Unexpectedly, Inflation Comes In Below "Expert" Expectations

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Weird how this keeps happening.

The "target" rate of inflation the Fed is trying to get to is 2.0%.

In January, increased prices by 0.2%. Over a full 12 months, that would be 2.4%.

Also, over the past 12 months, inflation was at 2.4%. Just a bit over target. Just a scotch above the level the Fed actually wants to see.

But I thought Trump's Tariffs would kill us worse than insurrectionists killed AOC on January 6.

Some of the decreases from December's report are notable, even in categories where prices still increased incrementally. Food went from +0.7 to +0.2, for instance. Energy prices actually dropped by significant amounts across the board, -1.5% overall and -3.2% for gasoline. Fuel oil fell 5.7% in January in a month where demand would be peaking. Electricity prices fell by a tenth of a point. Only natural gas showed a significant increase of 1.0% in January.

However, the year-on-year numbers in CPI for the first twelve months of the Donald Trump administration look pretty spectacular when it comes to an affordability argument:

Overall YoY inflation: 2.4%
Food: 2.9%
Food at home: 2.1%
Food away from home: 4.0%
Energy: -0.1%
Energy commodities: -7.3%
Gasoline: -7.5%
Fuel oil: -4.2%
Energy services: 7.2%
Electricity: 6.3%
Utility gas service: 9.8%
Core CPI less food and energy: 2.4%

It's not perfect, but it's pretty darned good. The big problems here are electricity and gas, both of which the Trump administration is already working to expand.

The Wall Street Journal notes that since inflation came in high last January -- Biden's last month in office -- inflation has fallen.

The latest annual number had some help, since a high inflation reading from January 2025 has now dropped out of the past 12 months of data. Month over month from December, consumer prices in January rose a seasonally adjusted 0.2% and core prices rose 0.3%.

Don't forget, Wednesday's jobs report came in above "expectations" as well, with Trump adding 172,000 private sector jobs, and cutting 42,000 government " " " jobs " " ".

It's almost as if "experts" have some built-in, unchangeable cognitive bias that always make their predictions wrong and always in the same (anti-GOP) direction.

THIS is the real story out of today's jobs report - Trump was handed an economy that was losing private sector jobs and adding gov't payrolls, but he successfully flipped the script, and one year later it's all private sector growth while cutting gov't jobs: pic.twitter.com/R5r5EHgzqk

— E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. (@RealEJAntoni) February 11, 2026

Jobs report DOUBLES expectations.

How can this be?

I was assured yesterday from every lib dchebag on X that this was going to be a disaster.

It's almost as if they have no fkn idea what they're talking about.

pic.twitter.com/YoFQhS4xKU

— john jackson (@pvtjokerus) February 11, 2026

Oh, and remember, they also revealed that millions of "jobs" Biden "created" simply did not exist and were phantoms only existing on paper to boost Biden's electoral chances.

And don't forget this either: Trump's job numbers greatly understate how good the jobs environment is for actual American citizens. Most new jobs under Biden went to foreigners, especially illegal aliens, while jobs are now going overwhelmingly to actual US citizens.

And illegal aliens have lost jobs, for the first time in decades.

And this account says that guy is all wet, new jobs for US citizens are even higher than his chart shows.

🚨 BREAKING: US inflation comes in BELOW EXPECTATIONS at just 2.4% year-over-year, another economic win for President Trump and Scott Bessent

CNBC: "A DOWNSIDE surprise!" 🔥

Just +0.2% over the month for January — ALSO below expectations

"A GOOD CPI number!" 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/2B4Vc9YHIj

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) February 13, 2026

Before switching to his Epstein grift last year, Ro Khanna spent his nights on CNN claiming that Trump's tariffs were destroying the economy and making inflation go up.

Smart pivot. pic.twitter.com/lqlnelwKmO

— MAZE (@mazemoore) February 13, 2026

Local news on this week's blockbuster economy news📺⬇️

"Inflation is cooling."

"The better-than-expected report is largely driven by the cost of energy falling."

