Just teleported to Waffle House. It works. Stop being mean to that guy.

Photo of a crowd with signs by a statue.

Middletown CT today

A little folk music from No Kings in Middletown, CT

Uncle Jeffy Tiedrich says today in his newsletter:

"Here’s one sure way you can tell you’re living in a shithole country: when the following two headlines appear one after another."

what is even the point of this

Called it!

So, Trump starts a bullshit organization “Bored of Peace” appoints himself lifetime chair, and contributes 10 billion dollars of American taxpayers money to himself? In what world?

Shameful—but in a way useful. No one should any longer pretend we have a “Department of Justice.” We have a Department of Trump.

Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislatu… YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

“FCC you.” - Colbert to Carr, youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A

Massie not backing down.

What a humongous piece of shit

The RFK number seems like a massive failure of the media to explain what RFK is doing to our public health system and how catastrophic it will be

Analysis | Primary season has arrived. Why these races matter so much in 2026. A 21st-century-record number of seats are opening, and races will be raucous and crowded, reflecting both parties’ ideological, stylistic and generational tensions.

Primary season is already here. Typically only one in 5 voters bother to show up in primaries. Here's why primaries will be some of the most important races in 2026. Plus six early ones to watch. wapo.st/3ZDDFfX (giftlink)

Meta is putting a "Name Tag" feature in Ray-Bans - facial recognition through the glasses' camera. You look at someone, AI tells you who they are.
In an internal document, the company wrote that the timing is good because civil society groups are busy with politics and won't cause problems.

U.S. Deports Nine Migrants in Secret, Ignoring Legal Protections

NYT: Trump secretly deported 9 migrants despite court orders to not remove them to their home nations. So, he sent them to prison in Cameroon: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/w...

This is the way.

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

Good thread. This administration drank its own KoolAid and believed the Fox News/Newsmax fantasy about what the rest of the country is like. Echo chambers are dangerous — especially for the occupants.

Social media post: todd.m.kirchhoff 2d Just remember liberals are easily scared. They are not tough fighting types. A virus dictated their whole life for 2 + years. whkennedy23 Sir, y'all couldn't tolerate a thirteen minute halftime show.

Personally, I would have addressed him as something more 'colorful' than "Sir" in my answer.

Trump erupts over ‘waste of time’ dinner with ‘jerk’ Bill Maher in unhinged tirade President Donald Trump launched into a near 500-word spiel Saturday to voice his regret over having hosted comedian Bill Maher at the White House, calling the television host a “jerk” who displayed “zero confidence” during their recent time together.Writing on his social media platform Truth Social,...

President Donald Trump launched into a near 500-word spiel Saturday to voice his regret over having hosted comedian Bill Maher at the White House, calling the television host a "jerk" who displayed "zero confidence" during their recent time together.

Trump Worries Epstein Investigations in Europe May Probe His Overseas Bank Accounts 2/14 YouTube video by Jay's World

Reports are saying that Trump is extremely worried that Investigations in Europe into Epstein and crimes may probe his overseas bank accounts.

This definitely doesn’t sound like an innocent man!

#USDemocracy
#Pinks

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I do not wish to be mean, but if I hear you in the year 2026 claiming that Elon Musk "saved free speech" from "leftist censors" I am going to question your judgment on pretty much everything else, because you do not live in reality.

C’mon, Chuck. You’re fighting to “rein in” ICE? DEFUND ICE.

ICE has forfeited that claim thanks to its own behavior and leadership. It’s not a “legitimate law enforcement agency.” Defund ICE.

Jeffrey Epstein's December 20, 2016 email to Bill Gates: "come to visit the island. new administration people visiting."

What was the upcoming administration in December2016? Oh!

Sanders: The American people do not want this country to be an authoritarian society or an oligarchy. We have our differences, that’s what democracy is about—we argue it out. We don’t throw people who disagree in jail. We don’t intimidate the media. We don’t send ICE agents to shoot people.

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

One thing that's fun is that if you're black and you don't have much experience, it's woke dei if you get the job, and if you're black and you have all the experience in the world, you're an out of touch elite who is not really black and doesn't deserve the job.

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WATCH: Trump, EPA's Zeldin announce end of scientific basis for U.S. action on climate change The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressiv...

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change—all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.