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The No Lives Matter presidency.

I just saw someone call him "President Oompa J. Loompa" and that made me laugh.

Anyway, maybe it'll happen today.

Yes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.

Tulsi Gabbard and the Pro-Kremlin Belgian Businessman Gabbard’s 2024 Vatican visit, arranged by Pierre Louvrier, a Paris-based, pro-Russia financier, triggered a TSA security alert—not her opposition to Biden-Harris

“Gabbard is either incapable of identifying malign foreign influencers, or she is simply unwilling to do so when their narrative fits her worldview.”

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Culver City is home to Vespertine, one of the most hoity toity restaurants in a city full of hoity toity restaurants and a bunch of post production facilities. My kid went to art camp there. And it's like 6 blocks long. It's almost a suburb in the middle of Los Angeles.

Bondi Suggests Culver City Has a Crime Problem. Culver City Has a Problem With That.

“The first thing I thought was, ‘What is she talking about?’” said Bryan Fish, the vice mayor of Culver City, whom everyone calls Bubba but doesn’t look like someone whom everyone calls Bubba. “The only crime here,” he added, “is like the $18 strawberry at Erewhon.”

culver city, crime haven! lmaooo

When Trump was looking for replacements for Steve Mnuchin as treasury secretary, he turned to... Jeffrey Epstein

The Resistance Gains Momentum Trump had a bad week.

We’re not going suddenly to wake up and discover that all is back to normal. But yesterday offered some promise that a hard-earned awakening could lie ahead.

Today's Morning Shots featuring @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @cathyyoung63.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/3O7mxNg

The Resistance Gains Momentum Trump had a bad week.

Yesterday was "a moderately frabjous day" for the resistance. From a victory for the intrepid residents of Minneapolis, to Senate Democrats hanging tough, to Judge Leon's decision slapping down Pete Hegseth, to the Epstein coverup under increased assault. Onward!
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Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail.

It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children.

Vought is a mass murderer.

At least someone in the administration understands that none of them should sleep soundly ever again.

Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...

There are ~90 million people alive today because of USAID. Russ Vought illegally shut it down and now is spending the money on himself. These are deeply evil people. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

From: "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com To: Bill Gates Subject: Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 10:14:35 +0000 come to visit the island. new adminstration people visiting

Jeffrey Epstein to Bill Gates in December 2016:

“come to visit the island. new adminstration people visiting”

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

I will admit this was one that I had to both click through and then search for myself to believe it's real.

Woman who accused Corey Lewandowski of assault speaks out: "I don't want this to happen to anyone else" The ex-wife of a wealthy GOP donor reported Lewandowski to the police for allegedly assaulting and stalking her at a Las Vegas charity event.

Just a reminder (this piece is from 2024), this is the same Corey Lewandowski who wants a government-issued gun

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Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Intercepted Conversation About Jared Kushner The substance of the conversation, which covered in part issues related to Iran, isn’t known.

Breaking WSJ:

The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

Would you look at that.

The construction of the bulldozed section of the White House (The East Wing) has now come to a complete halt and it’s estimated to be finished in 3 years.

The $400M that was allocated for this disastrous demolition is now “unaccounted for.”

Another fraud scheme.

The leaking on Noem and her Svengali is becoming a tsunami.

Noem ‘28? lol

A Pilot Fired Over Kristi Noem’s Missing Blanket and the Constant Chaos Inside DHS Secretary faces fire for confrontational immigration crackdown and self-promotional style; White House to wind down Minnesota operations.

What a story:

“Lewandowski and Noem, both married, have denied the reports of the affair, but people said they do little to hide their relationship.

“The pair have been using a luxury 737 MAX jet, with a private cabin in back, for their travel around the country”

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🚨In December 2016, Epstein invited Bill Gates to his island and informed him that “new administration people” were visiting.

This was sent exactly one month before Trump was inaugurated for his first term.

GIFT LINK:

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The arrest rate among CBP agents is higher than the arrest rate among undocumented immigrants.

Since taking office, the secretary has also closely monitored how her national profile compared with other administration officials. Top of her list was Homan, Trump's border czar, with whom she has been in a battle for power and influence inside the administration. Noem routinely berated staff if she saw Homan on TV and kept track of both their appearances to make sure she was on TV more than him, according to people familiar with the matter. On at least one occasion, she asked aides to ensure she drew a bigger crowd at a conference than Homan, who was speaking on a different day, one of the people said.

“Noem routinely berated staff if she saw Homan on TV and kept track of both their appearances to make sure she was on TV more than him…”

“…in one incident, Lewandowski fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot after Noem's blanket was left behind on a plane, according to people familiar with the incident.”

Trump posted a video depicting the first Black president and his wife as apes and his excuse for this is that it's a riff on The Lion King, a movie that does not feature any apes. Somehow this was a one-day story and we've already moved on.

In an extraordinary court filing, the top federal prosecutor in Minnesota acknowledged on Thursday that officials had provided incorrect information about a shooting by an immigration agent last month. The prosecutor, Daniel N. Rosen, asked a judge to dismiss charges against a man who was wounded in that shooting, as well as another man who had been accused of attacking the agent. Mr. Rosen wrote that “newly discovered evidence in this matter is materially inconsistent with the allegations” that federal officials made in a charging document and in courtroom testimony.

How bad do the facts have to be, how outrageous did the lies have to turn out to be, for a Trump-appointed US Attorney to say and do this?

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

How the Trump administration skirts — and defies — court rulings on ICE detentions A POLITICO review of hundreds of cases brought by ICE detainees shows a pattern of noncompliance that has frustrated judges across the country.

NEW: Federal judges are increasingly furious at what they see as a pattern / playbook of defiance by the Trump administration to court orders in immigration cases — in Minnesota and around the country.

Here’s a look at what they’re seeing: www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

BONUS RULING: Judge Thomas Johnston, a George W. Bush appoiintee in West Virginia, used a recent ruling to warn of the dangers of defying due process for immigrants because of what it could also mean for Americans. It's worth a read.

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Ford worker who heckled Trump keeps job, 'no discipline' for incident The United Auto Workers union said TJ Sabula remains employed and called out the president for making an obscene gesture toward the worker.

The Ford worker who heckled Trump during a visit to the company's plant still has his job and "has no discipline on his record," a union official said