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Jack Posobiec on twitter sharing a video of Baelor Targaryen from A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms with the caption "This is white culture"

oh you think white people don't have culture? what about this sickly family of incestuous warlords from a book i didn't read?

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Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee

Mother: so you run a school?

Charles Xavier: a school for gifted youngsters, like Timothy

Mother: but it’s a real school right?

Xavier: oh my yes

Mother: so he won’t be trained to kill

Xavier: oh no he certainly will

Mother: but he won’t actually have to do it

Xavier: oh no he certainly will

Africa leads growth in solar energy as demand spreads beyond traditional markets, report says A report shows that Africa has emerged as the world's fastest-growing solar market even as global growth slowed last year, driven by a 60% surge in imports of solar panels from China.

Solar exploded across Africa in 2025:

apnews.com/article/sola...

ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Somehow this is even more devastating without the cursing

Sabrina Carpenter being on The Muppet Show makes perfect sense. I think she’s basically a muppet to begin with. Like in the field of contemporary celebs she’s gotta be in like, the top ten of obvious muppets masquerading as people.

Britain has dethroned a prince, forced Mandelson to resign, & lost confidence in Starmer because Rep. Thomas Massie & I forced the release of the Epstein files.

What is America doing to hold the Epstein class accountable?

We need to haul these powerful men before Congress.

Trump Deletes Racist Video of Obamas After Outcry

Trump posts racist video about the Obamas.

Karoline Leavitt dismisses criticism as "fake outrage."

Tim Scott calls it "the most racist thing I've seen out of this White House."

White House deletes video.

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www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

#Bitcoin explained in two posts:

$BTC

Elon not being happy despite having all the money is like someone losing at a game in tutorial mode, which he also does

Killing the CIA World Factbook might seem like small potatoes, but it was a touchstone of curated facts in a sea of disinformation.

Pursued by federal agents, suburban ICE observers remain resolved After a frightening pursuit by federal agents, suburban ICE observers say fear hasn’t stopped them from protecting their communities.

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Have you seen the new blog post? It's on pckt. It's literally on bsky. It's a standard dot site record. It's literally on Offprint. You can probably find it on Margin. Dude it's on your pds. It's a Leaflet original. Go to atproto. Dive into atproto. Atproto has it for you. Atproto has it for you.

INBOX: Robert McCartney, who worked for 39 years at The Washington Post, including as a Metro columnist and editor, before retiring in 2021, claims on X that he has heard the Post has laid off *all* its photojournalists.

Here's who the Washington Post just laid off.

They say the two happiest days in a gm’s life are the day he trades for James Harden and the day he trades away James Harden

continue to think that if instead of "raw milk" we called it "doodoo milk" people would understand the risk proposition

Man breaks into Little Caesars, starts making and selling pizzas, NC police say The suspect kept all the money he made selling pizzas, police say

look at what hustle culture has done to us www.newsobserver.com/news/state/n...

let 👏 him 👏 cook

I know that some of you kids out there might find this hard to believe, but there was a time when social media was fun

Recent assessments have found the last glacial maximum implies a climate sensitivity of 2.4C (1.4C to 5.0C): www.science.org/doi/...

And the Pliocene implies a sensitivity of 3.1C (2.3C to 4.7C): www.pnas.org/doi/10....

Paleoclimate evidence generally provides the strongest constraint on high ECS.

Shit is nuts. This week I spoke to a crim. defense attorney from mpls who mostly does federal work. He said a client got arrested with 19 pounds of meth & an indictment was coming. Then the feds had to forgo the indictment because they don’t have the resources. Walking away from 19 pounds of meth!

Cool to see Patreon taking the much overdue step of building out newsletter support. But I wonder how they convinced those folks to move to Patreon over a platform that lets them bring their paid subscriptions with them.

Cash advantage gives GOP early boost in Iowa congressional races Republicans head into the 2026 midterms with a cash edge in Iowa's congressional races, as the party braces for a difficult fight to hold its slim U.S. House majority.

Republicans hold cash edge in Iowa congressional races heading into 2026

Ashley Hinson takes massive fundraising edge in Iowa's open-seat U.S. Senate campaign In the Democratic primary campaign, Zach Wahls outraised Josh Turek and finished the period with more cash on hand.

Ashley Hinson takes massive fundraising edge in Iowa’s open-seat U.S. Senate campaign

YouTube video by TheGlebaa Nas: Live from the Kennedy Center PBS

They used to do cool things at the Kennedy Center before it became a political football, now put into hibernation as a result. youtu.be/gvJjNTcXIs0?...