Three numbers every American should know today.
Bezos paid Trump $40 million for the 'Melania' documentary.
Now, Bezos saves $8 billion because of Trump's corporate tax cuts.
While 17 million Americans lose health care.
Corruption, plain and simple.
https://t.co/h13Jwm80Tg
Trump's Justice Department is in possession of thousands of videos of children being graped by wealthy and powerful men.
Those men WERE being blackmailed by Epstein. But by not releasing their names, these men must now be loyal to Trump to protect their identities.
Trump is now using Epstein's secret recordings to blackmail the most powerful people in the world so they remain loyal to him.
Azerbaijan’s National Olympic Committee filed a complaint with the IOC over #Armenian figure skaters using Ara Gevorgyan’s #Artsakh as their program music, labeling it “political” and “separatist.”
📍Artsakh is a historical name used for centuries.
✝️🇦🇲 #Armenia has preserved an unwavering #Christian faith for over 1,700 years. The first Christian country in the world is home to over 4,000 historically and architecturally significant monasteries and churches.
Among them stands #Armenian Spitakavor Monastery, a 14th-century sanctuary perched high in the mountains of Vayots Dzor province.
The monastery is famous for the radiant white color of its stone. Its complex features remarkable medieval sculptures and reliefs -masterpieces of Armenian art.
Spitakavor Monastery was built under the patronage of two princes of the Proshyan dynasty during the Zakarid period.
The famous University of Gladzor, a major medieval center of Armenian learning, operated nearby from circa 1280 to 1340. After the university’s closure, Spitakavor became the Proshyans’ primary educational and cultural center.
Under the guidance of Father Superior and philologist Vardapet Avag, the monastery became an important cultural, educational, and spiritual center.
The heart of the complex is the Church of the Holy Mother of God, built from white felsite stone-the very material that gave the monastery its name, “Spitakavor”.
Beaverton, OR — Masked ICE agents seized 38-year-old chiropractor Mahdi Khanbabazadeh outside a preschool as he dropped off his child. The agents refused to identify themselves to witnesses, smashed his driver-side window after he begged them to wait because “there is a baby in the car,” and hauled him away in handcuffs. He is married to a U.S. citizen and was waiting for his citizenship to finalize.
via: opb
#goodmorningbadnews #ice #iceout #trump #beaverton
I’m on my apartment balcony to illustrate how Donald Trump’s corruption and contempt for the rule both threatens our democracy *and* affects our everyday lives.
Behind me is the Gateway project, a $16 billion effort to build a new rail tunnel across the Hudson. It's the most important infrastructure project in the country, vital to the economy of New York and the rest of the northeastern U.S..
The work will stop today—with thousands of jobs lost—because Donald Trump *illegally* cut off the funding.
Why? Because he wants *Penn Station* (and Dulles Airport) to be named after *him*.
So the fight against Trumpism is both about democracy and our economic well-being. It’s *one* fight.
It’s either Trump or us. We can’t go on with him another three years.
And that’s why I’m running for Congress.
Join the fight at https://t.co/odvrOJegFd.
”Last night, I received a flash drive containing the complete list of files belonging to Jeffrey Epstein. It has everything in it; every billionaire, every campaign donor, every single person. now let me tell you why you haven't heard anything about this in the media. because they're all in it. they will do everything to prevent these documents from being made public. Epstein was far more than just a child predator; he was an asset for intelligence agencies. He was part of a blackmail operation used to control billionaires, politicians, and world leaders. If this list ever sees the light of day, the system as we know it will collapse. the public has a right to know the truth, and I'm not afraid to share this” -United States Representative Thomas Massie
🚨🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Kash Patel's staff threatened Thomas Massie’s staff with criminal investigations if they continued speaking up about Israel and the Epstein files…
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: Newly surfaced Epstein emails reveal that underage girls were secretly giving birth to babies at his Zorro Ranch compound, only for the infants to vanish without a trace.
