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Michigan Lt. Gov. Gilchrist Missed about 94% of Senate Sessions He Was Supposed to Attend

Democratic Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II, who recently dropped out of the governor’s race to run for secretary of state, skipped about 94 percent of the Michigan Senate sessions over which he had the responsibility to serve as president, the Detroit News reports.

Craig Mauger, the Detroit News Lansing reporter, writes:

Gilchrist’s habitual absences in the Senate break with a longtime tradition in Michigan, where lieutenant governors usually have presided over the Senate session on a daily basis. They have raised questions about what tasks he’s chosen to take on instead, as he earns an annual taxpayer-funded salary of about $111,000.

Across three lieutenant governors over the last 20 years, Gilchrist has posted the two lowest annual attendance percentages compared with the number of days when senators were asked to be in Lansing. The Detroit Democrat led the Senate for 6% of the days senators were there in 2025 and 39% of the days in 2024, a Detroit News analysis shows.

A spokesman for Gilchrist declined to comment to The News.

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Ring Cancels Flock Safety Integration After Public Backlash

Public backlash has forced Ring to cancel its partnership with Flock Safety, the law enforcement surveillance company whose camera network has reportedly given ICE and other federal agencies access to footage across the country.

Ring announced the cancellation this week, saying the integration never went live.

The company’s statement was careful:

“Following a comprehensive review, we determined the planned Flock Safety integration would require significantly more time and resources than anticipated. We therefore made the joint decision to cancel the integration and continue with our current partners…The integration never launched, so no Ring customer videos were ever sent to Flock Safety.”

That last sentence is doing a lot of work. Ring users responding to the Flock announcement went further than strongly worded tweets. People smashed cameras. Others announced publicly that they were throwing their devices away. The Amazon-owned company had badly misread the moment.

Flock Safety is a surveillance technology company that operates a nationwide network of AI-powered cameras, primarily known for license plate readers, and sells access to the resulting database of vehicle movements to roughly 5,000 law enforcement agencies across the United States.

The Flock partnership was announced back in October 2025, and you may remember the feature report How Amazon Is Turning Your Neighborhood Into a Police Database, which gave deeper insight into the plans.

It got pushback at the time, but only became a bigger crisis after the recent outrage some cities have shown to ICE enforcement activity, when social media posts claimed Ring was providing a direct pipeline through Flock to ICE.

That specific claim isn’t accurate, since the Flock connection never went live. But Ring’s broader relationship with the police is real and extensive, which gave the fear enough traction to land.

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BOMBSHELL: Pam Bondi Announces ALL Epstein-Related Materials Released — Pelosi, Obama, Newsom, Biden and Other Democrats Named in Files — HERE IS the Complete List of 300+ Individuals

Attorney General Pam Bondi has officially transmitted to Congress the Department of Justice’s Section 3 report under the Epstein Files Transparency Act, confirming that the DOJ has now released ALL Epstein-related materials in its possession.

The February 14, 2026, report — addressed to Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, Ranking Member Dick Durbin, House Judiciary Chairman Jim Jordan, and Ranking Member Jamie Raskin — confirms that the Department has released all the files.

“In accordance with the requirements of the Act, and as described in various Department submissions to the courts of the Southern District of New York assigned to the Epstein and Maxwell prosecutions and related orders, the Department released all ‘records, documents, communications and investigative materials in the possession of the Department’ that ‘relate to’ any of nine different categories,” the letter read.

The Department released materials tied to the following nine categories:

  1. Jeffrey Epstein — all investigations, prosecutions, and custodial matters
  2. Ghislaine Maxwell
  3. Flight logs and travel records — aircraft manifests, itineraries, customs records, vessels, vehicles used by Epstein or related entities
  4. Individuals named in connection with Epstein’s criminal activity, civil settlements, immunity deals, plea agreements, or investigations
  5. Entities (corporate, nonprofit, academic, governmental) tied to Epstein’s trafficking or financial networks
  6. Immunity deals, non-prosecution agreements, plea bargains, sealed agreements involving Epstein or associates
  7. Internal DOJ communications regarding decisions to charge or decline prosecution
  8. Communications regarding destruction, deletion, or concealment of evidence
  9. Documentation of Epstein’s detention and death, including incident reports, witness interviews, autopsy files

The DOJ stated:

“No records were withheld or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary.”

