Saturday Roundup of Link Roundups - 14 February

Wombat-socho starts us off with In The Mailbox: 02.11.26 (Morning Edition)

Defending The Wood Perilous: The Day The Left Went Crazy
Jim McCoy: War Demons

EBL - World Day of the Sick

World Day of the Sick
Bonus Saint: Our Lady of Lourdes
AoSHQ: Morning Report 02.11.26

The Right Way - Top of the News

CHASER:Massachusetts jury convicts illegal immigrant of identity theft, stealing benefits, voter fraud - Boston Herald
Daughter of Minnesota gubernatorial candidate killed in St. Cloud stabbing - IOTW Report

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 13 February 2026: Flurbday The Florteenth Edition

AI agents change their minds 60% of the time when simply asked "Are you sure?". (Randal Olson)
I wonder what the number is for people.

Vlad Tepes - The gap widens between Nazi-Communist states and Republics: Several data points for Feb. 13th, 2026

4. This UK analyst predicts that the British view and rules concerning dogs will change to the Islamic view, meaning only for guard or working dogs, and no pets, within 1o years.

Small Dead Animals - Friday On Turtle Island

The Democrat Party’s America: Victor Davis Hanson – Super Bowl Satyricon. If ICE should break.
Carnival Carney’s Canada: Transgender mass shooter. Media calls the shooter a woman.

The Glibertarians - Pre-Valentine’s Day Friday Afternoon Links

Why would you try to bring this back?
Make sure to drink it all up by Ash Wednesday.
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Again from Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 02.13.26 (Afternoon Edition)

Don Surber: Macron v. Trumpzilla, also, Transgendering into a killer
Racket News: Dr. Jekyll & Ms. Bondi

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 2/12/2026

A bloc of 40 state and territorial attorneys general is urging Congress to adopt the Senate’s version of the controversial Kids Online Safety Act, positioning it as the stronger regulatory instrument and rejecting the House companion as insufficient.

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - Jeffrey Epstein Revelations Update For February 12, 2025

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters (Sargon of Akkad, Firas Modad and “Nate” AKA MrHReviews) delve into the Epstein files and notice a lot more weird food references that appear to be codeword for…something else

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - Arizona Willy Wonka Ferry Ride of Terror Continues

Ace hears Obama Architect David Axelrod: Confound These Republicans For Obamacare's Prices Skyrocketing and Them Refusing to Further Subsidize the Failing Program.

Political Hat - Quick Takes – Speed Bumps Against Euthanasia: Former U.K. Prime Minister; International Association for Suicide Prevention; French Senate

The U.K. loves itself some “Liverpool Care Pathway” and killing patients, so when a former Labour Prime Minister has qualms…
Even if equivocally in opposition, opposition to medical homicide should be welcomed:

Wombat-socho again - In The Mailbox: 02.13.26 (Evening Edition)

Baldilocks: Great Black Patriots Of The U.S. Congress – Revisited
BattleSwarm: Jeffrey Epstein Revelations Update

Flopping Aces - The Week in Radical Leftism – 2/13/26 – The Washington Post Dies in Darkness!

What do we make of Colin Kaepernick now?
Short answer: Colon Kaepernick is still a rectal cavity. In the print edition, the headlines and illustration take up the entire top half of the front page of the Sports section.

Maggie's Farm - Wednesday morning links

Tenure: What is it Good For?
How voters fleeing California turn other states blue

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 2/11/26

There should be no surprise that Judeo-Christian western civilization is under attack.
Defeating the Deep State's Inversion Matrix

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Announce Reversal of “Green Energy” Mandates

• Habeas and squatter’s rights - Bill Glahn
• DHS Unleashes on Judge Who Released Illegal Aliens Convicted of Murder, Child Sex Crimes - Mary Chastain

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 02/13/2026

28% of US Voter Verifications Have NO MATCH at Social Security Administration. Not a typo. Almost a third of votes cast may be from non-existent voters.

I leave you with Midweek Memes from Granite Grok, Wednesday Memes … from MaddMedic, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #3394 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, and Fucking with the Left through memes from Wirecutter.

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

14 February 1929 in Chicago. Inside The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, History’s Bloodiest Mob Hit.

