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Russell Vought raided USAID budgets he helped gut to pay for his own security The Project 2025 guy reportedly set aside $15 million of remaining funds to protect Vought through 2026, according to Reuters.

Russell Vought raided USAID budgets he helped gut to pay for his own security

A photo of RFK Jr. with a quote. "I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats." Trump's Health Secretary RFK Jr.

The guy in charge of our public health btw

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

Computer, Enhance People keep running crime footage through AI thinking they’re helping. They’re not.

Today's newsletter: New piece: after the Guthrie kidnapping, the Kirk assassination, and both Minneapolis shootings, the same thing happened every time. People asked AI to "enhance" blurry footage. AI invented faces.

www.readtpa.com/p/computer-e...

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WATCH - @heathergtv.bsky.social : “Do you know how many murders were in Culver City this past year, Pam Bondi? Zero.”

Epstein files: DOJ says it logs Congress members' searches to 'protect' victim information Attorney General Pam Bondi and Rep. Pramila Jayapal exchanged sharp words at a hearing when Jayapal asked victims of Jeffrey Epstein about meeting with the DOJ.

The Trump Justice Department admits: It "logs all searches" by members of Congress who view the unredacted versions of the Epstein files on their data systems.
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/e...

If Trump controls the Federal Reserve, he can use it to enrich himself, reward billionaire friends, and punish enemies.

The effects will be felt across our economy, by American workers, families, and small businesses. Congress must stand against Trump taking over the Fed.

Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

So, it appears that FAA made the right call (in frustration to force the issue?) on issuing a NOTAM because CBP was cowboying around with an anti-drone laser "on loan" from the DoD and nobody was coming clean in a timely manner about safety and fire control after they fired on some mylar balloons.

Not enough people are talking about the fact that the GOP’s disenfranchising SAVE act would disproportionately risk the voting rights of approximately *69 million* married women in the US.

Read that again.

69 MILLION married women.

See details from @the19thnews.org in the reply below.

I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*)

The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.

The SAVE Act has passed the House, making it harder for 69 million American women to vote.

This isn’t about voter fraud or undocumented immigrants.

This is about suppressing the female vote.

They want to repeal the 19th and this is a step in that direction.

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

US military aid to Ukraine was the single most effective military spending we’ve had since aiding the Mujahideen against the Soviets in Afghanistan. We reduced Russia’s military by like half for circa five percent of the annual Pentagon budget. That’s a goddamn bargain.

And Trump has spoiled it.

Andrew Paul Johnson, who I wrote about in November, was found guilty of five charges.

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

The airspace over El Paso airport, Texas, has been suddenly closed by the FAA for ten days, closing the airport too. The airspace has been defined as "National Defence Airspace". Nobody knows why.
(Via @osinttechnical.bsky.social on X)

Bloomington police announce arrests in sex trafficking bust: "Rashad Johnson out of Maple Grove. This is the most disturbing arrest that we've had here. He is a backgrounder for ICE, Homeland Security, and federal agencies."

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:

"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

AOC on DHS Warehouses: I think every American should be alarmed. They are building—and have built—a black box system that disappears people, both immigrants and U.S. citizens alike.

[frantically raising hand] ooh, ooh. I know. Because Americans have a constitutional right to vote but don't have a right to open a bank account or drive a car.

Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

Peter Navarro: "The jobs report comes out tomorrow. We have to revise our expectations down significantly for what a monthly job number should look like ... Wall Street has to adjust for the fact that we're deporting millions of illegals out of the job market."

From: "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com> To: Michael Wolff ‹ Subject: Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 13:08:00 +0000 some at dinner wtih donald last night, were concerned about dementia. tons of makeup. did not recognize old friends. please note The information contained in this communication is confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may constitute inside information, and is intended only for the use of the addressee. It is the property of Unauthorized use, disclosure or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail or by e-mail to jeevacation@gmail.com, and destroy this communication and all copies thereof, including all attachments. copyright -all rights reserved

Jeffrey Epstein to Michael Wolff in 2017:

some at dinner wtih donald last night, were concerned about dementia. tons of makeup. did not recognize old friends.

(www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)

Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Colorful doodles of a rainbow and hearts are found throughout the page. Translation: “I am Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya and I have been 113 days in detention I miss my friends and I feel they are going to forget me. I am bored here. I already miss my country and my house, I came on vacation for 10 Days and they took me into an ice office an officer interrogated me 2 hours without my mom, I was traveling with flight attendant because my mom lives in new york, they only wanted to arrest my mom, because my mom didn’t have documents to live in U.S.A., I always traveled with my tourist visa but ice used me to catch my mom and now I am in a jail and I am sad and I have fainted 2 times here inside. When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”

Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Translation: “They don’t give me my diet I am vegetarian, I don’t eat well, there is no good education and I miss my best friend julieta and my grandmother and my school I already want to get to my house. Me in dilei [Dilley] am not happy please get me out of here to colombia.” Below the text is a drawing of the girl and her mother in the government-issued gray sweatsuits of the detention center.

6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”

9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.

Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in Spanish in a cursive script. Translation: “Hello I am Ender and I am 12 years old, I have been at this center  for 2 months. I arrived here for an immigration appointment and I don’t think they should grab immigrants who are innocent, like instead of grabbing criminals because I mean they prefer to lock up children than look for people who really shouldn’t be in the U.S. They told me I could only be here 21 days but I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals, going outside and that the majority of guards never pay attention to people, eating dinner  always the same as the day before, seeing people cry every day for the same reasons, trying to sleep in that horrible uncomfortable bed, going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”

Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in Spanish in a cursive script. Translation: “…going to wait for the bad answers from the judges, hearing the bad news from people who no longer have hope, having to share a room with minimum 3 families, and all that so they send us back to our countries.” Below the text is a drawing in pen of three women, titled “My family” and labeled with “Mama,” “Sister,” and “me” in Spanish.

5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…”

From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days

Democrats warn USPS changes could threaten mail voting in midterms The lawmakers stress that voting by mail has been repeatedly shown to be secure and that any changes to postal operations must not interfere with ballot delivery.

🚨 A coalition of House Democrats is sounding the alarm over new U.S. Postal Service changes.

They say a new program could put millions of voters at risk in the 2026 midterm elections, particularly in rural communities and states with strict election deadlines.

How Minneapolis taught America to fight back Our Minnesotan reporters connect with friends and neighbors back home and find resolute resistance to ICE at every turn.

In a Minnesota town, Emily, a nurse who treats many immigrant patients, can’t locate a patient who just had a test result that shows they might have cancer.

The patient was recently detained by ICE. Situations like these have forced the clinic to adapt. This week on @revealnews.org:

Epstein was not ostracised for his crimes. To some powerful men, he became even more appealing | Moira Donegan The latest tranche of files expose how he was viewed as a sexual svengali – and an expert on dodging the #MeToo movement, says Guardian US columnist Moira Donegan

"The sheer number of Epstein’s connections to the rulers of our world is dizzying," writes @moiradonegan.bsky.social. "So, too...is the willingness of his circle to continue their relationships with him despite his convictions for sex crimes..."