Politico: Lawless Lowly District Court Political Hacks "Believe They've Found a Way to Bypass" the Controlling Rulings from the Appeals Court That Serves as Their Superior Court, and That's Great
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Politico is very excited that lowly district court judges may have found a way to "bypass" the rulings of the Fifth Circuit court of appeals, a court which is superior to them and which makes the controlling law in their district.
But they'll just figure out a way to ignore their judicial superiors.
Note that yesterday, Politico was scandalized by left-wing judges complaining to them that the Trump Administration slow-walks and subverts their orders.
It's just terrible! We can't have a country in which the duly-elected president and head of the entire executive branch disregards the orders of lowly, one-of-677 district judges!
Courts across the country have overwhelmingly rejected the Trump administration's effort to round up thousands of immigrants and lock them up without a chance for bond -- even if they have no criminal records and have lived in the United States for years.But the Trump administration has slow-walked or outright defied judges' orders demanding the release of people scooped up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at an increasingly rapid clip.
But now, the lowly district court judges are scheming about how to ignore their direct judicial superiors, their "commander ranked" superior officer judges, and Politico thinks that's very clever and nifty!
Judges may have found a way to bypass 5th Circuit ruling upholding Trump's mass detention policyTwo Texas judges, who are bound by the circuit's ruling, outlined a legal rationale allowing them to continue granting immigrants' release.
Federal judges may have found a workaround to reject the Trump administration's mass detention policy after an appeals court backed the approach.
A three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday blessed the administration's interpretation of the government's power to systematically detain people targeted for deportation -- even if they have no criminal records and have lived in the country for decades.
But two federal district court judges in Texas, who are bound by the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit's ruling, said the 2-1 decision left an opening for them to continue granting immigrants' release on other grounds, primarily constitutional arguments against detaining people who have established roots in the U.S. without due process. Those roots amount, in legal parlance, to a "liberty interest" that the Constitution says cannot be taken away without at least a hearing before a neutral judge.
This is an entirely made-up bit of judicial wishcasting that they're creating just to keep giving the same illegal aliens, all eligible for deportation, more and more "bites at the apple." They will keep spinning out novel, fantastical, made-up new theories so that the illegal aliens are perpetually "in the system" awaiting their next hearing.
They're contriving a way to keep illegals in the country forever, because they'll just keep making up new theories to sue under, and thus will keep them in the country, always with the next appeal filed for the next judge, until they die.
"This conclusion is not changed by the Fifth Circuit's recent decision," Judge Kathleen Cardone, an El Paso based appointee of George W. Bush, ruled late Monday in at least five cases, concluding that the circuit's decision "has no bearing on this Court's determination of whether [the petitioner] is being detained in violation of his constitutional right to procedural due process."
Judge David Briones, an El Paso-based Clinton appointee, reached a similar conclusion.
"The Court reiterates its original holding that noncitizens who have 'established connections' in the United States by virtue of living in the country for a substantial period acquire a liberty interest in being free from government detention without due process of law," Briones wrote.
The decisions from the Texas-based judges are notable in part because the administration has often rushed detainees there after their arrests in other states such as Minnesota.
By the way, the exact same "reporter," Kyle Cheney, is responsible for both of these "news" accounts, one assailing the DOJ for questioning the rulings of judges, the other celebrating district court justices spamming out new fictional "rights" in order to evade the ruling of the higher Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Obama Architecht David Axelrod: Confound These Republicans For Obamacare's Prices Skyrocketing and Them Refusing to Further Subsidize the Failing Program
—Disinformation Expert Ace
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Obama Judge Boasberg Now Demands That Trump Pick Up 100 Deported Aliens from Venezuela and Bring Them Back
—Disinformation Expert Ace
A federal judge ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump must return more than 100 Venezuelans deported to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act last spring."The Court will now order the Government to facilitate the return from third countries of those Plaintiffs who so desire," Chief Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia wrote in court filings. "It will also permit other
Boasberg's ruling stems from a separate December decision that found probable cause that the Trump administration violated the due process rights of more than 100 Venezuelans illegally in the country, whom the administration targeted as being suspected members of the violent Tren de Aragua transnational cartel.
The deportees were initially sent to the El Salvadoran prison facility known as CECOT, before they were later transferred back to Venezuela in a prisoner swap.
The Trump administration has already said it would appeal any decision granting the return or access to legal remedies of the deported Venezuelan group, arguing in part that the situation in Venezuela has changed dramatically since the Jan. 3 operation to capture and arrest the country's former dictator, Nicolas Maduro.
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The development marks a critical blow to the Trump administration's efforts to deport 137 Venezuelan men who were flown last year to El Salvador's Terrorism Confinement Center without advance notice or court hearings.
Thanks to Bitcoin Fixes Everything.
In better news, via Intercepted Reddit Transmissions, "voluntary" departures -- "self-deportations" as the liberal Mitt Romney called them -- are at an all-time record high.
And CBS "News" thinks this is just turrible! Turrible!
Voluntary departures hit record high as detained immigrants lose hope of getting released or winning in court
As pathways to freedom have narrowed in immigration courts across the United States, a record number of detainees are giving up their cases and voluntarily leaving the country.Last year, 28% of completed immigration removal cases among those in detention ended in voluntary departure, a higher share than in any year prior, a CBS News analysis of decades of court records found.
