Kim Davis

So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.

$69 and 3 months to get a copy of a birth certificate.

Vaccine Makers Curtail Research and Cut Jobs

Trump/GOP/RFK cuts to vaccines are real and happening. It may result in your or a loved one's death or painful life. They are now allied with disease against the rest of us.

NO PAYWALL
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...

We can now count on the NYT to print every Trump quote verbatim, right? Especially ones where he "struggled at times to formulate succinct answers"? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

Epstein sympathized with Kavanaugh during supreme court confirmation, emails show Files show convicted sex abuser messaged with Ken Starr and others about Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford

Epstein called the pending judiciary hearing “a trap!”, adding “Iye [sic] been through many of these. MANY!! She will cry, make sordid allegations. Say she feels bullied, fearful, traumatized...

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So you're saying ICE is incompatible with the rule of law as practiced in this nation from the founding?

Think I see a pretty easy solution here, champ.

Hold on: I have to register to vote and then give my name/address and sign my name to vote. How is that not being “identified.” I can’t just walk in wearing a mask and refuse to provide my name etc.

Everything else is commentary

If you want to understand why rich guys are turning back to eugenics and recreating the rhetoric and theology of slavery, it’s because they know on some level this level of wealth inequality is unjustifiable bsky.app/profile/marl...

pretty stunning chart

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

Trump administration formally denies Minnesota investigators access to evidence in Alex Pretti shooting Drew Evans, the superintendent of the Minnesota BCA, said the FBI has formally denied his agency access to evidence and information from the killing of Pretti at the hands of federal officers.

The Trump administration has formally denied Minnesota law enforcement access to information and evidence from the FBI investigation into the shooting death of Alex Pretti by federal agents on Jan. 24 in Minneapolis.

FCC opens Musk’s 1M-satellite DC plan for public comment : The FCC is taking public comments - now’s your chance to tell them this plan is bonkers

More from the annals of 'no one asked for this' ~

SpaceX adding a *million* satellites & data centers to orbit means seeing oligarchs' mess even in the heavens

That's a 6800% increase in #astronomy (& beauty) -killing space junk from today's < 15,000 satellites

Public comment period is open:

Hungary holds elections in 2 months. And the US Secretary of State is in Hungary campaigning for Viktor Orban. And as you can see, Russian state media loves it.

Breaking news: Fund managers are taking the most bearish stance on the dollar in more than a decade, as the currency bears the brunt of the damage from unpredictable US policymaking. ft.trib.al/2IxS9xF

Urge your reps to ban Surveillance Pricing and boycott any business that uses it. If it’s allowed to take root, you will be robbed for the rest of your lives.

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.

Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.

Our priorities are so fucked.

The Project 2025 architect who promised to put federal employees “in trauma” is spending $15 million of former USAID funding—money that would have gone toward fighting HIV, polio, malaria, and other diseases—to bankroll his security detail. trib.al/TSV3cmb

One thing I think abt a lot: Just imagine how well the economy would be doing if Trump hadn’t spent all of last year trashing the great economy he inherited? Tariffs, huge govt layoffs, slashing research/medical/science spending, torturing US cities with immigration raids. Economy would be humming!

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Erika Kirk Faces Backlash Over Alleged 'Inappropriate' Texts With A 15-Year-Old: 'Absolutely Vile' Purported Texts Between Erika Kirk And A 15-Year-Old Go Viral Sparking Backlash And 'Grooming' Allegations

It's a freak show, all the way down.

(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.

Russia’s Wagner Group pivots to European sabotage, say western officials Recruiters involved with fighter group are said to be targeting agents for operations on Nato soil

How do you stop this? Defeat Putin in Ukraine.

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Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Steve Bannon courted Epstein in his efforts to ‘take down’ Pope Francis | CNN Steve Bannon, a longtime adviser to US President Donald Trump, discussed opposition strategies with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein against Pope Francis, with Bannon saying he hoped to “take down” the pontiff, according to newly released files from the US Department of Justice.

For years I have received pushback when I said that an animating principle of the modern right is a belief that being queer is worse than being a pedophile.

I rest my case.

www.cnn.com/2026/02/14/w...

we had a similar column--europe, basically, is wise to the game (and the lack of trust will be difficult or impossible to repair even under a new administration) www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

What does “Dow 50,000” actually tell you—anything about the economy, or just that a number got bigger? Dow 50,000 is a milestone, not a measurement. The level of the Dow is basically arbitrary: it’s… "Dow 50,000" Sound Nice. Until Justin Wolfers Shows You That U.S. Markets Are Coming 21st Out of 23.

The Dow was at 43,488 when Trump took office. It just hit 50,000.

So if you had invested $43,488 in the US, you would now have $50,000. But if you had invested the same amount in the rest of the world, you would now be worth $60,000.

Lemme do a expla-youtube-nation
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Donald Trump says regime change ‘the best thing that could happen’ in Iran Comments from US president come as Washington deploys a second aircraft carrier strike group to the Middle East

After decades of first embracing, and then deriding Neocon regime change ideas about the Middle East, Trump has once again become a True Believer. And he's prepared to commit massive US military assets to achieve it. www.ft.com/content/0eb7...

He spent decades perfecting his voice. Now he says Google stole it. NPR’s David Greene says he was “completely freaked out” when he heard an AI voice that sounded just like his own, and he’s suing over it.

There is no way this is a coincidence. I worked with David at @npr.org, and NotebookLM sounds *precisely* like him, including his conversational cadence.

Google’s AI Overviews Can Scam You. Here’s How to Stay Safe Beyond mistakes or nonsense, deliberately bad information being injected into AI search summaries is leading people down potentially harmful paths.

Beyond mistakes or nonsense, deliberately bad information being injected into AI search summaries is leading people down potentially harmful paths. www.wired.com/story/google...