The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill. open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...

joyce is going after elon again

After hyping “massive fraud” for a month, Nick came up empty — so he posted a video about a Republican who committed voter fraud, got caught, and was prosecuted. Slow Shirley is welcome to extend his visit and enroll in California’s free community college. He clearly needs it.

The Trump administration has paid $128.5 mn for a warehouse in Social Circle, GA, which it now proposes to convert into a concentration camp. Only 2 yers ago, the facility was acquired for $29 mn by a Moscow-based real estate company, PNK.

This

Wow.

‼️ Russia: “The average total cost of credit (TCO) on credit cards for individuals from Russian banks reached 50.38% in January 2026” 🍿 ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

The US is waging hybrid war on Europe. Its goal is the same as Russia’s and China’s: to divide and weaken us in order to better control us. This is unacceptable behavior

And this is nothing compared to what is being said behind the scenes where there are no microphones and journalists.

A very pessimistic outlook for Russia's economy. The only way to avert disaster is to end the war, but Putin believes that Ukraine is losing faster than Russia, so he maintains the course toward the abyss.

🇺🇦🇸🇪🇫🇮🇺🇸Ben Hodges:“NATO would be better the day the Ukrainian flag is raised in Brussels. Just as we got better when the Swedish and Finnish flags were raised.”

“Trump’s Private Company Files Trademark for ‘President Donald J. Trump International Airport’” by @joshgerben.bsky.social

The FL legislature is budgeting $5.5M of taxpayer monies to change the name of Palm Beach International Airport to "President Donald J. Trump International Airport," according to @jasongarcia.bsky.social at Seeking Rents. Your tax money at work, folks. 👉 jasongarcia.substack.com/p/buried-in-...

Source: www.intelligenceonline.com/europe-russi...

Goldman: "If Trump wants to put his name on everything, as he does, then let's start calling this the Trump-Epstein files"

Politico published symbolic awards following the Munich Security Conference, naming EU foreign policy chief Kallas for Worst Poker Face. She was seen pressing her lips and puffing her cheeks as US UN ambassador Mike Waltz praised Washington for ending several wars. The reaction spread quickly online

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Russia demands a sphere of influence, but they are forgetting the facts. We have ten times their economy, three times their population, and vastly superior tech. If the world goes back to empires, Russia is in Europe’s sphere of influence

And it’s important that people start to acknowledge that there are a lot of times when the answer to questions about Russian Economic data is: Nobody knows, not even the Russian Government.

Scores of Russian trawlers are engaged in large-scale illegal fishing within the exclusive economic zones of West African countries. The profits, totalling over $10 bilion, are reportedly used to finance Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

Not a chance Trump could ever have a conversation with a professional athlete like this.

THE U.S. GOVERNMENT spent 100s of thousands of dollars and expended thousands of man-hours of labor all to send just NINE people in chains on a Boeing 737 from Minnesota to Texas today 👀

Russia’s Wagner Group recruiters are said to be targeting agents for operations on NATO soil, as it pivots to European sabotage. Individuals linked to the Wagner Group were found guilty last year of carrying out an arson attack on a warehouse in London www.ft.com/content/dbd1...

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

Interesting article. The billionaired think they are the master race. "Billionaires really like thinkers who see their exploitation of the weak as a good and natural thing"

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

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🚨BREAKING: In a powerful moment, Hillary Clinton just shredded to pieces Donald Trump’s Ukraine policy. She’s right again.

So, when you use LLMs as thinking machines, you will run into variants of a core problem: It isn't reasoning. It's just a fancy bot that copy & pastes then rewords data written by humans. Which means: 1. It's implicitly capped by its human produced-training data, which is largely garbage. 7/?

What's most likely happening is easier to understand if you mentally model LLMs as glorified search engines. They are matching your search query (prompt) with some text they found on the internet. Internally it's a bit more complex than that, but much closer to Google than to a thinking machine. 2/?

As @asharangappa.bsky.social noted earlier: "It’s a loyalty test. It’s always a loyalty test. And every time Republicans feign ignorance or hem and haw, it gives him the green light to go even further." bsky.app/profile/asha...

Hegseth's strange comment that "We will not employ AI models that won't allow you to fight wars" during his speech at SpaceX on January 12 makes more sense now in light of what we are learning about the disagreement with Anthropic over use of its models.

The SAVE act would only disproportionately affect Republican voters if the Trump administration enforces the law equally everywhere Under this administration, laws are not rules that apply to everyone, they are weapons to be used against their enemies

Sounds like John Mearsheimer, regurgitating Putin's talking points & pretending that 30 years of 🇪🇺 integration never happened.

"At some point, Putin will have to reckon with the failure of his strategic bombing campaign against Ukraine’s cities and the slow-rolling military failure that is Russia’s bloody ground campaign." An update of the big #Ukraine & Pacific issues this week. mickryan.substack.com/p/are-you-re...

First they'll give it to blind people, because who's going to attack technology for the blind, or people with hearing problems (like me)? I admit that! Privacy risk review procedures have been loosened. 15, 10, 5 years ago this would have been a major controversy. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

"The tech companies can choose whether or not to provide the information... "Google, Meta and Reddit complied with some of the requests..." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Because for some people Kamala Harris “wasn’t clicking” for them. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

JESSE WATTERS IS BIG SAD BECAUSE HIS NEIGHBOR CALLED HIM A FASCIST. BOBBY BRAINWORMS BRAGGED ABOUT HOOVERING COCAINE OFF A TOILET SEAT. I COVER THIS AND ALL THE DUMBFUCKERY THAT HAPPENED IN MY VERY TREMENDOUS "THIS WEEK IN STUPID," A WRAP-UP LIKE FEW THOUGHT POSSIBLE. LINK IS HERE: bit.ly/40c9k8q

I asked @barackobama.bsky.social if aliens are real.

Obama responds to the racist Trump video — saying there's a "sort of clown show" playing out on social media: "What is true is there doesn't seem to be any shame about this among people who used to feel like you had to have some sense of decorum and a sense of propriety and respect for the office."

Do people notice that Mark Rutte and the EU are far away from consensus about the US? He might be a Dutch but he ain't sincere and sooner or later he will get burned. Von der Leyen rebukes NATO chief over 'no security without US', calls for European mutual defense. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC0T...

Momsie opening the door wide open to UK. Come here ya daft buggers.

IMO, an excellent analysis of Trump and his relationship to US evangelicals by @atrupar.com at www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-evan... "Religious conservatives had long sought someone who’d help them justify their own selfishness and cruelty. This makes Trump their ideal leader."

This is concerning, that a rep feels they must post this. A lot in our coalition has felt the same way and worried about it, but didn’t think we’d be here publicly.

"America First" is just a marketing slogan for American retreat. Every time the US steps back, China and Russia step in

❗️For Ukraine, the “red lines” on the use of weapons are still in place. You cannot win a war with one hand tied behind your back — Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen

I have mad respect for the Polish 🇵🇱 people. They get it. It’s a movie they’ve seen, and they don’t want to see it again.

PM Tusk: Some say that Ukraine should be grateful for everything. The truth is exactly the opposite. The rest of us should be grateful to Ukraine.