Good morning one and all to another spectacular day!
Homan withdraws 700 immigration agents from Minnesota, citing ‘unprecedented cooperation’
Trump Oversees Lowest Level of Illegal Immigration at Border in Over 50 Years
Republicans Demand Inclusion of SAVE Act in DHS Funding Bill—What to Know
Biolabs in California, Las Vegas raided by FBI tied to indicted Chinese national
Ryan Routh Gets Life Sentence for Trump Assassination Attempt
Trump’s D.C. Crackdown Has Slashed Crime, 80% Drop in Homicides.
Trump to install Christopher Columbus statue on White House grounds
How Trump’s MAHA movement unexpectedly took a bite out of food price inflation
Study of Military Meals Finds Low Nutrients, Concerning Contaminants
That’s all I got for today. I’ll leave you with a song and move along with my day.
“Trump Oversees Lowest Level of Illegal Immigration at Border in Over 50 Years”
But Biden said he would need Congress.
Well, to be fair, it’s not like Gropey Joe was running the show.
Which Joe Biden? Epstein explains.
https://x.com/RamboAndFrens/status/2019036293855158522
Well, Biden was “shot” as in “these shoes are shot”
Dude, we’ve been under maritime law for a long time. Gold fringed flags!
On the other hand, I can believe the line in there about Biden abusing his kids. Ashley Biden’s diary anyone?
Ashley Biden is unreliable, unlike Mary Trump.
Believe all women except Tara Reade because science.
Ashley Biden is unreliable, unlike Mary Trump.
Don’t know and don’t care about Mary Trump.
In a roundabout way, we have confirmation that diary was Ashley Biden’s.
Though I’m wondering if I’m missing some sarcasm. It is TedS.
Mary is Donald’s niece (IIRC) and a reliable go-to whenever the MSM needs a hyperbolic anti-Donald Trump comment.
Now do Education…
I have no intention of letting any Democrat ever forget that.
“According to various sources, the Post is killing its sports and book sections, “suspending its Post Reports podcast, restructuring its metro section, and shrinking its international footprint.””
Sports? Did anyone ever read WaPo for sports?
WaPo covered sports?
/feels like he mentioned this the other day…
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I’ll let you in on a secret – I am unable to process all of the content (both articles and comments) on this site, and there are a great many things I simply did not see.
Kaepernic, Rapinoe, …
Why yes. In the week leading up to the Superbowl, they put a full page article about the MicroSoft Excel Championships.
There are professional sports in DC?
Staggering. He bought it for $500 million, then had to throw $300 million at it for the paper to limp along and refuse to change for the better.
I think it is providence that it went out now. It had to show what a useless rag it was even with a new boss.
That is like $10K per cocktail.
What a waste.
What did I miss?
I am snarking that he bought it for the cocktail parties.
Supposedly one of the well-regarded sports sections.
I guess even billionaires have a limit on how much money they are willing to light on fire.
Great argument against tax increases on billionaires, you can SEE just how much they’re willing to lose.
This week, Super Bowl week – they had a headline about an Excel design contest and an article about how the NFL is not “diverse enough”. Rubbish that couldn’t be cut fast enough.
how the NFL is not “diverse enough”.
Let me guess, too many black guys, or not enough women?
MREs are not good for you? (I only read the headline, but found nothing surprising in it)
After some experimental vaccines and months of eating nothing except MREs in 91, my guts were never the same.
I want my ham and lima beans, circa 1967…
Heh… my wife actually made a bean soup yesterday (there’s a dried bean and spice mix at the store for like a buck that she then added stuff to). Definitely saw some limas in there and she added some ham.
One of those soups that you’re like “I didn’t expect to enjoy this”, but honestly — it was surprisingly good. And filling.
After 12 years in artillery, I got used to MRE’s, but they can’t be good for you.
My buddy and I had gotten a few cases of MRE’s after a field op ended early and he kept his in his house.
His wife couldn’t figure out why she kept gaining weight and he found out she had been eating an MRE for lunch every day for a couple months.
Those things have about 1500 calories.
Fourscore…that C-Rat was legendary when I enlisted. I did actually get some before the MREs took over. I would mutiny if that was all there was to eat.
The first tranche of MREs (came in the dark brown wrapper) had about 2500 calories in them. Designed to pack as many calories as they could get into a small container and still be palatable.
I you ate only MREs, you would only shit once a week. The turd would be a hard 12 inch long greasy tapered cylinder that would lift you up if you were to close to the ground.
It also took all of the toilet paper. ALL OF IT. *Cue Gary Oldman clip*
Were they required to follow the food pyramid or something?
That was the original dietary research as I recall.
Military food seems very sugar heavy to give quick energy… and usually light on protein.
Sugar and saltpeter.
Yep.
Carbs and low animal fat for you!
“One sample of teriyaki beef stick tested positive for nitroimidazole, a veterinary medication that the U.S. government banned for use in food-producing animals.”
That’s not good. Did they test it for beef?
As long as you’re counting assholes and hooves, I’m sure there was some cow in the base protein paste….
It’s used cavalry horses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=law5tZHgrzM
“It states one beef sample tested 937.5 percent lower in iron, 478.47 percent lower in zinc, and 833.3 percent lower in manganese than the USDA standard”
Um, same question.
I am going to have to question their math. Wouldn’t a standard be expressed in a range of mg/kg or mg/serving? More than 100% lower would be negative quantities.
Or are they doing some weird shennanigans to make it sound apocalyptic when it’s just deficient? If so, what are those numeric shenanigans?
I think your latter statement is the correct explanation.
When a percentage is quoted in the news the best case scenario is that they have the decimal point in the wrong place, the most likely scenario is that the reporter tried to calculate it themself using:
1. The wrong numbers
2. In the wrong order
3. In the wrong formula
4. And got the multiplication or division wrong to boot.
Trying to reverse engineer this to find the real answer is beyond even God’s mind.
Meals Rejected by Everybody?
Some of my shooting/backpacking friends like MREs for the convenience (and also because they’re milsim dorks.) Myself, I’ll live off trail mix and venison jerky before I let that shit into my body.
The DEFAC changes when Obama got in were subtle but real.
“Only two meats” literally only two strips of bacon or sausage.
Slathered in canola.
You could get all the bread you wanted though, and coat it in Jiff and fake syrup.
No wonder so many of us were fat and hurt all the time.
Let me guess — minimal effort, possible kickbacks and locked in contracts from a defense department deal? Unheard of. Can’t imagine it. No precedents in our history.
(And I’ll bet there’s a sizeable chunk of the Pentagon’s paper pushers that are supposed to provide “oversight” to contracts to prevent such things… and I’ll further bet lots of them came from the companies they “oversee” and often retire to the boards of said companies…. Again… not like we haven’t seen this before…)
100% Folowing the Food Pyramid.
Biolabs in California, Las Vegas raided by FBI tied to indicted Chinese national
What are the FBI’s ties?
Fauci isn’t retired after all.
“Two people with knowledge of the matter told the Washington Post”
No.
