Potomac Sewage Spill Largest in History

According to the Potomac Riverkeeper Network. Atop Da Hill, Potomac wastewater spill appears to be largest in US history

A wastewater spill into the Potomac River that began last month now appears to be one of the largest in American history.

DC Water, a local water utility, said in a press release last week that part of a sewer system known as the Potomac Interceptor collapsed along the Clara Barton Parkway on Jan. 19. In that same release, the utility said it “estimates that approximately 243 million gallons of wastewater has overflowed from the collapse site.”

On Monday, DC Water said there had been a “significant overflow” Sunday amid a “high flow period,” with some bypass pumps not in service at the time.

Potomac Riverkeeper Network, a local environmental advocacy group, claimed in a Facebook post Wednesday that the sewage spilled had topped 300 million gallons.

Dean Naujoks, who holds the title of Potomac Riverkeeper, told The Baltimore Sun in an article published Tuesday that the only other spill he could compare in size had occurred in 2017 on the U.S.-Mexico border, leaking 230 million gallons.
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When asked about the scale of the Washington sewage spillage, Gussie Maguire, a Maryland staff scientist with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation compared it to annual sewage spillage in Baltimore.

“The way that I put it into perspective for myself and for people before, is I compared it to annual sewage overflow amounts,” Maguire told The Hill in a Thursday interview. “You don’t really necessarily want to think about it, but there are a lot of sewage overflows going on in any particular year.”

“I follow happenings in Baltimore pretty closely, and their largest volume of sewage spilled in a year. … The largest year that they’ve had in terms of volume in the last — in recent memory is from 2018, and they had right around 260 million gallons over the course of the entire year, or 250.”

So, just an bonus year in Baltimore? 

Another way to put it into perspective is to compare it to the volume of the tidal Potomac River, into which it is being dumped. According to Grok, that volume is about  1.9 trillion gallons. Call it 2 trillion, and we see that if the sewage were evenly mixed in the estuary (it won't be, it will be concentrated near Washington DC), the entire 100 mile estuary would be about 100 ppm sewage.

FWIW, when working in the Anacostia River years ago, they made us get Hepatitis A vaccines. I'm not so sure the people working in the Potomac for the next few months shouldn't consider that. I wouldn't be eating any raw oysters out of the Potomac anytime soon, either.

Flotsam and Jetsam - Arizona Willy Wonka Ferry Ride of Terror Continues

The Guthrie kidnapping caper in Tucson Arizona continues to go nowhere fast. Yesterday's breathless reporting mostly concerned a discarded latex or nitrile glove (or a pair), found on a roadside a mile or more from the scene, which may or may not turn out to be related. In the course of expounding on this they became aware that gloves were also found at the scene, and that the Pima County Sheriffs and the FBI were fighting over who get to process them. DNA evidence on gloves could lead to a CODUS match, and failing that, a familial match. FBI released a description of the person at the door which leave a lot of room, a 5 ft 9-10 man of "average build," with a dirt common Walmart backpack. Sister Toldja at RedState, Reports Pima County Sheriff Pulls Stunt in Nancy Guthrie Case That Has the FBI Fuming. Matt Vespa at TownHall thinks The Nancy Guthrie Abduction Story Has Become the Willy Wonka Ferry Ride of Horror. Yeah, I don't think a happy ending is likely.

PJM's VodkaPundit wonders What in the Actual Hell Is Going on in Russia? Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge, "And just like that, BRICS is over." Quote, BRICS News @BRICSinfo, "JUST IN: Russia memo proposes return to the US dollar system in pitch to President Trump." SightBringer @_The_Prophet__, "This is the preamble to strategic decoupling. The United States has begun the audit of empire. The tone is paternal but the move is surgical. Europe is being warned that the subsidy era is ending. The Pax Americana scaffolding is being dismantled in phases. This is phase one. Washington no longer sees Europe as a strategic force multiplier. It sees entropy. Fragmentation. Electoral volatility. Economic sclerosis. Moral fatigue. The Pentagon knows Europe will hesitate when the next real test comes. That hesitation is now priced in. So the U.S. is repositioning before the liabilities crystallize. The American defense apparatus is reallocating trust to actors who can project force and absorb risk without ambiguity. Japan. India. Israel. Select Gulf states. Australia. NATO, as constructed, is a legacy structure. Legacy structures degrade under new constraints. . . " PJM's Sarah Anderson, The Only Thing Missing Was a MAGA Hat: Venezuela’s Red Carpet Moment and Stephen Kruiser predicts Marco Rubio Would Make a Splendid Territorial Governor of Cuba, like he needs another hat. Rabbi Mike Barclay claims Donald Trump Negotiates Like King Solomon.

