The world factbook was an invaluable resource in asylum petitions—a place where the federal government acknowledged in writing that, for example, Tibetans face systematic repression in China. I don’t like to have it vanish.

A bus stop near Tesla's flagship store in London. Imagine a Super Bowl ad that showed only this.

They're probably doing the bulk of teaching, they're the most vulnerable in our profession, and they absolutely deserve more attention -- from the media and from the institutions that have been exploiting them for far too long.

Every president from Nixon on released their tax returns, but Trump -- who insisted he would follow that custom -- repeatedly refused to do that. So finally they were leaked, showing he paid only $750 in 2016 and nothing in 2017. He's now demanding all of us, who *did* pay our full taxes, pay him.

After Trump's lies about 2020 election, Georgia Republicans ousted Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger as chair & voting member of state election board. MAGA election deniers took control of board. Now those Trump-allied Republicans could seize control of voting in GA's biggest Dem stronghold

Alabama has the worst maternal mortality in the United States at 60 deaths per 100K live births. For reference, California has 18 deaths per 100K live births. But Dr. Oz thinks it’s “cool” that American citizens do not have access to good reproductive healthcare in the wealthiest nation in history.

"For much of the 2010s and likely before and since, it appears the crime rate of CBP agents and offices was higher PER CAPITA than the crime rate of undocumented immigrants in the United States." www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

Deepak Chopra in the Epstein Files writing, "God is a construct, Cute girls are real." In this same exchange, he responds to Epstein, asking, "Did you find me a cute israeli? :)" with "Cute girls are aware when they make noises." www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

Bezos' Post eliminates the books section after Bezos' Amazon killed independent booksellers. An educated populace is troublesome to billionaires.

This @bostonreview.bsky.social piece by @adambonica.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social is an absolute must-read, as are many of the responses to it. Spread this one far and wide.

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

“The French offices of Elon Musk's X have been raided by the Paris prosecutor's cyber-crime unit, as part of an investigation into suspected offences including unlawful data extraction and complicity in the possession of child pornography.”

Again, they still haven't released about half of what they were supposed to, but I'm sure there's nothing incriminating about the president in there. He even said so! And surely he is a man of his word.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu: “Under the Trump administration, groceries are less affordable, housing is harder to build, cures for cancer are farther away, and good news on our economy has been as hard to find as the Epstein list.”

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

With federal agents storming the streets of American communities, we decided to write a guide on what to do if ICE invades your neighborhood. There’s no single right way to approach a dangerous moment, but there are steps you can take to stay safe. www.wired.com/story/what-t...

think of all the college students who were disciplined or expelled for protesting genocide

They're protecting the names of the pedophiles while revealing the names of their victims

Trump openly admitting FBI raid in Fulton County was a prelude to interfering with the midterms and attempting to seize control of state and local voting process

Bari Weiss darling CBS's Peter Attia skipped out on visiting his baby son in the ICU so he could meet with Jeffrey Epstein. How many times are we going to discover something about someone in conservative circles and think, "That would never make it out of a writers' room. It's too over-the-top."

This is the U Penn donor who helped push the President out, pushed to eliminate arts & science offerings, and drafted Trumps "compact" with universities. People like Rowan repeatedly claimed the moral high ground to impose their agenda on students and faculty.

Anne Frank died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen

"We need to be the news" says Bari Weiss, as she hires Epstein connections. (Attia just joined CBS).

SCTV is on Internet Archive if you'd like to enjoy the early work of Catherine O'Hara and her fellow sketch comedy gods. S1: archive.org/details/sctv... S2: archive.org/details/sctv... S3: archive.org/details/19-m... S4-5: archive.org/details/66-s... S6 + Cinemax: archive.org/details/sctv... #TVSky

Epstein's Academics Hall of Shame here:

"MPR News has learned that the police chief in the small southern Minnesota city of St. Peter intervened Thursday afternoon to prevent federal immigration agents from arresting a local resident" who had been observing federal agents. www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

I found the first investigative file from the first complainant against Epstein in 2005. There are descriptions from the officer, over several interviews of the girl, of her pulling her knees up on the chair, drawing doodles, & the officer high-fiving her to keep her calm as she speaks of horror.

NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to... www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

“Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to silence its people.” - Donald J. Trump, Jan. 20, 2025

The US government has tried and failed to get a magistrate judge to sign off on an arrest warrant for Lemon. And then to get a more senior judge to grant it. Seems like they’ve now found a way to get it done – arresting a hugely high profile journalist for reporting is a real threshold.

These are all Black people. The regime is betting that you wont care Jamael & Trahern the way you care about Alex & Renée

Finally got around to a bit of research I'd been meaning to explore, and: There is no documented instance of an ICE officer being identified and assaulted while off duty because he wasn't masked. www.pbump.net/o/ices-excus...

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

mr president thakn you sir for the last 24 hours of trying to end air travel in this country, attempting to raid the treasury of billions of dollars to line your own pockets and smearing the man your secret police summarily executed in the streets in broad day light

They *married* 14 years ago, when he was 48 and she was 23. He started dating her when he was 41 and she was 16. In case you needed another reason to think of him as a piece of shit.

My 7yo daughter’s best friends’ family fled the country a few weeks ago. Today she came home with a drawing of her and another friend blowing whistles at ICE agents. “We’re blowing the whistles and so ICE will go away and our friends can come back,” she said. I started sobbing uncontrollably.

🧵This is what our tax dollars are going towards. Not education, health care, or public transport. Cages for people. DHS just paid $70 million in cash for a warehouse in Surprise, AZ. The week before, $102 million for one in Maryland. A third in El Paso.

ICE’s job is immigration enforcement so why is it using facial recognition to surveil U.S. citizens? www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...

Buried lede: a cabinet secretary claims to have been taking direction from someone who has never held a Senate-confirmed position

the Democrats should announce that they will not renew any contracts with XAI, Palantir, Tesla, or SpaceX and bankrupt the fucking tech right. announce that you have the votes to ban crypto too.

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

As far as I know, Tom Suozzi here still does not have a primary challenger in his district (NY-3 on Long Island). The filing deadline is April 6 for the primary on June 23, and if there's a remotely progressive town council member or PTA president in that district, this is the time to make a move.

“The French government announced that it will stop using American video conferencing platforms such as Microsoft Teams and Zoom, and replace them with Visio, a French platform.”

Spent the last few days de-googling my workspace. I should've done this a couple years ago but here we are. Proton for email, drive, calendar, vpn. Brave browser. A friend in cyber security shared this guide for Cutting Google Out of Your Life for anyone who needs it: git.tycrek.com/archive/dego...

“The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... Good @adamserwer.bsky.social. Trump banded the morally depraved together, but they’re still badly outnumbered.

you’re all making jokes but the reason Greg Bovino was removed from duty is a safety issue we all need to take seriously

“one of those people who will do anything to get anywhere” www.thedailybeast.com/secret-reali...

Any billionaire could fund a local paper in each of 50 biggest metro areas in the country for a century. We need a better class of dynastic oligarch, someone who wants to endow institutions and actually live forever rather than throw gaudy ass Venice second weddings

They hoped they could generate that response in Portland, but found dancing frog costumes. They hoped they could generate that response in Minneapolis, and even stepped up their own violence to get it, but they only found a community getting stronger.

BREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...