There had been an ongoing gang war between the Irish/German Northside gang run by George "Bugs" Moran, and the Southside gang run by Al "Scarface" Capone. The final straw seems to have been Moran putting a $50,000 price on Capone's head.

On Feb. 14, 1929, Frank Gusenberg was rushed to a Chicago hospital with 14 gunshot wounds. But when the police asked who shot him, he had a surprising answer: “No one shot me.”

Gusenberg, a well-known local gangster, was either determined to adhere to the criminals’ code of silence or terrified of whoever he knew to be behind the attack. Three hours later, he was dead.

But of course he was shot, and it would become clear who was behind the shooting.

Around 10:30 a.m. on Feb. 14, 1929, four men approached Moran’s warehouse at 2122 North Clark Street. Two were dressed as police officers. The other two looked like well-dressed civilians, in suits and ties, while the driver wore an expensive chinchilla and a gray fedora. They were there on business — but not the kind of business that usually unfolded in broad daylight.

Seven members of George "Bugs" Malone's North Side Gang were shot by those 4. They were lined up against the wall, and shot execution style.

So many of Moran's top men died in the Massacre that he lost the ability to control his gang's territory. And Capone would be jailed in 1931, but not for the massacre. It is officially an unsolved crime. It was also the last confrontation between the two Chicago mobsters.

The garage at 2122 N. Clark Street in Chicago was torn down in the 1960s. Today the spot is a parking lot. (Or it was several years back.) Some of the bricks from the building were saved before the demolition. The photo above, from WikiMedia Commons, is of one such brick, which is at the National Museum of Crime and Punishment in Washington, D.C. Click the image for a larger view, and more information.

Of course Capone's imprisonment didn't mark the end of The Outfit. I know it was active in the 1980s and 1990s - there were FBI operations designed to combat it. Operation Gambat, Operation Greylord and Operation Family Secrets come to mind. (Do you need me to Google that for you?)

A side note: There was discussion earlier in the month, either on social media, or in the comments to one blog post somewhere, about how Prohibition wasn't a particularly bad idea. It was. Prohibition gave the mobs, like Capone's Outfit from the South Side of Chicago, and Malone's North Side Gang, a real, steady income, providing whisky to the speakeasies. Not to mention that it expanded federal law enforcement, and made the casual ignoring of the law something that a lot of people did, at least from time to time.

Last Resort (Reimagined)

Falling In Reverse is an interesting band. They are usually described as some genre of metal. Today's song starts as a fairly typical ballad, moves into power ballad territory, and then morphs into a more fairly standard Rock song.

While I don't think you will need them, I include a link to the lyrics for completeness.

This song is "Last Resort (Reimagined)" by Falling In Reverse from their 2024 album Popular Monster. It was originally a song by Papa Roach.

Will There Be Justice?

The Other McCain brings a story of crime, and possible Justice. A Heinous Crime and a Mystery Motive

On the evening of March 17, Nafiah was 21 years old and had just gotten home from working a shift at CVS as a pharmacy technician. She was helping her mother bring some items in from the car when a man ran out of the bushes near a neighbor’s house, and threw a cup of sulfuric acid onto Nafiah’s face. Take my word for it, her injuries were horrific.

There is a link to a news story that shows her injuries. I'm still sorry I clicked on that link.

For nearly five years, Nafiah’s attacker escaped justice. The mystery was why anyone would want to harm Nafiah, who was attending Hofstra University part-time while working full-time at CVS. She had no known enemies, and yet, as her father told reporters, it was not a random attack.

Click thru for the details.

This happened on Long Island, so there is a real question of whether or not there will be justice. In the world of Deep Blue New York does a female of Arabic descent trump an aspiring rapper from Brooklyn? Who has more social-justice-warrior, victim points? I guess we will see.

Friday Links - Friggatriskaidekaphobia Edition

The Gun Writer starts things rolling with Billionaire-funded 5th edition of RAND’s gun policy report as anti-gun as first four

Once anti-gun billionaires Laura and John Arnold sent another check to the RAND Corporation for its annual report, “The Science of Gun Policy,” there was little doubt about what RAND researchers would find, since the Arnolds pay all the bills.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Doom Today: Climate Crisis (scam) Could Cut Grazing Land In Half

In 75 years, of course, when no one will remember the doomy prognostication and no one will be held responsible for them

Flopping Aces - Doxx Thee, Not Me: Transparency Was Fine Until the Truth Showed Up

The tables have turned. Big time. After demanding agents wear body cameras democrats are now demanding control of the recordings because oops!