The only materials withheld were those protected by traditional legal privileges such as attorney-client or deliberative-process privilege.

Bondi’s letter also details the redaction process. According to the report, redactions were limited to:

  • Victim personal and medical information
  • Child sexual abuse material (CSAM)
  • Information that could jeopardize active investigations
  • Graphic images of death or abuse

No classification-based redactions were used.

Unredacted versions are available for congressional inspection at the DOJ.

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Moderna threatens American jobs after FDA snubs mRNA flu shot, trial looked ‘scientifically lax’

For years before he became director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, epidemiologist Vinay Prasad openly railed against what he perceived as the shoddy design of drug trials and the deference regulators gave them, sending biotech stocks tumbling when Commissioner Marty Makary appointed him.

A vaccine maker that hit the federal jackpot during COVID-19 acted caught off-guard when the former University of California San Francisco medical professor put his gripes into practice, halting its FDA application for a new mRNA flu vaccine based on what he considered weak trial design.

Moderna accused Prasad, who described his predecessor Peter Marks as a “bobblehead” for drug approval, of changing the rules in the middle of the game by refusing to review its biologics license application (BLA) without citing “specific safety or efficacy concerns.”

Prasad’s Feb. 3 “refusal to file” letter – which Moderna posted a week later on its COVID resources page for some reason – says the FDA warned the company before it even started the mRNA flu trial that the proposed design raised red flags.

“CBER does not consider the application to contain a trial ‘adequate and well-controlled’ and the application is therefore, on its’ [sic] face, inadequate for review,” because the control arm “does not reflect the best-available standard of care in the United States at the time of the study,” Prasad said, which was “consistent with FDA’s advice” before the study.

This was just the agency’s “preliminary review of the application and is not indicative of deficiencies that would be identified later,” when the FDA conducts a “substantive review,” Prasad emphasized, implying fresh hurdles for Moderna even if it runs a new trial.

Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel responded with his own thinly veiled threat against Prasad, who had already left the administration once under assault from populist and corporate conservatives who blasted his avowed support for progressive policies and more regulation before Prasad joined the administration. 

CBER’s decision, which Bancel reiterated “did not identify any safety or efficacy concerns with our product, does not further our shared goal of enhancing America’s leadership in developing innovative medicines,” said the billionaire Frenchman, who came to Boston-based Moderna from French diagnostics company BioMerieux.

“We look forward to engaging with CBER to understand the path forward as quickly as possible so that America’s seniors, and those with underlying conditions, continue to have access to American-made innovations,” Bancel said, hinting the company would take jobs overseas if the FDA continued its current trajectory.

Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson Andrew Nixon told Just the News Moderna ignored “very clear FDA guidance from 2024 to test its product in a clinical trial against a CDC-recommended flu vaccine to compare safety and efficacy.”

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Fact Check: Did a MAGA Dad Murder His Liberal Daughter After an Argument About Trump? Sick Leftists Will Be Disappointed with the Facts

There’s a narrative swirling around online leftist circles that a Trump-supporting father murdered his daughter after an argument about politics, but the incident is not so clear-cut.

Kris Harrison of the United Kingdom moved to the United States, residing in Prosper, Texas, as of January 2025. His daughter, Lucy Harrison, came to visit him from the U.K. when on Jan. 10, 2025, she died after receiving a fatal gunshot wound to the chest.

The New York Post reported that Lucy was traveling to see her father with her boyfriend, Sam Littler, who said the two had a “big argument” relating to President Donald Trump, with Kris being a supporter and Lucy being a critic of the president.

In particular, the two clashed over Kris purchasing a Glock 9mm handgun. Apparently, the argument occurred when Lucy gave her father a hypothetical scenario about a woman being sexually assaulted, asking, “How would you feel if I was the girl in that situation and I’d been sexually assaulted?”

Kris replied by saying he had two other daughters, so he wouldn’t be that upset, which made her angry and caused Lucy to march away upstairs, the report said. It’s not clear how Trump came into the dispute.

Later in the day, before the two were set to leave for the airport, Kris took Lucy downstairs where his bedroom was located.

