In a seven-game series, Team Canada would be heavy favorites to beat Team USA in hockey, probably 4 games to 2. You’re not going to shut down that offensive firepower over 7 games. It’s different in a win-or-take-all game for the gold, though. Hellebuyck has been strong & Team USA is playing well.

MacKinnon scores the go-ahead goal with just 35 seconds remaining. Team Canada up 3-2.

*TRUMP’S GLOBAL TARIFFS STRUCK DOWN BY US SUPREME COURT

The Epstein Class held a crypto event at Mar-a-Lago this week. Among the attendees: Binance founder and convicted money launderer Changpeng Zhao; Steve Witkoff's dodgy son Zach; Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon; Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong; the scammy Kevin O’Leary; and the corrupt Don, Jr & Eric.

The Wall Street Journal: "If the tariffs are such an unambiguous economic and political winner, why is the Administration so defensive about them? ... [The Federal Reserve Bank of New York] found that American households and businesses are bearing nearly 90% of the cost of the Trump tariffs."

J P Morgan is considering becoming the banker to Trump’s corrupt Board of Peace. It’s fitting I guess that the banker of Bernie Madoff and Jeffrey Epstein takes on this crooked new business.

How is it that Les Wexner, who was a crucial source of funding that enabled Jeffrey Epstein to engage in sex trafficking & other criminal activities, has never been interviewed by the Justice Department? Today we learn that Epstein may have stolen tens if not hundreds of million dollars from Wexner.

"A Reuters photograph taken after his release shows him seated inside a car, appearing visibly shaken." Photo by Phil Noble/Reuters www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-...

Yesterday’s deposition of Les Wexner in the Epstein investigation.

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

A great tweet by Mikaela Shiffrin.

Whew, Nick Suzuki ties it up for Team Canada. I was losing faith.

JD Vance likes to claim, without offering persuasive evidence, that immigrants are to blame for the housing affordability crisis. Meanwhile, JD Vance's patrons in Big Tech are buying up homes to build data centers for AI, thereby driving out first-time buyers of homes. www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

Norway's Johannes Hoesflot Klaebo just became only the second Olympian with at least 10 gold medals. I’ve really enjoyed cross country skiing during this Olympics and Klaebo has been amazing. I know very little about the sport but it’s obvious even to me that he’s the best.

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

Jesse Jackson: “In 1980, Reagan won Pennsylvania by 300,000 votes, 400,000 students unregistered. More than 600,000 blacks unregistered! Reagan won Pennsylvania by the margin of despair, by margin of the fracture of our coalition.” Jesse Jackson was a fine speaker who gave a lot of folks hope.

Wow.

Ossoff: "Among today's false prophets are the election deniers who indulge this president's obsession with overturning the 2020 election. Hear me when I say this -- they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission."

Presidents I know enough about that I don’t want to celebrate them on this or any other day: Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Richard Nixon, George W.Bush, and Trump.

So far, Trump is claiming there are no credible allegations against him relating to Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes. This outstanding reporting by @sollenbergerrc.bsky.social challenges that claim. The chronology of various events provided here is especially important.

This brought back memories of conversations. Thanks as always for the great @ngumenyuk.bsky.social for seeing the essential. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/o...

"The interview was conducted July 24, 2019, and entered into the FBI’s case files on August 9, the day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell."

Narrator: Barbara Pilling was a young model in New York. She first saw Donald Trump at a party in the late 80s. She's never spoken publicly about it before. Pilling: He said, how old are you? And I said, 17. He goes, oh, great. So you're not too old, not too young. That's just great.

MUST READ from @nhannahjones.bsky.social today. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz: “The international order based on rights and rules is currently being destroyed...This order, as flawed as it has been even in its heyday, no longer exists in that form.”

Pam Bondi: “The DOW is over 50,000 dollars. I don’t know why you’re laughing." The stock market on the following day:

Brought to you by JD Vance and Stephen Miller: “This was a victory, and I am happy for it,” Mr. Barranco said in a phone interview on Wednesday. “But I am still afraid that I could be grabbed.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

It’s been that kind of week. @wsj.com @financialtimes.com @bloomberg.com @nbcnews.com

You really really REALLY have to read the whole thing.

This detail from the WSJ about Kristi Noem makes me ill. While she travels around the country harassing and traumatizing immigrants, she flies in a $70 million luxury jet.

The whistleblower complaint about Tulsi Gabbard involved Jared Kushner. The complaint "alleges that the NSA’s general counsel’s office failed to report a potential crime to the Justice Department that was raised by the content of the intercepted conversation, and did so for political purposes."

Investigators say one immigration official abused his girlfriend for years. Another admitted he sexually abused a woman in his custody. A third is charged with taking bribes.

Jeffrey Epstein was really all up in Elon Musk's business, including making recommendations for taking Tesla private via Saudi money -- and who should join the company's board.

Massie: "Here is an email that was sent by the victims' lawyers to the DOJ. It was a list of names not to release. What did the DOJ do with this email? They released it! Literally the worst thing you could do the survivors you did."

So much much wrong with Bondi’s view that rising stocks should make us move on from Epstein’s crimes. But it’s worth noting that over half the market’s returns came from these seven companies: NVIDIA, Alphabet, Microsoft, Broadcom, JPMorgan Chase, Palantir & Meta. Who is REALLY benefiting from this?

(CNN) - The United States has fallen to its worst-ever position in a leading global index that measures perception of corruption in the public sector among independent experts and businesspeople. @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/b...

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE: "I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

Jeffrey Epstein had tiny video cameras installed in all of his residences. “It's amazing how small they are,” an aide told Epstein, adding that they could record for 64 hours. “I’m installing them into Kleenex boxes now. I’ll bring them by later today.”

McIver: Do you consider yourself a religious man? Lyons: Yes McIver: How do you think judgment day will work for you with so much blood on your hands? Do you think you’re going to hell?

Trump Commerce Sec. Lutnick admits visiting Epstein island during family vacation

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

"The Trump tariffs amount to an average tax increase per US household of $1,000 in 2025 and $1,300 in 2026," according to the nonpartisan tax foundation.

Congressman Thomas Massie reports that Todd Blanche “tacitly admitted that Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem was the sender of the torture video” to Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump was, of course, lying about some of this in 2006 -- no doubt trying to get ahead of things. But it's interesting that he said Ghislaine was evil. Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."

Will Lewis, after presiding over the destruction of value and the brand at the Washington Post for two years, is out. Good riddance. h/t @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social

Getting 2019 vibes here www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

I broke down and got a Peacock subscription for the Winter Olympics. I’m glad I did. It’s perfect if you just want to watch the events without all the nonsense that comes with NBC’s prime time programming.

"Oh this is bad"..."This is really bad." Notes on what Jeffrey Epstein said in the FBI van immediately after having been arrested in July 2019 via WSJ. www.justice.gov/epstein/file...