Big Dill from LA

FYI, @washingtonpost.com: Here is the 8:23 p.m. story you didn't credit in your 11:22 p.m. "breaking news" report. Please add credit. Thanks. —>

I have serious reservations about the thought of Khamenei having any sort of blackmail on Trump.

Dude's a cuck and he'd have already used it if so.

Russell Vought, Trump’s Shadow President From the wholesale gutting of federal agencies to the ongoing government shutdown, Russell Vought has drawn the road map for Trump’s second term. Vought has consolidated power to an extent that inside...

"The Shadow President," @andykroll.bsky.social's deep dive into Russell Vought, has just won a George Polk award for political reporting.

The piece chronicles Vought’s rise from the Senate mailroom to his position as one of the most influential players in the Trump administration.

Read it here:

Dennis nedry jurrasic park "see nobody cares" meme reads Hey everybody, this guy still posts on X! See? Everyone is horrified and disappointed. They feel it speaks directly to your values.

Sounds par for the course when ad dollars are in play.

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

To put their constitutional amendment on the ballot, Colorado Dems need nearly 125,000 voter signatures by August 3, including signatures equal to 2% of registered voters in each state Senate district.

It would need a 55% voter supermajority to pass in November. (Kamala Harris won CO 54-43 in 2024)

norman rockwell meme painting

You absolutely should be bullied if you're still providing engagement to the world's richest Nazi, who coincidentally is also actively trying to monetize CSAM as a side quest to his main quest involving eugenics.

The Republican Party has good reason to want to disenfranchise 70 million voters.

There aren't many recent examples of Republicans hitting Democrats and Democrats hitting back even harder, but it will be pretty remarkable if Trump's scheme to use Texas for extra gerrymandering shakes out with Republicans losing seats on net.

We are a country that is way too terminally online.

Thanks for helping James Talarico's talk about Christian Nationalists the main character for the day.

CBS obeys in advance And turns a Texas Democrat into a First Amendment martyr.

"On Monday night, the Trump administration made a hefty in-kind donation to a Senate candidate in Texas. But the beneficiary wasn’t incumbent Sen. John Cornyn or even his scandal-plagued challenger, Attorney General Ken Paxton. In fact, it wasn’t a Republican at all." — @lizdye.bsky.social

My general attitude as to Texas politics since Republicans don't even give you the common courtesy of a reach around.

I am too fucking online.

I'm only kind of aware of Chibi Reviews existence and this is one of the first things I see when looking up what is going on.

Judges decry treatment of nursing and pregnant detainees in ICE custody The agency has declined to say whether a Biden-era policy largely barring detention for pregnant and nursing mothers remains in force.

NEW: Judges are asking increasingly pointed questions about why ICE is detaining pregnant/nursing mothers — and whether a 2021 policy sharply restricting the practice remains in force.

They’ve ordered many released, warning of threats to safety/health.

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Tens of thousands of people simultaneously getting frustrated with Co-Pilot and then just manually doing the task instead.

Me and it had a nice long chat about helping automate some calendar entries and we both decided it'd be best if I just kept doing them myself.

FCC chair Brendan Carr authored the chapter about the FCC for Project 2025, the manifesto for Christian nationalist regime change.

Censoring anti-Christian nationalist Christians.

Not a nightmare! via @glaad.bsky.social

Mapping Christian Nationalism Across the 50 States: Insights from PRRI’s 2025 American Values Atlas One year into the second Trump administration, a new national survey examines support for Christian nationalism across all 50 states and examines connections between support for Christian nationalism ...

30% of US citizens are pro-Christian Nationalism. Among the GOP it's over 50%

mostly concentrated in the South and Midwest, which is where the Klan was from, so that tracks

Huh, what do you know? The Uvalde congressman is a real piece of shit.

New poll includes damning warning for Trump as Americans find him 'racist' and 'cruel' A new poll found that a plurality of U.S. voters see President Donald Trump as "corrupt," "racist," and "cruel."The Economist/YouGov poll asked more than 1,600 registered voters about Trump's job performance. About 56% of respondents said they "strongly or somewhat" disapprove of the president, Axio...

A new poll found that a plurality of U.S. voters see President Donald Trump as "corrupt," "racist," and "cruel.

Trump-Friendly Pollsters Keep Telling Him He’s ‘F*cked’ Team Trump is telling Republicans not to panic – even as some of the most pro-Trump pollsters and politicos warn of a midterms ‘disaster’ and ‘bloodbath.’

Oh no! 😬 😟 zeteo.com/p/trump-poll...

photograph from the 80's of the wrestler Sting wearing a Gold's Gym shirt and sunglasses, leaning against a shelf in a bookstore and positively cheesing at an open copy of The Far Side Gallery 2, a collection of Far Side Cartoons.

what if i told you, through the power of forensic analysis, we are closer than ever to knowing the exact Far Side cartoon that is making Sting smile in this iconic photo. 🧵 👇

Activate ray tracing simulations

Target identified

If you up the contrast and brightness you can see his eyelid positions through the glasses. Clearly looking at the bottom left cartoon.

On her Instagram, Univision’s Lidia Terrazas reports that baby Juan Nicolás has been deported and “abandoned at the border” with his mother

Little 2 month old Juan has been deported according to Univision. He had been held at the Dilley Detention Center. Before he was heartlessly deported, I addressed Juan’s detention on the show. I ask, “does Donald Trump hate Hispanic people that much?” full show: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

Stephen Colbert responds to CBS disputing his claims that he was barred from airing the James Talarico interview:

"And for the lawyers to release this without even talking to me is really surprising. I don’t even know what to do with this crap. Hold on."

He then picks it up with a dog poop bag.