SlugTales
@slugtales.bsky.social
Mostly satire since 1979, but these days not everything is funny. 🏏🎺
You know, we're going to be hearing stories like this throughout the next decade. As with Epstein, the bad guys know what they've done and they'll do almost anything so you don't find out.
How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...
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February 17, 2026 at 5:43 PM
You know, we're going to be hearing stories like this throughout the next decade. As with Epstein, the bad guys know what they've done and they'll do almost anything so you don't find out.
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I had nothing to do with Epstein says the man photographed with Epstein across years, parties, and private scenes. Denial isn’t evidence. Patterns are. And this one has a very long paper trail.
February 17, 2026 at 5:39 PM
I had nothing to do with Epstein says the man photographed with Epstein across years, parties, and private scenes. Denial isn’t evidence. Patterns are. And this one has a very long paper trail.
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As an attorney with occasional experience with the Equal Time rule, I can explain what's going on here and how the FCC's Brandon Carr is leveraging his position to force late night and daytime talk show hosts to exclude Democratic candidates.
First I need to explain the Equal Time rule itself. 1/
First I need to explain the Equal Time rule itself. 1/
Stephen Colbert said that the FCC and CBS - which is in no way a compromised or complicit organization - wouldn’t allow him to broadcast an interview with Democratic State Rep James Talarico. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/a...
Colbert Doesn’t Give an FCC About Calling Out CBS
www.nytimes.com
February 17, 2026 at 1:37 PM
As an attorney with occasional experience with the Equal Time rule, I can explain what's going on here and how the FCC's Brandon Carr is leveraging his position to force late night and daytime talk show hosts to exclude Democratic candidates.
First I need to explain the Equal Time rule itself. 1/
First I need to explain the Equal Time rule itself. 1/
"War on women" Really. Absolute hyperbole..... uh, ooops.
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Did Nick Fuentes say 'all women' should be 'sent to the gulags'?
Fuentes said, "The No. 1 political enemy in America is women."
www.snopes.com
February 17, 2026 at 5:26 PM
"War on women" Really. Absolute hyperbole..... uh, ooops.
www.snopes.com/fact-check/n...
www.snopes.com/fact-check/n...
I didn't know this is what they meant when they said Republicans were losing the women's vote.
I’ve seen this person get retweeted by MAGA influencers like Benny Johnson. He’s not kidding. This is a real political goal he is pursuing. He has 425,000 followers on Facebook.
February 17, 2026 at 5:23 PM
I didn't know this is what they meant when they said Republicans were losing the women's vote.
AI isn't going to kill us; it's going to make us kill each other.
I am still a little baffled none of this has personally appealed to me because I feel like *exactly* the personality type, and all I've concluded is that maybe I'm too sophisticated in my paranoia to get paranoid delusions from an averaging system.
AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking
ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and other abuses.
futurism.com
February 17, 2026 at 5:14 PM
AI isn't going to kill us; it's going to make us kill each other.
Restricting trade, ignoring renewable energy, stunting vaccines and other science.... Trump is guaranteeing the US will lag the world for decades.
Read @scottlincicome.bsky.social on how the rest of the world is basically just working around Trump's trade tariff tantrums.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Global Trade Is Leaving the US Behind
Perhaps the most surprising trade policy development of 2025 wasn’t President Donald Trump’s tariffs but rather foreign governments’ refusal to respond in-kind. Although such abstinence is economicall...
www.bloomberg.com
February 17, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Restricting trade, ignoring renewable energy, stunting vaccines and other science.... Trump is guaranteeing the US will lag the world for decades.
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Executives at CBS News made it clear to Late Show host Stephen Colbert: He wasn’t to interview Texas State Representative James Talarico last night.
But Colbert, who only has months left of his tenure on the show after being ousted by Paramount Global, didn’t listen.
But Colbert, who only has months left of his tenure on the show after being ousted by Paramount Global, didn’t listen.
