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Absolutely irresponsible - but what does he care? He'll be dead by then... screw the subsequent generations!

Then again, I am a person who attends parties where a host might, for example, put a photograph of his colorectal polyp on a cake and we are are all wildly enthusiastic about it.

Americans tend not to like to talk about any medical issue below their stomach. It’s like the organs down there are all redacted.

I wonder if we normalize discussing the colorectum we could increase screening rates?

It’s like biological feng shui, getting rid of all the shit we don’t need.

Pam Bondi, Epstein, and a Day of Shame on Capitol Hill As survivors waited to be acknowledged, Bondi dismissed their pain as going into “the gutter,” lashed out at lawmakers, and sidestepped basic questions about transparency in the Epstein files.

Read and watch here: www.tarapalmeri.com/p/pam-bondi-...

Just months ago, Epstein survivors believed they would finally get a meeting with Pam Bondi. She turned them down then — and again on Wednesday, when she literally turned her back on them, saying she didn’t want to “get in the gutter.”

AOC and Warren join forces in high-profile child care push ahead of midterms As Republicans urge Americans to have more children but offer few supportive policies, Democrats believe reducing child care costs could be a winning message.

AOC and Warren join forces in high-profile child care push ahead of midterms 19thnews.org/2026/02/aoc-... via @19thnews.org

This interview presented a really solid take on the situation in Russia. Putin has one sole hope for survival: and he sits in the White House.

Trump repeals EPA’s ability to regulate climate pollution | CNN The Trump Environmental Protection Agency delivered a significant blow to longstanding US climate policy on Thursday, finalizing rules to revoke a 2009 scientific finding that human-caused climate cha...

Donald Trump's administration is falsely claiming that greenhouse gases are not a threat to public health — breaking the law to once again grovel to the oil industry.

California will fight this lawless action in court.

Meanwhile...

The United Kingdom is allocating the largest support package in its history to Ukraine - £500 million (over $680 million) to strengthen air defense capabilities.

This was announced by UK Defence Secretary John Healey at a meeting of the Ramstein-format Contact Group.

In fact, over 30 countries have some form of vote-by-mail, per this report: www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Figure 1 from the paper shows the Association between Percentile Wealth Bins (x-Axis) and: (a) Contribution Rate, (b) per Capita Contribution Amount. Figure 1 presents two plots. Panel (a) displays the percentage of donors in each wealth rank that contributed to each of the six campaigns (i.e., Democratic and Republican nominees in 2012, 2016, and 2020).Footnote 17 Panel (b) displays the per capita dollars from each wealth bin, by campaign (including those who donate nothing). As Figure 1 shows, the association between wealth and contributions is approximately exponential. The wealthiest are much more likely to contribute, and the wealth gradient is even steeper in dollars because the top 0.1% contribute very large sums. This is one of the most robust findings in the campaign finance literature, but the figure demonstrates it with considerably more precision. By measuring wealth independently of contribution size, we avoid misattributing smaller contributions to non-wealthy donors and underestimating wealthy dollars. Most relevant to our analysis, Figure 1 compares the wealth gradients for Trump versus other candidates. In 2016, compared to other candidates, Trump’s wealth gradient is far flatter, because Trump elicited far fewer wealthy contributors and per capita dollars. For example, among the top 0.1%, Trump’s donors and per capita dollars represent about one third of Romney’s. While Trump did worse than all other candidates among nearly all wealth groups, that deficit was larger among the wealthy. In short, in 2016, wealthy donations to Trump are low compared to other presidential candidates. In 2020, Trump’s performance among the wealthy improved considerably over 2016 (Figure 1). Consider donation rates (Panel a). Among the wealthiest 0.1%, for example, Trump roughly doubled his rate, though he still significantly lagged Biden and Romney. He did even better in per capita dollars (Panel b) than in rates. Open access link to paper: http://cup.org/4cfm0Az

The wealthy dominate political donations. My co-authored research found the top 0.1% contribute at rates 10-15x higher than bottom 90%. They’re not just more likely to donate, they give exponentially more per capita. The wealth gradient in politics is real. cup.org/4cfm0Az

"Why are y'all so concerned about rich men raping children when we could, instead, be talking about how much more MONEY they got this year? Focus on what matters, like I do!"

--Pamela Jo

Idk… I might have to get off of Reddit since they’re profiting from advertising Gestapo jobs. They even locked the comments so I’m guessing people were hitting this ad hard.

Pam Bondi has been a complete and total failure at her job. The Epstein survivors showed more courage just by being in that room than she did under oath. She refused to answer questions and chose complicity.

America deserves better.

BREAKING: The House passed the so-called SAVE America Act which threatens to upend our freedom to vote.

The bill could disenfranchise millions of eligible voters by requiring documents like passports or birth certificates to register to vote and forcing voter roll purges. The Senate must reject it.

Deciding it’s too dangerous to reveal just how unpopular the current president is seems like the worst poll result ever.

Congressional Dems: Don't Let the GOP Redact the Constitution #ABlueView🧵1/2

R's unbelievably claim reverting to ICE's decades old, constitutional policy of judicial warrants being required to enter private property is "a nonstarter" & "obnoxious." Instead, they demand ....

Homeland Security Hires Labor Dept. Aide Whose Posts Raised Alarms

A 21 year old white nationalist is the one posting white nationalist tweets from the Dep of Labor account. He was rewarded with a promotion.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

Way-hey! After concerted local pushback, New Jersey company decides not to contract with ICE:

"The contract with ICE will not move forward, a Holman spokesperson told Patch.

"I have been informed that we declined that particular body of work," the spokesperson said...

patch.com/new-jersey/c...

DeAdder cartoon Gordie Howe "elbows up"

#CanadaSky🇨🇦

Today’s performance by Pam Bondi was not only unacceptable, it was clearly a smoke screen for a coverup, and her anger is at herself because her shattered moral compass still has a pulse.

People talking about terrible teachers and gender bias in STEM fields & I can remember when the anatomy teacher tried to keep a girl from going on a field trip to Chico State to view a cadaver. Her mom raised absolute hell & now that girl has a Ph.d in molecular biology and leads R&D.

Throwback to Pam Bondi’s campaign ad for Florida AG:

“I’ll fight to put human trafficking monsters where they belong. Behind bars.”

The ad aged. The internet remembers.

Teachers strike grips San Francisco

Educators in San Francisco are fighting for better health benefits, better wages, improved special education and more. Their fight to get SFUSD to invest in classrooms, educators and students’ futures is all of our fight.

Solidarity with United Educators of San Francisco on strike!

My 70 year old dad, whose favorite band is The Righteous Brothers, just informed me that he enjoyed the Bad Bunny show bc even though he didn’t understand the words, “it seemed like everyone on stage was having a good time!” So there ya go lol.

Palantir made $1.8 billion in 2025 by helping ICE deport people How surveillance company Palantir made record profits helping the Trump administration with 'unusual operations.'

This should infuriate everyone.

Palantir must be destroyed.

boingboing.net/2026/02/10/p...

I'm sorry, what's this now (via Julie K. Brown)

this guy also thinks women shouldn't be allowed to go to school.