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BREAKING: Company Loses Contract with "Alligator Alcatraz" After Nick Valencia News Exposé open.substack.com/pub/nickvale...

JUST IN: In a shocking move, CBS is ending "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" next year, potentially exiting the late-night television business altogether. cnn.it/459rpay

A federal insider reveals how ICE agents are operating with fewer restraints, escalating fear and suspicion on the streets—and stoking a decades-old identity war. By Nick Valencia open.substack.com/pub/nickvale...

"Only the weak will fail." ~ Donald J. Trump, US President on potential impact of his tariffs on consumers, businesses, industries.

There are 33m companies in the USA. Only 21k employe 500 or more. And they only make up 23% of workers. Trump and Elon are ignoring the more than 32m entrepreneurs that can't afford to build a new factory or pay tariffs or absorb cancelled contracts.

Tumbling stock prices from Trump’s tariffs give him and his cronies the opportunity to buy low in the market. A big win for billionaires. Another step to oligarchy.

SCOOP: A WIRED review of public data shows that national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.

Indigenous people of West Papua have called for a boycott of KitKat, Smarties, Aero chocolate, Oreo biscuits, Ritz crackers, and cosmetics brands Pantene and Herbal Essences, over alleged ecocide in their territory

☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️☘️ An Irish Prayer For You May God give you... For every storm, a rainbow ☘️ For every tear, a smile ☘️ For every care, a promise ☘️ And a blessing for each trial, ☘️ For every problem life sends, ☘️ A faithful friend to share, ☘️ For every sigh, a sweet song, ☘️ And an answer for each prayer

My Gracie. Her first BlueSky Caturday. 🐾 #Caturday #CatsofBluesky #CatsAreFamily #CatLovers

James Carville, genius political strategist, speaking from my hometown tonight on 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle, is one hundred percent on target as always.

Sea lions sickened as toxic algae threatens California’s marine mammals www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

New Orleans gets creative to reduce food waste — but is it ready for black soldier flies? www.nola.com/news/busines...

FACT FOCUS: A look at false and misleading claims made by Trump during his SOTU address to U.S. Congress www.seattletimes.com/nation-world...

Cure for the disease? *He* is the disease.

For anyone who doubted that Trump is a Putin Mother Russia loyalist: The Kremlin today said that Trump’s foreign policy strongly aligns with those of Russia.

Canada definitely needs to tighten its boarder security — to prevent US citizens trying to escape to a sane country.

Say thank you???The attempted bullyism of Zelensky started before the Oval Office ambush with Trump’s demand for the rights to half of Ukraine’s rare minerals to broker a peace with Russia. As always he is transactional: what’s in it for me? What am I getting for it?

Trump wants rare minerals from • Ukraine • Greenland • Canada

Had Trump indeed secured the rights to half of Ukraine’s rare minerals for the US as a thank-you from Zelensky for brokering a peace, he predictably would swiftly gift a considerable percentage to Putin as part of the supposed peace agreement. Ukraine needs to retain *all* rights to its resources.

I also notice that as Zelensky was measuredly explaining Putin’s history of aggression and broken agreements with Ukraine, VP JD Vance was clasping and wringing his hands, awaiting to interject his loud, berating attack on Ukraine’s president. Vance had memorized, prepared remarks. Totally.

Watching the total exchange in the Oval Office I detect that a composed Zelensky’s explanation of Putin’s history of invasion & broken promises was followed by an absolutely obvious PREPARED STATEMENT from VP JD Vance. His attack didn’t even fit the context of what the Ukrainian president had said.

His lips would have to be surgically removed from Putin’s KGB butt.

US President Donald Trump, VP JD Vance, DNI Tulsi Gabbard, are manifesting the reality of the ominous 1950s declaration by Russia's Premier Nikita Khrushchev: "We will take America without firing a shot. We do not have to invade the U.S. We will destroy you from within…….."

Congratulations to Ukrainian President Zelensky for exiting the vipers nest of the White House aka The Oval Office with his country’s rare mineral rights fully in hand. Best case scenario now is that Trump-Vance adm will be totally out of peace negotiations between Ukraine, EU, Putin, Russia.

A strong, diplomatic, restrained Zelensky, exiting with Ukraine’s rare minerals fully im hand, was the world stage winner at The White House: Trump-Vance thin façades of civility quickly cracked, exposing/solidifing their true identities as rude, ruthless bullies & coddlers of Putin & Mother Russia

Trump and Vance are total embarrassments to the distinguished history of American diplomacy, protocol and deportment. Beyond cringe worthy. Abominable deportment.

