Their Essential Command

What gave the Epstein network purpose was not the traffic in women, but the sale of valuable knowledge—within which women circulated as currency and party favors.

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UT System votes to limit 'controversial topics' in class, raising concerns about academic freedom This is the latest move by the state to have more control over what is taught at public universities.

I look forward self-censoring any discussion of the new and certainly controversial results on whether dark energy is diminishing in strength over time versus remaining constant

Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office.

This is looting.

It’s a really simple upload function, but if I really couldn’t figure it out, the number of people I would wake up or otherwise bother in that half hour before midnight would break records.

Complaining that following the Constitution will stop you from doing the thing you want to do is... an admission that what you want to do is unconstitutional.

You swore an oath to defend the Constitution. You are violating that oath, Rep. Alford. Time to go home and let someone else do the job.

CATO: “.. In short, seven independent research teams have now examined the “who’s paying” question and have reached essentially the same answer: We are.”

@cato.org @scottlincicome.bsky.social
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What the fuck was that note about, then?

Well that's a quote that will go down in history.

Bill Clinton talked to Loretta Lynch on the tarmac

his friendship with Epstein was the problem? or was it something else like maybe Andrew's RELATIONSHIP WITH A YOUNG WOMAN TRAFFICKED TO HIM BY EPSTEIN? Good grief, NYT

Trump Admin's Plans for $500 Million USIP Building May Violate Court Order, Say Former Workers The State Department is poised to take over a building DOGE seized from the US Institute of Peace, former staffers claim—possibly for Donald Trump’s “Board of Peace.”

Today, Trump hosted the first meeting of the so-called Board of Peace at the building that served as the headquarters for the US Institute for Peace. But that building is still the subject of a major court case after being forcibly taken over by DOGE last year.

www.wired.com/story/trump-...

March 27, 1936: Portraits of the Führer are raised on official buildings across Berlin. This one at the Potsdamer Railway Station reads "Freedom - Peace"

Hmm. The US is giving $10 billion in taxpayer dollars, not appropriated by Congress, to a fake board set up by the President and which he put himself in charge of *for life*... seems very, very illegal.

All the DOGE talk about cutting the deficit in half. The richest man in the world cutting public services, leading to millions of deaths, to provide cover for a wealth transfer to other rich people

I can't say this assuages my reservations about the way AI tools are being let loose in the populace without guardrails. Just look at the panic happening right now with OpenClaw. This shit is going to get a lot worse unless there is legislation to put some accountability rules in place.

Fourteen trillion dollars over a period of fourteen trillion years, that should be.

Absolutely.

Exclusive: Senior DHS officials double down on arresting and detaining refugees in new memo Hours after DOJ filed the new memo in court in Minnesota, a magistrate judge denied Law Dork's request for greater public access in the case — including remote electronic docket access. CHRIS GEIDNER FEB 18, 2026

Finally, here is the news I broke at Law Dork earlier tonight — in a story I’ve been covering extensively. www.lawdork.com/p/exclusive-...

City leaders in Social Circle, GA, recapped last night a meeting with DHS that they say did not address any of their concerns regarding the ICE ‘mega processing’ warehouse the agency just bought.

A staggering study in ineptitude.

www.socialcirclega.gov/Home/Compone...

They saw France bust down the doors of X for being pedophiles and immediately started developing the national sex crime VPN.

U2 surprise drop ‘songs of defiance’ - with one honouring Renee Good U2 is the latest band to release new music in the wake of the deadly Minneapolis ICE shootings, following Bruce Springsteen’s tribute track to Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both shot and killed by ICE agents.

U2 is the latest band to release new music in the wake of the deadly Minneapolis ICE shootings, following Bruce Springsteen’s tribute track to Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both shot and killed by ICE agents.

I hope they send the Texas Rangers after her.

Ossoff: "If you live in a major democracy, and the nation's spy chief is showing up at raids on sensitive election sites, something has gone wrong."

Marco Rubio visits Slovakia and Hungary, and suddenly they behave in a manner that's openly pro-Russia and anti-Ukraine. This is no coincidence.

Uh, maybe the priority should be, “Mr. President, here’s something you don’t know, but you really should know about”?

Pretending that the war Russia started and chooses to keep prosecuting is somehow not Russia's fault—that someone else somehow forced them into it, or that Russia is like a force of nature that must be accommodated, not a human-led state with agency—is the pro-Russian lie at the heart of this mess.

Ahh, but if you know the readers' sentiments are shifted, then you are learning less than you would with a random sample of readers. You are learning about the algorithm instead.

I like the insider info!!!

The website for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is completely scrubbed and gone! They didn't even leave a legacy statement.

Will anyone get rehired because of this?