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Eileen Gu garners backlash for commenting on Trump’s statement while representing China

American-born Team China Olympic skier Eileen Gu came under immense scrutiny on social media this week aftermaking comments about President Donald Trump’s recent criticism of U.S. Olympian Hunter Hess.

Gu, who was born in San Francisco, is the highest-paid Winter Olympic athlete in the world, making an estimated $23 million in 2025 alone in partnerships with Chinese companies, including the Bank of China, and western companies. Gu has said she represents China for her mother, who was born there.

Gu has never spoken out against China’s alleged human rights abuses, including the nation’s alleged systematic campaign of repressionagainst Uyghurs and other predominantly Muslim ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.

However, Gu has commented on Trump’s criticism of Hess for expressing “mixed emotions” about representing the U.S. in Milan Cortina.

“I’m sorry that the headline that is eclipsing the Olympics has to be something so unrelated to the spirit of the Games. It really runs contrary to everything the Olympics should be,” Gu told reporters Monday.

“The whole point of sport is to bring people together. … One of the very few common languages, that of the human body, that of the human spirit, the competitive spirit, the capacity to break not only records, but especially in our sport, literally the human limit. How wonderful is that?”

Gu also claimed she had been “caught in the crossfire” herself.

“As someone who has got caught in the crossfire before, I feel sorry for the athletes,” Gu said. “I hope that they can ski to their very best.”

Gu’s comments have incited backlash on social media, with many critics pointing out that Gu has never spoken out against China for its alleged human rights violations.

Former NBA player Enes Kanter Freedomblasted Gu in a lengthy X post,calling her a “traitor.”

“Eileen Gu is a traitor. She was born in America, raised in America, lives in America, and chose to compete against her own country for the worst human rights abuser on the planet, China. She built her fame in a free country, then chose to represent an authoritarian regime while cashing in on endorsements linked by watchdog groups to mass detention and forced labor camps. When human rights come up, she disappears,” Kanter wrote.

“That’s not neutrality. That’s a choice. She chose to play for a country responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of its own people and that is running concentration camps right now, instead of the country where she was born and given opportunity.”

Hudson Institute senior fellow Michael Sobolik also pointed out Gu’s silence on China’s alleged persecution of Uyghurs and the political imprisonment of individuals who oppose Xi Jinping.

“Listen, it’s fine for athletes to criticize the U.S. president. It also isn’t that interesting because it happens all the time.What’s interesting about this story … is that Eileen Gu is an American skier competing for China. No mention about whether the CCP’s genocide of Uyghurs ‘runs contrary to everything the Olympics should be.’ No criticism of Xi Jinping for the imprisonment of Jimmy Lai, Pastor Ezra Jin, Gulshan Abbas, or China’s many other political prisoners,” Sobolik wrote on X.

“If you criticize America but won’t say a word about the CCP, that says a lot about you. If you’re an American athlete that leverages the freedom this country has given you to represent an authoritarian regime, that says even more.”

https://wfin.com/fox-sports/eileen-gu-garners-backlash-for-commenting-on-trumps-statement-while-representing-china/

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Republican communications specialist Matt Whitlock echoed similar criticism of Gu in an X post.

“Can’t imagine a worse voice on this topic than an athlete who threw away her American citizenship for Chinese Communist Party endorsement deals. Does Eileen Gu have any criticism for Xi Jinping for genocide, slavery, and arresting dissenters?” Whitlock wrote.

Several other X users spoke out against Gu.

Trump has been one of the most discussed figures at this year’s Winter Olympics, and several athletes have made suggestive criticisms of his handling of the U.S., including Hess.

Trump made a scathing post on social media, calling Hess a “real loser.”

“U.S. Olympic Skier, Hunter Hess, a real Loser, says he doesn’t represent his Country in the current Winter Olympics,” he wrote.

“If that’s the case, he shouldn’t have tried out for the Team, and it’s too bad he’s on it. Very hard to root for someone like this. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”

Hess originally said of representing the U.S., “It brings up mixed emotions to represent the U.S. right now, I think. It’s a little hard. There’s obviously a lot going on that I’m not the biggest fan of, and I think a lot of people aren’t.

