EXCLUSIVE FOOTAGE/PHOTOS: Dashcam Footage Shows Deadly Crash - Richard Holden Held on Just $5,000 Surety Bond!

We have exclusively obtained the full crash report detailing the horrific crash from September in Jefferson County, Missouri. Holden, the driver of a 2022 Freightliner Cascadia, rear-ended a line of vehicles in a construction zone, triggering a chain-reaction collision involving eight vehicles (the semi and seven passenger vehicles). The driver, Richard Holden, was arrested and charged with three counts of involuntary manslaughter.

Last year, I was able to obtain the carrier information and write an exclusive report at that time. The report showed 11 insurance cancellations in 10 years. It revealed extreme negligence and misconduct by the truck carrier, with no accountability for consistent violations.

The story today is focused on the lack of accountability for Richard Holden. Documents reveal that, after Holden said, “I think I might have dozed off,” he was approved for a writ of mandamus and had his bond lowered to $5,000. The designation means he was permitted to secure release through a bondsman rather than posting the full amount directly to the court. If $500 is paid to the bondsman, he can walk free.

IF YOU ARE ANGRY, I PROMISE YOU ARE NOT ANGRY ENOUGH. I spent the entire morning going through the photos from the report. Unfortunately, due to their sensitive nature, I cannot share them. Multiple photos were of the victims. I am not going to get those images out of my head very quickly. The fact that this man is going to be able to walk free if an individual pays $500 is beyond my capability of understanding.

I can attach a few photos in the thread. I just want you to imagine what happened to the individuals that were in the vehicles struck by a semi going 70 mph..

A huge thank you to @TheLoneWolfonX for assistance with the open records request

Exclusive regarding the Carrier

https://twitter.com/sarahiscensored/status/1989800973217534050

A Mafia does a lot better in its hometown if it controls the local media. Same for the coroner's office.

The life of Generoso Pope Jr. is instructive. His godfather was Frank Costello, who took over the US Mafia from Lucky Luciano.

By the time that he graduated from MIT in

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1946, the connections between the OSS/CIA and the Mafia were well-established. He first signed up with the CIA, and then started running the National Enquirer, purchased for him by his godfather.

So it is no surprise that the MediaMafia is always deflecting for Trump. Trump

is a frontman for the CIAMafia, the hidden network in our society that set up the CIA in 1947.

You cannot know history until you study the history of the Mafias and Intell Agencies. America has been blinded to this for over 80 years.

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📰 Here's your round-up of top #CarbonDioxideRemoval News / Developments from this week (16 February - 22 February 2026):

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Octopus Energy invested nearly $1B in Californian clean tech and CDR, expanding its US footprint.
octopus.energy/press/octopus-…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded $14.7M to TREDC for a 4,500 t/yr biochar facility in California.
carbonherald.com/the-u-s-enviro…

Natural Resources Canada committed $580K to Cecobois to advance wood-based, low-carbon construction nationwide.
canada.ca/en/natural-res…

Tapestry, Inc. signed a 10-year CDR deal with Climeworks to support its climate strategy.
climeworks.com/press-release/…

@Isometric_HQ partnered with eight leading data and service providers to scale nature-based CDR support.
isometric.com/writing-articl…

Varaha launched Varaha Industrial Partners Program to scale industrial biochar CDR in Côte d’Ivoire using cashew waste.
prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

FLS Group AG and CULA teamed up to strengthen biochar sampling integrity
biochartoday.com/news/fls-group…

Releaf Earth issued 190 tCO₂e in biochar credits for Salesforce via Milkywire under Rainbow protocol.
ccarbon.info/news/releaf-ea…

Climeworks opened its Canadian HQ in Calgary, boosting North American DAC expansion.
climeworks.com/news/climework…

Mangrove Systems partnered with Super6 Carbon to deliver digital MRV for U.S. CDR projects.
carbonherald.com/in-a-new-partn…

Mirova signed framework deals with BeZero Carbon and Sylvera to enhance carbon quality standards.
mirova.com/en/news/mirova…

Climate Impact Partners registered India’s first VM0047 biochar CDR project under Verra.
climateimpact.com/news-insights/…

Canada Nickel and The University of Texas completed CO₂ storage in mine waste at Crawford.
prnewswire.com/news-releases/…

Varhad is set to commission a 3,000 t/yr biochar unit in Maharashtra, with a second facility due by Q2.
argusmedia.com/en/news-and-in…