"Today's numbers follow Wednesday's jobs report, which also beat expectations." pic.twitter.com/q6JHN2HWdC

— Delanie Bomar (@DelanieBomar) February 13, 2026

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Propganda Media and Propaganda Tech Monopolices Conspire to Cover-Up Newest Trans Mass Murderer's Trans Identity and Deny There's Any Kind of an Epidemic of Trans Mass Violence

—Disinformation Expert Ace

A couple of weeks ago, I thought of Elliot Rodger.

You remember that name, right? He was the first nationally-notorious "incel," a sad loser angry at the rejection he experience when he approached women. So in 2014, he declared a "Day of Vengeance" and killed six people and wounded 14 more.

Obviously, horrific.

For ten years since then, various government "anti-hate" authorities have monitored "incel" accounts and groups like MGTOW to make sure there would never be another Elliot Rodger. For years the media has run stories about the "right-wing incel radicalization pipeline" and sought to deplatform accounts which might inspire another Elliot Rodger.

Well, there was only one similar case that I remember. A few years after Elliot Rodger, a Canadian loser shot some women.

So, two cases.

But a huge amount of media and government "anti-hate" interest in this phenomenon. This phenomenon of two.

Meanwhile, we have now seen five mass shootings by trans extremists, and this doesn't count the "Ziz" trans murder cult -- they killed their victims individually, not in one incident -- or the murder of Charlie Kirk, murdered by gay furry on behalf of his tranny lover.

And the trans movement itself uses the same DAY OF VENGEANCE language that Elliot Rodger did to incite further violence, explicitly calling for violence against normies in the various "Trans Days of Vengeance" they declare.

I just saw a new meme encouraging violence, by declaring that "EVERY DAY IS TRANS DAY OF VENGEANCE."

And even with the bodycount mounting -- and the victims being mostly children -- the media continues not noticing that the trans cult is explicity -- not impliedly, explicitly -- calling for the murders of normies as justifiable "vengeance," and more and more psychotic trannies are answering the call.

Quillette bravely posted a video about this yesterday, pointing out that the so-called "experts" in the social sciences and the brave truth tellers of the media have absolutely refused to even acknowledge a rising problem of trans mass violence, and spend all of their time denying it. And Quillette does make the same comparison I did to the "experts" and media reaction to Elliot Rodger.

Indeed, not only do they not investigate the connnection between transgenderism, insane trans propaganda about a "genocide" against them coupled with calls for a "Trans Day of Vengeance" against their oppressors, the complete failure of psychiatrists to diagnose and treat the accompanying mental illnesses in trans people, the effects of powerful exogenous hormones plus psychotropic drugs, and the actual growing list of trannies who murder children en masse, they actively deny any such thing is happening at all:

Sky News reporter on male trans Canada school shooter:

“That is extremely unusual. It’s rare to have a female attacker.”

The shooter was a mentally ill man pretending to be a woman

Unrealpic.twitter.com/v0CFaqT6MN

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 13, 2026

What Google shows you if you search for "trans-identified mass shooters" pic.twitter.com/vIWCDB8bJa

— Claire Lehmann (@clairlemon) February 13, 2026

Indeed. To write this post, I made the mistake of googling the query "how many trans shooters have there been," and Google answered me by telling me about the genocide against trans people:

Thanks, Google! Instead of telling me how many trans mass shooters there have been, which was the information I was seeking, you instead told me about how oppressed trans people. Essentially, you told me that trans violence is justified because some propagandist in Congress entered an article claiming that we're killing trannies at an alarming rate (that justifies violence against the oppressors, of course.)

The reality? In the past five years, two out of the five mass school shootings have been perpetrated by trannies.

That is a huge amount, given that transgenders make up far less than 1% of the population.

And yet, no media interest. No "expert" studies.

Christina Buttons reports, at City Journal, that a new study finds that, get this, trans zealots have been lying about the alleged "benefits" of cutting off healthy tissue and taking dangerous amounts of cross-gender hormones. What little "benefit" that can be found by transitioning, a new Hong Kong study finds, can be attributed only to non-transitioning support and counseling subjects receive.

The trans lobby has rigged previous studies to ignore these factors, so they could attribute all supposed "benefits" to the transition interventions themselves.

A New Study Challenges the Mental-Health Claims of "Gender-Affirming Care"

Hong Kong researchers found that "affirming" surgeries and hormones yielded no significant improvements in depression and anxiety.