It’s fake but accurate.
heya banjos
How YOU doin’?
Down in front there, Tribbiani…
Study of Military Meals Finds Low Nutrients, Concerning Contaminants
Man cannot live on chili mac and yakisoba alone.
That’s substantially from the Biden era, when food-at-home prices increased 24.0 percent between January 2020 and January 2023, according to the Agriculture Department.
That’s CARES Act inflation, which was Trump not Biden.
CARES Act. And Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.
The Biden “whole-of-government” war on fossil fuels contributed a lot to retail price inflation, also.
The massive spike in inflation started with the CARES Act. The trough in inflation rates over the last ten years was during the Rona Panic right about the CARES Act signing. Then you have a steady increase until a peak at June 2022 (Who was president then?) when a steady decrease through the rest of the Biden administration to today.
So anyone blaming our recent big inflation on Biden gets a skeptical look from me. There’s lots of stuff you can blame him for. Inflation is not. Inflation is Trump’s fault.
Trump started the inflation train, but Joe took over the train and continued it for a bit. Bipartisanship for the win!
I prefer to look at monetary inflation (really, debasement) rather than price “inflation”. On that front, the M2 money supply increased 50% ($13TT to 19TT) under Trump 1.0, and only 10% ($19TT to 21TT) under Biden.
Getting a real handle on the money supply is . . . Difficult. M2 does not include, for example, outstanding federal debt, which underpins a fair amount of the (multiplier effect) lending created by (fractional reserve) banks, which sure functions like money. For example, when I take out a mortgage to buy a house, I don’t think that mortgage counts toward the money supply, although it darn sure spends like cash. Figuring out the money supply when you have gone from an asset-based currency to a debt-based currency makes my head hurt.
I prefer to look at monetary inflation (really, debasement) rather than price “inflation”
Yes, price inflation is a symptom of monetary inflation.
Figuring out the money supply when you have gone from an asset-based currency to a debt-based currency makes my head hurt.
Feature, not bug. Meaning the obfuscation of the money supply, not your headache.
Trump to install Christopher Columbus statue on White House grounds
My view is no new statues of people any people.
This is just him sticking it to Dems again.
I approve.
When I’m president, I’m going to put up a statue of Vlad Tepes.
Good fences make good neighbors.
Bad neighbors make good fences.
How about Greek gods?
Study of Military Meals Finds Low Nutrients, Concerning Contaminants
you should have seen recruit food in commie Romania… all organic nutritious stuff
Was it people?
soylent green was beyond the technology of the time.
I’m sure they embraced the “farm to coffin” movement, Pie.
How Trump’s MAHA movement unexpectedly took a bite out of food price inflation
cheaper steak and cheaper guns are needed.
i need Steve1989MREInfo to weigh in on this one. Trust the expert.
NY strips are $8.99/lb this week.
8.99 per lap dance or general admission? Seem cheap for an expensive place like NY
It’s a cut of beef which somehow is rediculously cheap in Sean’s neck of the woods.
I’m questioning whether he’s actually getting beef… or if it’s marine mystery meat
fun fact: I saw in Romanian supermarkets a cut called new-jersey like a NY with bone, but I do not see this existing in America as a cut based on quick google… maybe it is an European thing
https://www.freshful.ro/p/100064449-gurmand-apetit-new-jersey-manzat-aged-prussiana-500g
I’ve not seen it cut that way. Usually when I see a NY Strip on the bone, it’s part of a porterhouse.
Bone-in NY strip is common. Never heard it called a “New Jersey” by anyone ever. Although there a bunch of names for a boneless NY strip, it’s typically called a “bone-in New York strip” or “shell steak”.
There’s an infinite number of ways to break down a cow into meal-sized portions. The naming is mostly branding and tradition rather than a standardized format.
To me, NY Strip has no bone. You can keep the bone if you want, but that’s not a NY Strip any more.
If I order a NY Strip and I get something with bone on it, I’m likely to complain.
I’ve never heard of a restaurant serving it. Meat on the bone does have more flavor.
Obviously the UN needs to spin up a ISO working group to standardize beef cut nomenclature and taxonomy.
https://www.weismarkets.com/flyers/print
It’s on the weekly sale flyer.
My other go to supermarket is doing CAB strips for a $1 more a lb.
https://www.landismarket.com/weekly-savings/next-week-circular/#page1
NY Strip has no bone.
I buy it all the time (or at least stock up when on sale) at the supermarket. Remove bone, you have great stock base.
Restaurant – granted I haven’t ordered steak in a restaurant in 15 years at least and almost never go out to restaurants anyway – I will ask which cut has a bone and order that. Mostly for a true doggie back for back when I did have such critters wandering around, but also the common belief (myth?) that it will have more flavor. Mostly for the dogs.
Wife found some low cost strip a couple weeks ago.
It’s back up.
Likely retired dairy cow or something.
How could the WP be failing? It’s got quality 1,500 word articles like this:
At 82, he’s as fit as a 20-year-old. His body holds clues to healthy aging.
https://archive.fo/E15aF
TLDR – genetics, exercise, diet.
At 82, he’s as fit as a 20-year-old – this only shows how unfit 20 year old are. Because otherwise I call hyperbole.
Obviously I was not part of the test.
Pie – what are you doing here?
“The suspects are a 37-year-old Romanian man and a 54-year-old Greek man who worked at the port, according to local media reports.”
Two arrested over attempted sabotage of German naval vessels
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkryz35246o
what?
“The Stalin Meme” for 2026.
When these Leftist cranks aren’t rewriting history, they’re just deleting it entirely in the hope nobody notices.
https://x.com/JoosyJew/status/2019180759119196590
I would have deleted any association with Noam out of embarassment at having been associated with Noam. And that was before any recently exposed links to other people.
I would have ‘deleted’ any association with that POS also.
“Brandon Scott, the Democratic mayor of Baltimore…a progressive who has served as mayor since 2020, is facing pressure over a Fox Baltimore report showing his primary vehicle, a 2025 Jeep Grand Wagoneer, is the most expensive government-issued vehicle operated by any mayor, governor, county executive or county commissioner in the state, costing taxpayers $163,495….
Scott, after being pressed by a reporter in a back-and-forth exchange, called the question “idiotic” and part of a “right-wing” effort to discredit him.
“Just because you didn’t get the answer that you wanted in your racist slant, that’s one thing,” the mayor said.
Scott has championed himself as a fighter against the “status quo” as the city faces an $85 million budget deficit and has also been an advocate against climate change despite choosing a Jeep Wagoneer, a vehicle with modest gas efficiency at 14 MPG, to get around.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/baltimores-progressive-mayor-calls-reporter-racist-in-heated-exchange-over-luxury-taxpayer-vehicle
CWAA
Not this?
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I might not like the aesthetics, but I have a lot of respect for the effort.
Proving once again that “racist” doesn’t mean anything anymore.
If you would consult your Newspeak Dictionary, you would see the definition is anyone, regardless of color, who criticizes a lefty POC.
