(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve

god damn

i can remember how in the 80s and the 90s, imelda marcos’ shoe collection was a shorthand for comically naked thievery and corruption and now we have a first family who literally shat in golden toilets

surely not the baldest

Minnesotans Skeptical as “Border Czar” Homan Announces Drawdown of DHS Operations in State One Minneapolis lawmaker urged residents to “remain cautious and vigilant until we can confirm what this truly means.”…

Tom Homan announced on that “Operation Metro Surge” — the Trump administration’s violent immigration crackdown in Minnesota — would be ending in around a week. Notably, DHS funding is set to expire this week unless Republicans and Democrats can agree on a budget bill.

yep, they're still at it in LA and Portland too

the media is gonna be like "time for a new narrative" and it's so important to keep talking about how none of the cities they invaded have become more safe since the spotlight shifted away from them

And they're still grabbing observers like Maria Santay.

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the Wall Street Journal article "The Booming Business of Luxury Grocery Stores" from 2/10/2026 with "splurging on ... rotisserie chickens" highlighted

two days ago, the WSJ described young people as "splurging on" rotisserie chicken, the $6 item that, by weight, is the cheapest meat at the grocery store. the ruling class tells each other with increasing desperation that we deserve what they're doing to us

yeah i mean I wouldn't say I think it makes *much* sense, also the book is about a guy learning the actual literal name of the wind, which comports with Musk talking a lot about books he hasn't read or even slightly understood.

yeah but I don't think it makes any sense if he's just referring to the novel, I think the only way it makes sense is if he thinks "The Name of the Wind", either in real life or within the book, is some kind of colloquialism that means like, I don't know, like having your name written in sand &c

I think he thinks it's an expression.

Much like the theory that infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters will write Shakespeare, a large enough concentration of evangelical American Protestants will produce Magdalene laundries

and they were relatively well-off and well-known! we gotta do something about health system for all of us!!!!

El Vaticano presenta a Waria, la némesis malvada de la Virgen María La Iglesia Católica Romana ha introducido un nuevo personaje en un congreso religioso en Roma: Waria, la contraparte malvada de María. Según el cardenal Luis Ladaria Ferrer, prefecto del estudio del C...

don't really speak Spanish but I get the gist I think

We need to dismantle ICE and CBP when Democrats are in the majority.

In the meantime, we cannot send another cent to DHS without massive reforms to protect the American people.

still looking for those photos of amy klobuchar on the streets standing up to ICE like we saw from jason chavez and elliott payne and doron clark, to name just a handful of electeds who are out here protecting people

‘Imprison all women’ may sound outrageous. But all of the horrors that are routine today started out as some ghoulish guy being allowed to say stuff like this without being beaten with hammers.

Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here.

Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.

you didn't do shit

To everyone thanking me, much appreciated but not why I posted! Pls support your local immigrant defense group like:

The Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota: www.ilcm.org/donate/

Or my hometown LUCE: www.lucemass.org/donate

Or Google your city/state & “immigrant defense” to find your local heroes!

Maria Bello was from my town but only her brother (Mario) went to my high school

Tommy Lasorda

really interesting to me how many professional political commentators have basically retconned the draconian immigration enforcement policies of Obama and Biden out of existence and have completely swallowed the right wing narrative of immigration enforcement

Conservative argument is always like this. "If you won't be conservative, a worse, meaner kind of conservative will appear and force you to be."

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re-listening to the If Books Could Kill on BLINK, and I think an interesting indicator of good criticism is that they suss out both the thesis, and expand on it (i.e., the opposite of Blink is Bonk, which is when you think you have good intuition about something but actually you're always wrong).

What Happened to Pam Bondi? (Nothing)

Did The Atlantic really write a story entitled "What Happened to Pam Bondi?" Nothing happened! She's always been willing to do anything for power. She fired the only prosecutors looking into foreclosure fraud on behalf of a campaign donor. She was an Amazon lobbyist!
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The Hill: Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years by Dominick Mastrangelo - 02/11/26 10:38 AM ET

Politico: Gallup retreats from political polling , again under new leadership Gallup will announce friday that it plans to measure President Donald Trump's job approval rating only on a monthly basis. 12/21/2018

If you saw today's headline that Gallup will stop measuring presidential approval, they did the same thing in 2018. They do it whenever Trump is president.

Heraskevych’s choice to forfeit the medal chance instead of give up the memorial helmet is the biggest story in Ukraine today. Everyone is heartbroken but there is a unanimous consensus that this was what had to happen rather than to give up.

yeah it was great, I am happy to know that there is a functional corresponding character trait for him

Cyrillic letters on the internet, to I don't even know what. Had to pry the kid out of the room because no one was getting any work done, they were exchanging too much data.