Alex Christensen

I don't think "visible repair of the intestinal lining" means what I think it means.

fuck yes

I’m for skipping the State of the Union. But if Democrats go, they should walk out en masse the moment Trump praised ICE or mass deportations.

Please stop telling me how these guys are geniuses when every interview with them sounds like a 12-year-old who was held back a grade.

This police chief, at a minimum, needs to be fired immediately.

Fed confirms it obeyed White House request for an unusual ‘rate check,’ weakening the dollar against foreign currencies | Fortune “Something like this is extremely rare in foreign exchange markets,” ING says.

To the Surprise of no one, Trump & Bessent caught manipulating the value of the dollar. Besides tariffs the Trump economic trainwreck depends on currency manipulation to keep his facade afloat. Weakening the dollar & you has always been the plan
fortune.com/2026/02/19/f...

Trump wants you to forget that George Washington owned slaves But Philadelphians are standing up for history

"When you try to introduce this idea that we need to reckon with the history of slavery to understand Washington, there are a lot of people who view that as kind of a personal attack.”

Special Saturday Triad: What I Saw at the Battle of Minneapolis The national media has moved on. Minnesota is still under siege.

“Spending three days on the ground in Minneapolis brought home something that may not be obvious from afar: Minnesota, especially the Twin Cities, has been—and still is—under a paramilitary occupation in which the federal government is at war with the population.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/what-i-saw...

ICE has been quietly scooping up mega warehouses to turn into detention centers Deeds show that ICE has acquired at least seven warehouses across Arizona, Georgia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Texas

New concentration camps? Deeds show that ICE has acquired at least seven warehouses across Arizona, Georgia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Texas

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I try to report genealogy accurately. Robert E. Lee definitely did not rock Robert Duvall's mom's pappy or grandpappy to sleep in antebellum Arlington. Lee and Duvall might be cousins, though I haven't found a link so far comparing their family trees back a few centuries. : )

The first is a report without backing evidence, not an established fact, though it is possible (as long as "direct descendant" is not added back).

"EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert" is the best movie of 2026 so far and the first I give all my four stars. 4 of 4 stars.

There are fewer than 100 direct descendants of Robert E. Lee, all descended from two of his sons, W.H.F. Lee and Robert E. Lee Jr., and all direct descendants of Martha Washington through Lee's wife, Martha Washington's great-granddaughter. Robert Duvall and his mother are simply not among them.

If Duvall is related to Robert E. Lee, he can be called a descendant, but he is definitely not a direct descendant, which is only a child, grandchild, great-grandchild, etc. Neither Duvall nor his mother are directly descended from Lee.

Duvall proud of his history and his role in 'Generals' First things first: Robert Duvall may or may not be related to Robert E. Lee, chief of the Confederate Armies, whom he portrays in Gods and Generals, the prequel to the Civil War epic Gettysburg.

Robert Duvall was not a direct descendant of Robert E. Lee. Lee's direct descendants are known. Duvall may be related to Lee, but he was skeptical. www.chron.com/entertainmen...

Democrats can now credibly call for the repeal of the Trump tax cuts and the clawing back of the additional ICE funding as a way of offsetting the revenue loss from the ending of the illegal tariffs.

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study.

The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

Saw "EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert."

Utah Supreme Court rejects legislature's request to halt new map The Utah Supreme Court has rejected the legislature's request to halt the new congressional map from being implemented.

Utah Supreme Court rejects legislature's request to halt new map www.fox13now.com/news/politic...

A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing

A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing

A 23-year-old American was shot last March in South Padre Island. ICE’s involvement in the shooting was not disclosed until this week.

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.

"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Federal judges appointed new interim prosecutor in Eastern District of Virginia. And Trump Admin immediately fired him.

Escalating a fight against the judiciary and separation of powers in America

The Feds Targeted Charlotte. Now a Local Democrat Who Helped ICE Faces Voters. - Bolts North Carolina lawmaker Carla Cunningham voted to mandate compliance with ICE, and derided immigrants on the House floor. The Democrat faces an intense March primary.

Here are just 4 elections coming up in the next 10 days to know about.

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1️⃣ This Democratic lawmaker in North Carolina gave the GOP *the* decisive vote to pass a pro-ICE law last summer.

She faces a primary from a local progressive pastor, part of the Moral Monday movement.

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Kentucky Supreme Court Rules Charter School Law Unconstitutional In yet another setback for school choice advocates, Kentucky’s Supreme Court has upheld a ruling that the state’s charter school law violates the state constitution.

Kentucky’s Supreme Court has upheld a ruling that the state’s charter school law violates the state constitution. www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...

Private showing of "Midwinter Break."

Send it to Britain and France.

The Feds Targeted Charlotte. Now a Local Democrat Who Helped ICE Faces Voters. - Bolts North Carolina lawmaker Carla Cunningham voted to mandate compliance with ICE, and derided immigrants on the House floor. The Democrat faces an intense March primary.

For @boltsmag.org, I wrote about the race to unseat Rep. Carla Cunningham in NC. After casting critical votes forcing cooperation with ICE, and backing other Republican legislation, the longtime Democratic lawmaker is facing a strong challenge in next month’s primary.
boltsmag.org/north-caroli...

State elections matter. A lot.

BREAKING NEWS from #RolandMartinUnfiltered: House Speaker Mike Johnson has denied a request from Democrats and the family of Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. For him to lie-in-state at the US Capitol