Just seconds afterwards, Littler said he heard a bang and Kris called for his wife, Heather. “I remember running into the room and Lucy was lying on the floor near the entrance to the bathroom and Kris was just screaming, just sort of nonsense,” Littler said.

Kris told police he wanted to show Lucy his handgun after watching a news segment on gun violence.

Kris recalled, “As I lifted the gun to show her I suddenly heard a loud bang. I did not understand what had happened. Lucy immediately fell.”

He did not recall if his finger was in the trigger.

The police report noted Kris had the smell of alcohol on his breath. The New York Post added that he admitted to being an alcoholic who relapsed and drank three glasses of wine that day. He had spent time in rehab as well.

Texas law enforcement was investigating the case as manslaughter, but ultimately no charges were filed against the father.

Now, left-wing users on social media platform X are eager to frame this as a man getting away with murder in the name of the president.

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Judge Weighs Whether To Block Vaccines Changes From CDC, RFK Jr.

A federal judge weighing whether to block changes to U.S. vaccine guidance and an advisory panel did not immediately rule Feb. 13 after hearing from attorneys representing medical groups and the government.

Lawyers for the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine and other groups told U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy during a hearing at the federal courthouse in Boston that recent changes to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine schedule and the CDC’s vaccine advisory panel violate federal law and will reduce vaccination rates.

“This is a clear and present danger to public health,” said James Oh, a lawyer for the groups.

Oh said the schedule update, which removed the broad recommendation for six childhood vaccines for diseases including rotavirus, influenza and hepatitis A, “set off alarms” in the medical community and occurred without any rational explanation from the agency.

The CDC on Jan. 5, with backing from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., narrowed the number of vaccines routinely recommended by the childhood schedule.

Government officials said in filings that the the reasoning behind the change was in part due to an assessment carried out by senior health officials that analyzed the U.S. childhood schedule against schedules from other countries.

“The U.S. is a global outlier among peer nations in the number of target diseases included in its childhood vaccination schedule and in the total number of recommended vaccine doses,” the officials, Drs. Tracy Beth Hoeg and Martin Kulldorff, concluded.

The plaintiffs, which also include several women who say changes under Kennedy have prevented them from receiving vaccines, are challenging a series of actions. They focused on arguments for and against imposing an injunction blocking that update and the health secretary’s remaking of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee.

Oh said that the committee is not fairly balanced because it is dominated by people who oppose vaccines, in violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, and urged Murphy to block the committee’s upcoming Feb. 26–27 meeting.

Government lawyers said in a recent brief that the advisory committee members have a variety of employment histories and that the accusation they are anti-vaccine “does not accurately represent the members’ complex and nuanced perspectives and their committee voting records.”

Murphy asked during the hearing whether he could consider the “broader public health impacts” of the changes in vaccine recommendations while weighing the case.

Department of Justice lawyer Isaac Belfer told him health officials were not pursuing an anti-vaccine agenda and welcomed “spirited debate about vaccine policy.”

But he said the Department of Health and Human Services had broad authority to change policy to address a decline in public trust in vaccines following the COVID-19 pandemic.

“The court cannot substitute its judgment in place of the agency,” Belfer said.

Murphy did not immediately rule.

With the meeting upcoming, he said he “must make a decision in this case on an uncomfortably tight timeline.”

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Minnesota Sheriff Whose Office Missed Billions in Fraud Now Attacks ICE

On Friday morning, Hennepin County Sheriff Dawanna Witt stood before reporters and expressed relief that “Operation Metro Surge” was coming to an end. 

She spoke about rebuilding trust and emphasized that her office does not conduct civil immigration enforcement, adding that “nothing has changed” in the county’s policies.

The speech was among the most inflammatory anti-ICE remarks she could have delivered. Operation Metro Surge was a federal enforcement effort launched under the direction of the Trump administration’s border team, including Border Czar Tom Homan, in response to escalating tensions and public safety concerns in Minneapolis and surrounding areas. 

The purpose was straightforward: enforce existing federal immigration law and prevent further instability. When violence threatens to spiral out of control, federal authorities have both the power and the obligation to intervene.

