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Picky Eaters

I don't have kids, but my observation of the children of Other People (limited by definition, but an outside perspective has value) is that younger children have no problem eating, or at least trying, whatever is offered to them, generally, if the parents raise them on a varied diet and encourage them to be open. But even those kids often hit a picky early teenager phase, which they then grow out of.

It might be tempting to buy marketers’ claims that once children got personalized food, they finally got to eat what they actually liked. But exploding choice fostered comparison and discontent. Within just a few decades, all sorts of foods that kids used to love — from briny shellfish to bitter marmalade — came to be unthinkable as kids’ foods. Preferences were increasingly understood in relation to aversions, and the beating heart of modern children’s food became displeasure.

Parents today hear grim warnings about the dangers of fighting pickiness. We’ve been told that urging kids to eat any particular dish can cause lasting aversions and dysfunctional relationships with food. At the same time, many parents quietly anguish over children’s highly processed diets, rising obesity rates and the stresses that stalk picky eaters in daily life. There’s a lot of cognitive dissonance, and it’s contributing to immense frustration, anxiety and undeserved guilt around mealtimes.

It doesn’t have to be this way. Before the days of Froot Loops and Lunchables, generations of American children learned to relish foods of all textures, flavors and colors, while obesity and eating disorders were both rare. The children of the past show us a happier, healthier and more delicious path forward. Parents can warmly encourage children to eat family foods and avoid offering alternatives. They can also counter corporate marketing with their own enthusiastic messages about the foods they love to eat, whether it’s a crunchy salad or slippery green olives.

Generalizing away from food, teach your kids that disliking things is not actually a personality. Teach your adults that, too.

Working With The Pedophile To Bring Down The Pope For Tolerating Homosexuality

A perfectly consistent worldview, but it isn't one the people who are paid to write about politics acknowledge.

Also Bannon is a great source.

No One Can Object To Bipartisan Commonsense Reforms

 That's just common sense, Jake!

Schumer on DHS reforms: "I believe Republicans will have no choice but to go along with us because it's so common sense"

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 15, 2026 at 2:15 PM

I know some will say that Chuck (and Dems) use this kind of rhetoric knowing that it is bullshit but thinking it is effective. It is not effective! It makes you look like a chump!

Believing Their Own Bullshit

One of my stray thoughts that I didn't have a chance to BLOG while I was busy last week was that the whole "El Paso Party Balloon" saga rests on their deep belief in some elaborate DRUG CARTEL DRONE NETWORK which is doing... something... flying around... doing drone stuff...

It probably originated in some right wing conspiracy theory, which an intelligence guy was tasked to "prove" so he wrote some report confirming it. It then gets "leaked" to the newspapers, which never question what the CIACOPTROOPS tell them. From there it goes back to the idiots in charge who decide they must FIND AND DESTROY THESE DRONES.  So we close airspace to destroy some party balloons.

I don't know if it happened exactly that way, of course, but the information pipelines being filled with sewage and then blessed by our greatest newspapers is the explanation for a lot of the last 25 years.  We've just replaced Colin Powell and his vial of sand with Youtuber HitlerWasRight, twitter OPSEC expert CATTURD2, and Whiskey Pete Hegseth.

Related: whatever happened to the Great New Jersey Drone Invasion of the Winter of 2024?

Morning

Finally back to Eschaton World Headquarters, the power source of my mighty blogs.

Pretty Irrefutable

Maybe we do have to hand it to him.

Saturday Afternoon

Yes, I know, you should never hand it to him...

The Man Has A Point

Bill Maher does suck.

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DHS Shutdown

I admit I didn't think the Dems would go through with it, though we will see what happens next...

Morning

Slacker Saturday travel day.

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Rugged Great Plainswoman

NYT, 2021:

Ms. Noem, the governor of South Dakota, has defied coronavirus restrictions and eagerly projects a rugged Great Plainswoman image.

WSJ, yesterday.

Within DHS, Noem and Lewandowski frequently berate senior level staff, give polygraph tests to employees they don’t trust and have fired employees—in one incident, Lewandowski fired a U.S. Coast Guard pilot after Noem’s blanket was left behind on a plane, according to people familiar with the incident.

The rugged one needs her binkie.

Nothing the NYT loves doing more than Beat Sweeteners for conservatives. They don't even do it for the access! They just love writing fan fiction about them. "Rugged Great Plainswoman." Leave NYC once challenge.

Does Anybody Show Up For Work

An amazing sequence of paragraphs.

HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O’Neill and General Counsel Mike Stuart are expected to soon leave HHS as part of a broader restructuring at the agency ahead of the midterm elections. Trump administration officials have discussed offering them other positions in the government, two people said.

Within the administration, O’Neill was viewed as a shaky public communicator who had struggled to find his fit within the department, one of the people familiar with the matter said.

Although he doesn’t have any formal medical or public health background, O’Neill was named acting director at the CDC after the ouster of Dr. Susan Monarez in late August. Before coming to HHS, O’Neill was CEO of the Thiel Foundation and an investment manager at Clarium Capital. He previously served at HHS under President George W. Bush.

...

 

O’Neill seldom visited the CDC, according to former agency leaders who declined to be named because they weren’t authorized to comment on the situation. HHS did not immediately comment on his level of engagement at the agency.

Lunch

Busy day 

No They Aren't And Yes You Do

The original PR push for AI was a lot of fake panic about how they were worried that they had created God. They ran out of ideas and are doing it again. Of course our glorious news outlets are happy to help.

We have already done this! Stop it!

Morning

Last day on West Coast time.

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The UK's Worst Prime Minister

Keir Starmer.

Only Possible Ruling In A Democracy

A judge ruling the other way - that retired military could have their speech effectively controlled for the rest of their lives - would not be good!

Yes I know we have had some "other way" rulings since Trump arrived.

The Discourse

I think it is probably correct to observe that the Sensible Centrists think Hasan Piker and Nick Fuentes are two sides of the same coin .

"Horseshoe theory," I intone wisely, as the direct deposit from The Atlantic hits my account.

Kavanaugh Stops

Will top all of his obituaries.

The 64-page class-action complaint alleges that more than 200 officers in armored trucks and helicopters descended on the arena on Oct. 19. The officers had flash-bang grenades, and their guns were drawn, the ACLU said in a news release.

