Tootfinder

My wife and I have passports, as do our kids (from an early age), so we aren't dependent on smudged, barely readable copies of our now-ancient birth certificates.
But it's not about me. It's about every American citizen who has a right to vote without being subjected to expenses, red tape, and potentially arbitrary decisions by political stooges regarding supporting documentation.
SAVE is a dangerous, un-American fraud.

Stripe's stablecoin firm Bridge wins conditional approval from the US OCC to form a national trust bank, which would allow it to issue and manage stablecoins (Krisztian Sandor/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/02/

Stripe's stablecoin firm Bridge wins initial approval to form national bank trust charter
The license would allow Bridge to issue and manage stablecoins under direct federal oversight.

Audre Lorde's "The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house." is not just a statement about a tool being tainted by its origin. It's about what kind of tool a "master" would create: Whips. Chains. Violence.
That's the meaning: You cannot just take tools whose purpose and politics is dominance and violence and "make them liberatory". This goes deeper than "just" embedded politics or lofty talks about ethics, it co…

The United States is deploying roughly 2,500 Marines aboard up to three amphibious warships from the Indo-Pacific toward the Middle East
as fighting with Iran enters a more uncertain phase.
The move adds a mobile expeditionary force to the more than 50,000 U.S. troops already in the region
while Washington evaluates Iran’s response to nearly two weeks of joint U.S. and Israeli air and long-range strike operations.
What's Trump expecting them to do?
Capture …

U.S. Deploys 2,500 Marines on Amphibious Warships to Reinforce Middle-East Deterrence Against Iran
2,500 U.S. Marines sail toward the Middle East aboard amphibious warships as Washington strengthens deterrence against Iran.

„John Carpenter‘s Toxic Commando“ angespielt: Zombie-Action für B-Movie-Fans
„John Carpenter‘s Toxic Commando“ ist ein kompromissloser Koop-Zombie-Shooter mit B-Movie-Flair.
https://www.

from my link log —
Rust's huge compilation units.
https://pingcap.com/blog/Rust-s-Huge-Compilation-Units
saved 2020-06-23 https://

Rust's Huge Compilation Units | TiDB
Learn about the benefits of TiDB and the TiDB Cloud solutions from PingCAP. Read our latest post "Rust's Huge Compilation Units" here.

Biggest winners and losers from Saturday's Divisional Round NFL playoff games https://www.nfl.com/news/biggest-winners-and-losers-from-saturday-s-divisional-round-nfl-playoff-games

the next release from the owsley stanley archive is... john kirkpatrick performing charles ives's "concord sonata" in march 1974, recorded at phil lesh's behest/insistence. got a preview at the dead scholars caucus last month & it's one of bear's most gorgeous tapes.

Where upon the house combo at the Brasserie drifts into a modified version of one of Toad-O's big hit numbers BUDDY JONES stares longingly at the little nozzles pooching out of Mary's moistened upper clothing, but it's too late...WARREN, one of the other guys from Joe's Garage Band has already recognized her (he's now one of the foremost disco-fusion rhythm guitar players on the Wet T-shirt circuit, currently providing exciting strummery here in Miami), and is in the process of getting the d…

Frank Zappa - On The Bus (Visualizer) by Frank Zappa
Listen now on your favorite streaming service. Powered by Songlink/Odesli, an on-demand, customizable smart link service to help you share songs, albums, podcasts and more.

It Is the Time of Launching #i18nFails
i18nfails.1a23.studio/posts/it-is-the-time-of-launching

It Is the Time of Launching | i18n fails
Your website waits.

“What's dispiriting is the (lack of) process and care: take someone's carefully crafted work, run it through a machine to wash off the fingerprints, and ship it as your own. This isn't a case of being inspired by something and building on it. It's the opposite of that. It's taking something that worked and making it worse.”
@… on how Microsoft …

Trump's EPA decides climate change doesn't endanger public health—the evidence says otherwise #UnitedStates

Trump's EPA decides climate change doesn't endanger public health—the evidence says otherwise
The Trump administration took a major step in its efforts to unravel America's climate policies on Feb. 12, 2026, when it moved to rescind the 2009 endangerment finding—a formal determination that six greenhouse gases that drive climate change, including carbon dioxide and methane from burning fossil fuels, endanger public health and welfare.