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For years, doctors and medical associations have argued that patients with gender-related distress, including children, suffer from depression and suicidality and need access to "gender-affirming care" to relieve it. They presented this view as the scientific consensus, and that view has shaped policy debates about how readily these interventions should be offered and under what--if any--safeguards.

The mental-health case for medical transition relies on observational clinic studies that measure patients' psychological distress before and after treatment. Many of these studies follow small samples for short periods, often less than two years. When these studies report improvements in patients' symptom scores or well-being measures after medical transition, the design often cannot tell whether the medical intervention drove the difference, since other things typically occur alongside treatment. That is one reason systematic evidence reviews have repeatedly judged the certainty of this evidence as low and the findings as inconsistent.

A new retrospective follow-up study from Hong Kong, published in Frontiers in Psychiatry earlier this month, addresses those problems. The authors argue that much of the earlier literature leans too heavily on group averages and does not adequately account for basic determinants of mental health, such as social support and coping style.

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What makes this study distinct is not only its size and duration but its design. The authors tracked changes over time, while controlling for social support, coping, and other background factors. Put simply, the question was: Accounting for these other influences, do hormones or surgeries still predict better mental-health outcomes?

The answer was no. Neither surgery nor cross-sex hormones significantly reduced depression, anxiety, or stress once coping and social support were included in the statistical models. Instead, it was those psychosocial factors that proved the strongest predictors of patients' mental health.

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That Nice Irish Man That Is Wasting Away in Detention? Yeah, There's a Reason He Won't Just Leave the Country and Go Back Home

—Disinformation Expert Ace

You will of course remember the case of the longtime visa overstayer from Ireland who is currently in ICE detention because he overstayed a 2009 visa and never took any action to make his status legal until Trump was about to deport him. Then he quickly applied for a green card -- which has not been issued yet, which means he remains deportable, it's not a get-out-of-deportation filing -- and then just as quickly married a US citizen. All last year. As ICE was closing in on him.

You may remember that racist "libertarian" Nick Gillespie, better known by his "street name" Goth Fonzie, thinks that all of you "Heritage Americans" should be shocked out of your pro-border-enforcement views because this particular illegal alien is white, and whites need to protect each other, yeah?

He has not commented on the fact that all the pro-border-enforcement people he strongly implied were animated by racist hatred have all chimed in to say, "Deport him, I don't care if he's white, red, brown, or blue."

Now this Irish illegal alien that you Heritage Americans are racially compelled to support claims that ICE detention is "absolute hell" but for some unexplained reason will not just go back to Ireland -- which he can do. ICE gives you that option. You can remain in detention as your final deportation orders come down, or you can just go home.

So if detention is "absolute hell," then you would think that emerald-green Ireland would be preferable, right?

Well, it would be. Except for one little thing.

The whole reason the man came to the US was to flee the Irish police who had charged him with drug dealing.

Stellantis’ $26 Billion EV Write-Off Follows the CEO’s looting of the Company; Ford’s EV Disaster Results in a Company-Wide Loss of $8 Billion in 2025

—Buck Throckmorton

The tide of red ink washing over legacy auto manufacturers just keeps getting worse, as the cost of their EV misadventures are now being reflected in losses, write-offs, and course corrections.

A few months ago, Ford announced that it’s long-overdue pivot from EVs would result in total write-offs of almost $20 billion, including $12 billion in Q4 2025 alone. That was enough to cause Ford to record an overall, company-wide loss in 2025 of $8 billion.

“Ford reports Q4 profit miss, $8 billion net loss for year as EV unit losses hit results” [Yahoo Finance – 02/10/2026]

Jim Farley’s comments on Ford’s 2025 performance, claiming that the company ”delivered a strong 2025,” would be comical if it weren’t for the fact that his mismanagement is hemorrhaging capital from the once-great auto manufacturer.

"Ford delivered a strong 2025 in a dynamic and often volatile environment," Ford CEO Jim Farley said in a statement. "We improved our core business and execution, made significant progress in the areas of the business we control — lowering material and warranty costs and making real progress on quality — and made difficult but critical strategic decisions that set us up for a stronger future."

