Ursula K. PenGuin

‘The Believer’ and Me “None of us is innocent,” I wrote in my diary at age 19 and a half. I had just left Israel’s Holocaust memorial/museum, Yad Vashem. “I want to cry, but that is pornography. Rich Jews. Rich fucking Jew...

Another unspoken thought within many heads today is, "The Jews, of all people, should know better than to act like Nazis!!!"

To that, I can only say: please read this piece I wrote for @flaminghydra.com (no paywall)

NEW YouGov poll: Abolishing ICE is now at a *record high* level of support in the United States 50% support 39% oppose Independents are now +17 on abolishing ICE Moderates +6 23% of Republicans now support abolishing ICE

NEW YouGov poll:
Abolishing ICE is now at a *record high* level of support in the United States

50% support
39% oppose

Independents are now +17 on abolishing ICE
Moderates +6

23% of Republicans now support abolishing ICE

a bright orange canvas jacket with bright blue, green, and magenta letters in a 3x4 pattern reading a b c d e f u c k i c e

finished embroidering my jacket :)

The Feds Targeted Charlotte. Now a Local Democrat Who Helped ICE Faces Voters. - Bolts North Carolina lawmaker Carla Cunningham voted to mandate compliance with ICE, and derided immigrants on the House floor. The Democrat faces an intense March primary.

JUST IN: North Carolina's Dem lawmaker Carla Cunningham gave the GOP the decisive vote to pass a law forcing police to comply with ICE. She said "all cultures are not equal."

She just lost reelection BIG in the Dem primary to a progressive pastor & activist, Rodney Sadler. 70% to 22%!

Context:

Me to the careers of anti-trans Dems:

Since July, more than a dozen pregnant children have been moved to a single facility in the small town of San Benito, along the south Texas border. The children kept in Texas are as young as 13, and about half are pregnant because of rape, according to a joint investigation by the Texas Newsroom and the California Newsroom. In Texas, abortion is banned in nearly all circumstances, including rape and incest.

the phrase “more than a dozen pregnant children” ringing in my ears www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

What your Meta smart glasses record doesn’t stay on your smart glasses, ‘data labeling’ contractors say Meta contractors say they’ve been tasked with reviewing highly sensitive videos captured by the company’s smart glasses.

NEW: Contractors for Meta say they've been tasked with reviewing smart glasses footage in order to train the company's AI.

The contractors say they've seen videos showing wearers having sex, undressing & using the bathroom.

san.com/cc/what-your...

Id say 26 years instead of 6, but yeah, you nailed it.

Understanding our current predicament requires acknowledging that every single conservative from the establishment “intellectuals” like Ross to the lowest jug hooting simpleton has driven themselves insane via a media diet that hasn’t communicated a single true fact to any of them in 6 years

Because she was working with a federal task force, she was considered a federal officer, and thus protected by SCOTUS rulings making it all but impossible to sue federal cops, even for egregious abuse.

Now consider what this means for Trump's immigration thugs.

Democrats had two years to fix this.

yeah, i mean, no shit

In the last decade, the Atlantic has not platformed a single trans person to speak about issues affecting them or the broader trans community. Not a single one. Yet, they have monthly screeds by Helen Lewis and endless money to pay random transphobic grifters to pump stuff like this out.

i think given it’s been a literal century we can say the pathologization of trans people has been a failure. presenting ourselves as sick so cis people give us rights out of pity has utterly failed. the time for compromise is over. free OTC hrt for all ages now

Woosah

I completely forgot that the MCU cast Sylvester Stallone, Michelle Yeoh, Ving Rhames, and Miley Cyrus as the other Ravager Captains. What an incredible collection of performers, I'm a little sad that they never did anything else with that crew.

These authors reviewed 73 previous studies examining car touchscreens.

Conclusion: They're awful

"Touchscreens tended to have negative effects on driving performance, visual attention, and secondary task performance compared with voice control and physical controls."

doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

State looting, personalist regime. Cut your child’s future off at the knees by gutting education policy and funding, make it unsafe to leave the country by starting 10 wars abroad, build a surveillance state that looks for the first excuse to throw you into a camp, and tax cuts for the rich.

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

Baby Groot walked so Baby Yoda could run.

Except, of course, Gunn was smart enough to realize that the bit had to progress in the next movie. So also kinda Baby Groot ran so Baby Yoda could walk?

The Death Generator is so good y'all, I use it all the time

Jason Chavez wrote me back late last night saying that he cares about our neighbors (I’d asserted that _some_ disgracefully do not)! Please show up if you can!!!

Help Shaffer find her heart.

March 3, 2026, at 9:30 am
City Hall, 350 S. 5th St., Minneapolis, MN 55415 -Room 380

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

I’m aware.

Why? Do you think I’m secretly Thomas Friedman?

convinced this author is consciously doing a bit but regardless this is Art

What about his work in the last 20 years suggests that he is not a buffoon? He may once have had something to contribute, but he has been pretty confidently Wrong for decades.

Thanks, friendo!

Mags deserves your love and support, share a little with her

The secretive company filling video game sites with gambling and AI
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Woman sues Kenbridge, police after chief allegedly tipped off shooting suspect The town of Kenbridge and its police department are facing a lawsuit of more than $140 million.

A woman’s ex boyfriend, who is a cop, threatens to shoot her

Women are at the highest risk for being killed when they try to leave a relationship.

She calls 911 for help & the Police Chief WARNS the boyfriend instead.

Boyfriend opened fire on her car

We aren’t angry enough.