Sanity Check

Yoon Suk-yeol has been sentenced to life imprisonment.

And quite a timely one given what's going on in the UK today.

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."

Congratulations??

No, seriously - amazing work. I hope this arrest is the first of many. Thank you.

Prince Andrew's Arrest Across the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
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Ossoff: "There are some folks who are doomscrolling in the fetal position. Every day there is a new outrage. It's easy I know to fear that maybe we could lose our republic. I think what John Lewis would tell us is it's up to us. We have the power to right the ship. Nobody is gonna do it for us."

Former Prince Andrew’s arrest, Yoon Suk Yeol’s sentence and the power of accountability In many democracies, criminal suspects are often held accountable — even if they’re politically powerful, even if they’ve served at the highest levels.

In rapid succession:
- former British royal arrested
- former Korean president sentenced
- former Norwegian PM charged
- former French and Brazilian presidents imprisoned

And then there’s Trump and the Republican-appointed justices on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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MS NOW has obtained a statement from the family of Virginia Roberts Giuffre:

At last.
 
Today, our broken hearts have been lifted at the news that no one is above the law, not even royalty.

Still, the media did maintain a proportionate sense of outrage in its coverage of the greatest conceivable crime a human can commit: Storing recipes on an off-books email server while female.

Former Prince Andrew arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office: reports Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, reports say.

BREAKING NEWS: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly Prince Andrew, has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, reports say.

WHOA. ANDREW MOUNTBATTEN ARRESTED.

Sorry but the evidence is going to pile up in overseas cases and descend on Trump like a child rapist Tsunami.

They know what’s in the files and about whom.

Oh my goodness… what has Thomas done now??

So, the US govt approach is:
*We are going to scan tourists social media accounts and deny visas because of content we dislike, like mocking Trump
and
*We are going to allow foreigners a work-around to consume social media content their governments have banned, including hate speech

YouTube video by C-SPAN Rep. Lieu Says Epstein files Have Allegations of Trump Raping & Threatening to Kill Children

Rep. Ted Lieu: "Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands & thousands of times. In those files, there's highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump raping children, of Donald Trump threatening to kill children."

That's all? Every time I see one of these polls, that's what I am immediately struck by. 44% of the people polled are okay with Trump's performance. 51% do not describe him as corrupt. 54% are not calling him cruel. That is horrifying.

Exclusive | The Accomplice Who Was Going to Testify Against Jeffrey Epstein—Then Went Dark Model scout Jean-Luc Brunel was negotiating to provide prosecutors with evidence against the sex offender in 2016 but ultimately backed out.

New via WSJ: French modeling scout Jean-Luc Brunel was secretly negotiating in 2016 with lawyers representing Epstein's victims, according to DOJ files.

Brunel's lawyer told them his client recruited girls for Epstein and had incriminating photographs.

Then Brunel went dark.

This is exactly right.

More people need to get their heads around it.

I worked with ICE when I was at DOJ. Abolishing it won't bring justice. You think Immigration and Customs Enforcement is bad? Letting Trump build a new agency from the ground up would be a disaster.

My new column:

If people want the horrors of ICE to end, we must oust the GOP.

All Democrats must vote for the Dem in the primary who can win the general ... and in the general vote blue no matter who.

No 3rd party voting or staying home. That's deadly.

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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.

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.

The inhumane treatment of immigration detainees requires more coverage | Press Watch The glimpses we’ve gotten justify a lot more reporting

Why does someone who overstayed their visa need to be held in shackles? Does any child belong in a prison camp? Does anybody deserve to be underfed, or brutalized, or denied medical care? presswatchers.org/2026/02/the-...

Opinion | One Man Stole $660 Million. He’ll Never Pay It Back.

“Illiberal governments tend to live or die by their ability to sustain corruption. They rely for support on a network of oligarchs, who in turn are tied to the administration’s success. It happened in Hungary, Turkey, Russia and increasingly, it is happening here.”

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“The most powerful crime syndicate in history”

James Speyer, writing in The New York Daily News, says: It is time to acknowledge what has become tragically obvious: the Trump administration is essentially acting as a massive criminal enterprise. It lies, steals, extorts and murders — all while…

Exclusive: US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere The U.S. State Department is developing an online portal that will enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propagan...

Exclusive: The US State Department is developing an online portal to enable people in Europe and elsewhere to see content banned by their governments including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda, sources told Reuters reut.rs/4cySsA6

DOJ Removed Record of Multiple FBI Interviews with Underage Trump Accuser, Epstein Data Shows The FBI spoke at least four times with a woman who credibly accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor, Epstein files show. That document is no longer accessible on the DOJ website.

NEWS: The FBI interviewed an Epstein victim who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was underage not once — but at least FOUR times. But the document that shows those additional interviews appears to have been deleted from the DOJ website. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Funny how both furries have taken to burrowing beneath the fluffy blankets. 🐶😻❤️

🚨🚨🚨 Ted Lieu: "Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times. In those files, there are highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump RAPING children ... of Donald Trump threatening to KILL children. So I encourage the press to go look at these allegations."

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Ted Lieu: "Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times. In those files, there are highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump RAPING children ... of Donald Trump threatening to KILL children. So I encourage the press to go look at these allegations."

Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making “false claims” of treating autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

For years, the FDA website warned of products and remedies claiming to treat autism that were being marketed deceptively and can be harmful.

Just a few:
•hyperbaric oxygen therapies
•chlorine dioxide
•raw camel milk.

Now, under RFK Jr, that advisory is gone.

New, @megomatz.bsky.social

Neither have I. Fuck her!

(S+) Robert Kagan über die USA: Wir sind auf dem Weg in die gefährlichste Epoche seit 1945 Der Kalte Krieg? Ein Kinderspiel gegen das, was uns bevorsteht. So sieht es der US-Historiker Robert Kagan. Er sagt: Wir sind auf dem Weg in die gefährlichste Epoche seit 1945.

Der Spiegel's lead story, an interview with Robert Kagan: "We are witnessing how an entire country is transforming into a dictatorship almost without resistance."
Bitte, @spiegel.de, share the English version. Americans need to read it.
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Trump somehow got worse on public health after covid He's incapable of learning lessons and actively resists it.

"The Trump regime is a disaster not just for public health in the US, but worldwide. There has been a great deal of discussion of the ways in which Trump’s reckless foreign policy has put global security at risk. But US abandonment of public health leadership may well be even more consequential."