I watched this interview & it’s excellent. @wyden.senate.gov is doing critical work on #Epstein (follow the money) & #DataPrivacy. His warnings on how #DHS is working with #Palantir reinforce that we must call our reps this week & demand data privacy protections. www.youtube.com/live/FMmhGzZ...

Ukraine war briefing: France to start making weapons with Kyiv

The prime minister pleaded for more time to deliver ‘change’ for the country in an address to Labour MPs, after he survived the most serious challenge yet to his leadership. ft.trib.al/oeNbhSB

US FDA declines to approve Regenxbio's gene therapy for rare disease reut.rs/4rFSTwY

SCOOP: The Department of Health and Human Services has been using the term “sex-rejecting procedures” to describe gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary individuals. The term is not clinical or medical. It comes from a Christian Right group. www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...

Lindsey Vonn said she has no regrets over her decision to compete in the Winter Olympics after sustaining a “completely ruptured” ACL one day after crashing during a race and severely breaking her leg. https://cnn.it/4kqYPHL

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

In the old stories, the convention was that the troll demanding ransom for safe passage had to live under the bridge in question.

Canada- our closest ally for DECADES. The only person treating the US unfairly is the FELON.

Lung cancer scientific evidence biased against cigarette companies. 🙄

Earth & the Moon from Orion View of🌎beyond🌙during #Artemis1 flight on Nov 28, 2022 when Orion was 432 210 km away from🌎 Vid has been rotated&cropped&is 900x actual speed The western edge of South America and the south-eastern Pacific is visible on Earth. 🎵Raphaelle Thibaut, Lunar Snow

While most Americans were transfixed by this year’s Super Bowl proceedings on Sunday night, Elon Musk took to X to proclaim that SpaceX would focus on building out a base on the moon before sending humans to Mars.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on February 7 disputed claims by lawmakers that she sought to block Congress from accessing a whistleblower complaint, saying she took 'immediate action' once notified of the need to provide security guidance for its release reut.rs/4agI2lX

Someone on Polymarket has just placed a $100k bet that the US will strike Iran today. $4m payout if true. More money than sense or insider information, you decide.

USAF F-35 stealth fighter jets are en route to the Middle East, Fox reports.

The CLEAR and OBVIOUS inaugural winner? RFK Jr! 🏆 So so so many harmful lies. open.substack.com/pub/garyschw... by @garyschw.bsky.social

Absence de kérosène: des vols à destination de Cuba annulés

Norwegian ambassador resigns as she faces scrutiny over contacts with Epstein

3/ “I have never been separated from my siblings and its honestly sad because they are little and they need their mom and sister.” From 14-year-old Ariana V.V, whose U.S.-citizen siblings are 2 and 5 years old. Detained for 45+ days

2/ “I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long.” From 9-year-old Susej F, detained for 50+ days

Inquiets du climat politique, des Américains se ruent vers leurs origines canadiennes

Frank Gehry Designed His Own Home, and What It Teaches About Creative Risk www.openculture.com/2026/02/fran...

Since 1945, the U.S., while guilty of hypocrisy and inconsistency, has generally been on the side of a rules-based international order. Trump, however, seems bent on destroying the very foundations of a rules-based order. wapo.st/3MsWi3c

Days after Jamie Dimon ordered all staff at JPMorgan Chase to come into the office five days a week, a petition surfaced at America’s biggest bank urging the chief executive to reverse his plans. ft.trib.al/CskzFjR

'How do you square "the world is ending" with "we’re reinventing tech and everything is going to be great"?', one crypto consultant said of Tether's strategy. ft.trib.al/DcXcSdQ

Good morning, Asia. While you were sleeping, one of our most-read articles was this opinion piece about bitcoin’s worst crash since 2022. Ever since its creation, bitcoin has been on a journey that will end, splattered on the ground, writes Jemima Kelly. ft.trib.al/KjU0fdA

Lawyers said executives and tech leaders were among those barred from visiting America, in a sign that Donald Trump is extending his immigration clampdown to the UK. ft.trib.al/3He9Pa3

Pound and gilts under pressure as leadership crisis threatens Starmer ft.trib.al/V2jofTR

The last major nuclear arms treaty between the US and Russia just expired. Some experts believe a combination of satellite surveillance, AI, and human reviewers can take its place. Others, not so much. www.wired.com/story/satell...

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🇫🇷🇺🇦 During the working visit of the French delegation, the Minister of the Armed Forces of France was shown one of the positions of the French SAMP/T air defense system, - DroneBomber But of more interest are the marks of the downed jet KABs and two destroyed Su-34s in one of the directions.

Chinese military texts have long argued that modern conflict spills far beyond the battlefield. The Chinese Communist Party has spent decades acting on that insight by exploiting America’s economic openness.

Kerryman who is married, living and working legally in the United States for >20 years has been incarcerated by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) since September 2025. Profoundly disturbing report by Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

Keir Giles has been targeted *again* by allegedly Russian hackers — this time using a clever new trick intended to bypass 2-factor authentication. Over the years I’ve written about Giles an unusual amount, and I have an idea about why. First, the coverage: www.reuters.com/technology/s...

Doocy: "The new face of RealFood .gov is Mike Tyson. How did you settle on someone who was most famous for eating Evander Holyfield's ear?" RFK Jr.: "Brett Ratner who helped produce the ad had a lifelong friendship with him."

Yup. Witkoff and Kushner are using cheap Russian humiliation tactics. But let it be known that the whole "peace process" is as much of a useless joke as these two clowns.

Just had a fabulous talk with John Sipher, one of the most experienced CIA officers of his generation. We went into the Epstein files, what they say about Epstein and Russian intelligence, how Epstein kompromat might work to influence Trump… substack.com/@phillipspob...

If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

My favorite Super Bowl memory is still when Elon Musk was at the 2023 game in Arizona and panicked about his Eagles tweet getting less engagement than Joe Biden's. He then flew immediately to Twitter's San Francisco office to start emergency meetings to fix the site's algorithm.

Fixing the Midterms is now the main driver for Trump.

The French once again taking no bullshit.

“There’s a tremendous mystery, widely discussed, about where his money came from,” said Lynette Nusbacher, a former British Army intelligence officer. “And is it possible that some of his money came from state sources for him to act as an intelligence asset.”

As I was saying…

JUST IN: The Seattle Seahawks put on a dominant defensive performance, stifling the New England Patriots to win Super Bowl LX. It's their second NFL title. Follow live updates: https://cnn.it/3NZRwL7

What the Hell Is Happening In The USA? w/ @realericham.bsky.social http://PoliticsIsBroken.ca/

One message from a former president, the other from a raging psychopath who has made a prison break.