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I’m sure that’s gonna make them rethink their actions and just settle the hell down like good kids

Ohio Republican U.S. Sen. Jon Husted met with man accused of bribery 2 days before HB 6 was introduced, according to schedule ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/02/19/s...

"In Chicago, of 92 people arrested for assaulting or impeding officers last fall, 74 cases have resulted in no charges; in 13 cases, charges were filed and dismissed; and five charged cases were still pending. . . there have been no convictions. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Time for my favorite gif!

There is now a spreadsheet connecting (alleged/potential) perpetrators in the Epstein files with the businesses they own. It also categorises them by closeness to Epstein (were they corresponding regularly or just at the same social events) and subtlety… docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

Allowing the least cool people in America to think they matter to real culture is one of the biggest reasons you can't trust the media. Bill Maher is pitching to like 8 people but the execs who make shows agree with him so he gets a show. Epstein Class shit.

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

Please tell me why we need Democratic "centrists" again? Why? www.notus.org/money/tom-su...

Perdue updates the Chinese Exclusion Act.

Here's the documentary that 1.1 million Hungarians have watched over the past week, documenting the damage that Viktor Orban's regime has done to health, education and public transportation in Hungary with English subtitles: youtu.be/9NQEcLIiOpM?...

I urge you to stop what you're doing and watch Alysa Liu's free skate from yesterday. I have never seen anything like this. I understand why sports writers are born now. I have never seen anyone as free from the burdens of this world as this pierced Oakland girl spinning to Donna Summers.

This post is going around again so I will add this excellent resource: leavesubstack.com

Fuck this is stunningly good. Perfect snapshots of the Twin Cities. "We are legion, the local moms and dads, we cruise the city in our minivans. You can’t shoot us all." (Gift link)

Part of the context here is that Bucks County recently elected an anti-ICE sheriff to replace their pro-ICE sheriff. The actions of Quakertown police (which is separate) are best understood as a gang that sees its power to intimidate slipping and so has initiated a violent suppression campaign.

Today’s music 🎶

There’s a lot of confusion about what’s happening on the ground in the Twin Cities right now, so I want to share an update from a community meeting yesterday, 2/19: 🧵 ⚠️ 1/6. We are still under attack. There may be fewer agents in town, but ICE is still very much in action in the Cities and suburbs.

I ain’t hit no pithy jokes no more. We gotta start actively knocking these fools out And we have to learn that the reason they hate sex education and 230 and cultural studies and gender studies Is because they don’t want their victims to have options to avoid or report them

You can completely uninstall/disable copilot on Windows. Your system and local search will run faster afterward. www.howtogeek.com/how-to-rip-o...

While I have everyone, I will share a bonus tip. Two of the smartest things you can instill in your children through word and action are: "safe people will never ask you to keep a secret about your body" and "If a grown up says I'm going to be mad at you, they're wrong"

Essay: Finding #SFinTranslation www.sfintranslation.com?p=16357

Pack the court with so many people that you won't even know their names. That it won't even be news when one of them dies. That they have to meet in an NFL stadium. That their relatives won't realize they're related to a Supreme Court justice. That they quit because they don't feel important.

This should be a bigger story. More than 15,000 American farms shut down in 2025.

Ohio State's Department of Political Science & Yale University's Law School should be so ashamed of JD Vance. The former especially since they hired him back for their students to learn from. He reflects terribly on both institutions. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Her father fled China because he organized student protests during Tiananmen. He was a political refugee. The story of this family, and Alysa Liu, would have played out very differently today. This is what we're losing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/w...

"Guess it's not a good day to be a bad guy, huh, Skank?"

Massive opportunity for some reporter to grow a spine and ask a pointed question about Epstein.

As an Ohioan (and Bobcat) whose lived in Columbus for two decades, it’s a special kind of satisfying to see the tide of opinion start to turn against the strutters and back-slappers running THE university here in town

The GenX urge to go and stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home, and you cry and you want to die

DFW is the fastest growing area in the United States. Just FYI on how many have already been exposed or will be.

And here. we. go. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vysY...

We could have photos like this too if peole gave a shit about men raping kids in this country

A really excellent example of someone who knows what they’re talking about, and an interviewer who lets them offer that information in useful ways.

the AI push is a culture war hail mary by the techfash right. They know that culture is defined by creatives. They told us their tech could replace creatives as producers of creative output, which means replacing creatives as the arbiters of culture. Then it failed to do that. They've lost

I would trade multiple toes to play trumpet the way this Absolute Stud does. Today’s music 🎶

In case you thought that the ICE siege in Minnesota is over, here is one of our state senators giving an update 👇

We absolutely need to push for elite accountability in the US, but a king throwing the younger brother he's never liked to the wolves is the kind of thing that's been going on as long as there have been kings. Actual elite accountability in the UK would extend to people currently in favor.

Full post below. “My reporting on marginalized children is the result of an internet beef with a marginalized adult from the same community” is the dictionary definition of disqualifying

Starting to get some clout in this godforsaken state.

Some stunning takeaways from the Les Wexner Epstein deposition today: -He claims the DOJ & FBI never contacted him, even though a co-conspirator -He claims he was not close to Epstein even though Epstein‘s wealth was built on his relationship -Not a single Republican showed up for the deposition.

We've now been doing AI hype for 3-4 years and they're still faking the quality of the outputs of their video generators. A flagrant con job pulled on the internet and everyone who shared this video.

New — I wrote about WINNING for a change!

Word of advice, because people seem naive on social media: If someone is not revealing their real identity but have lots of insider information and friends on the inside, e.g', politics, film etc — they are full of shit. Block and move on.

Ooo they’re working up the biggest distractions they can think of, aren’t they. Glorious.

When facing questions about your caucus taking $10K from Leslie Wexner in 2025—I'd recommend not claiming that the pedophile associate should have given you more money before fleeing into the nearest men's room

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)

We were told to scrub "biodiversity" from our websites because of this shit.

There are 28 Republican members on the House Oversight Committee. None of them showed for Les Wexner’s deposition on Epstein. Cowards.