Fair

We deserve it.

NEW ORLEANS—Delivering the fiery, expletive-laden remarks at a postgame press conference after winning Super Bowl LIX, Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni told Eagles fans Sunday, “I hate all of you, fuck you.” “It’s sad to think how much greater the Eagles’ legacy would be if it didn’t have a worthless fanbase filled with such total fucking pricks,” said Sirianni, who added that Eagles fans were loud, rude, and obnoxious assholes before he went on to announce, “This is for you,” and flipped the double birds. “The Eagles won this championship. You arrogant pieces of shit had nothing to do with our victory, and you don’t deserve to celebrate. Honestly, it would have been so much easier to accomplish without the support of you nasty-ass fucking slobs who don’t know ball. Shit town. Shit people. Blow me, assholes.” At press time, Sirianni expressed hope that rioting Eagles fans would burn down Philadelphia and die painfully in the flames.

America's Worst Police Department

The New York Police Department.

And Then

I hope this judge is gaming this out rather than relying on the good chaps to be good.

BREAKING: A federal judge has determined that the Trump administration is violating his order lifting the blanket spending freeze on federal grant programs. He is orderin gthe administration to immediately unfreeze funds, including for NIH and the IRA. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) February 10, 2025 at 5:31 PM

Lunch

eat

Meritocracy

Create a 'second' track and then just throw all the applications in the garbage.

The National Institutes of Health has suddenly withdrawn researchers’ applications for a prestigious grant that were submitted with a diversity notation — effectively disqualifying many early-career academics from underrepresented backgrounds.

Probably this was a well-intentioned program destroyed by the particular moment, but it does highlight a not uncommon problem with two track systems which are put in place to supposedly help disadvantaged populations but actually hurt them. For example, "minority fellowship" positions which actually pay less and are not on the job track that normal positions are.

To Show They Can

Obviously there's no good reason to send people to Gitmo - there never was - but I expect this will get less fretting from our elite opinion havers than it did post-9/11. At least then they pretended they were super-terrorists. These days people barely bother to come up with reasons, and our elite opinion havers barely bother to pretend to care with weepy THIS ISN'T WHO WE ARE, HOWEVER pieces.

Feb 9 (Reuters) - A federal judge in New Mexico on Sunday granted a preemptive restraining order to block the U.S. government from sending three Venezuelan men detained in the state from being sent to a military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Judge Kenneth Gonzales of the Federal District Court for New Mexico said during a video conference hearing that he was granting the order, said Baher Azmy, a lawyer for the men.

Good for the judge who had to be quick, because in Gitmo there's no access to a judge! FREEDOM!

It's Tariff Week, Again

I imagine what is happening is that one thing Trump believes in, other than racism, is tariffs, so they keep trying to find ones that don't make the line go down.

Donald Trump has said he will announce new 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports into the US on Monday that would affect “everybody’, including its largest trading partners Canada and Mexico, in another major escalation of his trade policy overhaul.

Morning

It seems like the city survived.

Sunday Evening

Go birds.

America's Worst Newspaper

That fucking newspaper.

Oh No Not My Precious Money

These fucking people.

“While the administration works to achieve this goal at NIH, a smart, targeted approach is needed in order to not hinder life-saving, groundbreaking research at high-achieving institutions like those in Alabama,” Britt told AL.com.

On Friday night, the NIH announced it was cutting payments toward overhead costs for research institutions that receive its grants, a policy that could leave universities with major budget gaps, The Associated Press reported.

Lunch

Eat

Supervillains

A big criticism I have always had of these characters in movies and similar is that their motives rarely make any sense. Either it is nonspecific "I WANT TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD" stuff like Brain in Pinky and the Brain or some peculiar specific goal that isn’t even well-served by whatever evil plan that is being hatched.

But I get it now after seeing Musk.  He is a true solipsist who sees the world as a video game and other people as "non player characters." He is trying to "win" and if he can't he will unhappily unlplug the whole thing.

There was a funny Bernie-inspired debate a few years back about whether billionaires should be allowed, with all the usual dipshits lining up in favor.  Point to Bernie, I think.

The author of the linked piece has since said "ooops, my bad" which I think he has about every single major position he has publicly taken in his life.  Points for growth, but has he considered shutting the fuck up?

Morning

Sunday funday.

Saturday Evening

enjoy

Afternoon

A moment of calm.

The Purge

Crime for members of the political appointees of the executive branch is now "legal" in the sense that there is no agency to prosecute it. Until reporting reflects this explicitly, journalists are just talking about a fantasy country.

Be Prepared To Lock Them Up

It's all on a server that also hosts CSAM by now.

A federal judge has restricted the Elon Musk-led government efficiency team from accessing a critical Treasury Department payment system.

The order, issued early Saturday, stops the access temporarily and demands the destruction of any downloaded information saying there is risk of “irreparable harm.”

Morning

Slacker Saturday

Friday Night

Rock on.