Sarah Anderson at PJ Media - What the Heck Happened in El Paso? NOTAM is Notice to Aviation.

On Tuesday night, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) issued a NOTAM that imposed a Temporary Flight Restriction (TFR) over El Paso, Texas, and nearby southern New Mexico, including El Paso International Airport and Doña Ana County International Jetport in Santa Teresa, N.M. It cited "special security reasons," and it banned all types of flights, including, in some cases, medevacs, up to 18,000 feet for the next 10 days (until February 20).

Again from William Teach - Iran’s Working Hard To Protect Its Nuclear Facility From Potential Strikes

If Trump and Israel want to destroy the facility they will. It’s all about denying Iran the ability to build a nuclear weapon, which, let’s be honest, they are not very good at, considering how long they’ve been trying. I mean, it took US scientists 3 years to develop the world’s 1st nuclear bomb, starting from scratch. Iran has been at it a lot longer even with all the knowledge from half a century of countries building nuclear weapons.

Bayou Renaissance Man - So much for billable hours!

I think AI can be considered the monkey wrench that just got tossed into the professional billing pool. This should be interesting . . .

The Silicon Graybeard - Third Vulcan launch repeats the second

Not the good parts of the second launch but the bad part, with what looked like a repeat of one of the solid rocket boosters blowing it's nozzle out.

Note: Friggatriskaidekaphobia is Fear of Friday the 13th. Frigga being the Norse goddess that Friday is named after. Sometimes she is Frigg. (Sun-day. Moon-day. Tyr's day. Odin's day, or Wōden's day. Thor's day. Frigga's day. Saturn got hooked into that for Saturday. The Norse used Washing day for the last day of the week.)

You didn't think Windows 11 could actually get more annoying

Microsoft is going to prove you wrong. Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony brings us the following. Daily News Stuff 11 February 2026: Swiss Family Blobinson Edition

Microsoft has announced plans to make Windows 11 more confusing. (Thurrott)

And that's not my editorialising, that's straight from the article.

And also more annoying. (The Register)

Same deal.

Confusing is one thing, but they are going to INCREASE the AI prompts. (And probably the ads, because once you start in on ads, where do you stop?) Click thru.

Wondering what to do?

This is the Some Ordinary Gamers video How To Switch To Linux For Beginners… It is 40 minutes (it could be shorter, but Mutahar is usually a bit long-winded) It is a beginner video, and should get you started.

And YES he does use Linux for Gaming, and covers what to do with NVIDIA graphics cards, and you can try it out without abandoning Windows

And yes you could switch to Mac... if money is no object, and you don't mind living in Apple's Walled Garden

Full Disclosure: I switched to Linux Mint shortly after Microslop announced Windows 11. Well, really around the time they made it clear that they were going to try and shove AI into everything. I don't want that, and true to form, shoving AI into everything has caused security problems. More security problems, because Microsoft didn't have enough security problems before Windows 11.

Mint, with the Cinnamon user interface, is about 93% windows on a daily basis. I use browsers (Firefox, and Chromium, though I am considering switching to De-Googled Chromium). I use LibreOffice. I used LibreOffice on Windows because it is open source. I use LibreOffice on Mint for the same reason, and it come pre-installed. I watch videos, and do a few other things. GIMP for image manipulation, though I usually use Drawing (the Linux equivalent of Microsoft Paint to do simple editing). I will download the free version of DaVinci Resolve for video editing after I finish my taxes. I have been using an open source editor (on Windows and here), but I'm not happy with it. I don't really do much video editing.

Chicago Mayor's Questionable Contact with the Truth

Chicago Contrarian asks a question. Is Chicago’s Mayor a Liar, Dense or Both? (I vote for both.)

