If you take a step back it's really quite incredible what Ukrainians have achieved

The man has crabs

Wow: Meta has been working on plans to add facial recognition technology to its AI smart glasses. nyti.ms/3Os1oxf And this was the company’s cynical view on when, and how, to do it:

For the CEOs and university presidents and other responsible leaders who have been biding their time and waiting for him to cross the magic red line before speaking up, maybe when he starts arresting Senators is a good time to get off the fucking sidelines.

Probably just a coincidence.

Chef's kiss

@davidrlurie.com explores Trump's "nihilistic ambitions" and the legacy of "utter and complete destruction" he is building—an echo of Putin's "heedless destruction of his own country in pursuit of a pointless war that has gutted Russia’s prospects for the future."😔 open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

BREAKING: Judge blocks Hegseth effort to punish Sen. Kelly. "This Court has all it needs to conclude that Defendants have trampled on Senator Kelly's First Amendment freedoms and threatened the constitutional liberties of millions of military retirees." Background: www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-k...

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

Top NATO allies don’t think the U.S. helps deter enemies anymore, a new POLITICO poll found. Across countries polled, far more respondents described the U.S. as an unreliable ally than a reliable one, including 50% in Germany and 57% in Canada. Read the story: politi.co/4aM7EIU See the data👇

“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:

Crypto transactions for human trafficking—both forced laborers in scam compounds and sex trafficking—grew by at least 85% in 2025. Now measured in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Almost all these deals are being carried out on Chinese-language Telegram channels. www.wired.com/story/crypto...

War crimes and other international atrocities bring in “big business” – and yet are hardly treated as such. Why governments should use global anti-money laundering tools to follow the money, from @antonlaw.bsky.social and Matthew Neuhaus. www.justsecurity.org/130431/disru...

Russia has crushed open defiance in occupied Ukraine — but resistance hasn’t stopped. @drjademcglynn.bsky.social joins The Naked Pravda to discuss how Ukrainians are fighting back behind the front lines. meduza.io/en/episodes/...

I called up one of the White House's "special government employees" involved in the Fulton County FBI raid. I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...

On Twitter, this at least got a community note.

NEW: A page from Bondi's burn book. This is a list of the searches by Rep Jayapal of the unredacted Epstein files. That means the DOJ grabbed her search terms from the computers they set up for members of congress to view the Epstein files to use as ammunition. The photo is from Reuters.

DNI Gabbard claimed she attended the FBI seizure of Fulton County ballots bec she oversees matters involving "foreign intelligence threats" to U.S. elections. Today, the affidavits supporting the FBI search were unsealed- and there is not a word about foreign meddling. www.spytalk.co/p/gabbards-c...

"It is totally inappropriate and against the separations of powers for the DOJ to surveil us as we search the Epstein files. (US Attorney General) Bondi showed up today with a burn book that held a printed search history of exactly what emails I searched." - Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA).

A federal judge dismissed the DOJ’s efforts to obtain Michigan’s unredacted voter rolls, marking a bruising setback for the department’s sweeping national effort to force states to disclose sensitive voter data. Michigan is just one of 24 states wrestling with the DOJ's unusual demand.

The Atlantic’s profile of Bondi has some wow. @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

US military aid to Ukraine was the single most effective military spending we’ve had since aiding the Mujahideen against the Soviets in Afghanistan. We reduced Russia’s military by like half for circa five percent of the annual Pentagon budget. That’s a goddamn bargain. And Trump has spoiled it.

This is how badly Russia is doing. They had to invent a Ukrainian counteroffensive because they had faked how much they had advanced. A Potemkin war. euromaidanpress.com/2026/02/10/r...

Multiple election deniers are cited in this affidavit by name or can be identified: Kurt Olsen, Clay Parikh & Kevin Moncla. All of them have gone on a QAnon-affiliated show dedicated to election fraud claims. Parikh, who's gone on it repeatedly, even told the channel that it’s "how I get my news."

The Council of Europe has waived the diplomatic immunity of its former Secretary-General Thorbjørn Jagland after a request from Norwegian police who have launched a corruption investigation into his links with convicted sex offender Jeffery Epstein.

She’s the only Breezy Johnson NOT under investigation

Grand Jury Rebuffs Justice Dept. Attempt to Indict 6 Democrats in Congress, including former CIA analyst and US Senator Elissa Slotkin www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

How can I write satire anymore? The guy who did background checks was just arrested for sex trafficking.

Russophobic snake!

Politicized intelligence. Control of force. Talk of “nationalizing” elections. This is the warning sign. @alexzfinley.bsky.social substack.com/@thekenharba... Follow The Ken Harbaugh Show here: linktr.ee/thekenharbau...

Oh, hey! Me again!

This explains everything. Gift link. https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/capital-labor-wealth-economy-2fcf6c2f?st=fHvK83&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

JUST IN: A federal judge in Michigan has rejected the administration's attempt to obtain the state's voter rolls. Judge Hala Jarbou, a Trump appointee, said the law does not require the state to turn them over. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I joined @sashaingber.bsky.social to discuss links between Epstein and Russian intelligence. Spoiler: They used the same organized crime networks. Mutually beneficial and symbiotic might be good words to describe the relationship. open.substack.com/pub/sashaing...

HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW: “.. In our in-progress research, we discovered that AI tools didn’t reduce work, they consistently intensified it.” hbr.org/2026/02/ai-d...

Oh, hey! That’s me!

In the UK, the PM faces calls to resign and his chief of staff and comms guy quit because they named an ambassador with Epstein ties. But here the Commerce Secretary, caught redhanded in a lie about his financial and personal links to Epstein, hopes to brazen it out. www.cbsnews.com/news/howard-...

Bar Complaint Filed Over Search of Washington Post Reporter’s Home A press group says a prosecutor broke ethics rules by not flagging a law that limits searches for reporting materials. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...

I joined @sashaingber.bsky.social to discuss links between Epstein and Russian intelligence. Spoiler: They used the same organized crime networks. Mutually beneficial and symbiotic might be good words to describe the relationship. open.substack.com/pub/sashaing...

A russophobic baboon!

John Mearsheimer fights to sift AI propaganda videos from his authentic propaganda videos... "some depicted him making contentious remarks about heated geopolitical rivalries" - so hard to tell them apart. 'Whack-a-mole: US academic fights to purge his AI deepfakes' www.france24.com/en/live-news...

A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

It’s not because things are going well

Proud to play a role in helping get this together for @justsecurity.org. It provides you with details from the sworn declarations filed in support of the ACLU's lawsuit in Minnesota, Hussen v. Noem. The details of abuses by federal agents across the 29 declarations we looked at are chilling.

"The American media makes things that are abnormal seem normal. The European press doesn’t do that. So you’ll see when they report on Trump’s rambling Davos speech, they will say it made no sense. In the US press, you’ll just see excerpts and an attempt to sanitize it." — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

In which Jeffrey Epstein, who laundered money for the Russians, explains how Donald Trump was doing exactly the same thing, and how this accounts for most of his wealth.

Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Was Epstein a Russian asset? I find it doubtful that Russian intelligence organized an intricate operation with Epstein. But I'm sure elements of Russia’s intelligence services and Epstein had mutual interests and actively helped each other out: @alexzfinley.bsky.social. substack.com/app-link/pos...