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.

The French Lieutenants Muppet

Teenage me: the Doors are great! Jim Morrison is sooooo deep. Post-teenage me: God, the Doors suck, what was I thinking. Present-day me: The Doors' instrumentalists are amazing and they should have just kicked Morrison out of the band.

How Posobiec sees himself (above) How people see Posobiec (below)

Not star wars related, but this is the same problem Nu Star Trek has. Recycling old characters (Spock, Kirk, etc) and leaving aside high concept sci fi and exploration. The galaxy should be huge and weird and scary at times. Endless opportunities, which it we arent' getting.

Where does a shark have to go these days to get some goddamn peace and quiet

"Abu Lulu, a brigadier general in the Rapid Support Forces involved in the Sudanese Civil War, films himself executing civilians or prisoners and does Tiktok live segments where he boasts about how he has killed so many people that he has lost count." www.liberalcurrents.com/killing-for-...

The richest man in the world told me that he keeps running his companies into the ground so I asked what happened and he said he just acquires new ones and merges them with X and I said it sounds like he's just feeding perfectly good companies to X and his daughter started crying.

i also just don’t know how you look at what clergy have been doing in mobilizing against ICE and think that right now is a good time to start complaining about christian progressives, like, pick your battles better

New Past Lives: Moll and the Indian Slave Trade in Colonial America. While the horrors of the Transatlantic trade are well known, hundreds of thousands of indigenous people were trafficked into slavery in North America as well. Moll was one of them. www.pod.link/1852618120/e...

The Guardsman was never found.

Philadelphia, you are the best

RETVRN (to Sicilians speaking a dialect of Ancient Greek)

Yeah, pretty much. I cut my arm on a rusty nail the other day and immediately realized that could easily have been fatal even 100 years ago.

this should be a weeks-long national scandal but it turns out the the way to survive scandalous behavior is just to do a metric fuck-ton of scandals at once www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

YES. We'd find it nearly impossible to project military power into the Middle East without it.

With dead-eyed sociopath Tricia McLaughlin leaving DHS to spend more time threatening her Mexican housekeeper with deportation, the DHS is shuffling chairs and bringing on Katie Zacharia because, you know, qualifications and stuff:

Another nugget from the latest YouGov survey… Q: Do you think that Donald Trump was involved in crimes allegedly committed by Jeffrey Epstein? Yes 50% No 30% Not sure 20% Great. The majority of the country thinks the President is a criminal sex offender.

It's so funny how many rich people's Wikipedia pages now feature this table of contents

Since the morning of February 11th, when Pam Bondi boasted about the Dow being over 50,000, it’s lost about 2.5% of its value. It ain’t over 50,000 any more. And the Epstein survivors are still waiting for justice.

FDR, Lincoln, LBJ and Obama.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

They copy and paste content, they parrot talking points, they refer to Trump as "Daddy" or "The Boss," they revere authority figures, they've built a culture of subservience and call it independent thought. They call people cucks from the chair in the corner while watching Trump fuck their lives.

Anyway, if you want to read too many words on why Sparta was terrible and people who like Sparta are terrible for liking Sparta, check it out: acoup.blog/2019/08/16/collections-this-isnt-sparta-part-i-spartan-school/

I had the great fortune of being remarkably, demonstratively wrong about substantial geopolitical things at an early point in my education (undergraduate) where my opinion did not matter. I recommend the experience to everyone.

Well, this morning has been a pleasant reminder of my public-facing reach as I see so many people reposting my series on Sparta talking about this. But also, my dear friends do remember that @profpaulj.bsky.social knows as much about Sparta as I do, if not more. But not dort. Dort is an idiot.

Good Morning #StarTrekFamily I hope y'all have a Marvelous #StarTrekMonday 😂🤣😂🤣🖖 LLAP

When cliff divers belly flop

@fieldmontgomery.bsky.social I feel like you needed a meme from me. It’s been too long. You’re welcome 😜

The pet peeve no one wishes to hear is that midwestern towns have got to stop calling one stage in a field an “amphitheater.” Unless it is two theaters pushed together in a large circle in the round, sir, it is a theater.

Also well worth noting that in fact quite a lot of Americans have died to defend a multicultural economic zone. What do you think Irish immigrants mustered into the US army in the Civil War were doing? What do you think the members of 442 Regimental Combat Team - mostly Nisei - were doing?

There are some who will hate you for who you are, for no reason other than you do not conform to their small minded notions. Do not let them sway you! You are a warrior, a person of honor and courage, not a puppet who bobs on the strings of their prejudices and bigotry.

“Listen … you go tell Billy’s mother, and I’ll start looking for another old tire.”

Canary Worf.

Wow. Checked in Facebook to see a friend's post. Tons of porn. Must be Valentine's in the air for the old folks.

Installation xkcd.com/3206/

Study: Shooting People With Arrows Does Not Make Them Fall in Love With You thehardtimes.net/culture/stud...

Happy Valentine’s Day from Team Mary!

You didn't let me finish my sentence

I was asking my chatGPT about potential fallout scenarios from the Epstein scandal. For no particular reason, I asked it to style responses on Patsy from AbFab… “Well of course they covered it up, darling. What else were they going to do - behave?” I think I’m making it a permanent adjustment… 😂

Pint of lager and an onion bhaji, please!

Choose your fighter

More than 4,000 years ago, Paleo-Inuit people made lengthy journeys on the High Arctic. Archaeologists and Inuit people discovered the remains of ancient camps on rocky islands between Greenland and Canada. archaeology.org/news/2026/02/12/paleo-inuit-people-were-accomplished-seafarers/

Um, is this mother nature saying ICE are dicks?