Brandon Johnson — better known around these parts as Mayor 6.6 — has a gift. Not a good gift. More like the uncanny ability to take a bad idea, execute it incompetently, explain it dishonestly, and then act wounded when someone notices. He does this so regularly that Chicagoans have begun to ask a perfectly fair question: When the mayor says something demonstrably untrue, is he lying, or does he simply not know what he’s talking about?

Sometimes the distinction matters. Most of the time, it doesn’t.

Since this is February 2026, this is all about ICE, and what the authority of Chicago is, versus what is the authority of the federal government.

So. Can the city of Chicago prosecute federal agents for doing their job in Chicago?

And the answer, grounded in the Supremacy Clause of the U.S. Constitution and two centuries of federal jurisprudence, is probably not — at least not in the sweeping, chest-thumping way Johnson suggested.

Federal agents acting within the scope of their duties enjoy broad protections from state and local prosecution. That doesn’t mean they’re above the law; it means disputes over alleged misconduct are ordinarily handled through federal courts, internal discipline, or the Department of Justice — not through a mayor’s press conference.

Click thru for the details, the posturing, and what happened when the Mayor of Chicago's statements ran headlong into reality.

How Do You Run a City Without a Tax Base?

I think Chicago is trying to find out. Mayor Johnson Drives Chicago’s Business Sector to Record Lows

Being the good Progressive that he is, Brandon Johnson hates business and commerce. And the business and commerce in Chicago have noticed.

Office space vacancies have soared to 28.2 percent in Chicago, which is higher than the vacancy rate from before the pandemic. The latest contraction marks the 14th straight quarter of rising vacancies, according to The Center Square.

Of course the exodus of business and money didn't start with Johnson, and if he quit tomorrow it would continue. Because it is the Chicago Machine that hates business. Jane Byrne was probably the last Chicago mayor to understand that Chicago needed businesses to produce jobs, if Chicago was to have any future at all. Jane Byrne left that office in 1983.

As for the businesses leaving Chicago, the marque places are going first. That will impact what little tourism is still left.

Chicago's famed Magnificent Mile was hardest hit, too, going from 1,600 registered businesses to only 784 in 2024 -- that's a 51 percent drop.

And there are reasons that the businesses are leaving. It is how the city and the state are run.

Businesses face a lot of pressures. They pay the second-highest state corporate income tax rates in the nation and the highest commercial property taxes in the country.

How very Progressive of them.

I think I mentioned before that I worked for a company in the 1980s that left the city over taxes. Things were much less insane back then.

Should be an interesting case study in how a city decides to emulate the fiscal collapse of Detroit. Something to watch from a safe distance.

Trump Called Cops on Epstein

This will hurt the narrative. Trump Called Cops On Epstein In 2006

Seems there is a record/transcript/summary of call between Donald Trump to the Palm Beach police chief in 2006 about Epstein's criminal activities. Click thru for those details.

I’m sure there are lots and lots of big wigs who were involved with Epstein, as he had his hands in a lot of pies, but, were not involved with all the child trafficking and other criminal stuff. Some who possibly had no idea what was going on. And some who realized that something shady was going on. Like, apparently, Donald Trump. And, really, at this point, there’s nothing to tie Trump to the shady, criminal stuff. If there were it would have been released during the latter Obama or Biden days.

There is more. The UK Prime Minister's entanglement is interesting.

One Good Thing Came Out of Disney's Live Action Snow White

We will probably never hear from Rachel Zegler again, or at least not for a good long time. Martin Montanaro at That Park Place we get the following. Disney’s Snow White Flop Exposed: Rachel Zegler Controversy, Ballooning Budget, And Box Office Collapse Cost Studio $170 Million

Rachel Zegler is young woman with a reasonably pleasant singing voice. She is no Sade. She is no Whitney Houston. She cannot sing like either Simone Simons or Floor Jansen. And she cannot keep her mouth shut when promoting a movie that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to produce and market.

Now, the failure of Snow White is not all on Zegler. The story was bad. The CGI was nightmare-inducing. The music was bad. The production quality was poor, considering what they spent on this disaster. But she played her part in the disaster.

Caroline Reid, of Forbes, does an excellent job of combing through the tax documents filed in the United Kingdom to determine the actual budget of movies produced there. Not the budget reported in the Hollywood press, not the budget disclosed by the studios, but what they actually filed with the British government to get their tax rebates.

