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this is a subject that's near and dear to my heart 1. no you didn't, you retconning fucks 2. your decades of anti-governance "free market" "government never functions" propaganda paved the way for the complete authoritarian decimation of labor, consumer, environmental protections

Secretary Howard Lutnick lied to the country about his ties to Epstein. Now we learned that they were in business together. He has no business being our Commerce Secretary. He should resign. www.politico.com/live-updates...

1. Thomas Massey, Republican from Kentucky, just did an interview where he said, on camera, that the director of the FBI threatened to investigate one of his staffers for fraud if Massey did not stop pushing for the disclosure of the Epstein files.

Measles exposure reported at Sky Harbor International Airport https://www.azfamily.com/2026/02/09/measles-exposure-reported-sky-harbor-international-airport/ 

SCOOP: The Department of Health and Human Services has been using the term “sex-rejecting procedures” to describe gender-affirming care for transgender and nonbinary individuals. The term is not clinical or medical. It comes from a Christian Right group. www.importantcontext.news/p/hhs-is-usi...

Reached out to Ed Martin to ask if he'd comprehended that this was satire, and asked him whether he's even seen Arrested Development before. Will report back if he responds.

I finally have a newsletter! It's called The Fine Print* and I'll be writing about tech, media, politics, consumer rights (and whatever else I damn-well please). It's free, but if you have disposable income, you can support independent reporting for just $50/year or $4/month.

"The Bureau of Labor Statistics has reported that gambling was the second-highest service-sector industry for GDP growth between 2019 and 2024, behind only software publishing." Jesus Christ.

Nor have there been any documented instances of an ICE officer being publicly identified and then later attacked off duty as a result of that, as @pbump.com pointed out. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...

TrumpRx is a scam. It redirects the user to the manufacturer’s website to see if they qualify for hardship discounts. These discounts are available regardless of whether TrumpRx is involved and those discounts do not apply to generic drugs. newrepublic.com/post/206265/...

*LABOUR'S SCOTLAND LEADER CALLS ON STARMER TO STEP DOWN AS UK PM

Six former senior Apple Daily staffers, an activist and a paralegal were also sentenced to jail terms ranging from six to 10 years

Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

Keep him! “Information continuing to emerge from eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) claims that the M23 armed group has detained Erik Prince, the American national known as the founder and former head of the private military company Blackwater.“

🎁 link: wapo.st/4rGMGAR

what do you mean the leader of your country will sometimes "resign" just because there's "a scandal"

Every Super Bowl ad was just “HEY REMEMBER THIS SHIT? HUH? YOU REMEMBER THE POP CULTURE YOU CONSUMED THAT ONE TIME IN YOUR LIFE WHEN NOT ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING FUCKING SUCKED. REMEMBER THAT?? brought to you by a company causing your electric bill to increase 287%”

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

*Green card application in process and work permit, married to US citizen *Lived in US for 20 years, no criminal record *In detention for five months with no charge, despite judge approving release *He disputes ICE claim that he signed forms agreeing to deportation

The government says the people being deported are violent criminals, and they treat them inhumanely. But mostly they are subjecting ordinary people to extraordinary punishments.

Bad Bunny “together we are America”

Bad Bunny: God bless America, *all* the Americas. Damn that is going to make MAGA maaaaaaaddddddd.

More than half the drugs on the TrumpRx site have a cheaper generic version on the market. Pristiq, an antidepressant, is available with a TrumpRx coupon for ~$200 for a 30-day supply. A generic version is on GoodRx for less than $30 and Mark Cuban's CostPlusDrugs for $16.65.

Compare how Jeff Bezos’ Washington Post Editorial Board treated Republican redistricting in Texas and Democrat redistricting in Maryland and Virginia.

going great already lmfaoo

The ‘You Don’t Have to Apologize for Being White Anymore’ guys have now made it against the law to use the word Black at college.

Last week the far right started peddling a narrative that the outrage over Epstein is a moral panic. Today, like clockwork, a more polite version of that narrative appears in the Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Friends in Minneapolis are very worried about this development. Both in terms of state police's role in arresting protestors and the worry that this could set off the kind of spiral of distrust and destruction that followed George Floyd's murder. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/07/u...

A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of the Justice Department’s nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights.

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

The first crack in the wall: An ICE agent just quit.

Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."

Democracy Docket is not on Substack. From the beginning, I made sure it had its own tech stack. It's more expensive, but it assures independence from corporate interests and that its content won't sit aside Nazis. You can support it by joining truly independent media. hubs.ly/Q03CbHTt0

US elite institutions be as ethical as Burning Man challenge via @henryburke.bsky.social

Will Lewis has just told staff at the Washington Post he is stepping down

Whistleblower Aid Chief Legal Counsel will approach congressional committees to provide them an unclassified briefing on Tulsi Gabbard’s handling of national intelligence, this coming Monday whistlebloweraid.org/whistleblowe...

The White House did a dishonest y-axis so I fixed their y-axis for them, you’re welcome White House www.howtoreadthisch.art/lets-conside...

Ossoff: We were told that MAGA was for working-class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra-rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class. They are the elites they pretend to hate.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

SF is the most beautiful major American city. Very funny/good to see people who thought it is hell discover this objectively true fact and other amazing things the city has (burritos).

the last 15 years has been different camps deriding either russia or israel while it was both

He's a criminal. Nonstop. He was raised by a criminal & mentored by another criminal. If he were locked up for his crimes tomorrow, he'd never live out an appropriate sentence. It isn't fair. Nevertheless, we should still go after him, his whole family, & every single business associate.

Here’s a slightly clearer version with AltText—and the link to the original: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Rest in peace Renee Good. Thank you for supporting our immigrant neighbors. You’ll always be our hero. 🕊️ 💜

Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?

Chonky bee

Polycrisis intensifies