The term “kayfabe” refers to insider pro wrestling slang akin to what theater producers might call “diegesis”: the elements internal to the performance as staged for the audience. For example, WWE or AEW wrestlers who are close friends behind the scenes will meet with scriptwriters prior to a show to discuss the “in kayfabe” improvisational beats of their on-camera blood feud in order to advance a storyline about this or that contested championship belt or other plot device. Contrast with “shoot,” which would be some sort of breaking of character, an example being a wrestler with real-life personal enmity of another purposely inflicting injury on that IRL antagonist in front of the audience instead of pulling punches. Or punching Vince McMahon like Bret Hart did once.

Jim Jordan is not a pro wrestler – even though, fucking hilariously, Amazon classified listed 2022 book “Do What You Said You Would Do” as a “Wrestler biography” alongside various unauthorized bios of WWE figures such as John Cena and Cody Rhodes. He’s just a former NCAA Division I sport wrestler who was legitimately very successful at it if less so at preventing his charges from being sexually molested by a sick fuck doctor while Jordan served as an assistant coach at Ohio State.

And yet it’s pretty difficult not to see the very goddamned obvious kayfabe of this Axios article about Jordan issuing subpoenas to eight major Obamacare market insurers – Elevance, CVS, Centene, GuideWell, Oscar Health, Kaiser Permanente, Health Care Service Corporation and Blue Shield of California – in what the “Be Smart” bullet-point factory writes is “part of a widening investigation of potential fraud surrounding the use of premium subsidies in the individual market.”

What was supposed to last 10 days for who the actual hell knows what reason has ended after just a few hours for who the actual hell knows what reason as Fox News reports that the FAA abruptly lifted the flight ban in and out of the airspace over El Paso, Texas on Wednesday.

“JP Cooney – one of the lead prosecutors of President Trump in Jack Smith’s Special Counsel’s Office – today announced his candidacy as a Democrat running for Virginia’s newly drawn seventh Congressional District. Described by the Washington Post as ‘a bold prosecutor who took on big cases,’ The New York Times as a prosecutor ‘known for his aggressive approach,’ and by Business Insider as a ‘top public corruption prosecutor,’ JP Cooney had an 18-year career at the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, the US Attorney’s Office in Washington, DC, and in Jack Smith’s Special Counsel’s Office before being fired by President Donald Trump within a week of inauguration,” says a press release from the campaign. Cooney’s would-be seat technically doesn’t even exist yet as he’s awaiting Virginia Dems to gerrymander out four of the state’s Republicans.

Sources tell Bloomberg News that convicted felon President Trump has privately been talking out loud about quitting the US-Canada-Mexico trade pact that he negotiated and signed in his first term, probably because it would look like he’s doing something besides just saying racist, hateful shit and complaining all the time. Even if it amounts to opposing his own policies.

"I think the FBI and local law enforcement is getting very close. The pictures released yesterday is a game changer in having the public's assistance." @FBIjohn on what we can expect today pic.twitter.com/dCUNZPcBSL

— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) February 11, 2026

Please scratch that Fox News viewers. Pretend this isn’t the second or third time that the fucking idiot in charge of the FBI hasn’t arrested the wrong guy in a high-profile case. Continue watching.

Convicted felon President Trump’s approval rating is at the lowest of his second term in NBC’s polling as the latest national round conducted with SurveyMonkey finds the fat bastard at 39 percent approve to 61 percent disapprove. But MAGAmerica still loves and cherishes him.

“All flights to and from El Paso are grounded, including commercial, cargo and general aviation. The FAA has issued a flight restriction halting all flights to and from El Paso effective from February 10 at 11:30 PM (MST) to February 20 at 11:30 PM (MST). Travelers should contact their airlines to get most up-to-date flight status information,” said El Paso International Airport in a statement on Wednesday and there is zero other official information available on this beyond the FAA’s website saying the area is now under “Temporary flight restrictions for Special Security Reasons.”

El Paso International Airport is a regional hub that handles over 4 million passengers a year, making it the 71st busiest in the United States. And now they’re just shutting it down for 10 days.

