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sports, satire, stats, shipping, storms, socialism, and a smidgen of smarm.

nothing gets serious until the third round
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very good explanation of why not to feed images into an image generator, especially when memorializing children after a devastating tragedy.

better not to use image generators at all.
The Tumbler Ridge newspaper puts it better than I could
February 17, 2026 at 2:52 AM
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The drunk uncle theory.

You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there
agree with this (hah) but also think a particular mistake the left made for a long time online, and still makes to an extent, is failing to understand that the person whose mind you may actually change is the one reading the argument you're having, not the one you're arguing with
The secret to engaging in social media debate is knowing you will never win anyone over. The best you can hope for is to have people who already agree with tell you you're awesome. You might great a dopamine thrill from the righteousness of your anger! Fine benefits, all. But you will never win.
February 16, 2026 at 11:35 PM
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The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.
February 17, 2026 at 2:18 PM
so, you know how Fetterman is so obviously an inside job? well, imagine that but it's the whole Dem party.
Fetterman proudly declared he would vote for restrictions on financial aid to Americans but would never vote for restrictions on financial aid to Israel. He did this on Fox News.

he is purportedly a Democrat
Fetterman on Bartiromo's show: "Stand with Israel. I'll never vote for any kinds of restrictions on aid, whether it's military, financial, or intelligence."
February 17, 2026 at 2:37 PM
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Fetterman proudly declared he would vote for restrictions on financial aid to Americans but would never vote for restrictions on financial aid to Israel. He did this on Fox News.

he is purportedly a Democrat
Fetterman on Bartiromo's show: "Stand with Israel. I'll never vote for any kinds of restrictions on aid, whether it's military, financial, or intelligence."
February 17, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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I wrote about the Epstein files and how they illustrate the fact that the oligarchs are not exactly rigorous thinkers. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Epstein Class Clowns
One key revelation in the wide correspondence of the late pedophile: the rich and powerful just aren't all that bright.
www.thenation.com
February 17, 2026 at 2:08 PM
and nobody warned you it was coming
Republicans are successfully building out Orban's state media model here in the states. It's really not very subtle.
February 17, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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i would like to read a deeply-reported, 10,000-word investigative piece about the procurement process that ends up sourcing a luxury 737 for the head of DHS which only seats 17 people
The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill.

open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...
Let Them Fly First Class: Kristi Noem’s DHS Luxury Jet Scandal
Inside Noem's flying palace. Plus: Pentagon demands obedient, deadly AI. The race to deploy untested nuclear reactors. Lawmakers move to rein in presidential pardons. And remembering Robert Duvall.
open.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:32 AM
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Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...
February 15, 2026 at 8:39 PM
KLAN Barbie Dream Jet
The interior of Kristi Noem’s new billionaire-class luxury jet is complete with two bidets and a wet bar with a wine chiller. It will be purchased on our dime from the slush fund Congress approved in the One Big Beautiful Bill.

open.substack.com/pub/newsnotn...
Let Them Fly First Class: Kristi Noem’s DHS Luxury Jet Scandal
Inside Noem's flying palace. Plus: Pentagon demands obedient, deadly AI. The race to deploy untested nuclear reactors. Lawmakers move to rein in presidential pardons. And remembering Robert Duvall.
open.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 3:46 AM
well kids, i've made this before but it's been a while since i've done one of these so LFG, cuz it's a good one...
February 17, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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/2 Anyway, this is what the Smoking Gun was reporting TWENTY YEARS AGO in 2006. It was horrifying then and it’s still horrifying and it unequivocally shows child abuse.

www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/se...
Billionaire In Palm Beach Sex Scandal
JULY 26--Prepare to take a shower after reading this remarkably sleazy probable cause affidavit filed in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier who was arrested Sunday for soliciting s
www.thesmokinggun.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:53 AM
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It is absolutely a choice.
Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?
February 16, 2026 at 6:58 PM
haha omfg
Update. It's worse than I possibly could have imagined.
February 16, 2026 at 11:46 PM
thousand yard stare from playing for the Canucks
I don’t watch hockey so someone who does will have to explain. Does this Quinn Hughes guy ACTUALLY see ghosts?! 😭 @whitless256.bsky.social
February 16, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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The president of the united states? Receiving oral sex in the white house? Outrageous. Surely this will dominate news coverage for the remainder of his term
Steve Bannon talked about invoking the 25th Amendment with Jeffrey Epstein.

The conversation happened over New Year’s in 2018/2019 and included talk about how Madeleine Westerhout, the director of Oval Office ops, was “saving the world” by giving Trump oral sex.

(www.justice.gov/epstein/file...)
February 16, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.
It took only a 15-second clip of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt duking it out on a crumbling rooftop — made by A.I. with a two-sentence prompt and the click of a button — to draw swift outrage, and sizable fear, from Hollywood.

"It’s nothing short of terrifying," one scriptwriter said.
Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood
A 15-second clip created by an artificial intelligence tool owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance appears more cinematic than anything so far.
nyti.ms
February 16, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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"I'm fine with not having a PS6" OK that's fine but you need a phone. Lot of people do! I'm all for simpler, disconnected tech but nothing comes out unscathed here.
February 16, 2026 at 7:52 PM
February 16, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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They want to scare people out of posting ICE-critical content, because they know these posts are turning even their supporters against them. But the better option is to take a page out of their playbook and flood the zone.
Posting about ICE on Instagram is now enough to get you an “administrative subpoena.” 👀

@nytimes.com #$META
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
February 16, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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"Claude should win the 2028 Democratic Primary."
have arrived at a Take on AI which is so incendiary it would burn this place to the ground, I will be locking it away like the cognitive superweapon it is, never to be used
February 16, 2026 at 2:25 PM
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Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)
February 16, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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