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Reminder: Never take “coolness” tips from Bob Jones University grads named Asa.
READ THE ROOM, ASA: The man responsible for creating and naming ICE, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, had this to say: "It was a catchy name and had a little coolness to it. Now, that coolness might have eroded through the years, but we liked it."
#Arkansas #arpx #arnews
#Arkansas #arpx #arnews
Hutchinson talks Homeland Security shutdown, says naming agency ‘ICE’ was his idea | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
The temporary shutdown of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will have little impact on Arkansas, at least in the short term, said former Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who was the first undersecretary…
buff.ly
February 14, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Reminder: Never take “coolness” tips from Bob Jones University grads named Asa.
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Men, especially coaches, fail upward.
February 14, 2026 at 7:25 PM
Men, especially coaches, fail upward.
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"Trump has become a parody of a 1980s televangelist, openly grifting his followers for massive amounts of cash. (His ballroom is practically his own Heritage USA.) But Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart put on a more convincing show." — @playtyperguy.com
Trump is clowning his evangelical base
He's not even bothering to pretend anymore.
www.publicnotice.co
February 14, 2026 at 5:50 PM
"Trump has become a parody of a 1980s televangelist, openly grifting his followers for massive amounts of cash. (His ballroom is practically his own Heritage USA.) But Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart put on a more convincing show." — @playtyperguy.com
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As Melissa points out in the replies, this guy, who also proposes putting women in "breeding gulags" to be repeatedly raped and forced to give birth, had dinner with the president of the United States.
Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”
Nick Fuentes: “The number one political enemy in America is women. … They have to be imprisoned.”
www.mediamatters.org
February 14, 2026 at 4:52 AM
As Melissa points out in the replies, this guy, who also proposes putting women in "breeding gulags" to be repeatedly raped and forced to give birth, had dinner with the president of the United States.
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Jesus fucking Christ! I don’t ever want to hear another word from Republicans about freedom of speech
February 14, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Jesus fucking Christ! I don’t ever want to hear another word from Republicans about freedom of speech
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If you want to piss someone off who is hyper anti-vaxx, anti-tax, etc. just encourage them to go form their own separate society with people who agree with them.
A big unstated assumption for a lot of selfish people is that they want the benefits of living in a society with none of the obligations.
A big unstated assumption for a lot of selfish people is that they want the benefits of living in a society with none of the obligations.
My most authoritarian opinion is that the MMR vaccine should be mandatory, with only medical (not religious or floofy) exemptions allowed. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
www.theatlantic.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:32 AM
If you want to piss someone off who is hyper anti-vaxx, anti-tax, etc. just encourage them to go form their own separate society with people who agree with them.
A big unstated assumption for a lot of selfish people is that they want the benefits of living in a society with none of the obligations.
A big unstated assumption for a lot of selfish people is that they want the benefits of living in a society with none of the obligations.
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My most authoritarian opinion is that the MMR vaccine should be mandatory, with only medical (not religious or floofy) exemptions allowed. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
www.theatlantic.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:02 PM
My most authoritarian opinion is that the MMR vaccine should be mandatory, with only medical (not religious or floofy) exemptions allowed. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The $38.3 billion they are going to spend for interment camps could fund the annual budget of NASA, the EPA, and all clean energy R&D at the Department of Energy—combined.
Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents.
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:14 AM
The $38.3 billion they are going to spend for interment camps could fund the annual budget of NASA, the EPA, and all clean energy R&D at the Department of Energy—combined.
This is true for any science communications, including managing compliance and employee training on compliance software. I have tested it and the results aren't even first draft worthy. Also, AI can't understand the nuance and specificity of existing images that it didn't create.
Using AI makes science communication worse. Period.
AI use necessarily reduces accuracy, transparency and authenticity.
But sci comm *needs* to be accurate, transparent, and authentic. Otherwise you’re just goofing around, which will destroy your audience‘s trust in you and in other sci comm.
AI use necessarily reduces accuracy, transparency and authenticity.
But sci comm *needs* to be accurate, transparent, and authentic. Otherwise you’re just goofing around, which will destroy your audience‘s trust in you and in other sci comm.
🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration.
All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts.
JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts.
JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
February 14, 2026 at 12:40 PM
This is true for any science communications, including managing compliance and employee training on compliance software. I have tested it and the results aren't even first draft worthy. Also, AI can't understand the nuance and specificity of existing images that it didn't create.
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Using AI makes science communication worse. Period.
AI use necessarily reduces accuracy, transparency and authenticity.
But sci comm *needs* to be accurate, transparent, and authentic. Otherwise you’re just goofing around, which will destroy your audience‘s trust in you and in other sci comm.
AI use necessarily reduces accuracy, transparency and authenticity.
But sci comm *needs* to be accurate, transparent, and authentic. Otherwise you’re just goofing around, which will destroy your audience‘s trust in you and in other sci comm.
🧪🏺 Update - authors have new paper showing how useless gen- #AI is for archaeological illustration.
All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts.
JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
All 400 images were multiply inaccurate (physically, socially, technologically, environmentally), even with improved prompts.
JUST USE HUMAN EXPERTS & ARTISTS
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
February 14, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Using AI makes science communication worse. Period.
AI use necessarily reduces accuracy, transparency and authenticity.
But sci comm *needs* to be accurate, transparent, and authentic. Otherwise you’re just goofing around, which will destroy your audience‘s trust in you and in other sci comm.
AI use necessarily reduces accuracy, transparency and authenticity.
