Totally awesome, I just snagged Surly's article offerings for the day.  I add them but I do not add them from a diner post.  I add the articles here with a custom tool.  then I  used the 'Get Article' dropdown to  generate a trackback.  This lets me comment on the article.  It took five clicks.  Any Diner member can add a trackback from an existing Doomscroll article.  Adding new articles requires privileges.  Adding a trackback to an existing article does not.

So about the article. Jessica wonders what can top the endless intensification of daily madness that dominates our news as a new normal.

Well,

I was in a bohemian phase a long time ago, In my 20's and working in a full service gas station for money.  I smoked weed every day.  I was perpetually stoned.  I maintain well when wrecked, I have a high tolerance.  It does wipe me out as it does most other people.  I can function.  My brain has horsepower to spare.

Anyway the inevitable happened and the supply ran dry.  I had to face a day being normal.  Since I had been stoned for a month straight I found the experience novel.  Very novel.  Like getting stoned in reverse.

So.

QuoteNot because the stock market crashed. Not because I watched another video predicting the collapse of our food system. Not because more articles predicted 2-3C of global warming by the 2050s or sooner. Not because meteorologists and climate scientists have said we're heading into an El Nino that will shatter yet more global temperature records, overheat the oceans, roast our cities, and unleash powerful storms across the planet.

When a day without catastrophe comes our way, it will be a very novel day.

Trackbacks are cool, as was Jessica's point after her quandry.  If you read something on the scroll you can make a trackback and comment on it here.

I am testing the 'Get Article' dropdown.  On the doomscroll. I found an old article and I copied the title using the 'Copy Title' dropdown there.  With the title on the clipboard I came here and used the 'Get Article' dropdown, and the trackback was created to this location with the article card visible here.

Quote from: K-Dog on Feb 19, 2026, 07:11 PMHe will do anything to win the midterms.  Including spending $100B in our taxes to pay the legal judgements.  To him it is OPM.  Other peoples money.

I mean sue him as an individual, not as POTUS..  They can sue the FSoA Goobermint also for another $100B

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He will do anything to win the midterms.  Including spending $100B in our taxes to pay the legal judgements.  To him it is OPM.  Other Peoples Money.

Quote from: K-Dog on Feb 19, 2026, 07:01 PM

UNICORNRIOT.NINJA • 2026-02-19

‘I’m a U.S. Citizen and I was arrested by ICE,’ A Statement from a Legal Observer in Minneapolis

Upwards of 206 U.S. citizens have been hauled off the streets into vehicles by masked federal agents conducting Operation Metro Surge over the past three months in Minnesota, according to legal sources. Many of those citizens, or USCs, have been beaten, had their constitutional rights violated and were brought to the Whipple Federal Building, with some later brought to Sherburne County Jail.

They should file a Class Action lawsuit against Trumpolini for violating their civil rights and ask $100B in damages.

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THEGUARDIAN.COM • 2026-02-19

Trump order seeks to protect weedkiller at center of barrage of lawsuit

The White House said "the threat of reduced or ceased production" of phosphorous and glyphosate herbicides "gravely endangers national security and defense, which includes food-supply security".  Neither the executive order nor the fact sheet the White House put out accompanying the order discloses that glyphosate-based herbicides have been linked to an array of cancers and other health problems in multiple independent research studies and by cancer experts of the World Health Organization (WHO).

Wasn't it Robert Kennedy who wanted to get rid of pesticides & vaccines?  How much do you think Bayer paid Trumpolini for this Get Out of Lawsuits Free card?  Gotta be worth $1B EZ.

The Trumpenator doesn't have to worry about his own food supply...he eats only organically grown prepubescent pussy.

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Donald Trump emerges is power-drunk his indifference to human life is complemented by a bottomless appetite for cruelty.  Trump has the dropped smile of a gleeful butcher.  He orders lethal strikes on unarmed fishermen, then mocks their deaths with self-serving filth.

His cynical orchestrated campaign of terror to terrify midterms voters into submission reveals Trump as as a hebephilic tyrant with a talent for mocking the vulnerable to feed his fragile insatiable ego.

The article entry was added from the Doomscroll with the Get Article dropdown.  And the Doomscroll has a new trackback from there to here.