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Welcome to the Sabbath for non-Jewish cats: It\u2019s Sunday, February 15, 2026, and National Hippo Day<\/a>.\u00a0 As you see from Wikipedia<\/a>, there are two species:<\/p>\n

The\u00a0hippopotamus\u00a0(Hippopotamus amphibius;\u00a0;\u00a0pl.:\u00a0hippopotamuses), often shortened to\u00a0hippo\u00a0(pl.:\u00a0hippos), further qualified as the\u00a0common hippopotamus,\u00a0Nile hippopotamus\u00a0and\u00a0river hippopotamus, is a large\u00a0semiaquatic\u00a0mammal\u00a0native to\u00a0sub-Saharan Africa. It is one of only two\u00a0extant\u00a0species\u00a0in the\u00a0family<\/a>\u00a0Hippopotamidae<\/a>, the other being the\u00a0pygmy hippopotamus<\/a>\u00a0(Choeropsis liberiensis\u00a0or\u00a0Hexaprotodon liberiensis). Its name comes from the\u00a0Ancient Greek\u00a0for \u201criver horse\u201d (\u1f31\u03c0\u03c0\u03bf\u03c0\u03cc\u03c4\u03b1\u03bc\u03bf\u03c2).<\/p>\n

Pygmy hippos are rare forest animals, hard to study and threatened by habitat loss. Here\u2019s a short video:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a baby pygmy hippo from Thailand. It\u2019s adorable!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also National Clementine Day<\/a>, National Gumdrop Day<\/a>, National I Want Butterscotch Day<\/a>, and Susan B. Anthony Day<\/a>, celebrating the famous women\u2019s rights activist<\/a> born on this day in 1820.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s Google Doodle features alpine skiing. Click on the screenshot to see where it goes:<\/p>\n

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Readers are welcome to mark notable events, births, or deaths on this day by consulting the February 15 Wikipedia page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Da Nooz:<\/p>\n

*Well, we have a partial government shutdown, as the Homeland Security funding bill didn\u2019t pass<\/a>, and the lazy gits in Congress are on vacation for a week. Ironically, ICE is fully funded for a long time to come (via the \u201cBig Beautiful Bill\u201d), so the shutdown won\u2019t affect it.<\/p>\n

Funding for the Department of Homeland Security lapsed early Saturday morning, beginning a shutdown that was not expected to bring most of the department\u2019s work to a halt yet could disrupt travelers, immigration enforcement and disaster relief if it is prolonged.<\/p>\n

Department officials have said that its essential\u00a0missions and functions would continue<\/a>. During last fall\u2019s government shutdown, more than 90 percent of the department\u2019s employees were required to keep working.<\/p>\n

But department officials have warned that many employees would be working without pay, posing a financial strain as their bills come due. During previous shutdowns, for instance, the Transportation Security Administration saw a spike in resignations because they were required to report to work without being paid. Work force shortages\u00a0caused some screening delays<\/a>\u00a0at airports in Houston during last fall\u2019s record-long shutdown.<\/p>\n

The shutdown is the result of a\u00a0partisan divide in Congress<\/a> over new guardrails on federal immigration enforcement. Democrats have pushed for a range of new restrictions on immigration agents, such as mandating that officers remove masks during enforcement operations and that they obtain warrants from judges to make arrests in homes. Many of their demands have met resistance from Republicans.<\/p>\n

The shutdown will not affect the administration\u2019s deportation campaign. Todd Lyons, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, told lawmakers on Thursday that immigration enforcement would mostly be unaffected, in large part because of the\u00a0billions in funding Congress approved for the agency<\/a>\u00a0last summer as part of its major tax bill. Still, Mr. Lyons said that a shutdown would affect personnel issues, such as pay and retention.<\/p>\n

. . .It is unclear how long the shutdown could last. Members of Congress\u00a0left Washington for a weeklong recess<\/a>\u00a0on Thursday. Republican leaders in Congress have said that negotiations would continue, and that members should be ready to return to Washington if an agreement is reached.<\/p>\n

The Department of Homeland Security is vast and\u00a0includes many agencies<\/a>, such as the T.S.A., Coast Guard, Federal Emergency Management Agency and Customs and Border Protection.<\/p>\n

