many reasons but #1 is always going to be this: there are exactly 17 luge/bobsled/skeleton tracks in the world 4 of them are in Germany The US is the only other country with more than one. We have two. And you probably don't live near either of them

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the amount of military equipment that’s been moved into the middle east over the last month and especially the last week is … it’s a lot. we’ll just go with that

Millions of files related to Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a 'global criminal enterprise' that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council says reut.rs/4rpxDfl

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Emergency healthcare funds needed: A Twin Cities 18-yr old student, w/ parents unable to work because of ICE, suddenly diagnosed with leukemia. She is uninsured, has huge bills, and can't help support her family. Please help if you can. (I confirm this is genuine) www.gofundme.com/f/support-an...

The other batsh*t insane thing is that we *had* an informal confederation built around "western civilization," one made through the defeat of Nazism and the containment of Marxist-Leninism. It worked! What made it durable was the liberal internationalist ideas and institutions, *not* the racism.

Tomorrow you may see James David Vance or some other purported Catholic from this administration with ashes on their forehead, it’s important to remember that it’s all just for show.

what kind of pervert (derogatory) exercises in blue jeans?

At what point will being wildly unqualified and overconfident become toxic again? Asking for a country

There's more: Is Trump dangerous? 43% of Republicans have no opinion. Honest? 44% have no opinion. Corrupt? 43% have no opinion. Out-of-touch? 49% have no opinion. They know who he is. They just don't want to admit it.

I wrote about the Evelyn Normielib ass judges out here ruling that the Trump administration must be cleansed with constitutional fire ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...

We all need to be ready for this -- Lawyers, activists, elected officials, election workers and philanthropists. The fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. And it is most squarely before us in the battle for free and fair elections this November. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality. Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:

Imagine doing this with your one precious life. Other people are out there teaching children and curing cancer and you decide to spend your time telling outrageous, laughably unbelievable lies about a dementia-addled rapist and fraud whose legacy will be nearly ending US democracy

It’s going to be great after 4 years of money is no object for cruelty and revenge when Republicans discover “fiscal responsibility” again, as if they slept through the Noem’s luxury sex jet and paying 20 men to grab a gardener.

National debt was 19 trillion when Trump promised to eliminate it in 8 years.

Extrajudicial killings have become the norm for this Administration. From shooting our own citizens in Minneapolis to these lawless killings in international waters. We must make sure that Hegseth & those who ordered these murders are held accountable.

there’s a guy on The Everything App who has only eaten wendy’s chili for 22 days and in that time he has lost 21.6 pounds and i think one thing this site could really use is people who are that cool

It's hard to believe that you could be the trade representative for a major power and not know that tariffs are regressive. My econ 101 students know what the word regressive means, and that tariffs are regressive. Many could even cite studies on the subject.

Got the VCR working... There's only one choice for the inaugural movie. Thanks to @superelectricrecs.bsky.social for finding this gem!

Few things grind my gears quite as much as these fucking illiterates invoking “Western Civilization,” of which they are obviously and comically ignorant, as a euphemism for white supremacy.

You've gotta appreciate a stubborn, weird guy who's obsessed with one thing and refuses to move on

REQUEST: I am looking to speak to an avalanche expert for a story about the Castle Peak avalanche in California's Sierra Nevada. I am located a few miles from the incident location and am hoping to get some background information about avalanche danger. Any recommendations appreciated!

“If this guy isn’t impeached and removed, what’s the point to the whole Constitution? You can’t have a fucking criminal running the government for his own benefit screwing the people. And that’s what we have.”

The Republicans are shamelessly trying to rewrite history about the Epstein files. The Biden DOJ convicted Ghislaine Maxwell, the FBI was working cases until Trump came into office. There was no scandal until Trump ran on releasing the files and then reneged.

Lying little Nazis

don't give these bigots an inch, because they have made it quite clear they will take every mile and more.

a two-month-old infant who was so sick he was unresponsive in the last day, deported with his family and their total of $190

Mr. Sim lived in the US for 43 years. He was ordered deported 20 years ago after a larceny conviction. Because Cambodia wasn’t accepting deportations, he was allowed to stay on an order of supervision. After 20 years, he was suddenly arrested at an ICE check-in and sent to detention, where he died.

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Remember when they tried to gaslight us and say Elon's sieg heil on inauguration day was just a neurodivergent man offering his heart to the audience

This bill includes criminal penalties and a bounty provision. It also authorizes the state DMV to strip trans people off their current drivers licenses.

Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama, 2008 election night. History watching history made.

The first assistant Chris Rufo hired in 2021 was a Pepe the frog loving fan of “groyper mom” Michelle Malkin. That guy worked for him for 3+ years before going to work for Russell Vought in the Trump administration last year. So Rufo can miss me with the “I’m shocked by Fuentes’s popularity.”

For months I've banged the drum that "not sure" has become the safe harbor answer for "Republicans who know Trump's probably wrong, but don't want to admit it." Today's Economist/YouGov Poll: Is Donald Trump racist? 41% of Republicans have No Opinion. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

“.. ‘many system vendors will go bankrupt or exit product lines due to a lack of memory. Mobile phone production will be reduced by 200-250 million units, and PC and TV production will be significantly reduced.’ Yikes.” @pcgamer.com #DRAM www.pcgamer.com/hardware/mem...

Love that AI, a thing we hate and don’t want, steals everything, ruins everything, shittifies everything. Drinks our water, plagiarizes our art, pisses all over our information fidelity, drives kids to suicide, serves the right-wing, and fucks up our devices and services. Good job, techbros!

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

Kristi Noem is a Cabinet member openly having affair outside of her marriage with a subordinate. Besides the governmental ethical impropriety, how about the morality of the so-called Christians making up MAGA? Love to see press fly out to Salty Taint, SD and ask cuckold’s take?

ohio state is incredibly corrupt and they need to be dragged through the mud for their relationship with les wexner and their unwavering support of fascism at every turn. i am an alumni. fuck them.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Who remembers that iconic 1998 Nike World Cup ad? Brazil walking through the airport like absolute legends and energy unreal ✨ (Via nike)

The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.

Another thing to add to the Dem platform: all of these contracts were plainly procured through fraud, not one of them will be honored, and all culpable parties will be prosecuted. This isn't a "radical" demand, it's the bare minimum required to re-establish the rule of law.

The lower Great Lakes region has super bad air quality today, and one of the big causes is, surprisingly, melting snow. The warm snap is melting the snow banks, releasing all the car exhaust & toxins & rotting debris in the snow. Which,coupled with lack of wind and rain, sits in the air as smog

In honor of Chamberlain Harris being appointed to greenlight Trump's gaudy bunker, a reminder of how she deleted her Russian ties when it became clear she had copied classified records for Trump. emptywheel.net/trumps-recep...

Trump's immigration approval hits new low, according to Reuters/Ipsos poll www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

UPDATE: Congressman @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social has confirmed that Juan Nicolás and his mother were deported despite the 2-month-old’s recent hospitalization for bronchitis. “They were abandoned across the border in Mexico.” thebarbedwire.com/2026/02/17/2...

RFK Jr. has long criticized pharma's influence on the federal government. But Dr. Oz, talking to PhRMA today, took a different approach: welcoming the idea of closed-door meetings and urging industry leaders to work in the admin. w/ @lizzylawrence.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2026/02/17/p...