more than two hours into this "Board of Peace" meeting, we are now enduring random world leader open mic time and Trump's eyes are closed

The Board of Peace is so transparently unrelated to stabilizing or rebuilding Gaza that I kind of thought there were two boards that happened to have similar names

a government for, by and of degenerates

Meanwhile, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer is under fire for taking her staff to a strip club in Portland and keeping a stash of booze in her office.

It's like this entire administration is a coke-fueled key party.

Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse rejected claims Russia is winning in Ukraine, calling the narrative propaganda — and arguing Kyiv needs weapons, not applause. #StandWithUkraine #Ukraine #Russia @ec.europa.eu @whitehouse.senate.gov

State House votes to rename Florida airport to Donald J. Trump international The Republican-controlled Florida House voted 81-30 in support of the name change to President Donald J. Trump International Airport

Last week Donald Trump registered the trademark "Donald J. Trump International Airport." This week Florida Republicans voted to rename Palm Beach International Airport Donald J. Trump International Airport," putting taxpayers on the hook for licensing fees that go straight to him

Facially illegal based on the plain text of the Constitution that used to actually have legal force and effect in this country. bsky.app/profile/bubb...

… Britzkey also catches that this speech does not appear on Hegseth’s public schedule

Sec. Pete Hegseth to Headline NRB Freedom 250 Celebration at 2026 Convention - NRB Association adopts resolutions on America’s 250th, religious liberty, media regulation, free speech, global persecution, and more.

The Secretary of Defense, taking a break from preparing for possible war this weekend, is scheduled to speak just before the Babylon Bee guy tonight, at the NRB International Christian Media Convention. (h/t CNN’s Haley Britzkey)

nrb.org/sec-pete-heg...

Revealed: Epstein cultivated relationship with CBP officer, causing US investigation Guardian review of US justice department files reveals Epstein interacted with six CBP officers. The officer investigated denied any knowledge of trafficking underage girls

"We Brooklyn Boys stick together," one CBP supervisor texted Epstein.

"Atta boy", Epstein responded.

In November 2016, Epstein texted the supervisor that another CBP officer had been “nasty”. “I will speak to him!” the supervisor responded. “I will handle it, formally.”

Revealed: Epstein cultivated relationship with CBP officer, causing US investigation Guardian review of US justice department files reveals Epstein interacted with six CBP officers. The officer investigated denied any knowledge of trafficking underage girls

The FBI investigated Epstein's relationship with 1 CBP officer, and issued subpoenas about three others. The Guardian found direct communications with two more.

CBP claims to be “uniquely situated to deter and disrupt human trafficking”.

Revealed: Epstein cultivated relationship with CBP officer, causing US investigation Guardian review of US justice department files reveals Epstein interacted with six CBP officers. The officer investigated denied any knowledge of trafficking underage girls

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented.

Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling

Labor Secretary’s Husband Barred From the Department After Sexual Assault Reports

"The husband of Labor Sec Chavez-DeRemer has been barred from dept headquarters after at least 2 female staff members told officials he sexually assaulted them ...

The women’s concerns about Mr. DeRemer were raised as part of an internal probe into alleged misconduct by Ms. Chavez-DeRemer ... "

Kinda dying at this courtroom illustration of Mark Zuckerberg testifying today in social media trials in LA. He looks like my dad when he was like 60. 😂

(Image via The Tech Oversight Project).

🔥 WATCH: “I feel much safer with undocumented immigrants than I EVER will with ICE agents!!!”

Sheriff deputies descend on a WILSON COUNTY man as he spouts some hard truths in opposition to a rumored ICE detention center (which they have now backed off of)

lol. they love him in Europe

Kash Patel: "You know why it's called the President's Daily Briefing? Because the president decides what are the intel priorities in that briefing."

That...is not why it's called that

Getting rid of presidentialism is the other one. It is the central flaw of the U.S. constitution that enables tyranny

Proportional representation is a key safeguard against authoritarianism that we should adopt to help reconstruct American democracy.

Our system gives center-right voters only the binary choice of center-left vs. far-right, & many choose the latter. PR gives them a 3rd choice of center-right parties

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya will take over leadership of CDC temporarily The transition is the latest in a monthslong series of leadership shake-ups across federal health agencies.

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya is now also the temporary head of the CDC, a role in which he is expected to continue to do nothing but appear on right-wing podcasts and further cement the complete lack of respect of his colleagues.

Hassett on new study from NY Fed showing 90% of tariff burden is being shouldered by US firms & consumers: "The paper is an embarrassment. It's I think the worst paper I've ever seen in the history of the Fed system. The people associated with this paper should presumably be disciplined."

Not content with going after Federal Reserve's leadership, the regime is now going after its researchers simply because they don't like their work product.

Issuing authoritarian threat with a TV smile though.

Interactive Map: U.S. Forces Posture in the Middle East (CENTCOM) | INSS ABACA via REUTERS CONNECT Map, February 11, 2026 Interactive Map: U.S. Forces Posture in the Middle East (CENTCOM) To the map Creator: Stephane Cohen | Advisory Team: Avishay Ben Sasson Gordis, Mora D...

US-Iran war(?)🧵

Over the last few hours there are so many signs of iminnent US strike in Iran that one would be forgiven to think someone in DC wants us to think it's coming. There's already more aerial capabilities in the area than back in the 12 day war in June (see INSS map). 1/

Trump’s regulators have announced they will fight states’ attempts to regulate prediction markets.

It just so happens that Donald Trump, Jr. is involved with both Polymarket & Kalshi, and the Trumps’ social media company is launching its own prediction market.

Always follow the money.

Not Apartheid Clyde, the world’s richest man, posting his obsession with replacement theory every damn day in January.

A lot of people seem to think Musk is adding the Irish into his accepted cultural mix. He's not. Whether he realizes it or not (maybe not), "Scots-Irish" refers to only some Irish, Scottish Protestants who settled in Ulster, and excludes the mass of Irish who were "Papist" and thus alien.

1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.

American culture of the 1840’s would have been *very fucking surprised* to see the Irish considered as co-founders.

Elon’s an ahistorical dipshit, but its always worth saying some stuff out loud: if you‘re a fellow Irish-American and you aren’t 100% pro-immigrant, you’re a fucking embarassment.

i love how texas started this and was all “neener what you gon do” and a buncha blue states said “lol watch this”