Patrick Chovanec

Interesting. Beautiful. But the name and theme have to violate some kind of IP, doesn’t it?

We are all fully qualified as Super Bowl halftime critics. We just have to be loud enough.

One reason these folks focus on the Culture War is because it’s easy. You don’t have study or accomplish anything, or master any skill or area of knowledge. You just have to express your feelings about whatever the latest trending topic is.

Laser focused on solving real problems.

Minnesota girl, 10, released from ICE custody after a month in detention Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano and her mother released from Texas facility to head back to Minnesota to reunite with her father

Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano And Her Mother Released

The 10-year-old Minnesota girl was released from ICE custody after a month in detention in Dilley, Texas

She and Liam Conejo Ramos were released, but hundreds of children remain at the facility.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Perfect

Every President has to deal with athletes who don't like them, don't turn up to White House events, etc. Trump is truly alone in acting like a baby about it, and it's particularly galling on the Olympic stage.

Tweet from JD Work (@HostileSpectrum) at 08:58 on 2/7/26: Illegal vehicle checkpoints are the key hallmark of every urban insurgency, used to control terrain tipped toward rebellion. Having been trained to maneuver in a city beset by their latent lethal menace from the hard lessons of Northern Ireland, and nearly having lost my life to such a VCP in Baghdad, it is shocking to see them on American streets.

Here’s @hostilespectrum.bsky.social, who is currently an NSC staffer, comparing Americans protesting abuses by our government with terrorists and insurgents

"I just eat meat and ferments."

These people think there are only so many slices of American pie to go around.

My first grader (a US citizen) came home from school crying because a friend from class (also a US citizen) hasn’t been coming to school because his parents (one of whom is not a citizen) are afraid of ICE.

Little kids don’t have concepts of racism and xenophobia. That has to be taught. Or imposed.

During the last Tsar's reign a man was reported to have said: "Nikolay is a moron!" and was arrested by a policeman.
"No, sir, I meant not our respected Tsar, but another Nikolay!" – "Don't try to trick me: if you say 'moron', you are obviously referring to our Tsar!"

WTF?

It’s like when you make a statement about the importance of character in politics, and all the Trump people get immediately offended. Hmm, how did you know I was talking about him? 🤔

Hunter Hess’ statement was pretty mild. He didn’t denounce his country, he didn’t criticize Trump by name. He just said he didn’t agree with and wasn’t proud of some of the things that were happening back home and, curiously, everyone knew what he meant.

I think he would have strongly preferred Putin to win, not because he cares about Ukraine, but because it would weaken the resolve of the West more broadly. But he wasn’t going to go out on a limb to make it happen.

One of the most telling criticisms in Russia right now is that Putin has been forced to cede too much to China, as a result of his Ukraine adventure.

Yes, that’s not their focus right now, but it is never far from their minds. More recently, they’ve long been unable to come to terms on pipeline infrastructure linking Russia’s Siberian oil and gas fields to China - despite a mutual interest in doing so.

“Decades”? Like when China and the Soviets nearly went to war in the late 1960s? Neither the Russians nor the Chinese have forgotten that the Russian Far East once belonged to the Qing Dynasty, and is both rich in resources and underpopulated.

What Hess said:
“There’s obviously a lot going on that I’m not the biggest fan of, and I think a lot of people aren’t. … Just because I’m wearing the flag doesn’t mean I represent everything that’s going on in the U.S.”

Trump, the actual president, has insulted Dems repeatedly.
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Eh, they're wary of each other. And Putin's performance in Ukraine hasn't exactly impressed Xi. They're far from the "allies" they sometimes seem.

Watch.

I think Xi - rightly or wrongly - is convinced that the United States is a declining power, and the only difference is how that manifests itself in leadership style.

To say that Xi respects Trump is arguable - I don't think he does, but to be fair, I don't think he respected Biden either.

But to say Trump is the ONLY world leader Xi respects is just delusional sycophancy, especially given China's recent closeness to Russia.

"President Trump is the only world leader that Xi respects."

That is an absurd statement.

Cowards.

The only time Cassidy took a principled stand and now he doesn’t want to talk about it. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Mamdani was far ahead in every poll that we taken for months. The notion that there was some elaborate conspiracy to steal the election at the polls is positively delusional.

From "The True Believer" by Eric Hoffer, which I've been annotating since 2017

Immigrant whose skull was broken in 8 places during ICE arrest says beating was unprovoked Alberto Castañeda Mondragón was hospitalized with eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages. Officers claimed he ran into a wall, but medical staff doubted that account.

Alberto Castañeda Mondragón was hospitalized with eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages. Officers claimed he ran into a wall, but medical staff doubted that account. n.pr/4bHoZDU