It’s happening!!!! 💅🏼💅🏼💅🏼 https://t.co/W2M35p2zdM

— George Santos (@Georgesantos) February 11, 2026

A federal grand jury in DC has declined to return an indictment against the “Seditious Six” – Senators Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin, and Representatives Maggie Goodlander, Jason Crow, Chris Deluzio, and Chrissy Houlahan – the military/CIA veterans whose November video “Don’t Give Up the Ship,” reminding service members of their duty to disobey illegal orders caused a fucking meltdown in the MAGA Reich, NBC News reports on another L for DC US Attorney Jeanine “Judge Box-o-Wine” Pirro.

“It wasn’t enough for Pete Hegseth to censure me and threaten to demote me, now it appears they tried to have me charged with a crime – all because of something I said that they didn’t like,” Kelly told NBC. “That’s not the way things work in America. Donald Trump wants every American to be too scared to speak out against him. The most patriotic thing any of us can do is not back down.”

It’s not clear yet what actual statute Pirro was trying to charge the six Dems under. The drunken former Fox News host has racked up an impressive string of losses at the grand jury stage, possibly more than any other federal prosecutor in their entire career in US history, in like eight months.

Convicted felon President Trump’s regime have removed the rainbow pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan, the symbol of the very reason why there’s a goddamned Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan, USA Today reports on the equivalent of removing the Marine Corps flag from the Iwo Jima memorial statue in Washington, DC.

“Removing the rainbow flag from the Stonewall National Monument again makes a target of what is sacred ground for our community – and another attempted act of erasure by an administration that has relentlessly attacked the LGBTQ+ community since the day it took office,” said Cathy Renna, spokeswoman for the National LGBTQ Task Force, in a statement to the paper.

Former CNN host Don Lemon on Tuesday retained for his defense team Joseph H Thompson, who until he quit just weeks ago was one of the top federal prosecutors in the Minnesota US Attorney’s Office, the New York Times reports on a nice little fuck you to the Trump regime from both men.

If you were suspicious that ICE was hiring a bunch of incel pedophiles with twisted sadomasochistic fantasies well CBS News is here to confirm your priors about the utter savagery and nihilism of those evil, evil cunts. Images obtained by the still quasi-independent outlet show Anabel Romero’s 14-year-old daughter SueHey’s wrists with the ligature marks from the zipties ICE agents bound her with during a raid on a community horse racing venue in Wilder, Idaho in October.

The pics are included in a complaint filed by the ACLU on behalf of the Latino US citizens who were roughed up during the raid that netted 105 undocumented internees. “They have done long lasting damage to children. At this moment, when the United States Congress is confronted with a question of how to reign in ICE… the answer is they need to reign in ICE to protect our children,” said Jenn Rolnick Borchetta, the ACLU’s deputy project director on policing on the case against the Reich.

TODAY at 4 PM EST: President Donald J. Trump sits down with @Larry_Kudlow on @FoxBusiness for an exclusive interview. 🇺🇸

You won't want to miss it! pic.twitter.com/6lIPjHgw2G

— The White House (@WhiteHouse) February 10, 2026

Yeah. He did. They really should just do these interviews live, add more suspense.

Scroll down just a bit in this newly unsealed search warrant that was executed on the Fulton County, Georgia election records building while super secret agent cosplayer Tulsi Gabbard tried to look undercover and you’ll see this little hint of classic Kraken-alia to begin the affidavit:

“Following the 2020 election, the Georgia Secretary of State’s office made available ballot images of absentee ballots cast in the 2020 general election. Georgia resident [REDACTED] was a chemical engineer and taught at a technical college. [REDACTED] began conducting research and analysis on elections following the November 3, 2020, election. As part of that analysis, [REDACTED] reviewed images of the released absentee voter ballot images. He discovered that the number of ballot images from the Recount did not reconcile with the number of ballots cast,” it says on page 8.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuck. Fuck, lol. These fucking people, “conducting research.” Fuck.

“In response to remarks made by President Donald Trump criticizing global music artist Bad Bunny following Sunday’s game, as well as separate widely condemned racist imagery circulating online depicting Barack and Michelle Obama, an artisan bakery is announcing a limited-edition cookie release as a form of cultural expression. President Trump’s comments regarding Bad Bunny were widely viewed by critics as dismissive of Latino culture and Spanish-language expression, sparking significant backlash across social media and among artists, fans, and cultural commentators.”

