📄 EXCLUSIVE: Did Jeffrey Epstein Try to Sabotage the Lawyers Fighting Him? Soon after Epstein tried (and failed) to infiltrate Brad Edwards' database system, Stan Pottinger, an old Epstein partner, and David Boies waltzed in to “help” victims. america2.news/part-seven-d...

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

Just as ICE and CBP have no legitimate role in "election security" neither does the head of DHS. The mere existence of this press conference should be a scandal, much less this tone-deaf comment.

“Trump has used words like “rigged,” “crooked,” “stolen” and “fraudulent” to describe elections hundreds of times. Since the start of the month, he’s gone on a tear, using these words to characterize elections 139 percent more frequently than in the preceding months” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

"Hundreds of judges around the country have ruled more than 4,400 times since October that President Donald Trump’s administration is detaining immigrants unlawfully, a Reuters review of court records found."

"The decisions amount to a sweeping legal rebuke of Trump’s immigration crackdown. Yet the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely even after courts ruled the policy was illegal." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

New story up on the Homeland Security Department’s new tactic: flood social media companies with subpoenas to unmask anonymous accounts that criticize ICE or monitor the movements of ICE agents. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

⚡️BREAKING: Russia killed opposition leader Navalny with dart frog poison, UK official says. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with a dart frog toxin called epibatidine before he died in 2024, British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said. kyivindependent.com/breaking-rus...

Five European nations have determined that Russia poisoned Alexei Navalny. This was a cowardly act from a frightened leader. Russia has long acted as a terrorist state, relying on terrorist methods. 
Poisoning political opponents.
Silencing journalists.
Invading peaceful neighbors.

Long COVID Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease Mechanisms nyulangone.org/news/long-co... #LongCovid #COVID #Alzheimers #dementia

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(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

Firing a pilot for leaving Kristi Noem's blanket behind. Berating staff when she's not on TV enough. Inside the constant chaos at DHS. on.wsj.com/4bQ8NjG

Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice. We noticed. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This week’s Rant! looks at the two degrees of separation between Epstein and an off-the-books funder of the FSB. Probably just a coincidence! open.substack.com/pub/alexzfin...

You’ve taken your daughter to a birthday party. In the air, invisible, is the measles virus. Even if she survives, the virus may never be done with her. Elizabeth Bruenig on what measles can do to a body, to a brain, and to a family:

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:

Because DHS paramilitaries are masked, heavily armed, poorly trained, and have been terrorizing Americans for months.  Because Americans don't want to vote at gunpoint. #holdfast

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

As we dig into this scandal, can we revisit the question about why the president's son-in-law, who has no formal role in this administration, keeps showing up at high-level negotiations with actual world leaders?

Trump posted a video depicting the first Black president and his wife as apes and his excuse for this is that it's a riff on The Lion King, a movie that does not feature any apes. Somehow this was a one-day story and we've already moved on.

"In Hutchins Texas, ICE reportedly bought a former Amazon property for $80 million. The broker’s contact on the listing was Majestic Realty, a Los Angeles–based firm owned by Ed Roski Jr, a Trump campaign contributor who is a partial owner of the L.A. Lakers..." jacobin.com/2026/02/ware...

The labor market essentially stalled in 2025. US employers added just 181,000 jobs in all of last year, according to the latest BLS statistics, 69% fewer positions than the initial estimate of 584,000. @bencasselman.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/b...

This is the key point - it's not about Moderna's flu vaccine, it's about sending a signal to the rest of the industry that vaccine development isn't viable in the US. It's all part of the larger anti-vaccine agenda.

BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight. The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

⚠️ Jared Kushner’s role in the corruption of the Trump administration and how deeply it is compromised by foreign interests deserves far more scrutiny than it has received.

Kushner holds no official position yet travels around the world negotiating at the highest levels of foreign policy and supposedly representing US interests. He was rejected for security clearance in Trump’s first term until Trump interceded and ordered he be granted permanent top secret clearance.

Jared Kushner just so happens to welcome in a no-name, no-experience guy named Josh Gruenbaum, who is also busy advocating for Kushner's brother to win a big government tender. What are the odds? www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

“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:

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...

Scoop: CNN has learned that Paramount CEO David Ellison returned to the White House last week to meet privately with President Trump, amid Paramount’s ongoing hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. Full story here: www.cnn.com/2026/02/12/m...

We are delighted to welcome Flounder to his new home in the Pacific Northwest! 💙🦭 Flounder is a harbor seal who was born at the Miami Seaquarium. Following their closure in October 2025, there was an effort to find homes for the animals that had been living there. +

As a 12-year-old seal who has relied on human caregivers since birth, Flounder cannot live in the wild. Luckily, the Seattle Aquarium had space to welcome Flounder to our harbor seal habitat and provide him a safe, caring home. 💒 Welcome, Flounder! We love you already.

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...

He raised alarms among colleagues at Labor for social media posts that echoed white supremacists and neo-Nazis. So now he will handle social media for Homeland Security. A great scoop by Evan Gorelick on the 21-yr-old behind all those weird memes on gvt accounts. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

If you've got three minutes, I've got everything you need to know about the jobs report. What happened, what it means, how it'll shape your life, and what to look for going forward. Plus some wonky bits.

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...

I parsed through some of the emails in the Epstein files, and it’s very clear that Epstein was a eugenicist weirdo. Something he very much had in common with the billionaire class à la Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and Donald Trump. New for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The House has passed the SAVE America Act, which would implement strict limitations on voter registration and casting a ballot — including new rules that could make it more difficult for married women or LGBTQ+ people to register if they’ve changed their names.

BREAKING: House Republicans just passed the SAVE America Act — a sweeping federal bill that could disenfranchise millions. The bill now heads to the Senate, where it faces long odds amid unified Democratic resistance.

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

Raskin to Bondi: "You're not showing a lot interest in the victims. Whether it's Epstein's human trafficking ring or the homicidal government violence against citizens in Minneapolis, as AG you're siding with the perpetrators and ignoring the victims."

Rep. Jesús García comes out swinging: "You're one of the worst attorney generals in our history and an instrument of Donald Trump's lawless authoritarian agenda, and I'm glad the American people are seeing who you are."

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one thing that comes across in these clips is that bondi is totally out of her depth. just an absolute lightweight. barely sentient.

BALINT: Was the president aware of Secretary Lutnick's ties to Epstein when he chose him to lead the Department of Commerce? BONDI: Chris Malen was a Border Patrol agent---- BALINT: So I'm going to conclude that he did know! BONDI: Shame on you BALINT: This is pathetic! This is not a game

So they can sue for $10 billion now, right?

JUST IN: U.S. Customs and Border Protection says Border Patrol agent Charles Exum, who shot Chicago's Marimar Martinez, "was placed on administrative leave":