That figure only appears to be climbing as the Trump administration's immigration crackdown widens and detention populations swell. The percentage of voluntary departures among those detained grew nearly every month of 2025, reaching 38% in December. The analysis does not include those who were not given a hearing before an immigration judge, such as immigrants in expedited removal proceedings.
"It's set up for every individual who is detained to get to the point where they're just emotionally drained and exhausted through it all of the way that we're being treated, to just say, 'OK, all I want is my freedom,'" said Vilma Palacios, who agreed to return to Honduras in late December after being detained for six months in Basile, Louisiana.
Oh no! No!
Does the fact that American citizens are drained and exhausted over our officials refusing to enforce the law for fifty f***in' years count? Or just the exhaustion of the precious illegal aliens?
Palacios, 22, had been in the U.S. since she was 6 years old. Last June, a month after she graduated from nursing school at Louisiana State University, ICE agents arrested her at a local police station after she brought in a car for a routine inspection. She has no criminal record.
Palacios said she and her family were apprehended and detained for a month at the border when they arrived in 2010 but were released and pursued an asylum case in the years following. Court records show her case was administratively closed in 2015, when she was 12 years old, meaning it was taken off the docket indefinitely.
In other words, her final appeal for asylum was rejected.
This is one of those cases where liberals whine that they want "due process."
She had her due process. She had ten years of due process. The final ruling in this expensive ten year long exercise in due process is that her asylum claim is bogus and she is under a final order of deportation.
The right to due process is the right to an orderly hearing before impartial judges or magistrates. It is not, as the left has perverted the term, a guarantee on the left's preferred outcome.
In a statement to CBS News, a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson wrote that Palacios "freely admitted to being in the U.S. illegally" and "never sought or gained any legal status."
Palacios pushed back on claims that she never sought legal status, saying she had been awaiting a work permit renewal when she was arrested.
Since then, Palacios says she had an immigration attorney helping her navigate the immigration court proceeding process and thought she was doing everything necessary to remain in the U.S. lawfully. She says she was shocked when immigration agents detained her.
She said her subsequent six-month stay in detention -- during which she had no contact with family or friends -- was emotionally exhausting.
"Everything was taken from me, like being ripped apart from every person that I loved, and being surrounded with people that I had never met in my life, and [ICE] having control over every movement that I made, was just something very difficult to me," she said. "It got to the point where I didn't see that I had no other option but just to say, OK, just please give me my freedom back."
Palacios said she tried to offer medical care to fellow detainees in need when they faced delays in accessing doctors and nurses, but detention facility staff told her not to.
They told her not to because they have their own staff for that and do not need the lawsuits which would ensue if they allow a non-staffer to administer Vigilante Nursing.
And of course this is CBS's attempt to sell this illegal alien to you. "She offers advice to other detainees while in detention! She's a regular Florence Nightingale!"
"The conditions in the detention centers have never ever been worse because they're so overcrowded," said Jen Grant, a supervising attorney at the Legal Aid Society in New York.
Palacios asked an immigration judge for a bond for her release from detention, but her request was denied.
Oh, so she did get due process.
"They weren't looking at the roots that I created in the United States," Palacios said. "The job that I had lined up, the career, the life that I had built for myself, they never took nothing into consideration."
Because the law isn't concerned about what "roots" you claimed to put down. You are here against the law and we want you O U T. Period.
She's not the only one who struggled to get out of detention while her case was pending. Last year, 30% of rulings on bond were favorable to detainees, down from 59% in 2024, the CBS News analysis found.
Good.
Thanks to Comrade Arthur: For some countries, Biden allowed over 5% - 6-7% -- of their entire national populations to illegally come to the US and stay here perpetually, while they waited for the "due process" of their frivolous asylum claims to be worked through.
And then, of course, after all the due process was worked through and they received their final notice of deportation, they still remain here, with CBS "News" demanding MOAR DUE PROCESS.
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Daily Mail: "CNN Has Lost Two Thirds of Its Viewership Since 2016 Amid Growing Fears Network Is Circling the Drain"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
LOL. Jake Tapper, you ridiculous preening cuck loser.
CNN has lost nearly two-thirds of its primetime viewers over the past decade, figures show.The decrease, from roughly 1.3 million in 2016 to 553,000 now, is fueling rumors of a possible network sale -- something CNN's up-for-grabs parent company has vehemently denied.
The results recorded this month by Nielsen are actually an improvement from January, when stars like Jake Tapper, Anderson Cooper, Erin Burnett, and Kaitlan Collins only secured 488,000 sets of eyes.
"Stars?" They pull in as many viewers as Nerdrotic. Is Nerdrotic a "star" too?
The network's daytime lineup has seen a similar decline as hosts such as Wolf Blitzer failed to move the needle, dropping from 752,000 to 433,000.When compared to the same part of the year in 2021, the drops were even more pronounced -- 71 percent for primetime and 73 percent during the day.
Several network executives told the Daily Mail that the results were worrisome, even amid broader industry trends.
A CNN source, meanwhile, blamed the poor showing on audiences consuming news through alternative means.
'The reality is that people just consume news differently now than they did ten years ago, and we're adapting to address that, reaching large audiences all over the world,' the source said.
