CNBC, a Voice of the Crust.

President Donald Trump on Thursday announced the launch of TrumpRx — a direct-to-consumer website that is key to his administration’s efforts to lower prescription drug costs in the U.S.

The site is not selling drugs directly to American patients, but will act as a central hub that points them to drugmakers that are offering discounts on certain products on their own direct-to-consumer sites.

It’s still unclear if all patients, particularly those with insurance coverage, will see more cost savings from using that site to buy their medicines.

This is the sort of things that Democrats would, in the Good Old Days, form an NGO to do to benefit people and ‘stick it to the man’. That is, of course, before they BECAME ‘the man’ and went all in on collecting campaign contributions from Big Pharma, allowing them to jack up prices to the point where the only recourse was to vote for Democrats so that they could get government (i.e.taxpayer) subsidies to be able to afford the same.

Trump is not only a better Republican than the Republicans, he’s a better Democrat than the Democrats.

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For several years now, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has made the presence of Christian images and symbols in public spaces one of its recurring battles. After Italy was pressured through litigation to remove crucifixes from its schools, Greece is now being targeted over the presence of holy icons in its courts. Italy ultimately won its case. Will Greece succeed in safeguarding this essential part of its historical and spiritual heritage?

Some cases have a long life. In 2009, the ECtHR issued a ruling requiring Italy to remove crucifixes from public schools. The unprecedented mobilisation of twenty-one European states alongside Italy forced it to back down, and two years later, in 2011, in the case known as Lautsi v. Italy, it finally handed down a ruling in favour of Italy’s position, allowing it to keep its crucifixes.

The Lautsi case was followed by a period of relative calm in the fight against the presence of religious symbols (Christian, needless to say) in public spaces.

In 2020, a request was filed inviting the ECtHR to take up another contentious case: the presence of Orthodox icons in Greek courts.

The Foundry.

Women who have experienced transgender-identifying males invading their private spaces at work have grounds to file a claim with the government’s civil rights agency, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chair Andrea Lucas told The Daily Signal.

“I do think that it’s important for women to realize that they could have a claim if they are in a workplace, and they find that a male is in their private space,” she said. “That’s something I would take really seriously if someone was to file a charge about that.”

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Shortly before Christmas, the U.S. State Department slapped visa sanctions on five individuals whom it described as being agents of a “global censorship-industrial complex” bent on restricting the freedom of speech of Americans. The headliner of the sanctions list was, of course, Thierry Breton, the former EU internal market commissioner, who spearheaded efforts to enforce the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) during the last years of his tenure in the Commission. But the directors of three organizations allegedly involved in censorship activities were also sanctioned: HateAid, the Global Disinformation Index, and the Center for Countering Digital Hate.

As discussed in my recent portrait of HateAid, the German organization is directly integrated into the DSA censorship system as a so-called trusted flagger of allegedly illegal or harmful online content. Under the DSA, online platforms and search engines are required to give priority treatment to the notifications of ‘trusted flaggers’ precisely because they have been certified as ‘trusted’ by EU member state governments—in this case, the German government.

But even though it does not have ‘trusted flagger’ status, another of the organizations targeted by the U.S. sanctions has likewise been a major player in the EU’s efforts to ‘regulate’ online speech, which in fact began many years before the passage of the DSA. Moreover, it, too, has important, if largely unclarified, ties to Germany. The organization in question is the Global Disinformation Index (GDI), whose executive director and best-known figure, Clare Melford, was placed on the sanctions list.

Gates of Vienna.

Although I have never met him, I consider Ned May (‘Baron Bodissy’) at Gates of Vienna to be a friend. Make of that what you will.

I posted on Tuesday about my recent encounter with the Australian chapter of the Deep State. It seems the earnest burghers of Oz are insistent that I take down Brenton Tarrant’s manifesto (pdf), to the point that they have levied an exorbitant fine against me for every day I fail to comply.

Vlad has posted a lengthy AI-assisted discussion of the situation that everyone should read. ChatGPT is right: this is a blatant attempt to control the Narrative about Brenton Tarrant and his manifesto. If the general public has no access to the original manifesto, then state agents and the media can exercise full control over what people know about it. The Powers That Be don’t even need to misquote it or make up text — all they have to do is describe it, quote from it selectively, and mischaracterize it in a way that supports and affirms the Narrative.

As long as there are copies of the original floating around out there, the carefully-crafted Narrative will remain shaky, and may even collapse. That’s why the dedicated bureaucrats Down Under are so keen to strong-arm little ol’ Gates of Vienna. Maintenance of the Narrative is of crucial importance.

The Pandemic Panic has turned Australia from Next Best Country After America to Next Worst Country After Canada, which is a real pity.

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Each day more and more people are starting to realize/notice there are elements of the United States intelligence apparatus that are targeting Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard. The need for control is a reaction to fear, and Tulsi Gabbard has the DC Intelligence Community very worried.

