Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Thursday floated an interesting epistemological hypothesis regarding theoretical inappropriate conduct by Attorney General Pam Bondi having a list of searches of the unredacted Epstein files by Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal in Bondi’s binder during her Wednesday hearing: That IF Johnson were aware of the voluminous photographic evidence that Bondi indeed had such a printout in her binder while sitting at the table during the contentious testimony then it WOULD BE “inappropriate,” in Johnson’s words. However, like many other inexplicably distant video clips, racist rants by convicted felon President Trump, and so on, Johnson asserted unfalsifiably that he remains outside the sphere of awareness of this transgression by Bondi and concordantly she remains outside the sphere of his judgment on inappropriate conduct.

It’s almost like these Hill reporters should have an iPad on hand with whatever it is they already know Johnson is going to say he hasn’t seen yet very clearly displayed on the tablet. Hand it to him first, explain it briefly, THEN ask him to comment. Or print it out if an iPad’s too clunky, whatever.

In related news the House is out on recess for the week and DHS will shut down Friday.

“AG Pam Bondi, under intense fire from the Trump Deranged Radical Left Lunatics, was fantastic at yesterday’s Hearing on the never ending saga of Jeffrey Epstein, where the one thing that has been proven conclusively, much to their chagrin, was that President Donald J Trump has been 100 percent exonerated of their ridiculous Russia, Russia, Russia type charges. Actually, it is the SLIMEBALL Democrats, many of them big Donors and Politicians, that have been proven GUILTY! ‘Republican’ Loser, Sanctimonious RINO Congressman, Thomas Massie, made a total fool of himself yesterday, fighting aimlessly against a hopeless agenda of Hate and Stupidity, as most clearly stated by his crashing Job Approval Numbers in the Great Commonwealth of Kentucky, where a Military Hero Opponent, Ed Gallrein, is crushing him in the Polls. He is now in ‘Wacky’ Liz Cheney territory!”

“Nobody cared about Epstein when he was alive, they only cared about him when they thought he could create Political Harm to a very popular President who has brought our Country back from the brink of extinction, and very quickly, at that! In fact, this attempt by the Democrats to take away attention from tremendous Republican SUCCESS is backfiring badly. Maybe they should focus on their quest to Open our Borders to the World’s Greatest Criminals, have Transgender for Everybody or, get Men, no matter their size or strength, to play in Women’s Sports. Thank you for your attention to this matter,” posted convicted felon President Trump on Thursday, thanking everyone for their attention to the Epstein matter that he just drew attention to by claiming he’s been exonerated.

Fresh off her and five other Congressional Dems not-at-all-narrowly escaping a grand jury indicting them for reminding US service members of their duty to disobey illegal orders, Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin tells Punchbowl’s Anthony Adragna that she’s hearing that daydrinking DC US Attorney Jeanine “Judge Box-o-Wine” Pirro is going to present a “case” again to try to land an indictment on charges that Slotkin still has no idea what federal statute… Reportedly neither did Pirro, who brought in a dance photography studio owner/former Westchester County prosecutor who used to work for her to present the case. Seriously. They also got zero votes for probable cause. Full shut-out.

“I don’t expect this administration to give up. They have a pattern. This president doesn’t like to lose,” other would-be accused criminal seditionist Mark Kelly told Adragna, adding “I don’t expect this is going away any time soon.” Fact check-ish: It’s been over a month since the last reports of a no bill of the lame “case” against New York Attorney General Letitia James. There’s been no reporting of another try against former FBI Director James Comey. Neither are completely out of the very thin woods but the efforts sure seem closer to sputtered out than getting back on track.

“Remember, it was RINO Governor Kevin Stitt, of Oklahoma, who was massively behind his Opponent in his previous Election for Governor, who called me to ask for help. I Endorsed him (Barely!), and he won his Race. He then went on to modestly represent among the greatest people on Earth, the incredible Patriots of ‘The Sooner State,’ who gave me unprecedented Voting acclimation in all three Elections, winning every County within the State, three times, and getting more Votes than anyone who has ever run for Office, including the Late, Great Ronald Reagan. In any event, we will soon have a Governor in Oklahoma who knows how to accurately write a Press Release to the Public, in this case, to state that I invited, not happily, almost all Democrat Governors to the Governor’s Dinner at the White House. Stitt, a wiseguy, knew this, but tried to get some cheap publicity by stating otherwise. Anyway, I’ll see whoever shows up at the White House, the fewer the better!” posted convicted felon President Trump on Thursday, his third in less than 24 hours screaming at Stitt over this governors’ association drama that’s pretty far out into the edge of the media’s radar.

