THEY JUS’ CAIN’T HE’P THEMSELVES:  House Dem Says the Quiet Part Out Loud About the DHS Funding Fight.

HOW DARE THEY DENY THE LEFT THEIR MARTYR?  Georgia Is Trying to Prevent a ‘Renee Good’ Situation in the State. It Will Make Libs Go Bananas.

HE AIN’T AFRAID O’ NO GERMS – AND HE AIN’T IMPRESSED BY BUREAUCRATIC ‘EXPERTS’:  RFK Revealed Why He Wasn’t Scared of COVID…It Was a Legendary Answer.

SHOCKED, SHOCKED, SHOCKED, BEHOLD MY OH SO SHOCKED FACE:  Alleged NYC Antisemitic Stabbing Suspect Out on Bail as Incidents Rise 182% Under Mamdani.

GO READ WHAT THE MAN SAID:  Farming And The Death Thereof.

LUNATIC:  Kansas City Police Seek Woman Trying to Torch Warehouse Linked to ICE Sale.

THANK HEAVENS I PREPARED FOR THE TWENTY FIRST CENTURY BY READING PULP SCIENCE FICTION!  USDA Deploys Sterilized Flies, High‑Tech Arsenal to Guard the Border Against Screwworm Threat.

GOOD. IT WON’T ELIMINATE ALL THE WASTE AND FRAUD BUT IT WILL ELIMINATE SOME OF IT:  Small Business Administration shuts out non-U.S. citizens from its main lending program.

CORRUPTION:  4 Yakuza, 4 Livers, 100+ Dead Americans; No problem. The UCLA Report You’ve Never Seen. Between 2000-2004, four vicious yakuza (Japanese gangsters) got liver transplants at UCLA. Tadamasa Goto, the most famous of them, died on February 8. Why was he given a life extension at all?

NICKI MINAJ, A CULTURAL INFLECTION POINT MOST DON’T GET. THIS INCLUDES ME: Wow. This made me so happy. Barbz, update the hashtag with #SaveAmericaAct beginning now & going forward. I’ll do a poll for you guys to choose if you’d like a new look or a new Spaces tonight.

And for the lack-x.

HHS GOES THE OPEN SOURCE, DIG UP PROBLEMS ROUTE:  HHS and DOGE Release Medicaid Dataset to Expose Fraud.

C. CHANCY HAS A BOOK IN THIS SALE. SO DO I:  Based Book Sale Selections.

OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.

SPACE JUNK: BETTER PUT UP MY UMBRELLA. Satellite megaconstellations continue to grow. Could their debris fall on us?

Here’s a piece Rob Merges and I wrote about space debris a few years back.

MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: Cuba’s a Mess, but What Happens When it is Libre at last?

As always, if you enjoy these essays please take out a paid subscription. I will thank you, and my family will thank you.

WELL, WHEN YOU PUT IT LIKE THAT…

Staggering, really.

UPDATE: Embed isn’t working for whatever reason, so here’s a screencap instead.

UPDATE (From Ed): It’s worth noting what’s under the ellipses in the above tweet to get the full effect: “8% of Nicaragua entered the US in 4 years. 8% of the entire country. 7% of Cuba. 6% of Haiti. 5% of Honduras.” Absolutely staggering numbers. 

AND NOW A FEW WORDS ON GEOPOLITICAL BRINKSMANSHIP FROM A LIKELY 2028 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE:

AOC is asked about the US committing troops to Taiwan.

Her brain completely short-circuits.pic.twitter.com/YRuiKS7Iuj

— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) February 13, 2026

PSYCHIATRIC RISKS OF CANNABIS: On cannabis, psychosis, and the long tail of the truth.

TIMING:

Friday at 5pm is the best time for NYT to put out this story. pic.twitter.com/LNk5ySOsUZ

— Karol Markowicz (@karol) February 13, 2026

TEACH WOMEN NOT TO RAPE! (CONT’D):

Meet Julie Rizzitello, a former teacher at Wall Township High School in NJ, who was just SENTENCED after she was convicted of r*ping two students, which resulted in her getting pregnant.

She reportedly groomed the teens for years and then ABORTED the baby after getting… pic.twitter.com/vJEUYGvs6A

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) February 12, 2026