Green Carbon Inc. and BRIN formed a public-private partnership to scale Indonesian biochar credits.
biochartoday.com/news/green-car…

@senken_io partnered with Ocell to add European forestry removals to its portfolio.
carbonherald.com/senken-enriche…

Natural Resources Canada launched funding calls for DAC, BECCS and CCUS FEED studies to scale durable CDR.
natural-resources.canada.ca/funding-partne…

Verra approved first credits under its DMRV pilot, enabling faster digital issuance.
verra.org/verra-approves…

@ClimeFiHQ launched a Due Diligence Coverage platform to boost transparency in CDR procurement.
climefi.com/resources/due-…

A new AlliedOffsets report says the CDR market is consolidating as buyer scrutiny and quality standards rise.
blog.alliedoffsets.com/growth-consoli…

@absclimate launched a certification framework for low-carbon products via Environmental Attribute Certificates.
globenewswire.com/news-release/2…

A Cornell University postdoc is building a global CDR researcher directory for students and early-career scientists.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

@Carbon_Direct unveiled CDR 2.0, a five-pillar framework to scale durable removals from pledges to delivery.
carbon-direct.com/research-and-r…

A new study projects enhanced rock weathering could remove up to 1.1 GtCO₂/yr by 2100 under strong policy support.
nature.com/articles/s4445…

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#Ochakouraraka:

The UA third years make bets once the school year starts. It’s just for fun really, just between five or six people, just one friend group.

The terms of the bet? Which one of the second yeas will have the most fans now that the first years are here. +

To no ones surprise Shoto, Katsuki and Izuku are the top contenders.

Two people have bet their after class chores for a month on Izuku, three people have all their money on Shoto and one person has bet his place as the class rep on Katsuki’s “unique charm”.

As things do, it

gets out of hand immediately. As soon as the third years realise how excitable and invested the new first years are in class 2A the bets start to spread until the entire third year hero course is involved.

The pool grows, it becomes about strictly money and suddenly all eyes

This observation from Kondratiev's paper in 1927, Long Waves In Economic Life, is one of many that can be attributed to our contemporary experience. The mid-wave crisis peak that announced the recession of the last wave was undoubtedly, for the sake of assigning a single point,

...1980 when gold prices and interest rates hit their highs. It was also the period in which computer and internet technology made its appearance.

I am suggesting, apropos of Kondratiev's comment, that a feature of our place at the start of the new long wave, is the belief that AI will change everything by its adoption at a mass scale.

Rishi Sunak: At NATO’s Hedgehog 2025 exercise, Ukrainians exposed how ill-prepared western forces are for modern war.

Germany signed a deal with Kyiv for Ukrainians to train its troops. We must change how we plan, procure and practise war - The Times. 1/

Sunak: Ukraine went from 800,000 drones in 2023 to well over 4 million last year, more than all of NATO combined.

Around 10,000 drones a day are now used on the battlefield, and many are obsolete within three months. 2/

Sunak: Ukraine, without a navy, pushed Russia’s Black Sea Fleet back to port using maritime drones.

Kyiv reopened its grain corridor and exports now exceed pre-2022 levels, bringing in cash for the war effort, Zelenskyy told me. 3/

President Biden largely maintained the Section 301 tariffs on approximately $370 billion of Chinese imports originally established by the Trump administration. Following a mandatory 4 yr review in 2024 the Biden-Harris administration not only kept these existing duties but also

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significantly increased or added new tariffs targeting "strategic sectors".
U.S. Department of Commerce (.gov)

Trump Tariffs Maintained by Biden - The Biden administration chose to keep nearly all of the original Trump-era tariffs
on Chinese goods in place,

covering thousands of categories including:
National Taxpayers Union

Consumer Goods: Footwear, luggage & hats.
Industrial Components: Broad categories of machinery & chemicals.
Existing Section 301 duties: Generally ranging from 7.5%
to 25% on various imports.

Bill Browder: War in Ukraine is now only about Putin’s personal survival.

He needs the war to stay in power, and he needs to stay in power to stay alive. The destruction of Russia is unparalleled, but he cannot stop. If he stops, he loses everything. 1/

Browder: Putin is a historic liar, but he’s honest about one thing.

He believes Ukraine should not exist as a sovereign state. He hasn’t deviated from that for a minute. He doesn’t want compromise. He wants total and absolute victory. 2/

Browder: Peace talks create the appearance of negotiation so Putin can keep fighting and avoid sanctions.

