So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?

At pretty much all levels of civic engagement and responsibility, I wish more Americans would care about the world outside of America. (Or, in the alternative, that they would care much less. Be the isolationists you long to be!)

Partial text of Texas secession declaration: "We hold as undeniable truths that the governments of the various States, and of the confederacy itself, were established exclusively by the white race, for themselves and their posterity; that the African race had no agency in their establishment; that they were rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race, and in that condition only could their existence in this country be rendered beneficial or tolerable. That in this free government all white men are and of right ought to be entitled to equal civil and political rights; that the servitude of the African race, as existing in these States, is mutually beneficial to both bond and free, and is abundantly authorized and justified by the experience of mankind, and the revealed will of the Almighty Creator, as recognized by all Christian nations; while the destruction of the existing relations between the two races, as advocated by our sectional enemies, would bring inevitable calamities upon both and desolation upon the fifteen slave-holding States."

I learned from a statue on the Texas Capitol grounds that many slaves found jobs after emancipation due to the skills taught them by their owners.

How kind of the owners, looking out for slaves' future employability.

The secession declaration would have been more educational, imo:

[charlie brown high fiving everyone after a funeral] good grief. good grief. good grief.

If they want to provide a fancy UI on top of the raw data and value-added things like indexes to allow free-text searching the data, then sure, they can trot out WAFs with captchas for that bit.

I think my main thrust is the underlying data can be provided robustly and cheaply, and it should be.

Sure - so they should figure out how to serve the public good while protecting their own interests. A lot of data could exist as an S3 bucket with rate limits, billed at $0.04/GB transfer and $0.01/1K requests.

e.g. in 2016 PACER cost $3M to operate, but charged $146M in fees. Lunacy, but common.

(and I do understand the cost concerns around crawlers, having operated multiple sites that got aggressively, maliciously or incompetent crawled at the 100s of reqs/sec rate -- there are solutions that don't involve banning all access, IMO)

I'm pretty bullish on what AI can do, especially in this area of democratizing wacky one-off personal projects.

I do think it'll be hampered a bit by how many sites block scrapers/crawlers. I'm optimistic (foolishly?) that government-run stuff can be legislated to disable such blockers, tho.

25 Years of Eggs Two AI agents, 11,345 receipts, and 1.6 billion tokens to find out what I’ve spent on eggs since 2001.

I love that there are people like this in the world: www.john-rush.com/posts/eggs-2...

oh hell yes, had kalshi getting charged before april on polymarket at +2500

ME: pack a bag, we’re flying to kansas

MY WAYWARD SON: what kind of bag

Just wild to me what that country has become.

man, this game.

They incarcerated a white, retired British grandmother with a valid visa.

For 2 months.

I'm glad this article gets into what most don't: Even if you manage to get released, that's 2 months of not paying your bills. Her credit was wrecked.

She's retired - younger folks would have lost their jobs.

I will take any opportunity to post this again

CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.

my wife: we have to wear what we died in for eternity!?

st. peter: that’s right

me: [from the back end of our horse costume] what’d he say

BBC News headlines: Education School caterers 'confident' of meat Missing children data 'worrying'

Happy 13th anniversary to this pair of matching news headlines.

a meme — the top says “My dog just got a haircut and now he looks like he gave up drinking and got his life together” and underneath are 2 photos of a dog (a schnauzer i think?). on the left, the “before,” he’s scruffy and in need of a haircut and a bath. and on the right, the “after,” he’s clean and clipped and wearing a jaunty red bow tie and looking very dapper indeed.

i don’t know if it’s the jaunty bow tie or what but i cannot stop laughing at this

Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved.

DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.

friend of mine is an undocumented immigrant and has been hiding in Melania theaters bc he knows people assume no one is in there

He was convicted, had to give the ass nuggets back, and has since been released.

There's a dude on LinkedIn who shares the offender's name, and advertises himself as a "Procurement Specialist" with a "diverse" background in logistics.

I dunno if it's the same guy, but if it is, that's hilarious.

How am I only now learning about the Canadian mint employee who stole gold by smuggling it in his rectum?

(and more importantly, only now learning that Ontario has a Justice Doody, who oversaw the man's trial.)

I've been sent video from the end of the ICE raid at the Zipps on 32nd and Shea.

It shows protesters -- on the sidewalk, impeding no one -- getting drive-by maced by an ICE agent from a truck as it rolls away down the road.

Hard to see how such tactics are justifiable.

Woman on the right was using her walker to advance into the tear gas

Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.

Ah, yes, when DHS said medics on the scene provided aid, they meant that a pediatrician bystander had to convince them to let him assess the man they shot, and on whom they were not performing first aid.

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

The New York Times When a Coat Becomes a Symbol of Conflict How the choice of outerwear for Gregory Bovino, the president’s Border Patrol chief, turned into part of the deportation story.

Gregory Bovino Der ICE-Kommandant im Nazi-Look Martialisch und effektheischend, so tritt ICE-Kommandant Gregory Bovino gern auf. 22.01.2026, 17.09 Uhr

the nyt style section vs. der spiegel

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.