Referring to the Bondi hearing, Michael Tracey @mtracey, "Every single "Epstein victim" pictured here was an adult at the time of their claimed victimization. Has the media bothered to clarify this?" Tim Young @TimRunsHisMouth, "Stacey Plaskett was a Jeffrey Epstein puppet in Congress... He was literally texting her what to say in at least one hearing. This should be the biggest story in America... and she should be immediately expelled from Congress." Quote Bethany O’Leary @BBMagaMom, "JUST IN: Emails in the Epstein files reference Rep. Stacey Plaskett coordinating a meeting with Jeffrey Epstein, including directions to his island. Why was a sitting member of Congress arranging meetings with a convicted sex offender?"

Nick Freitas @NickJFreitas, "I’m listening…" Quote chairmanwon @chairmanwon "Trump should launch a lawsuit immediatly to reverse the 1846 Retrocession of parts of DC to Virginia. This move would immediately flip VA Red by shifting ~400,000 voters to DC, and force a redistricting of VA's congressional seats that would benefit republicans. The 1846 retrocession has never been ruled on by SCOTUS and there is a solid constitutional case that Clause (Art. I, § 8) established a permanent federal trust that Congress had no constitutional authority to alienate. This move would also undo a historic injustice. The 1846 retrocession was a move to appease slaveholders in Alexandria amid fears that DC would ban the slave trade... as they did in 1850. We would Make DC Square again for that reason alone." Matt Vespa sees CNN's Scott Jennings Wrecks a Lib Guest's Narrative on Election Integrity With a Simple Response “Are you saying that black voters are too dumb to know what’s good for them?” “I mean, it sounds pretty condescending to me.” Driscoll At Insty, HAVING A PHOTO ID TO VOTE — IT’S SO SIMPLE, EVEN A CONGRESSMAN CAN DO IT: Rep. Michael Cloud @RepMichaelCloud, "For reference, this is how we vote in the US House: 1) Insert photo ID 2) Press button." Rep. Michael Cloud @RepMichaelCloud, "Notable that 213 Democrats just used their congressional photo ID to vote NO on a voter ID bill." Dave Strom, NM SOS Disqualifies Republican From Ballot for Senate, Leaving Only the Democrat on the Ballot. Funny how that works.

Ace hears Obama Architect David Axelrod: Confound These Republicans For Obamacare's Prices Skyrocketing and Them Refusing to Further Subsidize the Failing Program. Nick Arama at RedState hears Sen. Kennedy Delivers a Humorous and Direct Message to Schumer About Those DHS Bill Demands :Kennedy said that . . . Schumer was kind of "wandering around" like a "roomba, looking like a man who has just lost his luggage." That's a pretty perfect description of Schumer, who always seems to be in a perpetual state of confusion when it comes to decisions about his own party. He can't deliver the votes, even if we agree, Kennedy said. "And we wouldn't agree anyway." Amy Curtis at TownHall, In Historic Deregulatory Move, Trump Officially Revokes Obama-Era Endangerment Finding. I don't know why it took so long. Batya Ungar-Sargon @bungarsargon, "Turns out, when you deport 500,000 people and 2 million more voluntarily go home, Americans line up for the jobs they were doing—and companies have to pay them more! How Trump repudiated the Democrats' addiction to cheap labor: https://batyaus.substack.com/p/the-latest-jobs-report-proves-trumps." Ashley McCully at PJM, explains how the Trump Administration Improves School Experience "These simple acts of closing the borders and deporting folks who tried to jump the line are having a direct impact on public schools. Numbers are down and teachers unions are throwing tantrums disguised as "but what about the children!" when it's really "but what about my pension!" 

