Having just been through the worst flu in my life thanks to the unavailability of a flu shot, I would just like to say RFK deserves to be hunted for sport.

hello and welcome to the political genius exam. here is question one. which is a more compelling message: - the president is sending armies to occupy cities and kidnap and kill people and your town could be next - a meal at the cheesecake factory that previously cost $100 now costs $104.9

I work in procurement and our vendors have been rolling out AI systems and... it has been a disaster. The AI gets everything wrong and I have to navigate a labyrinthian telephone menu to get to a human to fix it. This has big "We'll colonize the moon in 10 years!" Musk energy.

this same exact headline drops max three weeks after every platform integrates this shit. it all started being pushed at the same time too. i sort of just assumed this was already the case. i didn't know anyone needed to say it.

DHS funding officially lapsed as of 12:01am tonight. The shut down is due to ICE’s aggression in Minnesota, including the murder of two US citizens. ICE will still be paid while employees with FEMA, TSA & Coast Guard will be expected to work for free. Dems can’t negotiate on this. Abolish ICE

Restore Customs and the Secret Service to the Treasury. Restore TSA and the Coast Guard to the Dept. of Transportation. Restore FEMA to its original independent status - hell, make it a whole Department, we're going to need it. Restore all the small random agencies to Justice. Be done with it.

US Troops killed all the guards at Dachau for this kind of shit.

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

the "it's impossible to have a conversation about AI right now" folks need to grok that a huge volume of that furor is entirely justified rage at the fact tech oligarchs purchased an automated murder autocracy; rage that's good and useful and deserves a generous berth in the months and years to come

There seems to be a lot of discussion about Gavin Newsom today. I wanted to re-share this piece that I wrote, because I have a lot of center-to-left Dems that follow me that want to understand. There are very good reasons transgender people do not like Gavin Newsom.

If you have a Ring camera, take a hammer to it. If your neighbor has one, give them a hammer as a gift.

Look! "News of a potential immigrant detention center in Kansas City sparked fierce public backlash over the past month. At rallies and protests, many people called on Platform Ventures to not sell the building to the federal government..." And now: www.kcur.org/news/2026-02...

The administration is relocating ICE agents to other parts of the country to see if they can achieve better results with the same tactics there. If you're outside the Twin Cities, learn and replicate their model for resistance. If you're in the Twin Cities, keep your networks intact and carry on.🖤

On a trajectory to ruination for decades now we all feel powerless to stop it and every couple years some mega rich asshole poor gasoline on the fire to watch it burn brighter and tell us if we’re good we can play in the ashes. I’m done, I’m out. I’m not playing this fucking game anymore. 6/

Almost everyone "on the left" doesn't have a problem with machine learning, or technology, or progress. They do have problems with security, safety, mental health outcomes, plagiarism, labor distributions, and environmental & energy impact. Industry regulation is not some unreasonable leftist ask.

Every word of this is a lie. And any news organization that quotes this without saying as much is failing its audience.

There's tens of billions tied up in this. Thousands of blood profiteers will want a return on their investment. This just means they might be in your neighborhood next.

Remember, no matter how complicit Democrats are, they are helpless little babies, & we can’t blame them, even if Chuck Schumer approved EVERY Trump judicial nominee w/o question.

I'm not believing this until I hear from people in the streets of MN and neither should you

It isn't enough that the operation draws down here. This violent occupation cannot happen ANYWHERE. DHS is a lawless, unaccountable organization that needs to be dismantled and investigated. And every act of violence must be prosecuted.

I would like the definitions of "small" and "footprint" please

no Elon, all experts agree the ideal close quarters weapon is a Sig P320, carried in a special holster configuration only used by special forces guys called "reverse appendix carry". If the barrel is pointed into your guts when holstered you're doing it right. Always keep the chamber loaded.

It's really unfortunate that it's not possible to have a reasonable discussion about The Torment Nexus on here.

A reasonable discussion about AI would come to the conclusion that this tech is damaging to humanity in virtually every way a tech can be damaging. But I'd rather have an emotional discussion and point out that this tech is shit made by assholes, and it stole from me, personally, so fuck 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...

Trump didn’t really TACO. Homan didn’t change tactics. They just wanted the media to look away

"We can agree that we're not going to have 100% unity of ideas, but we can have a unity of action." -Sam Hamilton Fighting ICE's Warehouse Prisons - It Could Happen Here @coolzonemedia.bsky.social @jamesstout.bsky.social

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Microsoft, Google, Meta and Amazon paying influencers $400k-$600k to post months of AI hype content. Absolutely busted, failed industry, embarrassing era www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/g...

Media moved on because for one hour Trump pinky-swore he was going to do his genocide in a nicer way, and every day since the people in Minnesota are showing us it looks like a war zone

Charlottesville High School students join students at high schools across the country to protest ICE in their communities. cvillerightnow.com/news/208802-...

I find this question about whether chatbots are “alive” to be truly, truly boring. You can torture a definition of “life” so that it includes chatbots or you can listen to actual, unequivocal flesh-and-blood people talking about harm it does them *right now*.

“reports from inside the company” so the people with a vested economic interest in making sure you believe the fancy random word generator is alive are telling you it’s alive without any backing evidence?

Hey @amyklobuchar.com, you do not even have to be original or bold. You can simply follow Ed here and you will be doing more for Minnesotans than you have at any other point during this siege. It can be that simple.

The government of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum announced the shipment of 814 tons of milk, meat, beans, rice, and other foodstuffs to Cuba on Sunday, February 8.

So this is what dysfunctional government looks like. Professional capacity and institutional knowledge carved out, political leadership with no experience, and just constant breakdowns where you would never think to look because usually this was not even conceivable place for a fuckup.

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

We need as much video as possible. Like this story about a citizen protester being arrested by ICE for following their instructions.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

Donald Trump’s DOJ just tried—and failed—to indict me in front of a grand jury. We will continue to fight back against their rising tyranny. Don’t Give Up the Ship.

Not just the city. I'm in the suburbs, but it's real out here too. Teachers calming sobbing students who can't get a hold of their parents, students ready to go to war, parents arming themselves at work in case they need to go to their kid's school. I'm not kidding. It's everywhere.

Post a tree you photographed

"You need to turn off this feature in Ring" No you need to get rid of your ring. The best time to do that was a while ago, the second best is now. And I say this as someone with a door camera (we've had some issues), there are other options that do not have cloud storage or connect to the internet.

MINNESOTA IS NOT OK. EVERYONE NEEDS TO BE TALKING ABOUT MINNESOTA… THEY ARE LITERALLY FEEDING FAMILIES THROUGH UNDERGROUND RAILROAD STYLE ROUTES THROUGHOUT THE CITY AND APPARENTLY HELICOPTERS AND DRONES FLY OVERHEAD CONSTANTLY EVEN THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT.

I spent the morning at the DOJ looking at the unredacted Epstein files. Here are my initial thoughts and what I’ve found, so far.

Don’t look away from MN. ICE is still wreaking havoc across the state - changing their tactics to deceive Minnesotans - pretending to be construction workers or folks delivering groceries. Still over 2,000 ICE agents in the state. They’re not going anywhere, your anger and outrage shouldn’t either.

Because it's made by dead-eyed morons who understand nothing, believe in nothing, bring no beauty to the world, have no capacity for reflection, and immiserate our collective existence with every hateful sentence they squirt out of their wet, waxy mouths. NEXT.

Wsj hiding any comments that point out this looks like an ICE agent, really does underline that when masked men show up to your door you should have one objective regardless of who they belong to.