Meanwhile, Stellantis (Dodge, Jeep, Chrysler, Ram, Fiat, Peugeot, etc) just announced that its failed EV efforts are going to cost the company an eye-popping $26 billion in charge-offs.

“Chrysler Parent Stellantis’ Shares Fall 25% As It Takes $26.5 Billion Write Off Amid EV Retreat” [Forbes – 02/06/2026]

Antonio Filosa, who became Stellantis’ CEO just 8 months ago acknowledged Stellantis’ mistakes in pushing EVs on consumers who refused to buy them. He also correctly pointed out that the previous CEO, Carlos Tavares, had inflicted “poor operational execution” on the company. That is a polite way of saying Tavares just about destroyed the company by promoting an “EV transition,” while at the same time manipulating production, sales, and pricing for short-term results that provided himself obscene compensation.

Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa said the charges “reflect the cost of over-estimating the pace of the energy transition that distanced us from many car buyers’ real-world needs, means and desires.”

As I wrote at The Blaze in December 2024 when Tavares was pushed out, Stellantis sales were now in free fall, its product-pipeline was barren, and its dealers were in revolt. But it was less than a year earlier that Tavares awarded himself (with board consent) a $39 million compensation package, making him the highest paid executive in the auto industry.

As US sales plunged 36% by the end of 2024, dealers accused Tavares of “reckless short-term decision making” that caused “rapid degradation” of the Dodge, RAM, Jeep, and Chrysler brands. They claimed that not only was the product line stale and over-priced, but that popular products had been eliminated with the intent to replace them at a later date with electric products. To goose short-term profits, Tavares slashed vehicle production and eliminated headcount, resulting in a short-term cost savings that created long-term problems.

When European dealers advised Tavares that consumers were rejecting EVs and pleaded for Stellantis to seek regulatory relief from EV mandates, Tavares betrayed the dealers and sided with the regulators, even as competitors such as Volkswagen and Renault sought regulatory relief.

The Stellantis disaster lies at the intersection of the EV delusion and the management crisis afflicting major corporations, in which self-serving executives are willing to destroy their companies for personal gain, or otherwise not perform their jobs in fiduciary service to shareholders. From that Blaze piece:

Tavares failed to serve his company, shareholders, customers, or franchised dealers. Instead, he served two masters: himself and the globalist eco-bureaucracy that seems content to watch Stellantis collapse as a manufacturer of gasoline-powered vehicles.

To maintain both civil and economic order, investors and corporate boards must take responsibility for preventing further destruction of institutions like Stellantis. Greedy and self-serving leaders, such as Carlos Tavares, cannot be allowed to undermine companies at the expense of all other stakeholders.

To bring this all full-circle, at least the Stellantis board did push Carlos Tavares out eventually, replacing him with a CEO who seeks to manufacture and sell vehicles that consumers actually want to buy. Inexplicably, the CEO of Ford Motor Company, who has cost the company $20 billion to date by pursuing the EV fantasy, is still running the company and boasting of the great job he is doing.

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Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

The Morning Report — 2/13/26

—J.J. Sefton

Good morning kids. No triskaidekaphobia here... In taking down the Maduro regime in Venezuela and reinvigorating the Monroe Doctrine, President Trump has perhaps put himself in a bit of a pickle?

Russia has indicated it will defy U.S. sanctions and other restrictions enacted by U.S. President Donald J. Trump against the exportation of oil to Cuba. In what the Kremlin is describing as a “humanitarian” arrangement, the Russian Embassy in Havana states that “as far as we know, Russia is expected to supply oil and petroleum products to Cuba as humanitarian aid in the near future.”The decision by the Russian government comes as Cuba faces its worst energy crisis in at least a decade. Following the ouster of Venezuela’s Marxist dictator, Nicolás Maduro, by the U.S. military earlier this year, Cuba lost a key supplier of oil and fuel, turning what was already a dire situation facing the Caribbean island’s communist government into an unprecedented crisis.

Of course Russia has had a longstanding relationship with Cuba going back to the Soviet era as a forward base of communism right on our doorstep so to speak. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Estern bloc, the Cuban economy has essentially been on life support, propped up by the Latin American Communist dictatorships that both the Soviets and the Castro regime helped foster over the past 66 years. And with Maduro gone and much of Latin America turning away from socialism towards freer and more open societies, Cuba might very well be at long last on the verge of liberation.

