The government is asking for public comments on whether banks should be able to deny you from buying legal goods at their own whim (i.e. how they're cracking down on art)
Tell them you don't want to be told how to spend your money
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I found what I'll vaguely obfuscate as the 'cloning' plotline particularly grim and funny.
Also it's basically real!
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“No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.” www.columnblog.com/p/corporate-...
Look, it's perfectly clear, they consider every other country a vassal that should pay them tribute or an antagonist. There isn't really any other category you can be in.
Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.
No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.
Worth a watch.
(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)
>WHCOS wears a smart watch
Resident Evil 9 is insanely good. I was up until 5am playing and I had to pry myself away from the game to sleep.
this bill is legitimately a three-alarm fire. if they manage to define trans existence as explicit then there is nothing stopping them from genocide. i need every single cis person talking about this, calling their reps, getting out in the streets.
NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims.
By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social
Trump and Hegseth murder 11 more people on the high seas, and it barely makes a blip in the news cycle: www.cnn.com/2026/02/17/p...
I am old and tired and what's left of my capacity for social engagement is circling the drain.
you're the man now dog!
Post old memes to confuse young people
“the president’s speech is going to be over two hours long!” they’re doing kalshi shit guys. they’re leaking a bunch of stuff about a super long speech and he’ll go about 2 minutes short of the supposed mark and everyone in the white house will make $200k on it
NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.
Cover page of a report. Text reads, "Breaking Government: How DOGE and Trump Cost Taxpayers, Federal Workers, and Public Services. Interim Staff Analysis. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. U.S. House of Representatives. February 12, 2026. oversightdemocrats.house.gov"
Though this hasn't received much news coverage, we're sharing in case our community is interested in reading the report in full. Link in 🧵.
What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?
Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards
My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Who was it said, "Fascism has already been defeated in the marketplace of ideas -- primarily the idea of the B-29 Superfortress"?
The level of graft and corruption we have in Washington right now is egregious, and Kristi Noem deserves prison for many things, and there is no way she (or really anyone) needs or deserves such a plane, especially one we paid for. Also, really, bidets are amazing and every plane should have them.
On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
Rand Paul to ICE officials on Pretti's killing: "Because people within the government made conclusions immediately that he was a terrorist and an assassin, people aren't believing that it's gonna be an honest investigation ... there has to ultimately be repercussions ... it's inexcusable."
And JK Rowling appears in both.
Invoking wealthy class solidarity to excuse sex crimes against children is sorta the Epstein Class in a nutshell
image from today's hearing
Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them
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IHUFFPOSTI "Basically, I'm just fed up with the fact that I'm cis-gendered, I'm a white male, and I lean right, towards the Republican side," said Fears, 28, wearing a pin of the 3rd SS Panzer Division Totenkopf of the Waffen-SS. "And I get demonized if I don't accept certain things."
The vibe of Delta Green is specific and one of my favorites: 'I understand how the government works and I understand people - and because of this, I have no hope.'
Maybe I'm wrong or projecting (as a full time government hack) but that is why I love it.
I can't underline enough how absolutely perfect this edit is without jabbering through more lore and podcast facts than any human being will reasonably follow.
My favorite midwestern emo band is Delta Green
Shart Week
