Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 2/17

[SVPete]

After Publicly Fleeing the U.S. over Trump, Rosie O’Donnell Quietly Returns to See if It’s ‘Safe’

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2026/02/16/after-publicly-fleeing-the-u-s-over-trump-rosie-odonnell-quietly-returns-to-see-if-its-safe/

Rosie O’Donnell, who fled the United States and moved to Ireland with her teenage daughter just before President Donald Trump was inaugurated in January 2025 — has quietly returned to the U.S. to see if it’s “safe” to do so.

“I was recently home for two weeks, and I did not really tell anyone,” O’Donnell revealed to Chris Cuomo during a recent appearance on SiriusXM’s Cuomo Mornings.

“I just went to see my family. I wanted to see how hard it would be for me to get in and out of the country,” the comedian continued. “I wanted to feel what it felt like. I wanted to hold my children again.”
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“I also wanted to make sure that it was safe for me before I brought my daughter this summer, where we plan to spend the summertime off from her schooling here with my family,” she said.

Bold Hollyweirder breaks "promise" and quietly slinks back. 

[SVPete]

Hillary Clinton Lied About Deportations Under Her Husband and Obama

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/amy-curtis/2026/02/16/clinton-deportation-speech-n2671376

Hillary Clinton was in Munich over the weekend, where she lied through her teeth about deportations under the presidencies of both her husband and Barack Obama. That's what she does best, it seems, and she does it shamelessly.

"More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama," Clinton said, "without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or the first year of this second term."

Of course, there weren't "sanctuary cities" under Clinton and Obama. Blue cities cooperated with ICE. CNN even did ride-alongs with ICE and sang their praises.

But it was Obama who started the detention centers.

The infamous Kidz-in-Cagez pics used in 2017 to slam Trump were from a 2014 AZ Central article. HilLIARy being HilLIARy.

This is the June 18, 2014 AZ Central article in which the pix originally appeared, https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/immigration/2014/06/18/arizona-immigrant-children-holding-area-tour/10780449/ , but the pix are missing. The text of the article is pretty detail wrt the facility.

[SVPete]

Reality Check: More Local Police Choosing to Work With ICE, Not Less

https://redstate.com/beckynoble/2026/02/16/despite-what-the-left-wants-you-to-think-local-police-agreeing-to-work-with-ice-is-on-the-rise-n2199209

Since the Trump administration began mass deportation operations, Democrats and the Left have been losing their collective minds. Despite immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents being charged with getting rid of "the worst of the worst" of illegal immigrants, the Left insists on putting illegal immigrants ahead of American citizens and impeding ICE operations at every turn. In many blue cities and states, local law enforcement is prohibited from cooperating with ICE. Much to the chagrin of the left,  however, that may be changing.

According to new data by FWD.US, a nonpartisan policy organization, collaborations between local law enforcement and ICE agents that permit police officers to make federal immigration arrests have seen a sharp increase during the first year of Trump 2.0. In the first year of Trump's second term alone, arrests by local officers have risen by 950 percent. As of January 26, 1,168 local agencies have officers trained to assist ICE agents. That's up from just 135 during the Biden administration, and 150 at the end of Trump's first term.

Part of the uptick in local assistance stems from the revival of a "task force" model in which officers are "deputized" so they are able to stop and arrest individuals if they have reason to believe they are in the country illegally. But as might be expected, blue cities in otherwise red states may have a problem. In October of 2025, Dallas Police Chief Daniel Comeaux turned down a $25 million partnership with ICE, even after Mayor Eric Johnson urged other elected officials to “explore the potential benefits" from such a program. The chief stated that he was concerned that officers would be pulled away from their normal duties. ...

[SVPete]

Trump Mocks Hillary’s Meltdown in Munich, Points Out Democrats' Epstein Charade Has Backfired on Them

https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2026/02/17/trump-mocks-hillarys-meltdown-in-munich-points-out-democrats-epstein-charade-has-backfired-on-them-n2199248

President Trump took a jab at Hillary Clinton following her comments suggesting her upcoming testimony in front of the House Oversight Committee about what she and her husband knew regarding sex predator Jeffrey Epstein is an attempted "cover-up."

Trump, speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One late Friday evening, mocked the former First Lady for having Stage 4 Trump Derangement Syndrome while pointing out that Democrat efforts to draw him into the Epstein scandal have consistently backfired.

“I have nothing to hide. I’ve been exonerated. I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein," the President declared. "They went in hoping that they’d find it, and found just the opposite. I’ve been totally exonerated.”

“They’re getting pulled in, and that’s their problem, but I watched her in Munich, and she seriously has Trump derangement syndrome. I’ve been totally exonerated, and it’s really interesting because they’ve been pulled in,“ he added. ”Think of it, they’ve been pulled in. Clinton and many other Democrats have been pulled in.”

[DefiantSix]

Hillary Clinton Lied About Deportations Under Her Husband and Obama
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Hil LIAR y's record for not allowing even the slightest truth to ever escape Webb Hubbell's cock holster remains perfect. Big surprise there...

[SVPete]

        

This sexually transmitted fungus causes ringworm in some very unfortunate places — and there’s an outbreak

https://nypost.com/2026/02/13/health/outbreak-of-sti-that-causes-ringworm-in-unfortunate-places/

VD for Valentine’s Day?
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Experts say the public should be aware of the nation’s “largest known outbreak” of Trichophyton mentagrophytes genotype VII.

Known as TMVII, or TM seven, the nasty business is the only known fungal sexually transmitted infection.

Cases of TMVII have been on the rise in Europe for the past several years, especially among men who have sex with men.

In 2024, an NYC man became the first reported US case of TMVII, and it seems the icky itch has now made its way to the Midwest.

Since the STI was detected in Minnesota in July, the state has reported 13 confirmed and 27 suspected cases of TMVII.

Well, Minneapolis is a sanctuary city for "immigrants" ...