Peter Attia Out at CBS News After Epstein Files Correspondence Disclosures (Exclusive) The longevity researcher and health influencer had been named a contributor to CBS by Bari Weiss last month.

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...

Jared 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.

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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.

Former ICE instructor will testify as whistleblower that agents taught to violate Fourth Amendment The instructor, who is an attorney, plans to tell a forum sponsored by Congressional Democrats that the procedures in entering homes are not taught appropriately.

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."

New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had years-long business tie with sex offender The commerce secretary apparently still hasn't come clean on his connection with Epstein.

A 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

Judge Cannon permanently blocks release of Jack Smith report The Trump-appointed judge said releasing the classified docs report now would “contravene basic notions of fairness and justice.”

Aileen 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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Judge permanently blocks release of Jack Smith's report on Trump classified documents case A federal judge on Monday permanently blocked the Justice Department from releasing former special counsel Jack Smith's report on the classified documents investigation.

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.

Trump, 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!

The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

Brainwashing, 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.

Our 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.

Hello, 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.

Turns out the “brief period” equaled 17 whole minutes.

This 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.

What's happening in Guadalajara and Puerto Vallarta? Explosions, roadblocks and gunfire have been reported throughout the state, after law enforcement actions on Sunday morning.

Unrest 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.

#alysaliu
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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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With 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 The U.S. Secret Service said on Sunday its agents shot and killed a man in his 20s after he tried to unlawfully enter a secure perimeter at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in West Palm Beach, Florida.

US Secret Service agents killed man trying to unlawfully enter Trump's Mar-a-Lago reut.rs/4qRRSRF

U.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.

And 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?

‘No one deserves this’: Beaverton father dies after deportation to Mexico A Beaverton family is grieving after the father, who was detained and deported by ICE, has now died.

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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Quakertown parents, groups demand release of students in police clash Civil rights groups and parents gathered in front of the Quakertown Police Department Saturday demanding answers for the violent confrontation Friday.

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

Texas U.S. citizen was fatally shot by an immigration agent last year during a stop, new records show The death of Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, would mark the earliest of at least six deadly shootings by federal officers since the start of the Trump administration's nationwide immigration crackdown.

Our 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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