the US once again sending the message loud and clear: never negotiate, just get nukes. Never compromise, just get nukes. Never give in to sanctions, just get nukes.
what could go wrong
Any chance to repost this classic Busta Rhymes moment
✏️ Le dessin du jour, par Coco
STOP MAKING ME LOOK AT RFK AND KID ROCK!!!!!
As a pescatarian, Lent is a time of especial decadence and indulgence for me as I eat every fast food chain imaginable’s seasonal fish sandwich
On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.
At least one Meta employee thinks it's a good time to add facial recognition technology to glasses because we're too distracted by fascism to effectively protest www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
The message of which is, of course, "I can set as much public money on fire as I possibly can and get away with it"
Put this together with the WSJ story about Kristi Noem (and Corey Levandowski)'s private 737 Max love plane that DHS is in the process of buying for them, and the ostentatious security details for other officials, and a certain American Fascist Security Aesthetic is emerging
They're too tied down paying David Brooks to write thumbsucker 15k word+ pieces on how the Ivy League, another Payer of Brooks, is ruining America that don't even touch any of the salient ways in which the Ivy League is in fact ruining America
Screenshot of a Wall Street Journal article titled "The Big Money in Today’s Economy Is Going to Capital, Not Labor." Two charts show trends since 1980: corporate profits rising as a share of gross domestic income, while labor compensation steadily declines.
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...
The price, of course, being that all of your emails come off like you typed them with your ass and you never, ever, ever proofread them before hitting “send”
Beyond confirming that DOJ attorney Julie Le said, "I wish you would just hold me in contempt of court so I can get 24 hours of sleep," the reporter adds now that she is an ICE attorney who volunteered to help with the habeas cases, but "We have no guidance or direction on what we need to do."
A cabal of pedophiles conspired to destroy the US government from within by seeding fascist ideas into online forums, spreading conspiracy theories about the opposition based on their own actions, and devised an alternative currency to upend the global economy. Now they run the US government and CBS
So what I’m gathering is a pedophilic billionaire successfully worked to destigmatize race science among the academic, political, and business elite partly by sex trafficking girls. Is that the shape of it so far?
My theory: Murakami has weird cooking trauma, as in his novels men cook just before their pets disappear or they have unexpected succubus sex with ghost women sporting interesting ears
For all I know, he is right about Maimonides, or right enough. And I don’t care! I just don’t care! Just bring on the Biblical exegesis already damn it, if Maimonides is hiding some esoteric doctrine behind exoteric piety I will sniff it out on my own
Strauss on Maimonides is almost unbearable—pages and pages of woolgathering and ideas rehashed from Persecution and the Art of Writing
Good: Finally cracking open Moses Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed
Bad: I have a weird purist thing about always reading introductions, and my translation has an introduction by…Leo Strauss
PANEL 1: A rat and a duck are making morning coffee in the break room. RAT: "And I just had this glimpse of, like, 10 years from now, some overearnest 24-year-old confidently asserting shit about my own past to me and being totally incorrect." PANEL 2: DUCK: "What was once demonstrably false begins to accrue more and more illicit fascination the longer it's suppressed by consensus reality." PANEL 3: The rat takes down a mug. RAT: "We're going to win, and then this miserable present will be defanged and commodified into a playground of aesthetics." PANEL 4: DUCK: "Already furious at my unborn nonbinary grandchild for playing a massively multiplayer game where they're cartoon ICE agents doing PVP deportations for loot crates."
battlefield: fentanyl homefront
(27 mins)
www.noncanon.com/comics/2026-...
I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:
"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."
It's hilarious that they're pretending Tom Homan is some kind of voice of calm and reason. He looks and sounds like someone who would be hitting Dick Tracy's knees with a hammer
yes we live in a “democracy” but we can’t actually defund ICE because you see they were once bestowed the Legitimacy Emeralds
You have to read this. Firsthand affidavit from one of the women who was there and recording the video. She talks about how Alex Pretti was directing traffic when she arrived. She watched him be killed in front of her. She's afraid to go home, worried she'll be arrested.
I've been studying the history of US, and indeed, global policing my whole career and I can't make it more clear to law makers that this isn't a bastardization of policing, it is its purest form and logical conclusion. The impunity, militarization, deference, legitimacy, racial targeting, etc.
Huge scandal that Minneapolis has been crawling with terrorists this whole time. They've been living among us undercover as poets and nurses. And would've continued to, had it not been for the work of our bravest child kidnappers
