Alex Younger, who was head of MI6 (the British CIA) until 2020, says that, as much as it pains him to admit it, the Islamic Republic of Iran is winning this war — in part because they are in a battle for survival, while Trump is engaged in a war of choice.

Political donations in cryptocurrency could be blocked in blow to Reform UK

"If ChatGPT were a person, it would be Jared Kushner."

Bondi: "I think the unsung hero in all of this is Stephen Miller. Stephen is the architect of making all these plans work."

Trump turns to Patel after Stephen Miller praises him for five minutes and says, "So Kash, see if you can top that. That's a tough one, Kash." "That is tough," Patel replies, and then he starts praising him too

BREAKING: Just five minutes before Trump's announcement to halt the attacks on Iran, massive trades hit the market. $1.5 billion in S&P 500 (ES) futures was bought while $192 million in oil (CL) futures was sold. These orders were 4–6x larger than anything else. They made huge gains. Unusual.

ALERT: Professional news. Nine days after leaving CBS, I have found a new professional home: Chief Washington Correspondent and Anchor for @meidastouch.com

Beavers are turning rivers into powerful carbon sinks www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... Beavers might be one of nature’s most unexpected allies in locking away carbon and fighting climate change.

The Wall Street Journal calls it “Elizabeth Warren’s Housing Coup.” With legislative & political genius, @elizabeth-warren.bsky.social ushered the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act through the Senate, 89-to-10. (1/3)

‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’ Director: “This is about how you lose your country — through small acts of complicity: when a government murders people on the streets, when oligarchs take over the media… we all face a moral choice. But even a nobody is more powerful than you think."

NEW: Pope Leo XIV just held a rare private audience with Gareth Gore, the journalist whose book exposed decades of alleged abuse inside Opus Dei. While Leo is reportedly prepared to break up the organization, Gore asked him to launch a formal inquiry and consider shutting it down entirely.

They should keep an eye out for side deals and “kompromat” that would explain the Trump Administration persistently favoring the corrupt murdering tyrant Putin. www.politico.eu/article/germ...

Americans are dying so that Kushner can make money

Zelensky warned that a temporary US waiver allowing sales of Russian oil could generate about $10 billion for Moscow’s war effort. www.kyivpost.com/post/71897

EXCLUSIVE: A dark money group is offering influencers $1,500 for posts attacking Chicago Democratic primary candidate @katmabu.bsky.social www.ms.now/news/kat-abu...

Thank you David Ellison, close friend of Netenyahu (per Wikipedia), for destroying a pillar of American democracy in mere months.

Spain MEP Irene Montero: “Send your son, Donald Trump — If you want war, send your own people to the front line. We in Spain want our children, our daughters, & our loved ones at home, safe. We don’t want war — those who want war should send their own children”

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A ballet dancer once abused by Jeffrey Epstein, Dani Bensky tells me she and other survivors are not being asked to appear on “Republican media” outlets like Fox. open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

McGovern: How the hell is this America first? You guys broke your top campaign promise. Good luck with that. I hope the defense contractor money was worth it. Shame on you all. The mask is off. You're all just a bunch of pathetic Neocon Warmongers.

We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court. That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits. Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

As I keep saying, the Epstein story is an offshore finance story. And offshore finance is about elite impunity: insistence on their wealth and their persons being protected by the law, but never being subject to the law. It's the "Every man a King" fantasy made real. people.com/jeffrey-epst...

Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard law professor like no other.

yeah that kind of boils it down

The Edge Gang at Harvard

Incredible www.instagram.com/reel/DUtTdIz...

Minneapolis ❤️

Governor @mikiesherrill.bsky.social, please remember there is no greater expert than Alina Habba on the law of parking garages and your state has a lot of them! 😀

Pam Bondi Thought That Went Pretty Well

NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise. BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?

So weird that these aren't all the same guy.

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

The Trump family pockets a cool half billion dollars in order to turn over a technology in which US taxpayers invested tens of billions to the Emiratis—against the advice of the national security community. And US media decides it's nothing really worth talking about.

children are full members of society and we are collectively responsible for them

In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.

Milwaukee is required to have school resource officers on some campuses after a 2025 ruling. Do they make students safer? www.wuwm.com/armed-police...

My favorite genre of Epstein emails are powerful people emailing WITH JEFFREY EPSTEIN about how MeToo has gone too far and the woke mob must be stopped.

There’s plenty more exchanges between Bannon and Epstein on their European plotting - as Epstein says to Bannon in 2019 “Macron down. Boris up. Merkel down. You up GREAT”

I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files more to follow www.ft.com/content/c950...

This was posted in the new Epstein files release and removed about 20 mins later. Wonder why that is.

“Agents are at my door right now” In addition to Don Lemon the Trump regime also Arrested Georgia Fort👇🏽 for covering the church protest (where an ICE field director is a pastor)

Paramus! Locally ruled by nepotist Sopranos-type Bosses, coupla good malls, where Justin Bieber was spotted at Panera, erstwhile home of an excellent Fairway, and the go-to punchline of lazy comedy writers. If it can happen here, things are changing, for real.

Il New Jersey converte in token 240 miliardi di dollari gli atti utilizzando la blockchain #AVAX La contea di Bergen adotta la blockchain #Avalanche. Leggi di più: https://blockzhub.io/news/683858b6a786f3fffb705281?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=news_share

“The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy. But from the fracture, we can build something better, stronger, and more just.” - Mark Carney, Canadian Prime Minister World Economic Forum (WEF), Davos 2026

Our collective roiling sense of unease and injustice has at last been crystallized into clear thought. Brilliant speech by Canada's prime minister today at Davos. Fresh, honest, eloquent, bracing.

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