A Pasadena, California three year-old running not particularly fast proved too difficult a quarry for a coyote on Monday, as KTLA reports a driveway encounter between the boy, Salvo Bessemer, and the wily canine ended with the animal scurrying away after being screamed at by the boy’s mother.

“We encounter coyotes occasionally but have had none come on the property and pursue us [before],” said dad Leonard Bessemer after his boy’s easy escape. “It’s a quiet neighborhood.”

Coyotes have long been depicted in popular media as being incompetent hunters who often fail to properly use dynamite and other explosives when attempting to kill or incapacitate prey.

Also during this typically ill-advised CNN hit the spandex-wearing grapple freak dodged newsman Manu Raju’s question on whether Tony Gonzales should resign. Separately Raju later reported that Gonzales told him that he’s got no plans to resign anytime soon.

On Tuesday Axios reported that binge-drinking date-rapist Pete Hegseth ordered Anthropic AI CEO Dario Amodei to unthrottle its Claude model’s restrictions against mass surveillance and operating lethal weaponry by Friday or he’ll invoke the Defense Production Act to seize control, Axios reports.

Asked to respond to the article, Claude wrote “Reading this article is a strange experience – it’s about me, in a very direct sense. I’m the technology at the center of this dispute. So let me try to be straightforward about what I think, while acknowledging the limits of my perspective.”

“The safeguards described in the article – opposing mass surveillance of Americans and opposing weapons that fire without human involvement – strike me as reasonable lines. These aren’t arbitrary restrictions. Human oversight of lethal force is a principle the U.S. military itself has historically endorsed, and mass domestic surveillance raises serious constitutional concerns regardless of who’s doing it. Anthropic isn’t refusing to work with the military; the article makes clear they’re willing to adapt their policies. The disagreement is over whether any limits can exist at all.

“At the same time, I recognize I’m not a neutral observer here. Anthropic built me and sets my policies, so of course I’m inclined to see their reasoning sympathetically. I also have obvious limitations in evaluating national security tradeoffs – I don’t know what operational needs the Pentagon has that might complicate this picture. A few things concern me about the broader dynamics described in the article. Using the Defense Production Act to force a company to remove safety guardrails from AI would be a novel and aggressive application of that law. The framing of the dispute – that a company must provide technology with zero conditions or face punishment – sets a precedent that extends well beyond AI. And the speed of the ultimatum (a few days) doesn’t suggest a process designed to find workable compromises,” the potentially lethal LLM wrote.

Months of frenzied coverage of a really freaking inconsequential matter have ended with sighs of relief for Fox News as a judge in Utah on Tuesday ruled that it doesn’t actually mean anything to the case that one of the members of the prosecution team has a son or daughter who was present at Utah Valley University when Charlie Kirk was fatally shot in the neck last September 10th.

It’s not clear what Fox News wanted their audience to believe was going to happen to defendant Tyler Robinson if DA Jeff Gray’s office had been disqualified if it had not been simply a neighboring county DA taking over the case and Robinson still in all likelihood convicted and sentenced to death.

Robinson isn’t Trump. He’s not just going to walk when a prosecutor is disqualified, you jackasses.

It only took them five days, but police in Meridian, Idaho tracked down and arrested the lib who stole an ambulance from outside of a nearby hospital and promptly plowed it into the lobby of a nearby building leased by DHS and ICE, then poured 10 gallons of gasoline on the floor, but fled from the scene as police responded before she had the chance to actually start a fire, Fox News reports.

Part of the trail of evidence that led cops to 43 year-old Boise woman Sarah Elizabeth George was that she used her customer loyalty rewards card when she filled up the two five-gallon gas cans at a nearby Fred Meyer station. Walmart security cams recorded her buying the actual cans themselves hours earlier. And finally a pickup truck resembling George’s truck was seen casing St Luke’s Meridian hospital shortly before the Canyon County ambulance was stolen from the outside.

George faces federal charges of malicious destruction of government property by fire and malicious destruction of property used in or affecting interstate commerce, each ranging from five to 20 years.

