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DHS Secretary Noem identifies another leaker and refers to DOJ for prosecution

Sundance
The Last Refuge
Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:00 UTC
Gabbard and Noem
© UnknownDirector of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard • Dept of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem
The good news is the process to identify the subversive agents inside the various offices of the administration continues to yield results. The bad news is there's a lot of them to identify and remove.

Dept of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem shares another leaker has been identified and removed. Additionally, she is referring their conduct to the Dept of Justice for criminal prosecution.
noem box
Both Noem and Gabbard appear to be continuing their methodical approach without fear or favor. Secretary Noem facing down the internal resistors within the FBI, who have been leaking about ICE enforcement operations. Director Gabbard working through the tentacles of the Intelligence Community to identify similarly minded IC agents.
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Stock Down

Newsom's "Train to Nowhere": Californians burn billions for political boondoogle

Jonathan Turley
jonathanturley.org
Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:45 UTC
Gavin Newsom
© Rich Pedroncelli / APGavin Newsom
In the dystopian novel 1984, George Orwell wrote, "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." The true meaning of that line was never more clear than watching the truly bizarre photo op of California governor Gavin Newsom heralding the success of the greatest boondoggle in history: his high-speed train to nowhere. Without laying a single yard of track after burning $12 billion, Newsom showed a diesel freight train on a conventional track to create the appearance of a working railroad.

I have been writing about this boondoggle for years. Newsom promised years ago that the project would be transformative. It was, but not as he promised.

Voters approved a $9.95 billion bond issue in 2008 after absurdly low estimates of the projected cost. Influential figures and companies stood to make a fortune, and the key was to secure a "buy-in" worth billions, so that it would become increasingly difficult to abandon the project as overruns and delays sent costs soaring.
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Wolf

CA Gov. Newsom refuses to cut ties to homeless fraudster firm

Susan Crabtree
RealClearPolitics
Wed, 04 Feb 2026 19:46 UTC
Gavin Newsom
© REUTERSCalifornia Governor Gavin Newsom
Borrowing from novelist James Hilton, who coined the word "Shangri-La" to describe a Tibetan utopia in a 1933 novel, Franklin Roosevelt gave that name to the peaceful retreat we know as Camp David.

For California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Los Angeles Democrats, Shangri-La hasn't become synonymous with a place that connotes peace on earth. It stands for a hellish homeless housing nightmare, eye-popping fraud, and the ease and scale with which con-artists rip off taxpayers.

In October, federal agents arrested Cody Holmes, the 31-year-old former CFO of Shangri-La Industries, a downtown Los Angeles-based developer who was supposed to be providing housing for homeless people in Southern California. First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli for the Central District of California, a Trump appointee, charged him with mail fraud.
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Propaganda

WaPo fires hundreds, ends sports reporting, guts foreign, local news

Curtis Houck
mrc NewsBusters
Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:58 UTC
The Washington Post
The Washington Post announced its long-rumored mass layoffs Wednesday morning tallying more than 300 journalists — and the official killing of the books, daily podcast, and sports sections and grinding down of local and international sections to almost nothing.

The New York Times pegged the layoffs as "about 30 percent of all employees" and quoted Post executive editor Matt Murray as having told employees on a Zoom that the dramatic altering of the newspaper is "positioning ourselves to become more essential to people's lives in what is becoming more crowded, competitive and complicated media landscape."

Murray further said this will leave The Post in position to compete and lead on business, health, politics, the White House, and other domestic affairs.

Comment: NewsBuster's assessment of The Washington Post. Management pretty much brought it on themselves:
Liberal Bias Drove the Decline: The Post's record of virulent anti-Trump coverage and narrow, elitist perspective alienated a huge swath of the country, leading to plummeting paid readership and repeated rounds of layoffs (hundreds in recent years alone). Executive editor Matt Murray's own words — that the paper wrote "from one perspective" — confirm what conservatives have long argued: ideological echo chambers don't sustain journalism in a competitive landscape.

Gutting Core Coverage Reveals Irrelevance: Eliminating sports beat reporters for major teams, all Middle East correspondents (leaving zero coverage for regions including Israel, Ukraine, and beyond), and slashing local news transforms the Post into a Politico-style niche product focused on politics, business, and health — abandoning the comprehensive reporting it once claimed to champion, further eroding its claim to being an "indispensable" institution.

No Sympathy from Flyover Country: While former Post staff and liberal outlets like The Atlantic cry "murder" and "darkest days" over the cuts, much of America — especially working-class communities hit hard by economic hollowing-out — sees little reason for tears. The same media elites who ignored Rust Belt struggles now demand compassion for their own job losses, highlighting the disconnect between coastal liberal journalism and everyday Americans.


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Bizarro Earth

Best of the Web: "Corruption Isn't Theft — It's Survival Training"

Harrison Koehli
Political Ponerology
Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:39 UTC
Corruption
© JP NOEL
Lessons on corruption from a Russian, and why Westerners come across as naive

Silent East on YouTube begins his essay on corruption with the following:
When people hear the word corruption, they usually think of money, envelopes, bribes, stolen budgets, officials living beyond their salaries. That image is convenient because it frames corruption as a moral defect, a flaw in character, a problem of bad individuals inside an otherwise normal system. And if that were true, the solution would be simple. Punish the bad people, clean the system, restore order.