“Parents and children were zip tied at gunpoint, and agents subjected people to hours of violent and degrading treatment,” it said.

The ACLU and the ACLU of Idaho filed the lawsuit on behalf of a putative class and three Latino families who are U.S. citizens or lawful permanent residents. A putative class action is a lawsuit brought by one or more named plaintiffs on behalf of a potential group.

Woke 2: The Rewokening

We were too nice the first time.

‘Rehab Addict’ Canceled by HGTV After Host Nicole Curtis Uses Racial Slur During Filming

Let the Harpers Letter Signatories go protest on her behalf.

 

Florida Tunnels

I am no expert on Florida geology, but...

Elon Musk’s tunneling firm The Boring Company was tapped Wednesday to plow connections among Universal’s Orlando theme parks.

The board of the Shingle Creek Transit and Utility Community Development District, a special purpose district encompassing Universal properties, voted to begin contract negotiations with Musk’s firm to design and build the infrastructure improvements, following a monthslong competition.

The Boring Company was one of three bidders, alongside V2R and Sunshine Connection Partners. It is best known for its expertise in underground tunnels, having dug the “Vegas Loop” transportation network in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Party Balloons

Two big pops to the reporters who ran with "cartel drones" instead of party balloon.

LOL NYT:

Trump administration officials have warned for months about Mexican cartels using drones near the U.S.-Mexico border, saying they are used to surveil border agents and smuggle drugs.

Mexican officials have publicly been more skeptical, downplaying the threat drones pose at the border.

What is clear is that drones have become a prominent tool and weapon used by Mexican cartels across Mexico in recent years, according to cartel operatives, security analysts and some government officials on both sides of the border.

Wednesday Evening

Probably better blogging tomorrow

America's Worst Evening News Program

CBS Evening News.

Good Job, Kash

Doing well, as always.

A man who says he was detained for questioning as part of the investigation into Guthrie's disappearance has told reporters that he was "terrified" by the ordeal.

Thread

Busy until later.

Sure Why Not

Is this "Trump is stuck in 1987" or "rich coal guy gave him a billion bucks."

Sure Why Not

The FAA announced a 10 day closure of airspace around El Paso and then promptly lifted it.

Probably an antifa threat.

...ah it was going to be Pearl Harbor. Maybe the Jarhanpur invasion. 

Morning

Wacky Wednesday.

America's Worst Humans

Greg Bovino and Charles Exum.

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The Only Option

The obvious move. Anything else would have been ridiculous.

Don't Join The Panopticon

I'm not sure dystopian scifi ever predicted that people would pay for the privilege.

So They All Know What The Number Is

Trumpers and affiliated are all panicked about the jobs numbers. I suppose they could just be guessing, but I'm so old I remember when any hint that government data would be broadly disseminated before the official release would have been treated as a nuclear event by economists.

Peter Navarro: "The jobs report comes out tomorrow. We have to revise our expectations down significantly for what a monthly job number should look like ... Wall Street has to adjust for the fact that we're deporting millions of illegals out of the job market."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 10, 2026 at 2:19 PM

Nobody Knows In America

Being in SoCal at the moment, the freaking out about Spanish is very "funny." One thing about East Coast big metro provincialism is the people (liberals and conservatives) who live there think diversity and multiculturalism are uniquely East Coast things.

Painting with a very broad brush here, but diverse (Latino, Asian) populations and their culture presences are much more integrated and visible generally here than on the East Coast, and that's the case in other non-NYC/DC metro parts of the country as well.  That isn't unique to supposedly liberal California, either.

And Is That True

Not sure if this is an "open the schools" or "stop assuming rich con men are smart" thing with this reporter.

 

The tech billionaire, who aims to launch an initial public offering for the newly combined company this year, argues that vast fleets of satellites powered by solar energy and cooled by the vacuum of space will become the cheapest way to generate AI computing power. Musk believes this will happen within the next three years.

Ah, yes, cooled by the vacuum of space, notable for lack of its conduction and convection and of course unimpeded solar radiation exposure much of the time.

You don't actually freeze instantly when your spacesuit gets a hole, though it is very unpleasant in other ways!

About Those Vaccines

It is all fun and games until children start dying.

Dr. Mehmet Oz has urged Americans to get vaccinated against measles, one of the strongest endorsements of the vaccine yet from a top health official in the Trump administration, which has repeatedly undermined confidence in vaccine safety. 

 

Dr. Oz, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services director, told CNN on Sunday that there was a simple solution to the raging measles outbreak in South Carolina, which has infected more than 900 people and become the largest U.S. outbreak in recent history.

 

“Take the vaccine, please,” Dr. Oz said. He also pledged that there “will never be a barrier to Americans getting access to the measles vaccine.”

Happy Hour

I did see my first Cybertruck. The reality is so much worse than pictures.

A Genuine Problem

That we went from "gambling is a thing you can do in Vegas, and then a few other places" to "bet the farm using your phone" in a few short years is a problem!

The Supreme Court unleashed this craze in 2018, ruling in Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association that federal prohibitions against states legalizing sports betting were unconstitutional. Eight years later, 40 states and the District of Columbia have allowed some type of online gambling. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported that gambling was the second-highest service-sector industry for GDP growth between 2019 and 2024, behind only software publishing.

I used to think limited sports betting was relatively healthy (relatively), in that there was a time lapse between "pushing the button" and the result. No constant hamster treat rush like slots or similar. But that was before gambling on your phone, the immense variety of parlay bets partial game betting, and half of sports coverage being devoted to gambling.

The Inscrutable Acts of Elon Musk, Supergenius

The author of this piece is a longtime Elon fluffer. 

We cannot know Musk’s full rationale for pivoting to the Moon, at least in the near term.

Because he is a con man!!!  Lol:

All of this may sound like it’s straight out of the pages of a science fiction novel, and it pretty much is.

People Didn't Actually Vote For This

I don't say that to defend Trump supporters whose reasons for voting for him were Not Good, regardless. And some of them do want and love "this."

I say it to point out that Trump does not have any kind of popular mandate for what is happening. You can think they were racist idiots for this, and generally cruel still, but plenty of Trump supporters truly believed that the country was filled with violent criminal "illegals" and that this was the problem Trump would be "solving."   