What you will read below is something that was written back in 2024 about the potential for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), if President Trump were to win the election. Subsequently, he did win; and while we are not saying this is the exact ODNI script that is being followed, we are certainly not disputing that either.

Read the roadmap below –Written in 2024– compare it to current events and decide for yourself if this is something that rings a bell and may explain the IC apoplexy.

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In 2023, we published Grave Error, a book of essays that candidly discusses the “unmarked-graves” social panic that swept Canada four and a half years ago. In May 2021, it was announced that ground-penetrating radar (GPR) had identified the formerly unknown resting places of 215 Indigenous children who’d attended the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia. The announcement sent shock waves through Canadian society, and led to months of self-lacerating commentary about our country’s colonial sins. Journalists and politicians alike acted as though these 215 victims—children who’d presumably been dispatched by murderous Residential School staff—had been identified and unearthed. It was only once this initial period of national hysteria ended that observers noted that, outside of the GPR reports, there existed no proof of graves, bodies, or human remains. And since GPR technology cannot detect bodies, but only soil dislocations that may equally indicate tree roots, drainage ditches, rocks, or other artefacts that have nothing to do with graves, the claim that these GPR-identified soil anomalies corresponded to graves remained unproven.

To this day, not a single grave has been discovered at any of the GPR-identified locations in Kamloops; nor at any of the other Residential-School sites where similar GPR surveys were conducted. Seen in retrospect, this whole strange episode in Canadian history now seems like a morbid farce.

All of this has been a particular embarrassment for Canadian journalists, who took a leading role in convincing readers and viewers that those 215 “unmarked graves” were real. This explains why many journalists have simply stopped talking about the issue, perhaps in the hope that the whole mortifying episode (and their role in it) will simply be forgotten.

Journalists used to say ‘Let’s wait and see.’ Nowadays they say ‘Let’s panic and jump to conclusions.’ I don’t see that as an improvement.

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Southampton today is as busy as ever. The football club plays at St Mary’s Stadium on the dockside, where the fans sing the club’s adopted anthem ‘When the Saints Go Marching in’. Like other clubs, the vast majority of Southampton supporters are white Britons, and this is not representative of the present populace.

Priestley mentioned a few ‘brown faces’ in Southampton, which was not unusual in port towns, but on my recent visit almost half of the people I passed on the pavement were of African, Oriental, South Asian or Middle-Eastern ethnicities, and among schoolchildren hardly any were of Hampshire stock. Back at the turn of the millennium Southampton remained well over ninety per-cent white British, but today every large town or city in England is assumed to be multicultural, as we are reminded on notices and advertisements that suggest extinction of the white man.

The title of the article seems (at least to me) to be a reference to Jean Respail’s prophetic 1973 book Camp of the Saints, which was the first warning bell about the replacement of native Europeans by Turd World immigrants. (If you haven’t read it, I would strongly urge you to do so.) The predominant reaction among the Chattering Class to his book was ‘Oh, this is nonsense! Some far-right racist conspiracy theory!’—but, as we have learned to our sorrow, yesterday’s ‘conspiracy theory’ is today’s ‘spoiler alert’.

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California’s public-sector unions are the Colorado River of political spending. Normal people and our donations? A trickle. An unstoppable torrent flows from over 1.1 million union members collecting nearly $1 billion a year in dues. If you wonder how California politics got so bad, this is how.

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‘It’s sick’: Trump administration uses mascot called ‘Coalie’ to push dirtiest fossil fuel (The Guardian) ‘Pushing fossil fuel’ is, of course, CrimeThink.

61% Of Voters Think The Trump Administration Has Not Given An Honest Account Of The Fatal Shooting Of Alex Pretti, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds … (Quinnipiac University Poll)  This is the effect that the relentless beat of the Narrative has.

Inside the resistance with Will Stancil (Aaron Rupar/Public Notice)  Aaron Rupar is the crook after which the verb ‘rupar’ (maliciously edit a video to make it look the opposite of what really happened) was coined.

Schumer: Immigration Enforcement ‘Reminiscent of a Dictatorship’  “Reminiscent” means “There’s no connection but we want you to believe that there is.” Democrats are people who believe that enforcing a law passed by Congress is somehow a ‘dictatorship’. They used this sort of reasoning to justify starting the Civil War. (ICE Arrests 152 Criminal Illegal Aliens in 3-Day Florida Op)

‘This job sucks’: Government lawyers, drowning in immigration cases, have had it (Politico)  One conflicted government lawyer all of a sudden becomes a trend—the epitome of fake news. (Prosecutor Fired After Voicing Frustration With Immigration Caseload (New York Times))

Spanberger Orders Va. Police to End ICE Cooperation  Apparently Virginia will be a member state of the New Blue Confederacy,

Trump Says His Unpredictable Style Gives Him Leverage. But It Has a Cost. (Tyler Pager/New York Times) ‘Tyler Pager’ would be a good name for an AI character.

