I called up one of the White House's "special government employees" involved in the Fulton County FBI raid.

I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...

How does this lunatic make it through the day? How can he be a source for a search warrant affidavit? What was the magistrate smoking when he signed it? Why am I still shocked?

Regina George, AG

Note: President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the United Kingdom is Mark Burnett, the British-American television producer best known for The Apprentice and other major reality TV shows.

There's a totally plausible explanation here. Hegseth ordered some sort of military drill or test without going through proper channels. When FAA reached out to tell him it was jeopardizing airport safety Hegseth told them to pound sand. FAA then closed the airport to publicly embarrass Hegseth.

All the various kinds of revisions add up -- by the end of the year, there were more than a million fewer people employed than previously estimated.

Yikes here are the numbers for the past 12 months. Everything is pretty much dead except healthcare/social assistance. Note that healthcare growth is largely not about the business cycle -- it's about the aging of the population and more elderly people needing care.

It’s worth briefly explaining what happened with a vote in the House late last night, because it’s significant:

Mike Johnson and House Republican leaders tried to keep blocking Congress from voting on whether to roll back Trump’s tariffs on countries like Canada.

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."

Panicking that their racist base has lost interest in the Trump project. The demonization of Hispanics is backfiring. Disgusting turn, but reflective of desperation.

AOC on Cuba: This is what we've seen with Gaza—a new era of depravity. There used to be stated protections for innocent civilians, and now it's almost acceptable for the Western world to look the other way as people are starved or deprived—simply because political actors or regimes in that country are found objectionable. What we're seeing is the possible precipice of hospitals running out of fuel. Innocent children and women could be put in harm's way. It's incumbent upon all of us to defend human rights no matter where...

Interesting rhetoric from AOC here

A whole lotta these guys who are beet-red that they "can't understand the music" are also the same born-again-Catholic, RETVRN chuds with marble bust avatars who want to bring back Latin in church because it's "more traditional". They want Latin in America but not Latin Americans.

jim downey on the conan podcast

“kid rock? isn’t that what they called epstein island?”

Beyonce and Ricky Martin performed at Bush's 2000 inaugural is a thing I think about a lot when considering how much more culturally isolated and extreme the right has become.

the bushes were people 😂

Isaac Bashevis Singer being interviewed about the Super Bowl

In 1979, the “New York Times” asked Isaac Bashevis Singer if he planned to watch the Super Bowl.

Good.

Hiding the names of people asking for 10 year old girls is fucking disgusting.

Pumpkin head on a scarecrow

Who can argue with “I know you are but what am I?” Such a moron

Why would he apologize for this when he owes his political career to telling racist tales about Obama? His voters are the ones who need to apologize to the rest of us. Also, what an inane question from the reporter

SpaceX Delays Mars Plans To Focus on Moon Elon Musk’s rocket company had aimed to reach the red planet in 2026

BREAKING NEWS: ELON MUSK TO FOCUS ON MARSHMALLOW FARM INSTEAD OF GUMDROP CITY

www.wsj.com/science/spac...

Trump is withholding federal funds in an attempt to get more landmarks named after himself.

The real reason I'm leaving The Great British Baking Show Trump is threatening bombing the likes of which Tehran has never seen Prue Leith

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

Spain's Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz: “I have left X. That network is a place of hate.

“We are not vassals of Elon Musk or Trump.”

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event

Axios had a story today about how hard Minnesota’s economy is being hit and how slow the recovery could be. So, I’m going to take this opportunity to say that if you want to support the Twin Cities, you should plan a visit for this summer, spend some money here, & see how amazing it is for yourself.

Why are they always negotiating against themselves?

They love ICE — as long as it’s somewhere else.

#MSsen