One teen accuser described being forced to act as a “human incubator”, her newborn was immediately taken away at birth and never seen again.
Documents also allege dead sex slaves were buried on the property.
This is beyond disturbing. They need to account for every single baby and woman and where they are.
The tribes affiliated with al-Jolani’s government (HTS), under the protection of General Security and with the support of Tom Barrack,
are exhuming Kurdish — and even Arab — graves, destroying and looting them in the city of Raqqa.
This is the doctrine of the ISIS terrorist organization: they declare everything apostate — not only the living in the neighborhood, but even the dead.
#Raqqa #Damascus_Terrorist_Government
America 🇺🇸 Listen up people! We are at a reflection point where we need to get rid of this president , who’s a disgrace to this country!!
#DemVoice1#DemsUnited#ProudBlue
Greek coastguard: We asked them (the fake refugees): “You have a baby too, you have to take it,” and they answered:
“We don’t care about the babies, we have many, we’ll make another. Now we want to save ourselves.”
“Refugees” or invaders?
They want to replace you. It's a war.
Ruben Vardanyan’s Son Urges U.S. Action to Free Armenian Prisoners in Baku Ahead of VP JD Vance Visit to Armenia, Azerbaijan
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As U.S. Vice President JD Vance prepares to visit Armenia and Azerbaijan, David Vardanyan, the son of imprisoned Armenian Christian Ruben Vardanyan, a prominent Armenian philanthropist and former Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) State Minister, is urging the Trump administration to press Baku to release Armenian prisoners still held captive following Azerbaijan’s September 2023 military assault, takeover, and ethnic cleansing of Artsakh.
In a February 4 interview with Zeale News, David Vardanyan described his father’s detention and said Ruben Vardanyan was detained in a mass arrest that illegally detained at least 22 Armenians after Azerbaijan’s military offensive in the region. He accused Azerbaijan of holding Armenians through politically driven prosecutions marked by abuse, restricted family contact, and violations of basic legal and religious rights.
“This was a mass arrest done at the end of an ethnic cleansing campaign of over 120,000 Christian Armenians,” Vardanyan said.
Artsakh has been populated by Armenians for more than 2,000 years and is among the oldest Armenian settlements. The region has been predominantly Armenian in population and has been self-governed since 1991. Vardanyan said Azerbaijani forces laid siege to Artsakh for several months by blocking the only road linking the community to Armenia, the world’s oldest Christian nation.
Vardanyan said his father moved to Artsakh after the 2020 war between Armenia and Azerbaijan to support the local Christian population, which he believed “was being abandoned by the world.”
“He decided to give up all of his whole life and risk everything,” Vardanyan said. “He tried to defend them, to live with them at the most dire hour. And he’s been paying the price for standing up in a peaceful means to try to defend a persecuted minority group.”
Conditions of Detention
Vardanyan described the charges against his father, roughly 40 counts, including allegations such as financing terrorism and illegal border crossing, as fabricated and said the proceedings lack basic legal safeguards. He said Azerbaijan is prosecuting Ruben Vardanyan in a military tribunal even though he never held a military position, which he said is a violation of international norms.
“He is effectively in a political show trial,” Vardanyan said.
Independent journalists and monitors are barred from the proceedings, and family contact has been severely restricted since Azerbaijan expelled the International Committee of the Red Cross from the country, Vardanyan added. The family’s only contact now comes through brief, heavily monitored phone calls. He also said his father has been held in solitary confinement and subjected to abuse.
Azerbaijan has not released a comprehensive list of detainees. Vardanyan said 19 prisoners are currently confirmed to be held after four were released, but the total number may be higher due to unaccounted-for prisoners of war. As Zeale News previously reported, roughly 80 individuals are still unaccounted for after the military takeover.
Vardanyan said the prosecutions reflect Azerbaijan’s broader political system, which has been controlled by the Aliyev family for roughly four decades and lacks an independent judiciary or free press.