ICE agents can’t make warrantless arrests in Oregon unless there’s a risk of escape, US judge rules (Claire Rush/Associated Press)

For Trump, architecture is policy (Washington Post)

Trump and the Kennedy Center: Renaming, Rebuilding, Revolting (Jill Lawrence/The Bulwark)

Voters Want Massive Changes in ICE (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit. And of course she’s the expert on ‘what voters want’.

Judge Orders ICE to Stop Warrantless Arrests in Oregon

What Trump REALLY Thinks About Stephen Miller (The Bulwark)  Raise you hand if you foolishly think that anybody at The Bullshitwark knows what Trump REALLY thinks.

Yet Another Sign that the Trump Administration is Laying the Groundwork for Election Intervention? (Bob Bauer/Executive Functions)  Proglodyte Projection is when they accuse you of doing what they’re doing—or planning to do.

Some Public Health Service officers quit rather than serve in ICE detention centers (Keren Landman/NPR)  Rather than serve the people they claim to support, they take their football and go home; so they never really meant it, it’s just virtue-signaling.

What’s Really Driving These Bogus Claims of Voter Fraud (Stephen Richer/New York Times)  They have to put ‘bogus’ in the headline so you’ll know what the Narrative is.

We Are Witnessing the Imperial Presidency on Steroids (Dan Carlin/Rolling Stone)  If you haven’t got any news to report, you can always just write a story callling Trump names.

Donald Trump Became President By Appealing to Conspiracy Theorists ??? Now He’s Driving Them Away (Mike Rothschild/Talking Points Memo)  Sometimes it’s hard for Narrarive Media sockpuppets to keep their stories straight.

This Left-Wing Group Wants UN Probe of Trump Over Minnesota Enforcement

The Foundry.

The singer-songwriter who famously declared that “no one is illegal on stolen land” now faces pushback from people who appear to be taking her statement literally.

Billie Eilish and her brother, Finneas O’Connell, won the “Song of the Year” Grammy Award for their hit “Wildflower” Sunday, and Eilish used her speech to condemn the Immigration and Customs Enforcement surge to Minneapolis.

“No one is illegal on stolen land,” she declared. Her later remarks revealed the clear connection to immigration issues. “We need to keep fighting and speaking up and protesting,” she added. “F— ICE!”

The statements connect two leftist ideas: that illegal immigrants should not face deportation despite breaking the law to enter the country, and that the U.S. government effectively stole land from Native American tribes.

So far, straight virgtue-signaling. No surprises here.

While many on the left celebrated Eilish’s remarks, others appear to have taken her statement as an invitation.

“I am flying to the USA next Friday to attempt to move into Billie Eilish’s beachside Malibu mansion,” Australian influencer Drew Pavlou announced on X. He launched a crowdfunding effort to support his travel expenses, but GoFundMe deleted it.

“Your fundraiser has been removed because we’re unable to verify your connection and plan to transfer donations to the person you’re raising money for,” the company sent in an email explaining the campaign’s deletion.

An obvious lie. GoFundMe is one of the major de-platforming actors on the Left.

Pavlou sought to squat in a mansion located in the greater Los Angeles Basin, the ancestral territory of the Tongva Native American tribe. The tribe celebrated Eilish’s “stolen land” claim but suggested that she should directly name the “true” owners of the land.

“Eilish has not contacted our tribe directly regarding her property,” a spokesperson for the Tongva tribe told the Daily Mail. However, the spokesperson added, “We do value the instance when public figures provide visibility to the true history of this country.”

“It is our hope that in future discussions, the tribe can explicitly be referenced to ensure the public understands that the greater Los Angeles Basin remains Gabrieleno Tongva territory,” the tribe representative concluded.

Much of the discussion of Eilish’s mansion is hypothetical, however, since her brother, Finneas O’Connell, sold the beachfront property for $5.6 million in 2022, according to the Los Angeles Times. The building then burned down in the Palisades Fire last year, the New York Post reported.

Eilish reportedly lives in an equestrian ranch in Glendale, California, which would still be part of the Tongva’s ancestral land.

This could prove to be very entertaining.

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Yet another nurse has been fired for posting a viral video wishing the harm, or even killing, of conservative Americans and federal immigration law enforcement officers.

On Monday, a video of Chicago-area nurse Chad Malinowski went viral after Libs of TikTok posted a compilation of video clips from Malinowski that he had posted on social media. The montage has drawn more than six million views on the Libs of TikTok X.com account.

Introducing the video, the post summarizes the healthcare worker’s on-camera malicious wishes of harm for patients who work for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or who support President Donald Trump’s Make America Great Again (MAGA) goals:

Newsbusters.

Even though DHS vehemently denied weeks ago that ICE agents tried to use a five-year-old child as bait to lure his mother out of her home, MSNOW’s Nicolle Wallace repeatedly parrots the claim as if it were undisputed. In fact, she has made the charge on her Deadline: White House show every day since Friday, January 30.