He can tell Trump: you can’t upset delicate negotiations. That is the main intention behind this process. 3/

A man paid for 25 billboards across Houston reading "Thank you, Barbara Jordan, for explaining the Constitution to us." Thousands of letters poured in. People swarmed her car.

All in response to a televised 15-minute speech by a first-term congresswoman. Barbara Jordan's stirring rebuke of then-President Richard Nixon's abuse of power before House Judiciary Committee had electrified the nation.

Twenty-two years later, Bill Moyers stood at her memorial service and tried to sum up what her words had meant to a nation shaken by corruption, where faith in government had crumbled. "Just when we despaired of finding a hero, she showed up, to give the sign of democracy," he said. "This is no small thing. This, my friends, this is grace."

Before that pivotal speech in 1974 - which generated a groundswell of public support for ousting Nixon - most Americans had never heard of Barbara Jordan. Fifteen minutes later, they would never forget her. Texas columnist Molly Ivins once said Jordan would be the obvious choice in a casting call for the voice of God and on that evening, millions understood why.

Jordan, a first-term congresswoman from Texas, opened by reminding the nation that when the Constitution was completed in 1787, "I was not included in that 'We, the people.' I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake."

Then, with devastating precision, she laid out the constitutional case for impeachment. "My faith in Constitution is whole, it is complete, it is total," she declared. "I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution."

In that speech, Jordan gave the nation a constitutional education, quoting Hamilton and Madison to explain why the founders had granted Congress the power of impeachment. "It is designed to 'bridle' the Executive if he engages in excesses," she said. "It is designed as a method of national inquest into the conduct of public men. The framers confined in the Congress the power, if need be, to remove the President in order to strike a delicate balance between a President swollen with power and grown tyrannical and preservation of the independence of the Executive."

Within days, the Judiciary Committee voted to recommend impeachment. Within weeks, Nixon was gone. But the speech that made Barbara Jordan a household name was not a beginning -- it was the culmination of a journey that started on the segregated buses of Houston's Fifth Ward.

Barbara Charline Jordan was born on this day in 1936, the youngest of three daughters of a Baptist minister and a domestic worker. Her father, Benjamin Jordan, demanded excellence. "I would come home with five A's and a B," Jordan recalled, "and my father would say, 'Why do you have a B?'" He wanted his daughters to become music teachers -- a respectable ambition for young Black women in segregated Houston. Two of them did. Barbara had other plans.

"I always wanted to be something unusual," she said. "I would never be content with being run of the mill." When she was in the tenth grade at Phillis Wheatley High School, a Black lawyer from Chicago named Edith Sampson spoke at Career Day. Sampson was crisp, competent, confident. Jordan decided on the spot: that was what she was going to be. Her father told the encouraging teacher to stay out of his family's affairs. The law, he said, was no profession for a woman.

Jordan enrolled at Texas Southern University -- a Black college hastily created by the Texas legislature to avoid integrating the University of Texas. Every day, she rode segregated buses to campus, passing empty seats to reach the placard marked "colored" at the back. At TSU, she joined the debate team under coach Thomas Freeman and discovered she could beat anyone in any room. The team defeated opponents from Yale and Brown and tied Harvard. "When an all-Black team ties Harvard," she later said, "it wins."

#archaeohistories

She attended Boston University School of Law -- one of only two Black women in a class of 600. She graduated in 1959 and returned to Houston, where she became only the third Black woman licensed to practice law in the entire state of Texas. She couldn't afford an office, so she practiced from her parents' dining room table. It took three years before she could open her own.

In 1960, she volunteered for the Kennedy-Johnson presidential campaign and was given the job of running a voter turnout drive in Houston's Black precincts. She worked until midnight, sometimes later, organizing block by block. The effort delivered an 80 percent turnout. She was hooked. "My interest, which had been latent, was sparked," she said. She ran for the Texas House of Representatives in 1962. She lost. She ran again in 1964. She lost again.

In 1966, after court-ordered redistricting finally created a district that reflected where Black Texans actually lived, Jordan ran for the Texas Senate -- and won. No Black person had held a seat in that chamber since Walter Moses Burton, a formerly enslaved man, left office in 1882. It had been 84 years. "For the first time in Texas," Jordan said, "we are going to have legislators who represent people, not cattle."

Jordan faced a chamber of thirty White men. She was the only Black person. She experienced racism and sexism from her colleagues. The Senate Members Lounge still bore a sign reading "Men Only" -- a sign that would be removed during her tenure. Houston's Black community wondered how much difference one woman could make in that room.

