Goddess Of All That She Encounters (G.O.A.T.S.E.)

If you meet someone online and the relationship develops fast, they might be a scammer! Slow down …

the FBI deleted this tweet

might’ve hit a little close to home for the director

i think this is what drives me nuts. people talk about how, say, the UN was founded by "starry eyed idealists" who didn't understand "reality." the truth is that the UN was founded by those who had just fought and *won* the bloodiest war in human history.

Exclusive: US-China trade detente fuels mothballing of key China tech curbs The Trump administration has shelved a number of key tech security measures aimed at Beijing ahead of an April meeting between the two countries' presidents. The measures include a ban on China Telecom's U.S. operations and restrictions on sales of Chinese equipment for U.S. data centers, sources said.

Exclusive: US-China trade detente fuels mothballing of key China tech curbs reut.rs/4anQBwR

'inclusive by design' says the massive fucking bigot.

Western U.S. snowpack is worth trillions of dollars Putting a price tag on the water stored in the region’s high-elevation frozen reservoir

How much is the West’s snowpack worth?

I dug into research that puts a price tag on the water stored in snow—and projects how climate change will alter that value.

Snow also sustains ecosystems and economies while supporting winter recreation and cooling the planet.

waterdesk.org/2026/02/west...

I think it goes back further to the Trystero postal service

Sarah Longwell of the Bulwark says we need to get Trump to the George W. Bush line. We are… getting close.

Another day, another record low approval rating.

ICE's Masks Are All a Lie Working for ICE is actually less dangerous than being an elementary school student in America.

Here's what DHS doesn't want you to know: Working for ICE is one of the safest jobs in America — and last year was the second-safest year for the agency on record.

And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once.

The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...

NYT Grand Jury Rebuffs Justice Dept. Attempt to Indict 6 Democrats in Congress The rejection was a remarkable rebuke, suggesting that ordinary citizens did not believe that the lawmakers had committed any crimes.

lol

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.

Hundreds of kids are still detained.

We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

'Take the vaccine, please,' a top US health official says in an appeal as measles cases rise A leading U.S. health official is urging people to get inoculated against the measles at a time of outbreaks across several states ByMATT BROWN Associated Press February 8, 2026, 2:05 PM

this administration is having trouble getting people to get vaccinated? how could this happen?

Opinion | Libertarians Tried to Warn You About Trump

I feel like I'm losing my goddamnned mind.

This op-ed was written by Kathrine Mangu-Ward. Katherine is editor-in-chief of Reason magazine.

Reason fired @shikhadalmia.bsky.social for being too anti-Trump.

Ghouls ⚖️

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’

Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

MS NOW’s Crooked Play MS NOW’s push into video podcasts is accelerating, with the progressive network now in advanced discussions to license popular digital shows for air from Crooked Media and others, Status has learned.

Scoop: As Washington Post leadership laid off hundreds of staffers this week, exec editor Matt Murray blocked the paper’s media desk from covering the cuts, spiking a pre-written story despite internal lobbying

www.status.news/p/ms-now-cro...

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Awesome!

Older gay men built their own hockey fandom. Then came 'Heated Rivalry.' The hit show is an unexpected invitation for some older gay hockey fans to reflect on love, acceptance and coming out.

Most Heated Rivalry coverage has been focused on what young people, particularly younger straight women, think. I cover aging and decided to ask older gay men about their thoughts.

I found: A founder of what may have been the first gay hockey blog, a wedding cake shaped like a Zamboni and more.

And transphobia being but one subgenre if anti-feminism (the next big project after men’s rights fizzled), it’s amazing how robustly it has been rejected in spite of media capitulation to its most oily concern trolls.

transphobia does not have a 'popular base' in the uk.

it's largely a media invention. it's actually quite startling how after a decade of outright propaganda has barely shifted public opinion.

Excerpt from a Guardian story: "Norway’s head coach Magnus Brevik, assistant coach Thomas Lobben, and staff member Adrian Livelten were also banned for 18 months for their involvement in the scheme, which made the jumpers’ suits larger and therefore reduced their descent rate due to the bigger wingspan. One study in the scientific journal Frontiers found that every 2cm in suit size circumference reduced drag by 4% and increased lift by 5%. It said that a 2cm change in the suits was equivalent to an extra 5.8 metres in jump length. However Bild has now claimed that jumpers have switched to other methods to game the system when they are measured for their suits, data for which is taken by a 3D scanner from the lowest point of their genitals. They include injecting acid into their penises or putting clay in their underwear to make their measurements temporarily bigger and therefore their suits looser for when they compete. The newspaper quoted a doctor, Kamran Karim, who said: “It is possible to achieve a temporary, visual thickening of the penis by injecting paraffin or hyaluronic acid. Such an injection is not medically indicated and is associated with risks.”"

ski jump penis doping story only underscores the advantages of shape and drape over slim fit clothing

www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

Military grade means you get drunk and add a journalist to your signal chat leaking war plans.

“military grade” is a dumb marketing term and vague noun modifier that literally means whatever you want. it doesn’t identify any actual capability & is also basically an admission that you’re describing something the military doesn’t use.

This SpaceX Situation: Not Good! Elon Musk's political projects are combining into a highly concerning megacompany.

The SpaceX/xAI merger situation is actually pretty important and, I think, very bad. "Data centers in space" is a bit of a pipe dream, but SpaceX now dominates low-Earth orbit in a highly concerning way. Starlink is real and could monopolize a lot of things.Not Good!

www.404media.co/this-spacex-...

His dad is crazy racist too and has this totally cringe YouTube channell called “Erroll Musk: Father of a Genius” and when he talks abt naming Elon and Kimball it’s all about the same mix of sci fi and white nationalism. The nut doesn’t fall far from the tree.

I get the impulse to want to look at Musk as a joke/nazi/ignore him. And the media coverage of him remains really bad and off putting.

But the explicit combination of his insane multiplanetary species political project with his white nationalist political project & satellite stuff is really crazy

Reductress article headline “Full-Scale Authoritarian Takeover Making It Difficult to Focus on Email” the picture is a young woman with black hair and black ink tattoos sitting at a laptop looking off into space somewhat distressed.