Kevin Geipel

I believe I’m about the same age as Drew, which is why his pieces always resonate so much with me

Drawn cartoon depicting Attorney General Pam Bondi yelling 'Have you seen the stock market?' at a woman sitting and crying in a chair. 'Esptein victims' is written on the woman.

History has a long memory.

Sorry, kid, the government cancelled research into a cure for your disease. The man who swims in sewage and snorts cocaine in public restrooms said it's bad for you. Besides, there's no money now that we're locking up your friend's parents and the guys who mowed our lawn.

N.Y.C. Officials Reinstate Pride Flag at Stonewall After Federal Removal

This is the way. When they come at us, we come back at them twofold. Raise that Pride flag every time they take it down. If they prevent that, surround the park with Pride flags. Ruin their petty little lives until they shit rainbows. Never stop. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/n...

For example, there is a vast amount of information about paleoenvironments and environmental change out there, buried in loess and sand dunes, or in lake beds, inside trees, etc., that can only be accessed by funding researchers to go take cores.

If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees.

This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.

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There is No Scientific Justification to Revoke the Endangerment Finding The U.S. EPA's decision to repeal the Endangerment Finding will limit the government's ability to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.

As I say here, there is no scientific justification to revoke the engagement finding. In fact, over the last 15+ yrs, the evidence of how climate change affects our health has only grown. Higher risk of allergies, dementia, fertility, heart disease, and death: that’s what’s on the line. @nature.org

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

I still can’t believe that Pam Bondi deflected from answering questions on the Epstein files by yelling about the Dow. Truly mind boggling.

Bring it on.

Yeah, you can count me among those who don't trust that ICE is permanently leaving Minnesota. Don't be surprised if this is a temporary "complete withdraw," and they redeploy there within a month.

I am going to turn this into a daily inspiration calendar.

The Trump admin claims it's ending the aggressive immigration crackdown in Minnesota. It remains to be seen whether the crackdown will actually end.

Wouldn’t be surprised if MPLS continues to be plagued by the same types of guys that have continued to cause a ruckus here in LA and the surrounding area—familiarize yourself with the Special Response Team patches and camo. They’re grade-A assholes, *in addition to* the local feds who stick around

Man, I didn’t think there was a way for this story to get dumber but…
“DoD loaned the high-energy laser weapon to DHS, who promptly shot down some mylar balloons with it without telling anyone, resulting in the FAA closing airspace and disrupting air travel nationwide”

…sure did the trick

So DOD risked civilian airspace to obliterate some fucking balloons; when FAA found out and asked them to stop they refused; FAA did what it had to keep people safe; when the public rightly freaked out, DOD relented, lied, and blamed the FAA.

Sounds like Hegseth!

www.cnn.com/2026/02/11/u...

Chart showing a staggering jump in habeas petitions in US court in January, far outpacing all other types of cases.

NEW: ICE is crashing the US court system in Minnesota. Thanks to Trump's push to detain an unprecedented number of people, and its attempt to kill bond hearings, petitions to secure people's release from custody have skyrocketed. @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-cr...

James Van Der Beek, who has been battling cancer, has died.

He was 48.

Per TMZ.

The way I look at this is whether or not the hype winds up bearing out—or even a fraction of it—we need to prepare for a long future in which bosses + management are incentivized at every level to proceed as if it's true; cutting labor costs, automating tasks, killing jobs.

Google and Microsoft offer lucrative deals to promote AI, but even $500,000 won't sway some creators Tech companies including Google and Microsoft are paying influencers hundreds of thousands of dollars to promote AI products.

Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon paying influencers $400k-$600k to post months of AI hype content. Absolutely busted, failed industry, embarrassing era
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/g...

See also bsky.app/profile/eddw...

Brawndo’s got what plants crave.

We are all going to regret Kalshi and Polymarket. Gambling should be like cigarettes: Legal but inaccessible.

It's time to start socially shaming everyone who places bets on Kalshi and Polymarket.

Gambling should be like cigarettes: legal, but unadvertised and inaccessible.

open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...

ICE and CBP haven’t withdrawn from a single fucking U.S. city that they’ve occupied.

And Kiley’s district was chopped up in CA so he’s headed out as well

Bad Bunny halftime show: 128.2 milion viewers
Kid Rock halftime show: 6.1 million viewers

"Culture war" may be a misnomer, honestly.

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE:

"I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

[clears throat politely]

Actually, Stonewall, which took place in 1969, was a spontaneous uprising in response to the NYPD's continued targeting and harassment of LGBTQ+ bar patrons.