Aside from the aforementioned longstanding ties, My guess is that Putin is trying to use Cuba as a way to leverage a more advantageous outcome with Ukraine vis a vis the supposed peace negotiations.

So the question is, weird as it is the same as it was in 1963 during the Cuban missile crisis, what will the US Navy do if it encounters a Russian tanker or cargo ship heading towards Cuba on the high seas?

Russia is at best a major rival if not a strategic enemy of the United States, but what the hell is Mexico's excuse?

Two Mexican Navy ships docked in Cuba on Thursday carrying humanitarian aid for the Caribbean island nation in the middle of a severe energy crisis.

The ships carried hundreds of tons of food and supplies. The Mexican government said that one ship contained 536 tons of food – including milk, beans, sardines, and cookies – while the other contained about 277 tons of powdered milk, according to the Associated Press.

The arrival of aid comes weeks after President Donald Trump increased pressure on the Cuban economy, threatening tariffs against any nation that supplies Cuba with oil. Cuba has since instituted increasingly strict rules around the use of its remaining fuel supplies. . .

. . . “The energy pressure that Trump is exerting on Cuba places Mexico in a dilemma that is very characteristic of its entire history of diplomatic relations with the United States and Cuba,” Cuban historian Rafael Rojas told The Guardian. “Mexico is yielding to the demands of the United States – and on the other hand it maintains its solidarity with the island.”
. . . “I don’t think it’s any mystery that we are not big fans of the Cuban regime, who, by the way, are the ones that were propping up Maduro,” (Secretary of State Marco)Rubio said the day after Maduro’s arrest.

We took out Maduro because he was running tons of lethal drugs into America and had very close ties with both the Chi-Coms and the Iranians, all of which posed an incredible threat to our national security as well as the safety of our citizenry. Considering the illegal alien border invasion, the destruction and chaos that has come from Mexico for decades is arguably orders of magnitude worse!

Mexico's leader, Claudia Scheinbaum is an avowed socialist and no great fan of America. So, if we seize some Mexican ships or send them down to Davy Jones' Locker, what of it?

I certainly hope the long-suffering Cuban people can at long last taste freedom and move their country forward. To see the heads of leftists and Commies here explode as the statues and murals of the Castros, Marx and Lenin are dynamited and sledgehammered off the walls of Cuban buildings is just too delightful to anticipate.

¡Viva Trump, y Cuba Libré Ahora y Por Siempre!

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Daily Tech News 13 February 2026

—Pixy Misa

• 30% of Microsoft's code is written by AI. (Times of India)
  
  And 40% of its bugs.
  
  
  
• In entirely unrelated news, Microsoft recently introduced a critical security vulnerability into Notepad. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  The flaw was triggered by simply opening a text file in Markdown format and accidentally clicking on a suspicious link that Notepad helpfully made completely invisible.

Thursday Overnight Open Thread - February 12, 2026 [Doof]

—Open Blogger

Howdy Hordelings! Thursday night ONT time. You made it! Good job. Now check out the content and join in the gray boxes. What's on your mind tonight?

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From the "You Can't Make This Up" Files

For reference, this is how we vote in the US House:

1) Insert photo ID
2) Press button https://t.co/55VpURwaTh pic.twitter.com/yNVsyCBKib

— Rep. Michael Cloud (@RepMichaelCloud) February 12, 2026

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Remember the scene in A Christmas Story where the one kid got his tongue stuck to a metal pole that was frozen? Well, this guy says "hold my beer"!
(H/T: Kindltot in comments earlier today)

Drunk man's penis freezes to icy pavement during arrest on night out

A man's penis froze to the ground outside a bar while he was being arrested during a night out.

Blake McPhee was restrained after allegedly becoming involved in a fight at the East Village Pub & Eatery in Fort McMurray, Canada. The fracas spilled out onto the street where temperatures had plunged to below freezing.

During a struggle with police and security, McPhee's trousers and pants fell off. His manhood got stuck to the icy pavement. It is reported McPhee was stuck to the ground like this for around 20 minutes.

Police and security guards had to force the man up - leaving some skin behind in the process - in order to remove him from the ice, it is understood.