CBS didn't want Colbert to talk to this candidate. He did it anyway.
"This is the party that ran against cancel culture," Texas State Representative James Talarico said about the Trump administration
www.motherjones.com
February 17, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Executives at CBS News made it clear to Late Show host Stephen Colbert: He wasn’t to interview Texas State Representative James Talarico last night.
But Colbert, who only has months left of his tenure on the show after being ousted by Paramount Global, didn’t listen.
But Colbert, who only has months left of his tenure on the show after being ousted by Paramount Global, didn’t listen.
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In a way, not surprising at all. Public officials like Dr. Birx (who was actually a respected expert on AIDS before Covid) and Fauci often restrained Trump's impulses and Trump hated it. He believes Covid cost him the election (and it did). His new appointees are a revenge against public health.
Not only did Trump fail to learn any lessons from covid, but his public health policies have somehow gotten far more dangerous and destructive in Trump 2.0. God forbid he and RFK Jr have to handle a global pandemic. We'll be pining for the days of Dr. Birx.
Trump somehow got worse on public health after covid
He's incapable of learning lessons and actively resists it.
www.publicnotice.co
February 17, 2026 at 5:00 PM
In a way, not surprising at all. Public officials like Dr. Birx (who was actually a respected expert on AIDS before Covid) and Fauci often restrained Trump's impulses and Trump hated it. He believes Covid cost him the election (and it did). His new appointees are a revenge against public health.
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NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights.
After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler
A private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.
www.motherjones.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:42 PM
NEW: Meet the private-equity firm -- and its billionaire immigrant CEO -- making millions off some of ICE's cruelest deportation flights.
After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
After a five-month investigation, my story for @motherjones.com:
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Europe is investigating while the Trump Administration is covering it up.
www.france24.com/en/france/20...
www.france24.com/en/france/20...
French police raid Paris's Arab World Institute in Epstein-linked probe into Jack Lang
French police on Monday searched the Arab World Institute in Paris in connection with an investigation into its former head, France's ex-culture minister Jack Lang, and his alleged ties with t...
www.france24.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:00 AM
Europe is investigating while the Trump Administration is covering it up.
www.france24.com/en/france/20...
www.france24.com/en/france/20...
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DOJ quietly tells Congress it has a list of politically exposed people named in the Epstein files. Not charges, not accountability, just names sitting in a letter. Transparency without consequences is how power protects itself. Watch what happens next, not what they say.
February 17, 2026 at 12:07 AM
DOJ quietly tells Congress it has a list of politically exposed people named in the Epstein files. Not charges, not accountability, just names sitting in a letter. Transparency without consequences is how power protects itself. Watch what happens next, not what they say.
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Does that seem fair to you?
February 16, 2026 at 11:11 PM
Does that seem fair to you?
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Trump had Bill Barr facilitate the “suicide” of Epstein , in order to silence him and protect Trump as a cover up of his child rape life!
February 17, 2026 at 12:11 AM
Trump had Bill Barr facilitate the “suicide” of Epstein , in order to silence him and protect Trump as a cover up of his child rape life!
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Russia’s Wagner Group recruiters are said to be targeting agents for operations on NATO soil, as it pivots to European sabotage. Individuals linked to the Wagner Group were found guilty last year of carrying out an arson attack on a warehouse in London
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Russia’s Wagner Group pivots to European sabotage, say western officials
Recruiters involved with fighter group are said to be targeting agents for operations on Nato soil
www.ft.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Russia’s Wagner Group recruiters are said to be targeting agents for operations on NATO soil, as it pivots to European sabotage. Individuals linked to the Wagner Group were found guilty last year of carrying out an arson attack on a warehouse in London
www.ft.com/content/dbd1...
www.ft.com/content/dbd1...
It sure seems like AI could replace AI executives. Just sayin.
