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Investors in Chinese search engine Baidu lost $2.4 billion on Monday after the stock price dropped because founder/CEO Robin Li was not seen at a meeting with Communist overlord Xi Jingping attended by other chieftains Alibaba’s Jack Ma and Huawei’s Ren Zhengfei, Reuters reports.

Li was not seen in media coverage of the meeting. He could’ve been in the men’s room taking a piss when whatever images of it surfaced or stuck in traffic on the ground or in the air or something and still the traders just freaked out and killed 8 percent of the company’s value. So whether or not Li was actually there (Reuters says sources told them that there was “no sign” of him at the sit-down in Beijing, but the selloff began even before they got that tip) he could probably turn things around quick by renaming the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of China on Baidu maps.

Convicted felon President Trump’s regime is pressuring Romania’s government to allow credibly accused sex traffickers Andrew and Tristan Tate to travel to the US so the right wing influencers can be granted asylum or who the hell knows what kind of shit they’ll pull, the Financial Times reports.

Sources say the matter was first brought up in a phone call and then in a conversation between Dick Grenell and Romanian Foreign Minister Emil Hurezeanu. A spokesman for the ministry refused to comment on the meeting specifically but said “Romanian courts are independent and operate based on the law, there is due process.” Grenell’s been ranting on Twitter that the prosecution against the two was somehow funded with USAID grants so right there’s the justification for this shitbaggery.

On a very related note, had meant to pick this up earlier this month but plate got too full with all this batshittery going on: The Bulwark’s migrant beat guy Adrian Carrasquilo wrote on February 5th that the Trump Regime were plotting to do whatever they could to prevent a repeat of the horror stories and images spreading like they did during the family separation shitshow his first failed term in an effort not to piss away the thin but real reserve of political capital they have to round people up.

“Trump’s team has deployed a massive public-relations effort to put a deeply patriotic gloss on their policy, with cabinet officials cosplaying as body-armor-wearing ICE agents and TV personalities being brought along during the agency’s raids. They’re also trying to condition supporters and the public to not go wobbly when troubling footage does inevitably surface,” Carrasquilo wrote. He then cited a reply to a video of shitbag podcaster Theo Von laughing about someone being deported about the effort as epitomizing the nervousness in the MAGAverse. “We’re going to have to suck it up, it’s really going to get tough. They will tug at our emotions. Stand strong, America! It’s for the greater good,” a woman wrote, later deleting the comment for reasons unclear.

A Saturday evening Facebook post by the Mukilteo, Washington Police Department asks “Do you know who did this??? On 02-15-2025, possibly sometime between 6:30p and 7:20p, an unknown individual or group of individuals destroyed the men’s bathroom at Lighthouse Park. If you have any information regarding this incident, please contact the Mukilteo Police Department and reference 25-03148,” accompanied by a photo of the absolutely heinous act of destruction to the facility.

The department could and probably should have used “vandalized” rather than “destroyed” to describe the scene in which the stalls were apparently kicked down and the windows smashed.

“Congresswoman Claudia Tenney (NY-24) today introduced the Trump’s Birthday and Flag Day Holiday Establishment Act to officially designate June 14 as a federal holiday to commemorate President Donald J Trump’s Birthday and Flag Day. Born on June 14, 1946, President Donald J Trump’s birthday coincided with Flag Day, which is observed annually and recognizes the anniversary of the adoption of the Stars and Stripes as the official US flag in 1777.”

“This legislation would permanently codify a new federal holiday called ‘Trump’s Birthday and Flag Day’ on June 14 to honor this historic day. ‘No modern president has been more pivotal for our country than Donald J Trump. As both our 45th and 47th President, he is the most consequential President in modern American history, leading our country at a time of great international and domestic turmoil. From brokering the historic Abraham Accords to championing the largest tax relief package in American history, his impact on the nation is undeniable. Just as George Washington’s Birthday is codified as a federal holiday, this bill will add Trump’s Birthday to this list, recognizing him as the founder of America’s Golden Age. As our nation prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, we should create a new federal holiday honoring the American Flag and all that it represents.”

“By designating Trump’s Birthday and Flag Day as a federal holiday, we can ensure President Trump’s contributions to American greatness and the importance of the American Flag are forever enshrined into law,’ said Congresswoman Tenney,” says a press release from Tenney’s office about how hard she’s working to lower the price of eggs for voters in New York’s 24th District.

