Metal Gru Solid 3: Banana Eater

the president of my alma mater canceled all the diversity scholarships bc of this and I showed up at a fancy event he had in Georgetown and got in his face about it and told him this is how it would end up

pretty sure he just wanted to do it anyway

Paul Blume @PaulBlume_FOX9 · 1h BREAKING NEWS: U.S. District Court Judge Laura Provinzino has just found a government atty in CIVIL CONTEMPT of COURT for violations of her orders in a habeas case. Attorney cited is Matthew Isihara, a JAG atty from Dept. of War assisting in local US Attorney office @FOX9 (1/) Paul Blume @PaulBlume_FOX9 · 1h Judge Provinzino had ordered a detained immigrant held by ICE in El Paso, TX be released in Minnesota with all of his identification papers. ICE released the man in TX with none of his papers, forcing his attorney to find him a shelter for the night & flight back to MN (2/)

Paul Blume @PaulBlume_FOX9 · 57m Judge said she is imposing CIVIL CONTEMPT "to force the government to comply with her court order" to immediately return immigrant's papers. Gov't attorney Matthew Isihara is responsible for $500 daily fine, every day the man does not have his papers starting tomorrow. (3/3) Paul Blume @PaulBlume_FOX9 · 47m CONTEMPT FINDING: Matthew Isihara apologized for allowing the order in this habeas case to "fall through the cracks." Blamed situation on case overload & significant understaffing in US Attorney's office. Says he has picked up nearly 130 habeas cases in just last month. @FOX9

1. DHS surges 3,000 officers to Minneapolis without doing anywhere near enough prep first.
2. Hundreds of habeas cases overwhelm local courts.
3. Dozens of DOJ lawyers quit in disgust/anger.
4. The DOJ brings in JAGs to cover.
5. A JAG was just held in contempt and fined $500/day for ICE's failures.

Y’know when the characters in a movie go to see a movie and it feels really meta? Well, with an “Ultimate Double Feature,” we play the first movie up until the point when they enter a cinema to watch a different film… then we play that film… then we go back to the first film to finish that story.

How Political Chaos Is Affecting Americans’ Mental Health - Dame Magazine As political instability rises, so do anxiety, depression, and disengagement. New research shows how national turmoil is reshaping Americans’ mental health.

If you’ve felt exhausted, anxious, or numb in the face of nonstop political turmoil, you’re not imagining it and you're definitely not alone.

@sarahsloat.bsky.social looks at the research on the psychological and physical toll of polycrisis.

3 Jesus replied, “Very truly I tell you, no one can see the kingdom of God unless they are born again.[a]” 4 “How can someone be born when they are old?” Nicodemus asked. “Surely they cannot enter a second time into their mother’s womb to be born!”

Let us now praise one of the great figures of the Bible, Nicodemus, one of the first documented That Guys in history

Prasads antivaxx base is unhappy.

How nice for him.

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

YOU CAN GET EVERY DISCWORLD TOME ON EBOOK FOR LESS THAN THE COST OF A SUBWAY FOOTLONG COMBO.

USUALLY GETTING EVERY SINGLE BOOK LEGALLY IS LIKE 400+

NOT.

A.

DRILL.

www.humblebundle.com/books/terry-...

NEW: A majority of Republicans (56%) qualify as either Christian nationalism Adherents or Sympathizers, compared with 1 in 4 independents (25%) and less than 1 in 5 Democrats (17%), according to PRRI's latest report "Mapping Christian Nationalism Across the 50 States."
prri.org/research/map...

Bro, sorry I was late. I was busy hooking up a banana to my aux to get the perfect fruity undertones.

RNC moves to block Virginia vote aimed at countering Trump gerrymanders Democrats see the lawsuit as an attempt to take the decision out of voters’ hands.

🚨BREAKING: The RNC has asked a Virginia court to stop voters from deciding whether Democrats can redraw the state’s congressional map, the latest salvo in the high-stakes battle over how the commonwealth responds to GOP gerrymanders. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

saw it as a double-feature after a showing of the original and the drop in quality across every aspect was astonishing

CFPB Staffer Alexis Goldstein Fired for Confronting DOGE Members, Announces Run for Congress The Trump administration has fired Consumer Financial Protection Bureau program manager Alexis Goldstein for documenting a meeting a year ago between the agency and Elon Musk’s Department of Governmen...

@alexisgoldstein.bsky.social is a real one and she's running for Congress. www.democracynow.org/2026/2/18/al...?

disinformation by citing a digitally altered version of UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese’s remarks to call for her resignation. Independent fact-checkers found @FranceskAlbs did not call Israel an “enemy of humanity,” and the accusation rested on doctored video, amplified by UN Watch, a group that seeks to discredit UN work with misinformation, and its executive director @HillelNeuer . The coalition urged France to retract its statements, reaffirm UN mandate independence, and protect multilateral institutions amid ICJ genocide proceedings on Gaza. “By publicly calling for the resignation of an independent UN expert on the basis of unfounded claims, the authorities risk weakening UN mechanisms, spreading disinformation, and fostering hostility that could endanger the rapporteur’s safety,” they added. Despite criminal complaints lodged against the FM by French legal groups, Minister @jnbarrot once again doubled down on the misinformation in parliament today, claiming he had nothing to apologize for or retract about statements he made about Albanese on February 11. France still plans to officially demand Albanese's resignation or removal at the UN Human Rights Council session scheduled on February 23, 2026. A Foreign Ministry contact directed us to a Twitter thread circulated by the ministry compiling social media posts by Albanese, mostly from 2014 and some from 2023, presented as evidence against

France still plans to officially demand Albanese's resignation or removal at the UN Human Rights Council session scheduled on February 23, 2026. A Foreign Ministry contact directed us to a Twitter thread circulated by the ministry compiling social media posts by Albanese, mostly from 2014 and some from 2023, presented as evidence against her, including remarks in which she contextualized Palestinian actions on October 7 within the broader framework of Israel’s illegal occupation and international law.

🚨France Still Plans to Demand UN Rapporteur Albanese’s Removal Despite Fact-Check Debunking FM’s Misinformation

More than 150 former ministers, ambassadors, diplomats & senior officials accused French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot of spreading disinformation by citing a digitally altered...

How Oprah helped spread anti-vaccine pseudoscience That's one thing she has in common with Donald Trump.

Oprah also played a big role in the normalization and platforming of antivaxx pseudoscience www.motherjones.com/politics/201...

👎👎👎👎👎👎👎

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.

"why are you against progress" I yell confidently as my sloppily-implemented algorithms prematurely murder your grandma

It's beginning to look like the "backlash" against #MeToo was a pedophile-funded astroturf campaign

X is absolutely cooking the brains of the entire political class that remains on there. The ones who think they're immune are probably the most affected.

Mail-Order Abortion Pill Ban Passes Mississippi House A mail-order abortion pill ban passed the Mississippi House, defining it as felony drug trafficking that would carry one to 10 year prison sentences for providers.

NEW: Providers who mail abortion pills to Mississippi could soon be prosecuted as felony drug traffickers under an amendment Mississippi House Republicans added to a drug trafficking bill at the last minute.

The amended bill passed amid loud dissent from outraged Democrats.

"In an announcement Wednesday morning, Moderna said the FDA has now agreed to review its vaccine after the company held a formal (Type A) meeting with the FDA and proposed a change to the regulatory pathways used in the application."

weird

FDA reverses surprise rejection of Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine Trump admin's vaccine chief overruled FDA scientists to initially reject the shot.

FDA reverses surprise rejection of Moderna's mRNA flu vaccine arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

I get this, but at *some* point we're going to have to confront the long-term problem that everyone -- everywhere, not just the US! -- has come to hate "the system" & so the only way to get elected is to promise to tear stuff down.

(g) (1) Any driver's license issued prior to July 1, 2026, that identifies the gender of the individual named on such license in a manner that is contrary to the definition of such term as defined in K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 77-207, and amendments thereto, shall be invalid. (2) The director shall correct any driver's license records that identify the gender of the individual named in such record in a manner that is contrary to the definition of such term as defined in K.S.A. 2025 Supp. 77-207, and amendments thereto. The director shall send written notice to each such individual notifying such individual that such license is invalid and to surrender such license to the division of vehicles. Upon the surrender of any such license, the director shall issue a new driver's license to such individual with the correct gender identification for such individual.

KANSAS JUST ENACTED A BILL THAT INVALIDATES AND REVOKES THE DRIVER'S LICENSES OF TRANS PEOPLE.

www.kslegislature.gov/li/b2025_26/...

Science fiction needs to become aspirational again. Show us better tomorrows are possible.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

YouTube video by AP Archive Senate panel grills Customs and Border Patrol chief about events leading to Alex Pretti’s death

This hearing opens with Rand tearing apart ICE's conduct around the Pretti murder and getting regime officials to agree. Notable to me, especially, because this looks like standard ICE behavior of the last year.

This is the kind of thing white supremacists have been doing to Emmett Till’s memorial for decades.

It’s wild to see them do this to a white woman who the entire world saw extrajudicially murdered.

Science is not truth.
Science is finding the truth.

When science changes its opinion, it didn't lie to you. It learned more.

Cancel culture is back, baby.