James Pitt

MAGA coward attacked literal children for protesting against ICE. Despite facing a large, grown ass adult, the kids came to each other's aid, kicked his ass, and sent him packing. Our courage and solidarity is our strength. We shall be victorious.

Hannah Neeleman's Ballerina Farm Halts Sale of Raw Milk Due to Bacteria Concerns: Report Hannah and Daniel Neeleman have paused Ballerina Farm's sale of raw milk following health violations discovered during routine testing. Screenings from summer 2025 showed high levels of coliform, the ...

This is bonkers. MAHA 'farmers' with ecoli tainted raw milk admit they really don't know how to make the stuff after all.

"Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact."

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Context on the most prominent use of that style of skull mask, for those who don't know:
ctc.westpoint.edu/the-iron-mar...

you don't get to wear a mask like that and then claim you aren't trying to terrorize communities

Esoteric astronaut selection criteria from the nonfiction book "A City on Mars": "Although the criteria for selection have changed, the general procedure hasn’t—it consists of medical exams, psychological exams, and interviews with the candidate. Different programs have their own exotica—JAXA has candidates fold a thousand origami cranes over the course of a week to show they can maintain high standards while doing monotonous tasks. Russian candidates are dropped out of an airplane and made to solve puzzles tied to their wrists before the parachute opens."

Journalism coops seem utopian. What’s it like working in one? "If I was less self-directed, I'd probably be freaking out."

Journalism coops give me — and most of the journalists I know — a lot of hope for the industry. But I've been curious: What's it like to actually work at one? I spent the last few months talking to a bunch of brilliant worker-owners to find out.

www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/jour...

New Data For Progress poll: Voters support removing Stephen Miller and Kristi Noem, and think Dems should refuse funding for DHS unless multiple reforms for ICE are put in place (including requiring ICE to focus on deporting convicted criminals — at +48) substack.com/profile/4791...

Goddammit.

I literally did this, I owe an apology to a presumably retired Brooklyn Aquarium docent. 😅

SHOCKING FEDERAL COURT MOMENT: DOJ attorney Julie Le, "The system sucks, this job sucks" to Judge Jerry Blackwell who pressed her on why so many court orders are being ignored by ICE/Trump admin. She asked to be held in contempt just so she could get 24 hours of sleep. @FOX9

This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.

One of my first days interning at the UN, I walked past a guy who was insisting ”c’est pas parce que vous êtes Algerien!” to someone who was clearly not his friend.

YOU, RACIST: mad about lupita nyong'o playing helen of troy
ME, A MAN OF CULTURE AND LEARNING: mad that nolan won't have the guts to do to the sociopathic "oops, did i cause all that trouble? hee hee" version of helen from euripides's ORESTES

1640s Dutch fur trade (maternal grandmother's side)

1650s Puritan objections to Charles II (maternal grandfather's side)

1650s Puritan objections to Charles II (paternal grandfather's side)

1890s pogroms (paternal grandmother's side)

Northern Command Tells N.C., Alaska Troops to Stand Down on Possible Minnesota Deployment

Hallelujah. Good to see POTUS retreat from this.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/u...

is that good

a Dyson sphere is not a “sentient sun,” and “light cone” does not work that way.

he’s not even using his sci-fi terms right! 😤

Caster?

Trump DOJ sued DC like a month ago for having laws against semi automatic weapons

"Dear Jeffrey Epstein, I really enjoyed going to your island with Michael Vassar, ex-President of MIRI, who has definitely been to the island.

Just in case you forgot, Michael Vassar has definitely visited your island before.

XOXO, thank you for everything"

Fear and Anger Grow as Thousands Remain Without Power in the South More than 30 people have died across three Southern states in connection with last week’s storm, and thousands remain without power.

Tens of thousands of people across Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana have gone a week without power or heat after a brutal ice storm. At least three dozen people have died in connection with the storm, officials have said.

advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice

Source: Measles outbreak reported at ICE's Dilley family detention facility DPS troopers stand guard in front of the Dilley detention center during a protest last weekend. After a week of public outcry over the Dilley, Texas South

It appears there is now a measles outbreak at the Dilley family detention facility. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

Really Fucking Hate how people now throw in "Israeli" as just the Extra Spice of Evil about any given thing, in ways they don't with anything else. Then they coyly pretend they aren't using it for (((Evil))).

The reporter at the Miami Herald who broke the story that put Epstein in jail. We need local and independent journalists!

The fact that both are quite experienced—8 years and 12 years with CBP—is yet more evidence that CBP should be abolished and all of its agents fired. There's no way to "reform" or "retrain" that, it's just a violent gang with badges.

In Which We Assign Blame for Why Trump Happened, Again Or why we keep telling old war stories

On the rare occasions where I write blog posts it's pretty much always from 'don't feel like posting about this again' lol substack.com/home/post/p-...

I think you're entirely correct here!

the squat rack was free for once!

Three House of Pod episodes that feel especially relevant right now:

• Protests, Cod Pieces, and Tear Gas
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• Tear Gas, Pepper Spray, and Rubber Bullets
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• ICHH/House of Pod — how clinicians prepare for protest medicine
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Antebellum northerners never *liked* southern slavery, but they didn’t get angry enough to destroy it until it sent armies and spies into their cities to serve as kidnappers