Rod McGuinness

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

CHARLES RAFFERTY The Problem with Early Warnings People don't like to leave a party unless the house is actually on fire. Even then, if the flames are far enough away to be pretty, they'll finish their drink, take one more pass at the hors d'oeuvres. How things happen has always been unclear. Hurricanes begin in a place where no one lives. Agents of the government start to wear masks. Fascism is a word my neighbors won't use yet. They are following the law, they say, and the sirens are coming for someone else.

This hit so fucking hard today.

FBI boss Kash Patel gave New Zealand officials 3D-printed guns illegal to possess under local laws On a visit to New Zealand, FBI Director Kash Patel gave the country’s police and spy bosses gifts of inoperable pistols that were illegal to possess under local gun laws and had to be destroyed.

Unsurprisingly stupid

I love that for them

Meanwhile on RedNote

Tastes like justice

Family uses AI to create video for deadly Chandler road rage victim's own impact statement Christopher Pelkey was killed in a road rage incident in Chandler in 2021, but last month, artificial intelligence brought him back to life during his killer’s sentencing hearing.

OK....

Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time” Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and t...

Terrifying www.propublica.org/article/insi...

SC half swipers are miserable archive.md/3IhER

Will there be a funeral for the now deceased robot? 🙄

Love that hotel. Total timewarp.

Dear Director Patel, Before you came into office, I requested the full and complete files related to Jeffrey Epstein, In response to this request, I received approximately 200 pages of documents, which consisted primarily of flight logs, Epstein's list of contacts, and a list of victims' names and phone numbers. I repeatedly questioned whether this was the fill set of documents responsive to my request and was repeatedly assured by the FBI that we had received the full set of documents. Late yesterday, I learned from a source that the FBI Field Office in New York was in possession of thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation and indictment of Epstein. Despite my repeated requests, the FBI never disclosed the existence of these files. When you and I spoke yesterday, you were just as surprised as I was to learn this new information. By 8:00 a.m. tomorrow, February 28, the FBI will deliver the full and complete Epstein files to my office, including all records, documents, audio and video recordings, and materials related to Jeffrey Epstein and his clients; regardless of how such information was obtained. There will be no withholdings or limitations to my or your access. The Department of Justice will ensure that any public disclosure of these files will be done in a manner to protect the privacy of victims and in accordance with law, as I have done my entire career as a prosecutor. I am also directing you to conduct an immediate investigation into why my order to the FBI was not followed. You will deliver to me a comprehensive report of your findings and proposed personnel action within 14 days. I appreciate your immediate attention to this important matter. I know that we are both committed to transparency for the American people, and I look forward to continuing to work with you to serve our President and our country: Sincerely: ياااي Pamela Bondi Attorney General

Everything is shit, but Pam Bondi publicly reaming out Kash Patel because The Epstein Files turned out to have been significantly oversold is darkly hilarious.

Blink twice if the "source" is in the room with you, Pam!

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Trump: This country has gotten bloated and fat and disgusting

Genderqueer bellydancers for Gaza. Really Donnie?

Gen Z teens tell us why they stopped trusting experts in favor of influencers on TikTok It’s not that Gen Z doesn’t believe in experts. Rather, it’s that social media has rewired the way they think about credibility.

Gen Z prefers influencers over experts—"not because they are wrong, but because they are inconvenient."

How much longer until the ‘white people can use the N word’ Executive Order?

Apparently Elon killed a program for disabled kids because it included the word “transition.” Program helped transition from high school to work. (Weirdly, the tweet on the Nazi message board which made this claim, is now unavailable...so weird).

Resistance is futile...

Bring your kid to work doesn’t feel very DOGE

ผัดซีอิ๊ว 😊

I love the during work hours text messages in lieu of email, Teams etc

MAGA: Make Apartheid Great Again Apartheid 2.0? Elon Musk’s PayPal Broligarchy seeks to remake America like their beloved Apartheid childhood.

This seems bang on

there is currently an undetermined amount of djs, at least two, perhaps three, they are rotating

Unquestionably, major policy changes, edicts and directives handed down by the new Trump administration will upend lives. But I've also been struck by the widespread efforts to erase/whitewash history. Stick with me for a pretty shocking series of events from just the past few weeks.

The Case for Kicking the Stone | Los Angeles Review of Books Philip Ball finds Nicholas Carr’s “Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart” disturbingly compelling.

'All communication now is near-instantaneous, and too much input may be too much for our brains. A new book argues for inserting more friction into the process.'

Things I think about weekly: Why isn't there a Trent Reznor biography?

NYMag is doing some cracking reporting, stories lately. Always good but top shelf atm

Moderating social comments can be disheartening but fuck me they are beyond toxic at the moment 🥺

So. Good.