and that, my fellow academics, is one reason not to hire war criminals: so they can't show up years post (their) war arguing in favor of the scaffolding behind their own atrocities with the imprimatur and status of your university

This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

Just heard about Fredrick Brennan's death. He was a genuine example of how a person can try to make right the things they did wrong and do better. He got 8chan taken down and essentially deplatformed. And he never misrepresented who he was or the mistakes he made. We could all do that more.

The Metropolitan Police are contacting Andrew's former protection officers and asking them to "consider carefully" what they may have seen or heard in relation to Epstein. That is the term they used.

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

Prophecy will come from the mouth of babes

*Taylor Sheridan pulling a slot machine arm* "Ok, we got... Kurt Russell... as a... Fire Chief in... Paducah, Kentucky" Paramount Exec: Sure whatever, here's $40,000,000. All of our parents: Prairie of Flames is the best show on TV

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...

made fan art for my favourite horror movie

Was trying to remember a Will Forte quote from Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie and accidentally figured out how to make Google’s AI tool shut up

Don't look away. It is happening here

Theory / Praxis

This is how you live a life

Anyone seeking a comprehensive portrait of what civilization has been like this past half century should maybe just sit down and watch as many Frederick Wiseman movies as possible.

Just saw that Xing Zhilei, the Chinese DIY influencer, posted an update on his self-built cat town which went viral last year. youtu.be/i1savUPr-yU

with alt text, because everyone needs to be able to read this 😭

I’d probably say far more that would require lawyers

Sadly though, a committed cast and haunting score can only do so much to distract from the film's terribly cheap looking, comically treacherous roads, and a bridge so poorly constructed I spent the whole scene genuinely worried it may collapse under these trucks. Sorcerer (dir. Friedkin) * /*****

Being brought into the principal’s office and being shown that a bunch of 38 year olds on a website you’ve never been on approve of you punching a kid.

If one is looking for left-FP ideas from electeds in the US, could do worse than follow the lead of Ilhan Omar, who has repeatedly put forth a repeal of the Hague Invasion Act as a core necessity for international rule of law. US alignment should not function as a backstop against justice for crimes

I can’t believe the kid who got owned posted this. I got hit hard once in high school and was embarrassed for days; imagine if the entire country was laughing at you (he deserved both the hit and the mocking, to be clear)

Look, all I'm saying is that if you just spent the last six years being frustrated with Durbin and you think there's a chance he's about to be replaced with a guy who thanks ICE for their service and takes AIPAC and crypto money, you should treat it like a very serious emergency

*nodding*

Once again, Bill is still the conservative opinion here, because we're at wine moms lightning potential ICE concentration camps on fire IN MISSOURI as a real thing. The fact that Chuck isn't even at defund means he needs to retire and go away.

Anyone currently involved in federal immigration enforcement, every officer, every bureaucrat, every lawyer, every judge, is a member of the most evil group of people this country has seen since Reconstruction. Darkness personified, every one. Doing this to children is beyond depraved.

Dudes (I believe it’s a non-gendered term, if not forgive me) rock

American politics is a seesaw driven by the biggest dipshits you’ve ever met it’s just this comic over and over and over again, forever

Yet another indictment of the United States health system that James Van Der Beek’s wife and six kids need a gofundme because his unsuccessful cancer treatment destroyed them financially www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

Has anyone famous ever come from Estacada? And no, the guy who decapitated his mom and brought her head into a grocery store wasn’t from there, it was a town over

everyone in the legendarium is chaste except the sex pests is i think an accurate description

Not apologizing for this in any way, fuck this language. I just can’t believe she said ‘fart (n word)’. It’s like when I was in third grade and knew the n word was the worst word so I called a white girl it.

Kenny White Powers

I did a good chunk of weapons training, both filipino martial arts, aikido, and jeet kun do from a disciple of Dan Inosanto. The one constant is never get in a knife fight

Dr Oz inviting ol Jeffrey to his V Day bash in 2016

a bunch of people in the epstein files

Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we let our ignorance, fear, and hatred build for us and keep us in, here in the splendid, beautiful city of life...

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

I graduated college in 2012, this is the longest I’ve ever been unemployed. Please hire me lol

well I'm sure everything is just dandy at those unsupervised camps full of children

"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."

Seems like the Epstein emails naming a ton of names, but keeping the specific actions of our president undisclosed, leads to a situation where the worst people in the world have essentially nothing to lose in threatening to expose our president if he were to threaten their lifestyles in any way.

One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.

Nest failure due to drone use is a real thing. Please do comment to help birds and other wildlife against an absolutely stupid unnecessary hazard. Honestly, who the fuck needs a drone.

The Luanda mercenaries trial was exactly 50 years ago and I think the anniversary should be honored en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luanda_...

If you want to understand how far-reaching the corporate rot in media is, read this gutting piece about the fall of Oregon Public Broadcasting. (And follow @ryanjhaas.bsky.social and @leahsottile.bsky.social’s new publication @thewesternedge.bsky.social which will be amazing bc they’re amazing)

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.