Please remember all old versions of the Newspeak Dictionary are obsolete and this has always been the definition of this word.
The emperor never had any clothes. What is the point f being emperor if you cant live by a different set of rules?
Fox Baltimore should put up an article with a giant picture of the mayor’s face captioned “Don’t criticize me, I’m black”.
Is that pic with him wearing a mask from Dec of last year? What a wuss.
And those things are a huge pile of Fiat quality.
How does someone manage to spend that amount of money on a Jeep?!
That’s an Audi RS6 Avant money.
“US District Court Judge Michael Simon issued a temporary restraining order on Tuesday prohibiting federal law enforcement officers from using tear gas and other crowd control munitions on agitators at the ICE facility in Portland, Oregon. The 22-page ruling comes amid an increase in violent attacks on the ICE facility in recent weeks, including a multi-hour siege of the building on Sunday.”
https://thepostmillennial.com/judge-blocks-federal-agents-from-using-tear-gas-crowd-control-munitions-on-agitators-at-portland-ice-facility
WTFIWWJ?
how many federal judges do we have? What would it take to clean the mess up?
677 you say? That is quite a mess. The best way to fix this is to narrow their jurisdiction over…well, almost everything.
Where The Fuck Is Wendy Whoppers, Jewboy?
prohibiting federal law enforcement officers from using tear gas and other crowd control munitions
Fire hoses it is.
Ok, real bullets it is.
🙂
I skimmed the opinion. The argument seems to be that a single person, anywhere in a crowd/mob of any size, who is engaged in 1A activity immunizes the entire crowd/mob from “crowd control” by law enforcement.
If there is a limiting principle on this, such as what the crowd/mob is actually up to, I didn’t spot it on a quick skim. I guess if you have a grandma waving a sign, everyone else is free to throw molotovs, etc.
Like I said, quick skim.
There should only be one Communist Party in the US.
Consolidate
https://x.com/ItsLulu_7/status/2019169649557197155
I cannot see this working. The UK has more than 10 commie parties. Denmark has like 7. I am not sure the US can get away with just the one.
Too many communist only want to be communist online and play team sports defending their favorite historical figures and not enough want to actually build an organization that can help change the world or read and interrogate their ideas past their own confirmation bias.
https://x.com/GoofyWise/status/2018857419380801868
commies need not just to consolidate but also organize and educate.
Usually the commies kill off the rival commies After securing permanant power.
So you’re saying we should be encouraging them to get ahead of themselves?
and to keep thing commie, there’s … ehm… this
https://x.com/DelusionPosting/status/2019108956082151842
“As long as the Party thinks I’m still useful — I can prove the idiot part!”
There should be zero Communist Parties in the US, but there are people stupid and/or evil enough to believe in the ideology.
See Young Communist League in 1930s when it was fashionable among young intellectuals duped into thinking the commies were for equal rights(ignoring Stalin killing millions.)
I am beginning to think Peter Zapffe might have been on to something.
Communism is the new hotness – you can’t blame every left of center party for moving in that direction.
And the Judean Popular People’s Front. – Oh, yeah! Splitters!
“The AMA’s shift, however, was conditional.
“Our colleagues at ASPS concluded that the evidence supporting gender-related surgery in minors is insufficient and of low certainty” and the AMA respects their “expertise and dedication,” according to an AMA statement a spokesperson shared with Just the News, first given to National Review but only published in part.
While the AMA “supports evidence-based treatment, including gender-affirming care,” it said the evidence for surgical intervention “currently” is too low “for us to make a definitive statement. In the absence of clear evidence, the AMA agrees with ASPS that surgical interventions in minors should be generally deferred to adulthood.””
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/health/defenders-medicalized-gender-transitions-kids-backpedal-litigation-threatens
Sounds a bit wishy washy.
They want to see if the recent 2 million dollar suit award is a one-off, or if they are going to keep coming.
There are at least a dozen more in process, and a few have settled out of court. This is the next gold rush for lawyers.
A little background:
Losing a malpractice case goes onto your permanent record – a federal database for physicians. Hospitals take it pretty seriously when considering whether to let you on their medical staffs.
Typical, almost universal, malpractice insurance coverage limitations for doctors are $1MM per case, $3MM per year. Anything above that exposes personal assets.
More and more doctors are employed by health systems. Genital mutilation surgery is done at hospitals, which exposes the health system. A health system of any size is self-insured to varying degrees, meaning those seven figure judgments and settlements come of out of (one of) its pockets. They don’t like that. Now, your eight figure judgments/settlements are going to get into the reinsurers. They don’t like it either, and you can expect your (substantial) premiums for reinsurance to go up for the next 10 years, which is how long it takes to fall off of their actuarials.
Put all of those evil fucks against a wall. That includes the parents, teachers, councillors, psychologists…all of them.
Yes.
I guess “zero” is a form of “too low”.
I guess the adamant denials that anyone was doing this surgery on minors have gone down the memory hole.
– Did a bomb fall on Cuba?
– No, something worse fell on it: 65 years of socialism.
https://x.com/Kazembe_youseef/status/2018698511672287324
oh nonsense it was the US embargo what done it
Enlightened Euros never step up.
It’s so authentic!
And so quaint!
The ability to displace blame is why there shouldn’t be an embargo.
“‘Chinamaxxing’ is TikTok’s latest senseless trend — as young people romanticize living in a Communist society
They’re drinking hot water in the morning. They’re doing tai chi in their kitchens. They’re perfecting their chopstick skills and sporting Adidas track suits to achieve the elderly man in Beijing look.
But Chinamaxxing isn’t just a lifestyle trend. Many of the influencers praising Chinese culture are actively denigrating America. They’re aesthetically, morally and politically defecting to another superpower…
The Chinamaxxing trend really caught steam when Hasan Piker, a popular political streamer with Gen Z, traveled to China and streamed his tour around Beijing. He hyped up China on Twitch, declaring in a livestream from Tiananmen Square that he has “no patriotism in [his] heart for America.”
In a recent podcast episode about Chinamaxxing, independent journalist Taylor Lorenz, who covers internet culture, said that Piker told her that he’s “the most Chinese” and “the real white Chinese.”
Lorenz also took a stab at explaining why China is taking off with young people. “It seems like this paradise almost that Americans can kind of, like, project their hopes onto because our country feels so hopeless,” she said.”
https://nypost.com/2026/02/04/opinion/chinamaxxing-is-tiktoks-latest-senseless-trend/
Everyone in this story should be killed.
Shut off TikTok.
Nuke China.
Nuke Hassan Piker.
Naw, give him the electric chair.
Wow… some CCP mid-level bureaucrat really got their money’s worth out of that PR stunt.
I can speak with some experience that Beijing is a disgusting toilet.
But yeah, this is a ridiculous stunt.
Everyone in this story needs a healthy dose of IV drip sewer oil.
Ooh. A Taylor Lorenz sighting.
