"It requires rules. It requires restraint. It requires a chain of custody, evidentiary standards, defense rights, judicial oversight, and accountability mechanisms that are boring precisely because they are meant to be fair," writes John Sipher, Atlantic Council Senior fellow. #EpsteinCoverUp

Excellent and insightful discussion with CIA veteran John Sipher on Epstein and Trump connections to Putin, how the russian intelligence service works to create agents of chaos, and the rolling disaster to intelligence collection and national security caused by US regime partisanship. Worthy.

This interview with John Sipher was illuminating—more that Epstein was useful to Russian intelligence than bring some kind of formal agent. phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/live-with-...

More on Tulsi Gabbard from John Sipher

You don’t say.

The Ukrainians called it a Revolution of Dignity for a reason, and every day it’s a shame how many others fail to cast off the shackles of Russian manipulation and continue to carry water for a nation that has never been held accountable for its actions or history www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/w...

Do I know how fast I was going? Officer, the Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about. Don’t you dare laugh at me. I don’t know what’s so funny, you loser.

Worst of the worst. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

The FBI bends over and takes it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

More corruption www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

Shame!

And horse-drawn carriages! Bring those back too! And how about polio, yeah!

As the de facto leader of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, Kari Lake has done profound damage to America’s foreign broadcasters and squandered millions of taxpayer dollars, Anne Applebaum and Yvonne Wingett Sanchez report.

In the millions of documents in the Epstein Files, not a single Republican, millionaire, Commerce Secretary, Congressman, businessman, CEO, political pundit, or billionaire saying “I’m going to report you to law enforcement.” None. Nada. ZERO.

I keep reading how Republicans requiring voters to show passports will disenfranchise voters. But have Republicans stopped to realize that Democrats are more likely to have passports than Republicans?

The reason why AI sucks is its not bringing down the rent, it is not bringing back creative jobs, it is not making health care cheaper, it is not solving climate change. Who was seriously thinking the challenges of our time were solved by Large Language Models run by tech bros?

The name Potemkin rings a bell. euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/10/r...

A white, anti-Christian Administration. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/o...

Lake is a disaster. What a surprise! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Natural Born Killer: Book Review open.substack.com/pub/spytalk/...

It’s not a horse in a hospital. It’s a swarm of cobras, hornets, and scorpions in an operating theater, released there specifically to disrupt the procedures, injure the staff, and kill the patients.

Why even bother that “college” has anything to do with college sports anymore? www.espn.com/college-foot...

Flashback to how these same folks reacted to vaccine cards...

it takes a real management genius to cut both your sports and culture teams a few days before a sporting event hosting the biggest cultural moment in recent history

From his prior position: "colleagues warned superiors that the department’s accounts could be seen as promoting white-supremacist rhetoric, Nazi imagery and QAnon conspiracy theories."

Too few people know about this: Musk caused hundreds of thousands of deaths with DOGE by cutting USAID. More people have died because of this than in Gaza. Musk and the people involved in DOGE must be held accountable

This is a no BS post on what the rest of the world really thinks of Trump's America. Trump has made us a laughing stock, and an untrustworthy pariah on the world stage in just under a year. This won't end well unless Congress grows a spine and cares about the county. @houserepublicans.bsky.social

Bovino reached out to praise a Border Patrol agent who shot a 30-year-old Chicago woman five times last October, new documents show. "In light of your excellent service in Chicago, you have much yet left to do!!" @schwartzesque.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

I just published: The Taken Inside the ICE Detention Pipeline for US Citizens and Residents: From Minnesota to Texas Documented through court records. Including worms in food, sewage water flooding into eating areas, returned to Minnesota in chains and shackles after courts order release, more.

Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social : The size of the Ukrainian Army is not the problem, because they haven’t attacked Russia. The size of the Russian Army is a problem for all its neighbors. The size of the Russian military budget is a problem for all. 📹: euronews

The world is at the mercy of one man’s mental illness. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/t...

Master groveler www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

Paste their pictures on the front pages next time there is a climate disaster. (gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

But DHS leaders testified yesterday that they made no mistakes… www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

When will people stop falling for powerful people like Trump and powerful countries like Russia constantly taking action as if they are perpetual victims? londonlovesbusiness.com/moscow-are-m...

“Kremlin messaging increasingly wraps everyday inconveniences, communication outages, curbs on free platforms, and state propaganda filling the gaps, in grand narratives of external threat and phantom enemies.” londonlovesbusiness.com/moscow-are-m...

“Russia does not view negotiations as a means to achieve peace, but rather as an instrument to advance its pre-established war objectives. Any optimism about a potential breakthrough remains, at best, premature and, at worst, entirely misplaced.” OpenMinds

“Cynical politicians denigrate institutions, then vandalize them.” (The Economist)

Admission to a capricious abuse of power based on petty grievance—a power usurped from Congress.

Federal prosecutors sought and failed to secure an indictment against six Democratic lawmakers who posted a video that enraged Trump by reminding active-duty members of the military and intelligence community that they were obligated to refuse illegal orders. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

Many unindicted ham sandwiches lately. You love to see it.

I guess a ham sandwich can’t indict a ham sandwich

What an ugly assault on First Amendment and on Congress. Thankfully, thwarted. "A group of ordinary citizens sitting on the grand jury in Federal District Court in Washington rejected the effort." Shame on DOJ. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

We need a word for the confluence of incompetence, corruption and sinister intent.

ICE agents: you’re being played. That “$50,000 bonus”? It’s a leash—paid in pieces over 5 years. Quit or miss targets and you lose the rest…or pay it back. That’s a trap. And people will remember the fear, humiliation, harm. Walk away. Choose law. Choose people. gofund.me/fe75ae02f

James Comer spent years and millions of taxpayer dollars trying and failing to prove that there was a policy connection between Hunter’s appointment to the Burisma board in 2014 and his VP dad. But Comer won’t spend a day or a dollar investigating this.

“Given the intense partisan divide at present and the irresponsibility of some actors involved here, the IC seeming to influence or even somehow interfere to prevent the midterm elections thedispatch.com/article/gabb...

Wait until he hears about Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. www.yahoo.com/news/article...