Remember, though, that this conflict is not so much about eliminating ICE as making them behave better. The Democrats want them to wear bodycams (good), masks (controversial), clear identification (good), as well as tightening the rules for getting warrants (good), and ending roving patrols (not so good). Much of that I agree with, but Republicans won\u2019t budge an inch\u2014nor will the Democrats.\u00a0 The result is that ICE will keep on doing what it\u2019s doing, and the Democrats will be blamed for shutting down important parts of the government. The other departments like TSA and FEMA will function for a while, but sickouts and retirements may hurt them if the shutdown lasts too long. I predict it wil lbe settled within ten days after Congress reconvenes.<\/p>\n

*As always, I\u2019ll steal a few items from Nellie Bowles\u2019s news-and-snark column in The Free Press,\u00a0called this week \u201cTGIF:\u00a0 MAGA-Coded<\/a>\u201c:<\/p>\n

\u2192 Quote of the year:\u00a0\u201cAnd I said, \u2018I\u2019m not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.\u2019\u2009\u201d \u2014Robert F. Kennedy Jr.\u00a0speaking to podcaster Theo Von<\/a>\u00a0(of course).<\/p>\n

If a better one comes along, I\u2019ll eat my hat. But I\u2019m calling it now. Quote of the year, and I love him for it.<\/p>\n

\u2192\u00a0No need to find evidence:\u00a0The war between Hamas and Israel was brutal. But Hamas and its supporters have been obsessed with arguing that it was not a war at all, but a genocide. Is there evidence? Well, it doesn\u2019t matter.\u00a0Al Jazeera\u00a0has published a\u00a0new story<\/a>\u00a0to explain why there might not be physical evidence: \u201cIsrael Used Weapons in Gaza That Made Thousands of Palestinians Evaporate.\u201d Ah. Of course. Those Jewish space lasers that evaporate anyone they\u2019re aimed at! Naturally.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Gabrielle Sivia Weiniger, a journalist for\u00a0The Times\u00a0UK who focuses on the Middle East, apologized Monday night for posting an\u00a0AI-generated image<\/a>\u00a0that showed Israel\u2019s President Isaac Herzog posing for a picture with Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and others. What a find, right? Oh, it was fake. \u201cI mistakenly posted a photo of president Herzog, without checking the source and I am sorry for that,\u201d\u00a0she wrote<\/a>. Journalists are officially falling for the dumbest AI slop, so long as it helps the narrative.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s that fake photo. OY!!!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>(From Jerusalem Post) An AI-generated picture faking President Isaac Herzog posing with convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, and others, posted by a journalist for The Times on X\/Twitter, February 9, 2026. (photo credit: SCREENSHOT\/X\/VIA SECTION 27A OF THE COPYRIGHT ACT)<\/p>\n

\u2192 Why are the yoga ladies so angry?!:\u00a0Yoga moms\u00a0held a protest<\/a> at the Minneapolis studio they patronize over the fact that it took down an anti-ICE sign from the window (which they heard about via gossip). The video of the protest is incredible: \u201cGive us answers, let\u2019s go. . . let\u2019s hear it\u2014why are you being silent?\u201d one woman says from behind the camera, as a crowd gathers around two young staffers. The crowd is lean, sinewy, with perfect yoga posture and expensive compression leggings. I can tell it\u2019s a great studio. They are holding their rolled-up yoga mats, and they know how to use them. They don\u2019t screw around in there; they are pulsing in five, six, seven, eight, and then they are making weeknight sheet pan dinners for their families afterward. Look at those back muscles. I would do whatever this crowd says.<\/p>\n

I love this. I love all of these ladies and their righteous indignation as they scream at some woman who probably gets paid minimum wage to check them in and spray their mats with disinfectant. Is the yoga studio the biggest political enemy I would choose? No. But is this a nice activity for them? Absolutely yes. (Read our\u00a0great story<\/a>\u00a0about this.)<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a video:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u2192\u00a0Please pretend to be sorry:\u00a0A Kentucky judge\u00a0reduced the sentence<\/a>\u00a0of a 24-year-old man convicted of robbery, kidnapping, and sexual assault on account of America, in general, being racist. The best part, though, is that before cutting his prison time in half from what the jury recommended, she tried to prompt the guy into showing how sorry he is for what he did.<\/p>\n

The judge: \u201cIf you come in here and you show the court\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

The convict: \u201cI don\u2019t have sympathy for you, the victim, the victim\u2019s family.\u201d Hmm.<\/p>\n

She tries to coax him: \u201cIf you were to come in here, and instead of being hurt and angry, which is what this court hears, right? As a 20-year-old African American male that has been, you know, experienced this society, etc., and you would show that, yes, okay, this is the situation. This is who I am. I don\u2019t want to be this person anymore. I don\u2019t want to be in jail forever.\u201d<\/p>\n

