Thursday, February 19, 2026

Today's news and jokes









Bloomberg says we've spent $3B on Trump's invasion of Venezuela. Which is 6X more than the cancer, Alzheimer, diabetes, and heart disease cures they've cut to pay for it. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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— emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social) February 17, 2026 at 3:26 PM

"An Associated Press reporter was beaten by the police and detained along with three other journalists on Tuesday in Cameroon while reporting on a secretive Trump administration program to deport migrants to the Central African country, according to two of the people detained." (gift link)

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— Joshua J. Friedman (@joshuajfriedman.com) February 18, 2026 at 3:10 PM
A write-up Supposedly Trump wants to set up his own version of Polymarket ("After critical media coverage and a political uproar, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary blamed Dr. Prasad’s decision on career FDA staff. This isn’t the first time he has used agency staff as an excuse to protect his biologics chief from the fallout from bad decisions.")

Both India and China are building up strategically-placed yet very remote villages along parts of their contested border, high up in the Himalayas. @npr.org went to some of the villages on the India side. www.npr.org/2026/02/17/n...

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— Emily Feng (@emilyzfeng.bsky.social) February 17, 2026 at 5:52 AM
("the Vibrant Villages Programme...In winter, eggs and onions turn rock-solid. There's no running water. The power and internet go off for days. People mostly hibernate in their wood-and-tin houses, burning firewood")

Dixie Flatline in the house with us tonight, welcome the famous Mr. Dixie Flatline, from the Neuromancer subplot "the Dixie Flatline begs to be deleted" www.businessinsider.com/meta-granted...

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— Tom Scocca (@tomscocca.bsky.social) February 17, 2026 at 12:14 PM

And #Beijing TV’s New Year’s Day gala has, again, guess what… moooooore robots! #China

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— Stephen McDonell (@stephenmcdonell.bsky.social) February 17, 2026 at 6:58 AM
Second in command but never noticed any of the improprieties? (I'm not vouching for it)

Angels won't televise any of their Cactus League games this spring, via Jeff Fletcher.

— MLB Daily News (@insidemlbnews.bsky.social) February 18, 2026 at 9:14 AM
(A huge gap between "Red" and "Sox" from what I saw)

2026 basically

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— Richard Kadrey (@richardkadrey.bsky.social) February 18, 2026 at 8:23 AM

Skateboarding inside the top of that Sauron tower would be sick.

— Pablo Hidalgo (@infinata.bsky.social) February 5, 2026 at 10:10 PM
























I heard a loud thump and found this:

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— Echo (@echo262.bsky.social) February 5, 2026 at 3:37 PM








@katieandtatesfostermates They’re all just puppies part 2 🥰 Clips from our first Westminster Dog Show in 2024 when we said we’d make it an annual thing but we forgot to go last year 😅 @Westminster Kennel Club #westminsterdogshow ♬ FUN DAY - finetune




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