Q: If you steal someone's "world's best thief" trophy, does that make you the world's best thief?
A: No, because the world's best thief isn't the world's best defense against thieves.
Q: If you steal someone's "world's best defense" trophy, does THAT make you the world's best thief?
A: Still no because all of these things are made up.

U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents describe how they were treated | PBS News https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/u-s-citizens-detained-by-immigration-agents-describe-how-they-were-treated

U.S. citizens detained by immigration agents describe how they were treated
Videos from across the country have shown months of violent interactions with immigration officers. Part of the outcry has been the treatment of U.S. citizens. Uproar rose higher last month following the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by agents in Minnesota. Lisa Desjardins reports, and we hear from some of the people who were detained.

Just finished "How I Made It to Eighteen" by Tracy White. It's a graphic novel with relatively simple art, but that ends up suiting the subject matter well: it's an autobiography focused on a stay in a mental hospital dealing with depression and bulimia.
It doesn't get as deep into mental hospital mechanics as I might have liked, instead focusing on the author's life, but in presenting both her own life, some flashbacks, and some perspectives from her friends, it's quite interesting. As is typical of real life, there's no neat resolutions to the various threads of interest because they're not imaginary plot lines constructed to wrap up neatly but instead are events that actually happened.
In any case as is par for autobiographical graphic novels, it was super interesting.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

Oh, Jings, my own execution traces are REALLY hard to read. It's my own fault: these are my traces in my software, there's no-one else to blame, but...
#Lisp

A US federal judge orders OpenAI to stop using the word "Cameo" for its Sora products and features, in a trademark lawsuit filed by celebrity video app Cameo (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/u-s-court-bars-openai-from-using-cameo/

U.S. court bars OpenAI from using 'Cameo' | TechCrunch
OpenAI has renamed its feature in Sora from "Cameo" to "Characters."

U.S. Allies Rebuff Trump's Demand for Help Opening Strait of Hormuz (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/u-s-allies-rebuff-trumps-demand-for-help-opening-strait-of-hormuz-33da9777
http://www.memeorandum.com/260317/p17#a260317p17

U.S Strikes Killed Iranian Cyber Chiefs, But The Hacks Continued
https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-wiretap/2026/03/17/us-strikes-killed-iranian-cyber-chiefs-but-the-hacks-continued/

U.S Strikes Killed Iranian Cyber Chiefs, But The Hacks Continued
Iran's hackers have had some successes since some cyber leaders were killed in missile strikes.

My BBC Model B series 7 case looks a disaster inside, but it's working nicely after a recap; caps 1,2,9 in the PSU. It worried me by not beeping - but the capslock worked, and after pushing the socketed analogue chips down under the keyboard it's good. It's a bit fuzzy on the UHF, but there again that is a terrible lead I used. Just has DNFS and View in. The W key took some cleaning, and the '.' is still not working. Getting the aux socket out of the PSU is a bastard!…

The Non-Psychiatrist's Guide To Lifestyle Psychiatry
Hosted by Dr Mike Trott, a non-psychiatrist researcher working in psychiatric epidemiology and clinical trials, each episode breaks down the latest research in lifestyle psychiatry...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.

@… if you need more accounts to follow this is a good place to start. https://fedidevs.com/s/NjQ5/

El aplazado nuevo disco de Robbie Williams salió ayer: «BRITPOP»
#RobbieWilliams

A new CNN headline channel, free, showed up on my Roku. I've tried to watch it twice. It's truly awful. It makes People magazine look like the New Yorker.

Hope whoever wanted copies of that scrape Anna's Archive did of Spotify (reminder: Spotify began with pirated files, pays artists little to nothing, and funds military tech) has grabbed it already or is grabbing it now.
https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-court-ord

I know it's easy to get down on the web, but I've seen so many cool projects and blogs and personal sites and attempts to (re?)build a more human web free of corporate social media and the enshittified part of the web...
It's giving me hope that we can build an Alternative Web. The People's Web. Free of AI bullshit, free of advertisements and tracking and all that crap so many of us just do not want.

