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Milei throws away nationwide hopes to rugpull crypto

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I'm disappointed, but not surprised.

MONTEVIDEO (AP) — Argentine lawyers filed fraud charges against President Javier Milei in criminal court on Sunday for promoting a cryptocurrency on his social media, one of the lawyers told The Associated Press.

On Friday, Milei posted on X about $LIBRA, a coin that he said was aimed at “encouraging economic growth by funding small businesses and startups.”

He deleted the post a few hours later and the value of the currency collapsed, causing millions of dollars in losses to its brief investors, according to financial site Dexscreener.

The coin, developed by KIP Protocol and Hayden Davis, could be obtained by accessing a link that directed users to a website called vivalalibertadproject.com, referring to the well-known phrase with which Milei closes speeches and messages on his social media.

The President’s Office said in a Saturday statement that Milei was not involved in any stage of the cryptocurrency’s development and decided to remove the post to avoid speculation and limit further exposure, following the public reaction to the project’s launch.

>https://apnews.com/article/argentina-milei-cryptocurrency-fraud-charges-c0321f320a00cdb58edfb365ba8ce0f8

Border crossings lowest in 60 years

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Illegal border crossings have plummeted since Trump took over. Picrel shows just how bad Biden fucked it up, there wasn't even seasonal variation under Biden, it was just an unyielding stream of illegal immigration.
Current numbers are projecting to be a 60 year low in illegal border crossings, means that the numbers have dropped lower than bidens approval rating.
https://san.com/cc/illegal-border-crossings-drop-90-on-track-for-60-year-low-report/
Illegal border crossings drop 90%, on track for 60-year low: Report

Border crossings in February are on pace to be the lowest in at least 25 years. If the trend continues, they could hit a 60-year low.
Leaked Customs and Border Protection data shows a 90% decrease in daily migrant crossings compared to last year, coinciding with significant policy changes under the Trump administration.
Trump’s border policies include increased enforcement, deportations and international cooperation.
Full Story
Border crossings this month are on track to be the lowest in at least 25 years. If the trend continues, migrant crossings could reach a 60-year low.

Leaked CBP data reveals significant drop
The New York Post obtained leaked Customs and Border Protection data on illegal border crossings. According to the numbers from Feb. 1 to Feb. 11, an average of 359 migrants were caught crossing the southern border each day.

For comparison, the daily average during the same period last year was 4,850 migrants, a 90% decrease.

Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, told the Post that this is the lowest the U.S. has seen in almost a lifetime, suggesting that if numbers remain at this level, border crossings could hit lows not recorded since 1968.

“If you kind of break down the numbers, divide them by 365, we haven’t had numbers this low since the 1960s. So we’re talking 60-year lows if it’s sustained, obviously.”
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Homicidal SF Vegan Tranny tech cult leader kills 6, FBI top 10 wanted

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A sprawling web of violence across America, which has left at least six dead, has been linked to afringe group of radical Berkeley homicidal trans pseudo-intellectuals known as the Zizians. Three members of the fringe group are missing and wanted, including the leader, Jack “Ziz” LaSota, who faked THEIR death in the San Francisco Bay.
Around a dozen individuals appear to have in-person links to Ziz, some of whom worked at NASA and Google before the arrests began. Many of them advocate for veganism and identify as transgender. Some met through the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a Berkeley nonprofit buoyed by Peter Thiel and Sam Bankman-Fried .

LaSota, who goes by the name “Ziz,” was born in Fairbanks, Alaska, in 1991. After studying computer science at the University of Fairbanks, where THEIR father is currently employed, Ziz interned at NASA and moved to California in 2016. “I moved to the Bay Area for proximity to the tech industry which I considered sort of my destiny,”
In 2017, Ziz and some associates sailed a rusty tugboat named “Caleb” from Alaska to Half Moon Bay, (see youtube link below)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TIqij2oyW9E
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/new-details-bay-area-zizians-death-cult-20165754.php
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Cut everything! WAIT NO DON'T CUT THAT!!!

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Trump Moves to Fire Staff Overseeing Nuclear Weapons Then Backtracks—Report

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-fires-hundreds-staff-overseeing-nuclear-weapons-report-2031419

President Donald Trump's administration has laid off between 1,200 and 2,000 employees at the Department of Energy (DOE), but appeared to partly backtrack amid safety concerns.