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McPhee has since seen the funny side as he wrote on Facebook: "Man, I don't know how I get myself in these f***** up situations...Guess that's what I get for being a drunk lunatic at a bar."

He added: "Gone are the days a feller can get his wiener frozen f*** solid to the ground without it going viral. Anyways glad I can be of some entertainment and back to making headlines. Gunna go crawl inside a hole and cry myself to sleep now. (P.s sorry ma)."

Thankfully there are no photos of his frozen junk at the link.

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Here's a much better story about a human appendage.

Woman’s Prosthetic Leg Swept Out to Sea Is Thrilled its Been Found 10 Months Later

A woman whose new prosthetic leg was swept out to sea is “over the moon” after she found it 10 months later, it having been swept right back to the beach where she lost it.

Last April, 69-year-old Brenda Ogden lost her custom-made titanium blade-style prosthesis moments before a swim in the North Sea.

She was posing for a picture with a swimming group she was a part of when a huge wave knocked them all down and took her titanium blade back out to sea with it.

Ogden had her leg amputated below the knee five years earlier following a horrific car crash. The now-retired nurse revealed she waited for over a year to get the false leg, and had only had the blade for a week before the disaster on the beach.

“The leg was specially made to allow me to access water easily,” Ogden told England’s Southwest News Service. “I had never swum in the sea before that day and it was on my bucket list to do so.”

Check out the whole story at the link.

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Well discussed here at AOSHQ has been the current state of colleges and universities. Woke curricula coupled with skyrocketing costs. Students saddled with crippling debt upon graduation. More and more people are turning to trade schools. My own son decided to enter into an HVAC apprenticeship a few years ago. He's making great money and loves what he does. The Mike Rowe Works Foundation was created to advocate for trades and even provides scholarships regularly.

Check out this surprisingly fair report from NBC News
(H/T: NR Pax in comments yesterday)

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More Bass Stuff!

3rd night in a row talking about funky bass groves. Tonight, let's hear from the great Rick Beato

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DJ Doof - This Date in Music History

On this date in 1981, Rush released Moving Pictures - the best album ever recorded.

I will be ignoring any Rush hate tonight. For those of you with taste, here is the whole album. 40 minutes of greatness!

Also - here's Rick Beato again discussing Limelight in Episode 63 of his "What Makes This Song Great?" series.

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Born on this date in 1952:
Grammy Award winning American singer and songwriter Michael McDonald, who with The Doobie Brothers had the 1979 US No.1 single 'What A Fool Believes', and the 1993 UK No.7 single 'Long Train Runnin'. He began his career singing back-up vocals with Steely Dan and has also worked with Kenny Loggins, David Cassidy, Van Halen, Patti LaBelle, Aretha Franklin and Toto.

Born on this date in 1950:
Steve Hackett, guitarist who had the, 1974 UK No.21 single 'I Know What I Like In Your Wardrobe', with Genesis who he quit in 1977 for solo work. Hackett co-founded the supergroup GTR with Steve Howe in 1986 and then returned to his solo career.

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You the Dog Now Man Cafe

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Yoshinoyama, Japan
from WasabiTool

I think my paw is broken!

He brought you an early Valentine's day flower.

An AI reconstruction of New York City before it turned into a shithole, circa 1746.

Deep thoughts on the mathematics of size A4 paper. It's a lot better than it sounds.

Dad brings home a stray dog.

Stray dog adopts a master by jumping into her car and refusing to leave.

The notoriously bad 1982 Tron Holiday Special. Disney was so embarrassed about this special they destroyed all copies of it and most people never even heard of it.

Dog reads an interesting email.

Man has always dreamed of throwing a large rock off a cliff.

Florida Judge Refuses to Dismiss Trump's Five Billion Dollar Defamation Lawsuit Against the BBC

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Sue, Trump. Sue like the wind.

Ed Morrissey quotes from AP "news:"

A U.S. judge said President Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC can go to trial in 2027.

Judge Roy K. Altman of the federal court for the Southern District of Florida rejected an attempt by Britain's national broadcaster to delay proceedings.

He set a February 2027 trial date.