Their appeal, like Spinal Tap's, has become more selective.
Boston isn't a big college town anyway.
///Several CEOs and lineup changes later, CNN's lack of success during Trump's second presidency is noticeable, sources said.
'It's not surprising that CNN's constant leadership void, which has largely rendered the cable network irrelevant with historic ratings declines, is leading ownership to explore yet another sale,' one said.
'Ownership at CNN is once again looking to jump ship just like the network's viewers have for the last decade after seeing its 2025 ratings slump to historic lows.
'Mark Thompson should have stayed in retirement as nothing can right the sinking ship that is CNN.'
In a related story, a liberal producer has quit CBS "News," probably because she's a hard-left liberal who refused to abide by Bari Weiss's demand for a more "heterodox" -- meaning, open to multiple perspectives and not just the default media left-liberal-antifa one -- news reportage.
Leftist outlets are making it sound as if the liberal producer who quit is a non-partisan who objects to Weiss's partisanship, but the full email makes it clear that she's a bitter, agenda-first liberal who is angry that she's not allowed to broadcast Democrat Party propaganda as "news."
For example, here's how the New York Times' agenda-first "media reporter" headlines the producer's goodbye letter:
NEW: "CBS Evening News" producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:Stories are "evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations." pic.twitter.com/4orZmbkqRI
-- Ben Mullin (@BenMullin) February 12, 2026
Other outlets, like The Wrap, similarly focus on that single sentence to the exclusion of all others.
Is that an accurate digest of the full letter? Why no, it's not.
Because key parts of her letter admit that she's angry at being directed to pursue a "heterodox" view of the news and cites Walter Cronkite for the proposition that "being liberal" results in "news reports" that are "fair, accurate, and unbiased."
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Josh Hawley Grills Muslim Antifa AG Keith Ellison About the Audiotape In Which He Promises Somalis He'll Order Investigators to Let Them Defraud America In Peace
—Disinformation Expert Ace
If you need a refresher, Ellison met with a Somali who was later convicted of major fraud against the US taxpayer. This Somali complained that investigators were checking to see if he was legitimate or not, and that just really steamed this Somali fraudster's beans.
Ellison told him that he would look into it and make phone calls to the investigators demanding to know "Why am I getting these complaints?" He also asserted that he "already" had his team investigating the investigators picking on these noble Somali Learing Experts.
The Somali makes it clear that he expects Ellison to "protect his interests" and says that if Ellison "has his back," he will "put dollars" into his hands.
Those fraudsters did in fact give Keith Ellison a $10,000 tip for his efforts to protect them, nine days after he promised that protection.
Ellison has found himself under pressure to properly prosecute the case after it was revealed that he had raked in $10,000 in campaign donations from individuals who would go on to be convicted of taking part in the scam that stole $250 million from a federal program meant to feed hungry children during the pandemic.
Ellison says it's all "political theater" because he gave that $10,000 tip for prompt service back... after he got caught.
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The Morning Rant
—CBD
Insurrection anyone?
Luckily, it is performative, and aside from the inconvenience of not being able to use state facilities, it is a worthless, pointless, political show. New Jersey is pathetically inefficient, so any report of ICE activity will be acted upon several weeks, if at all, after it occurs, and the tactical effect will be exactly zero. Collecting information from the public about federal law enforcement activity is simply a sop to the new governor's constituents: illegals, welfare cases, AWFLs, and teacher's union activists.
Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced Tuesday that she is going to restrict ICE agents from state property as well as launch an online portal to track agents' movements."ICE is making everyone less safe. Today, I'm taking action to protect New Jerseyans. First, I'm signing an Executive Order to ban ICE from launching actions from any state property," Sherrill posted in a statement on the X platform.
She then linked to the site run by the New Jersey Attorney General's office "where people can upload videos of ICE interactions they see in our state."
If ICE begins large-scale operations in New Jersey, and I hope they do, it will be a convenient misdirection for the hapless fool we just elected as governor. She can use it to distract from the absolutely terrible condition of our roads, our unbelievably bad transit systems, our out-of-control taxes, our exploding energy costs, and all of the other quality-of-life degradations that come with leftists in power.
And if ICE is reading this, please start with my local Whole Foods. I don't think there is a single English speaking employee in the produce section!
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The Morning Report — 2/12/26
—J.J. Sefton
Good morning kids. Well, in the wake of yesterday's mass shooting up in Canada I suppose I could say I told you so, but it's getting to a point where you really don't have to be Kreskin or Jeanne Dixon to have predicted a psychotic deviant hopped up on a toxic mix of hormones and leftist sexual propaganda would YET AGAIN, grab a gun and shoot up a school. The usual suspects on the Left are not in denial about the truth, they are actively covering up the truth because it flies in the face of their accursed weltanschauung and in doing so threatens their ability to control the culture, the normal direction of our society and ultimately all of us as free-thinking individuals.