Christian Persecution in Azerbaijan
Vardanyan also said detainees face restrictions on practicing their Christian faith. He said attempts during the first week of his father’s detention to send him a Bible and another foundational text of Armenian Christianity were denied, even though authorities allowed several other books through.
“But worse,” he said, “we’ve heard from other prisoners that those who had crosses tattooed or any kind of [marks] on their bodies, they had them burned off in prison.”
He pointed to extensive documentation of Armenian churches and Christian holy sites destroyed in the now-emptied Artsakh region after its takeover, describing the campaign against Christians as systematic and deliberate.
Freedom House ranks Azerbaijan among the world’s most repressive countries, giving it a score of seven out of 100 in its “Freedom in the World Score.” By comparison, Cuba scores 10, Iran 11, and Venezuela 13.
What’s Next
Renewed attention to Armenian prisoners comes as Vance is expected to visit Armenia and Azerbaijan as part of a U.S. diplomatic push tied to President Donald Trump’s proposed “Trump Route for International Peace and Prosperity,” a regional transportation and economic initiative.
Trump said the visit would build on a peace framework announced at the White House in August 2025 aimed at ending the decades-long conflict over Artsakh. Reuters reported that the framework included mutual recognition of territorial integrity and commitments to international law.
According to Vardanyan, the August event did not produce a signed peace treaty but instead resulted in the initialing of a framework text that he said makes no reference to Armenian detainees.
“You cannot have Christian hostages remaining in dungeon cells and expect the world to believe that real peace exists,” he said.
Vardanyan expressed gratitude to Trump and the U.S. for prioritizing the protection of Christians worldwide and noted that Trump had previously addressed the fate of the Armenian prisoners. According to OC Media, Trump told Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in August that he intended to request the release of the prisoners held in Azerbaijan and said he believed Baku would comply.
“This is a unique opportunity again to show the world that the President and the vice president mean what they say,” Vardanyan said. “The defense of Christians is a key priority for this administration, not only in the U.S., but throughout the world.”
He said the vice president, who has spoken publicly about global persecution of Christians, could help secure the prisoners’ release through direct engagement with regional leaders.
“This is an easy win,” Vardanyan said. “There are 90 remaining Christians who, I believe, can be brought home with the vice president’s support.”
On Saturday, February 7, 2026, a group of Haredi Jews took turns spitting at the entrance to St. James Monastery.
According to data published by the Israeli watchdog Religious Freedom Data Center (RFDC), Armenians are disproportionately targeted by these hate crimes.
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She tried to warn everyone in 2001. The men she named were powerful. What followed ruined her life.💔⚠️
Karen Mulder was one of the most famous models in the world. She worked with Versace, Dior, and Chanel, became an original Victoria’s Secret Angel, and was one of the highest paid models of her time. She was everywhere, admired, successful, and trusted inside the fashion industry.
In October 2001, Mulder appeared on a French talk show and spoke about serious wrongdoing in the modeling world, including assault, abuse, and exploitation. She directly named senior figures. The interview never aired. Reports later claimed the footage was destroyed before the public could see it.
Within hours, she disappeared from public view and was taken to a psychiatric hospital in Paris, where she stayed for months. Her mental health was questioned. Her credibility was torn apart. Her career collapsed. For years, she was portrayed as unstable and unreliable.
The men she accused kept working.
Years later, one of them, Jean-Luc Brunel, was exposed as a close associate of Jeffrey Epstein. Court records and testimony linked him to an international exploitation network connected to modeling agencies. Many women later accused him. He was arrested in France in 2020 and died in custody in 2022 while awaiting trial.
Another executive Mulder named, Gérald Marie, was later accused by at least fifteen women of assault and abuse. A BBC investigation had previously raised serious concerns about his behavior, yet he remained influential in fashion for years.
Karen Mulder was not protected. She was silenced.
Two decades later, the men she warned about were being investigated, exposed, or dying in jail cells. The truth did not change her fate, but it changed how her words should be remembered.
She was not crazy. She was early.