Karlson's Theorem of Snack Food Packages:
For all P, where P is a package of snack food, P is a SINGLE-SERVING
package of snack food.
Gibson the Cat's Corrolary:
For all L, where L is a package of lunch meat, L is Gibson's package
of lunch meat.

U.S. Wants to Mass Produce the Drone Design It Stole From Iran
https://gizmodo.com/u-s-wants-to-mass-produce-the-drone-design-it-stole-from-iran-2000734799

Inside the #DevelopmentWorkflow of #ClaudeCode's Creator
https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/01/claud…

How Brian Schottenheimer, Christian Parker's staff drew Cobie Durant to Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/how-brian-schottenheimer-christian-parker-s-staff-drew-cobie-durant-to-cowboys

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Squid:
🎵 G.S.K.
#Squid
https://squiduk.bandcamp.com/track/g-s-k

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#ThroughTheNight
- Walton's Viola Concerto and Shostakovich's Symphony no 9
The RAI National Symphony Orchestra performs Walton's viola concerto with soloist Antoine Tamestit. Plus Shostakovich's 9th symphony and two orchestral works by Ravel.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002sdgl

"'Dramatic development': Austria warns all but 2 of its 96 glaciers have retreated over last 2 years"
#Austria #Glaciers #Environment

Climate change is killing off Austria's glaciers. What's at risk?
Soaring temperatures are fuelling the demise of Austria's glaciers, with 'vast implications' for drinking water, power generation, infrastructure and more.

Trump's administration is considering deploying ⚠️thousands of U.S. troops to reinforce its operation in the Middle East,
as the U.S. military prepares for possible next steps in its campaign against Iran,
said a U.S. official and three people familiar with the matter.
The deployments would provide Trump with additional options as he weighs expanding U.S. operations,
with the Iran war well into its first month.
Those options include securing safe passage for…

Q&A with Sam Altman on OpenAI's "code red" call, enterprise strategy, product ambitions, IPO plans, ChatGPT's personalization plans, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/sam-altman-on-openais-plan-to-win<…

Sam Altman on OpenAI’s Plan to Win, AI Personalization, Infrastructure Math, and The Inevitable IPO
OpenAI's CEO joins Big Technology for a candid discussion covering OpenAI's strategy, its product ambitions, its ability to pay for $1 trillion+ in infrastructure, going public, and much more.

U.S. Navy nimmt Tests von elektromagnetischer Railgun wieder auf
Die U.S. Navy hat Erprobungen einer elektromagnetischen Railgun wieder aufgenommen. Sie könnte auf künftigen Schlachtschiffen eingesetzt werden.

James Harrison defends Ben Roethlisberger from 'pure-out attack' on QB's character https://www.nfl.com/news/james-harrison-defends-ben-roethlisberger-from-pure-out-attack-on-qb-s-character

Workout of the day.

Impeach, certainly, but how to choose from among his many transgressions? Will Bunch has some thoughts.
https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/trump-impeachment-pardons-crypto-war-crimes-power-abuses-20260317.html

A federal judge orders Voice of America employees reinstated by March 23, putting hundreds of people who have been on administrative leave back to work (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/voice-of-america-kari-lake-trump-cd6…

Judge orders restoration of Voice of America
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore the government-run Voice of America to full operations, putting hundreds of journalists who have been on administrative leave for a year back to work. U.S. District Judge Royce C. Lamberth's order came a week after he ruled that Kari Lake, President Donald Trump's choice to effectively lead the U.S. Agency for Global Media, did not have the authority to effectively dismantle the congressionally authorized Voice of America. Followin…

@… 's ngscopeclient showing a trace and fft (from a 1kHz sample) from my Rigol DS series scope; I can't say it's that happy with the Rigol, but hey I think that's as much about the Rigol's firmware.
https…

Nordstrom's email system abused to send crypto scams to customers
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/nordstroms-email-system-abused-to-send-crypto-scams-to-customers/

Nordstrom's email system abused to send crypto scams to customers
Customers of upscale department store chain Nordstrom received fraudulent messages from a legitimate company email address that promoted cryptocurrency scams disguised as a St. Patrick's Day promotion.

