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Stephen Colbert hosts Texas State Rep. James Talarico for an online-exclusive interview that touches on the issues raised in Talarico's campaign for the Democratic nomination for Senate including the… Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature

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Screenshot of an MSNBC segment shared by Aaron Rupar. The chyron reads, “Lawmakers slam DOJ’s defense of Epstein files redactions.” A split-screen shows a female news anchor on the left and Rep. Dan Goldman on the right. The post quotes Goldman suggesting the Epstein files be called the “Trump–Epstein files.”

I agree! The Trump-Epstein files it is.

Deeply embarrassed on behalf of all Ians

Tweet from Aaron Rupar quoting Sen. Jon Ossoff criticizing election deniers and those who indulge Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Below the text is a photo of Ossoff speaking at a lectern in a church-like setting, wearing a dark suit and tie.

The party’s future looks bright under leadership like this.

It’s so hard to have a reasonable conversation about AI, because people refuse to see the massive upsides of job elimination, higher electrical bills, hard drive shortages, poisoning black people in Memphis, and an economy where a handful of pedos with bad hair control your life

Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Tweet from Harry Sisson stating that the FBI interviewed a girl who accused Trump of assault when she was 13–15 years old and deemed her credible, followed by the question, “Exonerated by who, exactly?” Embedded below is a screenshot of a tweet quoting Trump saying he has been totally exonerated regarding Jeffrey Epstein.

The FBI has not released all the evidence it has on this victim or her allegations against Trump. Her story was credible enough to be used to sue Epstein successfully and help convict Ghislaine Maxwell. Why can't the world see an unredacted 302 report?

Simply horrific. What are we becoming?

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Screenshot of a tweet from “Home of the Brave” quoting Sarah Matthews claiming that a Utah audit of more than 2 million registered voters found only one undocumented immigrant registered, who never voted. Below is a TV news still of a blonde woman speaking on MSNBC, with a chyron reading, “Trump ignores reality as he ramps up election lies.”

The White House first invents a problem, then uses that to justify infringing upon our rights.

Sign Petition: End the Terror and Violence. Abolish ICE. This is not law enforcement. It is terror. (44832 signatures on petition)

If you feel that same responsibility, I ask you to stand with me. Make your voice heard. Add your name to a petition demanding that Congress abolish ICE. Let us show, unmistakably, that cruelty will never be the measure of this country.

A large yellowish blob in the upper-left centre, with two dimmer dots to the lower right marked by arrows. These dots are giant exoplanets. The remaining dots without arrows are background stars, and the features around the main blob are imaging artefacts.

See those two dots with arrows pointing to them?

They're giant gas planets orbiting their star, located 307 lightyears away.

These are directly imaged exoplanets.

*Just peaceably hanging out on the Kansas homestead with the tradwife, the barefoot kids and the robots here

'the company that maintains my boyfriend's AI persona has jacked up the price ten-fold' is pretty classic cyberpunk; that the persona or the relationship never meaningfully existed in the first place is a level of bitter irony that might be too much even for an often ironic genre.

21 East Crosscauseway, built around 1778 on what is now a side street but was then the only paved road in the south of Edinburgh, which linked the city’s two main roads south. (The name comes an unfortunate anglicisation of the Scots word "causey", meaning "paved".)

Former residents include:

“Earth is a pleasure cruise for 1000 people and we're all just the staff.”

I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.

Yes, that's commercial abuse of copyright.

This "author" claims to be republishing works out of the public domain, but change the title, list themselves as author, and select artwork from an entirely different book?

I appreciate the heads up. I submitted takedown notice to Apple. ~ME

February 17, 2026

Today begins the Chinese New Year - year of the Horse. It’s also the first day of Ramadan on the Islamic Calendar. It’s also Mardi Gras for partying Christians (mostly Catholics), signalling the first day of Lent.

All derived from Lunar cycles.

New Moon Today — 7:00am ET

This is the Colbert interview with Texas Democrat James Talarico that Barri Weiss, David Ellison & Donald Trump don’t want you to see.

Twice in three months content on CBS has been censored. And this is only the beginning…

The emergence of Philomena, checking on whether it’s time to take flight or if this is just a regular possible day:

Screenshot of an X post by Rick Wilson reading, “Translation: We’re With The Bad Guys Now,” quoting a U.S. Department of State post featuring a statement attributed to @SecRubio about a changing geopolitical era. Below the quote is a photo of Marco Rubio in a dark suit speaking on an airport tarmac near black SUVs and large hangars at dusk.

Oh look, it’s someone who reexamined what the politics looked like and what his role was going to be.

Screenshot of an X post by “Outspoken™” about a hacked Chicago Department of Transportation traffic sign. The embedded news image shows an electronic road sign in downtown Chicago displaying the message “TRUMP SUCKS” in red LED letters, with a CBS News banner visible at the bottom.

“For the signs, they are a’ changin’!”

Holy shit. This is extremely relevant -- like, it's eerie how relevant -- to a story called "Lily the Immortal" by Kyile Lee Baker, that I narrated for It's Storytime last week.

Robert Duvall as THX

Mary McCormack, Ron Eldard, and Robert Duvall in Deep Impact (1998)

Robert Duvall in Countdown

Robert Duvall in The Twilight Zone (1963)

RIP legendary American actor and filmmaker Robert Duvall (1931-2026).

He has starred in so many classics that we couldn't cover them all in one thread, but he has also done quite a bit of sci-fi: The Twilight Zone (1963), Countdown (1967), THX 1138 (1971), Invasion of the Body...

The text on the center flyer reads:

ICE goons:
You will face justice in this life and the next.
You will rot in jail, and burn in hell.
Resign. Repent. Repay.

The other fliers simply say ICE OUT with a flower.

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

Common sense tells us, and a reading of the last thirty freaking years of Senate history confirms, that Republicans will never "go along" with anything Democrats care about.

Even this idiot doesn't believe the nonsense he's spewing. He's useless and should resign his leadership.

Black Residents Win Key Ruling in ‘Cancer Alley’ Environmental Racism Case The lawsuit could force a jury to decide if turning Black communities into sacrifice zones is a legacy of slavery.

A judge ruled that groups representing residents of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley can proceed with their landmark lawsuit seeking a pause on toxic industrial plants in two majority‑Black districts

YouTube video by NYC Mayor's Office Welcome The Stranger

This city is home to people of countless faiths. But no matter what you believe, one thing unites us: we are all New Yorkers. We will not allow ICE to terrorize our neighbors.

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