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The absolute arrogance.

I Married a Man I’d Known a Few Months You have to take your time before you commit to someone. That was the advice I grew up with. I completely ignored it. FEBRUARY 13, 2026 KARA KENNEDY Why Is No One Having Sex? ‘I don’t want to perform.’ ‘Sleep wins.’ ‘She doesn’t have the same high sex drive as me.’ I spoke to the Americans behind the sex recession—and this is… FEBRUARY 12, 2026 KARA KENNEDY

You could have given me a thousand chances to guess what blog post this person published the day after she published "Why Is No One Having Sex?" and I could not have come up with anything this funny

a Free Press headline, Why Is No One Having Sex? https://www.thefp.com/p/why-is-no-one-having-sex

The Free Press is discovering new levels of Telling On Yourself that scientists previously thought could not exist

I don't love that the Labor Secretary's sex pest husband is an anesthesiologist.

This administration is forcefully detransitioning incarcerated trans people after removing protections from rape. They are absolutely determined to torture trans people in their custody.

Naming the policeman Officer X, Welles addressed him directly. "Wash your hands, Officer X. Wash them well. Scrub and scour, you won't blot out the blood of a blinded war veteran," Welles said. "Go on, suckle your anonymous moment while it lasts. You're going to be uncovered. We will blast out your name! We'll give the world your given name, Officer X. Yes, and your so-called Christian name. It's going to rise out of the filthy deep like the dead thing it is."

When Tom Homan, Trump and other Republicans defend the masking of ICE agents, I can't help but think of Orson Welles announcing on his radio show his intention of identifying the South Carolina police officer who violently attacked and blinded the uniformed Black veteran Isaac Woodard in 1946.

Princes in the tower

Revealed: Epstein cultivated relationship with CBP officer, causing US investigation Guardian review of US justice department files reveals Epstein interacted with six CBP officers. The officer investigated denied any knowledge of trafficking underage girls

The FBI investigated Epstein's relationship with 1 CBP officer, and issued subpoenas about three others. The Guardian found direct communications with two more.

CBP claims to be “uniquely situated to deter and disrupt human trafficking”.

Labor Secretary’s Husband Barred From the Department After Sexual Assault Reports

BREAKING NYT:

The husband of Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has been barred from the department's headquarters after at least two female staff members told officials that he had sexually assaulted them, according to people familiar with the decision and a police report obtained by The Times.

Revealed: Epstein cultivated relationship with CBP officer, causing US investigation Guardian review of US justice department files reveals Epstein interacted with six CBP officers. The officer investigated denied any knowledge of trafficking underage girls

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein cultivated relationships with CBP officers at the airports he frequented.

Epstein emailed and texted with six CBP officers, invited them to his island, visited with them at the airport, and frequently sought to determine who was going to be on duty when he was traveling

Revealed: Epstein cultivated relationship with CBP officer, causing US investigation Guardian review of US justice department files reveals Epstein interacted with six CBP officers. The officer investigated denied any knowledge of trafficking underage girls

"We Brooklyn Boys stick together," one CBP supervisor texted Epstein.

"Atta boy", Epstein responded.

In November 2016, Epstein texted the supervisor that another CBP officer had been “nasty”. “I will speak to him!” the supervisor responded. “I will handle it, formally.”

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Alysa Liu: "THAT'S WHAT I'M FUCKING TALKING ABOUT" 🗣️

I need a cigarette

Les Wexner's attorney during the House Oversight Committee deposition on Epstein:

"I will fucking kill you if you answer another question with more than five words."

Ah man I’d forgotten this front page.

Can see how this will go wrong...

Imagine telling the country that Trump has made them pay $60 more for a product and thinking that's a good thing for everyone.

NYT: Ocasio-Cortez Offers a Working-Class Vision in Munich, With Some Stumbles Speaking at Europe’s largest security conference, she tied income inequality to the rise of authoritarians and offered a forceful rebuttal to President Trump’s worldview. She also had some shaky moments.

NYT: She stalled for roughly 20 seconds before offering a substantive response. “I think that, uh, this is such a, a — you know, I think that — this is a, um — this is of course, a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said

NYT: Trump Says U.S. Will Commit $10 Billion to His Board of Peace President Trump did not specify the source of the funding for the body created for the security and redevelopment of the Gaza Strip.

The New York Times when AOC said “um”: “Stumbles,” “Shaky Moments”

The New York Times when Trump didn’t know the names of the presidents of Armenia and Azerbaijan as he talked about them in his office: Peace King Makes Major Announcement

OpenAI Unveil “Final Slogan”

Same vibes

Lex Wexner said just yesterday that he'd never been contacted by the FBI in regards to his relationship with Epstein...

STEVE DEWSNIP APPOINTED AS CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER Club News 1 hour age Share By Morecambe FC Morecambe Football Club are delighted to announce the appointment of Steve Dewsnip as the club's new Chief Operating Officer. Steve joins us with extensive football and business experience and has held prominent roles with non-league clubs covering all aspects of off-field activity. He was recently Commercial Director at Stalybridge Celtic and prior to that Chief Operating Officer at Southport in the National League North, with responsibility for commercial and operational activities.

Football club founder banned by finance regulator Steve Dewsnip is commercial director of Stalybridge Celt unded Guernsey CNews, Guernsey Jack Silver e of the co-founders of Guernsey FC has been banned by the island's financial regulator from any involvement in regulated companies, following his involvement in a fraudulent investment fund which collapsed in 2016. The club's former chairman Steve Dewsnip, 57, who is now commercial director of Northern Premier League side Stalybridge Celtic, was banned by the Guernsey Financial Services Commission (GFSC) for "failure to meet the minimum criteria for licensing

Exciting times for football governance as rudderless Morecambe appoint a Chief Operating Officer who, in 2024, was "banned by [Guernsey]'s financial regulator from any involvement in regulated companies, following his involvement in a fraudulent investment fund which collapsed in 2016."

Just when you think the lunacy has peaked

New "This is fine" just dropped

Former public prosecutor Nazir Afzal on the speed at which the police have acted on Andrew's misconduct allegations compared to the Epstein trafficking allegations:

"When the state is the alleged victim, the state moves at pace. When women are the alleged victims, the state takes its time"

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Oh my god they did the meme.

Former Prince Andrew Is Accused of Misconduct in Public Office

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, but what is it?

Here's brief explainer of the law, how criminal investigations and prosecutions work, and contempt of court
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...

It brings me an incredible sense of peace to imagine the fear and feeling of walls closing in for men who abused women and girls with elite impunity