A US federal judge orders OpenAI to stop using the word "Cameo" for its Sora products and features, in a trademark lawsuit filed by celebrity video app Cameo (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/u-s-court-bars-openai-from-using-cameo/

U.S. court bars OpenAI from using 'Cameo' | TechCrunch
OpenAI has renamed its feature in Sora from "Cameo" to "Characters."

Rock progresivo sueco, del tipo que a mi me gusta mucho. «Reliance», lo nuevo de Soen, recién salido por estos días.
#Soen

when my father's animation was on the cover of millimeter (albeit not by name) along with john & faith hubley, georgia's parents, sadly right around the time of john's 1977 passing. my folks interned for them in the late '60s.

U.S. policy in Latin America has long been shaped by business interests
— but rarely with today’s level of openness (thread) ⬇️
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:s24o3i2gmddihekekk6tu6ac/post/3mcqadry7az2c

from my link log —
Inside the Am2901: AMD's 1970s bit-slice processor.
http://www.righto.com/2020/04/inside-am2901-amds-1970s-bit-slice.html
saved 2020-04-18

Inside the Am2901: AMD's 1970s bit-slice processor
You're probably familiar with modern processors made by Advanced Micro Devices. But AMD's processors go back to 1975, when AMD introduced t...

How Brian Schottenheimer, Christian Parker's staff drew Cobie Durant to Cowboys https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/how-brian-schottenheimer-christian-parker-s-staff-drew-cobie-durant-to-cowboys

This tech-backed mayor got into California's gov's race with a bang. Now he's stalling out. (Dustin Gardiner/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/18/matt-mahan-stalled-california-governor-race-00833198
http://www.memeorandum.com/260318/p21#a260318p21

I don't know who in the Republican party needs to hear this, but Sharia prohibits eating roadkill.

@… follow

Snapchat launches creator subscriptions in alpha, available to some creators in the US starting February 23; creators set custom monthly pricing (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/snapchat-launches-creator-subscription-in-the-u-s/…

Snapchat launches creator subscription in the U.S. | TechCrunch
Snapchat will let creators set their monthly subscription price.

NFL playoff winners and losers for divisional round: Josh Allen's, Bo Nix's years over; C.J. Stroud melts down

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-pla

I have tried for years to like hockey. I just can't get past the randomness. At least nowadays you can see the puck on TV and not have to just imagine it.

Continuing in the process of measuring the speed of my turntable in the oddest way; here is the FFT before and after oiling & replacing it's belt. Hmm, it's clearly a bit fast before and a bit slow after; it's not got any speed adjustment mechanism, it's a belt on an AC driven motor.
This FFT and plot was done using #labplot using the waveforms gathered by

The U.S. Department of Justice said Sunday it is investigating a group of protesters in Minnesota who disrupted services at a church where a local official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement apparently serves as a pastor.
A livestreamed video posted on the Facebook page of Black Lives Matter Minnesota -- one of the protest’s organizers -- shows a group of people interrupting services at the Cities Church in St. Paul by chanting
“ICE out” and “Justice for Renee Good.”

DOJ vows to press charges after activists disrupt church where Minnesota ICE official is a pastor
The U.S. Department of Justice says it is investigating a group of protesters in Minnesota who disrupted services at a church where a local official with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement apparently serves as a pastor. A livestreamed video posted on the Facebook page of Black Lives Matter Minnesota shows a group of people interrupting services at the Cities Church in St. Paul by chanting “ICE out.” The protesters allege that one of the church’s pastors also leads the local ICE fiel…

OK, this Ukraine service provides both military access to Starlink authorization AND online marriages for civilians? Those are radically different things.
https://caliber.az/en/post/shot-russian-cyberattack-targets-ukraine-s-starlink-author…

SHOT: Russian cyberattack targets Ukraine’s Starlink authorisation service - PHOTO
Russian hackers have infiltrated Ukraine’s government service “Diia,” which Ukrainian military personnel use to authorise Starlink devices, while civilians use it...

