February 7, 2026

ICE hits man with their SUV. Cops do nothing. Man retaliates, 10 cops pile on

Maddening. I only have a link to Instagram video

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DUWkaSqEsUL/

February 6, 2026

Joscha Bach, AI guru, Musk's USAID demolition AND helping propagate Steve Bannon's lab-leak theory

Also stated that Black Americans are cognitively slow to Epstein via emails


https://www.reddit.com/r/JoschaBach/comments/1qxkd3g/one_of_josha_bachs_dumbest_takes_simping_for/

February 6, 2026

54 year old Dutch Queen Maxima joins the Dutch Army as The Netherlands preps to rely less on the US

https://www.newser.com/story/383185/dutch-queen-enlists-in-the-army.html

Queen Máxima has traded some palace duties for basic training. The 54-year-old monarch has joined the Dutch Army as a reservist, a move the royal family says reflects a reality in which "our security can no longer be taken for granted." She entered service Wednesday as a soldier and began training that includes weapons practice, rope climbing, and marching at the Dutch Royal Military Academy in Breda, per the New York Times. Upon completion, the Argentina-born queen is slated to become a lieutenant colonel in the reserves. "Like other reservists, she will deploy where needed," the royal family said, per CBS News.

Her enlistment comes as Europe tries to bulk up its defenses and rely less on the US. The Netherlands plans to lift defense spending from 1.9% of GDP this year to 3.5% by 2035 and grow its armed forces from under 80,000 to at least 122,000 personnel. The incoming coalition wants every 17-year-old to fill out a military-interest survey and is floating a return to selective conscription if that falls short. Máxima isn't the only royal in uniform: her daughter, 22-year-old Princess Catharina-Amalia, was recently promoted to corporal, joining a long list of European heirs who've completed military training.

February 6, 2026

President Expands His Power to Fire Federal Workers

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02/05/us/trump-news


The Trump administration finalized a new policy on Thursday that would strip job protections from up to 50,000 federal workers, a move that would make it easier for President Trump to remove or discipline them, in his latest effort to dismantle the federal work force.

Until now, the roughly 4,000 people appointed by the president, known as political appointees, were the only federal workers who could be fired at will. The policy issued on Thursday allows the administration to expand that number to include career employees whom the administration considers to also have policy-related roles. For these employees, any whistle-blower complaints would now be handled inside their agencies rather than by the independent Office of Special Counsel, as they had previously.

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The rule amounts to “a huge increase of at-will employment with an administration that has demonstrated a contempt for nonpartisan expertise,” said Max Stier, the chief executive of the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit group that promotes an effective federal work force. “Their track record does not justify trust, and our history as a country demonstrates that these kind of changes lead to worse government results, not better.”

The new rule, said Don Kettl, an emeritus professor at the University of Maryland who studies the civil service, “sweeps away all of the pillars of accountability except responsiveness to the president.”

He added, “That, of course, is patronage under a different name.”

February 6, 2026

Nashville is furious about power outages. Republicans say 'woke' is to blame.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nashville-furious-power-outages-republicans-say-woke-blame-rcna257338


As Nashville’s utility company struggled to recover from a catastrophic ice storm and its Democratic mayor ordered a review, some conservatives attacked diversity training.

Sen Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., who is running for governor, alleged on X that the utility company “was so focused on woke policies and DEI that it failed at its most basic responsibility: keeping the power on.”

Tennessee’s Republican House speaker, Cameron Sexton, called for an overhaul of the utility on Facebook and said the General Assembly would pursue accountability. The utility’s “pro-tree canopy policy” and focus on DEI, among other issues, require “executive management to be fired and the board to be replaced,” he wrote.

The utility’s CEO, Teresa Broyles-Aplin, said this week that workers are doing the best they can to respond to the largest storm and outage in the company’s history.

“Accountability is important,” she said at a news conference Tuesday. “Right now, we are in active recovery. We have plenty of time to do after-action review and evaluate things we could have done better.”

February 5, 2026

Vehicle crash into Westwood (LA area near UCLA) grocery store, as many as 3 dead. Many injured

I shopped at this store when it was a Borders bookstore.... long time ago

February 5, 2026

topics on MAGA radio: 4 dead in rural indiana after undocumented driver involved in accident, Trans regret lawsuit won

Trans as in a female to male transition. they sued and won 2 million.

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we live different political spaces. |These topics are not discussed in rightwing radio... Epstein, Trump talking crazy, job losses, ICE brutalizing people

Trump is only spoken of in glowing language unless it's to chide the republican party and Trump to "SELL" how there are signs that the economy is turning around.

February 5, 2026

He Was Laid Off at The Washington Post After Working There 60 Years, witnessing the paper's rise and now retrenchment.