Another mass shooting, and another devastated community. And once again, elites in the media class and public officials are so terrified of offending that they don’t dare ask the obvious question: Why are so many of the most horrifying attacks carried out by people who identify as “trans”? After Canada suffered one of its deadliest school massacres Tuesday, police identified the biologically male shooter as 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar — noting that he began to transition six years ago. That’s right: another deadly attack by someone who is transgender. Yet the elites go to lengths to avoid any suggestion of a linkage. . .. . . For years, the public has been told that identifying as the opposite sex is simply another harmless expression of one’s self-identity. Questioning it is dangerous, cruel — “bigotry.” Exploring whether transgender identity may signal deeper psychological distress is forbidden. Professionals who dare to raise concerns are threatened with loss of their licenses, professional reputation and livelihood. That dogma has consequences, as another community has learned the hard way.
Let’s admit it: Believing you’re the opposite of your biological sex is simply not a normal, or neutral, position.
Where does all of this insanity come from? It goes back perhaps at least 100 years, with the nascent Soviet Union's attempts at destabilizing the free world in order to promote global Communism to make it the dominant nation/ideology of the world; Subversion of normal culture by attacking societal institutions and norms that propelled the advancement of western civilization for 2,000 years and promoting atheism and sexual deviancy as normal and healthy along with fomenting class, economic, racial and cultural strife would bring about the collapse of the West and usher in the age of socialist paradise on earth.
If you can stomach it just take a look at Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals" or watch Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov's chilling "Warning to America" from 1984 (the year, not the book!) where he lays it all out. This is a must-see video to show your kids.
In 2026, murder rates in major U.S. cities dropped to levels not seen since 1900, while violent crime dropped sharply amid President Donald Trump's aggressive deportation efforts. The numbers are impressive: homicides down 21% in 35 large cities, marking the largest single-year decline on record. Overall, violent offenses returned to or dipped below pre-pandemic figures from 2019, robberies decreased by 23%, andcarjackings dropped by 43%. The only category to increase was drug crimes, which rose slightly by 7%. . . . Yet, in a Nebraskan field, we find legacy media outlets standing in rows, heads planted like ostriches in old cartoons, with their focus on other factors or downplaying the success altogether.. . . New York Times headline: What’s Behind the Staggering Drop in the Murder Rate? No One Knows for Sure. Deportations Drive the Decline The Department of Homeland Security removed over 2 million illegal immigrants over the past few years, focusing heavily on those with criminal records, and this surge closely aligns with the steep crime reductions seen nationwide.
About that societal dissolution I mentioned earlier, the madness that drives transexual mass murder is a kissing cousin to those who use SUVs, firearms and molotov cocktails to attack ICE and moment insurrection.
New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani (D.) tapped as his health czar the founder of a left-wing nonprofit that registered patients in mental hospitals to vote.
Besides Bellevue, they probably checked the morgues and registered anyone with a toe-tag, and probably all the cemeteries. You can bet NYC is not a one-off and this is likely S.O.P. in every blue metropolis from coast to coast.
But requiring ID to vote is racist and even the notion that our elections are not secure is Right wing propaganda! Unless of course you are a sick, evil bastard like Jamie Raskin engaging in chutzpocritical projection by insisting Trump will steal the midterms!
Have a great day.
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Daily Tech News 12 February 2026
—Pixy Misa
Top Story- Why the economics of orbital AI datacenters are so brutal. (Tech Crunch)
It doesn't make much sense unless you're both a major AI company and the world leader in orbital launch capacity, which narrows it down to slightly less than one company.
Even for SpaceX it's not viable until Starship goes into volume production. So far, as the article notes, the rocket hasn't yet achieved orbital flight.
The other major problem is the lifespan of the datacenters. If SpaceX uses cheap silicon solar panels, those will degrade fairly quickly in space. But the current economics of AI chips limits the useful lifetime of the hardware to a similar period to the solar panels - about five years.
But then what? Drop entire datacenters into the ocean? Do the fish need that much compute capacity?
- Meanwhile SpaceX's SuperHeavy booster - used to launch Starship - has passed the latest round of testing with flying colours. (Ars Technica)
The company may be ready for a test of its updated Starship V3 by the end of March.
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Wednesday Overnight Open Thread - February 11, 2026 [Doof]
—Open Blogger
Howdy hordelings! Welcome to the {checks calendar} WEDNESDAY?!?! ONT. What happened to the schedule this week? Why was Dino hosting last night? Did the AOSHQ time machine malfunction? Nah, I was attending to some family matters. Many thanks to Dino for handling things last night! And thank YOU for stopping by!
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Buonasera Cafe
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Lago di Braies, in the Dolemites, South Tyrol, Italy
More pics and a short video here.
Is there a puppy in that belly?
Cat finally finds a use for a toy you bought it: taunting and annoying you with it. It had zero value before this. (Actually this is the one toy they will play with, but only for about five minutes.)
Kitty comes in for a pet.
Dog and baby play chase.
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No Surprise: The Insurrectionist Left is Being Funded by Foreign Communists (Besides George Soros, Of Course)
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I don't imagine many of you will be surprised.
But say, do you remember how the media and left-wing bureaucracy freaked the hell out over the mere unsubstantiated rumor that Russia might be influencing American politics to get Trump elected? NGOs were created to push hardcore censorship and coordinated with the FBI and social media monopolies to strip Americans of their right to free speech.
Do you think they will react similarly now, now that we know that Code Pink and the various ICE-tracking antifa groups are paid by communist China?
Because I sure don't.
At 10 a.m. on Tuesday, House Committee on Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith will oversee a hearing, "Foreign Influence in American Non-profits: Unmasking Threats from Beijing and Beyond." The hearing will be broadcast online at the committee's website....