Chad A. Morganlander, senior portfolio manager at Microsoft investor Washington Crossing Advisors, said that while Copilot is struggling now, “our bet is they have this embedded client base, and that they will get it wrong until they get it right. They have plenty of money for the marathon.”
I mean, just look at the market share of Microsoft Edge!
Microsoft’s Pivotal AI Product Is Running Into Big Problems
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/microsofts-pivotal-ai-product-is-running-into-big-problems-ce235b28?st=TEGmDb&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Are there any podcasts that look at this? I’ll give it a listen on my Zune.
“Chrome 71.37%
Safari 14.75%
Edge 4.65%
Firefox 2.23%
Opera 1.88%
Samsung Internet 1.83%”
Wow, that is lower than I thought. When I am on Windows I prefer that or Firefox to fucking Google.
who the fuck uses Chrome?
Surprised Firefox isn’t more popular.
How was this data compiled? It looks suspect.
https://gs.statcounter.com/faq#methodology
Surprised Firefox isn’t more popular.
The cool kids moved to chrome variants a while back, and Firefox went through an enshittification (mixed with woke) cycle a few years back, ticking off a large segment of their legacy users.
I’ll never use Firefox again.
Same here.
It sure did and I stopped using it about 10 years ago.
It’s quite nice now.
I don’t give a shit about the woke thing. It is impossible to avoid woke.
Firefox went through an enshittification (mixed with woke) cycle a few years back, ticking off a large segment of their legacy users.
Yep.
I keep firefox around for a few websites that don’t work well with Brave, but other than those websites, I don’t use firefox.
I’ve had 2 employers, including my current one, that pretty much make you use Chrome. If you are having trouble with anything internet related, the third question* from IT is “are you using Chrome? Because it works best if you use Chrome”.
*The first 2 are always, have you tried turning it off and on again and is it plugged in”
who the fuck uses Chrome?
Me, sort of.
I don’t think I have ever used chrome.
Granted I don’t think I’ve used a Microsoft computer since around 2011 at the most recent.
Get ready for the Ursulawave
For reasons that aren’t entirely clear, lockdown vastly accelerated two notable global trends of the 21st century: the collapse of fertility, and the growth of international migration. In Britain this became known as the Boriswave and destroyed the Conservative Party in the 2024 election, and probably forever, but the ramping up of immigration across Europe since 2020 has been staggering. Every western country undertook its own Boriswave, and now European leaders seem determined to ramp it up still further, despite the political risks.
The push factors are certainly understandable: the acceleration of communication technology during lockdown allowed far larger numbers of people in poor countries to interact with relatives in the rich world, and increased phone use made life in the West more visible and within reach.
Pull factors are harder to explain, but the sharp rise of wages in the hospitality industry during the Covid outbreak in Britain suggested that Treasury officials were alarmed by the prospect of a reduced labour pool; as were certain industry leaders, who became far more open in stating that immigration was needed to suppress wages.
…
There is firstly the point that western conservatism is entwined with the belief in state rivalry, or polycentrism – the thesis of Walter Scheidel’s Escape from Rome. Europe came to dominate the world because, unlike China, it comprised a number of competing states with a diversity of political systems. Out of this free market, certain countries were able to outcompete their rivals by building more liberal institutions, better economic models, and so more effective ways of raising taxes. This fact, as well as geography, partly explains why euroscepticism has always had particular appeal among British intellectuals, seeing how this is precisely why Britain was able to outcompete its far larger rival, France.
But if the argument is that the European project is too centralised, the converse could be made that it is not centralised enough. Last week it was announced that Spain will amnesty half a million illegal immigrants, granting one-year visas that ultimately create a pathway to a Spanish passport, as with the beneficiaries of the country’s 2005 amnesty. Within two to ten years, depending on their nationality, these new Europeans could have the right to live anywhere within the bloc, and many will take the opportunity.
Indeed, a huge proportion of Spanish and Portuguese citizens who came to Britain in the era of free movement were from outside Europe, while a large proportion of Italians are actually Bangladeshis moving to London, and many Dutch immigrants are Somalis who moved across the North Sea. Migrants, once within the European system, tend to converge on those parts of the continent where there are already established communities, and Britain, with its more generous welfare system, large grey economy and lack of state integration pressure, is a particular draw. The EU immigration system is only as strong as its weakest member.
That Brussels prevents its national governments from regulating industrial policy, but not the very make-up of the continent’s citizen body – a far more important fact in the long term – reflects the ideas built into the core of the European project, the ‘open society’ beliefs that R.R. Reno described as the ruling ideology of the post-war world.
https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/get-ready-for-the-ursulawave
Yep. Zapffe was on to something.
Between this and the gender mutilation movement I have the privilege to see the evilest and stupidest movements in human history.
Not quite as stupid as Tulipmania or the Children’s Crusade but close and definitely more pernicious.
Yeah, I don’t know why the west has decided to commit cultural suicide but I am not at all sure the ‘vid had anything to do with it.
Maybe it was an accelerant.
Fair enough, and I guess it did allow those with designs on “smashing the system” to run roughshod while everyone else was distracted.
Thinking of abused dogs
“A North Carolina veterinary technician has been charged and fired from her job after she rescued a dog that was abandoned in the cold winter weather — but failed to hand the pooch over to animal control….
Garner took in the “sweet” dog and called animal control to report the deserted pet, only to be told to bring the animal down for an investigation, WRAL reported.
She refused the order, claiming that with her expertise, she knew her home would be a safer place for the abandoned animal….
Garner eventually made contact with the rightful owner of the dog — who had been missing for over two months — reuniting the human with their pup….
Garner, a mother of a 2-year-old son, says she faces court and lawyer fees after just getting back to work, with police saying she was told multiple times to forfeit the dog to animal control, the Wilson County Sheriff’s Office told WRAL.
Garner doesn’t regret saving the dog, saying it would have died if not rescued.”
https://nypost.com/2026/02/05/us-news/north-carolina-woman-dason-garner-charged-fired-after-rescuing-abandoned-dog-during-snowstorm/
No good deed goes unpunished and since when has it been a chargeable offense to take in a stray?
*pours one out for P’nut*
Probably since the feds made ‘animal cruelty’ a felony.
Would Animal Control have euthanized the dog?
Is “midtopia” a thing?
I’m reading https://seekwebserial.wordpress.com/ I’m very much a worldbuilding and ideas guy, so when I say I’m liking it that’s what I mean.
It’s got that whole upsides/downsides of tech thing that early William Gibson had going on. Modern cyberpunk without the now deprecated cyberspace/net cowboy trope.
Downsides: welfare state*, panopticon, police state, corporate strangling of culture
Upsides: a surprising amount of personal freedom for misfits and people who want to GTFO of mainstream society. It’s not technically post-scarcity, but even poor people have access to a remarkable amount of tech.
*food, shelter, clothing, medical care are all provided. There is also a currency that people work for in order to pay for other niceties.