Newsweek reached out to the White House and the Department of Energy by email on Friday afternoon for comment.

Why It Matters
The Trump administration has aggressively implemented cuts and layoffs across the federal government in an effort to trim fat and reduce spending. Trump campaigned on reducing the size of the federal government, which the public has greatly supported.

A Reuters/Ipsos poll published at the end of January 2025 found that 61 percent of U.S. adults support the president's plan to downsize the federal government. The poll was conducted between January 24 and 26 among 1,034 adults, with a margin of error of 3.9 percentage points.

However, Trump's means of achieving this goal has proven highly controversial: He initially ordered a freeze on federal grants and loans that would have cut billions of dollars in funding allocated to state and local governments, and the administration offered federal employees a "buyout" that would put them on paid administrative leave until September.
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JD Vance threatens Russia with military invasion, Kremlin seeks "clarification"

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https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kremlin-seeks-clarification-jd-vance-comment-military-levers-2025-02-14/
The Kremlin said on Friday it hoped the U.S. would clarify remarks by Vice President JD Vance that Washington had military as well as economic levers with which to press Russia to agree a good peace deal with Ukraine.

After Washington faced criticism from some European countries over a call this week between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, Vance said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal ahead of the Munich Security Conference that the U.S. had tools it could use to encourage Russia to reach a settlement to end the war.

"There are economic tools of leverage, there are of course military tools of leverage" the U.S. could use against Putin, Vance said.

Asked about the reference to military levers, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow wanted to know more.
"This was a new element about the (U.S.) position. We have not heard such formulations before, they have not been voiced before," Peskov told reporters.
"So, of course, during the very contacts that we have been talking about, of course, we hope to receive some additional clarification."

Trump said on Thursday that U.S. and Russian officials would meet in Munich on Friday and that Ukraine was also invited, however Kyiv responded that it did not expect to hold talks with Russia in the German city.

Peskov, when asked about Trump's remarks on the presence of Russian officials in Munich, said the Kremlin had nothing new to say about Ukraine peace efforts and that it would take some days to establish diplomatic contacts with the U.S. on Ukraine.

Separately, Maria Zakharova, a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said Russian officials would not attend the Munich Security Conference because Russia has not been invited to the event which she accused of becoming a "destructive" pro-Ukrainian fixture.
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Texas measles outbreak grows as cases appear in New Mexico

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>Additional measles cases "are likely to occur" as an outbreak of the virus grows, the Texas Department of State Health Services said in its latest update. So far, 48 cases have been reported in West Texas, with all of those occurring in people who were not vaccinated against the virus or who's vaccination status was unknown, state officials said in the update. Of those infected in the last three weeks, 13 people have been hospitalized. "Due to the highly contagious nature of this disease, additional cases are likely to occur in Gaines County and the surrounding communities," the state said. "DSHS is working with South Plains Public Health District and Lubbock Public Health to investigate the outbreak." Fourteen measles cases have been confirmed in five states, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as of Feb. 6. Besides Texas, they have been found in Alaska, Georgia, New York City, and Rhode Island. They are all unvaccinated or unknown, and 43% were hospitalized. In 2024, there were 285 measles cases reported by 33 jurisdictions to the CDC. Texas state officials first issued the Health Alert earlier this month after several cases of measles were reported in Gaines County, Texas. The first two reported cases occurred in late January. A majority of the cases reported so far are in people between the ages 5 and 17. Of the 48 cases reported, 42 are in Gaines County, which has a population of just over 21,000 people.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/02/15/texas-measles-outbreak-update-gaines-county-vaccine-mmr/9311739646859/

Elon Musk’s DOGE Posts Classified Data On Its New Website

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-musk-doge-posts-classified-data_n_67ae646de4b0513a8d767112
Elon Musk’s team at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency has posted classified information about the size and staff of a U.S. intelligence agency on its new website, raising bigger concerns about where Musk’s programmers got this information and what they are doing with it.

DOGE, which President Donald Trump created to purportedly root out waste in the federal government, launched its website on Wednesday night with a feature allowing users to “trace your tax dollars through the bureaucracy.” People can navigate through all federal agencies and offices for details about their head counts, budgets and average ages of employees.

The website states in tiny print at the bottom that its database excludes information from U.S. intelligence agencies.

