's got to be a supplier, just being a customer doesn't seem to faze his cult.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So many stories of our taxpayer dollars being hard at work.

You got money for this but you do not have money for the Epstein files or homeless veterans or sick veterans or gun violence or drug treatment or medical insurance for everyone or toxic site cleanup

1 month ago | Likes 83 Dislikes 0

don't pay federal taxes, folks

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

All i can think about is "go sports", distract people so they dont fight back, "go sports" right?

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Our tax money is being used to kill children in Gaza.

1 month ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

It was always being used to wreck poc families for generations and ruin indigenous land 👍

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

At this point is should be clear that the office of President itself was always a scam. Eliminate the position. No single guys at the top of anything after this mother fucker. He's the last. That can be his legacy.

They had already killed Caligula by now.

1 month ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 2

He's supposed to be the captain commanding the ship, not a child seeking gratification. It's supposed to be an honor, not a grift.

1 month ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

It's a grift no matter who stands there.

Please fix this inside yourself by doing the decolonization internal work

1 month ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

No no, my sweet yet justifiably enraged internet friend … it shows the exact opposite.

Our constitution is founded and based on not having one single person.

For 250 years, nobody in that office has tried to use the entire weight of the federal government to change it. The office isn’t a sham, its occupant and the “unitary executive theory” are.

If you think the President has gone too far, you actually believe in America. Vote smart!

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 6

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You are a ducking moron that had been scammed by the propganda. Y'know how they're erasing shit and bullsjitting everyone? That's all of American history.
The first conquistadors stole and raped Indigenous babies. It's been this way the whole time, we just couldn't get to the media like we can now with social media.

The US has never honored a single treaty

Every pres was always a mistake same as kings. It's the same ducking problem. Mentally with the people willing to hold those offices.

1 month ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

FUCK TRUMP! God fucking damn this shit filled rapist pedophile! FUCK MAGA! FUCK ICE https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTY1YjkxZmJlaDJmMmU0ZnpnYjIzeXhtYWl1MmR6OWxlMmRzMzcyNTE5c255Nm0zdyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/Z9J9eaf6ViGFkCtzPw/giphy.mp4

1 month ago | Likes 25 Dislikes 0

No more presidents. Of anything. I'm dead serious, the entire office needs to go and stop does the single head of ANY organization.

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

At first I was like how do two people have the same wild take and then I realized it was you again so now I’m curious if it’s a bot-type thing or you just don’t know about the 3 co-equal branches?!

This is like saying “she shouldn’t have been dressed like that if she didn’t want it” TO THE DAMN US CONSTITUTION.

Seriously though … you might enjoy reading some colonial or other papers/books. The founding fathers felt the exact way you do. Let’s keep the republic, baby!

1 month ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Decolonize yourself mother fucker. I'm Indigenous and I was bred to be a white spoiler for the right,
and raised to be a spoiler for the left.
I hate all of you and am demanding the third option at 45 years old.

The banks will suffer because I'm alive at all and capitalists are about to lose all the authoritarians that are still capable of being human.

And I've got racist dipshit heroin and crack addicts trying to raid me at the same time.

All y'all can suffer and for all I care.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

So the third option? Everyone goes back home? I'm confused.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No one is allowed to be "the boss" in any fucking situation.

If there's a "head honcho" the situation is exploitive.

And everyone that thinks there must be bosses, should be killed off if they won't learn to exist in another way.

I'm here for the fuck all this shit because it was built by psychos haulocaust

This is our Sadam and Gomorrah. Last time the sadists were allowed to continue profiting. If we don't actually put an end to it psychologically, it'll just happen again in 1000 years.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1