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Not only did Maryland Gov. Wes Moore lie about a Bronze Star, his Baltimore origins, a fictional football Hall of Fame introduction and his academic credentials, but a new report also suggests he fabricated a story about his great-grandfather fleeing the KKK.

Next to stealing, lying is what Democrats love best to do.

Newsbusters.

On Wednesday’s The Situation Room, a CNN report on the biolab raid in Las Vegas left out a key piece of information: the connection of the lab to a Chinese national suspected to have connections to the Chinese government.

Newsbusters.

While this year’s Grammy winners used their acceptance speeches to voice their radical political views, viewers voiced their disinterest by tuning out and turning off the CBS broadcast of the 2026 awards ceremony.

Sunday’s live broadcast cast featuring a constant stream of hateful vulgarity protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) enforcement of federal immigration laws drew 14.4 million viewers, a million fewer than the year before (15.4 million) and 2.68 million less than in 2024, according to Nielsen.

This year’s 6.4% drop in viewers continues a long-term decline in the number of people watching the leftist politics-platform purported music “awards” show, following a COVID-era bump. It’s more than 25 million lower than 2012’s 39.91 million mark – and over 37 million less than the show’s all-time high of 51.67 million in 1984.

Newsbusters.

Google News kicked off 2026 by largely shutting out right-leaning sources throughout January, continuing the censorship campaign that defined the digital gatekeeper in December.

Google News once again religiously promoted leftist outlets that created structural, headline-driven attacks against President Donald Trump and his administration.

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Democrats have spent years insisting illegal immigrants do not vote, yet Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries just gave the whole game away.

In a letter to GOP leadership, they demanded a slate of “reforms” to immigration enforcement as the price for funding the Department of Homeland Security, including targeted enforcement, no masks, mandatory use of body cameras, and other demands, several of which I suspect are nonstarters.

I don’t see Democrats getting anywhere with these, but the big thing is that buried in that list is a rather revealing demand:

Protect Sensitive Locations – Prohibit funds from being used to conduct enforcement near sensitive locations, including medical facilities, schools, child-care facilities, churches, polling places, courts, etc.

Polling places?

They went out of their way to include polling places right alongside hospitals, courts, and churches. There is only one thing that happens at polling places that would matter to illegal immigrants, and it is not the bake sale.

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Democrat Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Ron Wyden, and Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, have warned credit reporting giant Equifax against what they describe as potential price gouging tied to new Medicaid work requirements.

The senators sent the warning via a letter, according to The Hill.

The lawmakers said that the sweeping changes to Medicaid eligibility, which require millions of recipients to verify work status or actively seek employment, could allow Equifax to further consolidate its dominance in employment and income verification services.

“Because Equifax is already dominant in this market, the law’s new red tape requirements allow the company to consolidate power even further, using extractive contracts to price-gouge states, squeeze competitors, and drive-up profits,” the senators wrote.

‘Price gouging’ is a catchphrase used by proglodytes to defame people who are charging more than proglodytes think they ought to.

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It has come as a shock to many of us in the alternative media sphere when, on December 15, the EU put the esteemed analyst, political commentator, and former Swiss Army colonel Jacques Baud, on its Russia-Sanctions list. He was one of several newly sanctioned individuals (alongside, for instance, the popular French journalist, Xavier Moreau). Baud is already the second Swiss to be sanctioned. In June 2025, the EU announced that Nathalie Yamb, a Swiss-Cameroonian activist against neocolonialism, would be sanctioned.

Being on the EU sanctions list is a devastating event for the people concerned, especially if they reside in an EU country or a closely associated state like Switzerland, Norway, or the UK. It means banks will freeze their accounts, credit companies will cancel their cards, they are not allowed to enter into contracts with EU-affiliated companies or private persons, and no business in the EU is allowed to have dealings with them, which, in theory, even precludes them from buying bread and other necessities of life. Furthermore, many international businesses will cancel all their services to them, including mail providers, social media platforms, etc. Even Swiss banks freeze or cancel accounts, out of fear they might get in trouble if they don’t comply with EU regulations. I recently interviewed two sanctioned people, Nathalie Yamb and Hüsseyin Dogru, and their testimonies are heartbreaking. For an equally harrowing account by Jacques Baud, see the most recent interview with him on Nima Alkhorshid’s ‘Dialogue Works’ channel. Nathalie also posted the short video below, in which she gives an overview of the ordeal (post in French, subtitles in English).

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A fiscal storm is brewing in the Netherlands. With the potential introduction of a tax on unrealized capital gains, The Hague is set to become a testing ground for the systematic transfer of wealth from the private sector to the state. Across all government levels, the European Union is increasingly transforming into an aggressive parasitic system.

A fundamental clash between the public and private sectors is intensifying across the EU. In March, both chambers of the Dutch parliament will decide on the implementation of an annual tax on unrealized gains. Going forward, all increases in value—from real estate and stocks to bonds and cryptocurrencies—would fall under this fiscal framework.