It seems to be set in two different time periods (the author has an allergy to out-of-character exposition, which I enjoy but it does leave things unclear) One is likely a post-AI takeover apocalypse dystopia. But the other timeline is set (presumably) prior to that and seems to be laying the groundwork for the other timeline. The “main” character is a child of AWFLs who had the currency to have her implanted with an AI in utero.
what do you mean by midtopia?
It has a lot of both utopian and dystopian characteristics.
Life in the superstructure is fully automated gay luxury space communism police state, but it’s possible for a private individual to not only obtain full body cybernetics, but assemble their own ship and leave the superstructure, where out in the black people are able to live freaky idiosyncratic lives that Asimov wouldn’t have put into Foundation and Empire.
I’m at the point of disregarding anything that uses the prefix “mid-” unironically.
You would prefer “ambitopia?”
Ted hates the midlands.
Interesting.
‘Ambitopia’ sounds better to my ear.
“…fully automated gay luxury space communism police state…”
If you say so.
Does a word need to exist for this?
Suthen: read Surface Details sometime. It’s good.
Pie: I don’t know that there needs to be a term for it, since it’s not a common genre. So uncommon that I don’t know the name for it. Most authors/audiences seem to like to go full shitworld as opposed to “what people would actually let happen.”
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Yeah, where do I sign up?!
Not Adahn:
Something like an archeology? Like the one in Oath of Fealty?
Neph: I’m unfamiliar with those references.
Oath of Fealty is a pretty good book.
(and sorry Neph… it’s arcology)
DEG:
Nothing to apologize for. I trusted in autocorrect while bouncing between a couple of tabs.
I enjoyed Ringworld and The integral Trees.
I realize now that I’ve never read Oath of Fealty. I need to correct that post-haste…
Kindle: $6.99
Paperback: $197.41
Mass-market paperback: $7.91
Somebody smack the auto-pricer, it’s getting silly again.
#dittoes
Bought a copy for my flight to San Antone.
Gay luxury space communism.
The word is extinction.
If you’re being ungenerous, you could declare that very few or none of the idea are unique. You’ve got the Gibson cyberpunk corpo/police state, the Banks machine intelligence soft-police state freeing people to pursue their own interests, Herbert’s preborn/forced or directed evolution etc, and where I’m currently at there’s signs of a Butlerian Jihad forming though since there is the assumed to be future timeline in which Skynet wins I’m assuming that’s going to go catastrophically awry.
The story did show how the AIs took over — the main character who grew up with an AI having grown into all of her cells becomes a social media star and is targeted by Bad Guys. The AI, being the equivalent of cybernetic strength/reflexes lets her escape the Bad Guys, and the AI simultaneously reaching out to the police lets them capture/foil further plans. Thus AI implants become mandatory for the Good of Society. And of course, shutting down your AI so people can’t record your activities is a crime. And yes, this has exactly the effect on porn that you’d predict.
The youth fiction book Feed is a bit like that.
Ten years after I read it it feels prescient.
The Palestine Action thugs are “not guilty”.
This is what Britain has come to. You can ram a factory’s doors with a truck. You can smash everything and attack security. You can break a police officer’s back with a sledgehammer when she is on the floor. And you can walk away scot free if you did it “for Palestine”.
How far does this impunity go? Can you paralyse for Palestine? Can you put someone in a coma for Palestine? Can you kill for Palestine?
With a verdict like this, how long before we find out?
Pressure was put on the jury. They even complained to the judge about the posters encircling the court building. But the judge told them to keep calm and carry on. In the end they found them “not guilty” on some charges, and failed to reach a verdict on others. The defendants walked free from court.
Look at this video. Look at this still from the police officer’s body-worn camera as the sledgehammer rained down on her.
https://x.com/GideonFalter/status/2019057686839431657
People complained about the UK government wanting to remove jury trial, now the complain about jury trial…
Was the jury of their peers made up of ISIS members?
No, it’s made up of the same people that are juries in mob trials – you know, the ones that know what happens to them and their families if someone isn’t acquitted.
All my life I have heard people say ‘The world has gone mad’ and another saying ‘It can always get worse’.
Both are true.
At this point I have a hard time believing that the UK goats have any credibility at all with the native citizenry.
Goats? Christ….govt’s. Fuckin’ spellcheck.
Well, protesting does exempt you from laws in many parts of the world.
Damn Twitter not letting me see the post.
It’s like AOL all over again.
“A 9-year-old boy in Chicago was nearly blinded after he was inspired by an old TikTok trend to microwave his NeeDoh sensory toy — which exploded in his face.
Caleb Chabolla, 9, heated up his NeeDoh Nice Cube in the microwave at his Chicago home after one of his friends told him the trick would make the rubber sensory toy more pliable….
Last March, a 7-year-old girl was placed in a medically-induced coma for three days after she attempted the same TikTok trend.
Her lips were so badly burned that she was placed on a feeding tube and she required a skin graft.”
https://nypost.com/2026/02/04/us-news/illinois-boy-severely-burned-after-microwaving-needoh-sensory-toy-in-tiktok-trend/
Tik Tok is cancer.
TikTok was developed as a weapon to undermine western society. There’s a reason western TikTok is banned in China.
Re the project to diversify the countryside, which is bemusing so many, I think it’s important to be aware of some background context. Guidance seems to have been taken from academics, specifically this project.
https://x.com/amwilson_opera/status/2018953642263650407
Quaxo’s Pet
@jethrosdaddy
The Rural Racism Project at the Centre for Hate Studies? I do love an impartial and objective enquiry, don’t you?
Can academia die in a fire or is that against THESCIENCE
“Spanning 115 interviews and informal conversations with individuals who live in, work in or visit rural spaces,. the study provided rich insights into everyday experiences of racism, including microaggressions, institutional harms and community responses. In addition, the project analysed public discourse surrounding race in rural contexts by examining approximately 193,000 words of user-generated content from social media platforms and news sites. This analysis uncovered patterns of denial, deflection and backlash that often follow public engagement with rural racism.”
You’re a racist. No I’m not. Denier!
Did they talk to any actual (like life-long) rural people?
Rural westerners are primarily individualistic. Their ‘immigrants’ are incredibly tribal and collectivist.
I have seen this movie before. I wont spoil it for y’all.
Eeew! Visting was bad enough!
They can’t find enough overt racism so it’s all microagressions and unconscious bias, things that can’t really be measured but you can find all the time if that’s what you’re getting paid for.
After Katrina my area suddenly became more diversified.
I suspect the feds paid to relocate people from the lower wards to the NW for reasons.
not every exasperated american could have become Epstein, but a particle of Epstein is lodged in every exasperated american
-leon trotsky
https://x.com/uncledoomer/status/2019213123795009777
Heh
Guardian “Keir Starmer ‘sorry for having believed Mandelson’s lies’ about Epstein ties – UK politics live”
LOL. Keir had no idea about the guy who basically oversaw his political rise. There is a non-zero chance he has to resign. His popularity was in the single digits before this came out.
Isn’t banging the occasional kid or covering for those that do considered a political plus in modern Britain though?
That aside, Starmer on his best day on even minor issues is a stammering, flopsweating deer-in-the-headlights bad joke.