Trump and Vance take the dip out of diplomacy and make it dip 💩. Abominable deportment. And in *our* White House and Oval Office no less.

Demand your GOP congressman cut their budget and lay off some staff. Congress spends 6.4billion/year on their own operations.

Experts give up hope for 157 false killer whales stranded on a remote beach in Australia's Tasmania state apnews.com/article/aust...

We are one news cycle away from Trump giving military aid to Russia.

Donald Trump,self-declared *king*, has finally met Nemesis: solution focused, formidable, articulate, no-nonsense leader, Kathy Hochul, Governor of NY State, an attorney and former member of US Congress. She’s hands down presidential material.

Well the Californians VW EV spot is brilliant. #SNL50th ❤️ SNL 50th Anniversary

SNL LIVE 50th Anniversary Special is off to a slow start with forced standup interviews. Hoping it quickly gets better.

Zelensky is absolutely correct: US President Trump needs to *support* Ukraine not be an *intermediary* with Russia. And EU must also be at the peace table.

As US becomes isolationist, cuts USAID… The Kyiv Independent reports that Sudan will allow Russia to build its first naval base in Africa. This has been under discussion since 2017 and would give Moscow access to the Red Sea, one of the world's most strategically important waterways.

A future national leader is revealed. Republican appointee, young, Danielle Sassoon epitomizes the loyalty to the Constitution, superlative integrity and uncompromising moral character we need on the Supreme Court of the United States. Democrats and Independents should be able to agree on that.

A family member was saved today by oxygen after a flu-induced respiratory event caused plummeting of her blood pressure and oxygenation. Then I heard of the death of a lady who survived her escape from Miramar to Thailand but was cut from reviving oxygen when delivery of USAID canisters was ceased.

Trump’s disrespect and contempt for Native (First Nation) American Indians was glaringly evident when he signed as one of his first Executive Orders the renaming of Alaska’s Denali to Mount McKinley.

Well this is totally predictable and galling: Trump’s DOJ will challenge in court The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 which affirmed the US citizenship of Native Americans. Trump wants to deny First Nation peoples their right to vote and to receive the benefits of US programs and privileges.

In the past weeks, the Trump administration has purged federal law enforcement agencies of prosecutors and investigators who’d been pursuing white supremacist groups that had been listed among the most dangerous threats to national security. By @hannahallam.bsky.social

Coincidence? Trump suspends the Foreign Corruption Practices Act, thereby allowing bribery and gifts to foreign officials, and Putin’s good buddy Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko of Belarus releases American. Could this be a vipers nest of oligarchs enriching each other?

. @lincolnproject.us Trump has suspended the Foreign Corruption Practices Act. Could anyone really expect compliance from a guy convicted of 34 counts of falsification of business records?

Month-over-month inflation just hit its highest level in a year, and Trump is blaming Biden. What's his excuse when it's up again in March?

Rep Mary Miller introducing Congresswoman Sarah McBride as Mr demonstrates a flagrant breech of basic respect, decency, sensitivity and social etiquette. The purpose of etiquette, social or organizational, is to put *everyone* @ ease.Purposeful rudeness promotes *disease* in workplaces and society.

History Channel’s new series, Mysteries From Above - Accidental Discoveries using drone technology is fantastic. It premiered tonight.

. @msnbc.com it behooves the public for your hosts to interview former government officials with deep institutional knowledge of and experience with various agencies such as USAID to put the mission, goals, programs and accomplishments of these agencies into context.

For US farmers: Trade Reality - most countries of the world do not want to import and eat GMO, glyphosate soaked corn. They do not want milk contaminated with antibiotics and growth hormones nor antibiotic and growth hormone injected beef, pork, chicken.They want organic, healthy produce and meats.

Trump asks why Palestinians would want to return to Gaza when there’s nothing there. For the *same* reason people after WWII bombings of Tokyo Hamburg London Berlin Dresden Osaka Darmstadt Kassel Pforzheim & Swinoujscie returned and rebuilt ‼️IT IS HOME‼️ Palestinians want their own Palestinian State

So let’s see... Now Trump wants to add Gaza to his takeover real estate portfolio along with Greenland, Canada and Panama Canal. And recall he has said multiple times over the years how much luxury and tourist development potential North Korea’s beaches have. 🙄 #BeamMeUpScotty