This move significantly accelerates the extraction of capital from the private sector, constituting a political rule violation. Already taxed income and assets would be hit again based on hypothetical gains, severely impeding private wealth accumulation.

Support for this measure spans both right- and left-wing parties. It reflects a form of fiscal horseshoe logic, apparently anticipating a severe national financial crisis.

Newsbusters.

Indicted ex-CNN anchor Don Lemon’s actions belie his claim he was acting as a Constitutionally-protected “journalist” when he disrupted a church service last month – but, even if he was, he still doesn’t have the right to violate the religious freedom rights of others – legal experts say.

On January 29, federal authorities arrested Lemon for his role in the January 18 storming of a St. Paul, Minnesota-area church by an organized mob of far-left rioters under the guise of protesting U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) efforts to detail illegal aliens. He has been charged with violating laws protecting the right to freedom of religious worship.

Despite his claim to be a journalist covering, instead of a participant in, the church invasion, actions speak louder than words, legal analysts note.

“Don Lemon was part of an organized mob that stormed into a church service and prevented the parishioners from practicing their faith,” Constitutional lawyer, commentator and Author Mark Levin wrote in a X.com post explaining that Lemon was acting as a participant, not a journalist, in the church invasion.

“He can claim he was merely reporting, but he was not. Even if he was, he still intentionally joined in the disruption of the church service,” Levin notes. “And he obviously knew beforehand what was going to take place.”

ABC News. 

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has announced it will cease publishing the World Factbook, a free online resource used by millions around the globe.

Frequently cited by journalists and academics, the Factbook offered regularly updated statistics and information about countries and communities all over the world, in an easily understood and searchable format.

A statement on the CIA’s website did not include a reason for the decision, simply stating that the publication had “sunset” while encouraging readers to “stay curious about the world and find ways to explore it … in person or virtually”.

I can reach out with my right hand and comfortably touch my copy of the CIA World Factbook 2024-2025. It has been an invaluable resource.

SATNEWS.

On February 4, 2026, reports from European intelligence and space agencies surfaced detailing a series of aggressive “satellite interceptions” by Russia that have placed NATO’s orbital infrastructure at unprecedented risk.

European security officials believe that at least 17 key European satellites have been shadowed or compromised by Russian signals intelligence (SIGINT) spacecraft over the past three years, sparking fears that Moscow could not only steal classified data but actively hijack the satellites to send them “hurtling back to Earth”.

The primary actors in this orbital espionage are the Russian satellites Luch-1 (launched in 2014) and Luch-2 (launched in 2023). According to tracking data from the French space situational awareness firm Aldoria, Luch-2 has engaged in risky close-range maneuvers, lingering within 20 to 200 kilometers of sensitive geostationary (GEO) assets for weeks at a time. Major General Michael Traut, head of German Space Command, confirmed that these Russian vehicles are likely intercepting “command links”—the unencrypted communication channels used by older satellites to receive instructions from ground control.

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Today, Wikipedia celebrates its 25th anniversary. What began as a promising vision for shared knowledge and a free internet encyclopedia has devolved into a battlefield. Today, interest groups orchestrate disinformation and chaos, erasing narratives, deleting documented historical evidence, and even distorting facts in the exact sciences.

Why does this matter in 2026? Beyond its average of 3.5–4 billion monthly visits (according to SimilarWeb) and its dominance as the top Google result for countless terms, Wikipedia is a primary training source for LLMs like ChatGPT, Gemini, and others.

In practice, this means that when fake news is injected by anonymous users who have accumulated enough permissions, it flows directly into AI engines. This cycle perpetuates lies until they effectively erase reality.

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It’s AI, but well done, and the story itself is telling.

Net Migration of UK Millionaires 2014-2025

The Register.

State and federal lawmakers have stepped up their efforts to prevent the creation of 3D printed guns. But Adafruit, a maker of electronics kits, warns that the proposed legislation is so broad it threatens everyone involved in open source manufacturing and technology education.

Recent bills attempting to grapple with this issue include New York’s FY 2026–2027 executive budget bill (S.9005 / A.10005), Washington State House Bills 2320 and 2321, and the 3D Printed Gun Safety Act introduced last June in the US House and Senate.

The renewed enthusiasm for clamping down on 3D printing technology follows allegations that Luigi Mangione killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024, with authorities saying a 3D-printed “ghost gun” recovered after his arrest was consistent with the weapon used.

Adafruit, which previously raised concerns about the Washington State proposals, said on Tuesday that the New York bill is also problematic.

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When 38% of students at one of America’s most elite universities claim disability status, the system isn’t broken—it’s working exactly as designed. And that’s the problem.

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This thesis nails it. The gaming has become normalized, and it’s not limited to DraftKings and crypto—it’s metastasizing through our most prestigious institutions.