Less than 14% of nearly 400,000 immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in President Trump's first year back in the White House had charges or convictions for violent criminal offenses, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security document obtained by CBS News. 

People believe stupid things about immigration and immigrants. They believe that the solutions to these fake problems are something other than what they are. Again, that isn't a defense of them, mostly, but that people love the idea of removing all of those criminals that Joe Biden brought in to rape your wives, and illegally vote for Democrats does not mean they love "this."  

Culture Wars

Even if we believe "objecting to shitty banh mi in the college cafeteria" and "objecting to a Puerto Rican singer doing the Superbowl halftime" are somehow equivalent complaints from the Left and Right, it is important to note that Obama was not loudly objecting to the banh mi, something we only heard about because notionally liberal media outlets were including it in their Wokes Gone Wild coverage 

Needless to say, that coverage was not on the side of wokes.

The people who spent a decade thinking occasionally misguided (if they even were) college students were a threat to civilization are absurd and also they run our prestige publications.

Re-Evaluating

Any Dems who attend are just spraying themselves with loser stench.

This year, President Donald Trump is adjusting the guest list for the long, bipartisan tradition. Democratic governors have been excluded from the business meeting, and two of those governors, Wes Moore of Maryland and Jared Polis of Colorado, were not invited to the dinner, according to a source familiar with the matter.

“We are disappointed in the administration’s decision to make it a partisan occasion this year,” interim National Governors Association CEO Brandon Tatum said in a statement.

He added: “To disinvite individual governors to the White House sessions undermines an important opportunity for federal-state collaboration.”

...

With Moore and Polis disinvited from the dinner, two Democratic officials said several governors were re-evaluating whether they planned to attend.

If "not going" isn’t 100% obvious then they are useless. 

This Just In

Someone told our pre-eminent Mars explorer that getting to Mars is difficult.

Sure Why Not

Sometimes Gramps is funny.

Sunday Evening

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What Are We Going To Talk About Today, Brain?

Same thing we talk about every day, Pinky. Whatever conservatives want us to talk about.

I didn’t watch this. It might even be good! But I do want to highlight how "we" talk about whatever stupid shit they are whining about, daily, as liberals are constantly lectured about how we need to leave our "bubbles."

We can't escape this shit!

Left Coast Time

I am traveling with some obligations and also I am in that very annoying time zone which is not very compatible with my normal schedule.  Just a warning!

Nothing to the rumors I am joining Newsom! 2028.

What Is The Goal

I am still not sure what Bezos thinks he is doing with the Post, or what Will Lewis thought his job was.

Did this really make Bezos mad or was it just what he wanted?

Senior management at The Post were livid when they discovered Lewis was attending Super Bowl-related festivities in San Francisco around the time of the news of the job cuts. It came off as “callous”, said one person in the newsroom familiar with the situation, adding that “the Super Bowl thing was the last straw”. “Bezos lost patience after the Super Bowl thing,” the person added.

Morning

Sunday funday.

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Nonce Island

Never beating the charges.

America's Worst Democratic Congressperson

Rosa DeLauro 

I Am Sure All The Reporters Who Ran With The Lie Have Learned A Lesson

Just like the last 7000 times.

White House correspondent for The Hill but you can find many examples.

Morning

Slacker Saturday. Also a travel day. 

Friday Evening

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Word Games

Humans don't drive the cars, they just frequently tell the cars where to go and what to do.

Peña, providing some clarity, explained that the human agents were only there to “provide guidance” to the robotaxis.

“They do not remotely drive the vehicles. Waymo asks for guidance in certain situations and gets human input. But the Waymo vehicle is always in charge of the dynamic driving task,” Peña said.

I'm too lazy to look at the moment, but I am sure (I have long been sure, this isn't new) that they have carefully worded all their releases and data submissions to obscure the frequency of what Markey calls phone-a-friend.

This Reminds Me Of The Time Sarah Huckabee Sanders Was Politely Asked To Leave A Restaurant

 The intolerant and often violent Left strikes again.

Former U.S. Border Patrol Commander-at-Large Gregory Bovino was reportedly asked to leave a Las Vegas bar out of safety concerns for the venue’s customers.

Days after being removed from his post in Minneapolis, Bovino headed to Sin City, where he was spotted drinking wine at the multi-level Bottled Blonde sports bar on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Washington Post Vision

I have no idea, but given that Will Lewis runs the place, he probably has some very British ideas, which means the line between "journalism" and "blackmailing politicians" gets very blurry.

Everyone keeps asking whether the Post can "succeed," but the question is, succeed at what?  It doesn't have to make money, they're destroying any reason for actual readers to read it, and Jeff isn't yet shutting it down. So what does he want it for?

How Things Work

One thing journalists rarely explain is that when you piss off some deep pocketed interests, they don't necessarily fund attack ads about the thing that pissed them off.  Instead, they fund attack ads about whatever your vulnerability happens to be.

Often this gets confused in the reporting.  Something like supporting a minimum wage increase isn't risky because people oppose it, it's because someone is going to run attack ads against you accusing you of being soft on illegal immigrant child rapists, or whatever.  

When "popularism" bumps up against big donors, the popularists say go with the big donors. They get mad when you point this out.

In this special election primary, AIPAC ran ads against Tom Malinowski pointing out that he supported funding DHS.  They did this because Malinowski was only 95% reliable instead of 100% reliable on Israel.  It looks like the actual anti-Israel lefty - Analilia Mejia - might win. It will be either her or Malinowski, anyway.

The outcome in the special Democratic Party primary 11th Congressional District remained too close to call late Thursday, Feb. 5, but one clear, colossal and enormously expensive irony emerged.

In its attempt to bludgeon frontrunner Tom Malinowski with $2 million in negative ads because he his support of Israel was deemed too soft, the conservative American Israel Public Affairs Committee may have helped elect its worst nightmare — a new member of the left-wing “squad” who has been critical of Israel.

The strategy failed, but that's the strategy. 

The Best Of Us

Gates is the ultimate example of a guy we had to listen to, on everything from climate to education to public health, because he was rich and for no other reason.