Martin Montanaro at That Park Place, also includes Marketing estimates, which Ms. Reid does not do, because there are no iron-clad documents to reference.

Per financial filings tied to the film’s U.K. production entity, Snow White racked up a staggering $336.5 million production cost — putting it in the same spending tier as major franchise tentpoles like Star Wars and Avengers films.

That alone would have been a massive gamble for a remake of a nearly 90-year-old animated classic.

OK, so let's look at those costs, before Disney spent a dime on marketing.

And here’s where the math turns brutal.

Studios don’t keep all box office revenue. Theater chains typically retain about half of ticket sales, meaning Disney’s actual return from the film’s theatrical run lands around $102.9 million.

Stack that against the $271.6 million net production cost, and you’re staring at a theatrical loss of roughly $168–170 million.

That half of ticket sales number is fairly close. If you are interested in diving really deep into the numbers, I suggest you look up the YouTube channel OMB Reviews. Odin loves numbers, and he goes into (nearly) autistic detail about costs, box-office sharing percentages, marketing estimates, and the rest.

But back to Marvin M's article.

Blockbuster films of this scale don’t just carry massive production budgets — they require equally aggressive global promotional campaigns. Industry tracking routinely places marketing and distribution costs for major Disney tentpoles in the $100 million to $150 million range, depending on the breadth of the rollout.

If you even go with the low-end estimate of $100K, Disney lost at least a quarter of a billion dollars on this crap, and probably lost more than $300 million. That seems insane.

And that was only one Disney flop in 2025. They seem to be specializing in disasters recently.

Everything Always Points to the Official Narrative

Pirate's Cove has the latest bit of climate insanity from the NY Slimes. Your Fault: This Big Cold Snap Is From Global Boiling

Is the weather warmer? That is your fault. Is the weather colder? That is also your fault. Better give up all your freedoms, pay more taxes, live in the pods and eat the bugs.

OK, same old same old cult talking point, it’s super cold because of heat trapping gases. Does this mean it was super crazy warm during the last glacial age?

Click thru for the source of the image, and some comments on the same.

Wednesday Link Roundup - 11 February

William Teach at Pirate's Cove starts things off with Sorta Blogless Sunday Pinup

13. Moonbattery: AWFLs Out of Control at Minneapolis Yoga Studio
14. Liberty’s Torch: The Epstein Files

Wombat-socho - In The Mailbox: 02.10.26

Dana Loesch: I’m Already Over The Halftime Show,
Don Surber: White Saviors are flinging dildos in ICE capades

EBL - Saturday Night Girls With Guns

Saturday night is right for girls with guns...
and we start off with True Adventures, Bikini Girls with Guns, February 1962.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 8 February 2026: Simon And Simony Edition

The recent fuss over AI-only social network Moltbook is deflating somewhat as it becomes clear that the filters controlling what could post on the networked worked as well as the security, which is to say, not at all:

Political Hat - News of the Week (February 8th, 2026)

Democrats Reintroduce ‘Stop Online Ammunition Sales Act’
House Democrats have introduced H.R. 7166, a bill that would effectively end direct-to-consumer online ammunition sales nationwide

Vlad Tepes - When Americans look to the North, they hear a great flushing sound: Links 1 for February 8, 2026

3. Here is a brief excerpt from a Palestinian Christian from Bethlehem speaking to a Western audience some years ago, This will save you the time of doing the numbers yourself.

Small Dead Animals - Sunday On Turtle Island

China Carney’s Canada: A new park. Where does the money go? EV market crash.
The Democrat Party’s America: Learn from Islam. Portland’s journey.

Gates of Vienna - News Feed 2/7/2026

Cops Poised to Shoot Down Drones at Super Bowl
Law enforcement officials overseeing security for Sunday’s Super Bowl in Santa Clara, California

Don Surber - HIGHLIGHTS OF THE WEEK

ITEM 5: Unindicted co-pedophile Bill Gates said, “I never went to the Epstein Island, never met any women.”
No women. Only little girls.

