LIMITED TIME DEAL: DEWALT 20V MAX Band Saw, 5″ Cutting Capacity. #CommissionEarned
February 12, 2026
TRUMP MUST BE POLLING REALLY WELL: Gallup Ends Presidential Approval Polling.
Gallup said Wednesday it will stop tracking and publishing presidential job approval and political figure favorability ratings this year, ending a public opinion yardstick it helped define for nearly nine decades.
A Gallup spokesperson confirmed to The Hill that the company will cease publishing individual politicians’ favorability and approval ratings, adding that this decision “reflects an evolution in how Gallup focuses its public research and thought leadership.”
Gallup is among the best-known names in U.S. polling, having pioneered systematic presidential job approval polling as a way to gauge public satisfaction with how presidents were performing their duties.
Why the sudden change?
FOULING THEIR OWN NEST, AND THEN FLEEING IT:
FUN FACT: Zuckerberg's wife, Priscilla Chan, donated $750,000 to oppose the recall efforts against Newsom in 2021
Obviously they have the money to flee the consequences of their bad decisions, unlike most Californians https://t.co/irVtx7S5l1
— Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) February 12, 2026
Once, gods and Titans went to war because humanity existed and the Titans…didn’t like that. Will, the blacksmith’s apprentice, was born long after the war’s bitter, destructive, last gasp. It left the land scarred, leaving behind the Wastes, a massive pit in the landscape, dug by poisoned magic. The old world was lost in the ashes, and survivors were left with so little that any who didn’t pull their weight (or had something someone powerful wanted) were exiled to starve in the Wastes.
Just. Like. Will.
Cast out to the Wastes because his father remarried and his stepmother had wanted her children to inherit, he turned to his master, the smith. The smith, who had held Will back to keep using his labor for free, refused to go against the rest of the village, angry though he was to lose Will’s labor. In lieu of the honestly-earned status of journeyman that would have protected Will from exile, his master gave him a bag of grave goods: a hammer (but not a good one), tongs (that were rusting to pieces), and a file (more than half worn out). And two small coins to pay the ferryman when he reached the river dividing life from death.
Will entered the wastes with the clothes on his back, inadequate grave goods, and determination to live through it, in spite of his village. And a mission given him by the Land, and by the god of the wild places, to take the knife he made with his grave goods to the very center of the Wastes. There, he will find his destiny.
SHOCKER:
Turns out, when you deport 500,000 people and 2 million more voluntarily go home, Americans line up for the jobs they were doing—and companies have to pay them more! How Trump repudiated the Democrats' addiction to cheap labor: https://t.co/FL8HJMuhwk pic.twitter.com/0n6Oybswsz
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) February 11, 2026
THIS IS THE AGE OF AUDITS, OF ALL SORTS. AND MANY ACCOUNTS WILL BE FOUND WANTING.
⚡️This is the preamble to strategic decoupling.
The United States has begun the audit of empire. The tone is paternal but the move is surgical. Europe is being warned that the subsidy era is ending. The Pax Americana scaffolding is being dismantled in phases. This is phase one.… https://t.co/sIL2ZYLiCM
— SightBringer (@_The_Prophet__) February 12, 2026
GOODER AND HARDER, CALIFORNIA: California is entering the seizure phase of the wealth cycle.
⚡️Here is the bare truth.
California is entering the seizure phase of the wealth cycle. The productive core has thinned. The debt load is locked. The spending base cannot shrink without civil fracture. The only lever left is the static pool of accumulated capital that remains… https://t.co/e0yQDL5M4Q
— SightBringer (@_The_Prophet__) February 10, 2026
THEY NEED BABIES, BUT DON’T HAVE THEM SO THEIR ENERGIES ARE REDIRECTED: Joel Kotkin: Why Are Young White Women So Angry?
IT SURE WAS NICE WHEN PUBLIC EDUCATION WAS ABOUT EDUCATING THE PUBLIC: Trump Administration Improves School Experience “These simple acts of closing the borders and deporting folks who tried to jump the line are having a direct impact on public schools. Numbers are down and teachers unions are throwing tantrums disguised as ‘but what about the children!’ when it’s really ‘but what about my pension!’ Pet projects, niche staff positions, and all of the work they’ve done to sugar-coat teenagers not being able to read at grade level are all for naught thanks to President Donald J. Trump.”
NO BRAINER:
— John Cleese (@JohnCleese) February 11, 2026
#JOURNALISM:
“With no public acknowledgment other than the President announcing it and this other story we already wrote about it” pic.twitter.com/bPYDlOS6vr
— Abigail Jackson (@ATJackson47) February 12, 2026
I READ ENID BLITON IN THE LATE SIXTIES AND EARLY SEVENTIES IN PORTUGAL: The English conquistador of the Indian Imagination. Reading Enid Blyton in 80s India.
It breaks my heart what Great Britain has become.
IF ICE WEREN’T DOING SUCH A GOOD JOB THE LEFT WOULDN’T BE PUSHING BACK SO HARD: And if the ICE should break, Part 1.
HIRING FOR ANY REASON BUT COMPETENCE TURNS EVERYTHING TO SH*T: Potomac Sewage 9,900% Error: DC’s DEI‑Focused Water Authority Can’t Count E. coli.
HE’S NOT THE ONLY ONE CAUGHT IN THAT TRAP: Bill Maher Reveals Why He Got the COVID Vaccine…and He’s Rather Annoyed About It.
THE LEFT MAKES EVERYTHING POLITICAL: When Sports Were Fun.
THIS IS WHY YOU SHOULD SUPPORT ARTISTS WHO DON’T HATE YOU: The whole “we need to support conservative artists!” thing is thinking past the (bad) sale. The right answer is “we need to support an arts community that is open to people who don’t parrot a party line.” Because most artists aren’t conservative or liberal, they’re weird hodgepodges of confusion and chaos and crazy and experimentation and changing beliefs. They’re our reminder that we can grow and shed our skins and feel no shame about learning, evolving, and changing our minds.
AND FOR THE: Cancelled of x.
Or, if you know the writer’s politics, you should support writers to the right of Lenin. (Which M. C. A. Hogarth is, btw.) If you like what they produce that is. But don’t try to hold us to a strict “you must say it this way, and cross all your ts and dot all your is” because when you do that you get the same pap Hollywood and tradpub (with the exception of Baen) is putting out: screeds and political polemic. Not stories with heart and soul, that breathe and move. But if you like a book and find out the writer is to the right of Lenin, throw them some love. They’ve paid a price. Believe me, they’ve paid a price.