Hat Hair's Capt. Ed snickers when a Federal Judge says to the BBC Get Ready for Trump's Defamation Trial. "Alternate headline: Another Media Outlet Soon to Discover Sudden Interest in Trump Library."

Ace, Josh Hawley Grills Muslim Antifa AG Keith Ellison About the Audiotape In Which He Promises Somalis He'll Order Investigators to Let Them Defraud America In Peace "If you need a refresher, Ellison met with a Somali who was later convicted of major fraud against the US taxpayer. This Somali complained that investigators were checking to see if he was legitimate or not, and that just really steamed this Somali fraudster's beans. Ellison told him that he would look into it and make phone calls to the investigators demanding to know "Why am I getting these complaints?" He also asserted that he "already" had his team investigating the investigators picking on these noble Somali Learing Experts." 

Natalia Mittelstadt at JTN reports State Department finds Code Pink, People's Forum linked to Chinese influence operations "“Partisan hacks spent years peddling the phony Russia collusion hoax while turning a blind eye to the sprawling web of far-left activist organizations who push the agendas of the Chinese Communist Party,” Under Secretary of State Sarah Rogers said."

SightBringer @_The_Prophet__ "Here is the bare truth. California is entering the seizure phase of the wealth cycle. The productive core has thinned. The debt load is locked. The spending base cannot shrink without civil fracture. The only lever left is the static pool of accumulated capital that remains geographically or legally tethered. That tether becomes the target. Wealth taxes are designed to drain the visible stores of value before exit accelerates. It is a liquidation impulse masked as equity. The system senses its own depletion and attempts to extract the last residues of yield from those who stayed. . . " Margot Cleveland @ProfMJCleveland, "No one could have predicted this." Quote Kalshi @Kalshi, "JUST IN: California lost $1 trillion in wealth due to billionaires leaving." Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen, "FUN FACT: Zuckerberg's wife, Priscilla Chan, donated $750,000 to oppose the recall efforts against Newsom in 2021 Obviously they have the money to flee the consequences of their bad decisions, unlike most Californians." Quote Remarks @remarks, "JUST IN: Mark Zuckerberg officially leaves California, relocates to Florida to avoid new "wealth tax."" PJM's Scott Pinsker sees You’ve Been Spanberged!: , Campaign on Affordability, Deliver Radical Leftism.

From Ace, Obama Judge Boasberg Now Demands That Trump Pick Up 100 Deported Aliens from Venezuela and Bring Them Back, "He's doing what superior courts have repeatedly told him he does not have the power to do: ordering the president around like a house boy " and Politico: Lawless Lowly District Court Political Hacks "Believe They've Found a Way to Bypass" the Controlling Rulings from the Appeals Court That Serves as Their Superior Court, and That's Great "Politico is very excited that lowly district court judges may have found a way to "bypass" the rulings of the Fifth Circuit court of appeals, a court which is superior to them and which makes the controlling law in their district. But they'll just figure out a way to ignore their judicial superiors." Sundance, Texas Judges Strategizing Ways to Block DHS From Enforcing Immigration Laws. Capt. Ed calls it Too Dumb to Check: Federal Judges Writing Squatter's Rights Into Immigration Law? Bill Glahn@billglahn, "Democrat judges have invented a new legal concept, common law citizenship, to prevent illegal aliens from being deported. I'm not kidding."

