I used to work for the government. In order to justify budgets, bad actors overspend at the end of the fiscal year. So the administration spent $93B on bullshit to justify massive Pentagon budget proposals, all while gutting health care and food assistance. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...
Someone is giving multimillion dollar DHS contracts to shell companies to buy real estate at twice the market rate. Most likely regime insiders using fronts to steal taxpayer money ; I.e. the Kristi noem commercial that cost more than a Hollywood movie to produce
"But unlike [Renee Good and Alex Pretti], Martinez was not protesting - he was driving by the scene of a road accident where ICE officers were helping to direct traffic."
Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other
I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.
YES. In the same sentence he said the war was complete, he proposed a policy that would vastly enlarge the war! Media reported the first half, and then later reported a different part to make it seem like a change! But it was incoherent, nonsensical slop all along.
This, too, is sanewashing!
People get onto Beyonce's internet to yell about people not reading enough but when romance readers do it suddenly they're reading too much or not the "right" kind of books.
Screenshot of The Guardian ‘The cover-up is brazen’: one journalist’s tenacious, traumatic fight to expose Ghislaine Maxwell Lucia Osborne-Crowley has endured threats and sexual harassment to report on Jeffrey Epstein’s chief enabler. Maxwell’s conviction was only the start of the quest for justice, she says
🚨 'This is her frustration: the coverage centres Epstein, Maxwell & Windsor & tries to unpack their psychology & connections, finding it easier to talk about political corruption than sexual abuse. The human collateral gets lost, as does the survivors’ agency.'
➡️ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Democrats have offered to fund all of DHS with the exception of ICE and CBP, but the GOP won’t allow a vote.
Demand that your Democratic Members of Congress keep holding the line on DHS funding and refuse to expand Trump's capacity to terrorize our communities just because he decided to bomb Iran.
Today I'm thinking the worst villains of the 20th century, at least in America, might be Robert Moses & Allen Dulles.
FYI, for those unaware, Kermit Roosevelt Jr. wrote a whole book about it: nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEB...
I wonder what percentage of Americans knows that the CIA helped overthrow a democracy in Iran in 1953, installing a brutal dictator who tortured and murdered people. Republicans keep citing the 1979 Islamic Revolution as if that was the start of U.S.-Iran hostilities. Go back 26 years earlier.
There are a lot of posts out there with the close-up visual of Markwayne Mullin on January 6, but this is a better perspective.
He’s not protecting others; he’s protecting himself and hiding. You can see plenty of people at the entry door, ready to take on the insurrectionists, but not Markwayne.
Nashville Reporter Estefany Rodríguez was detained by ICE without a warrant or just cause and transferred to Louisiana far away from her US citizen husband. With so many egregious violations of the Constitution here, it's obvious she was purposely targeted out of sadistic spite for journalists.
On @pablo.show I talked about the limits of generative AI, and why the brainstorming process—which LLMs mostly eliminate, imo—is fundamental to doing *good* work.
Preliminary concept for the Cataclysm expansion of World of Warcraft featuring the dragon Deathwing emerging explosively from the ocean as waves rock the surface. Fire erupts white hot at its mouth, tapering to red and blue at its tip. Burning contrails arc like flares from the water. A massive billowing cloud of smoky orange builds in the background. Water drips from its wings as they spread wide colored like magma between structural ribs. A reptilian fin of the same orange runs underneath its stocky neck.
DEATHWING: THE DESTROYER
Preliminary concept for World of Warcraft
Acrylic - 8” x 11”
Michael Whelan has painted a variety of dragons in his career, but none match the fury and destructive power of Deathwing. Commissioned by Blizzard Entertainment for the massively popular online RPG. 1/2
Monet Water Lilies
Monet water lilies
I forgot how much I love this room at #moma #museums #monet
every single person in multiple cities who heard whistles & went running TOWARD danger with cameras to make sure there was just an unrelenting stream of actual evidence of what ICE was doing???
I can not say thank you enough. Seriously. Thousands of anonymous heroes who changed political reality.
Beware of false profits.‼️
So if Kamala Harris had been elected do you think the United States would be in a war with Iran? Just asking...
My daughter started listening to Hamilton which means I got to show her an all-timer: youtu.be/0Gkqzxss8Ss?...
Circa 1944 unidentified Women Airforce Service Pilot (WASP) in Bell P-63 Kingcobra she was flying to Alaska to hand off to Soviet pilots, part of the Lend-Lease Program. More on WASPs here (airandspace.si.edu/s...). Via National Air and Space Museum. #alaska #alaskahistory
The Harvey Girl by Dana Stabenow booksofmyheart.net/2026/02/28/t... via @booksofmyheart.net (Historical mystery. Pinkerton agent goes undercover as Harvey Girl!) #RomBkBlog #Romancelandia
"Music would play, they tell me the days were sweet and clear
It was a sweeter tune and there was so much room that people could come from everywhere
There was a time when strangers were welcome here"
- Neil Sedaka, "The Immigrant"
RIP to a man who saw this coming www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMPb...
CNN has a solid, well-funded newsroom, regardless of the network’s editorial slant. a lot of good reporters will lose their jobs, and the public will lose all the stories they would’ve reported. and they are one of the last newsrooms to pay for costly but critical on the ground war correspondents.
"We are dealing now with an allegation that the president of the US raped and sexually assaulted a child and is now using his DOJ to try to cover that up."
If you want to understand latest Epstein revelations, @leahlitman.bsky.social explains them clearly on our pod:
newrepublic.com/article/2070...
Once again we are asking: Why was Kash Patel paid $25,000 by a company linked to the Russian government?
When a payment from a production company for $25,000 showed up on Kash Patel's disclosures during his confirmation hearing, we did some digging. And soon, the story began to unravel.
These words have probably become the most iconic quote associated with Dwayne McDuffie. They're from an interview I did with him way back in 2010. When I say #MilestoneMadeMe, this is what I'm talking about.
Unusual Historicals February 2026. Graphic shows book covers for The Halifax Hellions by Alexandra Vasti, Forbidden to the Banished Laird by Marguerite Kaye, Sweetest Taboo by Joan Vassar, Wed in Haste to the Prince by Heba Helmy, Scandal Amidst the Stacks by Sandra Sookoo, The Viking She Shouldn't Crave by Sarah Rodi, The Lyon's Pretty Pugilist by Nicki Pascarella, To Sin With a Viking by Michelle Willingham, Taciturn in the Ton by Emily Royal, Mistress for Wyndview by Jane Charles, Where Highland Thistles Bloom by Paula Quinn, When He Was a Rogue by Tess Thompson, The Duke's Somerset Sins by Anne Knight, Colleen Kelly and Kay K Denner, Felicity's Eloquent Earl by Maeve Greyson and A Most Peculiar Courtship by Mihwa Lee
15 (!) historical romances for your browsing pleasure this month. Took me forever to draft and yes, I led off with the Harlequin Historicals because Still Salty AF. Check out this month's offerings over at the Bat Cave wendythesuperlibrarian.blogspot.com/2026/02/hear... #RomBkBlog #Romancelandia
