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Trump: "I can do anything I want to do to them ... I'm allowed to destroy the country."

Medieval manuscript illustration featuring a human figure in a patterned robe gesturing towards a rabbit playing a horn. The scene is adorned with decorative floral elements and gold accents.

Medieval manuscript illustration showing a person riding a donkey, followed by a running dog and a wolf. The scene is surrounded by decorative floral patterns with gold leaves. The text above is in Old French.

A medieval manuscript illustration features a person seated, adorned with a gold robe, and gesturing towards a green parrot perched on their hand. The scene is bordered by intricate blue and gold designs.

A medieval illustration depicting a person holding a circular object, possibly a mirror or shield, facing a creature resembling a goat with a long, curved tail. The scene includes decorative foliage with multicolored leaves. The background is parchment-like, typical of manuscript art.

Love Your Pet Day 🐾

Medieval manuscripts are full of dogs, birds, rabbits and other companions. Sometimes helpful, often looking chaotic!

Shelfmark: Bodl. 264, fols. 20v, 57v, 58r, 20v
More pet content coming soon: Pets and Their People opens 11 March at the Weston Library.

Looking at the bigger world picture following 9/11 helped me understand the warmongering. Appreciate those who took the time to explain.

This is a fine, fine thread.

GOAT one might say.

Okay. Not really. But I couldn’t resist.

we couldn't use government funds to buy coffee (like, folgers ground coffee) when i worked on a CDC outbreak emergency response

Listen, when disabled/chronically ill people tell you about how they're going through stuff related to their illness/disability, please don't tell them to quit their jobs/lives and give up on life. You're telling them they're too weak or unable to be a part of this world, that really doesn't help

NEW: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s husband has been barred from entering Labor Department HQ after two female staffers accused him of sexual assault inside the building, according to NYT. One alleged incident was captured on security cameras and is now part of a criminal investigation.

Charlie helps stop doom scrolling

We Have Learned Nothing About Amplifying Morons “Looksmaxxers” are losers and freaks, but we let them steer the culture when we adopt their terminology.

almost as if the decision to build all of our media and information platforms on the back of corporate ad engagement was foundationally cancerous

For those reporters having trouble crediting my work here, this will do it: “The memo was first reported by Law Dork.”

Then, you put a little link in there.

Both @washingtonpost.com and @cbsnews.com made updates to their stories this morning. Neither publication added Law Dork credit.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland.

And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Like I’ve been saying :

He really wanted to strike in January.

But Bibi convinced him to go bigger.

And as others have pointed out, we simply didn’t have the logistics in theater for anything meaningful in January.

Screenshot of an X post by Shannon Watts criticizing Palantir CEO Alex Karp for saying “We kill people sometimes” while addressing shareholders. The embedded image shows Karp standing at a conference table with colleagues in a room displaying the Palantir logo.

It would simply never happen.

“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.” Henry James

Be kind to others, and to yourself. 🪶

#birdhistproverbs

Wings and toes crossed.

African grey parrot

Drives me mad to encounter journalists asking if AIs are conscious and self-aware and getting all misty eyed about nonhuman intelligence. We have nonhuman intelligence at home.

Everyday, we need to make an active choice not to let assholes kill our joy.
“Observe, don’t absorb.”

Seafood workers say that the Coast Guard, in a departure from the norm, has conducted about seven sweeps since early November, resulting in multiple arrests. They have concentrated efforts 40 minutes east of New Orleans, around Hopedale, a small unincorporated fishing community

WHITE HOUSE: "When you see it on Truth Social, you know it's directly from President Trump."

TRUMP 2 WEEKS AGO: "Somebody posted, a staffer posted ... somebody slipped. I didn't do it. This was done by somebody else."

US military says it killed 11 people in strikes on three alleged drug boats | CNN Politics The US military struck three alleged drug-trafficking vessels in the eastern Pacific and Caribbean on Monday night, killing all 11 people on board, US Southern Command said Tuesday.

Trump and Hegseth murder 11 more people on the high seas, and it barely makes a blip in the news cycle: www.cnn.com/2026/02/17/p...

What artist did the sticker?

Hegseth endorses one of the most prominent Christian nationalists who has suggested women shouldn't be allowed to vote. Once upon a time this would be a controversy. Nowadays, it's just Tuesday.

Sending positive vibes

How Trump saved TikTok: Backstory of a 2-year campaign One chart, cleverly plopped on the first page, jumped out at Trump. "I'm more popular than Taylor Swift," he crowed.

I don't know how you can read this reporting and not wonder if, since they knew that a Trump win would save the company, did TikTok juice the algorithm to boost him in the run up to the 2024 election?

www.axios.com/2026/02/17/t...

Presidents' Day.
FDT

So then we will make men do it to, even if no name change?

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."

—FDR, 1937

Cockatiel on counter by sink. Talking to camera.

Here Piper trying to grab my phone case.