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
Microsoft’s AI boss says AI can replace every white-collar job in 18 months — ‘We’re going to have a human-level performance on most, if not all, professional tasks’
And now, the end is near...
www.tomshardware.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:31 PM
It sure seems like AI could replace AI executives. Just sayin.
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...
Epstein was like the Ivy League of MAGA....
At least half a dozen top Trump administration officials appear in the Jeffrey Epstein files.
#EpsteinFiles
#EpsteinFiles
At least half a dozen top Trump administration officials appear in the Jeffrey Epstein files
The degree to which each individual was connected to Epstein varies significantly, from a single email to years of communications.
www.nbcnews.com
February 15, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Epstein was like the Ivy League of MAGA....
Well, in defense of his purjury charge, although not at all true, it made for a great clip Fox News...
The acting director of ICE told Congress, under oath, that local law enforcement in Colorado leaked raid plans, allowing gang members to escape.
After 9NEWS questioned ICE's claim and its timeline, ICE deleted the claim from its social media platforms.
After 9NEWS questioned ICE's claim and its timeline, ICE deleted the claim from its social media platforms.
February 15, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Well, in defense of his purjury charge, although not at all true, it made for a great clip Fox News...
Not the sharpest knives in the drawer, are they? I suspect they'll find out the same thing about vote-by-mail.
Republicans are finding out if they pass the Save Act it will disproportionately reduce voters in Red States as they have the lowest ownership of Passports and ID’s 😏🤣
This is a circus 🎪 🤭
This is a circus 🎪 🤭
February 15, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Not the sharpest knives in the drawer, are they? I suspect they'll find out the same thing about vote-by-mail.
Interesting. Very modest taxes on the very rich in Seattle yielded warnings that they'd all leave (and the sky would fall, I guess.) In fact, they didn't leave and the city turned out to be waay more rich than even the authors of the tax measures thought. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...?
‘Filthy rich’ Seattle’s new taxes get warm welcome
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson last week described the city as “filthy rich.” Impolitic as that may be, returns from a new tax on high pay packages show she’s not wrong.
www.seattletimes.com
February 15, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Interesting. Very modest taxes on the very rich in Seattle yielded warnings that they'd all leave (and the sky would fall, I guess.) In fact, they didn't leave and the city turned out to be waay more rich than even the authors of the tax measures thought. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...?
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Massie on ABC just now: “Donald Trump told us that even though he had dinner with these people in NYC and West Palm Beach, that he would be transparent. But he’s not. He’s still in with the Epstein class. This is the Epstein administration.”
February 15, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Massie on ABC just now: “Donald Trump told us that even though he had dinner with these people in NYC and West Palm Beach, that he would be transparent. But he’s not. He’s still in with the Epstein class. This is the Epstein administration.”
Indisputably lawlessness.
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.
The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, but the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely.
www.reuters.com
February 14, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Indisputably lawlessness.
It sure sounds like a Bravo reality series to me....
The Cabinet this week
*RFK Jr. bragged about snorting cocaine off of a toilet seat
*Lutnick acknowledged taking his family to Epstein island
*Bondi “The Dow” / refuses to look at victims
*Noem blanket
*Hegseth loses to Kelly, tries to tweet through it
*Bessent “tariffs don’t cause inflation”
*RFK Jr. bragged about snorting cocaine off of a toilet seat
*Lutnick acknowledged taking his family to Epstein island
*Bondi “The Dow” / refuses to look at victims
*Noem blanket
*Hegseth loses to Kelly, tries to tweet through it
*Bessent “tariffs don’t cause inflation”
February 14, 2026 at 4:22 AM
It sure sounds like a Bravo reality series to me....
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Lemon’s lawyers coming out throwing haymakers in the first round.
February 13, 2026 at 11:32 PM
Lemon’s lawyers coming out throwing haymakers in the first round.
They need to be prosecuted for the murder they committed. And their superiors all need to be fired.
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.
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February 14, 2026 at 12:22 AM
They need to be prosecuted for the murder they committed. And their superiors all need to be fired.