“It is my honor to nominate highly respected Edward R Martin, Jr, for the full and permanent term of United States Attorney for the District of Columbia [blah blah blah]. Since Inauguration Day, Ed has been doing a great job as Interim US Attorney, fighting tirelessly to restore Law and Order, and make our Nation’s Capital Safe and Beautiful Again. He will get the job done,” posted convicted felon President Trump on Monday in announcing his boss Elon Musk had nominated Martin, Musk’s personal enforcer, to continue at the job of vowing to neutralize any and every threat to his power.

“Any threats, confrontations, or other actions in any way that impact their work may break numerous laws. Let me assure you of this: we will pursue any and all legal action against anyone who impedes your work or threatens your people. We will not act like the previous administration who looked the other way as the Antifa and BLM rioters as well as thugs with guns trashed our capital city. We will protect DOGE and other workers no matter what,” Martin had vowed to Musk earlier this month.

“We are troubled and disappointed by the administration’s decision to fire FAA probationary employees PASS represents without cause nor based on performance or conduct. Several hundred employees have been impacted with messages being sent from an ‘exec order’ Microsoft email address, not an official .gov email address. Messages began arriving after 7 pm ET on February 14 and continued late into the night. It is possible that others will be notified over the weekend or literally barred from entering FAA buildings on Tuesday, February 18. These are not nameless, faceless bureaucrats. They are our family, friends and neighbors. They contribute to our communities. Many military veterans are among them. It is shameful to toss aside dedicated public servants who have chosen to work on behalf of their fellow Americans.”

“These employees were devoted to their jobs and the safety critical mission of the FAA. This draconian action will increase the workload and place new responsibilities on a workforce that is already stretched thin. This decision did not consider the staffing needs of the FAA, which is already challenged by understaffing. Staffing decisions should be based on an individual agency’s mission-critical needs. To do otherwise is dangerous when it comes to public safety. And it is especially unconscionable in the aftermath of three deadly aircraft accidents in the past month. The hastily made decision on Friday night did not focus on mission-critical needs and was harmful to employees,” says David Spero, of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists, in a statement.

So all that shit from convicted felon President Trump about how the January 29 mid-air collision over the Potomac “tragically underscores the need to elevate safety and competence as the priority of the FAA” was just that and he’s making their job of keeping air travel safe harder.

…While AOC has never been a defender of free speech, principle demands something more from the rest of us who value the First Amendment. Just as VP Vance offered a powerful defense of free speech in Europe, this baseless threat undermines the high ground achieved in Munich.

— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) February 17, 2025

North Carolina MAGA insurrectionist David Daniel’s lawyer William Terpening tells the Wall Street Journal that, due to the wording of convicted felon President Trump’s pardon covering “offenses related to events that occurred at or near” the January 6th attack on the Capitol, his client was also pardoned for possession of child pornography because “pretty much all” of the evidence against him for that crime came from a raid on Daniel’s home on a warrant for his arrest over the riot.

“Anything that flowed from that case, given the pardon, should be excluded and inadmissible at trial,” said Terpening, who is not the only MAGA scumbag’s defense counsel putting forward this batshit argument. Floridian Daniel Ball, a convicted felon who did time for domestic battery by strangulation before the riot, was caught in possession of a gun and ammo when the feds effected his arrest. “I don’t see how they could in good faith say this case is not covered by the presidential proclamation, because it only came about because of the Jan 6 case,” said Ball’s attorney Amy Collins. Tennesseean Edward Kelley was found guilty in November of plotting to assassinate the FBI agents who investigated him after the riot and faces life in prison at sentencing in May, his lawyer is trying to get that conviction tossed on the same grounds. “In this instance, there can be no dispute that Kelley’s case in this court is related to the events of January 6th and is covered by the President’s executive action,” attorney Mark Brown wrote in a January 27 motion for dismissal.

A group of Argentinian lawyers on Sunday filed a criminal complaint against assclown “mini-Trump” President Javier Milei over a “rug pull” in which he tweeted about $LIBRA, some scam crypto coin that Milei claimed was aimed at “encouraging economic growth by funding small businesses and startups,” boosting its value only to delete it hours later prompting a quick collapse, the AP reports.