The question isn’t, do the Little People care? And especially not, do actual British people care?
The question is, do the People Who Matter Care? And I suspect the answer is, no, no they do not.
sadly his resignation will do merry olde no good.
Our leaders are talking themselves into attacking Iran again because Israel First. The goalpost are flying all over the place – they are governed by mean clerics (not satanic pedophiles like us), their nuclear program (that was “obliterated”), ballistic missiles, killing protestors (which is happening here too), or just because Israel wants it.
https://x.com/SecRubio/status/2019216116544073962
“killing protestors (which is happening here too)”
Ashley Babbit? Not heard much of people killed just for protesting.
Throw things against the wall, see what sticks, use that as a pretext…it’s what we do.
No question.
The best reason/pretext I have seen is that Iran is the lynchpin of global terrorism, and putting the mullahs in a mass grave at least gives an opportunity to change that.
I do think there is both a qualitative and quantitative difference between the mullahs killing, what, 30K Iranian protestors in prison and ICE shooting two Americans who were aggressively interfering with arrests.
That number is randomly generated propaganda. I don’t believe most mainstream media stories about my own country. Why would I believe something that far-fetched about a place on the other side of the world?
That is the best reason/pretext, just not good enough in my book. When we break things in the Mideast things invariably get worse and a power vacuum in Iran would be a disaster, the possibility of a protracted war notwithstanding.
And yet you believed the idea that hundreds of US and Israeli soldiers were killed on the beaches of Yemen.
I think you were also the one who acted as though you believed Lloyd Austin was KIA in Ukraine.
Don’t recall Austin – I still believe that Marine General was KIA in Ukraine, not the minute he returned to Twentynine Palms.
Somebody posted a rumor here when Austin was not in public due to the hospitalization that he had died in Ukraine.
It’s emblematic of the stated preferences of “I don’t believe either side” and revealed preferences of immediately posting anything, no matter how nonsensical, that makes one side (in this case the traditional Western foreign policy establishment) look bad.
People have been calling for the bombing of Iran non-stop since 1979. Not everything is (((their))) fault.
It is if you are a staunch believer that they are our overlords.
How is it in our interests? What has Iran done to us since 1979 that would justify a war?
What are the possible downsides such as straight up losing the war, dead Americans and sunk ships to start?
How did you infer NA saying it was in our interests from a factual statement that people have been calling for bombing since 1979?
WTF does “in our interests” have to do with wanting to bomb Iran? There are people that are still pissed off at the whole embassy siege thing (like McCain) and a non-zero fraction of politicos think the US losing any kind of armed conflict is literally impossible, especially with Iran and especially especially after Iran’s performance in Operation Preying Mantis and recently launching their best attempt at an alpha strike with literally zero effect.
The idea that Israel isn’t pressuring the US to do this is laughable. Then again, it is our fault if we give in.
I presume literally every country and every other organization on the planet is constantly pressuring the US to the best of their ability.
“What has Iran done to us since 1979 that would justify a war?”
Presumably not counting what they were up to in Iraq while we were there (sure, we were sticking our dick into an ME country, but not their country). I might rephrase the question as, say, what have they done to us in the last 10 years, which seems like a plenty long enough timeframe for finding a casus belli.
I mean, sure, there’s the piracy they support which has occasionally tagged US ships/crewmembers, but I don’t know that justifies going to war. Most of the rest seems directed against our “allies” in the ME. I wouldn’t object to selling them whatever they need to deal with whatever problems they think need dealing with.
I do think that a country with the motto of “Death to America” getting nuclear weapons is a strategic issue that needs/needed addressing. How close were they? Who knows? Does it really matter if they were a few weeks or several years away? Do nothing because “they don’t have it yet”, and when they test their first one you go straight to “too late”.
When they test the first one they have the equivalent of Fat Man or Little Boy depending on the design. Dangerous if they fly over a country with a B-29 but a long way from fitting on the head of a missile.
We had a good agreement worked out last April and May – inspections, lower enrichment levels, etc. – in exchange for lifting sanctions. The whole thing was scuttled in favor of war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Iran%E2%80%93United_States_negotiations
I assume the mullahs would have been just as scrupulously honest as they were when they had an agreement with Obama.
You don’t need to put it on a missile to deliver it to the US.
We’ve had agreements in the past with the mullahs. They never seemed to work out, though.
I’d be comfortable telling the mullahs, more or less, “You can have your Death to America (hell, half of Congress agrees with you), but not nukes. Jihad all you want in your neighborhood, but not ours.”
Iran was making a large amount of the EFP weapons that we encountered in Iraq.
Enough to justify war?
No but we should have smoked that distribution chain.
satanic pedophiles
I’ve seen this a couple of times now. Is “satanic” here a hyperbolic synonym for “evil,” or is there some explicit “We love Satan” stuff going on that I haven’t heard about?
Among the ZH and Alex Jones crowds there is a belief that pedophilia running through persons of power is due to their secret society of devil worshiping.
The island has a weird temple building. References to some awful stuff that sounds almost ceremonial in the released emails.
Was Podesta part of the Epstein thing? I haven’t seen his name come up, but that dude was definitely into some weird and depraved occult shit. And he wasn’t the only one, by a long shot.
JOOOOOOS!!!!!
Liquor, “The Oil of Conversation”
Thats great. Never seen that
LOLOLOLOL
“Eto was effectively dismissed from his ministerial post in May last year after drawing criticism for saying, “I have never bought rice.” At a time when consumers were struggling with soaring rice prices, he explained that he received so much of the staple from his supporters that he could even sell it.”
The 65 year old nepo baby may actually loose his seat.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/02/05/japan/politics/japan-lower-house-election-miyazaki/
Paywalled.
You need to clear out every single cookie associated with the site. You will be paywalled if you click more than something like 3 articles in the past 6 months.
In case anybody wants to help out those poor people at the WP!
A GoFundMe for laid-off Washington Post staffers crossed $300K in less than 24 hours
TW – https://www.businessinsider.com/gofundme-laid-off-washington-post-crossed-120-k-few-hours-2026-2
Apparently online panhandling is the new activism.
Pardon me, I’m going to go start up a GoFundMe to finance my move out of Virginia…
Things escalated there quickly.
It was really only a matter of time. I’m trying to get my condo in shape to sell before the bottom falls out of the market (if it ever does, this close to DC.)
I find the immediate lunge to begging on GoFundMe after any kind of adverse life event quite offputting.
That’s how I felt living in LA in 1993 despite a Republican Governor and Mayor
Today in Romanian etymology in the steak link I posted earlier you have New Jersey mânzat.
mânzat is a word usually meaning young cattle, between being weaned and 2-3 years old. Sort of like English has the word colt for young horse.
But the word mânz now means foal, the young of a horse. mânz refers only to horses, mânzat only to cattle. The young of a cow is vitel.
