Peter Attia is stepping aside as a contributor to CBS News after his correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein came to light in DOJ's release of the Epstein files. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
23.02.2026 20:10 — 👍 2509 🔁 669 💬 199 📌 82@khaake.bsky.social
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.” Those words have been rattling inside my head since high school.
Peter Attia is stepping aside as a contributor to CBS News after his correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein came to light in DOJ's release of the Epstein files. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
23.02.2026 20:10 — 👍 2509 🔁 669 💬 199 📌 82Jared Kushner's father, who was a) convicted in a bizarre criminal scheme including an attempt to entrap and themn blackmail his own brother in law, b) by then NJ US Attorney Chris Christie, and then c) was pardoned by Donald Trump at the end of his first term.
23.02.2026 20:36 — 👍 689 🔁 208 💬 35 📌 7BREAKING
Charles Kushner, the US Ambassador to France, has been banned from meeting with members of the French government after he failed to show up to a diplomatic summons with the French Foreign Minister.
A former ICE instructor is expected to testify that new agents are trained to run roughshod over constitutional rights, including the right against a home invasion, and that the federal agency is “broken."
23.02.2026 18:33 — 👍 1685 🔁 723 💬 29 📌 56A MOTHER JONES SCOOP! New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had a years-long business tie with the sex offender. This challenges his claim he had minimal contact with Epstein. The two were involved in a deal for six years, and an email shows they discussed it. @nlanard.bsky.social
23.02.2026 15:25 — 👍 4821 🔁 2468 💬 230 📌 160Aileen Cannon working hard to get Sammy Alito's seat. (There's already a pending mandamus request that will be heard in June.)
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NEW: Judge Aileen Cannon rules to prevent the release of former special counsel Jack Smith's report into Trump's alleged mishandling of classified government documents
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APNewsAlert: WASHINGTON (AP) — State Department orders nonessential US diplomats and families to leave Lebanon as tensions with #Iran soar.
23.02.2026 14:17 — 👍 5 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0Trump, July 19: "All three nuclear sites in Iran were completely destroyed and/or OBLITERATED. It would take years to bring them back into service."
Witkoff, Sunday: "They're probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material."
The kids in Quakertown are still in jail! These kids defended themselves when MAGA chud Police Chief Scott McElree rushed into a crowd of protesters in plainclothes and put a teenage girl in a choke hold with no warning. They've been in jail since Friday and may be kept until Tuesday. Speak up!
23.02.2026 01:14 — 👍 436 🔁 279 💬 10 📌 13Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling.
If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now.
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One of the greatest bollard walks in history.
#WorldBollardAssociation
This means I literally could not teach my subject (African politics) at the institution at which I earned my PhD.
22.02.2026 15:36 — 👍 635 🔁 188 💬 22 📌 1Our friends are locked down in the apartment complex where they are staying. Flights are cancelled or being rerouted. The roads to the airport are closed.
22.02.2026 21:20 — 👍 21 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Hello, just to bring you a little reality here. I live in the vicinity of Puerto Vallarta. We are all in lock down. Schools tomorrow will be closed. All businesses are closed or should be by government indication. My daughter is at work because she left before this started is in lock down at work.
22.02.2026 21:21 — 👍 231 🔁 10 💬 9 📌 1Turns out the “brief period” equaled 17 whole minutes.
22.02.2026 17:47 — 👍 1623 🔁 237 💬 51 📌 60This seems to be what prompted Trump to claim he was sending a hospital boat to Greenland, which is just such a dumber reason than I could have imagined.
22.02.2026 17:45 — 👍 101 🔁 18 💬 2 📌 1Unrest happening this morning not just in Puerto Vallarta but all throughout the Mexican states of Jalisco and Michoacán.
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Mass unrest in Puerto Vallarta this morning after the MX government raided a cartel. Numerous fires, smoke blanketing the city. People are sheltering in place. The airport is closed.
Flights bound for Puerto Vallarta are returning to their city of origin or being diverted to Guadalajara.
I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.
