Forbes 30 Under 30 remains undefeated

wait until you learn about this dingus and by that i mean his name is dingus

Every news story is now “State Senator Randy Pervert (R-Springfield) was indicted on 8 counts of lewd behavior with a child under 12 and has been put on paid leave from his two jobs as Border Patrol liaison and youth pastor at First Presbyterian (PCA) where parishioners say they were ‘blindsided.’”

*Well, there we go, "exciting new forms of failure" *For which one can blame AI! 👍 Even though the actual software failure is probably just some standard misconfigurement of something, but hey, an AI did it

i just hope there was a conversation at one point that ended with “of course it’s laminated”

Climber convicted of manslaughter after leaving girlfriend on Austria’s highest peak to get help

Not the first time… This man is a problem.

Frankly, I am somewhat surprised that former Prince Andrew did not move to the United States months ago and join Trump’s cabinet to avoid prosecution.

Blue Currents, by Tunji Adeniyi-Jones, 2025, 📸 by @tiltoncreative

They’re ruining us. I sorta thought they would, but even so this is pretty intense.

Totally normal political party you got there tiffinohio.net/posts/ohio-g...

Last week Donald Trump registered the trademark "Donald J. Trump International Airport." This week Florida Republicans voted to rename Palm Beach International Airport Donald J. Trump International Airport," putting taxpayers on the hook for licensing fees that go straight to him

So here's a hardened criminal in Minnesota who was about to go away for good and he went free ... because Trump and the MAGA degenerates are so focused on shooting protesters and assaulting law-abiding grandmas. apnews.com/article/minn...

Jeffrey Epstein reading and sending James Dobson articles to his victims is the ultimate proof that purity culture is rape culture. Evangelical Christianity grooms girls for abuse, and then it creates and harbors abusers. It is baked right into the doctrine.

“my children might see the children I voted to put in shackles, how shall they grow up”

you can't work with Republicans. you can't compromise with them either. you either win or they do.

If you’re an American service member who gets killed in a retaliatory strike, your family can take comfort in the fact that it was done in service of making the host of Celebrity Apprentice feel like a big man for a minute, before he moved on to something else and forgets about this forever

We've got a new newsletter at @slate.com by the brilliant @shirinali.bsky.social. It's called Executive Dysfunction and the first edition is on what it would mean for Dem shutdown demands to actually happen--and what it would mean for them to fold. Please read and subscribe slate.com/news-and-pol...

/3 He worked in London as a solicitor or inquisitor or auror or whatever they call it there so my classmate and I took the bus from school to London. He insisted on meeting at his downtown gentlemen’s club.

SpaceX's company town Starbase already has its own volunteer fire department, and it's creating its own police department. What's next? Its own court: techcrunch.com/2026/02/19/s...

Labor Secretary’s Husband Barred From the Department After Sexual Assault Reports

We're getting numb to impeachable offenses, but this is an *artisan* impeachable offense. It's the good stuff. Top shelf. Fine, Corinthian constitutional crisis.

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

Come for the @wired.com cover art. Stay for the incisive, nuanced, wild ride of a story. I urge you to read it in full. "When I call up my longtime industry sources to get their thoughts on the gay tech mafia, not only have they heard of it—they have highly specific notions of how it works."

They vilified him for :: checks notes:: ordering the torture of a brown man in his charge that directly led to that man’s death.

All our best theories of stellar evolution fly out the window when a companion star is on hand to change up the physics.

Once again I'm asking Democrats to take their messaging cues from the sitting Democratic Senator who is the most vulnerable for re-election in 2026

"but Doctor..." "I know who the fuck you are"

Listen closely to every word of this

From what I remember from 2020 during the George Floyd protests, because some idiot set a small fire somewhere, we can now claim that Minneapolis was burned to the ground by ICE supporters, right?

Christian nationalist pastor Doug Wilson, who has argued that women should be denied the right to vote and Christian slaveowners were on “firm scriptural ground,” led a worship service at the Pentagon at the invitation of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

These aren't people. They are barely creatures. There is no suffering that would surpass what they deserve.

FBI refusing to share Alex Pretti shooting evidence with state investigators. "BCA Superintendent Drew Evans said Monday that the FBI formally notified the state on Friday that it won’t grant the access." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Scientists have seen Asgard archaea crawling for the first time. When it comes to the origin of eukaryotes, this is like seeing a feathered dinosaur in the wild. (Video courtesy of Philipp Ralder)

This is a truly horrifying memo. It says that the policy of the US government will now be to proactively seek out and arrest likely tens of thousands of refugees who entered legally under Biden and subject them to detention, where they will be interrogated about their status.

been wanting to perform this cover ever since that guy got kirked

9 Words To Live By

The “see, I have receipts” starter pack. 🤡

What makes this doubly infuriating is that the Trump administration has just cut off funding for the Tor project, which enables people in Russia and elsewhere to circumvent genuine censorship. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

So Trump, and not the "anonymous staffer," actually did post the Obamas/apes video?

CFPB Staffer Alexis Goldstein Fired for Confronting DOGE Members, Announces Run for Congress https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/18/alexis_goldstein_cfpb_consumer_protection_doge

fu[ck]ing secured

Just awful. they were on their way off the mountain, left (presumably) safe huts to ski down to the trailhead. its TOUGH to tell people 'the sky is blue and snow pristine, but we ain't going today' when its been 4 days and the parking lot is a 20 minute run through new powder. terrible story.

NEW: Here’s our searchable list of federal judges who have ruled on the legality of ICE’s mass detention policy — with links to key decisions by each. At least 380 district judges have rejected it in ~3,800 cases. 31 have upheld ICE’s approach ~180 times www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

when you see the discourse of the day unfolding but you can't figure out the source so it's like dark matter that can only be observed by its effect on its surroundings

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

My dream is for all the people who were doing tireless work at the CFPB to end up in Congress. One step closer!

So after Trump pardoned Honduras's narco-president, the admin didn't just let him out--they canceled an immigration hold and sent a specialized team to **chauffeur him to the $1k/night Waldorf Astoria.** “It's "absolutely fucking nuts,” said one official www.propublica.org/article/trum...

“Meta Begins $65 Million Election Push to Advance A.I. Agenda” electionlawblog.org?p=154406