I assume back in the day the word mânz was used for both and we are left with mânzat just for young cow. We have no word for colt.
mânz is also one of the Romanian words that is purported to be from Dacian but no one knows for sure as there are no definite dacian words known.
the classic words that represent dacian are mânz (foal) viezure (badger) varza (cabbage). But viezure is also called bursuc.
We will have to see if any of our steak connoisseurs can comment. The only beef distinction I’m aware is veal for calve meat.
It isn’t free speech unless I can force you to listen
A former Texas A&M professor sued the institution Wednesday over alleged violations of her First Amendment rights after she was terminated due to a discussion regarding gender in the classroom.
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“Professor Melissa McCoul was terminated because of the content of her course; content that was consistent with her syllabus, the course description, and the approved purpose of the course. Texas A&M University ran roughshod over Dr. McCoul’s due process rights in its haste to meet Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s demand that the University fire her,” the lawsuit reads.
Despite two independent bodies determining the university violated McCoul’s rights and unjustly fired her, the institution has not reinstated her job, the lawsuit said.
She wants the judge to determine her firing violated her First Amendment rights, and is seeking back pay and the reinstatement of her job.
Poor baby.
There will be more to the story. It all stems from a student being removed from the classroom.
Interestingly, Texas had a law in place since 2023 according to the interwebs.
The lawsuit comes days after Texas A&M announced it was ending its women’s and gender studies degree program.
Now it can be a class action suit.
today in wtf youtube
https://youtube.com/shorts/gwQ-iWXXD1c?si=Tw4NJizB1HSSOhgb
“‘Penis-gate’ hits the Winter Olympics: Ski jumpers accused of injecting ACID into their genitals to become ‘human gliders’ – and could even face a drug cheating probe”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/winterolympics/article-15531149/winter-olympics-ski-jumping-penis-probe.html
tripping balls?
*golf clap*
https://c.tenor.com/eWAOrw7AR80AAAAC/tenor.gif
They’re injecting ACID!!!
-hyaluronic acid: Hyaluronic acid is a natural substance found in the eyes and joints that acts as a lubricant and cushion.
Go nitric or go home. Pussies…
“Sydney Sweeney is her own best advert as she pulls up her T-shirt and cheekily flashes her bra to promote her SYRN underwear range”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15531629/Sydney-Sweeney-best-advert-pulls-T-shirt-cheekily-flashes-bra-promote-SYRN-underwear-range.html
“Sydney Sweeney gets daring in black lingerie as she hints at future makeup line”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15529353/Sydney-Sweeney-gets-daring-black-lingerie.html
I am going to be controversial on this one and say WOULD.
Weirdo.
Stunning! Brave!
Calendar when?
Boston 1700s (AI Reconstruction)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GbINMis_Qs
on the one hand i hate ai slop. on the other stuff like this makes me think how it did look like
Every year, doctors at a hospital in the Yunnan Province of China brace themselves for an influx of people with an unusual complaint. The patients come with a strikingly odd symptom: visions of pint-sized, elf-like figures – marching under doors, crawling up walls and clinging to furniture.
1. Collect Mushrooms
2. ????
3. Profit
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260121-the-mysterious-mushroom-that-makes-you-see-tiny-people
People take psychedelics, news at 11
Faeries wear boots, I tell you no lies.
That’s a good song.
I thought the same. Haven’t heard it in quite a while.
Dang it.
I didn’t read the comments first.
“”At a mushroom hot pot restaurant there, the server set a timer for 15 minutes and warned us, ‘Don’t eat it until the timer goes off or you might see little people,'”
LOLOLOLOL
“Current tests suggest it is not likely related to any other known psychedelic compound. For one, the trips it produces are unusually long, commonly lasting one to three days after an onset of 12 to 24 hours, and in some cases even causing hospital stays of up to a week.”
That’s a lousy argument, there are tryptamines that last a long time.
There’s an interesting phenomenon to be investigated there, having to do with the variation of psychedelic experiences across cultures.
Gotta say, if the waitress says “Wait 15 minutes or you’ll see little people”, I might just dive right in.
Scott Alexander has a few posts about that subject, mainly focusing on penis thieves.
Ergot poisoning can explain a whole lot.
I vaguely remember an extremely dark Saturday morning cartoon that rewrote the old Pied Piper of Hamlin story – the piper poisoned the village grain supply with rye fungus as part of a con to get the village children out of town, whereon he sold them to an Arab slave trader.
Were they riding Welsh Corgis into battle?
I tell you no lies.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8e1W2O5jDPI
The Forbes 30 Under 30 to prison pipeline is my Roman Empire.
https://x.com/svershbow/status/2018398888650998055
I’ll volunteer my spare room if they’re short on jail space.
Morticia Addams works at OpenAI!
https://www.wsj.com/articles/openai-unveils-frontier-a-product-for-building-ai-co-workers-a013784c?st=bUTyb7&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Being a 50yo goth is really sad.
[ Nephilium walks out of room, quietly sobbing ]
Ted’s:
What did I do to you?
I’m not yet 50 (albeit close), and I was never a goth. I had plenty of goth friends, but was never a member of that subculture. Now, punk, rockabilly (especially psychobilly), and other subcultures I belong to have a high overlap with the goths.
That chick could be one of my college friends. That was the crowd I hung out with but I didn’t practice the look because it looks absolutely ridiculous on me.
My mind just always goes to Chris Kattan on SNL when “goth” comes up.
Also looks absolutely ridiculous:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-15528911/Teen-Mom-Farrah-Abraham-34-daughter-16-tattoos.html
Gah!
No kings
The judge went on to remind the government “of an American historical document called the Declaration of Independence” which, unlike the Constitution, is not a law but a statement of “enumerated grievances against a would-be authoritarian king over our nascent nation.”
King George III faced twenty-seven charges that formed the basis of the revolutionary generation’s quest for separation from the Royal Crown. Condemning what he called “the ill-conceived and incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children,” Judge Biery underscored four: “He has sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People;” “excited domestic insurrections among us;” “quarter[ed] large Bodies of Armed Troops among us;” and “kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies without the consent of our Legislatures.”
“‘We the people,’” the judge quipped, “are hearing echoes of that history.”
Other bits from the Declaration of Independence ring eerily true today, as well, including that the king “has refused his Assent to Laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public Good,” has “protect[ed]” armed troops “from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the inhabitants of these States,” has “cut[] off our Trade with all parts of the world,” and “has abdicated Government here, by … waging War against us.”
I have seen this “Trump is King George” talking point before.
Trump has a pen, and he has a phone.
WTFIWWJ?
OK, you should define that one. There are old people here.
Who the fuck is Whitewater Jesus?
Wtf is wrong with judges…
“Wtf is wrong with judges”
I got bored with typing it, just like “sometimes I just like the headline”.
Huh. I thought that one was “Stuff I just learned that happens”.
IGYLSNED
To be fair, King George was also a poopy-pants.
Not a judicial matter.
Also not a judicial matter.
So, does this mean having a kid provides immunity from arrest for any crime?
I will leave the historical illiteracy regarding the Declaration for others to unpack.
Deport judges?
