i‘m using it for a column but i want to share here this line from lincoln on jefferson because it is applies to our situation as well. you can find it in his april 6, 1859 letter to henry l. pierce.

Ofelia Torres, teen who fought to have her father released from ICE custody, dies from rare cancer Ofelia Torres, 16, died on Friday from Stage 4 alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of cancer, her father's lawyer confirmed.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.
 
This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.
 
Not one dime for this cruelty.

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Inside the Debacle That Led to the Closure of El Paso’s Airspace

Morons

Morons are in charge

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...

People can do more than vote. It’s just a baseline. I’m just not interested in - and baffled by - anyone who wants to do politics, yet cannot be bothered to vote. Politics is for concrete ends, not your discourses and critiques. Theres academia for that.

We're working around the clock developing Chess 2

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

In the blanket incident, Noem had to switch planes after a maintenance issue was discovered, but her blanket wasn't moved to the second plane, according to the people familiar with the incident. The Coast Guard pilot was initially fired and told to take a commercial flight home when they reached their destination. They eventually reinstated the pilot because no one else was available to fly them home.

The details of the Kristi Noem blanket incident are just fucking perfect

The way Theo Von just empathetically nods "yeah... Right," just in complete denial of how insane this talking lizard sounds.

Almost all people in power are writing dangerously unhinged and ridiculous fictions.

When you get visited by three Puerto Rican ghosts

Superbowl ads for the last 5 years have been capital displaying total cultural victory by publicly humiliating celebrities.

All of your childhood heroes work for Uber Eats now. There is no mass culture unless Liberty Mutual says there is.

Jesus Christ return before 2027 Odds >5% February 17, 12-1 AM? 29% chance

On Polymarket you can now bet on how many people in a different market on Polymarket think Jesus Christ will return in this calendar year.

29% of bets say that more than 5% of bets in the Jesus Christ return market will be a "yes" 9 days from now.

Anyway everyone involved in this needs jailtime.

White friends choosing ill-advised hip-hop songs at karaoke: I may disapprove, but I will still sing the hook for you.

There’s always room for more focus on how debate is bad and has damaged our discourse. It also completely misunderstands how scholars and scholarly work gets communicated and revised.

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this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth

today's woke 2 take is that it is not enough to praise woke 1. it is not enough to criticize woke 1. woke 1 was a movement that changed the culture in profound ways. what is necessary is to understand both why woke 1 was so successful and why it ran out of steam

Clapping my flippers together and honking like a harbor seal when a Super Bowl ad for a condiment or gambling app featuring two celebrities unexpectedly reveals a third celebrity as its punchline. Bouncing a ball around on my snout. My wife has to throw me a herring to get me to calm down.

It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Too many people on Bluesky think that relentless expressions of despair are a sign of intellectual sophistication.

Important to distinguish between journalists and the editorial board in this case

Fair point. I'm with team Stancil on this one.

It's recycled text of a tweet, and I'm interpreting the above comment on what's good or bad for Stancil as being argued in bad faith.

"this is bad for your cause," says some person who hates you and your cause.

Okay, I'm now hearing reports of other locals being removed from Minnesota rapid response for interacting with press, as well as some "organizers" instituting onerous screening processes to join these networks.

It's time for local leaders to step in. These policies are incredibly counterproductive.

it's a great book!

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Seeing all the “professional” activists go after Stancil is negatively polarizing me into a stance that Minnesota is winning because it’s normal people rising to the occasion and pushing a lot of activist nonsense out of the way by doing it

Just block. They're a troll.