Sigourney Weaver by Helmut Newton for Alien III (1991)

Cato study: Immigrants reduced deficits by $14.5 trillion since 1994 Immigrants have cut deficits by nearly one third over three decades.

New Cato study on the fiscal effects of immigrants, both legal and illegal, on federal budgets builds upon a National Academies model. First of its kind in 30 years, it finds that the fiscal effects of immigration remain strongly positive and have helped keep federal deficits from being even higher.

Marilyn Monroe takes the subway in Grand Central Station in 1955 (Photos by Ed Feingersh for Redbook)

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Huge turn on: girls who read and love books.

Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

Red Heat

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

VIl. CONCLUSION There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. Secretary Noem, the record to-date shows, does not have the facts on her side or at least has ignored them. Does not have the law on her side or at least has ignored it. Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, she pounds X (f/k/a Twitter). Kristi Noem has a First Amendment right to call immigrants killers, leeches, entitlement junkies, and any other inapt name she wants. Secretary Noem, however, is constrained by both our Constitution and the APA to apply faithfully the facts to the law in implementing the TPS program. The record to-date shows she has yet to do that. By accompanying Order, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs' Renewed Motion for a Stay Under 5 U.S.C. § 705. Ana C. Reyes Date: February 2, 2026 ANA C. REYES United States District Judge

Judge Reyes’s conclusion: “There is an old adage among lawyers. If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither, pound the table. … Having neither and bringing the adage into the 21st century, [Noem] pounds X (f/k/a Twitter).”

All of the horrible subplots of the Trump presidency are converging together.

Chappell Roan arrives at the #GRAMMYs red carpet.

Unreal. He’s shutting down the Kennedy Center, after his flunkies caused mass defections of artists?

Everything the man touches turns to ash. Our cultural heritage; destroyed. Our national treasures; plundered.

DHS: Want affordable housing? Help report illegal aliens in your area. Call 866-DHS-2-ICE. If you are an illegal alien, you can take control of your departure using DHS.GOV/CBPHOME.

straight up Gestapo shit

Shakespeare would have loved the cinema.

The massive right-wing media and associated fever swamps, I think, play a bit part in why authoritarianism is able to blossom here faster than benchmarks.

Emerging authoritarian regimes need to build out media and propaganda. We already had one for decades pickling people in grievance and deceit.

Buttigieg on Fox News: "How did this criminal get a pardon from President Trump? Did he contribute to the ballroom project? Did he buy some of that cryptocurrency and make the Trump family wealthier? Why are these many fraudsters getting these pardons?"

If you answer “No” you get an invitation to Mar-a-Lago

This Epstein drop is HUGE and utterly disgusting. I don’t see how this man is allowed to remain in office. Where are the evangelical leaders, the soccer moms, the folks stocking up on eggs, the farmers, the small business owners.

Decide. Who are you?

Origin: Middle English (as cukeweld), from Old French cucuault, from cucu ‘cuckoo’ (from the cuckoo's habit of laying its egg in another bird's nest).

70s adult magazine photo of Susan Deloir (aka Sylvie Dessartre) wearing only bright red thigh-high knit socks, kneeling on a bed and looking at the viewer with a level gaze

This is an archive image from 2003, part of our "Think Pink" gallery, in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness month: www.flickr.com/photos/28634332@N05/sets/72157625045060125/ __________________________________________________________ One of a series, this ultraviolet image of Saturn was taken when the planet's rings were at their maximum tilt of 27 degrees toward Earth. Saturn experiences seasonal tilts away from and toward the sun, much the same way Earth does. This happens over the course of its 29.5-year orbit. Every 30 years, Earth observers can catch their best glimpse of Saturn's South Pole and the southern side of the planet's rings. Between March and April 2003, researchers took full advantage to study the gas giant at maximum tilt, using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to capture detailed images of Saturn's Southern Hemisphere and the southern face of its rings. Image credit: NASA and E. Karkoschka (University of Arizona) View original image: www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1074.html More about NASA's Hubble Space Telescope: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/main/index.html

Ultraviolet Saturn (NASA, Hubble, 2003) - From NASA Marshall Space Flight Center - https://flic.kr/p/8LuCdh

This is obscene, a total fucking disgrace.

Scrolling through the photos of Pam Bondi's "Minnesota rioters," it's just hero after hero. Every photo includes a cowardly DHS agent with their back to the camera.

Bondi thinks she's going to win the propaganda war with this shit, but it's never been more clear that they're losing.

Law enforcement officers have always been unmasked in this country until ICE started wearing them last year.

*That* is the departure from norms. *That* is the step too far.

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

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Witnessing Another Public Killing in Minneapolis Videos of Alex Pretti’s fatal shooting, rapidly disseminated on social media, reveal a brazen display of brute power.

“If this is what they do when we can see, what’s going on in the places—planes and cars, detention centers—where we can’t?” Vinson Cunningham asks, after the public killing of Alex Pretti. www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...

"I admire sensible, kind people. They're not often famous."
~ John Malkovich

A bearded man in nurse's scrubs offers aid to Justice, wearing a blindfold and holding a sword and scales, who has fallen to her knees.

Street art memorializing Alex Pretti in Seattle. Per r/Seattle, it was painted on a building facing Swedish Hospital in the First Hill neighborhood www.reddit.com/r/nursing/co...

"I must be dreaming."

James Bond (Sean Connery) wakes up to Pussy Galore (Honor Blackman) in Goldfinger (1964)