Jonatan Baldiviezo, one of the plaintiffs who signed onto the complaint, told the AP he and the other lawyers saw intent to commit “an indeterminate number of frauds,” adding “Within this illicit association, the crime of fraud was committed, in which the president’s actions were essential.”

The AP’s article says “Criminal justice is expected to assign a judge to the case or refer it to a prosecutor for further investigation on Monday,” leaving it not totally clear whether the complaint has legs or if it will go down a black hole like an FEC complaint in the US. Convicted felon President Trump pulled something very similar on his fanboys in the days after his return to power when he promoted a $TRUMP coin only for his third wife $MELANIA to do the same less than a day later. It’s suspected the fat fuck and his minions made at least $109 million in fees alone prior to its crash.

You’d be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn’t think xenomorphs are a problem. After all, the vicious, eusocial insect-like aliens have killed hundreds of thousands of colonists across the galaxy and cost billions in taxpayer dollars and in economic growth over the last few decades. Entire colonies have been wiped out, space stations infested, freight vessels destroyed as these nightmarish monsters propagate their hives whenever and wherever they can. Yet despite many resources devoted to halting their scourge our elected officials, local colonial administrators, and military leaders have shown time and time again that they just aren’t up to the job. Time and time again the government gets involved and the xenomorphs just end up ripping more people apart.

Take what happened on LV-426 in 2179 as a prime example of this gross incompetence. Now, no one’s blaming the colonists at Hadley’s Hope for failing to use proper precautions when someone told them to go investigate a set of coordinates. They were just simple folk living in a “shake and bake” colony, 60 or 70 families roughing it on the frontier while chasing the dream. Things happen out there on desolate rocks out in deep space and it was a tragedy that no one could have foreseen.

The response however was a complete embarrassment: A full squad of Colonial Marines, fully trained and equipped with the latest in technology and weaponry, were sent to investigate and within hours were massacred by the xenomorphs – 12 dead plus several civilians. Not to mention a multi-billion dollar atmosphere processor that exploded after the Marine squad’s female pilot, who was flying while distracted, crashed a drop ship into the reactor’s cooling vents. And then that idiot prison warden who was yelling really loudly at inmates right under an open air vent.

Enough is enough. It’s time to bring in a trusted private sector name to defeat the xenomorphs.

Convicted felon President Trump’s scumbag lawyers on Sunday submitted the first of what will no doubt be dozens, maybe hundreds, of petitions to the US Supreme Court, this one seeking to overturn a lower court’s temporary injunction issued against the firing of ethics watchdog Hampton Dellinger, Bloomberg reports. “This court should not allow lower courts to seize executive power by dictating to the president how long he must continue employing an agency head against his will,” wrote Solicitor General Sarah Harris in the Supreme Court filing.

Following in the tradition of $15 packs of cigarettes being opened so the smokes can be sold individually, New York City’s bodegas are starting to sell eggs as “loosies” too, WCBS reports.

“If you have $20 and you want to make breakfast for two or three people, and you’re already spending $12 for one item, something, how are they going to buy the bread, the milk, the butter and all that stuff?” said Bronx bodegaman Radhames Rodriguez, whose $12 dozen eggs can now be bought three for $3. The idea isn’t exactly revolutionary given the aforementioned cigarette offerings and that individual hardboiled eggs typically are available for sale at these places too, so much as just another sign of the times of Americans living with the second Trump Regime’s failures.

White House Economic Council wiener Kevin Hassett on Sunday laid out the Trump Administration’s plan for tackling the bird flu and egg price crises: Blaming the Biden Administration. There was a little bit in there about “biosecurity” or some shit but Hassett wasn’t very specific about that. In any event, Politico reported on Saturday that 25 percent of the staff at the USDA’s National Animal Health Laboratory Network – the office handling the bird flu response – have been laid off.

“The 14th Amendment Right of American Citizenship never had anything to do with modern day ‘gate crashers,’ illegal immigrants who break the Law by being in our Country, it had everything to do with giving Citizenship to former slaves. Our Founding Fathers are ‘spinning in their graves’ at the idea that our Country can be taken away from us. No Nation in the World has anything like this. Our lawyers and Judges have to be tough, and protect America!” posted convicted felon President Trump on Sunday, feeling a bit uninhibited on the racism thing with the “our Country can be taken away from us” part after repeating some shit one of his “legal scholar” minions came up with.

