This is different than when the military used a laser to take out a party balloon.

Young folks, I strongly recommend buying a DVD player and stocking up on some great DVDs of classic movies and TV shows. Many of them won't exist after this Paramount-Warner Bros merger.

SCOOP: Noem's DHS has acquired at least NINE new jets in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets. gillianbrockell.ghost.io/noems-luxury...

As HHS head, RFK Jr. overhauled an advisory committee by adding people who promote discredited therapies for autism — including chelation, usually used to treat for toxic levels of metals. In 2005, a 5-year-old died after a chelation session.

Just reupping this image from my newsletter last week, that I hope people will feel free to save and liberally spred around the interwebs. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

NEW: On Wednesday, the government stopped supporting FPDS.gov, an indispensable resource for finding what ICE, the FBI, and every other agency is buying. Its replacement site completely sucks.

New reporting from the Miami Herald on how Epstein used his power, money, & influence to “infiltrate the justice system.” I do a deep dive into this incredible article, including eyebrow-raising relationships between the prosecutors and Epstein’s criminal defense team. youtu.be/tYdj-JwxJjo?...

This is a scandal for ICE, but also an indication of just how much they're scraping the bottom of the barrel. They've had multiple applicants with outstanding warrants for their own arrest walking in looking to play cop. That's apparently how dumb some of these goons are.

Both U.S. Olympic hockey teams won gold. But only the men got a presidential call and celebration, while the women were met with a joke at their expense. The contrast isn’t just about sports. It’s about how respect, power, and attention are allocated in our culture.

BREAKING: We are calling on Rep. Shiela Cherfilus-McCormick to resign—who allegedly stole $5 million in federal disaster funds, using a portion of it to fund her 2021 campaign. The evidence from the House Ethics Committee's investigation is damning.

All y'all going to jail

On Wednesday, the government stopped supporting FPDS.gov, an indispensable resource for finding what ICE, the FBI, and every other agency is buying. Its replacement site completely sucks. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/the-governme...

Democrats Should Launch a “Nuremberg Caucus” to Investigate the Crimes of the Trump Regime… www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Investigators found GEO Group staff falsely logged visits and failed to meet ICE standards on the morning of a detainee’s death in custody.

Patrick Swindle is the CEO operating the Dilley concentration camp. There are people behind this. They must go to prison.

Here is Hillary Clinton’s opening statement to House Oversight on Epstein. Clinton says she does not recall ever encountering Epstein and says she knew nothing about his crimes. She also says that Trump should testify under oath and criticizes the committee for not holding any public hearings.

Kash Patel just fired 7 FBI Agents who were linked to the Convicted FElon's classified documents case. This is what a dictator does when they try to come after them. youtu.be/wxZcim1knUA?...

Cool cool. And we want to take humans out of the kill chain. 🤦‍♂️

What a wonderful time to have a senile sociopath as president and a talk show drunk as defense secretary.

The challenges we now face must be met by a bold progressive populist movement that strengthens democracy and shakes up the system. We can’t simply return to the path we were on before Trump. We cannot accept the status quo of Big Money dominating our politics and economy.

NEW: We just filed a complaint asking the DOJ Inspector General to investigate FBI Director Kash Patel for potentially violating federal travel rules and executive branch ethics standards when he attended the Milan Olympics men's hockey game.

If the suspect’s family didn’t turn him in, he’d probably still be on the loose thanks to Keystone Kash.

Last we forgot Steve Bannon bought the stopthesteal domain BEFORE the 2016 election.

I’m not going to watch Trump’s State of the Union address tonight. I urge you not to, either. Here’s why…

Midterm message:

A former Washington Post reporter now reports on ICE flights and their associated abuses, funding the work through donations. Seems like a worthy cause.

NEW: President Trump’s first year of his second term was reportedly “the most lucrative year of his life.” His profiteering during his first term already made him the most corrupt president in history—but last year it got even worse. 🧵

I like U.S. Senate candidates who don’t cut and paste their policies from other candidates’ websites from other states. This rundown of Jasmine Crockett’s original, Texas specific policies is exactly what doing your own homework actually looks like.

“In effect, Defendants ask the Court to treat the identity of every individual who worked at or with DOGE as a Big Secret.“ WHO IS THE ADMINISTRATOR OF DOGE??????? #WITAOD www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

Rep. Jonathan Jackson confirms that Mike Johnson rejected a request to have a tribute for his father Jesse Jackson in the US Capitol

I made an app. play.google.com/store/apps/d... Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby. I hope it's useful for someone. Nearby Glasses's open source, free and rather simple github.com/yjeanrenaud/... It's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

This is quite possibly the dumbest — and most dangerous — idea ever. Grok is unreliable and frequently manipulated by Elon based on whatever bender he’s on. Will this version of Grok be air-gapped from the public version? Will they share knowledge repositories? What a shitshow.

‘We’ve been paying for happy endings for Andrew for years’: the inside story of a royal disgrace, by his biographer

NEW: Trump’s DoJ ordered New York SVU and New Mexico to stop investigating Epstein in 2019. www.justsecurity.org/132230/fbi-s...

Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.

BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

Breaking MS NOW: An ICE whistleblower is expected to testify at a congressional forum today that the agency is "lying to Congress and the American people" about its training of new recruits. Ryan Schwank was an ICE academy instructor for new recruits before he resigned earlier this month.

Billie Eilish recently asked a room full of billionaires, “If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?” One reason? Their wealth keeps growing, yet many of them are giving less to charity now than they have in years. Billionaire philanthropy is a sham. Watch. youtu.be/aNZ7mE82UJ0?...

Without the dots, it looks like polygraph test results from a pathological liar.

"Chinese and Mexican money operations had each been evolving rapidly, shaped by government crackdowns and accelerating technology.... Dirty cash now feeds into crypto, and crypto back into cash. It’s the foundation for a truly global illicit financial system." www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

President Trump sued the IRS and Treasury Department for $10 billion—yes, that’s billion with a “B”—claiming that the agencies failed to protect his tax information. Here’s what that actually means. 🧵

"A 3-year-old company with fewer than 5 employees is being considered for a $25 billion contract... raising red flags among investors. "The company is unknown in the nuclear industry, never completed a nuclear project and is headquartered out of a WeWork office... www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

What an absolute disgrace.

I'm old enough to remember when polio ripped through the globe and put my friends into iron lungs. We dutifully lined up at school to get vaccinated. We eradicated the disease. We protected the common good and saved lives. RFK Jr. is a disgrace.

Me with a scoop/exclusive Five days after Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest, federal authorities “directed” NY law enforcement authorities to “stand down” their investigations related to Epstein, new documents released by the Department of Justice show. Part of new Timeline on NY and Epstein.

What the actual fuck?!!?

“I’m just saying … bsky.app/profile/ronf...