The convict wasn\u2019t having it: \u201cThat\u2019s what y\u2019all trying to make me say.\u201d<\/p>\n

Looks like someone forgot how to \u201cyes,\u00a0and.\u201d I\u2019m surprised his prison sentence wasn\u2019t a three-week beginner course at Upright Citizens Brigade Improv. Make your scene partner look good! Don\u2019t deny their reality!<\/p>\n

No matter; his jail time was cut in half. Certainly he has learned from his mistakes.<\/p>\n

*Russian dissident and human rights activist Alexei Navalny<\/a>, you may recall, was poisoned in 2020, and fell deathly ill on a flight within Russia. Recovering in Germany after a long while, he vountarily decided to return to Russia to continue his work, whereupon he was arrested and sentenced to 2\u00bd years in a labor camp. Soon thereafter, his sentence was extended to 19 years.\u00a0 He fell ill and died in 2024, and his body was returned to his mother. Now, according to a recent toxological report, it was determined that Navalny was killed by toxin from a poison frog<\/a>. Poisoned twice!<\/p>\n

Russian dissident\u00a0Alexei Navalny\u00a0was almost certainly killed by a poison derived from a rare frog toxin in an Arctic prison colony two years ago, several European governments said Saturday.<\/p>\n

A joint toxicological investigation concluded that Navalny, who died while serving a sentence on what his supporters and Western governments said were trumped-up charges, was most likely poisoned with epibatidine\u2014a highly potent toxin derived from South American poison dart frogs. The substance doesn\u2019t occur naturally in Russia.<\/p>\n

\u201cNavalny died in prison, meaning the Russian state had the means, motive and opportunity to administer this poison,\u201d the governments of the U.K., France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n

The Kremlin didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Navalny, the most prominent domestic critic of Russian President\u00a0Vladimir Putin, appeared in good health and high spirits in video footage recorded days before his death at the notoriously harsh penal colony known as \u201cPolar Wolf.\u201d Officials said the symptoms he reportedly experienced\u2014paralysis, acute pain and respiratory failure\u2014are consistent with epibatidine poisoning.<\/p>\n

Biological samples from his body were obtained by Navalny\u2019s family and associates and shared with authorities in the participating countries for independent analysis.<\/p>\n

\u201cVladimir Putin is a murderer,\u201d Navalny\u2019s widow,\u00a0Yulia Navalnaya, wrote on X. \u201cHe must be held accountable for all his crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Navalny had been held in solitary confinement after a trial widely condemned by Western governments and human rights groups as politically motivated. For more than a decade, he exposed alleged corruption and embezzlement among senior Russian officials.<\/p>\n

He survived a previous poisoning attempt in 2020, when he was airlifted to Germany and treated in Berlin with the assistance of the German government. German authorities and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons later confirmed that he had been poisoned with Novichok, a Soviet-era military nerve agent.<\/p>\n

Putin has to go. Say what you will about America, we don\u2019t\u2014nor would we be so dumb as to poison anti-government prisoners. Nor do people go to jail for simply criticizing the government.\u00a0 Poisoning Navalny TWICE is simply too much. Will we increase sanctions on Russia? Probably not this time.<\/p>\n

*In his Weekly Dish column called \u201cThe President of the 0.000001 percent<\/a>,\u201d (subtitled \u201cTime to end the new Gilded Age, the way we did the last one\u201d , Andrew Sullivan ponders the possibility of eating the \u201cEpstein class\u201d of the rich and entitled. He\u2019s not optimistic.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s going on now in Washington is on a wholly new scale \u2014 an open, shameless exercise by those in power to benefit personally and massively from the leverage that comes with public office. In the words of\u00a0Ann Coulter<\/a>: \u201cThis is the most corrupt presidency in U.S. history. I mean, it is so blatant it\u2019s right in front of our eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Worse than the \u201cBiden Crime Family?\u201d\u00a0Yes. Andy McCarthy\u00a0notes<\/a>\u00a0that the total amount of dirty money accrued by the Bidens over the years was claimed to be around $27 million. And the GOP nearly launched an\u00a0impeachment<\/a>\u00a0over it! But the Trump family? Start with $2.5\u00a0billion\u00a0in bribes from the United Arab Emirates \u2014 funneled into a company called World Liberty Financial. Add a $400 million 747 airplane from Qatar, and we\u2019re talking real money.<\/p>\n

