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For an administration that claims to care about women's sports, it's noted they didn't do anything after the Women's gold medal game.

MeanCat happily accepts the gold medal for men’s hockey that he should’ve won

From 2021. History’s Most Handsome Monster

Positive take (relatively) on “we have lived among such people this whole time”:

Yes, and that shows things don’t need to be like this. There will always be the sort of people who’d try to get the state to hurt kindergartners. We just need to keep them out of institutional power, and on the fringe.

The annual early-spring feeding frenzy of the birds on the cherry laurel trees with their berries.

Without the tariffs, this year’s FIFA Peace Prize might’ve gone unclaimed.

You can still shoot a person on 5th avenue as long as it is not a corporate person

"free/cheap/non-toxic youth sports" feels like one of those skeleton keys that would have knock-on effects accidentally fix 100 unrelated things about America

or, you know, even if it didn't, at least a bunch of kids would be able to have fun playing sports

as someone who talks to a fair amount of trump supporters it really does boggle my mind how they're like "i would like really terrible things to happen, but i get very squeamish about seeing them." the only way i can describe this is Worm Mentality

Also, the news from South Korea today.

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

exactly what i was thinking. every social movement in the u.s., for good or ill, has been based in religion and used religious organizing. we can not ignore that in our fight against fascism now.

Trump's Caribbean Surge Nears $3 Billion Price Tag So Far The operations around Venezuela that eventually led to the capture of its president pulled in nearly a fifth of the US Navy’s surface fleet at a cost of more than $20 million a day.

Bloomberg says we've spent $3B on Trump's invasion of Venezuela.

Which is 6X more than the cancer, Alzheimer, diabetes, and heart disease cures they've cut to pay for it.

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

RFK, jr. is one of the few high profile people in the world who is as naturally and unpleasantly weird as donald trump, and for many of the same reasons

so beautiful!!

“Not one third of the inhabitants, even of this province, are of English descent,” Thomas Paine noted in Common Sense, "This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe."

And if you’re wondering “Why is there a blob in the back?” Well, that’s where the first woman president was supposed to go. More than a century later, it remains unsculpted.

They want us to follow the norms of American law when it comes to ICE identification **and** they want us to follow the norms of American law when it comes to voter ID?

I mean, this stuff is just intellectually inconsistent if, like Tom Emmer, you were repeatedly kicked in the head by a mule.

Screen capture of the Local Funding Initiative Request for the renaming of Palm Beach International Airport to President Donald J. Trump International Airport.

The FL legislature is budgeting $5.5M of taxpayer monies to change the name of Palm Beach International Airport to "President Donald J. Trump International Airport," according to @jasongarcia.bsky.social at Seeking Rents.

Your tax money at work, folks.

👉 jasongarcia.substack.com/p/buried-in-...

I was thinking the same thing. Pittsburgh's review board can only make suggestions for changes and can't really compel testimony from officers.

MEMORANDUM OPINION Rufe, J. February 16, 2026 All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary. In no case would it have been possible, once the deed was done, to prove that any falsification had taken place. George Orwell, 19841 As if the Ministry of Truth in George Orwell’s 1984 now existed, with its motto “Ignorance is Strength,” this Court is now asked to determine whether the federal government has the power it claims—to dissemble and disassemble historical truths when it has some domain over historical facts. It does not.

Also, nobody is holding back when it comes to how much the Trump government is not getting a presumption of regularity.

Here is how Judge Rufe's decision on Trump's attempt to erase history starts:

Regardless, Dems need to be FAR more aggressive now in making "we are not obligated to obey a SCOTUS that acts unconstitutionally" arguments.

Political and legal elites are too quick to equate "SCOTUS scribblings" with "... is thus what is constitutional or not."

No more presumption of regularity!

"... & whatever shall be, that has to be the thing on which we all agree: Keep the fires burning, always."

~ All Creatures Great & Small

I'm at their second benefit show right now. (They just opened their 3rd set with "American Idiot.) These white suburban parents are wearing t-shirts with slogans like "RADICALIZED BY BASIC HUMAN DECENCY" and "NO ONE IS ILLEGAL ON STOLEN LAND BUILT BY STOLEN HANDS." (4/?)

Zelenskyy throwing shade at Hungary’s pro-Putin PM Viktor Orban in his #MSC speech

Thanks to Ukraine’s sacrifice, Ze says: “Viktor can grow his belly and not have to grow his tanks to defend against Russians on the streets of Budapest”

🔥 🔥 🔥

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

I really do believe that, by the way. Our cities are the most American places in the United States—they represent what and who we are in a way in an incredibly rich and profound way. And until we as a country accept that, embrace that, celebrate that, we're fucked.

yes!!