Did you know? Losing weight does not automatically make you healthier

As Americans grow increasingly frustrated over their electricity bills, states are trying to keep the nation’s growing number of data centers from causing higher energy costs for consumers. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/02/06/r...

Great interviews on the States Newsroom podcast today.

I could've sworn they were mammals

In case you’re wondering, Trump’s grotesque, racist post about the Obamas is making news globally. Here is BBC News in the UK with a significant segment on it. “A centuries old, deeply racist trope” (🎥 BBC News)

Please welcome the United States to the Olympics, and pay no attention to that thing our president posted

Last night, Trump posted a video to his social media platform that contained a racist clip showing Barack and Michelle Obama as monkeys. It's still up:

Taylor Rehmet's win in a Texas state senate shocked pundits. But, as I found in interviews with people close to the ground, it's not so surprising. A lot of it is about the books bans. People hate the book bans. Even some Republicans! An analysis. www.salon.com/2026/02/06/s...

So my anecdata from Facebook the other day was a reflection of how things are turning there

No, keep going, I welcome these people telling on themselves that they think 16-year-old girls are basically adults and it's fine to exploit them for sex

yeah there is no small part of me that is afraid to do videos because I know some people will comment on my weight and let me tell you how much I don't need that in my life

pleased to announce I am not in the Epstein files

Big investigative group projects are all fun and games until you actually have to write it and keep it to a reasonable word count it's fine I'm fine

All that snowcrete is finally starting to melt, but there's still plenty that people are saying about D.C.'s response to the recent storm — and lots of them are running for office. So I asked: What would you do differently you were in charge? 51st.news/dc-election-...

NEW: ICE arrested 36,579 people in January compared with December (37,842); the numbers haven’t changed much since October (36,621), according to new estimates. https://stateline.org/2026/02/05/immigration-detention-passed-70000-in-january/

paragraph 48: "In Mr. Trump’s second term, Ms. Britt has voted in line with the president 100 percent of the time."

The first bill to clear the Missouri House this year would open the door for health care providers to face the death penalty if they don’t provide life-saving care to a baby born after an attempted abortion. #moleg #mogov

I asked Ron Wyden what his cryptic letter to the CIA was all about. He wouldn't say. "I wrote it for a specific reason. That’s all I can say.” He did a similar thing before, in 2011, and illicit spy activities were later revealed by Edward Snowden www.huffpost.com/entry/ron-wy...

What a cast

That guy's face is my face too

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

New storyline for The Pitt just dropped

They say Google Docs is smart and yet I've told it that suggested correction is wrong 40 times and it still suggests it every single gd time

To anyone laid off from the Post today, we are hiring:

"Zamora first took her seat on the Idaho Human Rights Commission in the 90s after being appointed by then-Gov. Cecil Andrus (D). Republican governors have continued to reappoint her ever since." She spoke out about ICE's behavior and was immediately targeted and removed.

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

The agreement — which stems from Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s administration — had effectively placed state law enforcement under federal control and supervision. virginiamercury.com/2026/02/04/s...

NEW: South Carolina's measles outbreak has reached 876 cases, and for the first time, the state has confirmed encephalitis—brain swelling—in some children who have gotten measles. Encephalitis can cause long-term neurological damage, including intellectual disability. www.wired.com/story/measle...

To any of the talented journalists and creatives that were laid off by @washingtonpost.com today — come join our independent, pro-democracy news outlet powered by readers, not corporate billionaires. We want to work with those who value protecting democracy and voting rights: https://bit.ly/45Qaw4K

Have any organizations threatened to sue over this plan to put ICE at the polls? Is that not voter intimidation...?

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

A great source for great journalism--if the @tennesseelookout.com isn't part of your daily check-in or follow list, make sure to add Holly McCall and her great team to the mix!:

Hey! Just got a bunch of donations and getting really close to my needed goal to cover costs to go back. I'm looking at heading back Friday, any support you give would be greatly appreciated. All my coverage will be at Visu.News and my substack kept free by donations. gofund.me/e77a16ee6

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”

BREAKING: Supreme Court denies California Republicans’ emergency request to block their state’s newly redrawn House map

And also...a lot of people need health insurance. You know, that thing that costs $1,500 a month on the ACA now.

“If a newspaper’s publisher makes a bunch of decisions that lose money, and then the owner keeps the publisher while firing the staff who puts out the paper—none of this is really about the money, is it?” open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

Outside of the nonprofit world, I just paid my $20 for another year of Wired, which is well worth it

I have no interest in defending Jeff Bezos but this is extremely not what happened after he bought the Post. The newsroom added hundreds of journalists and dramatically expanded foreign coverage. Dozens of engineers were hired to support the Post's software business. Now he's undone all of that.

My toddler’s daycare has a livestream, and every time I tune into it and watch the teachers amid absolute chaos I’m like, these are the people who should be running the government

Former race and ethnicity reporter Emmanuel Felton wrote, “I’m among the hundreds of people laid off by The Post. This comes six months after hearing in a national meeting that race coverage drives subscriptions. This wasn’t a financial decision, it was an ideological one.”

Worth noting that only 52% of Missourians polled in the lead up to their initiative said they supported it, and it passed by about that same margin.

I never got a chance to post about this when it came out, so ICYMI too...a poll from Boise State University shows at least 59% of Idahoans support for the ballot initiative to restore abortion rights. Even higher when people are told the name of the initiative. idahocapitalsun.com/2026/01/27/p...

Again...it's not about the money they've lost.

Remarkable: Trump's planned migrant prison camps are hitting deep resistance in red areas. In Virginia's partly rural Hanover (+26 Trump) opposition is intense. GOP leaders in other states are opposed. Voters are rejecting mass deportations big time. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2060...

Seven years ago yesterday, this ad ran during the Super Bowl.

$24/year to support the best goddamn news in the Hudson Valley. highlandscurrent.org/membership/

Today is a great day to donate to your favorite nonprofit newsroom (maybe one that isn’t already swimming in money and has their workers threatening to strike)

The Trump administration is removing roughly one-quarter of the immigration agents in Minnesota, but a full withdrawal is contingent on “the end of the illegal and threatening activities against ICE and its federal partners," border czar Tom Homan said Wednesday morning.

This. And also "just start a paid newsletter" requires that you, yourself, are a BRAND that other people want to pay for! It's a possible niche for op-ed writers or culture. Most reporters are not that. Most reporters are names at the top of a news story you skip right past.