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We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

Tech companies gain ground in fight against WA data center regulations The sweeping data center package in Olympia remains in play. But Big Tech lobbyists and allies knocked out many of the measure’s teeth along the way.

Publicly, big tech companies like Microsoft and Amazon aggressively cultivate images as good neighbors and environmental stewards. Privately they fight — hard — against any new regulations on their booming data center industry

www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Tech companies gain ground in fight against WA data center regulations The sweeping data center package in Olympia remains in play. But Big Tech lobbyists and allies knocked out many of the measure’s teeth along the way.

“I mean, billions of dollars of capital, right?” one tech lobbyist said, referencing all the money tech companies are pouring into the data centers. “You’re going to be protective of it.” www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

If not war, why war shaped?

Little snow in California and the West as a warm winter nears end California's snowpack remains much smaller than average after months of extremely warm conditions across the West.

Very little snow across the West during a winter that has brought record warmth

Sierra Nevada: 66% of avg
Upper Colorado River region: 66%
Oregon: 34%

"Projections show that our winters are going to look a lot more like this in the future."
www.latimes.com/environment/... @coveringclimatenow.org

So ready for the next Gout Epidemic

and i’m right every time

We’re at our first @pwhltorrent.bsky.social game tonight and every man they show on the Jumbotron @kayah.bsky.social turns to me and says “that’s Macklemore”

@ DEA

They spelled my name as Congraf in a text message. That is not my name.

that’s a first for me, please wish me congrafulations

The IRS broke the law by disclosing confidential information to ICE 42,695 times, judge says A federal judge said Thursday that the IRS broke the law by disclosing confidential taxpayer information ''approximately 42,695 times" to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

A federal judge said the IRS broke the law by disclosing confidential taxpayer information ''approximately 42,695 times" to ICE.

i think we can just say it's a lie! that he's told literally dozens of times for the last several months!

Even after last week's wallop of winter snow, Upper Colorado River basin snowpack is still at a record low.

The March forecast is looking warm and dry across the Southwest and southern Rockies. Wouldn't be surprised to see water supply forecasts approach record lows too.

Double Jebardy with two Jebs

Jeopardy! Except with Jeb Bush. So it’s Jebardy

had the weirdest dream last night

DoJ cases against protesters keep collapsing as officers’ lies are exposed in court String of embarrassing defeats for prosecutors as experts condemn DoJ effort to cast people as ‘violent perpetrators’

A MN protester accused of assaulting ICE officer had case dropped after vids showed no assault.

LA protester accused of assaulting ICE w/ “hat” had case dropped; judge said govt acted in “bad faith”

In Chicago, 92 ppl were arrested for assault/impeding ICE; 0 convicted

DOJ keeps lying and losing:

Lake Powell forecast to reach critical lows, threatening hydropower generation Lake Powell could receive only half the normal amount of water from upstream rivers this year, prompting big questions for the river.

Sorry, lower basin states (and the rest of us who depend on Colorado River water). This is very bad news for the West. .... Lake Powell forecast to reach critical lows, threatening hydropower generation coloradosun.com/2026/02/18/l...

Maryland, New Mexico Become Latest Blue States to Ban Local Contracts with ICE - Bolts Governors Lujan Grisham and Moore signed laws barring local sheriffs and police from partnering with ICE’s 287(g) program, joining a string of ten states with similar prohibitions.

NEW: Major, BFD action by blue states standing up to ICE.

Maryland, on Tuesday, banned local law enforcement from being part of ICE's notorious 287(g) program. 

That automatically forces *9* sheriffs out of their ICE contract!

And New Mexico did the same last week:

Climate change media coverage fell 14% in 2025 Despite rising impacts, climate change received less attention in media around the world in 2025. CU Boulder sociologist Max Boykoff shares the reasons and

The world has never needed climate journalism more than it does right now. Yet last year climate got less coverage than at any point since the pandemic

www.colorado.edu/today/2026/0...

a man in a suit and tie stands in a crowd ALT: a man in a suit and tie stands in a crowd

There are dozens of them

I don't know why you're all making fun of Kennedy's jeans here. This is a real affliction. I'm sorry it's not recognized here in the States but we know there are two members of German parliament. They're called nein wohlstandig nude.

Meta, Reddit and Google comply with Homeland Security requests for anti-ICE user information.

WA climate funds needed to plug huge budget gap, lawmaker says Lawmakers are moving closer to executing a plan to patch a budget gap with climate money, despite intense debate over the approach.

Try as they might, lawmakers can’t find a better way to fill part of Washington’s budget gap than by dipping into the billions raised by the state’s Climate Commitment Act www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

The government doesn’t have our best interests in mind. These aliens are dangerous

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.

Cyanide was never toxic. It’s in apple seeds. We eat apples. Beautiful apples. We thrive with more cyanide.

A cyanide a day keeps the doctor away. We’ve always said that. American cyanide.

Howdy folks,

I've never shown my ID to ride the Amtrak, let alone commuter rail. If you don't choo choo regularly you might not know this is just a straight up lie.

AND I’m selling drugs and alcohol in the community!

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair with his hands in the air Alt: What am I? Chopped liver?

When you're sitting in a public meeting, taking diligent notes and hear a county commissioner go "maybe the media isn't interested anymore..."