He Was Laid Off at The Washington Post After Working There 60 Years
Martin Weil, one of hundreds being let go at The Post, has worked on local news there since 1965, witnessing the paper’s rise and now retrenchment.



https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/business/media/washington-post-martin-weil-metro.html?unlocked_article_code=1.J1A.yDNb.DhVb7ICZSJt9&smid=url-share

Not long into his career at The Washington Post, Martin Weil learned to ignore most of the crackles on the police scanner. One night in June 1972, though, he paused upon hearing this: “Doors open at the Watergate.”

He decided against chasing down the meaning of those words that night. But the next day, he approached the city desk to ask if anything was afoot. The answer was yes — the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate complex had been burglarized.

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And The Post, of course, was pursuing that story and many, many others, until it attained what the newspaper’s publisher at the time, Katharine Graham, later termed a position of “dominance” in the Washington region.

On Wednesday, The Post announced plans to move on from that legacy as part of widespread cuts to the newsroom. The layoffs, affecting more than 300 of the roughly 800 journalists at the paper, are landing hard on the local news desk, where Mr. Weil has worked since 1965. He was among those laid off, one of the last ties to the paper’s Watergate era.

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By the early 2000s, the paper’s metro department had around 200 journalists, said Jo-Ann Armao, a former top local editor at The Post. When calamity struck, the section’s reporters served as the paper’s foot soldiers, fanning out across the region and often delivering prizewinning work. Examples include the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, the Virginia Tech shootings, the Beltway sniper attacks and Sept. 11, when The Post published a special late edition that included an article by Mr. Weil on the Pentagon attack.

As of Wednesday, that number had shrunk below 20, according to people with knowledge of the cuts.

February 5, 2026

Ahhh..so this is where Epstein got all that money

https://nypost.com/2025/10/18/us-news/jeffrey-epstein-sent-nasty-emails-to-apollo-founder-leon-black/

Jeffrey Epstein sent nasty emails to billionaire Leon Black demanding millions per year before arrest: report

Jeffrey Epstein sent a barrage of nasty emails to his cash cow, billionaire Leon Black, pressuring him to fork over millions of dollars per year to keep his lavish lifestyle afloat.

The disgraced financier and sex trafficker warned that Black’s financial advisors and “retarded” children had created a “really dangerous mess” by attempting to plug the flow of cash, according to emails obtained by the New York Times.

“I never want to have any more uncomfortable money moments with you , I find it very distasteful,” Epstein wrote in a Nov. 2, 2015 email to the Apollo Global Management founder.

“so to be clear , my terms are as follows . I will only work for the usual 40 million per year. It needs to be paid, 25 million upon signing an agreement . 5 million every 2 months thereafter for 6 months ie march may june . this can begin if i am able in January. I will immediately stop work , if the payment is not received [sic]” he wrote, according to the outlet.

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Susan Estrich, a lawyer for Black, asserted that all payments from Black to Epstein were purely for legitimate tax- and estate-planning services, as proven by an outside law firm hired by Apollo to review the pair’s relationship.

February 5, 2026

Women Made Up Nearly All The Job Losses Last Month (December)). Here's Why

Women Made Up Nearly All The Job Losses Last Month. Here’s Why

Men joined the labor market at a rate three times greater than women in 2025.

A thriving economy is partly reflected by a labor force that represents the demographics of our population. The latest Bureau of Labor Statistics’ jobs report shows some striking disparities: 91,000 women left the labor force last month, compared to 10,000 men who joined the labor force last month. If we zoom out to look at all of 2025, men’s labor force size grew by 572,000, while women’s grew by only 184,000. That means men joined the labor market at a rate three times greater than women.

The Jobs Report Shows Widening Disparities In The Labor Market
Digging deeper, disparities among specific demographics, such as mothers and Black women, are widening. Some of the biggest labor force declines in 2025 were among mothers. Unemployment for Black women has increased in 2025, rising to 7.3% as compared to 5.4% in January 2025 (the overall unemployment rate for workers last month was 4.4%).

“If we saw an unemployment rate for white men at the current rate it is for Black women, we would have already declared a recession,” says Jasmine Tucker, vice president for research at the National Women’s Law Center. “The data shows that we are reverting back to more white and more male workplaces, as people tend to hire people who look, think, and talk like them. It’s also playing out in the wage gap data, where the gender and racial wage gap has increased for two years in a row for the first time ever. White men’s earnings are increasing, and that’s great—we want that. But we want that for everyone.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hollycorbett/2026/01/14/women-made-up-nearly-all-the-job-losses-last-month-heres-why/

Job Losses In Sectors Where Women Are Highly Represented
Tucker points to a broader rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and cuts to federal jobs as a significant driver of fewer women in the workforce in 2025. Many federal positions, known for better pay equity and benefits, are being cut—jobs where women and Black women are highly represented.