The newly-released tranche of files related to Jeffrey Epstein have cast a fresh shadow over billionaire Bill Gates’ ties to the convicted sex offender, revealing a series of graphic, unverified allegations as well as a degree of philanthropic coordination between the two that is more detailed than previously known.

Melinda's basically been saying, subject to whatever contractual constraints limit her, "I divorced Bill because he's a big pedo," for years. And yet...

Could Be

Writing the excuses for the Mad King, so his people don't even have to bother.

President Trump late Thursday night shared a video that contained a brief clip portraying former President Barack Obama and the former first lady Michelle Obama as apes.

The clip, set to “The Lion Sleeps Tonight,” was spliced near the end of a 62-second video that promoted conspiracy theories about anomalies in the 2020 presidential election.

It was unclear if Mr. Trump was aware that the clip had been included in the video before he shared it. It was unclear how the clip was made, although it appeared to have been generated by A.I. The clip appeared to have been taken from a video that was shared in October by a user on X whose watermark is shown, with the caption “President Trump: King of the Jungle,” and an emoji of a lion.

You can just report it straight! 

Morning

Hopefully more time today!

Afternoon

Some things to deal with so light blogging

Popularism!

One day they will learn to chase where the puck is going, maybe even try to give it a whack themselves, realize they don't need 4 guys on defense all the time...

65% of Americans, up from 54% in June of 2025, think the actions of ICE have gone too far in enforcing immigration laws. 12%, down from 18%, say ICE’s actions have not gone far enough. And 22% say the actions of ICE are about right in enforcing immigration laws. This is down slightly from 26% previously.

Longtime Wingman Of Larry Summers

Amazing stuff.

Epstein is also eager to prove that he is not a racist. He says: “You know, there’s this argument that I reject that Black people are less intelligent than white people. It’s not true.

“We know, for example, that if I was in the forest and I had to run from the lion or figure out a way not to be eaten, and my competition is a local African, I’m the one who’s getting eaten. Because they have the intelligence to deal with their local environment.

“So it’s just different. It’s not better, it’s not worse. But there’s many differences amongst different types of people, and people have different intelligences and they excel in some intelligences usually and less so in others.”

Have You Tried Not Being The World's Worst Human

 

Self-improvement is hard, and we can't all become hilarious, charming, and cool overnight, but we can, over time, figure out how to not be repulsive pieces of shit. 

Try imagining how to get the approval of people who aren't named "Catturd2."  It took Bill Murray several decades (or even more)  to figure it out in Groundhog Day. Better get started, Elon!

But In This Rural Ohio Congressional District, He's Not Popular At All

All the Mamdani haters have gone pretty quiet lately.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani has 48-32% favorability rating, from 46-31% in December. The 48% favorable is the highest it’s ever been for Mamdani. He is viewed favorably by 64% of Democrats, unfavorably by 68% of Republicans, and favorably, 43-31%, by independents.

One of my "favorite" anti-Mamdani arguments was that he shouldn't be the candidate because, if he was elected, then Democrats all over the country would have to answer for him

I suppose people who decided that the winner of a 5-way contested mayoral race (Adams) in New York City told us something, anything, about national Dem politics could think that honestly, but I bet the rest of us can see the problem with believing that no Democratic politician, anywhere in America, can be to the left of Tim Ryan (who lost) without dooming the party.

Morning

Thirsty Thursday.

Exceeding Expectations

Good for Spanberger.

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Concentration Camp NIMBYs

Republican senators, too!

I strongly oppose DHS's proposed plan to turn a warehouse in Byhalia, Mississippi, into an ICE detention center. I am all for immigration enforcement, but this site was meant for economic development and job creation. We cannot suddenly flood Byhalia with an influx of up to…

— Senator Roger Wicker (@SenatorWicker) February 4, 2026

Darkness

I don't have many deep thoughts about the demise of the Post, in part because I don't actually know what Bezos is trying to achieve (theorize away, but I don't know). I'll just say that Bezos pulled the trigger awhile ago, and this is just the bleeding stage.

What's This All About Then

No idea.

Fifty-five-year-old Ori Solomon faces charges in both state and federal court after investigators seized guns, passports, and uncovered details about the alleged illegal biolab tied to a man who is currently in federal custody.

So far, in Clark County, Solomon faces one felony count of improper disposal of hazardous waste — specifically, hydrochloric acid. The charge comes under a Nevada law governing "weapons of mass destruction, lethal agents, toxins and delivery systems."

Solomon is also facing federal gun charges after authorities found bullets and at least six firearms during a search of his Las Vegas home on Saturday.

Police and court records reveal Solomon is an Israeli citizen who was admitted into the U.S. on a non-immigrant visa, which is valid until May. That visa prohibits him from having guns.

Zones of Interest

Some people aren't big fans of concentration camps being built near them.  From a hearing in Surprise, Arizona.

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

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— Arizona Right Watch (@azrww.bsky.social) February 4, 2026 at 6:43 AM

[Jake Tapper bursts through the wall, like the Kool-Aid Man, to yell at me for using the term "concentration camp" to refer to concentration camps.]

MAHA

 Ah, well, nevertheless.

Hannah and Daniel Neeleman's Ballerina Farm has reportedly paused its sale of raw milk following health concerns discovered this past summer.

In recent years, the influencer couple has built a business around their viral content shared to millions of followers across social channels. The Ballerina Farm brand — which is named for Hannah's past pursuits as a Juilliard-trained dancer — sells frozen meat products, pantry products, kitchenware and more goods related to baking and cooking.

...

In a statement issued to PEOPLE, Daniel says that the Ballerina Farm has come to better understand the process behind making consumable unpasteurized dairy products.

"Producing raw milk takes careful planning from a facility and infrastructure standpoint. Unfortunately, we learned this after the fact. The way our dairy was built is ideal for pasteurized dairy products," he says. "We do plan in the future to construct a second dairy made specifically for raw milk products. The state of Utah requires daily testing and any Raw Milk sold from our stand passed."

I am curious what precisely caused the Trumpers to start talking about "whole milk" instead of "raw milk." 

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How Unexpected

The True 2nd Amendment

Not everybody gets to have guns, certainly not without fear of summary execution from "frightened" law enforcement.

Jeannine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, on Monday threatened jail time for anyone who enters the capital with a gun.

