@LemonSlayer

What Rep Stansbury says is true, isn't it? Indeed, there isn't much basis for push back.

Mark Hamer, #2 at DOJ antitrust, quits.

MAGA lobbyists are demanding that Trump's antitrust division settle the monopolization case against Live Nation/Ticketmaster. The top lawyers in the department don't want to do it. So now the #2 at DOJ Antitrust just quit.

‘Not prepared to walk away’: Starmer defends premiership as UK government reels from Epstein fallout | CNN Keir Starmer was fighting to salvage his premiership on Monday after the resignations of key advisers and growing calls from senior Labour Party figures for the British prime minister to step down, fo...

The Epstein fallout in the UK dwarfs anything so far here in the US.👇

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One of the few major media journalists who regularly tweeted about US airstrikes in Somalia was @charliesavage.bsky.social with his "Meanwhile in Somalia" tweets.

Charlies hasn't continued with them here on Bluesky, but I'd guess he still pays attention.

The Escalation of U.S. Airstrikes in Somalia and the Role of Perceived Threats to the U.S. Homeland - Combating Terrorism Center at West Point Abstract: In 2025, the United States substantially increased the pace of its airstrikes in Somalia. At the same time, it increasingly cited not just regional security rationales for the increased pace...

Here’s Shabelle Media Network with the line re admin policy (says temporarily but doesn’t feel so). I got similar reply to my efforts.

shabellemedia.com/africom-halt...

As I cover here we had at least via reply to query death tolls until April or early May

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Trump flexes global muscles after rant over Bad Bunny’s one-Americas halftime show President Trump claimed the rapper’s show was ‘an affront to the Greatness of America’. Hours later, he reshared an AI-generated image of an expanded United States

Trump posts a doctored photo highlighting the countries he intends to invade and annex next, including Canada and Greenland. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

For death tolls not videos that is.

That shift for Somalia though was a result of the new admin’s policies. At least according to AFRICOM’s response when they stopped. Shift occurred in April or early May.

Interesting! Didn't know that.

There used to be an incentive for commands to highlight stuff like that—furthered the admin’s CT KPIs, helped them compete for resources within DOD, etc. Those have turned into disincentives now

Agree!

AFRICOM also used to report their airstrikes in a timely manner, but that's gone by the wayside too!

Good question!

Been a couple years at least.

AFRICOM used to report on the target causalities, but they don't even do that anymore.

Underreported by any media is a constant.

Today's AFRICOM report:

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Trump told Palm Beach police chief ‘everyone’ knew about Epstein, Maxwell was ‘evil’ The new information comes as Ghislaine Maxwell was summoned to appear Monday before a Congressional committee.

In July 2006, Trump told Palm Beach police chief 'everyone' knew about Epstein and 'evil' Maxwell. But he continued to party and deal with them for another decade, at least (likely longer). www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

That’s not even a thing that could happen!

One cognitive problem we have understanding Trump is how it differs from the precedents. One thing I'm obsessed about is that he started as hegemon, but is pissing that away, IN PART bc he does not control himself.

But this is another big distinction.

I'm at least as obsessed by David Sacks' role

Trump is tapping the Department of the Navy's budget to build his archipelago of concentration camps.

The Conservative Researcher Being Linked to the FBI’s Seizure of Election Records in Georgia Kevin Moncla has tried repeatedly to prove that the 2020 vote in Fulton County, Georgia, was tainted by fraud. While state election overseers have rejected his claims, his work may be fueling the fede...

Author of the research that was reportedly the basis of the Fulton County election raid "pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor voyeurism charge and was subsequently ordered by a jury to pay $3.25 million in damages after secretly filming guests in his home bathroom."

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Ghislaine Maxwell refuses to answer questions at congressional deposition, lawmakers say Jeffrey Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell refused to answer questions at a deposition before the U.S. House's Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Monday, according to lawmakers, drawing criticism from both Republican and Democratic members of the committee.

Ghislaine Maxwell refuses to answer questions at congressional deposition, lawmakers say reut.rs/4qrcNec

Voters think Trump plans to deploy ICE goons at polling places, and they strongly oppose this idea.

Classified hearing erupted in frustration as officials refused to say whether Trump wants to renew powerful surveillance law | CNN Politics For two hours inside a classified Congressional hearing last week, Republican and Democrat Senators grew increasingly exasperated as officials from the FBI, the National Security Agency and other agen...

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AFRICOM reported early this evening (Stuttgart time) that the US conducted an airstrike 6 days ago targeting ISIS-Somalia on Feb. 3, 2026.

www.africom.mil/pressrelease...

Funny, notwithstanding the dramatic increase in airstrikes under Trump 2.0, there's not much discussion of Somalia in the National Security Strategy.

Matt Wuerker, Politico

Nice to see Baghdad Bob getting work

“… Blanche used the 2-day interview to test whether & if so how Ghislaine wld implicate various famous ppl, including Trump. After she declined to do that, even w/testimony that directly conflicted w/piles of records Blanche had in his possession, he rewarded her w/a puppy & a transfer to Club Fed.”

Jesse Duquette, The Daily Don

WaPo's editorial board pines for a world that no longer exists: one in which liberals can be cowed out of responding to GOP tactics by accusations of "hypocrisy."

That time is over. No more unilateral disarmament.

Whistle-Blower Report Involved Intelligence About a Trump Contact

Breaking:

Members of Congress were briefed this week on a whistleblower report about an intelligence intercept of a call between two foreign nationals discussing a person close to Trump.

The whistleblower accused Tulsi Gabbard of limiting who could see the report and blocking wider distribution.

NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast The US vice-president, JD Vance, was greeted by a chorus of boos during when he appeared at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Milan on Friday

A perfect example of major US media's mortal fear of broadcasting news that gives offense to the Trump regime. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...