Mike Czaplicki

NWS still has 7-13; hoping they get it right!

Judge Goodwin: "An anonymous government is no government at all. It cannot be held accountable. A masked agent freely uses force without justifying his actions, and the public cannot name him to challenge his conduct. A regime of secret policing has no place in our society."

Current conditions: It's like Paul Bunyan tripped on Block Island and dropped his slurpee on us.

NY Times breaking fresh ground in comedy.

Language chaser.

Some interesting choices on the list of occupations PPSD provides parents at registration. Abattoir operator leads us off, but you won't find consultant. British sign language, but not American.

Alas, the deadline has passed. Hopefully they got a good response.

It's dying : (

But the city wants artists to pitch ideas for memorializing it! Shots from the EP Post.

Swamp Monsters of the Skyway

Nibbles, Scituate Reservoir, PVD Council Chamber, Rockefeller stacks, EP Post Office, and the soon-to-be taken beech outside Weaver Library next door (several trees I could add, but that will rep them all)

Trump plans to send $10 billion in funds that Congress hasn’t appropriated from the US Treasury to an organization that he will continue to chair personally even after he is out of office.

This is looting.

Don't deny us the dream of the NFL-champion Hammond Wolves.

Respondents engage in a deliberately dense three-step maneuver to reach their core absurd conclusion that no further relief is warranted.  Step 1: Identify an immaterial difference between two things that are functionally the same. [Opp. at 9; Dkt. No. 103 at 3].  Step 2: Insist that the immaterial difference is so consequential that it can violate separation of powers. [Opp. at 12; Dkt. No. 103 at 3]. Finally, and most importantly,  Step 3: Make sure to never mention the Constitution with the hope that a federal court will not notice. [See generally Opp.; Dkt. No. 103 at 3].

I missed this real banger of an opinion yesterday from judge sunshine sykes (the best-named judge), vacating the BIA ruling on mandatory immigration detention

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

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

I have compared AI to the Game Genie in the past—in that you could use it incorrectly and it’s honestly more interesting as a result. But with a Game Genie, once you turned off the machine, everything was back to normal.

That is not the case with AI agents.

John Roberts has somehow created a regal impunity, in a republic nonetheless influenced by British common law, stronger than that enjoyed by the British royals themselves. In-f’ing-credible.

Imagining Pare Lorentz breaking into animation with 𝘗𝘦𝘱𝘦.

Walked out of Strange Days.

Libertarians Took Control of This Small Town. It Didn't End Well. A new book shows the troubling consequences of Grafton, New Hampshire's anti-government experiment.

You mean the people who took over a town, refused to levy taxes, and ended up with a village of bears because there was no one to haul away their garbage? Those New Hampshire libertarians?
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American Revolution II: Right On - Media Burn Archive 0:00:00 “American Revolution II: Right On.” Meeting of residents of Uptown with members of the Black Panther party. 0:00:35 Southern man, leader of Young Patriots, introduces Black Panther Bob Lee...

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Look, Ma! Or Maybe Don’t. Parents of Some Olympians Face Extreme Fear.

Loved this article on anxious parents of winter Olympians and the various ways they cope. Nothing can top the mom who tried skeleton.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/w...

No way in hell does it take 1252 jobs to put-in-place $158million in construction. Maybe 700.

I propose boycotting any construction firm that works on reno or new ICE detention facility.

Call your state reps. Have those companies restricted from ever bidding again on gov work in your state.

Construction Inflation for 2025
Materials inputs up approx 2.5%
Labor cost up about 4.5%

Margins up about 2%

Overall construction inflation for 2025 up 4% to 4.5%

And strong red flag laws that cut off access to guns.

"During Winter Storm Fern, Vineyard Wind had a 75% capacity factor...Once fully operational, the project will deliver power at a price of $84.23 per megawatt-hour to the New England grid. That’s markedly less than spot wholesale prices during the storm, which spiked to over $870 per MWh on Jan. 25."

How do we disincentivize local media's unnecessary wall-to-wall coverage of awful tragedies?

Them: sorry the Constitution requires that children keep dying, can't even have any tiny regulation of guns.

Also them: sorry Fourth Amendment we're going through a tunnel can't hear you

It is, but they also have a good $1-for-26 weeks deal that's very much worth it.

Capra, from the grave: