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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."

-- Mark Twain

Kennedy Allies Target States to Overturn Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren

Sometimes understatement amounts to enabling. This NYT article frames this as a battle between "vaccine activists" and "vaccine proponents" rather than unhinged conspiracy theorists vs. science. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/h...

"In the US, we do not prosecute journalists for doing their job. That happens in... authoritarian regimes. And yet the government sold this unconstitutional mess to the grand jury. Disclosure of the grand jury proceedings is necessary to ensure the government did not mislead or mis-instruct it."

Man, I wish I had his confidence Democrats will do anything except look forward, not backward.

I had a terrible moment reading the above skeet: "Wait, is Mr Loder-- no, surely not?"

Thank you very much for this clarifying note!

DHS: Our officer was ambushed and beaten with snow shovels and broom handles. This was an attempted murder of federal law enforcement.

ICE says federal agents appear to have lied about confrontation that led to shooting

Agents had initially said that two men — Alfredo Aljorna and Julio Sosa Celis – assaulted them with a broom and a shovel before one of them shot Sosa Celis. But that account was quickly called into question, and prosecutors now say “newly discovered evidence” contradicts the officers’ story.

The default assumption should be that they’re lying

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Imagine living in a country funding a livestreamed genocide, starving other countries, building concentration camps at home, shooting protestors, arresting people for abortion, & led by puppets who allowed the 1% to steal all the wealth & rape children...

& still... doing nothing. Totally cooked.

Every day I play a game called "WTF is DJT talking about?" in which I try to guess WTF he's talking about, purely based on Aaron Rupar's @atrupar.com typed quotes, because I can't bear to listen to DJT myself.

"Sure we've consistently found out that the CIA did illegal things we didn't learn about until 20 years later since the 1940's, but they've been completely trustworthy and done nothing wrong for the last 19 ½ years, so we have to assume they're telling the truth."

Boyfriend Dungeon capsule art featruing sunder and an MC in an embrace

It's a great weekend to smooch swords 💞🗡

I think it's a good sign that normies today are doing things that Willem van Spronsen gave his life doing only 7 years ago.

AOC: "Extreme level of wealth inequality leads to social instability and drives authoritarianism, right-wing populism, and really dangerous domestic internal politics. That is a direct outcome of the failure of democracies over decades to deliver."

Happy birthday in advance!

In Iowa, Prosecutors Want to Bring Back Court Fees as Bargaining Chips The state’s high court recently ended the practice of making defendants pay fees for charges that get dismissed. Prosecutors are backing legislation to undo the court’s ruling so they can keep using fees as leverage for plea deals.

NEW in Bolts: Iowa's high court recently ended the practice of making defendants pay fees for charges that get dismissed. Prosecutors are backing a bill to undo that ruling so they can keep using fees as leverage for plea deals.

Our new story with The Marshall Project:

I empathize with this person. I really do. But:

1) We tried to warn y'all about these fashy VC billionaire losers for decades. I didn't lose any heroes in the Epstein file revelations.🤷🏿‍♂️

2) The people I love don't "shrug or tacitly support" ethnic cleansing. Because the people I love, aren't nazis.

In Iowa, Prosecutors Want to Bring Back Court Fees as Bargaining Chips - Bolts Iowa's high court recently ended the practice of making defendants pay fees for charges that get dismissed. Prosecutors are backing legislation to undo the court’s ruling so they can keep using fees a...

NEW: In Iowa, when someone's charges are *dismissed,* they still had to pay court fees. So prosecutors pressured ppl into pleading guilty: 'plead guilty, you'll have no fees. (If you win, you'll owe $$.)'

Iowa's Supreme Court struck that down in January... but prosecutors want to bring it all back:

Trump posted a video depicting the first Black president and his wife as apes and his excuse for this is that it's a riff on The Lion King, a movie that does not feature any apes. Somehow this was a one-day story and we've already moved on.

Oh, man, to live somewhere where you can just open a waymo door and get some poor person an easy Dash.

Americans by Name, Punished for Believing It In a small Alaska town, American Samoans face prosecution for voting in the only country they’ve ever known. They live in a limbo, created by colonial expansion, that now confuses even public officials—and has made them a new target for policing voter fraud.

American Samoans occupy a strange in-between as U.S. nationals but not citizens. They pay taxes, have Social Security numbers, and can join the military—but they can’t vote. A voter fraud case in Alaska highlights their unusual predicament.

BREAKING: Judge Leon *rejects* Secretary Hegseth's bid to punish Sen. Kelly for advising troops to ignore illegal orders. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

Nah this is the funniest way to fumble the bag I’ve seen all month hahahaha she used it like ‘Aw nuts!’

Always good to remember how the revolutionaries thought cops should be treated. Hours of spitting, insulting, throwing objects hard enough to knock them down, and so on, but they didn't get any convictions for the protestors.

Modern "patriots", meanwhile:

"Crispus Attucks should have complied!"

I immediately thought of coconut water vendors at the chickenbus stops in Guatemala with their little sandwich baggies tied up with the straw.

Andrew Paul Johnson, who I wrote about in November, was found guilty of five charges.

For GENERATIONS

In christofascist America, we have to protest in the streets because local cops beat the shit out of our kids because our kids protested in the streets because federal cops are kidnapping kids