"US drops China Telecom, TP-Link router, and other data security bans before trade talks" It's all about deal making, not security. Probably not a solid strategy.

Tom Homan: “I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude…We will continue to enforce Title A immigration law throughout this nation…Those who say we are backing down from immigration enforcement or the promise of mass deportations, you are simply wrong.”

Tonight, FP-5 "Flamingo" cruise missiles struck the 117th GRAU arsenal in Kotluban, Volgograd region. This was confirmed by the General Staff. The arsenal is one of the largest ammunition storage sites of the Russian army. And it is still detonating.

“Next year the lead ship (the future USS District of Columbia, SSBN 826) will go into water and we are driving to deliver it in 2028.”

Trump's approval rating per the latest @gallup.com poll, "dipping to less than 37 percent" can now be stated in perpetuity.

⚡️US military aid to Ukraine dropped 99% in 2025, report finds. European countries stepped in to fill the gap, increasing military aid to Ukraine by 67% and non-military support by 59% in 2025, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

There seem to be at least 2xC-17 flights in/out of Yerevan and/or Baku each day recently. Not sure if meaningful, just interesting to me. My best guess, as noted below, is these started shortly after the US told people to evacuate from Iran through land borders and are related to that.

Vantor (Maxar) job posting: "This project supports a hard and deeply buried target mission set, providing critical analytic insights to government stakeholders." 👀

Ya know, that does seem kind of crazy.

Court battle over surveillance footage at the Broadview ICE detention center reaches new levels of kafkaesque absurdity: The DOJ claimed it *couldn't afford* hard drives to put video footage on. Plaintiffs bought THE US GOVERNMENT hard drives. ICE "lost" them. www.404media.co/government-l...

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Q: How have you brought justice to pedophiles, child sex traffickers, and rapists? Pam Bondi: Stocks go up, everything is great.

American shipbuilder, Davie Defense, has been awarded a contract from the United States Coast Guard (USCG) to build five Arctic Security Cutters (ASCs), a new class of polar icebreaker critical to increasing U.S. presence in the Arctic 🇺🇸 www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...

Yikes here are the numbers for the past 12 months. Everything is pretty much dead except healthcare/social assistance. Note that healthcare growth is largely not about the business cycle -- it's about the aging of the population and more elderly people needing care.

Welcome to the greatest show on earth.

Hours after Border Patrol agent Charles Exum shot Marimar Martinez five times, Gregory Bovino emailed him to ask he continue working past retirement:  "In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much yet left to do!!" he wrote.

Back at it!

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."

An annual meeting of the nation’s governors that has long served as a rare bipartisan gathering is unraveling after President Donald Trump excluded Democratic governors from White House events.

Singapore blames Chinese-backed hacking group UNC3886 for a months-long cyber-espionage campaign that targeted its four largest telecommunication companies (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

zoooooom

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

I would also like to know where this is coming from. ideas? Very bizarre, even from Captain Chaos.

Indonesia prepares to send up to 8,000 troops to Gaza - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/indonesia-prepares-send-troops-gaza

post a banger that isn't in english. it's coming. youtu.be/mQQKZ5cgybU?...

Ok, Megyn..Megan? Meghan?

⚡️Pope Leo sends 80 generators, thousands of medical supplies to Ukraine. Pope Leo XIV has sent 80 electric generators and thousands of medical and food supplies to Ukraine to help civilians cope with freezing winter temperatures and constant attacks, the Vatican announced on Feb. 9.

We've got the fn X-Men running the DNI and it aint going well.

Rocket force 👀... good

It's all fun and games until ...oh crap...is that a car wash?

Folks, I've finally jumped in to a multi-agent development setup using multiple roles/agents with independent contexts. They are creating outputs (ex requirements, test results, security concerns) as dynamic web pages I review. I am really digging this more than expected. However...

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

Undersea Drone That Attaches Itself To Other Vessels Unveiled By Lockheed www.twz.com/sea/drone-mi...

Lindsay Vonn gives her first statement since her devastating crash in the Olympic downhill

The White House just sent a "Don't Panic" email. That'll do it

No more correcdess. Got it boss.

An eight-month study at a US tech company finds AI tools didn't reduce work but intensified it, as employees worked faster and took on a broader range of tasks (Harvard Business Review) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

It's amazing. One engineer built 3 apps, deployed 12 microservices to eks, stood up 2 databases, and created 15 cicd pipelines all with documentation. Crap...

ICE sacked some tiny Idaho town and deported ~4 percent of the population at a stroke, it's liable to collapse the local economy www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained. She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families. She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

I understand 0% of the halftime show and enjoy it 100%

They were also displaying solidarity with the African-American, and all African, communities across the world facing generations of racism. Maybe interesting to note by photo/journalists. These flags appear slightly obscured by AP(?).

Has anyone else noticed even large accts lack basic reading comprehension when attempting to describe the evilness of Epstein, Trump, and company? Far from being important, just odd.

"Middle East". B-1 with afterburners, though, heck yeah.