22.02.2026 16:26 — 👍 7245 🔁 1863 💬 162 📌 200#alysaliu
WOKE IS BACK BABY
MAKE OAKLAND CALIFORNIA THE US CAPITOL NOW!
Q THE TENNESSEAN Subscribe Sign In Crossword HEALTH Vanderbilt University Medical Center to end surgeries for transgender adults Liam Adams Nashville Tennessean Updated Feb. 21, 2026, 2:11 p.m. CT Vanderbilt University Medical Center is discontinuing surgeries for transgender adults, the latest announcement for the Nashville hospital after a series of escalating concerns about its care for LGBTQ+ patients.
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22.02.2026 14:12 — 👍 234 🔁 38 💬 2 📌 9With New Momentum, Republican States Push Broader Limits for Trans Americans In states that once focused mainly on health care and sports for transgender minors, debates now revolve around the validity of transgender identity.
The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker.
Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.
US Secret Service agents killed man trying to unlawfully enter Trump's Mar-a-Lago reut.rs/4qRRSRF
22.02.2026 14:01 — 👍 41 🔁 37 💬 14 📌 15U.S. Military Deployment in the Middle East in Anticipation of a Possible Military Operation Against Iran - 17 Feb 2026 Created by ®EGYOSINT X Abraham Lincoln CSG Gerald R. Ford CSG On Deployment Turkey Syria Iraq Egypt. Iran UAE USS Gerald R. Ford Aircraft Carrier USS WinstonS. Churchill USS Bainbridge USS Mahan Air Defense Deployement ed Kuwait Bahrain • Qatar. Saudi Arabia Yemen Oman Arabian Sea Created by BEGYOSINT Approx 160 flights by C-17A (Since 16th Jan) Djibouti Gulf of Aden (Muwaffaq Salti AB) 18x flights by C-5M (KSA, Qatar & Djibouti) 20-22x KC-135 & KC-46 Tankers +24 F-15E (Muwaffaq Salti AB) ★ Numerous Flights by C-130H/J 1x RC-135 SIGINT (Chania, Greece) 30x F-35A fighters (Muwaffaq Salti AB) 4x MC/HC-130J (2x Muwaffaq Salti AB) (2x Diego Garcia NSF) 3x EA-11A BACN (Prince Sultan AB) F-16 deployed at the UAE & KSA WC-135R Nuke Sniffer (Midenhall, UK) 2x E-3 Sentry AWACS (Midenhall, UK) 6x EA-18GA (Muwaffaq Salti AB) + USS Abraham Lincoln Aircraft Carrier (Arabian Sea) USS Frank E. Petersen (Arabian Sea) USS Spruance (Arabian Sea) USS Michael Murphy (Arabian Sea) Other assets in the ME USS Roosevelt (Mediterranean Sea) USS McFaul (Persian Gulf) USS Mitscher (Persian Gulf) USS Delbert D. Black (Red Sea) Ohio-class (unknown location) THAAD At least one additional battery (KSA or Qatar) MIM-104 Patriot Multiple battaries across the region 土 +99 C-17A & C-5M flights transferring AD Battaries By @TheIntelFrog
This is somewhere between 40-50% of deployable US air power (and it’s still growing). On a scale with the Gulf Wars.
22.02.2026 11:47 — 👍 668 🔁 360 💬 63 📌 51And yet it’s even more dumb: Both hospital ships are in dry-dock in Alabama, so they won’t be arriving anytime soon.
This is a weird distraction from the Danes medically evacuating a sick US sailor from a US Navy nuclear sub yesterday 9 miles from Nuuk. What was a sub doing nine miles from Nuuk?
This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported.
He finally died.
I am so angry.
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INBOX: the police chief of Quakertown, Pa., led a group of plainclothes officers to disrupt a peaceful high school student sidewalk protest yesterday.
They threw an underage girl to the ground, choked her, and disconnected all calls to the detention center where she and others are currently held.
Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut
21.02.2026 13:35 — 👍 9958 🔁 2876 💬 145 📌 56Our government shot & killed an American citizen during a stop last year. We’re only finding out about it now. Where’s the outrage from Senators Cornyn & Cruz ? This is their constituent.
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