One of my websites is crumbling under a flood of traffic from thousands of different IP addresses this evening. They retrieve only HTML (no images, JS, CSS, etc.), and they claim to be all kinds of different user agents. CloudFlare can't really help here. I guarantee this is some AI-training thing.

In the past year, Trump has promised... -$5000 stimulus checks via "DOGE dividend" -$2000 stimulus checks via "tariff dividend" -$1000+ checks via "savings" from expiring ACA subsidies So far, no checks have materialized. www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-magi...

Wild that a sitting member of Congress, a Republican no less, feels compelled to post this.

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

Homeland Security is said to have sent Google and Meta hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or criticize ICE.

At 1:17 Noem says it’s DHS’s job to make sure the “right people” elect “the right leaders.”

I spent many years running various active online communities and something I don't think I ever did was simply turn off comments for a while. On reflection, I'm not sure why not. It's a good way to interrupt bad patterns.

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back. Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

And yet the Post just laid off 13 climate reporters.

Death Becomes Her The Nightmare Before Christmas Galaxy Quest The Crow Hedwig and the Angry Inch The Big Lebowski

This is the story of a gigantic dipshit being largely constrained by career staff at GSA while White House buffoons simultaneously give him authority to do absurd things. I can’t see a plausible explanation for why GSA should be buying (sole-sourcing!) missiles.

"The form for the second person on the list bore the initials of a member of her staff, who’d helped the man register — at his naturalization ceremony. It later turned out more than half the Boone County voters identified as noncitizens were actually citizens." www.propublica.org/article/save...

I'm gonna tell my kids this is "Interstellar"

Pretty much the most important thing happening in the world right now. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...

This is really, really dark. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

Democrats should promise, today, that Melania Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel will be stripped of citizenship and deported if the administration advances this effort

Hegseth's unconstitutional retaliation against Sen. Kelly was so brazen that an exasperated federal judge used more than a dozen exclamation points! Highlights from the ruling: "Horsefeathers!" and "Please!" "That is a troubling development in a free country!" buff.ly/YY60KWM

Breaking WSJ: The highly classified whistleblower complaint against Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is related to a conversation intercepted last spring in which two foreign nationals discussed Jared Kushner, according to U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

To The Hague

U.S. Attorney Chosen by Judges to Replace Trump Pick, Who Was Serving Unlawfully, Is Quickly Fired by White House www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/n...

When your reporters and editors don’t understand technology. (ffmpeg. This is attempting to name ffmpeg.)

Nancy Guthrie's Nest camera didn't have a premium subscription for preserving her camera's data, but it was apparently pushed into the cloud anyway.

Bondi’s performance yesterday marks a new low for the Trump administration and for the country. There can be no interpretation but that Trump is deeply enmeshed in the Epstein sex crimes network. We’ll all see that video again when this regime goes on trial.

Gee, Universal Basic Income recoups more than it costs AND the recipients are happier and healthier. Hmmm. Where have I seen those results before? Oh yes, in every other goddam pilot study of UBI for more than a decade. Ireland joins Finland in at least making a start.

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

OK, now *this* is the right level of stupid. Bravo, just great stuff all around. Hell of a show.

Lol, how the cio.gov NDS-created design system implements "input with label" vs. how the US Web Design System does it

So DOD risked civilian airspace to obliterate some fucking balloons; when FAA found out and asked them to stop they refused; FAA did what it had to keep people safe; when the public rightly freaked out, DOD relented, lied, and blamed the FAA. Sounds like Hegseth! www.cnn.com/2026/02/11/u...

Scoop: Top FDA official Vinay Prasad overruled the agency’s reviewers when he refused to accept Moderna’s application for a new influenza vaccine, STAT has learned. www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...

When you are the nation's official "design studio" and you take the quality of government websites very seriously cio.gov

This is some genuinely psycho shit...

CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.

Rockwell would have painted this.

over a year ago, i gave a talk at the xoxo conference about a mural, a mcdonald’s, and a man. (but it was also secretly about life, and legacy, and meaning.) finally, i’m blogging the full story, with behind-the-scenes details, and a video of the talk. enjoy. cabel.com/wes-cook-and...

China performed a successful in-flight abort test of the Mengzhou crew spacecraft and a reentry, powered descent and splashdown of a first stage CZ-10A today. Big step for its lunar and human spaceflight programs

oh my god bsky.app/profile/pbum...

Not beating the charges

simply one of the greatest calls of all time

Bondi's whole performance today is for an audience of one. For her more outlandish comments today, she was reading from notes.

Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."

@traceypooh.bsky.social 👋 Just thinking about you! I hope y’all are well. :)

When the ketamine hits

CNN aviation reporter

This is such a wild thing to say to someone who just shot an unarmed person bsky.app/profile/jmet...

FTFY, @nytimes.com

Get in losers we’re doing central planning without the planning