But sci comm *needs* to be accurate, transparent, and authentic. Otherwise you’re just goofing around, which will destroy your audience‘s trust in you and in other sci comm.
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once again asking Democrats to stop saying "this is not who we are" and instead say "this is what Republicans have made us"
ICE is detaining young pregnant women at a facility in Texas without proper medical care—some as young as 13, nearly half are victims of rape. This is not how we treat our most vulnerable. www.tpr.org/news/2026-02...
February 14, 2026 at 4:09 AM
once again asking Democrats to stop saying "this is not who we are" and instead say "this is what Republicans have made us"
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Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.
February 14, 2026 at 4:29 AM
Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.
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For those of you who grew up after 9/11, we got along just fine without a Department of Homeland Security for 212 years.
The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.
The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.
Never reactivate it.
BREAKING: The Department of Homeland Security shuts down as the White House and Democratic leaders continue to discuss changes to U.S. immigration enforcement.
February 14, 2026 at 5:24 AM
For those of you who grew up after 9/11, we got along just fine without a Department of Homeland Security for 212 years.
The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.
The DHS was formed to try to prevent future terror attacks — now, it is orchestrating them.
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end qualified immunity and make cops carry personal liability insurance
"'She is dead,'" Officer Auderer told Officer Solan, before bursting out laughing.
"'No, it’s a regular person,' Officer Auderer said, adding: 'Yeah, just write a check — $11,000. She was 26, anyway. She had limited value.'"
"'No, it’s a regular person,' Officer Auderer said, adding: 'Yeah, just write a check — $11,000. She was 26, anyway. She had limited value.'"
Seattle to Pay $29 Million to Family of Woman Fatally Struck by Police S.U.V.
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 3:00 PM
end qualified immunity and make cops carry personal liability insurance
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Swalwell: ICE agents shot Alex Pretti and Renee Good. And the only person in the world who has been held accountable by DHS is the pilot who somehow forgot to move Kristi Noem’s blankie.
February 14, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Swalwell: ICE agents shot Alex Pretti and Renee Good. And the only person in the world who has been held accountable by DHS is the pilot who somehow forgot to move Kristi Noem’s blankie.
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Holy shit. They’re going to try to throw him out a window, aren’t they?
February 13, 2026 at 11:41 PM
Holy shit. They’re going to try to throw him out a window, aren’t they?
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.
The Woman Alex Pretti Was Killed Trying to Defend Is an EMT. Federal Agents Stopped Her From Giving First Aid.
One of the women Alex Pretti was killed trying to defend is an EMT. Federal agents stopped her from giving him first aid.
interc.pt
February 13, 2026 at 3:25 PM
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: “I was literally begging the agent who was holding me back to let me do CPR,” she told The Intercept.
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This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 8:09 PM
This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.
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There is no reforming this. There is only abolition, and then trials.
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 10:04 PM
There is no reforming this. There is only abolition, and then trials.
I called my members of Congress to tell them they had better not show up at ANY fundraisers for cures for cancer or chronic illness because they are literally trashing the potential cures now.
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
February 13, 2026 at 6:44 PM
I called my members of Congress to tell them they had better not show up at ANY fundraisers for cures for cancer or chronic illness because they are literally trashing the potential cures now.
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Holy crap. New investigative reporting out of Arizona finds voucher fraud is 20x worse than the voucher lobby claims.
www.12news.com/article/news...
www.12news.com/article/news...
Voucher supporters say Empowerment Scholarship fraud is 1%. New records peg misspending closer to 20%.
12News obtained Education Department records showing that one in five ESA purchases—such as cellphones, TVs, and diamond rings—were on the "unallowable" list.
www.12news.com
February 13, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Holy crap. New investigative reporting out of Arizona finds voucher fraud is 20x worse than the voucher lobby claims.
www.12news.com/article/news...
www.12news.com/article/news...
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People in power tend to not want to be bothered with people power. Too bad, a judge said Friday, with an order that state legislators cannot make it harder for Arkansans to exercise their constitutionally guaranteed direct democracy rights.
arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
Judge throws out Republicans' dirty trick to deprive Arkansans of direct democracy rights - Arkansas Times
A 2023 state law that made it exponentially harder for regular Arkansans to put issues before their fellow voters is definitely not legal, Pulaski County Circuit Judge Shawn Johnson ruled Friday.
arktimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:13 PM
People in power tend to not want to be bothered with people power. Too bad, a judge said Friday, with an order that state legislators cannot make it harder for Arkansans to exercise their constitutionally guaranteed direct democracy rights.
arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
arktimes.com/arkansas-blo...
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not exactly playing, but am going to point out once more that the most horrific mass murderer of my lifetime is very likely elon musk (with trump's help); shuttering us aid has killed 700k ppl and is likely to reach 14 million.
You have a Time Machine. Your mission is to save America. You can only do this once, and it has to be done after the date of your birth (to make sure you don’t get butterfly effect’d, etc). In this HYPOTHETICAL THOUGHT EXPERIMENT ABOUT SOMETHING INPOSSIBLE who do you kill, and when?
If I a Time Machine existed (which it doesn’t making this post unambiguously speculative and hypothetical) the highest profile individuals to knock off to preserve American democracy probably Murdoch, Gingrich, Koch’s, and Zuckerberg.
February 13, 2026 at 5:35 PM
not exactly playing, but am going to point out once more that the most horrific mass murderer of my lifetime is very likely elon musk (with trump's help); shuttering us aid has killed 700k ppl and is likely to reach 14 million.
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In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
February 13, 2026 at 5:44 AM
In terms of what cures are being lost:
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease
- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease