Cave Felem

quitting my job and abandoning my family to devote myself full time to my passion: unsubscribing from political texts and emails

In addition to being absolutely brilliant, amazing & charming in her own right, we all know she was raised by a single dad w/4 siblings and that he came to the US bc of persecution bc of his participation in the ‘89 Tiananmen democracy uprising, right?

“Fantastic Voyage,” but with a miniature AR-15.

Please call your congressperson and ask them if they know it’s actually their job to stop billions of taxpayer dollars from being funneled into make-believe boards of peace

…and to stop the president from unilaterally declaring war

…and to demand compliance with the Epstein files Transparency Act

Two words: Wilbur Mills.

So, just to recap, we have two random DOGE bros with basically no knowledge or experience in the humanities (and at least one of whom is a college dropout), who just went around terminating grants that had gone through a full grant application process by feeding in a list of culture war grievance terms, selecting out the grant titles based on the appearance of seemingly “woke” words, then asking ChatGPT “yo, tell me this is DEI” and then sending termination emails the next day from a private server and forging the director’s signature. This is what “government efficiency” looks like in practice: two guys with zero relevant experience, a keyword list built on culture war grievances, and a chatbot confidently spitting out 120-character verdicts on federal grants that went through actual review processes. The experts who might have explained what these grants actually do? Locked out. The director whose signature appeared on termination letters? Couldn’t tell you which grants got cut or w

Ever wondered how your grant got cancelled? No we know. Some college dropout asked ChatGPT "is it DEI/woke"?

www.techdirt.com/202...

It's a banner, but it is also unprecedented in American history, an affront to our republican tradition, and a dangerous intrusion of the separation of politics and law enforcement that is the basis of a free society.

South Korean culture is fascinating because it's like "We make two things extremely well: Weapons and pop stars. One of these industries is the ruthless, blood-soaked byproduct of a nation whose soul was scarred by eternal war. The other is our defense industrial base, which is respected globally."

"The authorities have our full and wholehearted support and co-operation” in royal statement terms is basically them saying "fry the bastard, I'll bring the charcoal"

Hmm. The US is giving $10 billion in taxpayer dollars, not appropriated by Congress, to a fake board set up by the President and which he put himself in charge of *for life*... seems very, very illegal.

Triumphs over fascism and a dissertation committee in the same year, you love to see it

Today marks the first legislative session since our friend Melissa, her husband Mark, and their dog Gilbert were murdered. It will never be the same again.

She accomplished so much as our beloved Speaker, and her legacy will benefit Minnesotans for generations to come.

Gavin Newsom is a dork, but also, ANY talk about 2028 candidates now is silly.

At this time in 2006, Obama was a new Senator who'd made a good DNC speech.

Jeb Bush led Republican polls for most of 2014.

In Feb 2018, the two declared Dem candidates were Andrew Yang and John Delaney.

So chill.

Jesus Christ these people are monsters.

That last sentence? That's the strategy. They've been pretty open about it.

I saw someone say you can tell the patriarchy is real because women are being arrested for having miscarriages but men aren't for sexual assault and pedophilia, and I can't stop thinking about that.

The Olympic women's short program is today, and this is my preview / reminder for those who may be wondering what happened since the last Olympics.

At the last Olympics, as many of you know, the breathless talk of the commentators was about women doing quad jumps! Wow! Amazing!

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott

On this day in 1921, Congress reluctantly accepted a sculpture memorializing women’s 19th A victory. Congress relegated the memorial to the Capitol’s crypt & painted over the feminist inscription. The statue stayed entombed in the crypt for 76 years. The inscription is still not restored. #WeTheMen

Much of Cuba Goes Dark as Trump Chokes Oil Supply A Bloomberg News analysis of satellite imagery finds the level of light at night has dropped as much as 50% across Cuba amid Trump's oil blockade

Normally this would be a 24/7 news story and instead it's like the 47th craziest thing happening right now.

How effective is the measles vaccine?

Source: www.mikelee.co/posts/2017-0...

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Our court system is largely working, with the exception of the most important court 1. Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.soc... 1d Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn't stopped. www.reuters.com/legal/govern... Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn't stopped. The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, but the administration has continued jailing people inde... www.reuters.com 11:53 PM Feb 14, 2026 Everybody can reply

I'm not trying to add snark. I keep hearing versions of this and think it's useful to consider.

Let's assume for the sake of argument that it is true that the lower courts are working. That forcing lawyers for immigrants to prove 4,400 times that the .gov breaking the law is the system working. +

First of all, that's despicable. It's never acceptable to lie about using deadly force on anyone.

Second, here are federal officers completely fabricating what happened when they charged Miramar Martinez with assault when they shot her five times.

www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/me...

Jennifer @JenYetAgain@beige.party in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US. Feb 9, 2026 at 4:35:18PM Boosted by 968: Favourited by 1324:

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

do u think during the industrial revolution people thought the factory was their boyfriend

COMMENTING GUIDE: Opposing Two Trump Regime Rules Banning Gender-Affirming Care, Deadline 2/17/26 Creator profile picture Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland January 26 Edit I. Bottom Line Up Front The Trump Regime's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published two companion proposed rules designed to eliminate access to gender-affirming care for minors nationwide. Together, these rules would: Ban hospitals from providing this care (CMS-3481-P) — regardless of how the care is paid for Prohibit Medicaid and CHIP from covering this care (CMS-2451-P) — cutting off funding for lower-income families You have the opportunity to help defend trans kids by submitting comments against these vile proposed rules. Because even if a state wanted to continue covering gender-affirming care through Medicaid, the hospital rule would prevent hospitals from providing it. The two rules use different regulatory mechanisms to accomplish the same policy goal: eliminating access to gender-affirming care for anyone under 18 (or under 19 for CHIP). You should submit your comment to both dockets. The deadline is 5PM ET on February 17, 2026.

Public comment on Dr Oz's proposed rules to ban gender-affirming care for youth closes 2/17

One rule bans hospital-based care, the other eliminates Medicaid/CHIP coverage

Together they'd make care virtually unavailable nationwide, including in shield law states

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Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Why Are Senate Democrats Still Voting to Confirm Trump’s Judicial Nominees? Democrats on the Judiciary Committee keep decrying Trump nominees as unqualified extremists. They also keep voting to confirm them.

Why Are Senate Democrats Still Voting to Confirm Trump’s Judicial Nominees? ballsandstrikes.org/nominations/...

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

i have said this before but among chatterton’s many problems as a “thinker” is that he doesn’t
believe the political right has any agency or history. everything in his mind is a function of the summer of 2020. history begins and ends there. it is the perspective of a simpleton.

“Universities won’t be hurt, they have billion dollar endowments!”

1) most don’t—we are talking low single-digit percentages.

2) you can depend on 4 to 5 percent of asset value as income—$1 billion = $50 million.

3) restrictions on how that $ can be spent are real—this isn’t a checking account