MPA: Japan's premium VOD sector hit a revenue of $7.2B in 2025, up 15% YoY; Netflix leads with 22% of revenue; Prime Video has the most subscribers at 19.3M (Naman Ramachandran/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/japan-streaming-market-7-billion-123666…

Japan's Streaming Market Hits $7.2 Billion, Report Finds
Japan's premium video-on-demand sector achieved $7.2 billion in total revenue during 2025, marking a 15% year-over-year increase, a new report found.

Ah yes, Comorant is 87% match with Comorant.
font-analyzer-six.vercel.app/

Analyze Any Font - Extract Fonts from Any Website
Discover and analyze fonts from any website. Just enter a URL and get instant access to all the fonts used.

The last thing we need to see in Savannah is a bunch of untrained masked brutes racing at high speed down Truman Parkway trying to catch somebody whose paperwork isn't in order. High speed chases are dangerous. A woman is dead because of this irresponsible act.

Trump acknowledged this week that “most” NATO members have said they’ll stay out of the U.S.-Israel war with Iran.
So far, the only NATO members that have come out in support of the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran are the Czech Republic, Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Lithuania and Latvia.
Others, including Denmark, Finland and Luxembourg, have remained neutral in their opinions of the strikes, while issuing broad criticisms of the Iranian regime.

Trump's Only NATO Support On Iran Comes From These 6 Smaller Countries
Trump has raged at NATO for refusing his demands to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, making veiled threats of retaliation against the coalition of longtime U.S. allies.

Texans-Patriots on Divisional Round Sunday: What We Learned from New England's 28-16 win https://www.nfl.com/news/texans-patriots-on-divisional-round-sunday-what-we-learned-from-new-england-s-28-16-win

Pathetic losers leave with their tails between their legs.
https://www.startribune.com/jake-lang-minneapolis-protest-counterprotest-ice-anti-islam-march-chased-off-saturday/601566132

Representative Pat Fallon (TX-04) will make a push for creating a US Cyber Force tomorrow at CSIS
https://www.csis.org/events/implementing-us-cyber-force-conversation-representative-pat-fallon

Implementing a U.S. Cyber Force: A Conversation with Representative Pat Fallon | CSIS Events
Join CSIS for a discussion with Representative Pat Fallon on the future of a U.S. Cyber Force.

Workout of the day.

Q&A with Replit CEO Amjad Masad, who says India is Replit's second-largest market by active users, on integrating Razorpay's tech, AI's impact on SaaS, and more (Bhavya Dilipkumar/Moneycontrol)
https://www.

Colbert's interview on YouTube with US Senate candidate James Talarico has drawn over 6M views as of Wednesday afternoon in the US, after it was posted Monday (Julianna Bragg/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/18/youtube-tv-trump-rules-digital-gap-colber…

Colbert's YouTube post exposes digital gap in TV rules
Colbert exposed how FCC rules built for broadcast don't apply to today's digital platforms.

Right-wing morons descended on the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis today. Their plan was to shock and intimidate.
Fewer than a dozen showed up. Pathetic losers.

Texas Senate Race:
Joshua Haymes & Brooks Potteiger (Pete Hegseth's pastor)  
pray imprecatory psalms against James Talarico:
"I pray that God kills him.
Ultimately, that means killing his heart and raising him up to new life in Christ ...
If it would not be within God's will to do so, stop him by any means necessary."

Joshua Haymes And Brooks Potteiger Pray Imprecatory Psalms Against James Talarico
Joshua Haymes & Brooks Potteiger (Pete Hegseth's pastor) pray imprecatory psalms against James Talarico: "I pray that God kills him. Ultimately, that means killing his heart and raising him up to new life in Christ ... If it would not be within God's will to do so, stop him by any means necessary."