Jordan's answer was strategic, not confrontational. She befriended the most powerful conservative in the Senate, Dorsey Hardeman, and cultivated a close relationship with Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes. She mastered the rules, studied the process, and outworked everyone. "I am willing to work through any structure," she said. "I am not so hard that I cannot bend as long as my basic principles are intact." Her colleagues unanimously voted her outstanding freshman member. She sponsored or cosponsored some 70 bills; nearly half became law, including Texas' first minimum wage.

In 1972, her colleagues elected her president pro tempore of the Texas Senate -- the first Black woman in America to preside over a legislative body. When one senator rose to second the nomination, he spread his arms and said: "What can I say? Black is beautiful." That same year, as acting governor for a day when the governor and lieutenant governor were out of state, she became the first Black chief executive in the nation's history.

With Lyndon Johnson's support, Jordan won election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1972, becoming the first Black woman from a Southern state to serve in Congress. Johnson helped secure her a seat on the House Judiciary Committee -- a seemingly routine appointment that would, two years later, place her before the largest television audience of her career.

After the Watergate speech made her a national figure, Jordan delivered another historic address: the keynote at the 1976 Democratic National Convention, the first ever given by a Black woman. "We are a people in search of a national community," she told the delegates. "We are attempting to fulfill our national purpose, to create and sustain a society in which all of us are equal."

In 1973, Jordan had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. The disease would gradually confine her to a wheelchair, though she kept the diagnosis private for years. In 1978, she declined to seek re-election, citing an "internal compass" pointing her away from the demands of Congress. She accepted a professorship at the University of Texas at Austin, where she taught at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and became one of the most beloved teachers on campus.

She returned to the national stage in 1992, delivering the keynote at the Democratic National Convention a second time -- this time from a wheelchair. Her voice had not diminished. In 1994, President Clinton presented her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Barbara Jordan died on January 17, 1996, at the age of 59, from pneumonia related to leukemia. She was buried in the Texas State Cemetery -- the first Black woman to receive the honor. Her grave rests near that of Stephen F. Austin, the "Father of Texas." Governor Ann Richards delivered the eulogy: "She was a constant, and she was as true as the North Star."

The New York Times wrote: "She left Congress after only three terms, a mere six years. No landmark legislation bears her name. Yet few lawmakers in this century have left a more profound and positive impression on the nation than Barbara Jordan."

For 84 years, Jim Crow, poll taxes, and white primaries had ensured that no Black person would sit in the Texas Senate. It took the Voting Rights Act, court-ordered redistricting, and a woman from the Fifth Ward with the preparation, the strategy, and the voice to demand her place at the table -- to finally break through.

Barbara Jordan spent her life fighting for what she believed the people wanted -- something very simple: "an America as good as its promise."

CJNG Cartel Members have launched mass attacks across Mexico after their leader was taken out in a special operation. I edited this compilation together so you can see how bad it really is!

🚨 Cartel members have now started targeting shops with molotov cocktails ⚠️

https://twitter.com/mattwallace888/status/2025664867215270171

There is so much toxic smoke in the air that it is becoming difficult to breathe 😳

https://twitter.com/mattwallace888/status/2025664867215270171

So does the US have a balance of payments deficit for purposes of section 122 of the trade law (and thus the basis for imposing a 15% tariff).

It is an interesting question

1/ many

One meaning of a balance of payments deficit is a current account deficit in excess of financial inflows, and thus a draw on reserves -- something that happens in emerging economies, but not generally in advanced economies with floating exchange rates.

2/

Another meaning tho is a deficit in the current account that even if covered by financial inflows is leading to an increase in external claims on the economy -- and the US clearly has sizable current account deficit (way bigger than in the Nixon shock of the 70s)

3/

SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas dropped straight TRUTH BOMBS in his dissent on the tariffs

He nailed it.

"NEITHER the statutory text nor the Constitution provide a basis for ruling against the President." :fire:

"Congress authorized the President to “regulate . . .

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importation.” Throughout American history, the authority to “regulate importation” has been understood to include the authority to impose duties on imports."

"The meaning of that phrase was beyond doubt by the time that Congress enacted this statute, shortly after

President Nixon’s highly publicized duties on imports were UPHELD based on identical language."

"The statute that the President relied on therefore authorized him to impose the duties on imports at issue in these cases."

"Because the Constitution assigns Congress many