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🚨 Be Mine – February 12 2026

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Happy Thursday

Since we don’t do a newsletter on Friday, we wanted to wish you a Happy Valentine’s Day. Apparently Dr. Oz throws fun Valentine’s Day parties. We know because he invited Jeffrey Epstein to one in 2016.

Nothing says “love is in the air” like inviting the world’s most famous convicted sex offender to mingle with your family and friends.

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Lead: Will There Be a Midnight War?

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited President Trump in the White House on Wednesday. President Trump signaled that Netanyahu did not talk him into war with Iran.

“There was nothing definitive reached other than I insisted that negotiations with Iran continue to see whether or not a Deal can be consummated. If it can, I let the Prime Minister know that will be a preference. If it cannot, we will just have to see what the outcome will be,” he said.

We will just have to see. That’s not exactly reassuring for anyone who wants a peaceful outcome.

What is worrying is that a holiday weekend is coming up. There’s a well-known strategic concept sometimes called the “Friday news dump” or “holiday timing.” It is when governments release controversial information or take controversial military action late on Fridays or before long weekends to minimize media attention.

When the U.S. struck Iran last June, it was in the late hours between Friday night and Saturday morning. When the U.S. captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, it also happened overnight between a Friday and Saturday. When the first Trump administration launched a strike in Iraq targeting on Qasem Soleimani in 2020, that also happened in the early hours of a Friday.

So we would be prudent to watch the calendar this weekend and pray the holiday comes and goes without incident.

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When the People Don’t Matter

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Gallup says it will stop tracking presidential approval ratings — something it has done since the 1930s. A spokesperson told The Hill the move “reflects an evolution in how Gallup focuses its public research and thought leadership.”

That’s a curious way to describe discontinuing one of the most enduring measures of public sentiment in American politics.

Presidential approval ratings are not trivial. They are shorthand for the public’s temperature. They tell us whether voters feel heard, satisfied, restless, or angry.

President Trump’s Gallup approval rating has dropped 11 points since taking office last year. Just 36% approve of his job performance, matching President Biden’s lowest number and nearing Trump’s own first-term low of 34%.

So at a moment when approval is plummeting, Gallup exits the business of measuring it.

Is that coincidence? Or are we entering an era where the gatekeepers don’t have to care about public opinion?

After the Epstein documents, many Americans already question whether public accountability is real. Is it?

News By The Numbers

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1,700 pounds. That is the size of a record-breaking great white shark that was tracked off the coast of North Carolina. His name is Contender.

124.9 million. That is how many people watched the Super Bowl last Sunday.

Three. That is how many surgeries Lindsey Vonn has had since her scary ski accident a few days ago. She says that she’s doing well despite her dashed Olympic dreams.

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This newsletter is written and researched by Natali Morris.
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