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  • Why Are Senate Democrats Still Voting to Confirm Trump’s Judicial Nominees? – TPM – Talking Points Memo

    February 14, 2026

    On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held its first in a series of eight “Arctic Frost Accountability” subcommittee hearings…
    — Read on talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/why-are-senate-democrats-still-voting-to-confirm-trumps-judicial-nominees

    In July, Maine Independent Senator Angus King, who is also near the top of that list, became the first member of the Democratic caucus to support a Trump nominee when he voted for Josh Divine, a Missouri district court nominee who had both incredibly limited legal experience and also a lengthy and alarming record on reproductive rights and LGBTQ+ equality.

    Days later, King confessed that his vote for one of Trump’s most extreme nominees was an oopsie, saying that he “took Josh Hawley’s advice” without doing his homework first. “In retrospect, I think it was a mistake, from what I’ve learned about Mr. Divine since,” King said. “But sometimes, you rely on your colleagues.”

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  • ISN’T EVERYBODY DOING IT?

    February 10, 2026


    Tuesday 10 February 2026


    Quote of the Day from the Hon. Howard Lutnick: “I went through the million documents looking for my name just like everybody else.”

    What? Everybody else? I didn’t go through the million documents looking for my name? I suspect most of the people reading this did not go through the million of documents looking for their names. These men are really in such a narcissistic bubble they think that everybody fucks little girls. What’s the big deal? I just find this culture inexplicable.

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  • PALANTIR

    February 10, 2026

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    This morning, the BBC ran an interview with Peter Mandelson, the self-described ‘best pal’ of Jeffrey Epstein and until he was sacked, the UK ambassador to Washington.

    Mandelson’s firm, Global Counsel, also represents Palantir, the US surveillance defence company founded by Trump ally, Peter Thiel. When Keir Starmer visited Washington, a trip arranged by Mandelson, he had only two meetings: one with Trump and one with Palantir.

    If we never heard from Peter Mandelson again, it would be too soon. And yet here he is, all over the national broadcaster refusing to apologise to Epstein’s victims and praising Trump’s “graciousness”.

    But this was not all. Because also on the BBC this morning was his client, Louis Mosley, the CEO of Palantir UK and the grandson of British fascist leader Oswald Mosley.

    I’m not linking to either of these videos because they were both absolutely abject failures of journalism. This is the second time Mosley has been invited onto this same Sunday morning show as some sort of legitimate political pundit.

    He is no such thing. His company is an integral part of the US defence and homeland security apparatus and the illegal data gathering operation carried out by Elon Musk’s DOGE to say nothing of its involvement in profiling kill targets for the IDF in Gaza. The only circumstance he should be on the BBC is to be subjected to a journalistic grilling, not asked a couple of softball questions on his views on global politics.

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  • FLOWERS OF THE DAY

    February 8, 2026

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  • TRUMP FINANCIAL CRIME:CRYPTO

    February 7, 2026

    www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/business/binance-trump-crypto.html

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  • The death of law enforcement , Good investigation

    February 7, 2026

    www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/us/renee-good-investigation-minnesota-trump.html

    Hours after an immigration agent fatally shot Renee Good inside her S.U.V. on a Minneapolis street last month, a senior federal prosecutor in Minnesota sought a warrant to search the vehicle for evidence in what he expected would be a standard civil rights investigation into the agent’s use of force.

    The prosecutor, Joseph H. Thompson, wrote in an email to colleagues that the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, a state agency that specializes in investigating police shootings, would team up with the F.B.I. to determine whether the shooting had been justified and lawful or had violated Ms. Good’s civil rights. 

    But later that week, as F.B.I. agents equipped with a signed warrant prepared to document blood spatter and bullet holes in Ms. Good’s S.U.V., they received orders to stop, according to several people with knowledge of the events who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

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  • Rape of a girl with Down symdrome

    February 4, 2026

    www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026-02-04/ty-article/.premium/pro-trump-billionaire-on-gaza-board-of-peace-linked-to-jeffrey-epstein-in-new-doj-files/0000019c-2887-db08-abdd-6b8ffaff0000

    Pro-Trump billionaire Marc Rowan, whom the president appointed to his Board of Peace tasked with reconstructing Gaza, maintained close connections with child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, newly released documents from the U.S. Department of Justice show. 

    Rowan co-founded the private equity firm Apollo Global Management with fellow Wharton graduate Josh Harris and investor Leon Black. He has been its CEO since 2021, succeeding Black, who was forced to step down in 2021 after revelations that he paid Epstein more than $150 million for personal financial advice. Black was also accused of raping a 16-year-old girl with Down syndrome and autism, allegations he denied.

