INBOX: Texas Education Agency taps Levi Fuller, a former Assistant AG under Ken Paxton and chief of staff to far-right Rep. Andy Hopper, as “inspector general for teacher misconduct,” a new position that will “root out the flawed few that sow distrust among families and school communities.”

Linehan wears a suit like a bear rides a bicycle

Fellas love to set condition one throughout the ship

Fast, white, solid light.

Couple lessons here, first one is 'don't be a Nazi shithead,' the second one is 'don't pick a fight with 25 of anything'

Put a Cheeto in your neighbors mailbox. It’s not illegal.

In 2011 I had a well-sourced story on medical students doing unauthorized gynecological exams on unconscious patients without consent and we didn't publish it at a major women's mag because my boss, whose husband was a new doctor, said "He told me that doesn't happen." www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

We have reached the point that a university president is not a scholar of law but just its top lawyer.

losing my mind at this photo, it's literally the 'my t-shirt' meme

The two children who returned to MN today say they saw one of their Valley View schoolmates at a detention center in TX. This is a child whose family was last in contact with the school on January 9. No one has known where they were until now.

Gramsci once observed "the old is dying and the new struggles to be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear," and I'm not sure there would be any better encapsulation of our society's comorbidities than this headline.

This meeting could’ve been a karate match

A large CAVA bag stuffed with what it says is $50,000 for White House Border Czar Tom Homan. It’s been reported Homan took bribery money when he was recorded by the FBI accepting a bag full of $50,000 in cash. “ICE GTFO OF MN” Minneapolis February 4, 2026

And now whereas Woke did lade you with a heavy yoke, Woke 2 will add to your yoke: Woke hath cancelled you with whips, but Woke 2 will cancel you with scorpions.

I don’t like this

going absolutely apeshitt in my lords wheat fields

Renfeild: I booked your passage on the Demeter, master Dracula: thankfs. dont foret the box of,, dert

So (7) says to preserve—but strikes me more as create—the right of state and local govts to file criminal charges in excessive force cases. Details will matter, but if that’s a statutory waiver of supremacy clause immunity, that strikes me as potentially a REALLY big deal.

*liz lemon 900 number operator voice* Romantic getaways in Chicago, Milwaukee, Indianapolis

Separated at birth? #AliceCooper #lindabelcher

Stopped to get a pic of my fave loading dock, on my walk home from the Post Office. Never disappoints.

can confirm

Two more ice cream stands in Moscow from the same photographer, five years earlier (1959)

Just been made aware of Haiti's winter Olympics get-up. That skirt looks warm, has good pockets, and has a massive horse on it. DING DING DING.

My man needs a lobotomy and a coaster set

what if we kissed while singing little tunes from the 15th century heart shaped book of french love songs ?

If I die, I want my remains to be scattered at the US Capitol. Do not cremate me.

Oh for- Can the last vessel bothering to stick to the wet bit let us know so we can turn the lights off, please?

Mitch McConnell is still in the hospital? Tell him to hurry up; we’re paying for this shit after all.

I think one thing people outside Minnesota don't understand is that after Good and Pretti were killed by feds while observing, the most normal people you could imagine have made peace with the fact that they could be next, and they are still out there because they say it's the right thing to do.

Now THIS is a jalopy

The billionaire class has convinced itself for a number of reasons that America is a lot more conservative than it actually is and this is the result

Estonia has detained the container ship Baltic Spirit in the Gulf of Finland. The vessel, sailing under the flag of the Bahamas, was en route to Saint Petersburg.

It’s extremely difficult to bully your way into someone’s home if you’re fighting violent explosive diarrhea

Yeah you can draw nakedly partisan maps, turn up the heat boys, it's time to maximize Illinois

In case anyone thinks OP is exaggerating the point

the jokes write themselves folks

White House Aide Fired After Telling JD Vance About Super Bowl Party https://theonion.com/white-house-aide-fired-after-telling-jd-vance-about-super-bowl-party/

I've reread this like 3 times. Freed herself from slavery by running away, *went back a week later bc the slaver was talking shit, set his house on fire, and then escaped again is absolutely incredible queen shit

5/11 August Rosengard, one-legged burglar (1903)

10/11 Louis Kovitz, who killed a burglar (1928)

This is just a guess, but maybe the rise in dramatic prose from district court judges is partly due to a growing belief among those judges that it's pointless to try to persuade SCOTUS and they must therefore focus on other potential audiences.