Instead of acknowledging that reality, Sheriff Witt framed the operation primarily as a political burden placed on her office. She spoke at length about strained relationships and eroding trust, suggesting that local law enforcement had been forced into difficult positions by federal action.

What she did not do was thank federal officers for stepping in during a volatile moment. She did not acknowledge that ICE enforces statutes written by Congress. She did not recognize that immigration enforcement is a lawful function of the executive branch, not an optional courtesy.

Minnesota has spent the past several years confronting overlapping crises of disorder and fraud. The Feeding Our Future scandal alone involved what federal prosecutors described as a $250 million scheme to exploit taxpayer-funded child nutrition programs. 

Additional investigations into Medicaid and autism services fraud revealed systemic vulnerabilities that drained public funds of well over $8 billion and embarrassed state leadership. 

These were large-scale criminal operations that flourished under the watch of state and local authorities.

Public safety is not limited to street patrols. It includes institutional competence and, above all, requires proactive enforcement and coordination across agencies. 

Yet at the very moment federal officers increased their presence to deter violence and enforce immigration law, the sheriff’s message signaled distance, not partnership.

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Outrage Erupts as Hillary Clinton Hosts Panel on “Fundamental Rights For Women” – and Her First Guest is a Man Pretending to be a Woman: Trans Rep. “Sarah” McBride

Twice-failed presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is under fire for inviting a biological male to speak on a panel for “women’s rights” at the Munich Security Conference.

Clinton arrived in Munich on Thursday for the 62nd Munich Security Conference.

Clinton was spotted exiting the train in Munich.

She was forced to arrive by train due to the ongoing strike at Lufthansa.

On Saturday, Hillary Clinton hosted a “Fundamental Rights for Women” panel, and her first guest was transgender Congressman Tim “Sarah” McBride.

“Sarah” McBride is a biological male pretending to be a woman.

Hillary Clinton praised McBride and said he is trying to bring people together around issues of gender.

“As a gender rights champion and also the first openly transgender member of the United States Congress, you’ve been on the front lines of this fight and you’ve also been on the receiving end of so many threats and attacks that come from organized efforts,” Hillary said to Tim McBride.

McBride agreed with Hillary Clinton and bashed biological women who dare to speak out against transgender madness.

“We are facing, as you mentioned, a well-organized, well-funded right-wing regressive movement, and they really have placed trans people at the center of that effort,” Tim McBride said.

He continued, “But we should be clear that the consequences of this anti-trans effort.. will include women of all backgrounds because at the end of the day transphobia, homophobia, misogyny and sexism are all rooted in the same prejudice,” McBride said.

Hillary Clinton, the so-called feminist trailblazer, sat there and didn’t even push back on a man claiming that discrimination against his lifestyle is the same as “misogyny.”

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‘Wet tent syndrome’ is killing Gaza’s infants

Last week, Mohamed Abu Jarad returned to his tent in Gaza City’s Al-Daraj neighborhood to find his three-month-old daughter, Shaza, freezing cold and no longer breathing. The family rushed the baby to hospital, where doctors pronounced her dead from hypothermia. 

This tragedy came only a week after one-month-old Aisha Ayesh Al-Agha had died of hypothermia in Khan Younis, and two weeks after two more Palestinian babies died from the cold in the north and center of the Strip within a few hours of each other: Mahmoud Al-Akra, only one week old; and Mohammed Wissam Abu Harbid, two months old. 

In total, 10 infants under the age of 1 have died from hypothermia and extreme cold this winter, taking the total to around two dozen since the beginning of Israel’s onslaught on the enclave in October 2023, according to local health officials and Save The Children. All of them died while living in tents, their families helpless to keep them warm amid the freezing winter temperatures.

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DOJ Officials Claim Thomas Massie Just Made an Unbelievable Error

Reps. Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna may have gotten themselves into hot water after falsely accusing four men of being tied to the crimes of Jeffrey Epstein in front of Congress.

The pair claimed that four names, which the Department of Justice redacted in the release of the files, were “powerful men” engaged in connected to Epstein, but those men were simply randomly selected for a police line up and had zero real connection to the case.

Massive and Khanna claim that the fault in the false accusations lies with Department of Justice officials, stating that the DOJ “illegally redacted names without explanation and then refused to give context for the names once they redacted.”

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