Mark D. White

State Department orders nonprofit libraries to stop processing passport applications The State Department has ordered nonprofit public libraries to stop taking passport applications, cutting off a popular local service.

This scheme to make passports harder to obtain comes as Republicans are trying to make passports one of the few documents that can be presented in order to be permitted to register to vote.

Jennifer @JenYetAgain@beige.party in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US. Feb 9, 2026 at 4:35:18PM Boosted by 968: Favourited by 1324:

mom they’re roasting the US economy on mastodon again

Meme showing a woman intensely typing at a computer in an office. Overlaid text reads, “Me: Stressing over every letter in a simple email.” and below it, “Billionaires: Hay wen we mtg 2do crime$?”

Thought about this a lot lately

Diversity Is Our Strength This morning, Elon Musk – the world's richest man and a key ally to the president of the United States – posted the content below to the white nationalist chat room and CSAM emporium he owns There's ...

Elon's racist little post made me mad enough to write about it at CAMPAIGN TRAILS.

"When Musk & Hegseth argue that a racially diverse nation is inherently weak, they're not returning us to some long-established American tradition from which we've recently strayed. They are, instead, parroting the exact same propaganda that Nazi Germany promoted against America during WW II."

Musk is a malevolent force in American life, driven by white nationalism and incredibly influential given his obscene wealth. He's a supervillain.

But people get that. He's deeply unpopular, with an approval rating in the mid-30s with Trump. We just need political leaders willing to take him on.

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

One of my absolute favorite techniques in animation gets a thoroughly obsessive breakdown here:

Fine, I won't do it.

Hmm.. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Article: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/perf...

Any one of those would do, but all three together... my god, man.

@anthonymkreis.bsky.social only writes on planes.

Can’t share IG here & Tiktok censored their lyrics, so I am sharing it like this. But @subradioband.bsky.social is amazing. I love this so much.

When your only interest is protests, the algorithm shows you ONLY protests.

So I can say with certainty that the U.S. has protested EVERY single day since Renee Good died 01|07.

Weekday school walkouts
Weekend large marches
Overpasses at rush hour
Daytime ICE facilities
Nighttime hotels

Constant!

Kennedy Allies Target States to Overturn Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren

Such a slippery slope.

Vaccines are most effective when everyone is vaccinated. Without school mandates, vaccination rates will fall, making vaccines less effective for the vaccinated, and potentially leading more people to conclude vaccines aren't worth getting.

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

A square of "connections" clues with Wayne, Kent, Stark and Banner highlighted

It's trying to tell me this is incorrect. This is the most correct guess I have ever made

And a pitiful wannabe.

Is there anyone in the Trump admin who isn’t a complete scumbag?

Imagine Charlotte's embarrassment if she'd put *that* in her web.

This Is How a Child Dies of Measles When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak

This is a vivid, horribly relevant read. “She does not sleep well. And as you lift up her pajama top to check her rash one morning, you see that her breathing is labored, shadows pooling between her ribs when she sucks in air. You suffer an icy moment of realization: This is a medical crisis.”

Now do literally any of the men involved.

I bought cheap notebooks as reading journals for my class this semester, and just about halfway through, it’s been a huge success. I’ve never a higher percentage of the class participating, and coming to class having read well with good questions. In a 2000 level Gen Ed class of mostly non-majors.

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One of the most fascinating aspects of the America Crisis is how under Trump much of the US Homeland security apparatus seems to understand places like Minnesota or Maine as little as the US National security apparatus under Bush understood places like Anbar or Herat

Captain America/Nick Fury: The Otherworld War (October 2001) This one-shot introduces Captain America to elements of the world of Doctor Strange, but with a twist: these events transpire decades before Stephen had his climactic automobile accident, giving a …

New at The Virtues of Captain America Blog:

thevirtuesofcaptainamerica.com/2026/02/13/c...

The Journal of Value Inquiry The Journal of Value Inquiry is an international, peer-reviewed, philosophical quarterly devoted to the stimulation and communication of research in value ...

Special issue of the Journal of Value Inquiry on Linda Zagzebski’s "Exemplarist Moral Theory" link.springer.com/journal/1079...

Trump Administration Live U pdates: Minnesota immigration Enforcement Surge Is Ending, Border Czar Says The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation focused on the Minneapolis-St. Paul area resulted in more than 4,000 arrests, Homan said, touting it as a success "The surge is leaving Minnesota safer," he said. "I'II say it again, it's less of a sanctuary state for criminals."

Twin Cities population: 3 Million
ICE agents sent: 3,000
Months spent: 2+ Mo
Immigrants they kidnapped: 4,000

Homan claims this a success rate. I think this shows Minnesota KICKED THEIR ASS ✊🏼

4,000 people kidnapped by 3,000 agents over 2 months is like if each agent they sent kidnapped 1.3 people.

I think I need one of these

Drop an alien that’s not from Star Wars or Star Trek.