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Nancy Guthrie, 84, disappeared from her home in the Tucson area between the evening of Saturday, February 1, and the early morning hours of Sunday. Authorities say the evidence no longer supports a voluntary disappearance and are treating the case as a suspected abduction.

Law-enforcement sources said Guthrie’s implanted pacemaker stopped communicating with her Apple devices at about 2 a.m. on February 2. When deputies later entered the home around midday, her iPhone and Apple Watch were still inside.

We have the technology.

The Telegraph (Uk).

Schoolgirls will be banned from wearing skirts as part of an equality drive that requires all children to wear trousers.

The 1,600-pupil Brynteg School in Bridgend, South Wales, will impose the new policy at the beginning of the next school year in September.

The War Zone.

The U.S. Navy has shown no signs of reversing course on major changes to its pipeline for new naval aviators in its latest draft requirements for a replacement for its T-45 Goshawk jet trainers. The Navy has already axed carrier qualifications from the syllabus for prospective tactical jet pilots and has plans to significantly alter how other training is done at bases ashore. These decisions have prompted concerns and criticism, but the service argues that advances in virtualized training and automated carrier landing capabilities have fundamentally changed the training ecosystem.

This is a very disturbing development. No ‘virtualized training’ can match the effectiveness of actually Doing It.

Feds sued a second time over halting Hudson River tunnel cash, this time by NY and NJ

‘No Smoking Gun’ On Trump In Epstein Files | Trevor Hunnicutt (Times News [UK])

Donald Trump lashes out at reporter for not smiling while asking about Epstein survivors (Daily Record [UK])

Judge who blocked Trump’s Haitian deportations bankrolled Dems ??? including Biden who let migrants in (Josh Christenson/New York Post)

After Republicans push Clintons to testify on Epstein, Democrats warn they’ll haul in Trump (NBC News)

The toxic culture that killed Alex Pretti (Will Bunch/The Philadelphia Inquirer)  A toxic culture that people like Will Bunch did much to create, although he won’t admit that.

Judge limits federal officers’ use of crowd control munitions at Portland ICE building (Conrad Wilson/OPB)  Obviously, the judge wants the crowd to be uncontrollable.

Not a Single Republican Shows Up to Hear Renee Good’s Brothers Testify (Malcolm Ferguson/New Republic)  Why would Republicans show up to a Democrat circus?

I Wrote a Book in Support of Nationalizing Elections. Trump Changed My Mind. (Richard L. Hasen/Slate)  Trump just keeps on winning.

DHS Reports Spike in Vehicle Attacks on ICE, CBP Officers

DHS Law Enforcement Experienced More Than 180 Vehicle Attacks Since President Trump Took Office (Department of Homeland Security)

Jerry Nadler Suggests Americans Would Be ‘Justified’ Shooting Masked Attackers in Rant Against Trump’s ‘ICE Goons’ (Sean James/Mediaite)

The Paramilitary ICE and CBP Units at the Center of Minnesota’s Killings (Ali Winston/Wired)

LAPD Won’t Enforce Ban on Masked Federal Agents  It’s just virtue-signaling.

How Stephen Miller Stokes Trump’s Boundary-Pushing Impulses (Wall Street Journal)

Citadel’s Ken Griffin says Trump White House has ‘enriched’ family members (Amelia Pollard/Financial Times)  Proglodyte Projection: Left-wingers accusing you of doing what they are doing or are planning to do.

“This Job Sucks”: DOJ Attorney Asks Judge to Hold Her in Contempt (Hafiz Rashid/New Republic)  They could always go work for a living.

It’s the Billionaires, Stupid (David Rothkopf/Need to Know)

Minneapolis Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize After Anti-ICE Protests (Jasmine Laws/Newsweek)

Trump’s New “Prison Camp” Threat Unleashes Fury Even in MAGA Country (Greg Sargent/New Republic) Greg Sargent loses his shit.

Who is Hurting Kids? ??? The irony should not be lost on Americans that the MAGA movement … (Jennifer Rubin/The Contrarian)  Jennifer Rubin loses her shit.

Kimmel Attends Anti-ICE Rally, Hails Sign That Called Trump ‘Racist Sexist Nazi POTUS’

JD Vance refuses to apologize to Alex Pretti’s family after spreading ICE ‘assassin’ claim (Phillip Nieto/Daily Mail)

How the Immigrant Defense Network trained nearly 30,000 Minnesotans as constitutional observers (MPR News)

Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved (Jon Collins/MPR News)

ICE Was Terrorizing Worshipers Long Before Don Lemon Entered a Church (Adrian Carrasquillo/The Bulwark)

In Ohio, I Caught a Glimpse of the New Resistance (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)

Pro-ICE Billboards in San Fran Pre-Super Bowl ‘Raising Eyebrows,’ ‘Making Some People Angry’

Rethinking Trump 2024 As An Epstein Coverup Campaign (Brian Beutler/Off Message)  Epstein! Epstein! Epstein!