How did the Trumps pull this off? The incomprehensible bullshit called crypto currency (i.e. WLF) induces a coma in most voters; and the ethical conflicts are \u201cresolved\u201d by having the failsons of\u00a0Trump<\/a>,\u00a0Howard Lutnick<\/a>, and\u00a0Steve Witkoff<\/a>\u00a0\u201crun\u201d the businesses while their dads direct government policy. Here\u2019s nepo-baby Zach Witkoff at a crypto conference in Dubai last year\u00a0announcing<\/a>\u00a0the deal with WLF, sitting next to the heir-spare Eric Trump:<\/p>\n

We really need to take a page out of His Highness\u2019s and the Emirates\u2019 book. They are just an amazing example of how you can lead with innovation while also maintaining your family values.<\/p>\n

Ah yes, those famous Trump family values: money, power,\u00a0rape<\/a>. And once the money landed in the Trump crypto accounts, of course, government policy changed. Trump gave the UAE rare and advanced AI chips, brought the UAE into the US Stargate AI project \u2014 along with an ownership slice of TikTok \u2014 and pardoned the sleazy billionaire felon, Changpeng Zhao, who had helped\u00a0seal the deal<\/a>\u00a0with WLF. Not just corruption, but possibly at the expense of our national security, if those UAE chips make it to the CCP.<\/p>\n

This is the real Epstein class: utterly amoral networkers and nepotists with no loyalties to anything but their absurd bank balances and party invitations. And this is their administration. From the dime-store Versailles that Trump is constructing on the rubble of the East Wing, to the Gaza wasteland where Jared Kushner is now preparing to cash in after the slaughter, this is a kleptocracy notable for its callousness as well as its insatiable money-lust.<\/p>\n

. . . . This is a moment for a sane, non-fake populist on either the right or left to seize. You don\u2019t need a gimmick like a 5 percent billionaire tax. But you can reverse Trump\u2019s tax cuts for the rich to fund childcare and Obamacare subsidies; and you can lower prices instantly if you commit to repealing the tariffs. These seemingly \u201cleft\u201d moves are actually conservative<\/a>\u00a0in a way, since they are designed to rescue capitalism from this statist, crony version, and to provide ballast for the middle class \u2014 the essential component for a liberal democracy to thrive.<\/p>\n

And if the Dems win in November, we can also have hearings. Bring in the corrupt nepo-babies for a grilling; expose their privilege and ill-gotten gains; and make the case for an economy built on markets not access, excellence not parentage, and an economy built on middle-class values for middle-class protection.<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t have to resign ourselves to this level of corruption and inequality. We really don\u2019t. If this new Gilded Age has any silver lining, it may be that it becomes a prompt for the very kind of reforms the old one did.<\/p>\n

Well, it looks as if Sullivan has become a Democrat, at least in name. But he\u2019s right about all this, and when Ann Coulter criticizes a sitting Republican President, you know they\u2019ve lost America.\u00a0 As for me, well, I\u2019ve never understood crypto currency either, but it sure seems that the UAE has tried to bribe Trump, and succeeded, at least in terms of making him richer.<\/p>\n

*Palmerston<\/a>, the the Chief Mouser of the Foreign Office (and a nemesis of Larry the #10 Cat), has died in Bermuda<\/a>. (h\/t Pyers and Matthew).<\/p>\n

Palmerston, a rescue cat who became the chief mouser of the Foreign Office, has died in\u00a0Bermuda<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The cat, adopted from Battersea Dogs &\u00a0Cats<\/a>\u00a0Home, retired in 2020 after four years of service in Whitehall.<\/p>\n

In February 2025, a post on a popular social media account in Palmerston\u2019s name said he had come out of retirement in order to start work \u201cas feline relations consultant (semi-retired) to the new governor of Bermuda\u201d.<\/p>\n

Announcing his death, a post on Palmerston\u2019s X account read: \u201cPalmerston, Diplocat extraordinaire, passed away peacefully on 12 February. \u201cPalmy\u201d was a special member of the government house team in Bermuda, and a much-loved family member, it added.<\/p>\n

On his retirement in 2020, a letter to Sir Simon McDonald, permanent under-secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, read that the cat would like to spend more time \u201caway from the limelight\u201d after enjoying \u201cworking from home\u201d during the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have found life away from the frontline relaxed, quieter, and easier,\u201d the letter signed in Palmerston\u2019s name read. \u201cMy 105,000 Twitter followers show that even those with four legs and fur have an important part to play in the UK\u2019s global effort,\u201d Palmerston\u2019s letter said.<\/p>\n

