Having just been through the worst flu in my life thanks to the unavailability of a flu shot, I would just like to say RFK deserves to be hunted for sport.

hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message:

- the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next
- a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9

I work in procurement and our vendors have been rolling out AI systems and... it has been a disaster. The AI gets everything wrong and I have to navigate a labyrinthian telephone menu to get to a human to fix it.

This has big "We'll colonize the moon in 10 years!" Musk energy.

this same exact headline drops max three weeks after every platform integrates this shit. it all started being pushed at the same time too. i sort of just assumed this was already the case. i didn't know anyone needed to say it.

Homeland Security Department shuts down as Democrats and Trump negotiate changes The White House and Senate Democrats have been trading offers on changes to DHS and ICE after two Americans were killed in Minneapolis.

DHS funding officially lapsed as of 12:01am tonight.

The shut down is due to ICE’s aggression in Minnesota, including the murder of two US citizens.

ICE will still be paid while employees with FEMA, TSA & Coast Guard will be expected to work for free.

Dems can’t negotiate on this.

Abolish ICE

Restore Customs and the Secret Service to the Treasury.

Restore TSA and the Coast Guard to the Dept. of Transportation.

Restore FEMA to its original independent status - hell, make it a whole Department, we're going to need it.

Restore all the small random agencies to Justice.

Be done with it.

US Troops killed all the guards at Dachau for this kind of shit.

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

the "it's impossible to have a conversation about AI right now" folks need to grok that a huge volume of that furor is entirely justified rage at the fact tech oligarchs purchased an automated murder autocracy; rage that's good and useful and deserves a generous berth in the months and years to come

Why Transgender People Are Not Feeling Gavin Newsom We have seen this song and dance before.

There seems to be a lot of discussion about Gavin Newsom today.

I wanted to re-share this piece that I wrote, because I have a lot of center-to-left Dems that follow me that want to understand.

There are very good reasons transgender people do not like Gavin Newsom.

If you have a Ring camera, take a hammer to it.

If your neighbor has one, give them a hammer as a gift.

Does Ezra Klein think he's doing politics the right way?

Won't watch that, even if you paid me

Kansas City developers halt sale of warehouse for ICE detention center as public pressure mounts Federal officials first toured the building in January, sparking speculation over whether the owners had sold the building to the U.S. government. Media reports suggested the sale was part of a push t...

Look!

"News of a potential immigrant detention center in Kansas City sparked fierce public backlash over the past month. At rallies and protests, many people called on Platform Ventures to not sell the building to the federal government..."

And now:

www.kcur.org/news/2026-02...

The administration is relocating ICE agents to other parts of the country to see if they can achieve better results with the same tactics there.

If you're outside the Twin Cities, learn and replicate their model for resistance.

If you're in the Twin Cities, keep your networks intact and carry on.🖤

Video thumbnail of a baby gawking at hanging keys. "BELIEVE THE HYPE!!“

On a trajectory to ruination for decades now we all feel powerless to stop it and every couple years some mega rich asshole poor gasoline on the fire to watch it burn brighter and tell us if we’re good we can play in the ashes. I’m done, I’m out. I’m not playing this fucking game anymore. 6/

Almost everyone "on the left" doesn't have a problem with machine learning, or technology, or progress. They do have problems with security, safety, mental health outcomes, plagiarism, labor distributions, and environmental & energy impact.

Industry regulation is not some unreasonable leftist ask.

You didn't do shit!

Every word of this is a lie. And any news organization that quotes this without saying as much is failing its audience.

There's tens of billions tied up in this. Thousands of blood profiteers will want a return on their investment. This just means they might be in your neighborhood next.

Remember, no matter how complicit Democrats are, they are helpless little babies, & we can’t blame them, even if Chuck Schumer approved EVERY Trump judicial nominee w/o question.

I'm not believing this until I hear from people in the streets of MN and neither should you

It isn't enough that the operation draws down here. This violent occupation cannot happen ANYWHERE. DHS is a lawless, unaccountable organization that needs to be dismantled and investigated. And every act of violence must be prosecuted.

I would like the definitions of "small" and "footprint" please

“Uptick in Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.

theintercept.com/2026/02/09/i...

no Elon, all experts agree the ideal close quarters weapon is a Sig P320, carried in a special holster configuration only used by special forces guys called "reverse appendix carry". If the barrel is pointed into your guts when holstered you're doing it right.

Always keep the chamber loaded.

bsky.app/profile/ydlr...

It's really unfortunate that it's not possible to have a reasonable discussion about The Torment Nexus on here.

David Roberts: it is really unfortunate that it’s not possible to have a reasonable discussion about AI on here

A reasonable discussion about AI would come to the conclusion that this tech is damaging to humanity in virtually every way a tech can be damaging.

But I'd rather have an emotional discussion and point out that this tech is shit made by assholes, and it stole from me, personally, so fuck it.