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The U.S. agency that enforces laws banning workplace discrimination said in a court filing Wednesday it is investigating Nike for allegedly discriminating against white people through its diversity policies.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in the filing that Nike has refused to comply with a sprawling subpoena seeking information such as data on the racial and ethnic makeup of the company’s workforce and a roster of employees chosen for mentoring and development programs.

The commission said it is investigating allegations that Nike intentionally discriminated against white employees and job applicants, including by disproportionately targeting them for layoffs, and that it needed the information to determine whether Nike violated the law.

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Two Minnesota school districts and a statewide teachers union filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday seeking to block immigration enforcement operations near schools, escalating legal challenges to the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegals in the state, The Hill reported.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in St. Paul, asked a judge to prohibit federal immigration agents from carrying out enforcement operations within 1,000 feet of school property or school bus stops unless agents obtain a judicial warrant or face what the suit describes as “exigent circumstances.”

The case was brought by the Fridley and Duluth public school districts, along with Education Minnesota, a union that represents more than 80,000 educators statewide.

Newsbusters.

An interesting story from the United Kingdom is filling left-wing journalists with horror: Amelia. She’s an Artificial Intelligence creation that has escaped its left-wing government master and been rebadged as a heroine to the anti-mass migrant movement online.

The U.K. is suffering societal backlash and financial pressure due to mass immigration from cultures with little respect for women, yet the Labour Party government is obsessed with patrolling social media to inhibit “far-right” discussion of the migrant problem.

U.K. conservatives have turned the tables, taking an animated character, “Amelia,” the purported purple-haired antagonist of a government-issued left-wing game aimed at U.K. teens, and coding her favorably, not as a font of hate and disinformation, but as a pro-British patriotic meme.

The intent of the “game” — to warn British teenagers that taking anti-migrant stands may lead to police intervention — has backfired, with UK residents opposed to mass immigration adopting Amelia as their own mascot.

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A Texas LGBT judge with a history of clashing with authorities over her activism has been arrested and charged after she allegedly handcuffed and held a defense attorney captive in her jury box for the crime of arguing for the right to confer with her client during a probation hearing.

Bexar County Judge Rosie Speedlin Gonzalez was indicted last week on a felony charge of unlawful restraint by a judicial officer and misdemeanor official oppression. The controversial judge was arrested for the 2024 incident, during which she and defense attorney Elizabeth Russell clashed in the courtroom.

Gonzalez has had run-ins with the law before. In 2022 she was was fined for bringing a loaded rainbow-painted gun through San Antonio International airport in her carry-on luggage. In 2019 shortly after she took the bench as the “first openly gay judge in Bexar County”, Gonzalez was sanctioned for pasting her courtroom, office and robes with gay pride flags in violation of the Texas Code of Judicial Conduct. In 2023 the sanctions were lifted by a three judge panel.

Former staff members of the court report that the LGBT judge created a “hostile work environment”. Multiple former workers/partners with the Reflejo Court program accused Gonzales of increasingly erratic and aggressive behavior, primarily toward defendants/litigants in the courtroom. Others accused her of being “unstable” and prone to violent outbursts.

The judge is, however, considered a favorite of local prosecutors.

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In one of his most revealing moments years ago, Don Lemon sat down with Morgan Freeman and admitted exhaustion with the race narrative. “Sometimes, I get so tired of talking about it,” Lemon said. “I wanna just go, ‘This is over. Can we move on?’”

Today that same man harasses pastors, calls ordinary churchgoers entitled because of “WHITE SUPREMACY,” and defends mobs that storm Christian services.

Lemon’s dramatic transformation reached a new level this month when he was arrested by federal agents in connection with the anti-ICE mob that disrupted a worship service at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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By no co-incidence whatever, ‘legal observers’ is what the anti-ICE mobsters call their agents provocateurs,

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Trump’s repeated threats to bomb Iran seem to have resulted in some Iranian officials abandoning ship. There have been reports of two such recent instances.

In the latest, Iran’s chargé d’affaires in Vienna, Gholamreza Derikvand, abruptly abandoned his post and is reportedly seeking asylum in Switzerland for himself and his family.

The Iranian government has not confirmed this, however, and Iran’s Foreign Ministry has simply said amid the speculation of the diplomat’s sudden absence that it is “avoiding discussing the case or claiming ignorance due to fear of intelligence agencies.”

Derikvand’s colleagues told Iran International that Derikvand was widely seen as a rising figure within Iran’s diplomatic corps and could have been promoted to ambassador had he stayed on. His résumé includes a previous stint as chargé d’affaires at Iran’s embassy in the Czech Republic from 2011 to 2014.

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A digital billboard near San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf is cycling through pro-Immigration and Customs Enforcement messages ahead of Super Bowl LX, drawing sharp criticism from some immigrant advocates as the region prepares for the NFL’s biggest weekend.

