February 21, 2026

I HAD NO IDEA I WAS EATING “BOY KIBBLE:” Gym bro version of ‘girl dinner’ dubbed ‘boy kibble’ takes over TikTok. After I had oral surgery, I couldn’t eat steak or chicken so we started making ground beef in a pan. Glenn even got me adding ketchup to it. I had no idea it was known as “boy kibble.” That sounds kind of insulting but it is honestly delicious.

One guy’s description about his “boy kibble” reads “Making boy kibble in a girl-dinner-trying-to-add-protein-to-my-meal way, not a scary-villainous-bro way,” he captioned his video. Notice how this guy has to virtue signal that he is like a girl and not scary? Why not just say he is adding protein and leave it at that?

Posted at 2:59 pm by Helen Smith

PLAYING WITH FIRE:

Posted at 2:14 pm by Stephen Green

NO ONE IS ILLEGAL ON STOLEN LAND AND/OR IN STOLEN CARS! Thief who swiped Oakland mayor’s $75K car was ‘squatting’ in City Hall for days: source.

The bandit who stole the mayor of Oakland’s $75,000 SUV had been “squatting” inside City Hall before swiping the keys from her office, the California Post can reveal.

Barbara Lee’s black Ford Expedition was reported missing on Tuesday but was recovered just “hours later” in nearby Vallejo, California, thanks to a tracker attached to it.

A source told the Post the thief had been living inside the complex since Friday and managed to stay undetected despite the highly paid ABC Security Services being on site.

The suspect was holed out on the 11th floor of the deserted offices over the Presidents Day weekend, according to the insider.

They are understood to have “jimmied” the door to Lee’s office on Monday and made off with the city-owned car using an unsecured parking lot entrance.

Police said the alleged thief had been identified through security footage and an arrest was made on Thursday.

Police? Lee runs hot and cold on her feelings for them: Barbara Lee Praised Defunding Police; Now Her SUV Has Been Swiped From City Hall.

The timeline here matters.

In 2020, during the height of the defund movement, Lee said she was “really proud” of the Minneapolis City Council’s pledge to defund the local police.

Really proud.

There was no distancing language. No caveats. No hesitation about the direction the movement was pushing. At the time, “defund” was not a misunderstood slogan. It was a demand to redirect resources away from police departments and shrink their footprint.

Lee embraced that energy.

She later declared:

“We have to restructure our funding priorities in terms of how we make our communities safe.”

That was not a throwaway line. In the political climate of 2020, “restructure” meant fewer officers, less traditional enforcement, and more faith in alternative approaches. It meant the old model was flawed and needed to be scaled back.

And she did not stop there.

“We can’t wait. It’s time to overhaul our policing system.”

Overhaul contemplates far more than a trim around the edges — it is a teardown. It assumes what exists is fundamentally broken and must be rebuilt from the ground up.

Oakland has been living inside that rebuild.

The city recorded 9,914 motor vehicle thefts in 2024. Its overall crime rate has run several times the national average. The police department has been operating roughly 280 officers short. Residents have not needed policy papers to explain the consequences. They have been double-checking their locks and hoping their cars are still where they left them.

Then crime stopped being a statistic and became a symbol.

It did not stay in the neighborhoods. It did not politely avoid elected officials. It allegedly walked into City Hall, went into the mayor’s office, took the key to a city vehicle, and drove off.

Car thefts for thee, but not for me. Exit quote: “It is remarkable how quickly the traditional law enforcement model becomes essential when crime crosses the threshold of City Hall.”

Posted at 1:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

KEEP IT UNDER YOUR HAT: Toy Story’s Woody is balding.

Three decades on from one’s heyday, it’s natural to look a little different – so much so that even Toy Story characters are afflicted by the passage of time.

In the case of cowboy Woody, the changes will be very relatable for many of the now grown-up fans of the original film: he is losing his hair.

The animated character, a fixture of the Pixar series since its first instalment in 1995, is shown in a trailer for Toy Story 5 with a bald patch on the back of his head.

Voiced by Tom Hanks, Woody plays a key role in the film’s plot, which centres on a battle between traditional toys and devices used to entertain children today. The toys will be seen working together to try to save Bonnie, their owner, from her Lilypad smart tablet.

In a trailer released on Thursday, Woody’s hair loss is shown clearly – and another toy jokes that he “needs a brown marker” to cover it up.

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Toy Story is one of the most popular children’s films of recent decades and has grossed billions of pounds at the box office. Its first instalment was the first feature film made entirely using CGI.

The smart-tablet plot of Toy Story 5, which is due to be released by Disney in June, comes amid mounting fears over the impact of smartphones and screen time on children.

Sir Keir Starmer has promised to bring in measures that would allow the Government to introduce an Australian-style social media ban as early as this summer.

Last year, the Princess of Wales published a personal essay saying a reliance on smartphones was undermining family life and causing an “epidemic of disconnection”.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have also spoken out against the dangers of technology for children, saying more needs to be done to protect young people from online harm.

In January, government research found that screen time damaged toddlers’ ability to speak. In October, a study found that children who spent a lot of time on screens perform worse in reading and maths tests.

And after an ever-smaller theatrical run, Disney’s hoping that millions of kids will be watching Toy Story 5 on iPads given to them by their parents. But hopefully the surviving members of the original cast can recapture the magic, despite the absence of Pixar founder John Lasseter, who was #metoo-ed out of the company in 2018.

Posted at 12:45 pm by Ed Driscoll

TO AND FRO: Dem Justin Pearson Dodges Questions from Scott Jennings About His Pro-Illegal Alien Stance.

Posted at 12:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

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Posted at 8:57 am by Glenn Reynolds

NO KINGS:

Posted at 8:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

FROM PAM UPHOFF:  Ruin and Redemption (Chronicles of the Fall Book 21).

A collection of six related stories

The Orgy Drug was just a snickery rumor . . . until an afternoon garden party when someone spiked the punch.

In a society divided by class, and ruled by the Mentalist Elite, who even keep their wives controlled with brain chips . . . Six upper class young ladies and their maids are faced with the ruination of their reputations—and the reactions of friends and family—and they’re going to deal with it, each in their own way.
Using the cultural changes forced by the loss of Zhivvyy Provoda, the Power Plague attacks, the illegal Orgy Drug circulating widely . . . and contact with other dimensionally-able civilizations, they’re all going to make it, one way or another.

Posted at 7:28 am by Sarah Hoyt

A TALE OF TWO OLYMPIANS:

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll