Stu Duncan

they always do

The Compromised Trio

BOOM from SCOTUS:

"IEEPA does not authorize the President to impose tariffs."

It appears to be a 6-3 decision authored by Roberts.
www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

A fake ICE tip line reveals neighbors reporting neighbors A Nashville comedian’s deportation hotline, set up as a joke, has gone viral among viewers who say it shows the “banality of evil personified” in the U.S. immigration crackdown.

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

The teacher reporting the kindergartener should never work a day of their life again.

No, I didn't say never work in education again

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

Masked paramilitaries marching in front of a hanging Trump banner on the DoJ

This picture is so crazy that if you had this as a scene in a made-for-TV dystopian scifi movie in like 2014 people would switch channels because you’d ruined the suspension of disbelief.

These guys tend to be generally incompetent, but one thing they are very good at is fascist symbolism.

There is so much pent up demand for joy and to believe in the future.

Imagine if you had no shame and could just make shit up all the time. It must be an amazing feeling.

UPDATE: DOJ has restored the doc showing 4 FBI formal interviews with the Trump accuser, which I reported accurately was taken down. (We still don't have access to 3 of the interviews.)

Link: justice.gov/epstein/file...

Proof the link was down earlier today: web.archive.org/web/20260219...

Instead, Counsel for Respondet complains that he has too many cases concerning people—fathers, mothers, children, friends, and neighbors—unconstitutionally detained by Respondents. Id. at ¶ 9. As recently explained in a case against these same parties, Respondents “allocated substantial resources to sending thousands of agents to Minnesota, detaining thousands of people, and housing them in their facilities. [Respondents] cannot suddenly lack resources when it comes to protecting detainees’ constitutional rights.” The Advocs. for Hum. Rts. v. U.S. Dep’t of Homeland Sec., Noem, Lyons, Easterwood, No. 26- CV-00749, slip op. at 29–30 (D. Minn. Feb. 12, 2026) (Dkt. No. 95). Counsel for Respondent cannot rely on the sheer unlawfulness of his clients’ conduct as an excuse for his failure to defend such unlawfulness.

Don't even get get me started on how an AUSA, in a sworn declaration filed in federal court, complains about how many habeas cases they have and how hard it's making their life. Pathetic.

I get this sentiment, but I think we have the leaders we've asked for, and I don't just mean Trump. Americans long ago chose consumerism and hedonism over civic responsibility and the past 25 years have been the bill coming due.

damn so Americans are now paying twice as much for your stupid shitty racks huh

Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office.

This is looting.

a Free Press headline, Why Is No One Having Sex? https://www.thefp.com/p/why-is-no-one-having-sex

The Free Press is discovering new levels of Telling On Yourself that scientists previously thought could not exist

Kash Patel heads to Milan for the Olympics — on the FBI jet The FBI director has plans to watch the U.S. men’s hockey team vie for gold, sources tell MS NOW.

Breaking MS NOW:

FBI Director Kash Patel flew today on the FBI's Gulfstream jet bound for a trip to the winter Olympics in Italy to watch one of his favorite sports: men's ice hockey.

Patel's trip to Milan is likely to cost as much as $75,000. www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

PageMaker. There’s a name I haven’t heard in a very long time.

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.

I just wanna let everyone know that the reason that the DOJ under Biden didn’t always do what we wanted was because it wasn’t an arm of the White House. It is supposed to be an independent entity. I hope the next time that it is, you remember today, when Trump put his face on the building.

I’m assuming the logistics are impossible, but what I wouldn’t give to see a prankster put a up a similar banner right next to it of Epstein.

RFK Jr/MAHA disciples, you got PLAYED.

And everyone else saw it coming except you.

Colorado sues Trump administration over $600 million in withheld energy funds

Colorado, California and Washington state are leading a coalition of 13 states suing the Trump administration for withholding about $2.7 billion in federal energy funds.

Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.

UK: Prince Andrew arrested.

South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.

Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.

USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

John Roberts has somehow created a regal impunity, in a republic nonetheless influenced by British common law, stronger than that enjoyed by the British royals themselves. In-f’ing-credible.

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

That’s one huge tail. And it is wagging.

Me to my Korean friends as I watch their democracy succeeding at punishing an insurrection while our own failed miserably to do so: