I’m going to HULGA — Help Unfit Losers Go Away

. @jamestalarico.bsky.social: "This is the party that ran against cancel culture, and now they're trying to control what we watch, what we say, what we read. And this is the most dangerous kind of cancel culture, the kind that comes from the top" www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

OPM recently published its final rule implementing Schedule Policy/Career, which would convert at least 50,000 federal employees to at-will employment status. @nicholasbednar.bsky.social explores the constitutional theory being asserted by this rule, which would upend 150 years of civil service law.

The conspiracy theory that what Bondi is really burying is an Epstein snuff video is ironic, considering Hegseth and Noem are pumping out snuff videos for the pleasure of their sick boss.

Today we honor the life and legacy of Rev. Jesse Jackson. May we carry his work forward.

Meta’s AI glasses empower creeps open.substack.com/pub/oligarch...

Rev. Jesse Jackson dedicated his life to expanding who gets to belong in American democracy. From civil rights to economic justice, he challenged power and widened the path for Black Americans. May we honor his legacy not just with words, but by continuing the work. www.nbcnews.com/news/obituar...

I wrote about the Epstein files and how they illustrate the fact that the oligarchs are not exactly rigorous thinkers. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

"It's not artificial intelligence. It's African intelligence." Michael Geoffrey Asia, the secretary general of the Data Labelers Association in Kenya tells @jasonkoebler.bsky.social about the notoriously brutal and underpaid work of training AI. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH65...

What’s one way we can rein in ICE? We can start by boycotting ICE’s corporate collaborators that are profiting from the agency’s cruelty. Watch.

It's funny in an awful way.

Colbert just broke down Brendan Carr’s attempt to silence his dissent after CBS used lawyers to prevent his interview with James Talarico, thanks to a new FCC rule put into place specifically for Trump. You can watch Colbert’s full interview with James Talarico here: substack.com/profile/2357...

Inside the Homeland Security Forum Where ICE Agents Talk Shit About Other Agents @telliotter.bsky.social reports from inside yet ANOTHER ICE agent forum:

Slow clap for the stupids. Looking at you, Trump & Co.

C(rippled) I(mperiled) S(hell of an) A(gency)

From Rybolovlev with Love: How Trump's DHS Funnels Cash to Russian Oligarchs As DHS overpays for concentration camp shells, it's worth revisiting the failures of US intelligence agencies who were supposed to protect us from organized crime, and why we need to push on

There's not all bad news in the world. Today is Rush Limbaugh's 1,825th day of sobriety.

Coverage of Andy Barr, a sitting Congressman and candidate for U.S. Senate, running an ad declaring, "It's not a sin to be white" -- a variation of a notorious white nationalist slogan AP: Zero NYT: Zero WashPost: Zero Reuters: Zero Politico: Zero Axios: Zero

Every day and twice on Sunday.

investigation into three Israeli cyber companies that have created spyware for cars - they can now tap with zero action into your car's microphones and cameras etc www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

youtu.be/CUslVvOkReU Now I'm sure they'll say they are for garbage, but remember what they consider garbage.

substack.com/@thiswillhol... He’s money laundering for Russia 🤬🤬🤬

All data centers produce is the need for more data centers. Not sustainable. Who left these idiots in charge of our destiny as a species? They fucked up. Map of data center infrastructure flowingdata.com/2026/02/06/m...

Oh, look…

Community Notes contributions on the upswing again. This is evidence that community fact-checking is highly active, but largely ineffective at producing consensus or impact… What hasn’t changed is that only 11.0% of proposed notes are visible on X, while 89.0% are not. notetracker.socialmedialab.ca

None of the big AI labs are your friends so don’t get too excited, but the Pentagon is, according to an anonymously sourced Axios story, threatening to quit using Anthropic AI tools because of the company’s “insistence on maintaining some limitations on how the military uses its models.”

Happy Presidents’ Day. Too bad we’re stuck with the worst one in history right now. Again.

That the Israeli Intelligence Service had all the information in the Epstein Files on the business and political leaders who put their country’s interests second to Netanyahu’s interests isn’t a coincidence.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. — Henry Adams

This 5yo child spent more time in jail than the hundreds of politicians and businessmen who sexually assaulted thousands of children with Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump.

Daily Beast: A federal employee, Brashad Johnson, responsible for conducting background checks on ICE’s new applicants, has been arrested in a human trafficking sting.

The problem with a hollowed out DOJ that can't really function and an Executive Branch that relies on paramilitary thugs with a budget in the billions is this: When the rule of law no longer functions the rule of force takes it's place. People with guns are then calling the shots. Democracy is gone.

Unlike the GOP, today I will not be at church pretending to be a follower of Christ while simultaneously cheering for Nazis terrorizing immigrants and U.S. communities nor will I be sitting in the pews doubling down on my blind faith to a kid raping, narcopathic president.

Activists released Jikipedia, which makes ALL Epstein's co-conspirators and their crimes easy to find in one place. jmail.world/wiki

A man was accused of impersonating police and assaulting a McDonald's manager over a false immigration status claim. local12.com/news/nation-...

Senator @gallego.senate.gov warns that Trump’s "mob boss" foreign policy is driving our closest allies straight into the arms of China. While Trump picks fights with neighbors, Beijing is building the future of the Americas. Read the full op-ed:

Trump & Co. will be roling this out if they haven't already.

FAFO

Searchable database of unregulated political contributions flowingdata.com/2026/02/12/s...

I don't normally keep up with what the Army is reading these days, but I happened to click on this official recommended reading list for junior officers and it's appalling. 53 of 66 titles are corporate-style self-help books. This is a great way to hollow out and dumb down your military.

Unfit.

Wut?

When your name shows up over a million times in the Epstein files and you’ve spent thirteen months trying to keep them hidden, you can’t call it a Democratic hoax anymore. Maybe lose the smug act, JD, even MAGA isn’t buying it.

—> open.substack.com/pub/glennkes...

YES 🙌🏻