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Ilia malinin skated to FEAR by @nfrealmusic at the Winter Olympics 🤍 x.com/NBCOlympics/st…

We all saw President Trump's piles of classified documents in Mar-a-Lago ballrooms and bathrooms. But why did he take them? New documents obtained by @HouseJudiciary reveal the president may have taken the documents and sold out our national security to enrich himself—and the DOJ is working hard to block the evidence.

This is truly insane, and it should be front page news across America.  Denmark secretly deployed soldiers to Greenland prepared to blow up airport runways to stop a U.S. invasion. They brought blood supplies to treat the wounded. France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden quietly coordinated against us. This was not a drill. This was our closest allies preparing to fight Americans. Let that sink in. NATO allies. Countries whose soldiers have fought and died alongside ours for decades. They looked at this president and decided they had to prepare for the worst. Fewer allies does not make America great. It makes us more isolated, more vulnerable, and it hands Russia and China exactly what they have always wanted: an America abandoned by its friends. The American people deserve to know how badly this president has damaged our standing in the world.  bbc.com/news/articles/…

Kudos to Aaron Rupar for this great piece about Mark Jacob, who is SPOT ON. This is SO IMPORTANT. Jacob has been sounding the alarm for a while not only about Trump's unfitness but the need for reporters to be bolder in how they cover him. YES! Jacob: “People in media are journalists, not psychologists. They don’t know how to react when Trump says or does something that’s mentally deranged. Too often, they try to fit it into a rational frame of reference even though it’s irrational." YES AGAIN! "This sanewashing has been going on for a long time, and it keeps getting worse, and the mainstream media keep making the same mistakes in their coverage. The press needs to be writing about his mental unfitness every day until we get rid of him and save our country.” HEAR, HEAR! Excellent piece, below. stopthepresses.news/p/media-must-c…

‘A Mass Disaster Nonstop’: Inside the Turmoil at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s C.D.C. nytimes.com/interactive/20… via @NYTimes

Middle East crisis live: Trump says both Iran and US ‘want to make a deal’ and claims they will talk today theguardian.com/world/live/202…

everyone else is doing this, so here

Today is the 63rd anniversary of the release of Beatles debut album, Please Please Me. There are 39 Beatles songs depicted in this image, Name at least 2 of them....🎶

Maintain military presence and rapid response near Hormuz without guaranteeing protection to anyone . Allow risk to raise costs and force dependent states to act. Intervene selectively on terms that suit , shifting burden outward while retaining control over when and how stability is restored. If Taiwan needs some LNG then help , if Europe needs some then don’t worry about it . Leave the burden on the shoulders of those that care about it being open the most - India and China Regular programming will resume in ……..

Decoding Trump on Iran electrical infrastructure threats The strategical & tactical consequences and the motivation/s ———-expressed in neutral moral terms explicitly so the facts can land . The neutralization of Iran’s electrical infrastructure focuses on twelve nodes that support the nation's political, military, and industrial operations. The Damavand Combined Cycle Power Plant near Tehran stands as the primary target for the central region. It provides the base load for the capital’s ten million residents and the administrative heart of the government. Its removal triggers a total failure of high-altitude water pumping stations and urban transit systems. The Shahid Rajaee Power Plant in Qazvin acts as the secondary anchor for the northwest industrial corridor. It supplies the heavy manufacturing zones that produce automotive parts and defense components. In the northern Caspian region, the Neka (Shahid Salimi) Power Plant maintains grid frequency for the agricultural and logistical hubs bordering Russia. Its destruction isolates the northern provinces and halts the operation of strategic port facilities. To the southwest, the Ramin Power Plant in Ahvaz and the Abadan Power Plant provide the high-voltage energy required for oil extraction and refinery operations in Khuzestan. Disabling these plants shuts down domestic fuel production. Electric pumps and cooling systems are necessary for crude processing. The southern coastal theater relies on the Bushehr Nuclear and Conventional complex and the Bandar Abbas Thermal Plant. These facilities are the sole energy providers for the desalination plants that supply potable water to the IRGC naval bases and the millions of civilians in the arid southern provinces. The neutralization of these coastal nodes creates an immediate humanitarian crisis. Water storage in these regions is limited to a 48-hour window. The Asaluyeh Power Plants, integrated into the South Pars gas complex, are already degraded. Their destruction halts the production of petrochemicals and fertilizers. These are essential for domestic food security and foreign exchange. Civilian defense capabilities collapse as the national grid fails. Modern Passive Defense (Sazman-e Padafand-e Gheyr-e Amel) protocols require active power for the subterranean bunkers and civil defense centers that coordinate emergency responses. Hospital systems face immediate failure as backup diesel generators exhaust localized fuel supplies within 72 hours. This is particularly certain given the disruption of the domestic refinery network. Telecommunications and internet connectivity vanish entirely. This prevents the state from managing the movement of the 3.2 million internally displaced persons fleeing urban centers for the rural north. Manufacturing for the defense sector experiences total paralysis. The assembly of solid-fuel missiles and drone components requires precise temperature control and high-energy industrial mixers. A grid collapse halts these production lines and prevents the testing of guidance systems. Heavy industries, including aluminum smelters and steel mills in the Persian Gulf Special Zone, suffer permanent equipment damage from sudden power loss. Molten materials solidify within the furnaces. It’s that thing I keep referring to if you’re a regular reader the idea that our infrastructure can be immediately bought back online in any country is one of our naive beliefs. This creates a multi-decade timeline for industrial reconstruction. The result is a transition from a centralized industrial state to a fragmented, localized survival economy. There is a humanitarian catastrophe lurking here that is hard to contemplate .

Japan is using piezoelectric floor tiles in busy areas like Shibuya and Tokyo Stations to convert footsteps into clean electricity.

Trump threatens to put ICE agents in airports over funding impasse | Reuters reuters.com/world/us/trump…

NEWS: Six months before the Trump admin began bombing Iran, the Department of State fired its oil and gas experts. State’s energy division got completely DOGE’d. And with it went the people who knew how to plan for a global energy crisis. notus.org/trump-white-ho…