But an easy search shows that DOGE’s database provides details on the National Reconnaissance Office, the federal agency that designs, builds and maintains U.S. intelligence satellites. Not only are NRO’s budgets and head counts classified, but the prospect of Musk’s tech team meddling in sensitive personnel information is setting off alarms for some in the intelligence community.

“DOGE just posted secret NOFORN info on their website about [intelligence community] headcount, so currently people are scrambling to check if their info has been accessed,” said one Defense Intelligence Agency employee, who requested anonymity to avoid retaliation from senior leaders.

NOFORN stands for “Not Releasable to Foreign Nationals,” meaning information in this category can’t be shared with any foreign governments, international organizations or foreign nationals without specific authorization.

NRO appears to be the only intelligence agency with its data publicly available on DOGE’s website.
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The Work Will Continue

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A federal judge has ruled that DOGE has a right to access government data in its efforts to reduce federal expenditures. There have been sporadic reports of imploding Democrats.
https://www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-handed-win-judge-he-wanted-impeached-2031754
Elon Musk Handed Win by Judge He Wanted Impeached

Tech billionaire Elon Musk was handed a legal win on Friday by federal judge John Bates who Musk previously called for his impeachment, ruling that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) can continue to access sensitive records from at least three federal agencies

Why It Matters
DOGE's efforts, led by Musk, to cut the federal budget by $2 trillion has faced major legal challenges since President Donald Trump first entered the White House. Most recently DOGE has drawn sharp scrutiny for seeking unfettered access to the internal data of agencies across the government, including the Labor Department, U.S. Treasury, Office of Personnel Management, General Services Administration, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Small Business Administration and more.

U.S. District Judge Bates, appointed by former President George W. Bush, previously blocked some of these efforts.

What To Know
In a Friday ruling, DOGE will maintain access to sensitive records from at least three federal agencies after Bates rejected a legal challenge seeking to block Musk's cost-cutting team from gaining access.

Bates issued the late-night ruling denying a request from unions and nonprofit groups to halt DOGE's access to records maintained by the Department of Labor, Department of Health and Human Services, and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

At the core of the case was whether DOGE—created via executive order—has the legal authority to "detail" its personnel to specific federal agencies, effectively granting them access to confidential government records.
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Gen Z is starting to realize they voted against their own interests.

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Donald Trump's Gen Z Popularity Plunges
Published Feb 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM EST
Updated Feb 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM EST

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-gen-z-popularity-favorable-rating-yougov-2030595

President Donald Trump's favorable rating among Generation Z voters has dramatically fallen since the 2024 election, according to a poll.

A survey from The Economist/YouGov released Wednesday revealed the president's net favorability rating among those aged 18-29 is minus 18 points. This is a drop from the plus 19 favorable rating he scored among this demographic in the days following November's race.

Newsweek has contacted the White House for comment via email.

Why It Matters
Trump made significant gains among young and first-time voters in the 2024 election compared to 2020. This was cited as a potential ideological shift for the youth vote. The poll results suggest Republicans cannot rely on this historically Democratic-leaning voting bloc for support in future elections.
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Elon & Trump can't figure out how to re-hire the hundredsnuclear weapons security experts they fired

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-wants-un-fire-nuclear-safety-workers-cant-figure-rcna192345
National Nuclear Security Administration officials on Friday attempted to notify some employees who had been let go the day before that they are now due to be reinstated — but they struggled to find them because they didn't have their new contact information.

In an email sent to employees at NNSA and obtained by NBC News, officials wrote, “The termination letters for some NNSA probationary employees are being rescinded, but we do not have a good way to get in touch with those personnel.”

The individuals the letter refers to had been fired on Thursday and lost access to their federal government email accounts. NNSA, which is within the Department of Energy and oversees the nation's nuclear stockpile, cannot reach these employees directly and is now asking recipients of the email, “Please work with your supervisors to send this information (once you get it) to people’s personal contact emails.”

The Department of Energy did not immediately respond to an NBC News request for comment.

President Donald Trump's administration has acted with unprecedented speed — and in some cases, questionable legality — in seeking to cut large portions of the federal government, laying off staff and ending contracts. But that speed has resulted in complications, including firing people agencies actually want to keep.

The emails come after multiple staff — all civil servants — at the NNSA received termination notices late Thursday, according to a source with direct knowledge of the notifications. NBC News reviewed the termination notification, which included the subject line: “Notification of Termination During Probationary/Trial Period.”

The NNSA is tasked with designing, building and overseeing the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile.
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