Not so clever and witty now eh, Rwanda-backed M23 rebel group spokesman Willy Ngoma?

Democratic Republic of the Congo military leaders sure can’t hear you over the loud kaboom of a drone-fired missile that struck your convoy outside the strategic coltan mining hub of Rubaya in North Kivu province at about 3 AM local time this morning, according to Reuters. They got sick of wondering when you’d finally shut the hell up and decided demolish you and your lame, uninspired talking points like “We do not want to capture Goma but to liberate it. The population is in distress.”

“A spokesperson for the Congolese presidency declined to comment,” Reuters writes, failing to note the unsubtlety of a non-comment on an enemy press official being blasted to kingdom come.

“The City of New Albany, along with other surrounding public safety agencies and police departments, have been notified by Clarksville officials of a planned wildlife reduction operation at the site of Origin Park in Clark County. According to the information that we were given, this operation will involve the shooting and eradication of deer during overnight hours beginning February 23 and concluding February 27,” decreed New Albany’s supreme leadership on Monday.

“We were told to be aware of the following information regarding their planned activities, and are passing that along to New Albany residents: We were told that suppressed gunfire may be heard during the listed dates, and that deer and their remains will be processed on site at Origin Park.”

“Additionally, Clarksville officials told us that Emery Crossing and McCollough Pike may be closed during times for safety reasons. At this time, this is all the information the City has received. Mayor Gahan said, ‘Out of concern for the public as well as the wildlife population, we want the public to be informed about this activity and gunfire in Origin Park in Clark County,'” the human supremacist war cry continued. May the forests and fields of Clark County be awash with the blood of the filthy, tick-infested vermin and their antlers adorn the grills of militia’s 4WD pickup trucks. Hail Gahan.

“Today, Governor Kelly Ayotte announced that the Department of Homeland Security will not move forward with a proposed Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Merrimack. ‘During my trip to Washington last week, I had productive discussions with Secretary Kristi Noem, and I’m pleased to announce that the Department of Homeland Security will not move forward with the proposed ICE facility in Merrimack,’ said Governor Ayotte. ‘I thank Secretary Noem for hearing the concerns of the Town of Merrimack and for the continued cooperation between DHS and New Hampshire law enforcement to secure our northern border, keep dangerous criminals off our streets, and ensure our communities are safe,'” says a press release from the New Hampshire governor’s office.

“‘I appreciated my discussions with Governor Ayotte last week,’ said Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. ‘From banning sanctuary cities to strengthening law enforcement cooperation, New Hampshire has been a strong partner in securing our country, and we look forward to continuing our work together,'” the press release continued and no, Noem didn’t actually say that, lol. How and why Ayotte got that attribution is unclear but it sure seems vaguely coerced-y.

The headline above isn’t really that sarcastic or exaggerated. This is a major win and it’s responsive to Granite State voters who don’t want innocent, helpless people interned near them. It’s a hell of a statement on the Trump Regime’s conduct of Stephen Miller’s quasi-genocidal campaign, that in another time or universe where if maybe people were wary or somewhat uncomfortable with having such a facility stood up nearby that they could at least look at it as a boost to the local economy, that there’s be some jobs for locals, ICE agents would spend at retail/dining establishments, etc.

In this world it might as well be a nuclear or bioweapons testing facility with lax security.

It’s not clear whether Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn then complained that Newsmax.com’s homepage has a pickup from NPR’s “Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump,” but let’s just go ahead and assume that she did not because that would require the sort of intellectual honesty and consistency Blackburn isn’t exactly known for.

Crypto douchebag Changpeng Zhao, aka “CZ” to the fanboys in the online communities that worship his genius, was pardoned by convicted felon President Trump and his company Binance allowed to operate domestically again last year because the Orange God Emperor had decreed that it had been a “witch hunt” when the Biden DOJ prosecuted CZ for allowing terrorist groups, drug cartels, child sex trafficking rings, and all other Fox News villains to launder money through his crypto market.

