Friday, February 13, 2026

SEVERUS CHUD: Nothing more radicalising than rewatching old footage and realising your entire civilization has been stolen from you.

"Down Under," Men at Work, 1980. 

GEIGER CAPITAL: Most Americans still don’t fully understand what happened under Biden. 8% of Nicaragua entered the US in 4 years. 8% of the entire country. 7% of Cuba. 6% of Haiti. 5% of Honduras.

JOSHUA STEINMAN: a foreign adversary can use geographically derived birthright citizenship to create a nearly undetectable human intelligence asset with no bonds of affection for his country of birth and carte blanche access to the United States.

. has submitted a national security-related amicus brief in the pending birthright citizenship case before SCOTUS. This is a critical angle that has gone largely ignored in discussion of the case. He writes in part:
"With a round-trip plane ticket, a malign actor can send an expecting mother to the United States, receive mother and baby on return, indoctrinate and train the child, and then send the individual back to the United States to engage in espionage activity. That mechanism, for instance, stymies major advances in digital surveillance and biometric technologies that make it harder for undercover agents to remain anonymous and operate in the target country under a false identity." "...Thus, with an extremely modest financial investment and the passage of time, a foreign adversary can use geographically derived birthright citizenship to create a nearly undetectable human intelligence asset with no bonds of affection for his country of birth and carte blanche access to the United States. And as the example of Russia’s 'Illegals Program' shows, malign foreign actors are perfectly willing to make such long-term plays."

SAMA HOOLE: Scientists inducing diabetes in rats don't use sugar. They use soybean oil injections.

Scientists inducing diabetes in rats don't use sugar. They use soybean oil injections. Works every single time. Reliably. Predictably. High-dose linoleic acid = instant insulin resistance. But you're told seed oils are heart-healthy. The research labs know seed oils cause metabolic disease. They just don't tell you because that would collapse a £200 billion industry. When scientists need to break an animal's metabolism for research, they reach for seed oils. When food companies need to make cheap shelf-stable products, they reach for seed oils.

Same substance. Different marketing budget.

US ATTORNEY BILL ESSAYLI: Cody Holmes, a 31-year-old Beverly Hills resident and the former CFO of Shangri-La Industries, a downtown LA based developer of affordable housing, for defrauding the "Homekey" program that is administered by the state of California.

US Attorney Bill Essayli "currently serves as the First Assistant United States Attorney for the Central District of California. He previously served as the interim United States attorney for the Central District of California from April to July 2025."

California state officials failed to provide meaningful oversight over the individuals who received most of these funds and they had little to no answers to the Public's demand for accountability. Well, that accountability starts today. We are making public two criminal cases relating to two separate real estate developers who are involved in misappropriating millions of State funds intended to combat homelessness.  This morning, federal agents arrested Cody Holmes, a 31-year-old Beverly Hills resident and the former CFO of Shangri-La Industries, a downtown LA based developer of affordable housing, for defrauding the "Homekey" program that is administered by the state of California.  The program awarded grant money, which included federal tax dollars for specific projects to convert motels into housing for the homeless and to operate the units.  By April of 2022, Shangri-La Industries, where Holmes was the CFO, had co-applied with multiple California cities to convert numerous properties in California, including a location in Thousand Oaks.  The state asked for proof that the company had the financial capacity to build all the projects.  In response,  Holmes and Shangri-La knowingly submitted fake bank statements which claimed to show the developer had about a $160 million on deposit.  Not only were the bank statements fake, our investigation shows Shangri-La and it's affiliates had nowhere near the amount of money they claimed they had in the fake bank statements.  The state agency ultimately paid nearly $26 million directly to the developer for the Thousand Oaks project.  Even though the developer received all the money from the state, the developer did not complete the construction of the Thousand Oaks project. Instead, our investigation has shown that at least $2.2 million was diverted to pay Mr Holmes's American Express bill; essentially, he stole the money.