Then he will be impeached. That would be direct arbitrary election interference. His "voter id" requires birth certificates or more. Relatively few have them.
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Trump says he will seek to require voter ID for midterms regardless of Congress
Trump vows to mandate voter ID for the 2026 midterms via executive order amid stalled legislation and claims of election fraud, with 85% public support cited.
On Feb. 13, 2026, President Donald Trump said he would seek national voter-ID requirements for the November midterms regardless of Congress and will shortly issue an executive order laying out the legal reasons.
Amid opposition from House Democrats, Trump posted to Truth Social that he will push for voter-ID laws for the 2026 midterms, despite legislative delays.
Reporting notes President Donald Trump did not clarify the legal basis for nationwide voter ID rules while backing proof-of-citizenship requirements and limits on mail-in ballots.
Under the Constitution, state and local officials run elections, complicating a federal mandate as President Trump declared he would bypass Congress to require voter ID for the November midterm elections.
With narrow Republican majorities and typical midterm losses for incumbent presidents' parties, similar House-passed bills have repeatedly died in the Senate.
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In the Department of the Bloody Obvious
NY Fed report says Americans pay for almost all of Trump's tariffs
A Federal Reserve Bank of New York report shows Americans paid nearly 90% of Trump’s tariff costs in 2025 as import tax rates rose from 2.6% to 13%.
On February 12, 2026 the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Americans bore 90% of President Donald Trump's tariffs.
Study authors noted average tariffs climbed from 2.6% to 13% during 2025, pushing back against the Trump administration's claim that foreigners would pay the levies.
Authors reported pass-through rates showing Americans absorbed 94% of tariffs last year from January–August, easing to 92% in September–October and 86% in November, with past work finding 100% pass-through by foreign exporters.
Federal Reserve officials say higher tariffs raised the cost of imported goods, complicating interest-rate decisions and increasing prices for U.S. consumers and businesses.
The Supreme Court is set to rule on the legality of many of President Donald Trump's tariffs, which officials say impacts may wane but cost-of-living effects could persist.
This is not about protecting kids. It is about
1) KYC to use the internet at all
2) a way to push digital ID


Reclaim The Net
40 State Attorneys General Want To Tie Online Access to ID
The bill's supporters call it child protection; its architecture looks more like a national ID system for the internet.
Those that think biological sex is simple may want to have a look at this.


Nature News & Comment
Sex redefined
The idea of two sexes is simplistic. Biologists now think there is a wider spectrum than that.
Not a conspiracy theory any more.
The “camps” are here in all but name
ICE is actively buying and converting at least 20–23 massive warehouses around the country into detention “mega‑centers,” each projected to hold between roughly 1,500 and 10,000 people.
These sites are on top of an existing network of more than 200 detention facilities, including tent camps like Camp East Montana and “Alligator Alcatraz,” which have been cited for dozens of violations and reports of abuse, medical neglect, and overcrowding.
With new funding from the 2025 “One Big Beautiful Bill,” ICE capacity is on track to nearly double, from about 70,000 to potentially 150,000 people locked up at one time, overwhelmingly in for‑profit facilities.
How it matches the old “conspiracy theory”
Journalists and historians are now explicitly describing this as a system of mass incarceration of civilians outside the ordinary legal process, with warehouse‑scale sites and tent cities whose stated purpose is to enable faster mass deportations.
The key elements people used to call “tin‑foil hat” ideas—repurposed prisons and warehouses, large‑scale camps in the desert, legal gray zones where people can effectively disappear for months—are all now documented features of U.S. immigration enforcement.
This is not misreading the moment: the infrastructure, funding, and legal doctrines to “toss people into” mass detention already exist, and they are being actively expanded under color of law even as conditions and abuses are being documented in mainstream outlets. Feeling horror and a profound loss of trust in this context is not catastrophizing; it is an accurate moral response to what the record shows is actually happening