In remarks on Fox News that could deepen a growing rift between gun owners and the Trump administration, Ms. Pirro declared that if anyone brings “a gun into the District, you mark my words, you’re going to jail. I don’t care if you have a license in another district and I don’t care if you’re a law-abiding gun owner somewhere else.”

The Moment

Josh Shapiro proves his critics (me) correct almost every time he opens his mouth.

Philadelphia’s bombastic district attorney, Larry Krasner, is no stranger to opposition from within his own party, but the anger directed at him last week after he said ICE agents are “wannabe Nazis” was more pronounced than usual.

After making the comparison, Krasner faced a wave of criticism, including from Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, who called the comments “abhorrent” and said the rhetoric doesn’t help “bring down the temperature.”

But the progressive district attorney said Monday that he would not back down, saying “these are people who have taken their moves from a Nazi playbook and a fascist playbook.”

“Governor Shapiro is not meeting the moment,” Krasner said in an interview. “The moment requires that we call a subgroup of people within federal law enforcement — who are killing innocent people, physically assaulting innocent people, threatening and punishing the use of video — what they are. … Just say it. Don’t be a wimp.”

 Elsewhere, some other people for Shapiro to criticize:

About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, including many Holocaust survivors. Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building’s Haitian staff in their apartments.

“That reminds me of Anne Frank,” Rachel Blumberg, president and CEO of the center, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. “There’s a kindred bond between our residents being Jewish and seeing the place that the Haitians have gone through.”

Concerning

Don't see how Phony Stark wriggles out of this one!

Offices belonging to Elon Musk's social media platform, X, in France are being raided by the Paris prosecutor.

Its cyber-crime unit is conducting the searches, it said in a statement on X. Europol is assisting.

It added it was related to an investigation opened in January 2025 following complaints about X's algorithm and the content it recommended.

Morning

Once again.

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The Priesthood

I hate that once upon a time I bought into, somewhat, the vision of the Supreme Court propped up by decades of mainstream media coverage. None of us are immune from propaganda, and the idea of the Supremos as high priests was drilled into me for a long time. The secrecy is not ok.

Seems Bad

I've made some errors of judgment, but being Tulsi-curious was never one of them.

WASHINGTON—A U.S. intelligence official has alleged wrongdoing by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in a whistleblower complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the matter WASHINGTON—A U.S. intelligence official has alleged wrongdoing by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard in a whistleblower complaint that is so highly classified it has sparked months of wrangling over how to share it with Congress, according to U.S. officials and others familiar with the matter.

Does Anybody Remember Laughter

I know that likely demolishing the Kennedy Center, or ornamenting it with giant tributes to dear leader, isn't actually funny, but of all the things that our "elites" are just letting Trump get away with, his building grotesque monuments to his corpulent ego is at least worth a chuckle.  

They will either be lasting monuments to all of their failures, or be dynamited on Jan 20, 2029. It will most likely be the former, of course, which is sad but ultimately appropriate.

No Art For You

I admit I find this mostly funny, except for the orchestra any other resident companies that are fucked because Trump is pouting about something.

The Kennedy Center in Washington DC will be closed for a two-year renovation beginning in July, US President Donald Trump has announced.

Trump wrote on Truth Social on Sunday that the centre would close on 4 July this year "in honour of the 250th Anniversary of our Country".

Appropriate way of honoring that anniversary at this moment, I suppose. It's closing time.

Converging Crises

I suppose the novel version has a civilization threatening plague originating in the concentration camps being filled by the mad king, whose adviser prevented the population from being vaccinated against it.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement halted "all movement" at a detention center in Texas for families and quarantined some migrants there after medical staff confirmed two detainees had "active measles infections," the Department of Homeland Security said Sunday.

This is, of course, horrible and neither the situation broadly nor the individuals affected will get the attention they require. 

Morning

 late start

Sunday Evening

Enjoy

America's Worst Humans

Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez.

Yeah

 

He Admit It

Biden guy:

Nazi Cosplayer Has Nazi Views

It has been, uh, interesting to watch the media-political class work themselves into a frenzy over the antisemitism of being against genocide, while pretending not to understand what actual Nazis were about.

A day before six career federal prosecutors resigned in protest over the Justice Department’s handling of the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis, lawyers in the office had a conversation with Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol field leader, that left them deeply unsettled.

According to several people with knowledge of the telephone conversation, which took place on Jan. 12, Mr. Bovino made derisive remarks about the faith of the U.S. attorney in Minnesota, Daniel N. Rosen. Mr. Rosen is an Orthodox Jew and observes Shabbat, a period of rest between Friday and Saturday nights that often includes refraining from using electronic devices.

Mr. Bovino, who has been the face of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, used the term “chosen people” in a mocking way, according to the people with knowledge of the call. He also asked, sarcastically, whether Mr. Rosen understood that Orthodox Jewish criminals don’t take weekends off, the people said.

Nazis weren't only about genocidal antisemitism, of course, but it was kind of a big thing! Maybe they should read a book about it before their hero, Trump, the bringer of peace to the Middle East, burns them all.

Morning

Sunday funday

Saturday Afternoon

 Doing some weekending.

Some Of Our Faves

A very big and influential Dem donor who everyone has long known is Epstein adjacent is, in fact, in the Epstein files with some stuff that doesn't look good!

I suspect the chips will not fall from above so it is time for another woke uprising.

Phone Addiction

I heard stories for years from some academics about how The Kids Today were worse than The Kids Of Yesterday and they were mostly bullshit (and plenty of other older academics agreed that nothing important had changed). Still, between "AI" and the phones, I suspect these stories are no longer bullshit.

I have a rule, mostly followed, that if I'm deliberately watching something (as opposed to background noise TV, which as an old I still do sometimes), I don't look at my phone. If I really feel the need to, I will pause whatever I am watching (again, mostly followed).

I won't deny the addict's urge exists, though I will blame my job and the current state of affairs for that, somewhat. It wasn't so bad a million years ago in the Biden era.

Beyond the classroom, it's a bit hard to have interests and hobbies if you can't put your phone down occasionally. Go watch a movie, kids!

But They'll Be Safer Than Humans!!!

This was an evidence-free article of faith among autonomous vehicle boosters. I've never really doubted that to the extent that they work, they'd be reasonably safe, but how safe they are in practice won't just depend on the technology, but on how safe they are told to be. 