Amazon shares close up 1.2%, snapping a nine-day slide that wiped out $450B in market valuation over concerns about Amazon's plan to spend $200B in 2026 capex (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/17/amazon-stock-losing-streak.html

Amazon has lost $450 billion in value during this historic losing streak. Here's what's dragging it down
Amazon expects to spend $200 billion this year on AI initiatives, the company said when it reported earnings.

Renner's 2026 NFL mock draft 8.0: Jeremiyah Love completes NFL's most dynamic backfield, Buckeyes own top 10

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/draft/news/nfl-mock-draft-2026-post-free…

With a $1.7B global box office, Disney's Zootopia 2 becomes the highest grossing animated film from a Hollywood studio, behind the Chinese hit Ne Zha 2 (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/zootopia-2-animation-bo…

'Zootopia 2' Is Now Hollywood's Highest Grossing Animated Film Ever With $1.7 Billion
The Disney sequel has passed Pixar's "Inside Out 2" with $1.7 billion grossed worldwide

Micron introduces the first mass-produced PCIe 6.0 SSDs, with read speeds up to 28GB/s, double that of PCIe 5.0 SSDs, optimized for AI/data center deployments (Aaron Klotz/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.

First PCIe 6.0 SSD enters mass production with 28GB/s speeds, 5.5 million IOPS, and liquid cooling — Micron 9650 Series SSDs support air and liquid cooling
Micron's new drive is so fast that it fully benefits from liquid cooling, but air cooling is still supported

Venture capitalist David Sacks has warned that continued escalation in the U.S.–Israel conflict with Iran could trigger far-reaching economic and humanitarian crises
Speaking on the All-In podcast on Friday, Sacks — who serves as President Donald Trump’s lead on artificial intelligence and cryptocurrencies — argued that Iran’s military capacity has been severely degraded and called this “a good time to declare victory and get out,” adding that markets would welcome a de-escalatory move…

David Sacks urges off-ramp in U.S.–Israel conflict with Iran, warning of catastrophic escalation
Venture capitalist David Sacks, serving as President Trump’s AI and crypto lead, cautions that prolonging the US–Israel war with Iran risks crippling energy infrastructure, water supplies and regional stability, urging a ceasefire or negotiated settlement.

RIAA: US recorded music revenue grew 3.1% YoY in 2025 to a record $11.54B; streaming grew 3% to $9.75B, including $6.38B from paid subscriptions, up 5.8% (Chris Eggertsen/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/riaa-2025-music-report-revenue-streaming-vinyl/

U.S. Recorded Music Revenue Hit $11.5B in 2025 Amid Solid Growth in Paid Subscriptions, Vinyl: RIAA
RIAA's 2025 U.S. recorded music report shows that overall revenue topped $11.5 billion last year amid solid growth in paid streaming and vinyl.

Robinhood Ventures Fund I discloses its first investments, buying $14.6M of Stripe shares and $20M of ElevenLabs' preferred stock in March (CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/03/17/robinhood-s-new-ventu…

Robinhood’s new venture fund just snapped up stakes in Stripe and ElevenLabs
The closed-end fund aims to give everyday investors exposure to private firms before they go public.

Trump's Injustice department launches "investigation" of Minnesota's governor and Minneapolis mayor.
(Gift link)
https://wapo.st/4jJTJ8Y

Donna Miller comes out on top of crowded Illinois 2nd Congressional District race
-- defeating Jessie Jackson Jr.
Miller will likely replace U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly in the heavily Democratic district.
The only Republican candidate on the primary ballot was Mike Noack.
http…

Jesse Jackson Jr.'s political comeback part of crowded Illinois 2nd Congressional District race
The winner of the heavily Democratic district will replace U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly, who left the office to launch a Senate bid. Learn about the candidates and follow Illinois primary results when polls close at 7 p.m.