Yes please.
I see your honor is advocating for armed rebellion.
Yeah, the Confederate states invoked – with some justification – the same claims. However, I doubt the good judge would be in support of secession.
In the wargame, absent American leadership, Russia managed within a couple of days to destroy the credibility of NATO and establish domination over the Baltics, by deploying an initial force of only some 15,000 troops.
No way… Where were the German EV tanks?
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/a-wargame-shows-just-how-vulnerable-europe-is-to-a-russian-attack-12dfdbfa?st=yownQn&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
NATO’s chihuahuas are the only ones that might have legitimate concerns when it comes to the Russians are coming hysteria so at least they got that part right.
I can’t imagine why Russia would be upset at all the red lines they made perfectly clear they did not want NATO to cross.
Absent American leadership or the American army? I don’t think our brilliant generals would be the difference maker.
If they are that worried, getting on friendlier diplomatic terms with Russia would be an option (while still preparing to defend themselves)? Not entirely sure what Russia would want with those places other than continued access to Kaliningrad – maybe don’t shut that off?
Placing what he called a “judicial finger in the constitutional dike,” Biery summed it up this way: “Observing human behavior confirms that for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power and the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds and are bereft of human decency. And the rule of law be damned.”
Fuck off, you pompous sanctimonious windbag.
The goddamn irony is goddamn ironic.
Biery has quite the high opinion of himself.
Let’s see if his betters at the appellate courts agree.
I don’t believe the chart’s current 8%.
The American and Chinese Economies Are Hurtling Toward a Messy Divorce
https://www.wsj.com/world/china/us-china-decouple-economy-minerals-tech-602fdee6?st=ohhmKZ&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Punch and Judy show
Bessent later mocked a question from Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., about shuttered investigations into cryptocurrency firms. Lynch expressed frustration with Bessent’s interruptions, saying, “Mister Chairman, the answers have to be responsive if we are going to have a serious hearing.”
Bessent replied, “Well, the questions have to be serious.”
After a back-and-forth over whether tariffs cause inflation or one-time price increases for consumers, California Democratic Rep. Maxine Waters asked committee leaders to intervene with Bessent: “Can someone shut him up?”
And in a fiery exchange with Rep. Gregory Meeks over the Abu Dhabi royal family’s investment into the Trump family’s World Liberty Financial cryptocurrency firm last year, the New York Democrat dropped an F-bomb as he shouted at Bessent: “Stop covering for the president! Stop being a flunky!”
The Treasury Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the fireworks.
“With all due respect, Your Grace…”
The duality of man:
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/melania
Melania has officially beaten Fauci for largest review gap between regular folks and critics. I never thought I would see the record set by Fauci beaten.
Huh. I would have expected the audience score to be closer to 50%.
Ayo. 99% on anything reeks of a 4Chan prank.
Time will tell. I remember Fauci was blown out with thousands of reviews indicating 2%, Rotten Tomatoes ended up resetting the count. Fauci only has about 500 reviews now. Still at 2%.
For Melania, critics indicating 5% collectively is just as bullshit as a customer rating of 99%.
Of course it’s bullshit. But that doesn’t mean that the critics don’t believe it.
That is hilarious.
You’d think it might cause some self-reflection on the part of the thoroughly partisan, biased reviewer club but of course it won’t.
Bessent’s performance was “not a role you typically see a treasury secretary play,” said Graham Steele, a former assistant secretary for financial institutions under Biden-era Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. The department has traditionally “been removed from some of the day-to-day, hand-to-hand political combat,” Steele said in an interview.
All the players knew their parts.
If Trump 2.0 has done nothing else, it has pulled back the curtain on what a ridiculous charade the American government has become.
It’s still lunacy, but a rather roundabout way to say Toyota was right. Also given average temperatures there it’s a smart move.
OTTAWA-Canada is ditching its electric-vehicle sales mandate and replacing it with more stringent tailpipe-emissions standards for automobiles that officials project will spur carbon reduction equal to 75% EV sales by 2035.
https://www.wsj.com/business/autos/canada-to-toughen-tailpipe-emissions-standards-9c452682?st=v8Em55&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
Kicking the acceptance of reality a little further down the road.
No matter, it’s not like anyone who supports this will be around to take responsibility for the damage.
The NM legislature is in town. They just passed a Net Zero by 2050 bill out of committee.
Of course, NY and CA’s grids are going to augur in long before that, so I expect not much will really come of it.
In recent months, Bessent has ratcheted up his insults when it comes to Democratic leaders.
He has called California Gov. Gavin Newsom “economically illiterate,” compared him to the fictional serial killer Patrick Bateman, and called him “a brontosaurus with a brain the size of a walnut.” He has on several occasions called Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren an “American Peronist” after she told American financial institutions not to finance the Trump administration’s massive support package for Argentina.
He also called Newsom “Sparkle Beach Ken”. We can’t forget that.
Maybe Bessent should be President.
I didn’t think telling the truth about someone was considered insulting. Newsom (like most pols) is economically illiterate. Warren would be right at home in a Peron government. So…where’s the insult?
Is he wrong though?
No lies detected.
“Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries Vow to Shut Down Government Unless These 10 OUTRAGEOUS Demands for ICE and DHS Agents Are Met”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/chuck-schumer-hakeem-jeffries-vow-shut-down-government/
Also, a pony.
No masks – sure, also no masks on the rioters.
But yeah, the Dems obviously want unlimited illegals again. I wonder why.
I’m 100% down with no masks. Law enforcement agents should not be allowed to conceal their identities from the public at large.
The caveat – the same goes for everyone else. You show up in public wearing a mask and carrying a weapon, I get to shoot you dead in the street with no further warning.
Halloween to be lit in ES’s neighborhood.
No masks, no plainclothes, either (just another form of concealing your identity as a cop from the general public, IMO).
This also would mean that the harassment of them and their families would have to be, err, vigorously managed. Action, reaction, bro.
No bias in this article, no sirree:
https://www.rri.ro/en/news-and-current-affairs/today-in-the-news/accusations-rejected-id979090.html
Let me guess – they investigated themselves and found they did nothing wrong?
Did you peruse the article?
“Moment bundle of gas-filled party balloons explode in fireball engulfing lift full of people who somehow escape with minor burns”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15530637/Moment-bundle-gas-filled-party-balloons-explode-fireball-engulfing-lift-people-escape-minor-burns.html
They don’t have helium in India?
Oh, the humanity.
Probably not.
Helium is usually collected as a byproduct of oil extraction in particular deposits. Which is why the US has always had a lot of it relative to much of the world.
This is such a ubiquitous recurring theme I won’t bother to link.
There would be considerable historical irony if the court decides to use the 14th Amendment to provide the legal cover for reversing a generation of Black political progress in the South.
Putting Democrats in office is unequivocally, by definition, the best outcome for black people, they claimed without evidence.
Never mind the titanic piles of actual evidence proving the exact opposite.
I’m not seeing the irony of applying a facially race-blind amendment to require race-blind districting, myself.