Is it good or bad that an agency that is technically involved in law enforcement is using ideas from the serial killer playbook?

A Wingspan review that focuses on the nods I make to actual bird behaviors.

Twice out on a great show!

No one should be creating partnerships with HP at this point given the ways JK Rowling is spending her money to actively harm our trans friends. Hopefully Avalon Hill, a game studio within Hasbro, will steer free of this nonsense. I'll reach out to them and put in my 2 cents.

SCOOP: The Department of Health and Human Services has been using the term “sex-rejecting procedures” to describe gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary individuals. The term is not clinical or medical. It comes from a Christian Right group. www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...

this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart 1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks 2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections

Today I emailed publishers about a concerning practice a board game media creator engaged in. This will likely become public, so I'm providing the details here to give the full context of what I shared. 1) Document: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/o8ovt... 2) Video: youtu.be/fHXGWflPj4c 1/2

The dumbest people on earth love this stuff and the most evil people on earth promote this stuff, so

"More than 200" AI slop novels collectively selling "around 50,000 copies" proves that not one of them was actually good enough to create any organic interest. The entire business model is scamming people looking for something fun to read, thereby polluting the same waters where real books are sold.

My latest on Substack on why understanding who is in the Epstein files matters for accountability, even if they don't warrant criminal charges. asharangappa.substack.com/p/when-shame...

The IRS already knows what you need to pay in taxes – so why doesn’t it just tell you instead of putting you through a costly and tax-consuming reporting process? Answer: Because Congress is catering to tax prep companies. buff.ly/8koKPYG #taxes

WaPo's editorial board pines for a world that no longer exists: one in which liberals can be cowed out of responding to GOP tactics by accusations of "hypocrisy." That time is over. No more unilateral disarmament.

Howard Lutnick went to Jeffrey Epstein's island 5 days before Lutnick and Epstein went into business together. 12/23/2012 — Lutnick goes to Epstein's island. 12/28/2012 — Lutnick and Epstein sign a stock purchase agreement.

MAGA-aligned military commanders are pressuring enlisted service members to go to the Melania movie and bring their families. Troops at 8 different bases have complained. www.businessinsider.com/us-military-...

Yup. I whole-heartedly believe dogs can't play basketball but once your opponent has a dog dunking on you over and over, there is no choice but to get yourself a team of dogs. You can't let it go, can't merely reciprocate, you must do the same and crush them. So it goes with partisan gerrymandering.

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

American star Alysa Liu overcame a delay en route to the Milano Skating Arena caused by Vice President JD Vance’s motorcade and finished second in the women’s short program at the Olympics team event. “We almost didn’t make it,” her coach said.

This is really an instance of a very longstanding trend where secular pundits end up unwittingly aligned with fundamentalists in treating the crudest and most extreme version of any faith as the genuine article and everything else as somehow inauthentic.

A perfect mom-and-pop affordable housing provider 🤗 story in 3 images

Letting betting run amok has been great for sports.

NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:

Fwiw 1, 3, 5, 7 and 8 are already required in law or policy and are not being followed so this is already half dead on arrival.

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

Trump's obsession with the Kennedy Center reflects a larger delusion among the MAGA base: that they can bully people into liking them. And they'd rather tantrum than accept this reality. www.salon.com/2026/02/04/k...

This is action EVERY city in the country can take. If your hotels cooperate with ICE, goodbye liquor revenue.

MAGA Man tries to beat up high school kids. Emphasis on *tries*. :)

Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.

the Republican Party will get worse before it gets worse, but God willing it will also get a whole lot smaller

A reminder that the Kennedy Center is the literal and legal and congressional designated presidential memorial to JFK. This would be like Trump tearing down the Lincoln Memorial to build something “better.”

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

Someone please recommend a book I won't be able to put down, before I completely melt my brain on Netflix. I have been sick for days, and what I *really* want is to lie in a hammock in the sun but maybe a good book would help?

I've said it before, but these people want merit to only be tied to identity, and never actions. It's appealing to people with deep insecurity to be told your place of birth, race, etc. are what really matter, because those are static and don't require effort, compared to actions.

Looking at the list of 19 new CBS News commentators, the median number of times they appear in the searchable Epstein database is 2 and the mean is 100

I think it is OUTRAGEOUS that people are LEAPING to the conclusion that some our post prominent Americans are child rapists when it is EQUALLY PLAUSIBLE that they are simply indifferent to whether other people are child rapists so long as those other people can offer them access to power.

I must admit, I thought Musk's comment about "orbital data centers" was just his normal off-the-cuff ignorance, but... there's an actual SpaceX plan for it? This is the ISS. Those white panels are *radiators.* Releasing heat is a serious challenge in space. A data center is basically a huge oven.

This. They are turning the wealth the American people have created over generations into cash for their own dirty pockets. It’s obscene.

the president of the united states should not be allowed to personally loot the treasury to the sum of ten billion dollars and that this is not resulting in immediate, unanimous impeachment is a dramatic indictment of what has become of our political system

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

This is all stupid bullshit but I remain pretty disgusted at how things like marriage and having children are treated like Xbox achievements instead of actually loving and caring for someone else. Yeah I’m going to work 70 hours a week but definitely need a spouse, her name is Beth or something idk

As wild as this sounds, I really do think “president connected to notorious pedophile sex trafficker, corrupting law enforcement to cover it up, now in explicit violation of a specifically tailored law,” while easily impeachable in its own, is at most the fourth worst scandal this week.

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This is why I have real fucking problem with blithe criticisms of "polarization" or "congressional dysfunction." We have a Republican member blaming his colleague for being attacked. The problem isn't polarization or dysfunction. It's the Republican Party.

This is what letting RFK jr go wild on health looks like

In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:

Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment. Excellent article!

One armed goon loses his shit at an observer who's backing up, and then several more armed goons tackle the observer to the ground, and then even more armed goons form a protective shield around the armed goons handcuffing the observer for hurting an armed goon's feelings. This can't be "reformed"

pretty wild statement re: Republican Chris Madel drop from race for MN governor: "Saying he cannot support the national GOP's 'stated retribution on citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so."

I have designed a week of bird-themed puzzles for Raddle! The first is SCREECH → OWL at raddle.quest/335

in case you didn’t click through, what she had the nerve to do was go to a football game that the school she is currently attending was playing in