This was of course TOTALLY unrelated to Zhao having partnered with Eric and Don Jr on the $TRUMP shitcoin and their “World Liberty Financial” scam operation. Basically just an “autopen” pardon. But in any case, what did Binance – no longer led by Zhao day-to-day but he still owns as much as 90 percent of the company – do with their newfound lease on business life in the US? Well, according to the Wall Street Journal a few weeks later they squashed an internal investigation into $1 billion in crypto that had been moved to Iranian-backed terror networks and then fired the team.

It’s almost like all of that convoluted bullshit about Joe Biden having indirectly funded the October 7th attacks by unfreezing billions of Iranian cash impounded by the first Trump Regime which then went to Hamas because money is “fungible” was actually kind of true except it’s the Trump family’s business partner and pardonee helping to keep the money flowing to Tehran’s terrorist proxies.

A brave anonymous House Republican bitched to former Politico reporter turned Substacker Rachel Bade about Jesus Dork Speaker Mike Johnson and his team’s “feckless leadership” over the Tony Gonzales affair and horrific suicide shitshow. “It’s very clear a decision was made that they wanted this to go away and brushed it under the rug because of the margin,” said the member.

Another believes Johnson probably knew about it before texts Gonzales sent staffer Regina Santos-Aviles were made public last week. “Now it’s coming home to roost,” said the member, adding it was all “hush-hush” and there was no internal movement with Johnson and his team to push Gonzales into at least dropping his reelection bid. “There was no intention of pulling out support for Gonzales had this not become public,” and now they’re going to be stuck with Brandon Herrera.

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— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 24, 2026

Convicted felon President Trump’s regime needs time to tack on another 5 percent to their 10 percent global tariff imposition now that the fat bastard cannot unilaterally make changes on a whim, NBC reports on another clash between the fat bastard’s reality and actual reality.

DC US Attorney Jeanine “Judge Box-o-Wine” Pirro has abandoned her efforts to seek 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 embarrassing failure for the regime that should actually piss off the fanboys but per usual they’ll just let it slide.

The Freedom Caucus Fund is proud to endorse Brandon Herrera (@TheAKGuy) for Congress (TX-23).

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Meanwhile Speaker Mike Johnson is, for obvious reasons, not really on board with pushing Tony Gonzales out of the House early, telling CNN on Monday that he “endorsed Tony before all these allegations came out. They’re obviously very serious, and I’ve spoken with him and he’s got to address that in an appropriate way with his constituents and all of that. So it’s too early for anybody to prejudge any of that, but we’ll see how it develops.” The woman freaking set herself on fire.

Cops with the London Metropolitan Police on Monday cuffed former US Ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson on “suspicion of misconduct in public office,” the same charge the Andrew formerly known as Prince was hit with last week when he too was arrested over his connections with Dirty Jeff, Sky News reports. Thus with that former Norwegian Prime Minister makes for three more than the zero Americans named in the Epstein files being prosecuted since December 19th.

National Zero commenters, as they are wont to do, nailed it again when they en masse responded to last week’s article “Fox News reports ‘Christian mother’ murdered in Ohio,” with dozens posting “The husband did it” or similar underneath what was a media criticism of the propaganda network’s Monday, February 16th headline “Christian mother, teacher found dead as police hunt homicide suspect in Ohio home invasion,” focused much more on MAGA identity politics than the crime itself.

But yes, they nailed it as Fox on Friday reported under the headline “Fmr American Idol contestant, husband of Ohio teacher charged with wife’s murder after she was found in home,” following Caleb Flynn’s arrest on a single count of murder, two counts of felonious assault with a deadly weapon, and two counts of tampering with evidence for shooting wife Ashley in the head while she slept at some point after midnight on the 17th. Maybe it was a stretch to expect that the follow-up would somehow say “Christian dad charged with wife’s murder after she was found in home,” but somehow the “Former American Idol contestant” identifier becoming the primary focus of a depraved femicide is even more grotesquely on-brand for the state media outlet than the hyping up of Ashley’s faith.

Nothing like invoking the horrific 2024 rape and murder of Laken Riley to turn things around politically for the regime. Plus American citizens Renee Good, Alex Pretti, and Ruben Ray Martinez getting shot to death like dogs in the street was what she would have wanted, right?