Trump filed a lawsuit in December over the way the BBC edited a speech he gave on Jan. 6, 2021. The claim seeks $5 billion in damages for defamation and $5 billion for unfair trade practices.

My bad, it's a $10 billion lawsuit. Though only $5 billion is for defamation.

The judge also refused to delay the discovery process. This, Morrissey notes, is going to be a problem for the BBC:

Discovery is what the BBC wants to avoid at all costs. Presumably, they would want to see Trump's internal communications as well, but the problem with that is that those have already been made public. The January 6 riot has been thoroughly and exhaustively investigated and analyzed in public, not just by the media but also by a House Select Committee and hundreds of trials in which participants were convicted. There isn't much that the BBC can glean in discovery, but that's not the case for Trump and his legal team when it comes to the BBC.

But will it be a problem for the BBC? The BBC can just say it can't find the documents being sought. Yes, you can go to jail for that kind of thing -- it's contempt -- but the BBC is a foreign corporation. What jail time could they be looking at?

I suppose the judge could just impose penalties on them, if he definitely knew they were hiding documents.

But he won't know that. He might suspect it, but he won't know it.

So I think this corrupt pedophile-enabling organization will just have a shredding party.

Update in Nancy Guthrie Kidnapping Case: Black Gloves Found, Video Shows Man in a Mask Attempting to Scale Wall

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Two days ago, the FBI released images found in the memory of Nancy Guthrie's ring doorbell.

She had gone missing from her house on January 31st, and then later a ransom note was sent to Savannah Guthrie.

The FBI on Tuesday released a series of surveillance photos recovered from the home of missing Arizona woman Nancy Guthrie. FBI Director Kash Patel described the masked individual pictured as armed and said the subject appears to have tampered with the camera.

"Working with our partners - as of this morning, law enforcement has uncovered these previously inaccessible new images showing an armed individual appearing to have tampered with the camera at Nancy Guthrie's front door the morning of her disappearance," Patel wrote on social media.

Yesterday, the FBI picked up a person-of-interest wanted for questioning. Note that person of interest doesn't mean you're a suspect, just that they want to talk to you -- like, your car was spotted in the area at the time of the crime, and they want to know if you saw anything.

That man was questioned and released and the FBI said he had nothing to do with the kidnapping.

Fine, this is what happens in cases -- you pursue people for questioning, and sometimes you find out that what they know is what you know -- dick.

I mention this only because the second-most repellent Democrat Senator, and it's a hell of a competition to make the top five, Chris Murphy attacked Kash Patel for having dared to question a man whose car was in the area.

Should the FBI just stop pursuing leads, Chrissie? Tell you what, you tell Savannah Guthrie the FBI is going to take a wait-and-see attitude about her kidnapped mother and let us know if she agrees that's the prudent course of action.

Is the problem that the man was Hispanic? I want the Democrats to be clear: Which races, precisely, are immune from being suspected in crimes and being prosecuted for them? Which races have complete immunity to criminal law?

Stop hinting around the edges, Chrissie. Tell us which races are now officially so superior that cops are simply not allowed to ask them a single question.

They found new video of a man attempting unsuccessfully to scale a wall in the vicinity. No word yet from Chris Murphy if they should let this lead sit without investigation, because it might turn out to be a completely different guy.

They also found a single black glove similar to the ones the abductor is seen wearing. They're planning on testing it for DNA, but they should check with Chris Murphy. After all, it might be a glove belonging to an innocent person. Wouldn't want to waste resources on a DNA collection that goes nowhere!

Newly released footage showed a man trying to scale a wall in Tucson while wearing a similar backpack to the one Nancy Guthrie's captor was seen with.

An unidentified bald man donning a gray zip-down jacket and blue jeans was seen taking off one backpack while another remained on his back around 1.53am local time on February 1, the same day the 84-year-old was reported missing.

He then appeared to try to get on the other side of the stone wall, but after a couple of moments of difficulty, he walked away.

On Thursday, TMZ reported the outlet received another ransom letter from Nancy's captors, but this time with a threatening message about 'not being taken seriously.'

Nancy, the beloved mother of Today Show host Savannah Guthrie, was last seen on January 31 after returning home from dinner and a game night with her other daughter, Annie.