Joining late and RonAnon just asked Minnesota AG Keith Ellison if he encouraged his constituents to go out and “exercise their First Amendment” rights to which Ellison responded that he admits “to being in favor of the First Amendment,” in case you want an idea of how it’s going so far.

After having suffered grievous political casualties, Trump regime borderfuhrer Tom Homan on Thursday announced a “significant drawdown” to the occupation of Minneapolis by DHS.

“I have proposed, and President Trump has concurred, that this surge operation conclude. A significant drawdown has already been underway this week and will continue,” said Homan.

Staffers for Republican Ohio Senators Bernie “M4M” Moreno and Jon “I am not Jon Huntsman” Husted on Tuesday affirmed their commitment to full opacity on the $3,500 campaign contributions each accepted from Dirty Jeff’s close friend and credibly suspected statutory rape enthusiast Les Wexner. NOTUS reached out to both, as well as the NRSC – to whom Wex donated $250,000 last year – for a comment on his support for their campaigns and got no answer from their teams.

Nor from Republican Ohio Congressman Mike Carey, who received $3,300 from Wexner.

To be completely fair also silent was Dem Ohio Congresswoman Joyce Beatty on the $3,500 she took from him. Same with Husted’s all-but-certain November opponent, former Senator Sherrod Brown, whose hands are marginally cleaner as he got multiple $2,500 donations from Wexner’s wife between 2011 and 2017. It might be smart to get on a sizable transfer, far larger than that sum total, to whatever organization the Epstein survivors have formed. Or to just form one for them.

Anyway, the closest the reporter got was “A source familiar with the situation told NOTUS that Moreno would not be returning the funds, and said that the donation was unsolicited.”

"I hope this ends with Nancy coming home safe and sound and whoever did this behind bars."

Joe Petito, Gabby Petito’s father, weighs in on the Nancy Guthrie investigation pic.twitter.com/FqbAZyrbCU

— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) February 12, 2026

Again, in case this caveat is necessary: Nobody with a soul lacks any moral clarity on the Nancy Guthrie situation, as brutalizing and abducting and old lady is especially cruel and depraved. Nor would they have any question about whether Gabby Petito’s fiancee Brian Laundrie was a fucking worm, even if there might be room for debate on whether his suicide subsequent to murdering her was the “right thing to do” – as well as the level to which Utah law enforcement failed her.

The failure itself is beyond question. That, coupled with Laundrie’s escape from being held accountable for his daughter’s murder also makes it perfectly reasonable for Joe Petito to want to continue sorting through his grief publicly now nearly five years later, without reproach.

All that out of the way… what the fuck? Why? You know when it was Laken Riley and other white women murdered by illegal immigrants at least the political agenda was clear as day, but seriously what the fuck? Not even the still-snow-clogged sidewalks and accumulating garbage outside their building in socialist Muslim supervillain Zohran Mamdani’s New York City to fill in some time would work for something “relatable” to ordinary viewers? Fox and Friends viewers wouldn’t be Fox and Friends viewers if they didn’t have a high tolerance for stupid bullshit and obsessive fixations but this Nancy Guthrie kick has to be getting close to breaching that unspoken covenant.

In a press release issued Thursday via state media outlet RIA-Novosti and translated by Google, rapey mustache guy/Kremlin spokesworm Dmitry Peskov “called the Max platform an accessible alternative to other messaging apps. ‘Max is an accessible alternative, a developing messenger, a national messenger. And it (this alternative – ed) is available on the market for citizens,’ he told reporters. VK launched the beta version of the MAX digital platform in March 2025. The platform allows users to exchange messages, make calls, send voice messages, and send files up to four gigabytes in size. The app is available in the App Store, RuStore, and Google Play.”

Amazingly, the statement’s characterization of MAX as an “accessible alternative” is factually accurate because, per CNBC, far more popular platform WhatsApp is, as of Thursday, completely banned in Russia. Thus MAX is the currently accessible alternative to the Facebook-owned chat app.

Still, Peskov’s pitch could’ve worked maybe just a little bit harder to sell Russians on Max by emphasizing the superior content moderation and “user safety” team responsiveness. Everyone’s got some annoying conspiracy theorist weirdo who constantly posts insane garbage like “Civilians are being targeted in Ukraine” and “President Putin is insanely paranoid about being assassinated by Kyiv so he never sleeps in the same bed two nights in a row.” With Max, you won’t have to see them spreading that kind of disinfo again. And you won’t have to see them in real life again either.

Dem New Mexico Senator Benny Ray Lujan will run unopposed in November’s general election after Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver ruled that Lujan’s would-be Republican opponent Christopher Vanden Heuvel had not turned in the minimum amount of signatures on his ballot access petition, the Albuquerque Journal reports. The same fate befell Republican Carlton Pennington in the 1st Congressional District race, Republican gov hopeful Belinda Robertson, and Dem Thomas Wakely, who had launched a primary challenge against 2nd District Dem Gabe Vasquez.