By accounts, Waymos are being set to drive more aggressively than they had been previously.  They had been safe, in part, because they were programmed to be cautious.  Maybe overly cautious, but it is risky to turn the dial the other way.

Elon's technology was always trash. His commitments to safety and honesty are, of course, what you would expect.

Tesla’s nascent robotaxi program is off to a rough start. New NHTSA crash data, combined with Tesla’s new disclosure of robotaxi mileage, reveals Tesla’s autonomous vehicles are crashing at a rate much higher than human drivers, and that’s with a safety monitor in every car.

Morning

Slacker Saturday

Happy Hour

Get happy.

In Her Defense, She Needs The Money

Welp.

Mrs. Clinton’s take was somewhat more subdued. She said, nonetheless, that she had been impressed by the development that had taken place since her last visit more than a decade ago, when she was secretary of state.

“The example that the kingdom is setting for the right kind of development — ambitious, audacious, but organized, focused, bringing people, men and women together to move into the future — that is a very strong model for other parts of the world,” she said.

Mrs. Clinton met with the crown prince, and with Prince Turki al-Faisal, a former Saudi ambassador to the United States whom she called a “very valued friend.”

“I can’t wait to call Bill and tell him that I got to see you,” she said of her husband.

Ah, Prince Turki al-Faisal, let's learn a bit about him.

From 1979 to 2001, Prince Turki was director general of Al Mukhabarat Al 'Ammah, Saudi Arabia's intelligence agency, resigning from the position on 1 September 2001, ten days before the September 11 attacks in which 15 Saudi nationals hijacked commercial American airliners.

Fascinating stuff!

America's Worst University

Dartmouth University.

Seems Bad

Mr. Trump, Sir, Don Lemon is on your side, it's those nasty people at The Atlantic who are overly concerned with "free speech" that you should be focused on.

Space Data Centers

I know I don't have the genius of Elon Musk, but the issue with data centers isn't land, it's power and cooling. While we think of the vacuum of space as being "cold," it also doesn't conduct any fucking heat as you thermos users might know, which is why cooling is a big issue on the space station!!!

I hate that "everyone" feels obligated to take obvious cons seriously.

A Man Of Principle

I gotta say that I do respect Lindsey Graham for using the power that he has to stand up for what he thinks is right.

NO SENATE VOTE TONIGHT Couldn’t get all senators to allow a speedy vote. Schumer tells reporters Lindsey Graham is blocking it. “That’s the holdup,” Schumer tells reporters. Graham wants to keep a provision letting him sue to pocket $500,000 over J6 phone records seized.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur.bsky.social) January 30, 2026 at 4:28 AM

It Was Someone Else's Vomit

We do love our "law enforcement officers."

A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol employee was charged with drunken driving in St. Paul after a state trooper found him passed out in a car Tuesday morning “covered in vomit.”

The state trooper found 31-year-old Alfredo Mancillas Jr. of Corpus Christi, Texas, “slumped over in the driver’s seat” at 3:25 a.m. Tuesday in the Hamline-Midway neighborhood near Allianz Field, according to charges filed that day by the St. Paul City Attorney’s Office.

Morning

Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil

Happy Hour

get happy

America's Worst Humans

Chaya Raichik.

Hype Machine

A lot of people have lost betting against Elon for the past decade or so, but going all in on robots that certainly won't do anything useful anytime soon...

Tesla also announced plans to end production of its Model S and Model X vehicles. It will now use the manufacturing plant in California that made those cars to produce its line of humanoid robots - known as Optimus.

Fred, who used to be one of Elon's hype men but finally saw the light, caught the important bit:

Elon Musk admitted on Tesla’s Q4 2025 earnings call today that the company doesn’t have any Optimus robots doing useful work in its factories right now.

This is a striking admission, given that Musk has spent the past two years claiming the opposite.

Good That You Can Get Them On The Phone

Now that her problem is taken care of - at least enough to push it off the front page for a bit - she can go back to not pretending to care about it.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — U.S. Sen. Susan Collins of Maine said Thursday that immigration officials have ceased their "enhanced operations" in the state, the site of an enforcement surge and more than 200 arrests since last week.

Collins, a Republican, made the announcement after saying she had several direct communications with Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem.

RIP Dan McQuade

I only met him a couple of times, years ago, though I'd see him randomly around Philly occasionally, but he always struck me as good people. I think he was still in college when I first met him.

First, We Remove All Leverage

Propose a shitty compromise because it got a group hug in the caucus meeting, and then remove any leverage you have to pass it.

Under the emerging plan, according to two officials knowledgeable about it, the Senate would split off legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security from a six-bill package of spending measures needed to keep the military, health programs and other federal agencies funded for the remainder of the fiscal year.

The Senate would pass those bills before a Friday midnight deadline, and Congress also would consider a short-term extension for homeland security operations, which would prevent an interruption of services by the Transportation Security Agency, Coast Guard and Federal Emergency Management Agency.

This isn't a "rein in ICE plan" it's an "avert the shutdown that our hog voters are yelling for" plans.

Then they will yell at people for not understanding their brilliance. Then not understand why people are mad when ICE continues its campaign of ethnic cleansing and murder.

...The Democrats!

Morning

Thinkpiece Thursday.

Thursday Night

Rock on.

Happy Hour

get happy

Going Wobbly

I know Dems don't have a magic wand, but if they fail to look like they're doing what they can (which is even different even from doing what they can! and no it isn't my job to pretend), they're going to have to answer for this shit next week, and next week, and the next week..

Something

I know this is a long way from anything approaching a path to justice, but it's slightly better than "our racist drunk slobs can kill who they want, fuck you."

BREAKING: Agents involved in the Alex Pretti shooting have been placed on paid administrative leave. MS NOW's @marcsantianews.bsky.social has the latest

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— MS NOW (@ms.now) January 28, 2026 at 6:16 PM

And yes I know it's designed to make the Senate Dems go wobbly and I know nothing will come of this, ultimately.

There's A Red Under His Bed

And a little green man in his head.

