Zooming with a friend in Doha who is sheltering in place and believes she saw a missile intercepted a few hours ago. Only a few months ago Trump met the emir and talked about how he has brought ‘peace to the middle East’

The people leading the U.S. war on Iran are a former “Fox & Friends” guest and a former “Fox & Friends” host.

Remind me, when you slaughter 85 young school children, are you the Good Guys?

NEW: Bahrain skyscrapers and Dubai hotels are now being hit by Iranian drones. This is insane. Trump has unleashed chaos and carnage. (🎥 Al Jazeera)

Congress must return immediately and vote to put an end to this war. Every Senator should be on the record—the American people deserve to know which of their leaders supports another potentially bloody and costly war in the Middle East. No war with Iran.

"Ukraine’s security is Europe’s security", is one of the points in a brilliant article by Ian Bond, deputy director of the Centre for European Reform. Ambassador Bond was previously with the UK's diplomatic service. @cerianbond.bsky.social @centreeuropeanref.bsky.social www.cer.eu/insights/fou...

Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

A very special military operation

I will vote for the presidential candidate who makes it a priority to break up this monopoly

This is somewhere between 40-50% of deployable US air power (and it’s still growing). On a scale with the Gulf Wars.

In addition to being absolutely brilliant, amazing & charming in her own right, we all know she was raised by a single dad w/4 siblings and that he came to the US bc of persecution bc of his participation in the ‘89 Tiananmen democracy uprising, right?

Her father fled China because he organized student protests during Tiananmen. He was a political refugee. The story of this family, and Alysa Liu, would have played out very differently today. This is what we're losing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...

Hmm. The US is giving $10 billion in taxpayer dollars, not appropriated by Congress, to a fake board set up by the President and which he put himself in charge of *for life*... seems very, very illegal.

more than two hours into this "Board of Peace" meeting, we are now enduring random world leader open mic time and Trump's eyes are closed

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...

It is notable that Andrew has been arrested for "misconduct in public office", which is precisely what the US Supreme Court decided no American president can ever be charged with.

Historic arrest. Next, please.

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New — This was projected on the US Institute of Peace building this evening ahead of the first meeting tomorrow of Trump’s farcically-named “Board of Peace.” Photo taken by person who was over there tonight. Unclear who’s behind the projection.

On this day, 82 years ago, the Soviet Union launched an ethnic cleansing operation, deporting entire Chechen and Ingush populations from the North Caucasus to Central Asia. Hundreds of thousands died due to inhumane conditions during the deportations or at the place of forced settlement.

The difference between CBS and the Titanic is the Titanic went down with all its anchors.

Who is the most selfish and corrupt POTUS in the history of the U.S.? www.newyorker.com/news/a-repor...

pateicoties tautas kustībai pret vēja parkiem, to attīstība paliks zemā līmenī. LV enerģētika turpinās būt koncentrēta ap lielajām stacijā. No militārā viedokļa šāda centralizācija ir ļoti viegls mērķis. Pieļauju, ka LV elektroapgādi varētu teju pilnībā iznīcināt ar dažiem precīziem uzbrukumiem.

Colbert: “Let’s just call this what it is: Trump’s administration wants to silence anyone who says anything bad about Trump on TV because all Trump does is watch TV. He’s like a toddler with too much screen time. He gets cranky and then drops a load in his diaper.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...

Cbs refused to air this interview.

All I see on my Twitter timeline are reporters parsing every quote from AOC in Germany, trying to mock them for incoherence or inaccuracy, while a demented old man who can’t string sentences together or stay awake sits in the Oval, while the legacy media happily sanewashes his quotes.

Judge Cynthia M. Rufe, a George W. Bush appointee with senior status

NEW: The FBI interview implicating Trump for raping and assaulting a 14 year old took place one day before Epstein was found dead in his jail cell, and emails about the credible accusation came around the time Blanche visited Ghislaine Maxwell in pirson. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Another five books, another peg in the ground to hold down the tent. Sileika, Saramago, Nunez, Šteinbergs, Eliot. Lithuania SSR, Somewhere, NYC, Latvia, England. Subversion and food, epidemic blindness, Susan Sontag, poems to live by X 2. bnrbookish.substack.com/p/wont-u-b-m...

🇩🇪🇺🇸🤯 "The Orange Plague" in Munich, Germany.

Nine and ten year olds, fleeing in fear. www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/f...

If they’re losing the “I’m not political but I love America” guys in Callaway hats…

Glad this is getting covered, but also… Completely surreal to read the NYT report on this as recently disclosed info, and just an allegation. This happened to every observer I know! It happened to me twice! I have it on video both times! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

The only comment I have on the Rubio speech is that I don’t want to spend too much time on the Rubio speech. Nothing is changing with regards to US policy. We don’t need to do a line-by-line analysis.

Rubio just made a speech to the European defense community in Munich that did not mention Ukraine. Or democracy. Or US business deals with Russia. Or the administration's plans to support the European far right. But there were lots of nice words about our common civilization.

INBOX: Rep. Thomas Massie, who has enraged Trump for his insistence on blocking tariffs and releasing the Epstein files according to the law, just issued what is widely known among Chinese dissidents as "a declaration of no suicidal intent" (不自殺聲明), a sign of extreme distress.

Gov. Tim Walz: "They left us with deep damage. Generational trauma. Economic ruin in some cases. The left us with many unanswered questions. Where are our children? Where and what is the process of the investigation into those that were responsible for the deaths of Renee and Alex?"

I OC = Russian sycophants

Please share: Latvian Olympic team skeleton coach Ivo Šteinbergs submitted an official protest to the IOC regarding the ban of a Ukrainian athlete for honoring Ukrainian Olympians killed by Russian invaders. All national teams should join him to protest the disqualification of Vladyslav Heraskevych!

Quite the chart

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

„The picture painted by the Epstein files of the brutal, child-abusing network of international elites is so monstrous that our societies will perish unless everything is investigated transparently and completely – without regard to the individuals involved!“ Johannes Hano

❌ It seems that WhatsApp is now completely blocked in Russia - Russians report the disappearance of the messenger domain from the DNS servers of Roskomnadzor.

Pam Bondi just laughed when asked if she would apologize to Epstein Survivors.

Bondi shamelessly lies: "Robert Mueller found no evidence of foreign interference in 2016. Have you apologized to President Trump?"

I don’t keep up with explosive technology, so learning about these new bombs is giving me the same feeling as learning about Hiroshima as a child. Deep, deep sadness that we are capable of such things. Both kinds of weapons killing so utterly that there’s nothing left to grieve.

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

AOC on Trump’s oil embargo of Cuba: “What has transpired is that now it’s kind of become acceptable that the entire Western world will look the other way as they starve & deprive a people because they find political actors or political regimes in that country to be objectionable”

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