“Any Republican, in the House or the Senate, that votes against TARIFFS will seriously suffer the consequences come Election time, and that includes Primaries! Our Trade Deficit has been reduced by 78 percent, the Dow Jones has just hit 50,000, and the S&P, 7,000, all Numbers that were considered IMPOSSIBLE just one year ago. In addition, TARIFFS have given us Great National Security because the mere mention of the word has Countries agreeing to our strongest wishes. TARIFFS have given us Economic and National Security, and no Republican should be responsible for destroying this privilege,” the supposedly skilled political leader posted on Wednesday.

Video captured the moments when a Florida teenager with a gasoline canister set another teen on firehttps://t.co/XFm9Av2NFb

— NBC 6 South Florida (@nbc6) February 11, 2026

“The RINO Governor of the Great State of Oklahoma, in which I won all 77 Counties, three times (The only person to do so!), incorrectly stated my position on the very exclusive Governors Annual Dinner and Meeting at the White House: ‘The White House intends to limit invitations to the annual business meeting, scheduled for February 20th, to Republican Governors only.’ That is false! The invitations were sent to ALL Governors, other than two, who I feel are not worthy of being there.”

“I did not invite the Governor of Colorado, who has unfairly incarcerated in solitary confinement a 73-year-old cancer stricken woman (A nine year term!), for attempting to fight Democrat Voter Fraud, plus the foul mouthed Governor of Maryland, who fraudulently stated that he received Military medals, A LIE, is doing a terrible job on the rebuilding of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, and has allowed Baltimore to continue to be a Crime Disaster. I even invited the SLOB of a Governor, JB Pritzker, and horrendous California Governor, Gavin Newscum, to the Dinner, despite the terrible job that they are doing. So, as usual with him, Stitt got it WRONG! The Invitations were sent out to all other Governors, Democrat and Republican. I look forward to seeing the Republican Governors, and some of the Democrats Governors who were worthy of being invited, but most of whom won’t show up,” posted an evidently extra agitated convicted felon President Trump on Wednesday.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson on Wednesday told reporters he’s asked Florida Republican Congressman Neal Dunn not to die, or worse, resign early next week – as Dunn did not exactly deny earlier, Politico reports. “Neal Dunn is a beloved member of Congress and a great man, and you know, he’s informed us he’s not going to run for reelection,” Johnson said. As for what Dunn’s next move is, Johnson added he’s “not sure – you need to ask him. But I’ve encouraged him to stay and be a part of this, and I think he wants to do that.” Johnson’s majority is effectively two votes.

Without alerting White House, Pentagon, or DHS, FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford on Tuesday night decided to close the airspace around El Paso, Texas because the “Department of War” decided to deploy and fire an experimental new laser beam weapon to destroy what were believed to be drug cartel drones crossing the Mexican border, but the only confirmed hit they had was on a mylar party balloon, CBS News reports on just another surreal episode of incompetence from this regime.

“The FAA and DOW acted swiftly to address a cartel drone incursion. The threat has been neutralized, and there is no danger to commercial travel in the region. The restrictions have been lifted and normal flights are resuming,” ex-Real World cast member Sean Duffy said in a statement.

State propaganda network Fox News cut away from its live airing of scumbag Attorney General Pam Bondi’s testimony to the House Judiciary Committee, clip guy Aaron Rupar reports writes is “highly unusual for a high-profile hearing of this sort” and thus an unmistakable sign that it isn’t going well.

Remember, Republicans currently hold the House majority, lol. This isn’t the friggin January 6th Select Committee hearings that they refused to fully expose their audience to – or air at all.

MAGA activist Carrie Prejean Boller, a former Miss California beauty pageant winner who was stripped of her title over a sex tape scandal and homophobic comments in 2009 and then later became a Trump 2020 campaign advisor, was fired from the White House’s “Religious Liberty Commission” on Wednesday, two days after she derailed the panel’s Monday hearing on antisemitism by peppering witnesses with questions like “Catholics do not embrace Zionism, just so you know. So are all Catholics antisemites?” and defending Candace Owens, Jewish Insider reports.

Commission chair Texas Lt Gov Dannie Goeb, aka Dan Patrick, announced the firing in a tweet, writing “No member of the Commission has the right to hijack a hearing for their own personal and political agenda on any issue. This is clearly, without question, what happened Monday in our hearing on antisemitism in America. This was my decision.” The Groypers are gonna LOVE this.

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.”