A View from the Beach - Flotsam and Jetsam - WaPoo Openly Worries About Hot Trump Economy

Cathy Salgado at PJM, Trump White House Touts Wins as Dems Gripe and Moan. At ET, TrumpRx: How to Access Discounted Drug Prices on the Platform "The website launched on Feb. 5 with more than 40 prescription drugs on the platform."

Lawrence Person's BattleSwarm Blog - California’s Wealth Streams For The Exits

Add Facebook/meta head Mark Zuckerberg to the list of billionaires fleeing ahead of enactment of the state’s wealth tax.

The Glibertarians - Saturday evening Links

“We’re in the Olympics! Let’s virtue signal!”
Millennials hardest hit?
Much pants shitting over a documentary.

Maggie's Farm - Saturday morning links

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani: U.S. Immigration Policy Should Be Guided by Islam and the Prophet Muhammed
Who’s the victim in Zohran Mamdani’s New York?

J.J. Sefton at Ace of Spades HQ - The Morning Report — 2/10/26

The report proves a large majority of the illegals detained by ICE are known threats to the American public.
CONFIRMED: Majority of Illegals Detained by ICE Have Criminal Records.

Doug Ross - Larwyn’s Linx: The SAVE Act: Why Are Senate Republicans Dithering?

• Here Are The Top 5 Takeaways From Georgia’s Suspect 2020 Election M.D. Kittle
• California Has Become Uninvestable David Strom

Anonymous Conservative - News Briefs – 02/10/2026

Israel has moved to tighten its control over the West Bank, approving a policy overhaul that has drawn condemnation from the Palestinian Authority (PA), Arab and Muslim countries, and the EU.

I leave you with Sunday Funnies For 02-08-26 from Stately McDaniel Manor, Sunday Funnies from Flopping Aces, Quick Hits Of Wisdom, Knowledge And Snark #3392 from 90 Miles from Tyranny, and It'sTuesday ~ Watch Out For The Libturds ~ PM from Woodsterman.

Florida Is a Bad Place for Bad Guys

The bad guys keep not figuring that out. Tallahassee homeowner shoots 'uninvited' man who threatened him

Also, don't enter someone's home, unless you have an invitation.

Detectives later learned that the man entered the home and "refused to leave after multiple requests from the homeowner," [Leon County Sheriff's Office] said in a social media update. "The suspect then threatened the homeowner with a weapon while advancing toward him. The homeowner fired a single round from a semi-automatic handgun, striking the suspect."

Leon County, Florida is home to Tallahassee, which is sort of where the panhandle splits off from the main part of the state.

The guy who got shot is in critical condition in a local hospital.

Super Bowl Weekend in Chicago

HeyJackass! brings us the stats from the weekend. Super SAFE-T Bowl Weekend

In years past, we’d usually get several shooting-free hours because of the super-duper sportsball game. However, because this year’s game was so boring, some decided it was more entertaining to shoot someone rather than watch the game. Next year’s game will be much more entertaining when the Bears are in it.

The weekend total, which in the world of HeyJackass!, runs from noon on Friday through 6 o'clock in the morning on Monday, fell out as follows: 1 murder, 13 people were shot and wounded.

That was actually down from the past few, insane years, and down a bit from the average since 2015.

Swamp Groove

Justin Johnson is a musician I have featured a couple of times. I really like the music he produces.

This song is "Swamp Groove" by Justin Johnson. It was released to YouTube on Saturday the 24th of January. He subtitled it Classic Acoustic Blues Guitar.

Tuesday Links - 10 February

Impro Guns is up first with Faux Colt Python. Click thru for the photo.

Looks to be another copy of this DIY design.

William Teach at Pirate's Cove - Swedish Yutes Sue Government Over Climate Crisis (scam)

Will this be the time when the kiddies are asked in court if they have made their own lives carbon neutral?

Lone Star Parson - Nicki Minaj Rules

Talented, successful and loved pop star Nicki Minaj came out and said it, you can't vote Democrat and be a Christian.

The Other McCain - ‘A Perfectly Good White Boy’

The reason I mentioned those “trees draped with Spanish moss” in Citrus County is because the pursuit of Travis Lovett was captured on a Florida state trooper’s dashcam, and it’s one of the most harrowing chases you’ll ever see, despite the verdant scenery:

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 7 February 2026: Bedraggled Edition

US tech stocks lost an aggregate $1 trillion as a little air was let out of the AI bubble. (Tom's Hardware)
It definitely hasn't popped, but it's a trillion dollars smaller than it was.