Anxious is anxious that the ICE surge in Minnesota is over, border czar Homan says. Mission accomplished. CNN, Mayor responds after Homan calls Minneapolis operation a success. Atop Da Hill, Homan on ICE Minneapolis pullback: ‘If we need to come back, we’ll come back’ The Washington Post @washingtonpost, "Correction: National Guard troops withdrew from 3 cities with no public acknowledgment, other than a Trump social media post weeks earlier that announced the move. An earlier post, below, failed to note Trump’s post and has been deleted." At First Things, Madness in Minneapolis. John Sexton, Vandals Send a Message to Washington Democrat. Campus Reform observes 'DEAD ICE AGENTS CAN'T KILL': poster calls for violence against federal law enforcement, "Penn State University (PSU) police have launched an investigation into a flyer that depicts a lynched Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent with the message 'DEAD ICE AGENTS CAN’T KILL.'" From Insty THAT’S THE GOAL, OF COURSE. BUT WHY LISTEN TO DEM “DEMANDS?” Dem Demands For ICE To Obtain Judicial Warrants Could Bring Immigration Enforcement to a Near ‘Halt,’ Experts Say. AMERICA’S NEWSPAPER OF RECORD has PSA video: The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "How To Avoid Getting Shot By ICE."

Dave Strom, YGTBFKM: LA County Just Started Rent Relief Fund for Wildfire Victims and...People Avoiding ICE. Cathy Salgado at PJM notes Los Angeles Teachers’ Union Caught Implementing Anti-ICE ‘Resistance’ All we had to do was put our heads down under the desk to avoid H-bombs. VodkaPundit at Insty, MAKE CONQUISTADORS GREAT AGAIN: Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen, "Spanish is not a language of resistance. It's literally the language of your European colonizers who colonized you so hard you forgot what you were speaking before them." Walt Hudson at Hat Hair VIP, 'Great Replacement' Is No Longer Theory, but Openly Confessed. At Twitchy, CBS News: Irish Illegal Says He Fears for His Life in Modern-Day ICE Concentration Camp Edub's_Perspective @Edub4change, "He chose to stay in ICE custody instead of taking a free flight back to Ireland." Turns out he's wanted man in Ireland. Amy Curtis @RantyAmyCurtis, "For four hours. You know how many jobs I’ve worked where I didn’t get to eat for 8-12 hours? Yeah. And I didn’t break any laws." Quote, NBC News @NBCNews, "About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while being denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit." From Da Caller, Illegal Immigrants Are Just The Tip Of The Iceberg In Trucking Industry’s Troubles. "Equity" came in and they threw out the standards.

Mark Judge at Hat Hair says I Am Begging the Washington Post to Please Let Me Stop Mocking Them, but no dice. From the Free Bacon, Angsty Journalists Said the WaPo Sports Section Was Indispensable. The Evidence Suggests Otherwise. "Recent 'sports' coverage highlighted Colin Kaepernick, climate change, racial equity, and the NHL's failure to adequately celebrate queer culture." VodkaPundit at Insty cites Breitbart's JOHN NOLTE: Rigged Immigration Report Proves Bari Weiss Is Lying About CBS News Reforms. . . . "But there’s also this: CBS Evening News Producer Reportedly Quits in Fiery Note — Calls Out ‘Shifting Set of Ideological Expectations’ at Bari Weiss-Led Outlet. Weiss had — still might have? I dunno — a chance to drag CBS News closer to the center, albeit kicking and screaming. But aside from a couple of cosmetic changes, we have yet to see much." But at Da Beast, MAGA-Coded Anchor’s Show Producer Rips CBS in Fiery Farewell "The attack came in a fiery farewell note to colleagues from producer Alicia Hastey explaining her decision to take a buyout and leave the program. The letter was shared on X by New York Times media reporter Ben Mullin." MAGA-coded? David Rutz @DavidRutz, "The Daily Beast is very, very committed to this bit." Mollie @MZHemingway, "You have to be stupid beyond belief, or enslaved to partisan politics, to think Americans didn't notice that journalists always "evaluate stories not on journalistic merit but whether they conform to left-wing ideological expectations." Russia collusion, Kavanaugh, COVID, etc." Quote Ben Mullin @BenMullin, "NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note: Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”" Daily Mail US @Daily_MailUS, "CNN has lost nearly two-thirds of its viewership since 2016 amid growing fears network is circling the drain."