“I think, for me, it’s more I’m representing my friends and family back home, the people that represented it before me, all the things that I believe are good about the U.S. If it aligns with my moral values, I feel like I’m representing it. Just because I’m wearing the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything that’s going on in the U.S.

“I just kind of want to do it for my friends and my family and the people that support me getting here.”

https://wfin.com/fox-sports/eileen-gu-garners-backlash-for-commenting-on-trumps-statement-while-representing-china/

Sounds like maybe her parents were devoted to China, spies?

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Law Firm Sacks Hundreds of Employees Amid Pivot to AI

They're not even trying to hide it.. 1/2

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By Frank Landymore

Published Feb 11, 2026 10:25 AM EST

The Chicago based multinational law firm Baker McKenzie is laying off up to a thousand employeesas part of its pivot to embracing AI, the legalhub RollOnFriday reports.

In what might be an augury of how further AI related cuts could sweep other industries,it’s not the lawyers getting the axe, but instead hundreds of their support staff. These include “dozens of roles in London and Belfast,” and hundreds across functionsincluding know-how, research, marketing, and secretarial, according to the reporting.

The cuts,which could affect up to ten percent of its global workforce, or between 600 to 1,000 people, were conducted after the company“undertook a careful review” of its “business professionals functions,” a spokesperson told ROF, with AI explicitly mentioned as a factor in the decision.

“This review was aimed at rethinking the ways in which we work, including through our use of AI, introducing efficiencies, and investing in those roles that best serve our clients’ needs,” the spokesperson added.

The law firm’s reported layoffs come after Anthropic’s new Claude Cowork AI agentsparked a panicked sell off that sent the stock market plunging last week. Investors feared that Claude’s plugin for automating some legal tasks and paperwork could lead to layoffs and outmode the expensive software that legal firms and other white collar organizations use.

Perhaps the fate of Baker McKenzie’s support staff confirms all those worst fears. Or it could be a sign of something else that’s been dominating the discourse intech and finance circles recently: so-called “AI washing.”

More and more companies arejustifying headcount reductions by invoking the tech’s dubious promises, with one reportfinding that AI was cited in the announcements of more than 54,000 layoffs last year. But critics say that business leaders aresimply using AI to justify cuts that were driven by other financial reasons, and point to the fact that many firms don’t have serious AI replacements lined up to make up for the shortfall.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/law-firm-sacks-hundreds-

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“Companies are saying that ‘we’re anticipating that we’re going to introduce A.I. that will take over these jobs.’But it hasn’t happened yet. So that’s one reason to be skeptical,” Wharton School professor Peter Cappelli told the New York Times.

Moreover,plenty of research and real-world cases has shown that AI tools and agents can’t reliably do a human’s job, or at least not yet. The tech’s introduction into legal settings hasbeen particularly comical, with numerous lawyers being chewed out and punished by judges after the AI they used included botched citations and fabricated case law==. Hallucinating AIs have been such a thorn in law firms’ sides that one firm adopted the desperate measure of employing its own AI to catch LLM usage.

Time will tell if the layoffs, whether “AI-washed” or actually inteded to replace human grunts,will come back to haunt them. At Baker MacKenzie, one employee on the chopping block called his bosses’ decision “short sighted,” per ROF, in an expletive-filled rant.

More and more companies are justifying headcount reductions by invoking the tech’s dubious promises, with one reportfinding that AI was cited in the announcements of more than 54,000 layoffs last year.But critics say that business leaders are simply using AI to justify cutsthat were driven by other financial reasons, and point to the fact that many firms don’t have serious AI replacements lined up to make up for the shortfall.

“Companies are saying that ‘we’re anticipating that we’re going to introduce A.I. that will take over these jobs.’ But it hasn’t happened yet. So that’s one reason to be skeptical,” Wharton School professor Peter Cappelli told the New York Times.

Moreover, plenty of research and real-world cases has shown that AI tools and agents can’t reliably do a human’s job, or at least not yet. The tech’s introduction into legal settings has been particularly comical, with numerous lawyers being chewed out and punished by judgesafter the AI they used included botched citations and fabricated case law. Hallucinating AIs have been such a thorn in law firms’ sides that one firm adopted the desperate measure of employing its own AI to catch LLM usage.