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In recent weeks, calls to defund or even abolish ICE have ramped up from the Democratic Party, particularly after the shootings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. However, despite their rhetoric, American voters are far more aligned with Trump’s immigration crackdown. In fact, it looks like their views on immigration enforcement are so far out of touch with mainstream America that it could cost them the midterm elections.

The latest Cygnal survey has made some rather telling discoveries: enforcement is popular, defunding ICE is toxic, and Democrats are walking straight into an electoral buzz saw by pretending otherwise.

Cygnal, widely regarded as one of the most accurate private pollsters in the country, polled likely 2026 midterm voters and found that voters still see the border as a question of law, not vibes. A full 73 percent of voters say that entering the United States illegally is, in fact, breaking the law, which means most Americans still accept the basic premise behind the word “illegal.”

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Suppose you’re a democratic socialist who has been invited to speak at a college campus. Who do you think would be more likely to try to silence you, a left-leaning woman or a right-wing man?

It may be reasonable to assume someone with a similar ideology would be more tolerant of your views, but new data by FIRE suggests that’s not the case. Amazingly, it turns out men are often more tolerant of the opposite side than women are of their own side.

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Federal and local authorities are investigating suspected illegal biological laboratories in Las Vegas and California’s Central Valley linked to a Chinese national accused by Congressional investigators of ties to a PRC military-civil fusion enterprise, who spent a decade operating what Canadian courts found was a systematic technology-theft operation from British Columbia before fleeing south with a $330 million fraud judgment against him.

The FBI and Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department executed search warrants over the weekend at two residences connected to Jiabei “Jesse” Zhu, a 62-year-old Chinese citizen already under federal indictment for operating an illegal biolab in Reedley, California that contained labeled samples of at least 20 infectious agents including HIV, tuberculosis, and what the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party described as “the deadliest known form of malaria.”

Las Vegas Metro Sheriff Kevin McMahill confirmed Monday that investigators recovered over 1,000 samples of biological material “consistent in appearance” with items found in the California facility.

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A Canadian comedian with a solid international fanbase just watched six sold-out shows vanish in Minnesota. Ben Bankas lost his gigs at Laugh Camp Comedy Club in St. Paul after clips of his routine on Renee Good’s death blew up online – the routine hit raw nerves in a city still reeling from the January 7 shooting.

Club owner Bill Collins cited threats, media frenzy, and street chaos as the reasons for the cancellation. “After discussions with, and concern from public authorities, legal counsel and staff, combined with heightened threats, increasing media attention and civil disorder, we have determined the risks and related liabilities cannot be overcome,” Collins told People Magazine.

Search YouTube for Chris Rock’s video “How Not To Get Your Ass Kicked by the Police,”

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The massive hospice fraud racket thriving under California’s lax oversight is finally getting the spotlight it deserves, as the Trump administration’s CMS chief Dr. Mehmet Oz hits the streets of Los Angeles to call out the billions in stolen taxpayer dollars.

With organized crime rings, including Russian-Armenian mafia elements, infiltrating the system through ghost patients and fake companies, the scam highlights how globalist policies have opened the door to foreign exploitation of U.S. resources. As fraudsters traffic beneficiaries like commodities, real Americans suffer denied care while the deep state looks the other way.

Los Angeles County alone accounts for 18% of the entire country’s home health care billing, a staggering figure that screams foul play.

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Free Beacon writer and 2023 MRC Bulldog Award winner Andrew Kerr unleashed a massive investigation on Monday morning, telling readers that a 2021 hate crime trumpeted by a who’s who of the liberal media — where a black teen in Plano, Texas named SeMarion Humphrey was pelted with BB gun bullets and forced to drink urine at a sleepover by white kids — was fake.

Not only did Kerr report the story was deemed fake, a Texas jury found it so in a court of law on January 22 and ordered the boy’s mother Summer Smith and attorney Kim Cole “to pay $3.2 million in damages to” the boy Humphrey claimed to have been the ringleader.

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In the last week, protesters in Minneapolis began putting up barricades to create checkpoints that bar federal immigration officers from entering certain neighborhoods.

It is all too familiar to those of us who remember what the mayor in 2020 called “the Summer of Love” in Seattle and the establishment of an autonomous area known as the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP).

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The Affordable Care Act would “bend the cost curve” in health care, “moving the health care system toward higher quality and more efficient care.” So said a White House statement in 2013.

Many people now agree that didn’t happen.

“We pay more than any other country in the world for worse health care,” Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said while campaigning for office in 2024.

“Families pay more, get less, and we’re left with few choices,” Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) testified in a December 2025 committee hearing.

A combined 70 percent of Americans believe the U.S. health care system is either in crisis or has major problems, according to a 2025 Gallup poll.

Health insurance premiums have more than doubled since Obamacare began in 2014, rising twice as fast as inflation. And satisfaction with the cost of health care registered a record low in 2025, at 16 percent.

How did that happen?