Odds and Ends — 21 February 2026

Minnesotans were likelier to strongly approve and strongly disapprove of Trump and his immigration agenda than national adults after Renee Good and Alex Pretti were killed.

https://twitter.com/SahanJournal/status/2024625774263783869

———— Stark. Raving. Mad. ————

https://twitter.com/Daractenus/status/2024611964966883453

https://twitter.com/vincempls/status/2024563946322104625

———— The Epstein Coverup ————

https://twitter.com/reesejgorman/status/2024591241782939825

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/2024510214209192220

https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/2024631513254408293

How Epstein and Maxwell used an elite Midwest arts school to prey on girls

Years before they were convicted sex offenders, Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell used his wealth to gain access to a prestigious boarding school for young artists in Michigan, using a rental lodge Epstein donated to the school as a base from which to recruit some of their earliest victims, according to Department of Justice records and former campus administrators.

https://twitter.com/crunchyrugger/status/2024497940732006811

https://twitter.com/lawindsor/status/2024507953659941024

Shell-shocked, haunted photo of Andrew will be part of how arrest is remembered

https://twitter.com/TimInHonolulu/status/2024494451343970335

https://twitter.com/Strandjunker/status/2024527941338587197

———— Iran ————

https://twitter.com/JournoRehab/status/2024488865407664292

https://twitter.com/Daractenus/status/2024553973550551467

https://twitter.com/NathanJRobinson/status/2024550803801821473

———— Autocracy R Us ————

https://twitter.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/2024527237689565687

https://twitter.com/JasonBassler1/status/2024518086720892994

Amid Mass ICE Arrests, Trump Pardon Recipient Juan Orlando Hernández Given Special Treatment

After the former Honduran president was pardoned, ICE dropped its detainer on him, and he was whisked away to a luxury hotel in New York City.

https://twitter.com/priscialva/status/2024462937159540879

https://twitter.com/micyoung75/status/2024212573860848059

https://twitter.com/MarkSZaidEsq/status/2024522686937072085

The Supreme Court cast aside the bulk of President Trump’s sweeping tariffs Friday, obliterating a canon of his economic strategy in ruling that his use of an emergency statute to remake global trade was unlawful.
The decision invalidates what the Trump administration called the president’s most significant economic and foreign policy initiative of his second term, a result Trump has warned could foist financial ruin upon the United States.