It remains to be seen how the Venezuelan people will respond to a more overt CIA presence in the country post-Maduro. For years, Maduro cast the CIA as a convenient boogey man, repeatedly accusing the agency – without evidence – of attempting to topple his regime as he clung to power despite US opposition.

Now, the CIA has helped supplant Maduro and is poised to help actively manage the Trump administration’s dealings with Venezuela’s new leadership.

Nom Nom

This particular incident is "funny," but generally shoving AI into everything means the plagiarism machine is inevitably eating an immense about of things (legal, corporate, medical) that are supposed to be private.

The interim head of the country’s cyber defense agency uploaded sensitive contracting documents into a public version of ChatGPT last summer, triggering multiple automated security warnings that are meant to stop the theft or unintentional disclosure of government material from federal networks, according to four Department of Homeland Security officials with knowledge of the incident.

The apparent misstep from Madhu Gottumukkala was especially noteworthy because the acting director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency had requested special permission from CISA’s Office of the Chief Information Officer to use the popular AI tool soon after arriving at the agency this May, three of the officials said. The app was blocked for other DHS employees at the time.

Not Even Sure What Her Play Is Here

I know they're all trying to be in a seat when the music stops, but I am not sure how this achieves that for her!

Kristi Noem: "Everything I've done, I've done at the direction of the president and Stephen"

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 28, 2026 at 1:21 PM

Not exactly sure who "not my fault, just following orders" is addressed to here.

This Reminds Me Of The Time Sarah Huckabee Sanders Was Politely Asked To Leave A Restaurant

Rep. Ilhan Omar was charged at by a man during a town hall event in Minneapolis. Video from the incident shows the man spraying a substance in her direction.

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— Shipwreck (@shipwreck75.bsky.social) January 28, 2026 at 1:31 AM

The guy had a syringe/needle of (?).

That's the second assault/attempt assault against elected Dems recently.  Ilhan was gonna punch him!

The title is my running joke about how political journalists and commentators swing into action whenever some random left-leaning person does anything  and the discourse becomes dominated by discussions of the Uncivil Left.

A quick search shows there were at least seven New York Times pieces about the Battle of Red Hen (the infamously intolerant restaurant).

It was quite "funny" that Maggie Haberman had no concerns about making clear who her favorite special source was - Smokey Eye herself.

Objectivity!

Morning

Wacky Wednesday.

Happy Hour

Your moment of Zen.

And If The Band You're In Starts Playing Different Tunes

Much of The Discourse 2022-2025 can be explained by people believing - or pretending to believe - that 1) Joe Biden was president in 2020 and 2) Because of the actions of President Joe Biden leading up to the 2020 election, Joe Biden lost re-election and the Democrats suffered a historic wipeout at the polls.

No this doesn't make any sense, but it is the only way that "because of Woke and the Covid response and Defund the Police, Democrats lost" can make sense.

And She Doesn't Even Care About The Price Of Eggs!

(joke)

Jeffries is turning it up, finally.

Hakeem Jeffries: "Kristi Noem is a despicable, corrupt, pathological liar. We've seen her slander not just one, but American citizens, patriotic Americans who were killed without justification on the streets of Mpls ... we are prepared to initiate impeachment proceedings against her in the House."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 27, 2026 at 7:04 PM

Finally, Gun Control

Thank you, President Trump!

Trump: "With that being said, you can't have guns. You can't walk in with guns. You just can't. You can't walk in with guns. You can't do that. But it's just a very unfortunate incident."

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 27, 2026 at 5:42 PM

Lunch

Shop while you eat! (Ad, I get a commission).

America's Worst Humans

Greg Bovino.

The War At Home

"We can deport as many people as we want to as long as people don't see all the cruelty" is probably more true than I would like it to be, but much less true than either elected Dems or Republicans think.

Still it is quite amazing that the headbangers all believed that a weeks-long show of extremely cruelty while invading Minneapolis, complete with taunting social media campaign and actual murders, would be popular.

I don't think they'll change much going forward, but they will probably tone down the cruelty show.

Squeaky Little Nazi

I do hope Trump saw Bovino on TV and was so disgusted that he didn't look and sound like he was from "central casting" that he has banned him from appearing on TV forever.

You can't rely on Trump doing the right thing for the right reasons, but sometimes he does the right thing for hilariously wrong reasons.

Key player sidelined: Top Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino and some of his agents are expected to leave Minneapolis on Tuesday, sources said. The Department of Homeland Security has also suspended his access to his social media accounts, a source told CNN. President Donald Trump has dispatched border czar Tom Homan to oversee enforcement operations in the city.

I don't think he actually ran his social account, so this is "the character of Bovino is going on temporary hiatus."

...Now saying not only will "Bovino" retire, but Bovino himself.

Gregory Bovino has been removed from his role as Border Patrol “commander at large” and will return to his former job in El Centro, California, where he is expected to retire soon, according to a DHS official and two people with knowledge of the change.

Morning

Taco Tuesday.

Happy Hour

Supposedly Bovino and all border patrol agents are leaving MN. Not entirely sure what that means, given the blurring of the various agencies.

The Worst House Democrat

She was one of the 7 who voted for funding, of course. The NYT appears to run features about her weekly.

It’s unacceptable to have another needless death in Minnesota, and it’s unacceptable to have elected officials, candidates, and administration officials continue to throw gas on this fire, or tacitly encourage assaults on law enforcement and anyone else. The situation is…

— Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (@RepMGP) January 25, 2026

On top of the various ways this is craven, what did she think would happen? What did any of them think would happen? Did any staffer say uh, boss, what happens when they kill again in a week? What happens when the weather is a bit better and they are even more hyped up? Do you think this just ends when you vote and go home for the rest of the month?

Not just her. All of the Democrats. What did they think was going to happen next?

The sense that none of these people put a little decision tree up on a whiteboard, plotting out the next possible steps, is maddening.

Um, boss, what happens when someone else gets killed next week? I CAN'T HEAR YOU SHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUPSHUTUP

Alex Pareene. Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time.

He reappeared!

I propose a sort of long-term residential program for everyone who remains with ICE and CBP after this week, along with more or less everyone hired since the start of the second Trump administration. This would have to be a mandatory program, reflecting the seriousness with which we ought to take proper law enforcement training in this country.