Poor Palmerston! He was only 11 or 12 years old\u2014in the prime of cat life. But I doubt that Larry will miss him, as they didn\u2019t really like each other:<\/p>\n

Larry the Downing Street cat spots the Foreign & Commonwealth Office pet Palmerston and doesn\u2019t look like he\u2019s in a welcoming mood outside Number 10 \ud83d\ude3e pic.twitter.com\/DHkAgBf0Ys<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 ITV News (@itvnews) May 7, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n

But on Larry\u2019s website (there were animated balloons yesterday for his 15th anniversary at Downing Street), the #10 cat has a generous tribute to Palmerston:<\/p>\n

Farewell old friend x https:\/\/t.co\/zolLYYd6xl<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) February 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Meanwhile in Dobrzyn, Andrzej and Hili have a chinwag and a selfie:<\/p>\n

Hili: I need to write a report on the condition of the world.
Andrzej: Many have had ambitions like that.
Hili: I would rather follow in the footsteps of Herodotus.<\/p>\n

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In Polish:<\/p>\n

Hili: Musz\u0119 napisa\u0107 raport o stanie \u015bwiata.
Ja Wielu mia\u0142o takie ambicje.
Hili:\u00a0 Raczej p\u00f3jd\u0119 \u015bladami Herodota.<\/p>\n

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From America\u2019s Cultural Decline Into Idiocy<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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From CinEmma<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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From Cat Memes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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From Masih:\u00a0 Here is the English translation:<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is Borujerd, and this is the moment when the security forces, after shooting a citizen with a pellet gun and causing him to fall to the ground, surrounded him like a pack of hyenas and brutally beat his wounded body.\u201d<\/p>\n

The person who sent the video says: \u201cAfter the savage beating, they took this injured young man away with them, and I have no information about what happened to him afterward.\u201d<\/p>\n

These are documents of crime that the world must see and understand: with a regime like ISIS, there can be no negotiation \u2014 they must be eliminated.<\/p>\n

They are absolutely brutal, kicking and beating a defenseless protestor.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Masih Alinejad \ud83c\udff3\ufe0f (@AlinejadMasih) February 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Colin corrects a misconception:<\/p>\n

What\u2019s funny is how activists like Carr pretend not to understand that conservatives argue SEX is a scientific fact\u2014because it is\u2014and largely dismiss the concept of \u201cgender\u201d because it\u2019s regularly used, as Carr is doing here, to obfuscate basic biological realities.<\/p>\n

Nobody is\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/sm1u22QEtq<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Colin Wright (@SwipeWright) February 8, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

From Williams Garcia. But see the one below that, from 2000:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s especially stark when you compare it with 1949-50. But even if you compare it to the undergraduate course offerings in Fall 2000, it\u2019s a huge difference. That was just a quarter-century ago. Here is every course offered by the Harvard History Department in Fall 2000.\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jonathan Barth (@Professor_Barth) February 13, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

From Malcolm; yawning or surprised?<\/p>\n

pic.twitter.com\/sQ1OMbx0NI<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Cats with Aura \ud83d\ude3a (@catwithaura) January 26, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

One from my feed. I love it! Notice the elephants trumpeting when they stop the trucks (sound up). It\u2019s a toll, Jake!<\/p>\n

Wild elephants in Thailand set up roadblocks to steal sugarcane from passing trucks. One notorious male nicknamed \u201cFatty\u201d walks into traffic and forces drivers to stop. He reaches his trunk into the trailers, grabs handfuls of sugarcane, then lets them pass. This highway robbery\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/sYZE9Rjnub<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Dr. Lemma (@DoctorLemma) February 14, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

One I reposted from the Auschwitz Memorial:<\/p>\n

This Polish Jewish girl, age 11, arrived with her mother at Auschwitz; both were gassed within hours of arrival.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jerry Coyne (@evolutionistrue.bsky.social)<\/a> 2026-02-15T11:05:50.689Z<\/a><\/p>\n

Two from Professor Cobb.\u00a0 First, Valentine\u2019s Day for water snakes:<\/p>\n

Celebrates Valentine\u2019s Day with snakes mating? Why not? Snakes are awesome This was a pretty incredible thing to come across on a spring walk#herps \ud83c\udf3f \ud83e\uddea<\/p>\n

\u2014 Get To Know Nature (@gettoknownature.bsky.social)<\/a> 2026-02-14T16:33:41.726Z<\/a><\/p>\n

This is really interesting: most common dreams by country. Funny: I\u2019ve never dreamed of teeth falling out.<\/p>\n

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