Capt. Ed, Nielsen: NFL Halftime Show Lost 9.6 Million Viewers. Mediaite worries Bad Bunny Reportedly Lost Record Slice of Super Bowl Viewers Heading Into Halftime Show. From Fox, From kneeling to Spanish anthems: How the NFL lost Middle America at halftime. "A major cultural divide emerged on Sunday night as Bad Bunny's Spanish-language Super Bowl performance prompted fans to seek counter-programming." Driscoll cites VDH: Our Super Bowl Satyricon. "In his vile, obscene “Safaera,” to avoid being censored, Bunny omitted a few of the song’s lyrics about his celebration of exploitative sodomy, fellatio, and anilingus—with misogynistic trashing of his compliant female sexual partners as “hoes.”" From Hollywood in Toto, Legacy Media Begging Stars to Get More Political, "Sydney Sweeney among latest stars to be bullied into dividing us." And Bill Maher: Jimmy Kimmel Ended Our Friendship Over Politics, "'Club Random' host suggests bipartisan critiques stopped pair from talking."

BeeGe Welborn at Hat Hair sadly reports 'Gun PERSON' Rampages Thru Canadian School - 10 Dead, 25+ Wounded UPDATE She/Her's a Guy AND MORE. The Babylon Bee @TheBabylonBee, "Canadian Reporterperson Announces Policepersons Have Identified Gunperson " Sundance, School Shooting in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia Leaves 10 Killed, Including Shooter – The “Gender” of Shooter Creating Angst. Ace, Another Trans Terrorist Kills Ten, Wounds 35; Media Honors Mass Murderer's Wishes; Refer to Him as a "Female in a Dress;" Woke Politicians and Police Call Him a "Gunperson" Rather Than a "Gunman" Andy Ngo @MrAndyNgo, "A 12-year-old child is among the 25 wounded in the mass school sh—ting by a trans-identifying gunman in Tumbler Ridge, B.C. The girl, Maya, suffered gunshot wounds to the head and neck. Police referred to the deceased shooter as a “female in a dress” and have refused to identify him officially. But independent journalists, not legacy media, have done the heavy work of identifying him as Jesse “Jessie” Strang. He killed nine, making him one of Canada’s most deadly mass sh—ters ever. One of the victims is his mother, who is woke and affirmed his trans identity." Some of the posts have confused Jessie Strang with a much older trans activists Dustin "Zylii" Strang. Jennifer @babybeginner, "BREAKING! HUGE!! HUGE!! The FTC is going after WPATH for deceptive trade practices!! Finally!!!! The Federal Trade Commission has opened a consumer protection investigation into two major nonprofit medical organizations: The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and World Professional Association for Tr*nsgender Health (WPATH) On Jan 15, 2026 the FTC issued civil investigative demands (CIDs) which are a formal legal tool requiring the groups to provide documents, testimony, and other information. The probe is examining whether these organizations made “false, misleading, or unsubstantiated claims” in their marketing, advertising, or guidance related to pediatric gen. dys. treatment. This includes scrutiny of statements about the “safety” “effectiveness”, and “benefits” of such care and whether they adequately disclosed risks."

The College Fix hears U. Kentucky staff say DEI, ‘antiracism’ are still ‘important’ in undercover videos. The grift is too good. Campus Reform reports Binghamton Q Center to host live demo of 'transtaping.' Rick Moran at PJM wonders What Are Foreign Governments Buying by Sending $5.2 Billion to Ivy League Schools in Gifts and Contracts? 

KRON4 News @kron4news, "Despite all the anti-Musk rhetoric throughout CA, the Tesla Model Y remained, by far, the best-selling new car model in the state for 2025. STORY."

Fish Pic Friday - Nicky's Addicted to Fishing

 And to some of those weird Aussie fish

Nicky's Addicted to Fishing

- 7 Seasons of Addicted to Fishing TV Show
- Runs Kids Fishing Workshops & Ladies Fishing Workshops
- 361kg Broadbill Swordfish World Record 37kg line class
- Qualified 12M offshore Skipper
- Always chasing the bite
nickysaddictedtofishing

Bay Salmon Farm Seeks Tighter Pollution Controls

Bay Journal, Legal fight over Susquehanna salmon farm on hold as developer seeks tighter limits

The legal fight against a planned indoor salmon farm along the lower Susquehanna River has been suspended, potentially clearing a key hurdle for the project.

