Grand jury refuses to indict Democratic lawmakers in connection with illegal military orders video A grand jury in Washington has refused to indict Democratic lawmakers in connection with a video in which they urged U.S. military members to resist “illegal orders,” according to a person...

Ending today with a bit of good news.

Turns out that telling the military not to break the law is...not breaking the law. Glad a grand jury could clear that up.

Goodnight 💚

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FDA won’t review Moderna application for first mRNA-based flu vaccine The decision, which shocked company officials, comes as the FDA says it will take a stricter approach to federal vaccine approvals.

So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist.

Cool.
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"construction jobs are way up" [EXTREMELY LOUD INCORRECT BUZZER]

I posted this the next day and, well, yeah. Here we are. Another reason to remove Schumer as Minority Leader.

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Reminder: We pay the tariffs

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Textbook. If you are surprised, it is because this shit usually, at least not in the last 150 years, does not happen in the US. And the past is mild in comparison

F.D.A. Refuses to Review Moderna Flu Vaccine

Being in New Zealand has been glorious, and I’ve been trying to bring joy to our world that needs more joy and less rage posting.

But this is a rage post. You need to read this gift article because you need to be enraged.

This isn’t a setback. This is deliberately thwarting the research and development of safe and effective medicine.

Congresswoman Uses Simple Math To Show How Broken ICE Is

A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists.

That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Some warehouse owners have even backed out of sales after learning how the properties might be used. It feels like something bigger is unfolding, and it doesn’t sit right. Please pay attention. Why would this many warehouses be needed to hold people?

I am reminding myself in this moment that other countries are forging ahead without us, that states will make their own rules because people don't actually want massive pollution and out of control corporations poisoning land, water, air, and animals. But it's still pretty monstrous.

The Grammys. The Olympics. The Super Bowl. The message is that the world loves diversity. Don’t let the billionaires tell you otherwise.

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”

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I don't really have words to characterize my feelings about this adequately.

Today in mass murder on the high seas that requires immediate impeachment & removal.

Again, this is one of those "He can't do that because it's illegal" things that he keeps doing every day, so I don't know why anyone thinks the other things like that are things that can't also happen.

The U.S. currently has more prisoners and a more sophisticated system of concentration camps than Nazi Germany had on the eve of World War II in 1939

They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.

Vermont US Representative Becca Balint being interviewed by Drop Site News shortly after reviewing more, unreleased Epstein files saying
"They're all a bunch of sick fucks"

I'm trying to understand the apparent complacency of lots of folks about what Trump can/can't do in re: the 2026 election, when he is doing things like this every day that are so illegal the only remedy for them is impeachment & removal, which we know isn't going to happen.

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Trump administration live updates: Lawmakers view unredacted Epstein files at Justice Department Trump administration live updates: Congress members may begin viewing unredacted Epstein files at DOJ

“Raskin also said that he saw ‘references to 17-year-old girls, 16-year-old girls, 14-year-old girls, 11-year-old girls, 10-year-old girls, and I saw a reference today to a 9-year-old girl. So it is a really gruesome and grim story.’“ www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Elon Musk: Life cannot just be about one sad thing after another. There must also be things that make us super excited and inspired about the future. This is one of things. Bigtime. Elon Musk • @elonmusk. 26m SpaceX will build a system that allows anyone to travel to Moon. This will so insanely cool 12:59 PM • 2/9/26 • 543K Views

"Life cannot just be about one sad thing after another," says the man responsible—directly or indirectly—for like 90% of the sad things that happened in the past year.

The pure joy radiating from the Latino community in these videos is everything.

Powerful men with money have been raping our children for decades. Trump said we need to move on from the Epstein files why doesn’t he want to get the the bottom of this? Is it because he’s in the files over 38,000 times?

Rep. Raskin on the Epstein Files: "The only redactions should be the names of the victims…They violated that precept by releasing the names of a lot of victims, which is either spectacular incompetence and sloppiness on their part, or…a deliberate threat to other survivors."

Brett Favre • @BrettFavre Not familiar with Bad Bunny so don't know if his music is good or bad. I'm just going to watch what I know Lee Brice, Kid Rock All-American Halftime Show. Luis S. Herrero @lherrero Did you know that Bad Bunny gives thousands of sports items-like volleyballs, knee guards, and nets-to Puerto Rican children every Christmas? And he hasn't stolen a single penny from the government while doing it... How Was Brett Favre Involved in the Mississippi Welfare Scandal? Inside One of the Biggest Public Fraud Cases in History

209. The Modern Emergency Docket Turns Ten The February 2016 rulings blocking the Clean Power Plan were unprecedented; in retrospect, they were harbingers of a paradigm shift in the Supreme Court's role.

Ten years ago today, #SCOTUS issued five unsigned and unexplained 5-4 rulings granting emergency applications to block President Obama’s Clean Power Plan—a completely unprecedented move that helped to usher in the Court’s modern … (mis)adventures … with its shadow docket.

Me in today’s “One First”:

Screenshot of Elon Musk post on Ex: “Elon Musk y X @elonmusk For those unaware, Space has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years. The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars. It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2 day trip time). This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city. That said, SpaceX will also strive to build a Mars city and begin doing so in about 5 to 7 years, but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster.”

BREAKING: “in my 24th year of my quest to settle the planet Mars, I have just been informed of a basic fact of celestial mechanics.”

March for Life attendees may have been exposed to measles, DC Health warns D.C. health officials are contacting people possibly exposed to measles at the March for Life in January, as confirmed cases rise nationwide.

GOP child-protection policy:
❌ prenatal care
❌ vaccines
❌ child care
✅ birth canal surveillance

Making America Healthy Again™ — now with measles