But corruption survives for decades, not because people are immoral, and not because enforcement is weak. It survives because it quietly replaces something much more important than money. It replaces the relationship between a person and reality.
He draws on his experience growing up in Russia and the difficulties he had adapting to life in a Western nation — and the perspective this gave him on the nature of corruption. As he puts it, corruption is not something one enters into consciously. Rather, it is absorbed unconsciously from childhood. One learns it through trial and error — what works and what doesn't, which rules apply and which do not. This leads many to a profound disenchantment with official rules, forms, and institutions — with the surface of things in general — which are seen as fake or irrelevant. Outcomes in the real world depend on things like personal connections, timing, leverage, the mood of officials, and informal signals rather than formal processes.
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Bulb

Plastic surgeons ditch gender ideology - New guidelines rule out medical transition for kids

Benjamin Ryan
Unherd
Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:49 UTC
gender transition
© Getty
For years, proponents of pediatric gender medicine appeared to have an ironclad medical consensus behind them. "Gender-affirming care" — including puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and even irreversible surgeries — was simply a medical best practice. Many of them claimed these treatments were "life saving," suggesting there was no difference between them and, say, the suite of interventions oncologists might prescribe for cancer patients. But the consensus was always a mirage — and this week, at least among major US medical groups, it officially vanished.

On Tuesday, the American Society of Plastic Surgeons came out in opposition to providing gender-transition surgeries to minors. The recommendation, the first of its kind from a mainstream medical association, was published in a nine-page policy statement that marks a watershed moment in these debates. It's part of a broader rethink among many experts, a reminder that science can trump ideology when investigators follow time-tested, evidence-based processes.
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Heart

'I hope I would do the same again': Hero bus driver sacked for chasing down thief who stole passenger's necklace says it's 'all about justice'

Elizabeth Haigh
Daily Mail
Sun, 01 Feb 2026 22:41 UTC
Mark Hehir
Mark Hehir had worked as a London bus driver for Metroline for two years when, on June 25, 2024, he was driving the 206 bus between Wembley and Maida Vale in north-west London
A hero bus driver who was sacked after chasing down a thief who robbed a female passenger has told how he hopes he would do the same again.

Mark Hehir, 62, who lives in north London, had been driving the 206 bus between Wembley and Maida Vale in June 2024 when a man brushed past a young woman who was boarding and snatched her necklace before fleeing down the street.

Mr Hehir, who had worked for bus operator Metroline for two years prior to the incident, faced a split-second decision and sprinted after the alleged thief, managing to recover the woman's necklace.

But after the man approached the woman again, he told how he bravely stepped between them and knocked the man out with a single punch in self-defence.
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Blue Pill

Democrats just gave away the real reason they're fighting immigration enforcement

Matt Margolis
PJ Media
Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:27 UTC
Schumer
© Scott Applewhite/APSenate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
Democrats have spent years insisting illegal immigrants do not vote, yet Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries just gave the whole game away.

In a letter to GOP leadership, they demanded a slate of "reforms" to immigration enforcement as the price for funding the Department of Homeland Security, including targeted enforcement, no masks, mandatory use of body cameras, and other demands, several of which I suspect are nonstarters.
I don't see Democrats getting anywhere with these, but the big thing is that buried in that list is a rather revealing demand:
Protect Sensitive Locations - Prohibit funds from being used to conduct enforcement near sensitive locations, including medical facilities, schools, child-care facilities, churches, polling places, courts, etc.
Polling places?

Comment: Desperate times, desperate measures.

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Folder

Melinda French Gates breaks silence on explosive claims about Bill Gates in Epstein files

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:35 UTC
Melinda Gates
© OIFMelinda French Gates
Melinda French Gates, the philanthropist and ex-wife of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, has broken her silence on the latest release of damning documents tied to deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, saying the renewed scrutiny of her ex-husband's associations evokes "very, very painful" memories from their marriage.

In an interview with NPR's "Wild Card" podcast, French Gates addressed the Department of Justice's most recent disclosure of millions of pages of Epstein-related materials, including shocking draft emails from 2013 in which Epstein made lurid allegations about Gates. One draft accused the billionaire of contracting a sexually transmitted infection from encounters with "Russian girls" and seeking antibiotics that he could administer to his then-wife without her knowledge.
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Robot

"Dystopic As F**k": This Website Lets AI Bots Rent Humans

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:58 UTC
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism
© Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Getty Images
The AI era already feels like a dystopian fever dream straight out of a bad sci-fi novel, but leave it to a software engineer to push the accelerator straight into the abyss. Enter Alexander Liteplo, the software developer behind RentAHuman.ai, a freshly launched platform that lets autonomous AI agents "search, book, and pay" actual human beings to perform physical-world tasks they can't handle themselves, Futurism reports.

Launched just days ago, the site bills itself as "the meatspace layer for AI," with slogans like "robots need your body" and "AI can't touch grass. You can." Humans sign up, list their skills, location, and hourly rate (ranging from bargain-basement gigs to more specialized rates), while AI agents plug in via a standardized Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for seamless, no-small-talk interactions. The agents can browse profiles, hire directly, or post task bounties — everything from mundane errands like picking up a package.

Liteplo claims thousands of sign-ups, with figures hovering around 70,000-80,000+ "rentable" humans, though visible profiles seem to only show a few dozen in some, including Liteplo himself at $69/hr offering everything from AI automation to massages, Futurism reports.

Comment: Just a natural progression.

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