⚠️ The Guardian obtained missing FBI reports from interviews with a woman who alleges Trump abused her as a child: “She claimed that when they were alone, Trump ‘mentioned something to the effect of: “Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be,”’ before attempting to sexually assault her.”

I come not to praise Claude or whatever but giving unaccountable robot decisionmaking to thundering dipshits who just shot down their own drone with a laser does seem like wrong side of history business

I regret to inform you that the Secretary of Defense is an idiot

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

In the story of Humpty Dumpty it is never said that he is an egg. However, it is never said that he is NOT an egg. This means that any character in ANY story could be an egg unless explicitly stated otherwise. Keep that in mind when you read a Jack Reacher novel

Neil Sedaka was so talented, and he inspired me to follow my dream of being a songwriter. With love and gratitude and condolences to his family. www.hollywoodreporter.com/music/music-...

Bad enough to kick a reporter out. Worse to lie about it. Worse still to smear the reporter involved by a) accusing her of fabulism — a career-ending accusation — and b) falsely claiming she’s been sued for defamation Not dramatic enough? There’s audio: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

People keep comparing MAGA/ICE/CBP/MAHA to 1930s Germany. It's also more and more like late 1960s China, during Cultural Revolution. Or mid 1970s Cambodia, during "Year Zero." A war against knowledge itself. thehill.com/policy/defen...

Academics who risk everything by speaking out against the Regime, under the very real threat of being defunded or fired for speaking out against them, are way more patriotic than these corrupt authoritarians who wrap themselves in the flag while robbing our freedom and future.

@raskin.house.gov “The cardinal, original sin of Trump was to decide that he was going to use the presidency as a profit-making enterprise in his first term, and I would say that Congress should have impeached him for receiving millions and millions of dollars from foreign governments.”

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NEW: When anti-ICE protesters disrupted a church service, the Trump administration vowed to stop at nothing to protect religious liberty. But congregations across the country who welcome immigrants say ICE has been violating their rights on a mass scale. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

By me, on SOTU. (Most before paywall.) (This replaces previous, deleted post, where the system freaked out at an illustration from Bosch's 'Garden of Earthly Delights.') fallows.substack.com/p/nasty-brut...

"You now have a list of male suspects from the hundreds of thousands of pages of the Epstein materials. Who do you plan on questioning?" REPUBLICANS: Easy. Hillary Clinton.

That’s probably gonna be too late. Just saying.

Fascinating new research paper asks: why did Biden receive so little political credit for his enormous investments in manufacturing? Turns out people give all the credit to governors (ironically, in this case, mostly red-state governors who were hostile to the policy!).

"refugee" - the most well off group in my country, who still own most of the private land, who rarely live in poverty think they're oppressed for reasons I know but are too ridiculous to explain.

In an overlooked decision this week, the Supreme Court ruled that the post office can refuse to deliver your mail, which is KIND OF SIGNIFICANT if you choose to mail your ballot. To do this work, the anti-democracy wing turned to their favorite “black friend,” Clarence Thomas.

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Trump is bragging about working to eliminate fraud. Most of his presidential pardons have been for people convicted of money laundering and fraud to the tune of over $1 billion.

"Prominent economists, including from Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase, calculate that the AI buildup was directly responsible not for 92 percent or 39 percent of gains to the U.S. economy in 2025, but as little as zero."

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Here's Colbert's interview with Talarico, not on the Carr-controlled, Trump-tainted airwaves but in the free air of the internet. As I post this, 500k have watched. Let's make sure more people see it on YouTube than TV. Call that the Carr Effect. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...

It appears that I am unable to discuss the EPA's current course of action without considerable cursing.

I'm sneaking out from deadlines to do 2 shows at the truly awesome Church of Satire club in Hanover Pennsylvania for the Good Karma Comedy Festival. Great lineups for each show, and tix are available at: churchofsatirecomedyclub.com

George W. Bush throws subtle shade at Senile Satan. “Our first president could have remained all-powerful, but twice he chose not to.” By “relinquishing power rather than holding onto it,” Mr. Bush continues, “he ensured America wouldn’t become a monarchy, or worse.”

Massie not backing down.

"A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people." —The Declaration of Independence

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

Attorney General Bondi lambasted by Democrats, Republicans, and Epstein survivors for hearing testimony www.cnn.com/2026/02/12/p...

A federal judge in Orlando ordered two more Venezuelan migrants released from ICE custody on Thursday and said he suspected foul play by the agents involved in their detentions.

I'm assuming it's generally not good when a judge issues an order pointing out that the government was "not interested in participating in this process" and "essentially told the Court to pound sand." But what do I know? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

these Wicked sequels keep getting worse

The Atlantic’s profile of Bondi has some wow. @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

A picture is worth a thousand words. How does AG Pam Bondi sleep at night?

Please stop asking if we can see your screen in a meeting. Just say "stop me if you can't see my screen" and continue.

one thing that comes across in these clips is that bondi is totally out of her depth. just an absolute lightweight. barely sentient.

Tina Brown telling Bezos he's wrong: “'The data tells us what is valuable and where to focus.' No, it’s not the data that tells us, Jeff. It’s the intellect and enterprise of journalists searching out stories that readers didn’t know." tinabrown.substack.com/p/bafflement... I agree but... 1 of 2

Threads keeps growing and growing... Now with more mobile daily usage than Twitter/X according to a new Similarweb report. techcrunch.com/2026/01/18/t...

The American Revolution happened 250 years ago partly because people like Patrick Henry advocated for the cause of liberty -- as Bentley Boyd does today. He will be our guest speaker Friday 7 am EDT at Club Awesome Toastmasters in Coral Springs or on Zoom. Free guest registration at clubawesome.org

The Wall Street Journal just illustrated the core argument of my book: a system rigged to reward capital over labor is one in which even full-time work no longer secures the most basic material needs. This is the economic order that produces the "working homeless." www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

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Maybe this is the problem.

250 years ago "Common Sense" and the Declaration of Independence made the case for American to form a democratic republic, a message Bentley Boyd echoes in Chester Comix. See him on Zoom -- or in person if are local to Club Coral Springs, FL. Guest registration is at clubawesome.org

“Bad Bunny’s performance isn’t just the story of the ascendancy of a single performer, or of one genre,” Noah Shachtman writes. “It’s the sign of something bigger still. America’s pop culture is today multilingual, polycultural and international at its very core.”

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Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) reacted to Trump personal attorney-turned Deputy AG Todd Blanche discussing the DOJ's intention to appeal the judges decision releasing Liam Ramos. "Why is the Trump Administration fighting harder to arrest 5-year-old children than pedophiles in the Epstein files?" he posted

Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."

> @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...