In a press release, the committee said the hearing will focus on the "ways foreign actors have funneled millions of dollars through networks of tax-exempt organizations to create, support, and fuel disruption and illegal activity across the country."
The hearing is expected to examine a network of nonprofits, including organizations funded by Neville Roy Singham, an American-born tech tycoon and self-styled Marxist-Leninist, living in Shanghai. Singham has funded nonprofit groups, including the People's Forum, CodePink, BreakThrough BT Media, the ANSWER Coalition and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, which have worked closely with Democratic Socialists of America in dispatching socialist, Marxist-Leninist and communist foot soldiers into the streets to disrupt federal immigration law enforcement agents and stoke chaos.
"For too long, foreign actors have gotten away with abusing our tax-exempt sector to [sow] division and chaos in our country," Smith posted on X on Tuesday morning. "Today, we're putting them on notice. Going to be a late night in China for Shanghai Singham!"
Over the past year, Fox News Digital has documented a pattern of coordinated protests by socialist, communist and Marxist groups, revealing a synchronized ecosystem of funding, media amplification, ideological framing and street-level mobilization that aligns with the strategic interests of hostile foreign governments, including the People's Republic of China.
"Tax-exempt status is a privilege not a right," Smith told Fox News Digital. "Nonprofits must remain accountable and refuse to act as instruments of hostile foreign governments."
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Hours before the hearing, Fox News Digital reported that Smith escalated his investigation into Singham, who has allegedly been "sowing chaos and spreading Chinese propaganda, possibly in coordination with a foreign government."
In separate letters, Smith demanded records from BreakThrough and Tricontinental, warning that both tax-exempt organizations may be operating outside their lawful purpose as possible unregistered foreign agents, while helping to fuel domestic unrest under the guise of journalism and academic research.Congressional investigators say the Singham network sits at the center of a malign foreign influence operation that allegedly exploits U.S. nonprofit laws to inject anti-American propaganda into domestic protest movements and sow discord from within the United States.
Strangely enough, Tucker Carlson began aligning his views with the China-funded Code Pink the moment he got fired.
The State Department transmitted a report to Congress Tuesday linking lefty nonprofits Code Pink and the People's Forum to Chinese influence operations."Partisan hacks spent years peddling the phony Russia collusion hoax while turning a blind eye to the sprawling web of far-left activist organizations who push the agendas of the Chinese Communist Party," Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Sarah Rogers said in a statement provided to The Post.
"Organizations like Code Pink and the People's Forum denigrate the United States, whitewash the violence of Marxist regimes, and run cover for China while enjoying an influx of cash from a donor network with connections to the Chinese Communist Party," Rogers added.
"The State Department will pursue complete transparency for the donor and NGO networks that lobby for our adversaries and seek to weaken the resolve of the United States."
The report on "Countering Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference" alleges that China "spreads propaganda through influence campaigns run by nonprofit organizations like Code Pink, the People's Forum and groups linked with the notorious Singham network."The so-called "Singham network" are nonprofits funded by tech mogul Neville Roy Singham, whose wife is a co-founder of Code Pink.
Singham, an American expat living in China, "works closely with the Chinese government media machine and is financing its propaganda worldwide," the New York Times reported in 2023.
"Chinese diplomats, state media, and pro-China influencers use social media, content-sharing agreements, and local partnerships to publish pro-CCP propaganda," the report continues. "China invests in [public diplomacy], exchanges, reporting tours, and educational and cultural initiatives to boost its image."
"The Department assesses that China, Iran, and Russia aggressively use state media, proxies, and digital platforms to spread propaganda and falsehoods, undermine U.S. credibility and policies, and expand their influence."
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Politico: Judges Are Furious That ICE is Ignoring Their Lawless, Quickly-Overturned Demands to Release Criminal Illegal Aliens
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Oh no. No no no.
Courts across the country have overwhelmingly rejected the Trump administration's effort to round up thousands of immigrants and lock them up without a chance for bond -- even if they have no criminal records and have lived in the United States for years.
Because left-wingers have venue-shopped for leftwing judges who will deliver lawless opinions. These opinions tend to be overruled when they're ultimately reviewed by actual judges who rule on the law and who aren't just communist agents of the Democrat Socialist Antifa Party.
But the Trump administration has slow-walked or outright defied judges' orders demanding the release of people scooped up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at an increasingly rapid clip.
Oh no. It sounds like two co-equal branches have a dispute.
Except... it's not a dispute between the Executive and the Judiciary Branch. The Judiciary Branch's power is invested in a Supreme Court, whose powers are delegated to inferior judges, whose rulings they can and often do overturn.
So this is not a fight between the united power of the Executive and the united power of the Judiciary -- it's a fight between the united power of the Executive and minor functionaries of another branch who do not possess but 1/1000th of its power, and that only a temporary, provisional basis.
...A POLITICO review of hundreds of cases brought by ICE detainees across the country shows judges increasingly furious and exhausted by the Trump administration's tactics.
"There has been an undeniable move by the Government in the past month to defy court orders or at least to stretch the legal process to the breaking point in an attempt to deny noncitizens their due process rights," U.S. District Judge Michael Davis, a Clinton appointee from Minnesota, said in a recent order.
