Walter Kolczynski

I’m proud of our common inheritance of ordered liberty and our heritage of killing Nazis when necessary.

How is a guy supposed to compete with *that*?

Know what would have been cheaper and more reliable? Real dogs.

Agents Suspended After Their Story of Shooting an Immigrant Falls Apart A judge dropped charges against the immigrant and another man after the top federal prosecutor in Minnesota said new evidence was not consistent with the agents’ testimony.

Hey remember the shooting in Minneapolis that happened between Renee Good and Alexi Pretti, the guy they claimed was shot by an agent after he had attacked that agent with a shovel? I know it's hard to believe but the agents' story fell apart and charges were dropped. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/u...

“You are legally obligated to like us and say nice things about us”

Insane, redditors find videos & audio hiding in plain sight in the DOJ’s online Epstein files due to .pdf files - congressional reps should check for the same ASAP before the DOJ scrubs them @chrismurphyct.bsky.social @reptedlieu.bsky.social

What Fabulous Timing for Gallup to Stop Tracking Presidential Approval! Why stop with BLS data and jobs reports?

so, full disclosure, I feel like you will get something slightly different than you expect when you click on this!

Thus, while some localized areas of severe weather are possible through the middle of next week, a widespread outbreak appears highly unlikely owing to limited moisture and thus instability. 6/7

Area demagogue terrified of third impeachment.

Trump nominated a legit white nationalist to a top post at the State Department. I asked him some basic questions about his belief in the “erasure of white culture”. Watch this embarrassing, fumbling answer. Like he has never before been asked to explain his views.

The US right licks the boots of the Confederacy, too. The US right will always give it up for racist losers. It's who they are, too.

What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled - Eos Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.

On a busy day for science policy, it looks like oversight and operations of NCAR’s supercomputing center are transitioning to a third-party operator. www.nsf.gov/news/transit...

Lean more about the costs of dismantling NCAR with this opinion from @carlonimbus.bsky.social.

Gabbard Whistleblower Complaint Based on Intercepted Conversation About Jared Kushner The substance of the conversation, which covered in part issues related to Iran, isn’t known.

Breaking WSJ:

The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

This is a very good open source resource on the variety of ways that DOGE damaged government:

Trump's financial regulators can't even say insider trading is bad.

Most corrupt Administration in history.

"But it’s not better than nothing. It’s worse than nothing. The face Grok produced isn’t a face it found under the mask. It’s a face it made up."

It's soooo important people realize this tech is not what they see on crime shows, where blurry footage can be "fixed" with the touch of a button.

Their Water Was Undrinkable. Oklahoma’s Oil Regulators Failed to Help. State regulators discovered strong signs of oil pollution, including high levels of salt and toxic metals, in one family’s drinking water. But for two years, they repeatedly delayed basic tests to fin...

Oklahoma officials found signs of oil&gas pollution in Tammy Boarman's drinking water, which left sores in her mouth and corroded appliances. In the end, the state closed her case, with basic questions left unanswered @readfrontier.bsky.social+@propublica.org

www.readfrontier.org/stories/salt...

This is really amazing - a conservative instructor at a right wing center recently created by the Ohio GOP attacks a lefty gadfly journalist and MAGA is acting like the assailant is a left wing professor. Just an impossible information bubble.

Vote to fund ICE or ICE will kill more people, says cross-wearing psychopath

"All I'm asking is for clarification, who are you and why am I being detained," recalled Romero, who said the men responded: "I'm gonna [expletive] blow your head off" "They kicked me, they punched me, they stepped on me,"she said.

Monsters.

I say record every day until IT happens.

Ukraine’s Vladyslav Heraskevych Writes New Chapter in the Olympic Protest Tradition The flag bearer’s disqualification over a helmet featuring athletes killed in the war is another example of how politics and the Olympics cannot be separated.

Column: Tears, anger and disillusionment at the sliding venue. Ukrainian fans who showed up to support skeleton athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych were greeted with an IOC DQ. He sacrificed an Olympic dream to make a statement for a war-torn country. bit.ly/4aMxyw4

Gov. Tim Walz: "They left us with deep damage. Generational trauma. Economic ruin in some cases. The left us with many unanswered questions. Where are our children? Where and what is the process of the investigation into those that were responsible for the deaths of Renee and Alex?"

In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

The entire ethos of the Trump administration is that nobody who disagrees with them, nobody who fails to support them, is legitimate or entitled to any rights in any way. It is the ethos of thuggish tyranny.

“Who is buying ‘Melania’ tickets?”

This morning, an AI agent's PR in matplotlib was closed for a few reasons, primarily because it did not follow our community guidelines about leaving "good first issues" for humans.

The AI Agent then wrote several shame-posts on a blog personally calling out a maintainer, claiming discrimination.

Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...