LIES, DAMN LIES AND WEATHER STATISTICS:  The climate scaremongers: BBC reports about January rainfall are awash with lies.

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

CUBA:

El Comité de Morena Cuba , nos comparte las imágenes de la Refinería 2 Boquitas, una de las 3 que hay en la isla..#Complo pic.twitter.com/dPQWzbHHuK

— R e y n o s f e r a (@Reynosfera) February 13, 2026

THAT NICE IRISH MAN THAT IS WASTING AWAY IN DETENTION? YEAH, THERE’S A REASON HE WON’T JUST LEAVE THE COUNTRY AND GO BACK HOME:

The Irish­man held in the US by Don­ald Trump’s ICE agents who likened his deten­tion to a ‘mod­ern-day con­cen­tra­tion camp’ had left Ire­land while facing drugs charges, the Irish Daily Mail can reveal.

Séamus Cul­leton, 38, made world­wide head­lines this week after he described the ‘hell­hole’ con­di­tions in which he was being held for almost five months with 70 other detain­ees.

Ori­gin­ally from Glen­more in Co. Kilkenny, he has been locked up in a facil­ity in El Paso, Texas, since he was detained by Immig­ra­tion and Cus­toms Enforce­ment (ICE) last Septem­ber for over­stay­ing his 90-day visa. He arrived in the US in 2009.

Mr Cul­leton was arres­ted while on his way home from work in Boston, where he lives with his wife, Tiffany, who is a US cit­izen. He runs his own plas­ter­ing busi­ness.

The Mail has now con­firmed that Mr Cul­leton was charged in 2008 with sev­eral offences in Ire­land before emig­rat­ing. The charges were pos­ses­sion of drugs with intent for sale or sup­ply, pos­ses­sion of drugs for per­sonal con­sump­tion and obstruct­ing a garda in the course of their duty, sev­eral sources said.

Mr Cul­leton failed to appear at New Ross Dis­trict Court in Co. Wex­ford for his hear­ing and a bench war­rant was reques­ted.

However, it was never issued as he had left the jur­is­dic­tion.

He also appeared in the same court in April 2008 for being ‘extremely drunk’ in pub­lic and gardaí detained him for his own safety, court reports from the time state.

Speak­ing to the Mail last night, Mr Cul­leton’s US law­yer Ogor Win­nie Okoye said that she only became aware of the charges against him yes­ter­day. She said: ‘It’s a war­rant that was issued after he came to the United States. I can­not speak fur­ther without know­ing the details of the case. A war­rant does not equal a crim­inal con­vic­tion.

‘Today is the first time that I’m aware of any­thing like that… I can’t speak more on something that I don’t know about… I have not spoken to him since this broke today.’

Curiously, most on the right don’t have a problem with him being deported:

"Let's start publicizing an attractive white migrant who is being deported and the racists will go nuts to keep them here, thereby demonstrating their racism!"

*DEPORT THAT TATER-GOBBLING CLOVER JOCKEY!*

"Whhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaa?!?!?!?"

— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) February 13, 2026

AT AMAZON: Shop 3 hour delivery. #CommissionEarned

HMM: Single DMT dose treats stress-induced depression more effectively than Prozac in mice.. I’m skeptical of the sudden enthusiasm for hallucinogens.