A Cecil County Circuit Court judge stayed a lawsuit that challenged the wastewater permit for the proposed salmon rearing facility in Port Deposit, MD . The stay came after AquaCon Maryland LLC, the Norwegian company behind the project, requested tighter pollution limits and conditions for the operation to address opponents’ concerns.

 

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation and two upper Chesapeake Bay watermen had filed suit in April 2025 challenging the permit issued by the Maryland Department of the Environment. The permit would allow the proposed facility to discharge up to 1.9 million gallons of “purge” water daily into the Susquehanna, not far from where it empties into the Bay.

That discharged water would come from tanks where fully grown salmon are held for several days before being harvested for processing and shipment to market. The holding tanks are used to purge the fish of geosmin, a harmless, naturally occurring organic compound that if not removed can give the fish an earthy odor.

In their lawsuit, the environmental group and the watermen contend that the nutrients, sediment, geosmin and any other pollutants discharged by the facility will cause or contribute to water quality problems downstream, including low dissolved oxygen levels, increased murkiness and algae blooms. They noted that the lower Susquehanna provides spawning and nursery habitat for commercially valuable fish, including striped bass, American shad, hickory shad, alewife, white perch and yellow perch.

AquaCon then asked MDE to modify its permit. It proposed setting a “net zero” limit on suspended solids and adjusting other characteristics of the discharge, including dissolved oxygen and temperature, to improve water quality and reduce possible stress on fish. The company also agreed to closer scrutiny of its plan for offsetting any nutrient pollution the facility might release into the river.

After AquaCon’s request, the litigants agreed to put the lawsuit on hold pending MDE’s issuance of a modified permit. The agency will hold a public hearing once the new permit has been made public, MDE spokesman Jay Apperson said.

I'm willing to bet they won't be appeased. The point is not to clean the Bay, it's to stop any and all industry. Watermelon environmentalists. Green on the outside and red in the middle. 

Flotsam and Jetsam - Private Jobs Jump, Federal Jobs Fall

Sundance at CTH reports Economy Adds 130,000 Jobs in January, Unemployment Rate Falls to 4.3 Percent. Unexpectedly! Of course. Geiger Capital @Geiger_Capital, "This is insane… The number of federal government employees is now at it’s lowest level in 50+ years. Dropped off a cliff after Trump was elected." Karoline Leavitt @PressSec, "This fact alone deserves the attention of every mainstream media reporter today:" Quote E.J. Antoni, Ph.D. @RealEJAntoni "THIS is the real story out of today's jobs report - Trump was handed an economy that was losing private sector jobs and adding gov't payrolls, but he successfully flipped the script, and one year later it's all private sector growth while cutting gov't jobs:" From Ace, Unexpectedly, January Job Creation Numbers Double Expectations. "In January, we created 172,000 non-farm jobs while eliminating 42,000 government jobs. "The stats subtract that 42,000 from the 172,000 to say we created 130,000 net jobs, but to me... um, I feel like adding those "lost" jobs into the "created" column because we want to reduce government "employment." It's a waste that drags down the productive sector of the economy. BTW, "Biden's Miracle Economy" counted on an exploding government sector to make job "growth" look good in the statistics. Oh, and most of the non-government jobs "created" went to literal foreigners." Ace also catches this Real Axios Headline: "Crime Plunges In Major Cities Despite Trump's Crackdown Rhetoric" "You mean, despite his rhetoric calling for a crime crackdown followed by a genuine crackdown?" Capt. Ed at Hat Hair asks Today's Deep Question: Why Is Violent Crime Plummeting in the US?