As a result, judges have issued more detailed and prescriptive orders to head off potential loopholes or hair-splitting results. And when all else fails, they threaten to hold administration officials in contempt.
Asked about the deepening conflict with courts, Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin reissued previous statements criticizing "activist judges" for trying to "thwart President Trump from fulfilling the American people's mandate for mass deportations." The statement didn't directly address judges' complaints about their orders being violated.
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In recent days, judges in Minnesota have expressed frustration that even when complying with their orders, ICE has been doing so in bad faith. Detainees that the agency had whisked to Texas, for example, were being released far from home with no way to contact loved ones or lawyers, and sometimes without their phones, documents or other possessions.
They don't have which documents? Their falsified papers?
I feel so bad this is happening to you.
Enguerrand VII de Coucy @ingelramdecoucyPerhaps federal judges would do better to have some self-reflection as to why their orders continue to get overturned by higher courts, and how that might feed into a perception that their orders aren't necessarily something that should be taken seriously
Meanwhile, CBS "News" whines that Trump must be lying when he says he's targeting the criminal illegal aliens first, because only 14% of the detained and deported are violent criminal offenders.
But wait -- doesn't that mean that there are others who, while not "violent criminals" per se, are still serious criminal offenders?
Why yes. Yes that's exactly what it means.
In fact, of those deported, a whopping 60% are wanted for other serious crimes, apart from the obvious crime of being present in the country illegally.
Less than 14% of those arrested by ICE in Trump's 1st year back in office had violent criminal records, document shows - CBS News.Less than 14% of nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in President Trump's first year back in the White House had charges or convictions for violent criminal offenses, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security document obtained by CBS News....It goes on to say, "The internal DHS figures undermine frequent assertions by the Trump administration that its crackdown on illegal immigration is primarily targeting dangerous and violent criminals living in the U.S. illegally, people Mr. Trump and his lieutenants have regularly called the 'worst of the worst.'"
Even at this, CBS makes this admission, so perhaps Weiss has had an impact: "Nearly 60% of ICE arrestees over the past year had criminal charges or convictions, the document indicates. But among that population, the majority of the criminal charges or convictions are not for violent crimes."
Even by CBS's own numbers, the data show conclusively that ICE is primarily targeting charged and convicted criminals. Somehow, they've decided that "non-violent" felons violate President Trump's policy statement, but that is a bizarre reading of his words.
The "non-violent crimes" these Maryland Men are being deported for include child molestation, child pornography, human trafficking, drug dealing, and of course membership in a "Foreign Terrorist Organization" like Tren de Aragua and MS-13.
All very "non-violent" stuff. Practically speeding tickets.
But there's another trick they're playing, streiff notes. Because many of these "non-violent" criminals are actually wanted in their home countries for crimes that are very definitely violent -- like multiple counts of murder.
The other part of the puzzle is how many of the remaining third without any criminal offenses in the U.S. were guilty of some heinous crap back home. Take the case of Edward Hernandez, an illegal from El Salvador. While his record has been squeaky clean, emphasize the word "record," because we can't know about his unrevealed activities, according to the Department of Homeland Security, "he is an MS-13 member & confessed to murdering 5 people in El Salvador through shooting, torturing, stabbing, and dismemberment (including one victim who was alive)."How about this guy, whose only offense in the U.S. was driving without a license? Well, like the "Maryland Dad," he's a bad actor.
Homeland Security @DHSgovHorrendous crimes such as the distribution of child pornography, drug trafficking, burglary, fraud, human smuggling, even being in a gang like MS13 or Tren de Aragua or being a known or suspected terrorist are considered "non-violent crimes" by the media.
Take Antonio Israel Lazo-Quintanilla who was wanted back in El Salvador for aggravated HOMICIDE, extortion, possession of drugs, and a litany of other felonies. However, his only crime in the U.S. was driving without a license.
It is absurd to quantify Lazo-Quintanilla as "nonviolent" when he is a confirmed member of the 18th Street Gang, a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), and was on El Salvador's most wanted gang members list. He was a public safety threat that we were fortunate to apprehend BEFORE he could victimize Americans.
Wait until you see this Maryland Man.
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Lisa Murkowski Will Oppose SAVE Act; Grandstanding Flake Thomas Massie Is the Only "Republican" In the House to Vote Against It
—Disinformation Expert Ace
I mentioned yesterday that House staffers were accusing the Luciferian Mitch McConnell of scheming to block the SAVE Act out of simple political malice against Trump
Let it be noted for the record that Lisa Murkowski has always been one of McConnell's closest allies.
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski is once again breaking with Republicans -- this time by kneecapping voter ID legislation backed by President Trump and conservatives who argue the country desperately needs stronger election integrity laws.In a post Tuesday on X, Murkowski announced she will oppose the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility Act, known as the SAVE Act, along with the Make Elections Great Again Act -- two GOP-backed proposals aimed at tightening voter ID requirements and restoring confidence in federal elections.
Her opposition gives Democrats exactly what they need: another Republican willing to block the bill in a Senate where the 60-vote filibuster threshold already makes passage an uphill climb.
Rather than engaging with the substance of voter ID -- a policy supported by a strong majority of Americans -- Murkowski recycled familiar talking points about "federalizing elections," comparing the SAVE Act to Democrat power grabs Republicans fought during the Biden years.