Saudi-backed AI company Humain invests $3B in xAI, becoming a "significant minority shareholder" in a deal that happened just prior to SpaceX's xAI acquisition (Shona Ghosh/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Trump Frees
MAGA Rep’s
Meth Dealer Son
in Pardon Spree
https://www.newsbreak.com/share/4447337915477-trump-frees-maga-rep-s-meth-dealer-son-in-pardon-spree

Trump Frees MAGA Rep’s Meth Dealer Son in Pardon Spree - NewsBreak
President Donald Trump’s tough-on-crime rhetoric appears to come with a caveat for people in his political orbit. Trump quietly commuted the sentence of Ja

This will be my first St Patrick's Day since finding details of my Irish ancestors. If you can call them that. They were Norse invaders, descended from Ivar the Boneless. By 1050 they had moved to Wales, where they stayed 600 years before coming to America.

A federal judge ejected a top prosecutor from the New Jersey U.S. attorney’s office out of his courtroom Tuesday,
accusing the government of “operating unlawfully” in light of recent reports that Alina Habba, a former personal lawyer to Donald Trump, was still illegally involved in the office’s functions.
U.S. District Court Judge #Zahid

Judge Kicks Out Prosecutor Until He Gets Answers on Alina Habba
A federal judge demanded to know who was in charge at the U.S. attorney’s office in New Jersey.

Crooked "Justice Department" officially sweeps the Pretti murder under Trump's rug
https://www.startribune.com/trump-administration-formally-denies-minnesota-investigators-access-to-ev…

Even as Israel publicly calls for an Iranian popular uprising,
Senior Israeli officials have told U.S. diplomats that Iranian protesters will “get slaughtered” if they take to the streets against their government,
according to a State Department cable reviewed by The Washington Post.

The cable, circulated by the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem on Friday, relayed an Israeli assessment that Iran’s regime is “not cracking”
and is willing to “fight to the end” despite the Feb. 2…

Israel urges Iranians to revolt but privately assesses they’ll be ‘slaughtered’
Israeli officials told U.S. counterparts they hope for an uprising even though it would lead to a massacre, according to a State Department cable reviewed by The Post.

Another death that didn't need to happen. ICE was chasing a vehicle that crashed into a schoolteacher's car, killing her.
https://www.wtoc.com/2026/02/16/update-lanes-reopen-whitefield-ave-after-crash-dhs-agents-spotted-scene/

Our supermarkets are peddlng a lot of junk food, no doubt, but when Bobby Brainstorm starts talking about "ultraprocessed" he's spewing pseudoscience. Put that creep on mute.

Some 1,500 active duty Army paratroopers have been put on alert for a potential deployment to Minnesota, according to two defense officials.
The soldiers are from the 11th Airborne Division,
based at Joint Base Elmendorf--Richardson,
one of the Army's premier infantry formations and a frontline force in the U.S. military presence in the Pacific, positioned to help deter China.
The division is also the military's leading formation for Arctic warfare.
One…

I saw some complaints that "One Battle After Another" isn't realistic about black people and immigration. Hate to disappoint anyone, but it's not a documentary.
Also, don't go leaping from building to building. You're not a gazelle, and you'll hurt yourself.

Friday's Star Tribune front page

Magat "influencer" is butthurt that poor Americans are buying "luxury seafood."
Shrimp grow wild. They currently cost $3.90 a pound at my local provider, about half the price of hamburger around here.
You do have to pop their little shrimp heads off yourself, but they boil up to make a nice seafood broth.

WTF???
https://www.govexec.com/management/2026/02/suicide-only-one-option-social-security-staff-newly-assigned-phone-duties-raise-concerns-over-training/411429/

Four gunshot wounds, suffered in her own neighborhood, all for the entertainment of magats.
https://www.startribune.com/renee-nicole-good-ice-shooting-injuries-incident-report-details/601565066

I got a request for a digital signature on a W-9 document. Must be George Soros trying to pay me.

Today is a good day to remember that federal law REQUIRES the Justice Department to release the Epstein files, and the Trump regime is violating that law.

Nazi bar is offline. Good.

From Clay Jones:
Meet the New Pointy-Head Boss #ScottAdams #Dilbert #Racist