Sundance hosts Attorney General Pam Bondi Testifies to House Judiciary Committee. At Twitchy, Pass the Popcorn! Enjoy a Few Clips of AG Pam Bondi Giving Dem Rep. Jamie Raskin Brutal Verbal Wedgies. In a vid at Hat Hair, Larry notices Jerry Nadler Caught Snoozing As Pam Bondi Testimony Gets Fiery. At TownHall Dmitri Bolt likes how Pam Bondi Goes Toe-to-Toe With Democrats in Explosive House Judiciary Hearing and Matt Vespa has She Stormed Off? Watch AG Pam Bondi Trigger the Hell Out of This House Dem. Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson, "Democrat Rep. Balint storms out in rage after AG Pam Bondi flips script and exposes her coverup of Bill Clinton's involvement with Epstein: Balint: "This not a game Secretary" Bondi: " I am Attorney General" Balint: " My apologies I couldn't tell." Bondi: "I was curious if you Congresswoman asked Bill Clinton that... I didn't see one tweet... not one when Joe Biden was in office about Bill Clinton. You didn't ask Merrick Garland anything about Epstein. Not once."" Mike Benz @MikeBenzCyber, "wild find, how the media first introduced Jeffrey Epstein 25 years ago" Quote Bridgett Fertig @LightOnLiberty, "Full 2001 VH1 segment, glorifying Jeffrey Epstein while showing Epstein's allegiance with Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey. They also point out he has his own chemistry lab in the basement and world class scientists which he pays "20 Million dollars a year to perform WHATEVER experiments they want with Harvard professor!"What could he possibly need a chemistry lab and Harvard professors for at $20 million a year, right there in Manhattan New York? Something to be distributed to elites in New York?" Sundance, Thirty Years Later Thomas Massie Discovers Victoria’s Secret Founder Les Wexner Was Business Associate of Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon Text Messages About Trump Included in the Epstein File Release. At En.Haberler, Dark allegations in the Epstein files: Celebrities chasing immortality are also in the files.

At JTN, GOP lawmakers pushing 3 federal election security bills "“I think we can trust the outcome of the election, but what I will tell you is that there is still a great concern that in certain pockets of the country, that there’s not strict enforcement of the laws,” U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., told reporters Tuesday." Sundance, Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski Vows to Defeat the SAVE Act, Voter ID and Election Bill.

Dave Strom at Hat Hair has a Shock: WaPo Praises EPA for Repealing Greenhouse Gas 'Endangerment' Finding. Roger Kimball at Am Great Trump’s Senior Appointments Are Making Government Great Again "Trump 2.0 isn’t just governing—it’s assembling an all-star Cabinet whose wit, discipline, and seriousness rival any administration since the founding."

Althouse find that, shockingly, George Will doesn't approve of JD Vance's background, An early effort in the 2028 presidential fight: it's George Will in the Washington Post against J.D. Vance. "I haven't read this piece yet. I decided to blog it based on the headline and the photograph, which I find ludicrously unsubtle: JD Vance vies for the gold medal in coarseness and flippancy." Also, Why is Gallup suddenly giving up on presidential-approval polling? "I'm reading "Gallup to stop tracking presidential approval ratings after 88 years/Public opinion polling agency says decision 'solely based on Gallup’s research goals and priorities'" (The Guardian). The company said on Wednesday that it would stop measuring the favorability rating of individual political figures, which “reflects an evolution in how Gallup focuses its public research and thought leadership,” after 88 years. “Our commitment is to long-term, methodologically sound research on issues and conditions that shape people’s lives”.... Do we believe that? I should take a poll, but my polls are not methodologically sound research. Are Gallup's? I can't help suspecting that Gallup has been trying to undermine Trump and it's worried about being called to account."

PJM's Sarah Anderson sees All Cuba’s Allies Have Left? Good Vibes. Dave Strom hears Hamas Floating 'Jewish Space Laser' Theory. At Euro Con, The Great Rebalancing: How Europe Chose Dependence Over Resilience.

