Interpolated, not extrapolated

There used to be a ton of right-leaning artists, poets, writers etc. This kind of person doesn't really exist anymore because all right wing energy is aimed at asserting the intrinsic superiority of this or that arbitrary genetic group on a podcast

Well which is it? Are you for birthright citizenship or against?

Some blue on the radar over the Berkeley Hills after that cell passed over. Wonder if any snow is visible on Grizzly Peak?

the logic of his position is that you would them abandon those issues and so on and so on until you’ve fully sacrificed a group of vulnerable americans to reactionary bullies for the sake of a percentage point (if that)

What if Lemon Party and Grindr did a cross-promotion.

Today is the first day of Ramadan, the first day of Adar, Lunar New Year and Mardi Gras.

This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.

RFK Jr.: ‘Time In Hot Cars Helps Babies To Sweat Out Toxins’

RFK Jr.: ‘Time In Hot Cars Helps Babies To Sweat Out Toxins’ https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-time-in-hot-cars-helps-babies-to-sweat-out-toxins/

staring at the screen, no ideas, the empty prompt window confronting you with your own mediocrity -- welcome to the work, chump, you loser.

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

from hell's heart I post at thee

"Two-month-old baby ‘choking on his own vomit’ while detained in Dilley ‘His life is in danger,’ U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro said about newborn Juan Nicolás. The child fell ill after spending almost a month — or half his life — in a San Antonio-area family detention facility."

ICE detention in Texas: www.sacurrent.com/news/two-mon...

Me and my team have been in contact with Juan’s family. Juan has bronchitis—according to his mom—and at some point in the last several hours he was unresponsive. Juan was still discharged from the hospital despite that around midnight today.

Tricia McLaughlin is reportedly out at DHS, according to multiple sources. She’s a very close ally of Noem.

That news, plus stories like the below which are coming out daily, strongly suggest the knives are clearly out for Noem inside DHS.

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

In a way, not surprising at all. Public officials like Dr. Birx (who was actually a respected expert on AIDS before Covid) and Fauci often restrained Trump's impulses and Trump hated it. He believes Covid cost him the election (and it did). His new appointees are a revenge against public health.

Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs

Turns out there is a downside to the governments around the world negotiating profit out of pharma R&D: the US became the only profitable market on earth, and so if the US says we don't want vaccines, nobody gets any more vaccines. Will it happens for other drugs? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...

Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs

When RFK Jr. was picked in November 2024 to become the next health secretary, public health experts worried that the longtime vaccine skeptic would wreak havoc on the fragile business of vaccine development.
Those fears are beginning to come true www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...

Big time chaos at on Donner Summit as vehicle spinouts block traffic. This photo of I-80 eastbound just east of the summit

Having the two least snow-ready vehicles intentionally evade the checkpoints is next level. Like they camped out at the rest stop and were like “let’s do it and be legends.”

One year on from dismantling of USAID, study projects that global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030 | CNN It’s been one year since the Trump administration dismantled the US Agency for International Development (USAID), with aid cuts leading to the closure of HIV clinics in South Africa, the termination o...

As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues.

About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”

No chains on either?

Getting sporty at Kirkwood

Don’t blow away @norcalstormchasing.bsky.social!

Winds are picking up over Donner Pass as the leeward low forms in the Great Basin. Gusts of 25+ mph making for brief whiteout conditions. Much stronger winder expected Tuesday with gusts of 40 to 60 mph a high possibility.

These details (made up by Bruenig) imply that the parents here are woo-woo Marianne Williamson types, but that breed of anti-vaxxer has become increasingly rare since COVID.

The modal anti-vaxx parent these days is a hardcore Christian right-winger.

There’s going to be Covid style shortages of cars, TVs and even washing machines and fridges, then job losses because assembly lines can’t source solid state memory, just so the stupidest person you know can state with 100% confidence a chatbot confirmed dinosaurs coexisted with humans.

The successful effort to force Biden out signaled to elite media that they had a veto over Democratic Party primary voters. Whether they successfully exercise it or simply try to in 2028 is an open question but bet your sweet nippy they’re going to try.

Based on this alone I can say with absolute certainty Chris Quinn is a bad editor, a worse leader and she certainly dodged a bullet

My thoughts on AI and writing is simple: if you do not care enough to put time in to write and edit something, it signals to me that I should not put my time in to read it. Life is short. Why would I spend time reading something you care so little about?

BREAKING: @barackobama.bsky.social clarifies his position on aliens after his answer during the speed round of our interview went viral.

This is true. 🧪