uhh has anyone seen the CIA recently? Where they at? 👀

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Trump tells soldiers at Fort Bragg he may be moving in. Does he have advance notice regarding where the country will have him serve his sentencing? www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Interesting. Simulation vs real world may take a bit I imagine 🤷‍♂️

Indonesia has begun training a contingent of up to 8,000 soldiers it plans to send as part of an international peacekeeping force to Gaza, the first firm commitment to a critical element of U.S. President Donald Trump's postwar reconstruction plan. https://to.pbs.org/4bO8TZ8

MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes

Mark Hertling providing comprehensive discussion around the casual use of weapons and military tactics we're seeing across DHS, and imo, some local law enforcement departments.

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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...

VIPs crossing the ol pond tonight.

Prosecute, prosecute, prosecute. Make them unemployed fore.

Coinbase reports Q4 revenue down 22% YoY to $1.78B, vs. $1.84B est., transaction revenue down 37% to $983M, a net loss of $667M, vs. a $1.3B profit in Q4 2024 (André Beganski/Decrypt) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

As we dig into this scandal, can we revisit the question about why the president's son-in-law, who has no formal role in this administration, keeps showing up at high-level negotiations with actual world leaders?

Breaking WSJ: The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

OK, then you've earned my trust...wait

Breaking: A fed judge has shut down Hegseth’s attempts to punish Sen. Mark Kelly over his urging of US service members to refuse illegal orders “Senator Kelly was reprimanded for exercising his First Amendment right to speak on matters of public concern," wrote US District Judge Richard Leon.

RON JOHNSON: Did you ever encourage people to go out there and exercise their First Amendment rights? KEITH ELLISON: I freely admit being in favor of the First Amendment

"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.

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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