Her excuse is that she doesn't want federal law making rules for federal elections?
Straight-up McConnellism -- they only start talking Muh Princibuhls as they slip the knife between your ribs.
Massie just voted against it, citing "Muh Libbratarianisms."
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In the UK, Two Boys Stabbed in a London School by Muslim Infiltrator;
A 12-Year-Old Girl Was Violently Raped by an Afgan Migrant
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Two Boys Stabbed in Kingsbury High School Classroom Last updated40 seconds ago
On February 10 around 12:40 p.m., a 13-year-old former pupil at Kingsbury High School allegedly entered disguised in uniform, sprayed a non-noxious substance, and stabbed a 13-year-old boy before attacking a 12-year-old as he fled. Both victims remain in stable condition. Counter Terrorism Policing is investigating due to the circumstances, though no motive is confirmed and it's not deemed a terrorist incident; the suspect acted alone and is in custody after police recovered a weapon. Witnesses described children screaming and banging on windows, with the school closed the next day as headteacher Alex Thomas called it a deeply traumatic event for traumatised pupils and families.
This reporter from TalkTV says he shouted the usual terrorist cry.
Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB119h
Witnesses claim 13 year old attacker 'shouted "Allahu Akbar" during stabbing rampage at London school' that left boys, aged 12 and 13, seriously injured.
How can anyone seriously still pretend we don't have an Islamist extremism problem?
alk @TalkTV6h
🚨 'Far too many of the mosques in Britain are teaching Islamism. It's being normalised and not being called out.'
Julia Hartley-Brewer says a 13-year-old child, allegedly shouting "Allahu Akbar" whilst stabbing two other kids, should serve as a wake-up call.
A 12-year-old girl was raped by another Cultural Enricher:
Afghan Asylum Seeker Convicted of Abducting and Raping 12-Year-Old Girl in Nuneaton2 hours ago
Ahmad Mulakhil, a 23-year-old Afghan who arrived in the UK by small boat last year, was unanimously convicted at Warwick Crown Court on February 10 of raping the girl under 13, child abduction, sexual assaults, and taking indecent photos after the July 22, 2025 attack. His co-defendant Mohammad Kabir was acquitted of related charges. The case has fueled public anger over immigration vetting and child safety, with Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe calling it emblematic of cultural issues and Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch pledging tougher deportations and leaving the European Convention on Human Rights.
Rupert Lowe MP @RupertLowe109h
Reading how this Afghan illegal migrant approached the 12 year old whilst she was playing on the swings.
Playing on the swings. Think about that.
During the sex attack, she told the Afghan to stop.
The man apparently laughed, and carried on.
"Extremely horrific sexual offences."
A 12 year old.
Politicians need to have the courage to finally say what we all know is true.
Men from these cultures where this evil is accepted should not be welcome in Britain.
We need to not only stop the flow, but also remove the barbarians already within the gates.
I could not give a single shit about whatever lies they tell to remain in Britain.
It doesn't matter. If they hate our way of life so very much?
Deport them all.
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Real Axios Headline: "Crime Plunges In Major Cities Despite Trump's Crackdown Rhetoric"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
You mean, despite his rhetoric calling for a crime crackdown followed by a genuine crackdown?
As you probably know, the left-wing treasonous press has a long history of headlines of this kind. Fox Butterfield of the New York Times would routinely write this same headline, again and again, during the fall in crime during the nineties:
Crime Falls Despite Increases in Incarceration
It never occurred to Fox Butterfield, or his many layers of editors at the New York Times, that crime was falling precisely because of increases in the incarceration of criminals.
And the spirit of Fox Butterfield now lives on at Politico for Kidz, Axios.
Axios deleted the headline because conservatives Seized on it (and also, there was reportedly some pouncing), but people did get screencaps:
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Unexpectedly, January Job Creation Numbers Double Expectations
—Disinformation Expert Ace
In January, we created 172,000 non-farm jobs while eliminating 42,000 government jobs.
The stats subtract that 42,000 from the 172,000 to say we created 130,000 net jobs, but to me... um, I feel like adding those "lost" jobs into the "created" column because we want to reduce government "employment." It's a waste that drags down the productive sector of the economy.
BTW, "Biden's Miracle Economy" counted on an exploding government sector to make job "growth" look good in the statistics.
Oh, and most of the non-government jobs "created" went to literal foreigners.
January’s jobs report didn’t just beat expectations — it smashed them.New data released Wednesday and highlighted by the White House shows private-sector hiring roaring past forecasts, wages climbing, and federal payrolls shrinking to levels not seen since the 1960s -- a combination the administration says underscores the defining traits of President Trump’s second-term economy: more workers in productive industries, fewer in government.
The economy added 172,000 private-sector jobs in January while shedding 42,000 government positions, pushing the unemployment rate down to 4.3%. Overall nonfarm job growth came in at 130,000 — more than double the projections from many economists surveyed ahead of the release. The strength was concentrated squarely in the private sector, particularly construction, where employment jumped by 33,000 jobs. Of those, 25,000 were in nonresidential specialty trades -- the largest monthly gain in five years -- as factory projects, energy investments, and data center construction continue accelerating.