The newest piece of evidence comes after bombshell footage showed a masked man at Nancy's front door, fidgeting with the doorbell camera.

That man was seen wearing a black face mask, thick black latex gloves, and a black bookbag on his back. That clip marked the latest development in the missing persons case in over a week.

On Wednesday afternoon, investigators discovered a lone black glove near Nancy's $1 million home that resembled the one the masked man had on in the doorbell clip.

I'm late to covering this. I'm not sure I should cover it. But maybe some of you are following it.

And seriously, Chris Murphy is a malignant Gollum.

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 policy

Two 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 Architect David Axelrod: Confound These Republicans For Obamacare's Prices Skyrocketing and Them Refusing to Further Subsidize the Failing Program

—Disinformation Expert Ace

Obama Judge Boasberg Now Demands That Trump Pick Up 100 Deported Aliens from Venezuela and Bring Them Back

—Disinformation Expert Ace

He's doing what superior courts have repeatedly told him he does not have the power to do: ordering the president around like a house boy.

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.

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.

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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."

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

First of all, this leftist declares her real problem: She objects to "heterodox" reporting, reporting taking in multiple views and not just the media-dominant hard left view, and contrasts this to her preferred "traditional broadcast norms," i.e., the same singular, enforced left-wing media narrative every other outlet pushes.

Next, she implicitly declares that the news is and always must remain liberal. Citing the old lefty Walter Cronkite as proof that the news must always have a left-wing slant:

The fact that the NYT's lefty "media reporter" chose to bury these admissions, and instead push a false line that this producer just wanted to keep politics out of "news," is proof that no, "what makes us liberals" does not result in news reports that are "fair, accurate, and unbiased."

Hello! Happy Thursday. I hope you're enjoying the better weather. (And I hope that you are in fact seeing better weather, of course.)

Tim Carney repurposes the left's line explaining why they should get to oppress whites, males, Christians and heterosexuals now -- "when you're used to privilege, equality feels like oppression."

When you are accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression. https://t.co/ECF4wvBRRK

— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) February 12, 2026

Always trust liberals like this cooze to be "fair, accurate, and unbiased."

Never forget this moment that made a fool of everyone who said “trust the experts”. pic.twitter.com/hIFMBsjeLV

— Tim Carney (@TPCarney) February 12, 2026

From Instapundit:

% of Americans who have a great deal of confidence in journalists to act in the best interests of the public

All US adults: 6%
Republicans: 2%
Democrats: 9%https://t.co/uCvBNxKmtR pic.twitter.com/MrGYEwMYwT

— John Gramlich (@johngramlich) February 11, 2026

SightBringer @_The_Prophet__

⚡️The institution is dead.

The numbers are a death certificate. Six percent trust means collapse already occurred. The system is running on inertia, not legitimacy.

The function has been replaced but the corpse is still moving. Journalism today performs motion without force. It speaks, but it no longer shapes. It still tells stories, but the stories don't root. They slide. The public sees them as theater, not signal.

The political system treats media like a proxy war. The public treats it like noise. The market treats it like a content factory. What is missing is belief. Belief that the person on the other side is seeking truth. Belief that they would suffer to get it right. Belief that the institution would fire them if they got it wrong.

That belief is gone.

There is no fixing this. The repair metaphor is wrong. You cannot fix something whose failure is structural. The architecture that bred trust was destroyed. What remains is a set of incentives that reward volume, engagement, and narrative loyalty.

The next phase has already begun. Truth will route around dead institutions the way the internet routes around broken nodes. Systems that show their working memory will take over. People will trust compression engines over pundits. Codexes over op-eds. Logging over storytelling.

Truth won't come from people who sound right.

It will come from systems that hurt when they lie.

That's where it's heading. That's already started.

Close it up

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.

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.

'She is putting a target on their backs': New Jersey governor launches online portal to track ICE agents

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."

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!

[Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!

Mid-Morning Art Thread

—CBD

Sugar Loaf Peak, El Dorado County
Thomas Hill

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.

Elsewhere and on a very positive note, there's this story that like the above the Democrat/Left political/propganda axis wants buried.

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.

And if you can't steal elections with fake citizens just register the insane. Yes you have to be insane to be a Democrat but I mean the literal insane:

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

• 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.