"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

It's exhausting living through an entire verse of "We Didn't Start the Fire" every day.

‘he was reaching for something in his waistband’

As @clairewillett.bsky.social writes: "I hate these people to a degree that feels simultaneously corrosive to the soul, and also the only righteous response to this kind of evil." Homer called it Οργή. It's what Achilles feels. (It's what Achilles DOES.) Also used by St Paul for the wrath of God.

U.S. military spending is set to hit a record $1.5 trillion. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. The military industrial complex is cheering today.

Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I hope there wasn't any fentanyl in the snowballs.

“JESUS DIED FOR YOUR SINS!!!!” ok cool So I’m square now. I’m off the hook. Good lookin out, big bro

Bro is gonna be mayor for 9 terms

i think it's cool how zohran was like, yea i made some mistakes during the first snowstorm, so i'm gonna take everything i learned and do better this time around, and so far it seems like he has. accountability! responsiveness!

Moms For Liberty named RJ May the South Carolina Legislator of the Year for 2023 for his efforts to protect children from the evils of the LGBTQ community. He was just sentenced to 17.5 years in federal prison followed by 30 years of supervised probation for distributing child pornography.

Washington Republicans spent years lecturing America about the national debt. Now Trump’s policies are blowing a hole in the budget and putting us on track for $64 TRILLION in debt within a decade. Not because we had to, but because he chose to.

CNN doing PR for Johnson here by claiming "the general practice is for presidents, select military officials & select government officials to lie in honor" without noting exceptions. Like Billy Graham. So White preacher gets to lie in state but not Black one?

Okay this is bad, but there’s NO WAY he’s going to do this to his next girlfriend.

But it's "newsworthy" to treat AOC like a fucking dumbshit because she said "um"

That’s just math lol

If you are not some kind of pervert, or pervert fucking adjacent - you have no place in this administration it would appear.

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

Someone forgot about our amazing prison system

Should your esteemed constabulary be inclined to cross the pond, we are in possession of a most splendid catalogue of miscreants (which we would be delighted to preserve in like confidentiality) for your good offices to apprehend.

all this stuff makes much more sense if you understand “anti wokeness” as a general backlash to elite accountability more generally, even if you have criticisms of left wing egalitarianism bsky.app/profile/kevi...

Some stunning takeaways from the Les Wexner Epstein deposition today: -He claims the DOJ & FBI never contacted him, even though a co-conspirator -He claims he was not close to Epstein even though Epstein‘s wealth was built on his relationship -Not a single Republican showed up for the deposition.

MAHA

I’m a library director& at my library we don’t even require a photo id or any proof of residency to get a library card. I think it’s silly. I have a hard time imaging that tons of folks are deciding to crime at the library. We have almost zero folks who don’t return items- maybe 3 items/month. Codb

Pardoning drug lords but deporting sick little kids straight from the hospital really sums the whole thing up doesn’t it

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico are both great, and either would be a terrific Senator. Each obviously thinks they are the better candidate. But they should say now that, if they lose, they and their supporters will crawl over broken glass in a blizzard to vote for the other one in November.

Democrats love praising Republicans, who in turn tell the world that Democrats are all filthy demons. Absolutely deranged behavior.

As a direct result of the obscene actions of Russell Vought and Elon Musk in destroying USAID, we can expect “at least 9.4 million additional deaths by 2030, if the current funding trend continues. About 2.5 million of those deaths are projected to be children under the age of 5.”

Pol Pot killed 3 million people. Vought and Musk have him beat three times over.

joyce is going after elon again

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

FBI Announces They Have Located Savannah Guthrie

MAHA: Eating a giant steak cooked in butter alongside beef tallow fries and washing it down with coffee spiked with butter Not MAHA: Clean air, clean water, health insurance, vaccines, disease monitoring, scientific research, food assistance, food safety, bike lanes

Bo French, who is currently running for Texas Railroad Commission on a vow to fight radical Islam, has on the “advice of his security team” just pulled out of a candidate forum tonight after realizing it was being held at a Muslim community center.

In a normal government, this results in the resignation of multiple cabinet officials (Transportation, Defense, and Homeland Security), and the closure or (at least!) radical reorg of the cartoonishly incompetent agency at the center of it: CBP. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

at my last job, as technical principal I had to institute 20 hours of basic computer training for all new hires because every hire under 25 was deluging our i.t. department with tickets for problems like 'I can't figure out how to turn my laptop on,' and, 'I can't find the file I just downloaded.'

Probably should be at least part of the story that Feds revised down job growth for 2025 by 91% so lost 1M jobs. 2024 we added nearly a million. ADP reports anemic private sector hiring in Jan 2026 of 22K jobs. To treat these numbers as “great” without that context is not great reporting.

there was nothing unusual about it at all, we were simply travelimg via boat through the caribbean with our multiple nannies when we stopped off for lunch on a private island with a billionaire registered sex offender. completely innocuous and normal. an all-american family vacation

“We cannot just abolish ICE!” Bestie, you are older than ICE.

One man tracking people being deported & deportation flights at the Minneapolis airport. One person creating a record for future inquiries & potential prosecutions. Trevor Paglen's deep surveillance documentation now being done by everyday people. www.npr.org/2026/02/06/n...

It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.

OMG I can’t believe the Grand Wizard of the KKK said something racist!!!! 😱

We found that Jeff Bezos paid *zero* taxes in 2007 and 2011. In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. This is how he did it (published 2021):

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

This is just to say --- I have sent a confidential letter that is still in your inbox and which you were probably saving for breakfast tomorrow Please read it for me now because it's so sweet and so cold.

In less than a week the Kennedy Center has effectively closed and our local DC paper has been gutted, both by billionaires. I don’t think immigrants are our problem in this country.

continue to think that if instead of "raw milk" we called it "doodoo milk" people would understand the risk proposition

MacKenzie Scott has the chance to do the funniest thing right now.

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests