Ian

Some personal news: I have an unhealthy emotional relationship with my coding agent.

Doogie Howser was in Starship Troopers

This man could literally defend western interests but he’s too busy trying to impress his white supremacist masters who will always see him as a second class citizen

The Mormon Church has a greater net worth than The Walt Disney Company.

They literally fund this shit and have been pushing Mormon women to do this since the “mommy blogger” era.

I’m not giving this a click; maybe the article explains all that. Idk. But one thing it absolutely is not is organic.

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Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.

Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.

Expect more.

This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

Among other things, Rubio is delusional if he thinks white evangelicals include him in their visions of group supremacy, & he’s delusional if he thinks he & other Cuban-American Catholics can cynically ride a wave of white supremacy & Christian nationalism to their own benefit.

(there is something very funny also about Rubio adopting a late 18th century european chauvinist’s contempt for ‘creole’ peoples. like, dude, you’re *cuban*)

These people never achieved anything in their life and love that Trump has taken their bitter malice and flexed it from a powerful perch

The reporting is Sony has considered pushing their next console release out by a couple of years. Is Xbox now in the delayed release camp as well?

My whole job now is telling people, “we will have to see who wins the war but this is how it used to work.”

In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”

These people are not pro-life

The mendacity and picayune nature of this administration’s assault on the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration is just beyond bizarre

I may say more later but part of what some of us need to understand is that the right has built an entirely distinct civic society, with its own hierarchy and (mostly networked) cultural institutions. That includes celebrity.

Very much so. This has been, I hope, a wake up call for many. Hispanics are second class in this country and should reconsider who they build their coalition with

NYT praises Holocaust II plan for “friendlier tone”

The irony of delivering a speech on “civilizational erasure” from a Hispanic man. Trump and Miller couldn’t have their hands any further up this puppet’s ass

⚡ UK weighs seizing Russia’s shadow-fleet oil tankers.

Bloomberg says John Healey discussed detention options with Baltic and Nordic allies to tighten sanctions pressure.

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Kid pulling back to knock out a fascist

THIS MAN IS YOUR FRIEND.
HE FIGHTS FOR FREEDOM.

Valentines gift idea for any generous soul out there

David Gergen. dammit 🤢

We have now entered the "His Opponents Are Afraid of Falling Out of Windows" stage of Donald Trump's emulation of Vladmir Putin.

DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law. They are tear-gassing schools, killing American citizens, and disappearing legal immigrants. Democrats shouldn’t fund an out of control ICE.

More questions like this please

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

For those of you keeping score at home, the actual cut to the Post newsroom was 45%, not the widely reported one third. Remaining journalists are a bit over 400, down from around 1100 four years ago and 580 when Bezos bought the place.

I need folks to understand this. The idea that local police forces will intervene at scale against ICE is a utopian fantasy totally disconnected from how policing has always worked

Alito is also the most partisan justice on the bench—yes, more so than Thomas. He sees polls sagging for Republicans and will be worried about Democrats taking the Senate in 2026. He always does what's best for the Republican Party. He knows the safest choice is to step down before the midterms.