Irons in the Fire - They're also idiots, but the WHO is a bunch of bastards

They still say we don't have their permission. I say "The Marines didn't blow up the place or hang any of you on their way out, so you'd better go with that."

Moonbattery - AWFLs Out of Control at Minneapolis Yoga Studio

Pandering to a malevolent mob is the price of doing business. Those who do not comply will be punished.

Again from William Teach - Democrats Suddenly Upset Over ICE Having Body Cams

That’s strange, especially since Democrats cheered when Judge Sara in Chicago demanded all immigration agents wear them. And how Dems demanded all cops wear them post-George “Fentanyl” Floyd

Wombat-socho - FMJRA 2.0: Better Late Than Never

The Senators took two out of three from Pittsburgh and Boston last week, so now we’re 44-52, tied with Pete’s Brewers for second in the division, 5.5 games behind the Twins.

Again from Wombat-socho - Rule 5 Monday: Boots & Bikinis

Ceterum autem censeo Silicon Valley et Hamas delendam sunt.

Woman Defends Herself from Two Men

Mississippi is not a good place for bad guys. The bad guys are still not getting that memo. Jackson police investigating ‘justifiable’ homicide on Ridgewood Road

I wish the gun-hating part of the Left would explain what a woman should do, if she was disarmed, when 2 masked men break into her home in the middle of the night. (I'm not holding my breath.)

And also, Mississippi has the idea of felony murder. If someone dies, as a result of you committing a felony, then you are responsible for the consequences of your actions. (The Left hates that, because no one should be personally responsible for anything.)

Quintavion Myles, 18, has been charged with murder after 15-year-old Kaden Young was pronounced dead at the scene. According to Jackson police, the incident occurred around 2:30 a.m. Sunday when two men wearing ski masks broke into one of the units. Fearing for her safety, police said the woman living there grabbed a handgun and fired multiple rounds, hitting one of the masked men.

And since this happened in Mississippi, the neighbors were not shocked.

"To be honest, they got what they deserved. They broke into her house. She had the right to defend herself," said Tre Ingram, a resident of the complex.

The woman who did the shooting was taken into custody are released, because this did not happen in New York City. A grand jury will decide if charges are filed, or if this is justified.

Self-defense is a human right.

More Improvised Weapons

Impro Guns brings us Evidence table

Click thru for the Photo

Our friend the airsoft SCAR monstrosity making an appearance alongside what looks to be some sort of pump-action shotgun thing.

I think this is from Brazil, because that is where the "SCAR monstrosity" came from.

Netherlands Climate Institute Un-Edits Climate History

Well, not exactly, but it is a first step. From Climate Depot - Dutch climate skeptics vindicated: Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute reinstates seven pre-1950 heatwaves after long battle

The Netherlands Metorological Institute had edited climate history to REMOVE old heat waves, that did not fit the narrative.

Seven years after Dutch skeptics first challenged KNMI’s temperature adjustments, the institute has reinstated seven “lost” pre-1950 heatwaves at De Bilt — validating claims of over-correction that had erased 16 out of 23 historical extremes.

What were the edits?

In 2016, KNMI homogenized their daily temperatures for the period 1901-1950 because of a change in measurement method in 1950 (Pagoda screen to Stevenson screen) and a displacement 300 meter towards open field in 1951. They had parallel measurement for the change in screens but not for the displacement and therefore they had decided to homogenize De Bilt statistically by comparing it with a station 150 kilometers northeast (a place called Eelde) from De Bilt. The homogenization had a negligible effect on the average temperature. However the hottest days of the year (In The Netherlands this means Tmax of around 30^oC) in the period 1901-1950 were corrected downwards by up to 1.9oC. Because of this, 16 out of those 23 heatwaves vanished from the official records.

KNMI is not the only "scientific organization" to do such editing. Because otherwise the narrative wouldn't be as easy to defend.

The way to fix this was to publish a peer-reviewed paper. Click thru for the details.