And while yes, the intent and immediate effect of the 14th was indeed giving citizenship to former slaves, the wording left open that gap that the Wong Kim Ark decision bridged. This fat fucking idiot just doesn’t get it and posts like this probably won’t help his case. Anti-anti-Trump douchebag Dan McLoughlin at the National Review laid out last week why Donald’s ban is almost certainly DOA.

Just wait libs, President Trump is going to completely teabag Putin in these peace talks. Watch the 5D chessmaster in action soon. It’s coming. You’ll be as shocked and awed as Putin himself.

Swannanoa, North Carolina Trump fan Emily Russell, who lost her home in the cataclysmic deluge wrought by Hurricane Helene in September, tells the AP she’s on board with the convicted felon president’s stated goal of “getting rid of” the Federal Emergency Management Agency because they were “no help” with getting her house rebuilt and her personal items replaced.

Russell did not say what she would want the agency replaced with or how she envisions federal aid should be rendered if her home were to be wiped out again. She just wants FEMA gone.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a federal law enforcement agency, its agents are peace officers. If they bust down the doors of a house suspected to be full of illegal immigrants and instead find a US citizen wanted for bank robbery, they will effect an arrest and hand him over to local police or sheriff’s deputies. They don’t stay out of it just because it isn’t in their mandate.

Thus if Tom Homan really thinks that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio Cortez is aiding and abetting there’s not a lot stopping him from ordering ICE agents to arrest her on probable cause for interfering with federal law enforcement or obstructing justice or whatever. If he’s tired of answering this question and reluctant because a judge is going to pretty much immediately determining the arrest was bullshit and order her released well then that’s his problem and he shouldn’t have sounded like such a fucking Nazi by claiming she was breaking the law.

In a letter sent to ratepayers in two Huntsville, Alabama-area counties that voted for convicted felon President Trump by margins of 9 and 43 percent in the November election, provider Huntsville Utilities informed them that the fat fuck is directly responsible for a $100 increase in their heating bill next month after he canceled a grant for that amount on his third day in office.

“This letter informs you that your above-referenced utility account has been debited for $100. Community Action Agency of Huntsville/Madison and Limestone Counties has notified us that the grant you received for $100.00 on January 23, 2025 is no longer valid due to President Trump’s executive order to rescind the funding behind the grant. The grant you received for $100 has been debited to your account [number] and will be due with your next invoice. We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. If you need to make payment arrangements or have questions, don’t hesitate to get in touch with our office at [phone number],” says the February 7th letter obtained by Popular.Info’s Judd Legum, emphasis added on Trump being named as responsible.

Usually when a politician promises to do something like say, cut energy costs in half, it might help to use whatever preexisting resources are available rather than dig a hole, right?

Convicted felon President Trump’s regime has ended their daily reporting on immigration arrest numbers, with his minions telling the Washington Post they’re now going to be doing it on a monthly basis to “conserve resources.” Those were the Post’s words rather than a direct quote from a source but seriously l-o-fucking-l. What the hell kind of resources are being saved here? It need not even be said here, but there’s almost no way the data isn’t simply a count of arrest affidavits entered into the federal court system by ICE anyway, meaning that it’s simply a matter of grouping the record count by month rather than date to dilute the declining pace – the Post writes arrests are down to around 600 per day after a peak of roughly 800, well short of the target of 1,700/day.

Holy shit that is so lame. Even lamer is how leadership are now telling ICE agents to work extra shifts and defer vacations to plug these ever-diminishing returns. White House spokesworm Kush Desai tried to divert attention to the regime’s performative actions at the border, claiming to the Post that Trump has “already delivered on the resounding mandate that the American people gave him in November to put an end to the Biden administration’s malfeasant handling of our southern border.”

Jason Houser, chief of staff for ICE during the Biden administration, said “I see a lot of show. This administration wants to continuously bring in every piece of the government away from their mission.” He added that federal law enforcement officials who usually focus on illicit firearms, drugs and sex traffickers are now “standing around in their jackets arresting noncriminals.”