Time will tell if the layoffs, whether “AI-washed” or actually inteded to replace human grunts, will come back to haunt them. At Baker MacKenzie, one employee on the chopping block called his bosses’ decision “short sighted,” per ROF, in an expletive-filled rant.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/law-firm-sacks-hundreds-ai

‘Could Be Huge’: TMZ Drops New Guthrie Video that ‘Has Landed on the FBI’s Radar’

Ahmad Austin Jr.

Feb 12th, 2026, 2:18 pm

TMZ on Thursday revealed new footage that has reportedly “landed on the FBI’s radar” amid the ongoing search for Nancy Guthrie.

Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of NBC’s Savannah Guthrie, has been missing for over a week. Not long after her family reported her missing, investigators declared that she had not left her home willing, and the case has since been treated as an abduction. The FBI has also received multiple ransom notes demanding payment for Nancy’s return.One of those notes included personal details about the contents of Nancy’s home.

On Tuesday, the FBI released footageof a “potential suspect” walking up to Nancy’s front door. The individual wore a mask and dark clothing.

Two days later, TMZ founder Harvey Levinrevealed that the FBI obtained new footage that could be connectedto Nancy’s disappearance.The clip, taken near a residence five miles from her home, showed a man wearing a backpack and holding another one. The man appears to be trying to access the backyard of a home.The backpack in his hand, Levin noted, featured a distinct detailalso present on the backpack of the potential suspect seen in front of Nancy’s home.

“The backpack that he’s holding has reflective stripes,” Levin said, “similar to the backpack that the kidnapper was wearing at Nancy’s door. It’s unclear from the video exactly where those reflective stripes are located, but they are reflective stripes. And we know, and reported yesterday, that this is a Walmart backpack, which is fairly common.”

After failing to gain entry into the backyard, the man walked away.

Levin also pointed out the fact that this occurred at 1:53 a.m. The footage from Nancy’s home was captured at 2:12 — just 19 minutes later. He continued:

So now, think about this: if the kidnapper is at Nancy’s door at 2:12 a.m., and this person in this other video five miles away left that home at 1:53, there would be 19 minutes that person has — if that person is the kidnapper, and I stress if —19 minutes to drive five miles, put on the disguise, and walk up to Nancy’s door.

Levin emphasized that it had not been confirmedif the same individual was seen in both videos, but the FBI was looking into it for a possible connection.

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/could-be-huge-tmz-drops-new-guthrie-video-that-has-landed-on-the-fbis-radar/

Ukrainian Parliament Session Halted Due to Poisoning of Deputies

Thursday, 12 February 2026, 15:

The February 12 session of the Verkhovna Rada did not take place due to poisoning of a significant portion of deputies, including Serhiy Hryvko, the representative of Chernihiv region in the Parliament.According to him, the poisoning occurred in the Parliament’s cafeteria, which led to a lack of quorum.

According to Hryvko, his condition included severe weakness, dehydration, muscle pain, fever, and a general heaviness.He added that despite the deterioration of his condition, he still attended the meetingand was ready to work on the issues that will be on the agenda next week.

A little over 200 deputies attended the meeting. The investigation into the poisoning circumstances is ongoing, which, according to him, continues.

Circumstances of the poisoning and its impact on Parliament’s work

“I was also poisoned: severe weakness, dehydration, muscle pain, fever, and general heaviness. If my condition worsens, I will go to the hospital. Nevertheless, I came to the meeting.”

– Serhiy Hryvko

Also, Hryvkoemphasized that all issues were important, but not critical, and they plan to review them next week.

“All the issues to be considered are important, but not critical. Essentially, next week we will work through them.”

– Serhiy Hryvko

The investigation into the deputies’ poisoning is currently underway, and Hryvko expects further official updates. He also stressed the importance of promptly clarifying the causes of the incident and its consequences for the Parliament’s work.

(This sounds like utter Bullshit!)

https://mezha.net/eng/bukvy/ukrainian-parliament-session-halted-due-to-poisoning-of-deputies/

DETAILS: Trans former student ID'd as suspected school shooter

The suspect in a deadly Canadian school shooting is identified as a transgender ex-student. 'Outnumbered' discusses a New York Post op-ed by Bethany Mandel, accusing media of 'gaslighting' the public on trans mass shooters.