“The bakery responded with a small-batch release of boldly iced cookies reading ‘F*** TRUMP,’ describing the drop as ‘a statement, not a stunt.’ ‘We’re bakers, not politicians,’ the bakery said in a statement. ‘But when culture, identity, and representation are repeatedly targeted, staying silent doesn’t feel like an option.’ According to the bakery, an earlier limited release of similarly themed cookies that read F*** ICE generated immediate demand, with more than 100 orders placed within the first 12 minutes before selling out. The bakery reported receiving a surge of follow-up emails and messages from customers asking when the next drop would be available, prompting the decision to cap the current release. The limited cookie drop will go live today at 2:00 PM Pacific Time, 5:00 PM Eastern Time. The bakery emphasized that the release is not about profit, but about participating in a broader cultural conversation. A portion of proceeds from this drop will be donated to United We Dream, a national organization advocating for immigrant communities and families,” says a press release issued Tuesday that doesn’t actually identify the vendor until the bottom.

Upon further examination, the site at getyummycookies.myshopify.com doesn’t identify them either, possibly for fear of violent reprisal from fanatic MAGA cultists. And yes, this is just free ad space for the some shadowy bakery, but fuck it. Buy them or don’t, there’s no “affiliate link” shit here.

Indescribably incompetent FBI Director K$H Patel on Tuesday updated the American people as untold millions awaited breathlessly for something, anything on the whereabouts of abducted 84 year-old Arizona woman Nancy Guthrie, mother of some longtime network morning show host Samanth- sorry, Savannah Guthrie, with K$H posting “Over the last eight days, the FBI and Pima County Sheriff’s Department have been working closely with our private sector partners to continue to recover any images or video footage from Nancy Guthrie’s home that may have been lost, corrupted, or inaccessible due to a variety of factors – including the removal of recording devices.”

“The video was recovered from residual data located in backend systems,” K$H said, nine days after Nancy was kidnapped from her home. God knows how many fucking hours have been spent on this by the director of the agency formed to take down infamously violent bank robbers, powerful mafia syndicates, Nazi saboteurs, and Soviet fifth columnists. All sincere prayers and best wishes to the Guthrie family with the possible exception of some shithead nephew or cousin trying to shake down a highly-paid TV host for what CNN reports is a $6 million ransom demand. Who knows who it was but just the headline basics of the story point to a knowledgeable inside job. In any case they he/they have something seriously fucking wrong with them to be holding an old lady hostage.

Not as wrong but still disquieting is the frenzy around this, with or without K$H introducing his boyish amateurism to previously unfamiliar demos. That goddamned Nancy Grace came out of semi-retirement says it all about how much bandwidth – that could be shared with so many more innocent souls also abducted by violent, masked men – is just going to one medium-profile victim.

🚨 BOOM! 🚨 THIS WEEK’S ECONOMIST/YOUGOV NATIONAL SURVey shows a noticeable shift in the preference of independent voters – that exists in a liminal space where the readers who mock the generic ballot findings need to be acknowledged before any such coverage can be justified.

Ready? In October the pollsters found 46 percent of indies saying “I would not vote,” when asked “If the elections for US Congress were being held today, who would you vote for in the district where you live?” a stat seen by this site as a possible leading indicator of broad turnout collapse – which probably wouldn’t be a bad thing when Dems have the corner on propensity. Not voting led “Not Sure” at 28 percent, followed by Ds in third at 15 percent, and then the GOP dead last at 8 percent.

That’s changed. “I would not vote” still leads at 33 percent, but this week Dems are in second at 27 percent, then the Not Sures at 25, and Republicans last again at 12 percent. Now circumspection in everything, doubly so in American election polling, triply so on the fucking generic ballot that many dismiss. Yet that kind of movement if not the numbers themselves still merits attention as it speaks to the end of what seemed to be a mass checking-out on the part of the irritable middle, their hazy twilight roused not by “Trantifa” rogues burning Portland to the ground for real this time or some other MAGA daydream spank material. It would seem that it was moments like their fellow citizens getting shot dead in the street like dogs, children being held hostage by masked man-boys, kind souls bound to undocumented coils caged and concentrated in camps, and far too many other atrocities big and small, all wrought simply because Stephen Miller was a virgin until he was 23.

Roused they seem, if judging solely by the disproportionate assortation of stated intent. 🚨 WOW 🚨