Gerard Fitzgerald

they deemed our ship some drifting, uninhabited craft; a thing appointed to desolation

The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid. One of the women Alex Pretti was killed trying to defend is an EMT. Federal agents stopped her from giving him first aid.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.

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...

I think “floaty boats murder monster” is how I’m going to refer to all bears from now on

Jane with the RANGE 👏

BYU freshman Jane Hedengren just keeps thriving at every distance, running 4:22.22 in the mile at the BU Valentine Invitational to dip under the old collegiate record and land at #3 on the all-time list behind Oregon’s Wilma Nielsen and her teammate Riley Chamberlain.

Cash that check!! 🤑

Elle St. Pierre may have missed her own American indoor record in the mile by a second, but her hard early pace still pays off as she clocks an American indoor record in the 1500m en route, joining Heather MacLean and Regina Jacobs as the only U.S. women ever sub-4 indoors.

The anatomy of an American record 📊

With a quarter-mile to go, Cole Hocker was only .18 seconds ahead of the field. By the time he crossed the line 54.82 seconds later, he was 4.55 seconds ahead of the next closest finisher.

The legend of the Cole Hocker kick lives on 📖

The kids are alright 🥹

Sadie Engelhart continues to show that you don’t need to wait to be GREAT, as the NC State freshman runs 4:23.84 for second in the mile at the JDL Sound Invite.

It pays to be brave 😤

In a bold display of front running, Emily Mackay takes a nice win over the mile at the ASICS Sound Invite in 4:22.43.

Mackay led from the second the pacer stepped off and held off a strong field which included Sadie Engelhardt (4:23.84) and Maggi Congdon (4:24.48).

WE’RE IN THE REAL COLE WORLD 🤩

Olympic 1500m champion Cole Hocker laid down the hammer tonight at the ASICS Sound Invite, coming away with an American record in the mile and the 2nd fastest time EVER in 3:45.94 🤯

Thanks to a 54.82s last 400m, Hocker took down an impressive field by 4.5 seconds.

1970s paperback edition of ayn rand’s the fountainhead with a photograph of an attractive woman leaning back seductively on a drafting board

can you imagine how disappointed you’d be if you knew nothing about this book and only picked it up for this particular cover

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

‘We will not cower,’ rabbi says after antisemitic vandalism of Md. synagogue Rabbi Jonah Layman said that after signs at the Shaare Tefila Synagogue in Maryland had been defaced with antisemitic graffiti, he appreciated the community outreach.

"He said he expects this weekend’s Shabbat service will have a larger attendance than its usual crowd of 60 or 70.

“We will not cower in fear. We are proud of who we are. We stand up for the sign that says ‘Hate has no home here’ and we firmly believe that.”

www.washingtonpost.com/religion/202...

ICE raid at apartment complex causes elementary students to run from their bus stop in NJ Thursday Students were seen running away from their bus stop on Thursday morning as ICE agents conducted an operation at an apartment in Lindenwold, NJ.

Nine and ten year olds, fleeing in fear.

www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/f...

The text on the center flyer reads:

ICE goons:
You will face justice in this life and the next.
You will rot in jail, and burn in hell.
Resign. Repent. Repay.

The other fliers simply say ICE OUT with a flower.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔

(From @crindivisible.bsky.social )

A worker harvesting strawberries in muddy ground

Chocolate covered strawberries are a great #ValentinesDay treat. Let's give a cheer for workers like "Eva" who was laboring in Ventura County CA. She had to trudging through slippery muddy rows to bring this sweet fruit to our table. #WeFeedYou

(next to a photo of comedian Ron Funches) “You said we had no money for teachers, but they can pay fucking ICE agents six figures?"

Cartoon by @davewhamond.bsky.social.

This Marco Rubio speech is just unabashed blood and soil nationalism, but also, it's incredibly weird to use, as your example of the supposed artistic heritage of European Christendom, the Rolling Stones, of all bands, who cribbed their entire style from Black American music.

Line graph time series of 2026's daily Arctic sea ice extent compared to decadal averages from the 1980s to the 2010s. Additional scatter points show the maximum extents from 2000 to 2025. There is a long-term decreasing trend in ice extent for every day of the year.

Sea Ice Watch - Time to start tracking the annual maximum #Arctic sea-ice extent. Last year is the current record holder for this statistic.

Follow the daily data at zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i.... Data from JAXA. ⚒️🥼❄️

Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.

Between this and the story about the ice agents who ate at a Mexican restaurant and then arrested some of its workers when they were done, it's a reminder that these people reject even the most basic social agreements of hospitality and of helping others. They're sociopaths.

You ever stop and think about CASABLANCA? You ever stop and think about "Welcome back to the fight, this time, I know our side will win?" You ever think about a bar full of people defiantly singing La Marseillaise, played by a soundstage full of Jewish refugees? You ever think about CASABLANCA??????

Yes I think about it often...and I think back in 1942, in an uncertain world at war, the USA were still the good guys. Not so much in 2026.

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

12-year-old Ender wrote that when she felt sick at Dilley, the doctor would only say to drink more water.

“The worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here,” she wrote in her letter.

By @micarosenberg.bsky.social

Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show Serve Robotics, which delivers food for Uber Eats, provided footage filmed by at least one of its robots to the LAPD as evidence in a criminal case. The emails show the robots, which are a constant si...

Food delivery robots and Waymos are not our friends.

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This seems like a plot from a bad 1970s sci fi film..

IMDB Movie reviews.

Favorite review: “It is the most terrifying horror movie I have seen since Eraserhead. The tension! Will the table setting be symmetrical? If the fork is out of alignment, will the simulation crash?”