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  • EVERYONE WANTS A CAT

    February 1, 2026

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  • THE CRUELTY OS THE POINT

    February 1, 2026

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  • Russian amputees being sent back to the front line

    January 31, 2026

    www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/01/30/russian-amputees-sent-back-front-line-ukraine/

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  • DESPERATE KREMLIN criminal

    January 31, 2026

    www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/30/russian-army-amputees-casualties-ukraine-war/

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  • TRUMP BYPASSES CONGRESS WITH MONEY FOR ISRAEL

    January 31, 2026

    www.haaretz.com/us-news/2026-01-31/ty-article/.premium/u-s-approves-6-billion-arms-sale-to-israel-triggering-democrats-ire/0000019c-11e9-d35c-a99e-11fff2cb0000

    Trump Again Bypasses U.S. Congress to Push $6 Billion in Weapons Sales to Israel

    The four sales to Israel, including tactical vehicles and helicopters, were a violation of congressional norms, a senior Democratic official said, adding that Trump refuses to ‘engage Congress on critical questions about the next steps in Gaza’

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  • TRUMP COULD INTERFERE WITH MID TERMS

    January 31, 2026

    www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/opinion/trump-midterms-election-security.html

    The sanctity of the 2026 elections is indeed under threat. And the reason is Mr. Trump.

    He has repeatedly demonstrated his willingness to interfere with elections to benefit himself and his party. He has broken the law to do so and broken longstanding bipartisan traditions. Since he entered politics a decade ago, he has suggested that election outcomes are fair only if his side wins. In 2020, after he lost the presidential election, he attempted to direct a sprawling conspiracy to overturn the result. As it was failing (thanks to the honesty of election administrators from both parties), he encouraged protesters to march to Congress when it was meeting to certify his defeat — and later celebrated their violent attack.

    Since he returned to the presidency last year, he has if anything shown a willingness to go further. He has pushed for extreme gerrymandering of congressional districts, outside the normal 10-year cycle, to help Republicans hold the House even if most voters want them out. His Justice Department is building an unprecedented database of voter information that experts fear the administration may use to cast unfair doubt on voters’ eligibility. He signed a legally dubious executive order that could force states to reject some mail-in ballots. He recently told The Timesthat he regretted not sending the National Guard to seize voting machines after the 2020 presidential election.

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  • NEW YORK TIMES 31 JANUARY 2026

    January 31, 2026

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    Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol field leader, made disparaging remarks in reference to the U.S. attorney in Minnesota, an Orthodox Jew, people with knowledge of the phone call said.


    Crowds rallied in dozens of cities across the nation on Saturday to protest the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, hoping to build on momentum from demonstrations on Friday against immigration enforcement operations targeting Minneapolis and other liberal-leaning cities.
    Most of the protests on Saturday were held without incident. But in Minneapolis — where federal agents have clashed repeatedly with demonstrators in recent two months — a rally was punctured with moments of tension, as sheriffs’ deputies made arrests that some protesters deemed violent.

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    The files appeared to contain at least 4,500 documents that mentioned Mr. Trump. One was a summary that officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation assembled last summer of more than a dozen tips from the public involving Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein, according to emails released by the Department of Justice on Friday. Epstein files


    According to released emails, Mr. Epstein drafted notes to and about Mr. Gates in 2013, suggesting that he engaged in extramarital sex. A representative of Mr. Gates’s called the accusations “absolutely absurd and completely false.”
    In one email, Mr. Epstein wrote that he had helped Mr. Gates acquire drugs “in order to deal with consequences of sex with Russian girls,” and that he had facilitated rendezvous for Mr. Gates with married women.


    The files revealed that Mr. Lutnick, now the commerce secretary, planned a visit to Mr. Epstein’s island in 2012, though he previously said he severed ties with Mr. Epstein around 2005.
    Reached by phone on Friday, Mr. Lutnick said he could not comment about the island visit because he had not seen the latest Epstein documents.
    “I spent zero time with him,” Mr. Lutnick said. He then hung up.
    The documents suggest the visit did occur. The gathering was set for Dec. 23, 2012. A day later, an assistant to Mr. Epstein forwarded Mr. Lutnick a message from Mr. Epstein: “Nice seeing you,” it said.

    Mr. Epstein exchanged multiple messages throughout 2013 with Mr. Tisch, a co-owner of the New York Giants football team.
    In some of the exchanges, Mr. Epstein appeared to be connecting Mr. Tisch with women of specific ethnicities and described their bodies in vulgar terms.
    On more than one occasion, Mr. Tisch used slang terms to ask Mr. Epstein if a woman he was describing was a sex worker. In one of those exchanges, in April 2013, Mr. Epstein asked Mr. Tisch to send him his phone number because he did not want a record of the conversations.

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  • JUDGE DENIES PAUSE ON IMMIGRATION OFFICERS

    January 31, 2026

    www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/us/judge-minnesota-ice-ruling.html

    A federal judge in Minnesota denied a request by the state government and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul on Saturday to temporarily block a surge of federal immigration agents that has led to three shootings, thousands of arrests and weeks of protests.

    The judge, Kate M. Menendez, who was nominated to the bench by President Joseph R. Biden Jr., had resisted requests by state lawyers for an immediate ruling on halting the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement campaign, known as Operation Metro Surge, which began late last year.

    The state and the cities argued in a lawsuit filed on Jan. 12 that the decision to send some 3,000 immigration agents to Democratic-led Minnesota over the objections of local officials amounted to a violation of state sovereignty under the 10th Amendment. They also described the deployment as an illegal attempt to coerce them into cooperating with civil immigration enforcement. The Trump administration dismissed that legal theory and defended their actions as a lawful campaign to crack down on illegal immigration

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