Since the start of Trump’s second term, the White House says 615,000 private-sector jobs have been added, while federal employment has fallen to its lowest level since 1966 --and to the smallest share of the total workforce in recorded history. The contrast is deliberate: expansion driven by builders, manufacturers, and tradesmen rather than by bureaucratic growth in Washington.
Paychecks are moving in the right direction as well. Average weekly earnings for private-sector workers rose 0.7% in January alone. Since Trump returned to office, average weekly earnings have increased 4.3%, with hourly earnings up 3.7%. Prime-age labor force participation has climbed to its highest level since 2001, suggesting more Americans in their core working years are reentering the job market.
Now that Biden has been thrown out of office and is despised by the Democrat Party as well as all patriotic Americans, BLS no longer feels the need to pretend he created a lot of jobs. They continue "revising" his job numbers downward.
Perhaps most politically consequential were the revisions to prior data. According to the White House, updated figures show job growth during the final two years of the Biden administration was overstated by 1.9 million jobs from initial releases to current estimates.
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Another Trans Terrorist Kills Ten, Wounds 35;
Media Honors Mass Murderer's Wishes; Refer to Him as a "Female in a Dress;" Woke Politicians and Police Call Him a "Gunperson" Rather Than a "Gunman"
—Disinformation Expert Ace
Gays Against Groomers @againstgrmrs38m
🚨BREAKING: Another heartbreaking tragedy fueled by the radical gender ideology pushed on our youth.
Trans-identified teen, Jesse Strang, has been named as the shooter in the horrific massacre at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School in British Columbia. 10 dead and 35 injured. This disturbed individual posed with rifles, flaunted trans flags online, and spiraled into unthinkable violence.
We grieve for every victim and their families.
We cannot ignore the pattern: when vulnerable, often autistic or mentally ill youth are rushed into "transition" as the answer to their pain, the results can be catastrophic.
Rest in peace to the victims. Gender ideology must be utterly decimated before it continues to destroy more innocent souls.
Jennifer Sey
@JenniferSeyA psychotic & probably always sadistic young man decides the answer to all of his problems and mental distress is that he's actually a woman.
He's pumped full of prescribed drugs based on a wide range of diagnoses none of which include batshit crazy.
He pumps himself full of street drugs on top of that.
The world sends him the message that he's being genocided because he's "trans."
He takes up arms, because his thinks the world wants him dead. A lie fed to him by the entire culture and media machine.
He kills his family and school children in one of the worst massacres in Canada's history.
The media calls him "woman in a brown dress" then stops talking about him then shifts to "gunperson" because we need to respect his pronouns, in death.
This is the state of things. Now Canadians will blame his actions on all the awful anti-trans-ness in the world. Not the fact that he was a drug addicted psycho unleashed and made worse by the trans/medical/industrial complex.
Indeed. They're already starting to frame this as an understandable response to "bullying."
This writer notes that in Canada -- and in the US, too -- psychiatrists are instructed to only "affirm" a Gender Deluded person of their delusions, and to never investigate other mental illnesses that might be a cause or consequence of the gender delusions.
Doctors in Canada must affirm gender identity as the issue for patients who are sometimes gravely mentally ill. This includes teenagers who've been exposed to the digital and viral contagion of the trans movement online and in school and as a result, adopt a trans persona seeking relief from other serious problems. It seems this might be the case with the Tumbler Ridge shooter who became trans two years ago, at age fifteen.Fully understand -- mental health professionals in this country are prevented from investigating what might really be going on -- including murderous impulses brought about by personality disorders and perhaps even puberty blocker and hormones. Not to mention SSRIs.
Here is Bill C-4. I am obviously against actual conversion therapy for children who are gay -- but C-4 includes a gender clause that prohibits therapeutic investigation once someone has self-diagnosed gender dysphoria.
Jesse Strang, the 17-year-old trans teenager can't tell us why he opened fire -- because he killed himself. (Some reporting now that he was eighteen)
It is being reported by an outfit I trust, that he had serious issues, concurrent with whatever his gender problems were. Key phrase: violent tendencies from a very young age.
Was Strang seeing a therapist? If so -- was he being treated for his other issues or was it -- affirming care, all the time?
Her piece begins by noting that Charlie Kirk was asked how many trans mass-murderers we've seen lately -- his answer, "Too many" -- moments before gay furry tranny-lover put a bullet through his throat and murdered him.
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Wednesday Morning Rant
—Joe Mannix
At work last week, I found myself at an awkward intersection of meme and idiom. I used an idiom - not a hugely popular one, but not a particularly unusual one, either (or so I thought) - and got a very weird reaction from my colleagues. It turns out that the idiom is somewhat close to a particular TikTok meme. My colleagues' reaction was basically, "why the heck are you not only referencing that meme, why are you using it so strangely?" I then got to explain that it was quite a lot older than 2025.
The meme in question is referred to, as near as I can tell, the "6-7 meme." It originated on TikTok and has, if Wikipedia is to believed, no meaning in particular. As they put it in the article:
6-7 (pronounced "six seven"; also spelt 67 or 6 7) is an Internet meme and slang term that emerged in 2025 on TikTok and Instagram Reels and later spread to YouTube Shorts. It has no fixed meaning.I've heard of it, but that's about as far as it goes. That is apparently because I am far too old for it.
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