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People who are used to dealing with their little friends are not afraid enough of trial judges.

Johnny Weir is like “she took off on the outside edge of the left side of the front of her right skate and made three rotations landing on the right rear edge of the right side of her left skate with the angle at 12 o’clock”

And the snowboarding guy is like “holy shit he did something cool!!”

I love how the ice skating announcers are extremely specific in explaining each skill means how they work in detail and then the snowboard/ski x-games-style announcers are like “that was a butter olly half twist upside downie tubular wonky banana flabber jabber” with no further information.

USA's Alysa Liu wins the gold in Olympic women's figure skating The 20-year-old put the US women back on top of the Olympic women's podium in this event for the first time since Sarah Hughes took gold at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games.

USA's Alysa Liu wins the gold in Olympic women's figure skating

These cultists have no idea about scientific research or competitive grants with an RFP (request for proposal). The govt agency solicited these grants. It’s a rigorous, stressful, competitive process. DOGE, musk, tRump, have no concept of humanity. Everyone who voted for them is complicit.

DOGE Bro’s Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT ‘Is This DEI?’

Federal grants that had been approved after a full application and review process were terminated by some random inexperienced DOGE bros based on whether ChatGPT could explain—in under 120 characters—that they were…

DOJ Scrubs Record of Interviews With Trump Accuser From Epstein Files The FBI interviewed one of Jeffrey Epstein’s victims four times over her allegation that Donald Trump assaulted her when she was underage.

4 times.

newrepublic.com/post/206765/...

Grift all the way down

I've been longing for good old-fashioned penny-ante corruption and Patel is giving it to me. I'll take "made his staffer go get him hand lotion" over "is deporting people with no criminal record to torture gulags" any day

I know we sort of live in a time in which personal morality is irrelevant in politics, but it’s worth noting that there are very credible allegations that at least two cabinet secretaries are presently engaged in affairs with coworkers; one with her right-hand man and the other with her bodyguard.

This is truly sickening. I weep for his victims. Imagine seeing your rapist’s face on the actual Department of Justice.

Sweet Jesus, he’s an anesthesiologist!!!!!!

Oh I think there's an argument for that fwiw, but it exemplifies the point here that the auteur in question is cancelled on the right for casting a black woman as helen of troy in a reproduction of an ancient epic poem because racial hieararchy matters more than anything

There used to be a ton of right-leaning artists, poets, writers etc. This kind of person doesn't really exist anymore because all right wing energy is aimed at asserting the intrinsic superiority of this or that arbitrary genetic group on a podcast

Look at all their pop art references to lord of the rings, star wars, star trek, superman etc. They completely miss the point of the most didactic material, the only reason they pretend to like classical art is they think it owns “lesser” people even though this is wholly stolen valor

The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they don’t like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie “classic sculpture means white people are better.” They don’t like art at all except for this purpose. They don’t even like the nerd stuff they whine about

Everlasting shame

Once again--Trump is weakening Ukrainian air defense to help Putin kill Ukrainian civilians and damage Ukrainian infrastructure.

How many times does this need to be said before people will get it.

Insanity. They are laughing at us.

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.

If you feel distressed about the country, volunteering with voter registration groups and/or signing up to be a poll worker is a tangible way you can help preserve democracy

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...

Hell yeah it’s happening! www.thebanner.com/banner-pr/ba...

Republicans understand that the Democrats they're going to face in 2029 are not going to be Merrick Garland, Joe Biden, Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi. The Democratic base is blood-thirsty and election-minded politicians know they have to feed this.

There will be no turning the page this time.

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

Why did Tom Homan end the Minnesota ICE occupation? Because he became too woke.

Yes, NBC out-rated us this week, but it’s completely unfair to compare us when one of their anchors’ mothers was kidnapped and none of ours were.

by Bari Weiss

Smartest thing I ever did was to be born a straight, white male in 1960s America. open.spotify.com/episode/5ove...

An eerie feeling: iCE seems to have found the future: gay parents; male nurses, and generally civic/good people….and is trying to destroy it.

Notice that Bondi doesn’t turn around.