Adam Weinstein

Great piece. I genuinely love that the Baffler is still around, and still publishes these kinds of winding, discursive essays

This is just unconscionable man

I don't normally keep up with what the Army is reading these days, but I happened to click on this official recommended reading list for junior officers and it's appalling. 53 of 66 titles are corporate-style self-help books. This is a great way to hollow out and dumb down your military.

Noem reportedly wanting to fire a Coast Guard pilot for forgetting her blanket sort of makes me want to revisit her rationale for shooting that dog, and that goat, and those horses

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns."

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

i can't believe no one ever asks Elon Musk "who's going to maintain and repair the HVAC systems on the Mars colony" or "what's your actual job going to be there"

he wants to be a god-king and just assumes the existence of sufficient peasants

The Transformative Power of the White ‘Race Traitor’

"The first person to be executed for treason in the US was not a spy or someone who sold secrets to a foreign government. It was not a Confederate general who took up arms against his government. It was an abolitionist named John Brown." from @nhannahjones.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/m...

YouTube video by MS NOW Trump admin’s ‘cartel drone’ story bursts like a balloon. Or four.

WATCH: After hyping a dramatic “cartel drone” incursion, Trump officials shut down El Paso’s airspace and fired a borrowed Pentagon anti-drone laser—at what turned out to be four party balloons.

“Oh he must have been harboring this woman and the woman’s niece” I thought.

Nope!

Man I can't wait till somebody gets an interview with that Coast Guard pilot

Want to hear the dumbest encounter with military law enforcement and federal prosecution I ever came across in the Army

Incidentally, I learned from experience that the reverse of the Shaun White arc is also true: If you *suck* at skateboarding, you're not gonna be better at snowboarding

They're at the Winter Olympics talking to Shaun White, who won his first gold in snowboarding 20 years ago, and... I'm so old I still think of him as "the skateboarder Shaun White"

If you're currently a student at a college with a faculty member who showed up in the Epstein files, I'd like to talk to you about the campus response for an article. You can reach me at miles_klee@wired.com or millionbear.44 on Signal.

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...

I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*)

The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.

These dudes think this is so clever.

Beyond the difference in harms that accompanies the age limits for booze and voting, there were 26,000+ arrests of minors for liquor law violations in 2019. It’s a relatively common crime.

There are functionally no arrests each year for in-person voter fraud.

NEW: “CBS Evening News” producer Alicia Hastey sends a bombshell farewell note:

Stories are “evaluated not just on their journalistic merit but on whether they conform to a shifting set of ideological expectations.”

FAA closes airspace around El Paso, Texas, for 10 days, grounding all flights The Federal Aviation Administration is closing the airspace around El Paso International Airport in Texas for 10 days, grounding all flights to and from the airport.

BREAKING: The Pentagon let Customs and Border Protection use an anti-drone laser before the FAA closed El Paso airspace, AP sources say.

I called up one of the White House's "special government employees" involved in the Fulton County FBI raid.

I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...

CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"

Shot, and one-hell-of-a-chaser.

The Grand jury is not who failed here

OFFICE OF HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA Press Statement Some recent media reports and social media posts concerning the “Epstein files” are attempting to link His Holiness the Dalai Lama with Jeffrey Epstein. We can unequivocally confirm that His Holiness has never met Jeffrey Epstein or authorised any meeting or interaction with him by anyone on His Holiness’s behalf. 8 February 2026

Boy I do *not* want to know what necessitated this press release

But he also said six congressional colleagues should be indicted for seditious conspiracy because of a video they made that said true things, so it wasn't a completely wasted day

He is the one

A group of Buddhist monks has finally reached Washington, D.C., on foot, completing a 15-week trek for peace from Texas apnews.com/article/budd...

"Any event you go to, people ask about it. It's like the border used to be," said Dave Carney, the top political strategist for Mr. Abbott. "What are you doing about Shariah law? What are you doing about the Muslims taking over the state?'"

It will surprise y’all to hear that there are no “Muslims taking over the state” and there is no “sharia law” in Texas that threatens anyone.

This is genuinely disgusting.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

"And we left with all of my children, my nannies, and my wife" is going to stay with me for a long time