Two-meter Matt

They have chest freezers on sale in Aisle 17

Yesterday, the Trump nominee for a high-level State position (Jeremy Carl) went in front of Congress. Some might know that he wrote a book-length expression of white grievance politics ("Unprotected Class"). I finally took the book off my shelf, so you can see exactly what the regime is promoting. 🧵

At least half a dozen top Trump administration officials appear in the Jeffrey Epstein files The degree to which each individual was connected to Epstein varies significantly, from a single email to years of communications.

The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it.

Seems kinda bad?

Trump tells soldiers to vote GOP in campaign-style rally at Fort Bragg Army policy prohibits partisan displays, and most service members refrained from cheering.

Trump can fly to Bragg, give a campaign rally in front of uniformed troops, and tell them how to vote—and that’s just “patriotic.” But 6 veterans in Congress remind the same troops they must refuse illegal orders, and his DOJ tries to brand it sedition. It’s authoritarian hypocrisy.

The Kingdom, The Power and The Glory by Tim Alberta is a pretty good study of the schism in US Christianity

That's why Jeremy Carl can't answer the question, these fascist fucks want bodies in the streets and camps in the desert and also--and this is key--everyone to tell them what brave special strong boys they are while they're doing it. And the part that enrages them is everyone thinks they suck.

She's the Senator for Minnesota! #1 actually applies to her constituents!

when MAGA white supremacists like Carl whinge abt passing of 1965 Hart-Celler Immigration Act they are complaining that it overturned 1924 Johnson-Reed Act, a law limiting immigration to people from Northern Europe, which was drafted by eugenicist Rep. Albert Johnson, with BIG support from the Klan

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Ari Drennen @AriDrennen Follow The high trust neighborhoods that MAGA yearns for exist all over America, and they're all like D+40 nxthompson A @nxthompson •22h An extraordinary paragraph. buff.ly/uH5ykhX The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesivebecause of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

This is so spot on

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

China's Xinhua news agency has just published this editorial cartoon in response to Trump's rejection of climate policies.

It is pretty clear that China views this as a HUGE geopolitical fumble by the US leaving the field clear for China's to win the global race to clean-tech hegemony

Agents Suspended After Their Story of Shooting an Immigrant Falls Apart A judge dropped charges against the immigrant and another man after the top federal prosecutor in Minnesota said new evidence was not consistent with the agents’ testimony.

Hey remember the shooting in Minneapolis that happened between Renee Good and Alexi Pretti, the guy they claimed was shot by an agent after he had attacked that agent with a shovel? I know it's hard to believe but the agents' story fell apart and charges were dropped. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

'Elderly nanny' arrested by ICE in S.F. is ordered released The San Francisco Rapid Response Network said an "elderly nanny" was arrested by immigration agents "on her way to work" Friday.

‘Elderly nanny’ arrested by ICE in S.F. is ordered released.
The woman was arrested ‘on her way to work’ after being ‘followed by multiple unmarked vehicles’ in Diamond Heights missionlocal.org/2026/02/mayo...

When will Republicans, veterans organizations, & retired military officers speak up about this? No president in the history of the Republic has done this. Yet Trump, Vance, & Hegseth do it constantly. It betrays the most important core value of our military-no partisan politics.

In the blanket incident, Noem had to switch planes after a maintenance issue was discovered, but her blanket wasn't moved to the second plane, according to the people familiar with the incident. The Coast Guard pilot was initially fired and told to take a commercial flight home when they reached their destination. They eventually reinstated the pilot because no one else was available to fly them home.

The details of the Kristi Noem blanket incident are just fucking perfect

YouTube video by schmoyoho Auto-Tune the Pam Bondi Hearing So That It Transforms Hootin and Hollerin Into A Sonorous Rhapsod

catchy

Agreed

which goes to something i always say:

elections aren't just competitions over who can meet the criteria voters have - they're debates about what those criteria *should be*

Black Unemployment and America’s ‘Double Tax On Everybody’s Business, we unpack the job market challenges faced by women of color, and the rising standard of luxury as disposable income becomes more scarce.

This morning, check me out on @bloomberg.com Everybody's Business with @svaneksmith.bsky.social and @chafkin.bsky.social! ✨

We discuss how rising Black unemployment and America's Double Tax problem go hand in hand to shrink the economy for all of us, and what we can do about it. #blacksky #econsky

Roughly 2 USAIDs

I have never seen an injunction like this, which basically says stop using flimsy, bogus "civil rights" to attack your perceived political opponents!

Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Get rekt you orange fascist

Consultants Offered Epstein Access to Top N.Y. Democrats if He Donated

So much of the rot in this country stems from our failure to fund public goods and regulate private wealth. In that context, people who need your money won't care how terrible you are.

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

You're saying she's the victim?

She was driving 70 mph in a 25 mph zone. More than double the speed limit. Equivalent to driving 180 mph on the highway.

She was driving a Benz and owned several million dollar properties. She's in SF and easily pay for Uber, Lyft or Waymo.

a man in a suit stands next to a woman holding a blue bag in front of a sign that says 360 Alt: Buzz Aldrin clocks a guy who's says that moon landings were fake

Here's Buzz demonstrating his facility with rendezvous to the orbital portion of the skull

He's Under Secretary for Domestic Affairs

Key point with low-information voters and flood-the-zone propaganda on social media: "Not engaging on the issue just lets that agitprop dominate low-info voters’ information streams ... [For many the] dominant sentiment was probably something like this: Wow, I didn’t know this was happening."

As if Putin possessed some magical power over Trump...