Obviously, ICE agents will not be able to continue working while they are undergoing this rigorous new training program. And in order for retraining to be effective, it will take a long time—perhaps even years. Because we can’t accept one-size-fits-all solutions, we should expect this mandatory residential retraining program to be somewhat open-ended. I would recommend we place these agents on an indefinite leave of absence from their jobs while they are retraining, and have their essential duties taken over by other agencies, preferably outside the Department of Homeland Security (which will have a lot of its agents undergoing this long-term residential training). 

He'll Know Better Next Time

Tom Suozzi says he "failed" in voting for the DHS bill, in an email to his campaign list

"I failed to view the DHS funding vote as a referendum on the illegal and immoral conduct of ICE in Minneapolis." pic.twitter.com/mw91qJBsKd

— Michael Gold (@migold) January 26, 2026

I'm really curious about something. Did he not game this out at all? Did it not occur to him that there was a nontrivial chance ICE was going to kill again? Did he think, once, how will I respond if that happens?

Some of these guys have shitty politics, in the sense of supporting shitty policies, but also they seem to lack the ability to game things out. What if I vote for this, and then Trump does that? What then?

Maybe Some Progress

Worst man in the world but he hates when he senses he is looking bad.

Of course Dems are gonna go wobbly now, so...

Started/Going

 

Now is when a bunch of people start telling The Left (unnamed, because they won't publish any of us and can't name any of us) that they are supposed to accept converts to our views with grace, but I don't think Joe Scarborough is altering his guest list (correct me if I am wrong) to include "us."

A lot of people weren't troubled with Trump because they wanted just-the-tip Trumpism.  They thought WOKE had gone too far and a correction was due, and Daddy Trump was just the guy to administer it. It was high time to turn the dial back on some of that "progress" and  reduce some of those unqualified minorities in positions of power. So tired of hearing about trans people! Time to return to the glorious meritocracy of Scarborough Country!

"I didn't expect Trump to kill white guys!"

Shifting

It isn't too hard to come up with (unpleasant) explanations about why the murder of Good didn't seem to move people (I mean the news media and politicians, mostly) and the murder of Pretti has, but it is still, uh, fascinating.

Republican Chris Madel made a stunning exit from the Minnesota governor’s race on Jan. 26, saying he cannot support the national GOP’s “stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.”

In a surprise video announcement, the Minneapolis attorney said he supported the originally stated goals of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s operation in Minnesota, including the deportation of undocumented immigrants with serious criminal records, but the effort has “expanded far beyond its stated focus on true public safety threats.”

Especially as:

He launched his campaign for governor as a staunch defender of law enforcement and had recently provided legal counsel to Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in Minneapolis on Jan. 7.

Obviously Intoxicated Dickheads With Guns

Keeping everybody safe.

Minneapolis, MN - After FPS agents went into the hotel, shot teargas and kinetic munitions into the crowd assembled outside he wanted to know where the PD is to the press. I asked if he has a message for the community members that wanted out. No response. None to the mayor either.

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— Sean Beckner-Carmitchel (@acatwithnews.bsky.social) January 26, 2026 at 4:36 AM

Morning

Morbid Monday.

Sunday Evening

Keep talking

Senate Watch

More senators - including the worst ones - are making the right noises about ICE funding. I am always happy to be wrong when pessimistic, but I expect them to pull some bullshit combined with "ohwellweareintheminoritynothingwecandovoteharder."

There are some costs to obstruction, but if they fail to understand the costs of not obstructing at this moment...

They are going to keep killing people.

Innovations in 2nd Amendment Interpretation

Kash Patel: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have a right to break the law." (Pretti was carrying a gun legally.)

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— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 25, 2026 at 3:34 PM

I know they're all pushing the "he shouldn't have brought a gun to a protest (even though it wasn't even a protest)" line, but only Kash is dumb enough to say this.

Back Again

Battle between editors.

Sound and Fury

ONE WEEK EARLIER

Dash Sulzberger Made An Emergency Call From His Vacation Spot

Ah, well, it was good for a moment.

Amplifying

 

Timely Candor From The NYT

Appreciated.

Which Dem Senators Will Be The Designated Shiteaters

 Get in line.

Reminder: DHS legislation that funds ICE at current levels without policy restrictions is in the Senate and needs 60 votes to pass. Deadline is next Friday.

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur.bsky.social) January 24, 2026 at 4:47 PM

It's Tariff Week, Again

I'm starting to think you can't make binding deals with President Deals, especially illegal trade deals that are required to go through Congress and thus there isn't even any pretense that they are binding in any sense.

There's A Catch

In MN:

Two women were detained by ICE (under attorney's advice they are not saying why), one of the ICE thugs started having seizures, they saved his life, and then:

Once the agent was transferred to medical care, Amundson and Zemien were placed into another vehicle and driven to Whipple anyway.

“I asked if we could just go home,” Amundson said. “I said, ‘We just saved his life. Is that cool with you?’ And they said no.”

Eventually:

“We’re releasing you to your counsel and to your state representative,” the officer said, according to Amundson. “But you need to tell everybody that we treated you kindly.”

A scene in the film version of Catch-22, when Cathcart and Korn are offering to send Yossarian home.

We will issue orders sending you back to the States and there's one thing  you have to do for us in return.

What would that be?

Like us.

Like you?

Like us.

You'll be surprised how easy it is once you begin.

Later in the Star Tribune piece, the obvious realization:

What stayed with Amundson most, she said, was not the adrenaline of the moment but the realization that came while she was holding the agent’s head in her hands and keeping his airway open.

“I was hit so hard with the fact that this man would not do this for me,” she said.

Morning

Slacker Saturday

Happy Hour

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America's Worst Humans

Bari Weiss 

...The Democrats!

I have no patience for the ones who pull shit like this because they are saying, "ha ha fuck you stupid hog voters."

Cynically, DeLauro issued blistering statements against ICE, then negotiated the ICE funding deal, then personally voted against it, then celebrated with Republicans after passage. She's 82, represents Yale, and has a primary challenger.

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— Ezra Levin ❌👑 (@ezralevin.bsky.social) January 23, 2026 at 2:02 PM

Well fuck you too!

Over the years I've noticed that it really enrages Professional Democrats when the hog voters don't clap along with scripted nonsense like this. They put on the show for you! Clap!