From Ace, its No Surprise: The Insurrectionist Left is Being Funded by Foreign Communists (Besides George Soros, Of Course), "I don't imagine many of you will be surprised." A Driscolly post at Insty, LIBERAL AMNESIA IS A SUPERPOWER: We are all familiar with the liberal tap dance whenever we point out that some awful thing, such as chopping the genitals off of children, is happening. It’s commonly described as a four-step process: Step 1: It is not happening. Step 2: Yeah, it’s happening, but it’s not a big deal. Step 3: It’s a good thing, actually, Step 4: People freaking out about it are the real problem. But actually, it is a five-step process, culminating with the claim that liberals never supported it in the first place. We are approaching that stage among center-left people regarding alphabet ideology, and we are well into step five in the COVID saga. I know many people now arguing that nobody wanted to keep kids out of school, nobody was forced to take the jab, and that nobody was censored for disagreeing with The Science™ .Never happened." Rabbi Mike Barclay at PJM, New York’s Winter Shows That Mamdani Is Not a Socialist, but a Devout Muslim. A Chloe video at Hat Hair, Ilhan Omar's Somalia Lie EXPOSED (With Receipts). VodkaPundit at PJM, FCC to Newsom: Hey, Where'd the $450 Million Go? Sister Toldja at RedState says Yikes: Jennifer Newsom Goes Full Angry AWFL on Female Reporters; Even Gavin Seemed Embarrassed. He's incapable of being embarrassed. Hat Hair's Duane Patterson, Hotel California: Sam Darnold Can Check Out Any Time He Likes, But His Money Can Never Leave. 

WUWT finds a Waste of the Day: EPA Missed Obvious Payment Inaccuracies. Leslie Eastman at LI, Potomac Sewage 9,900% Error: DC’s DEI‑Focused Water Authority Can’t Count E. coli "In public health, equity slogans don’t compensate for basic competence, when 242,000 MPN/100 mL is misreported as 2,420." I mean, who among us has not lost three orders of magnitude?

Matt Vespa, Bill Maher Reveals Why He Got the COVID Vaccine...and He's Rather Annoyed About It “I had to conform… didn’t want the vaccine at all… But I had to have it. I couldn’t have continued my life. They wouldn’t have let me do the show, and I had to do it here. I did it in this room.”

At Althouse, Was it "remarkable"? I'd like to think it's totally normal — the part about the grand jury. I'm reading "Grand Jury Rebuffs Justice Dept. Attempt to Indict 6 Democrats in Congress The rejection was a remarkable rebuke, suggesting that ordinary citizens did not believe that the lawmakers had committed any crimes" (NYT). A DC grand jury? Of course. From Fox, Tillis rips 'political lawfare' and praises grand jury after Dems avoid charges in ‘illegal orders’ case. "Sen Thom Tillis praised the decision, called prosecution attempt a move that 'undermines America's criminal justice system'" From News Wax, Bondi Won't Confirm Brennan Indictment, but Says 'Weaponization Has Ended.'

Sundance, DOJ Releases FBI Affidavit Underpinning Seizure and Search Warrant of Fulton County Election Records. Steve Richards and John Solomon, FBI has 'substantiated' irregularities in Georgia 2020 vote counts, probing if they were intentional. "FBI identified to court in a search warrant five categories of confirmed irregularities in Fulton County voting, unsealed affidavit."

More at the Wombat's In The Mailbox: 02.11.26 (Morning Edition), and who knows, may more later here.

Thursday Tanlines

From the List, Kayleigh McEnany's Fake Tan Fail Will Haunt Her Forever 

There's nothing wrong with a good ol' fake tan, but anyone who's ever tried self-tanning lotion knows that it can be a tricky thing to get right. Former White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany is living proof of this. McEnany has had her fair share of makeup fails, and some of the former Trump staffer's outfits have completely missed the mark too, but while interviewing conservative political commentator Benny Johnson in December 2025, it was her fake tan mishap that caught people's eye. McEnany sported an orange skin tone reminiscent of President Donald Trump's while conducting the interview, and even her hands appeared to have been covered with fake tan lotion. The TV personality's feet and ankles, however, were apparently overlooked when the product was applied. McEnany wore ankle-grazing trousers with high heels, putting her pale feet on full display. It was an awkward look for television, and unfortunately, an instantly memorable slip-up. 

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I suspect she has a pretty thick skin by now.