There is a venn diagram of "We need to believe that AI can develop a real consciousness," "I now adhere to a truly bizarre health routine" and "I need all the money possible and I need it just for me," and at the center of it is "I am terrified of dying and I don't know how to fix that"

you will hear the stupidest shit listening to old guys wooing young women at a steakhouse bar. this old guy is trying to teach some blond born after 2001 about chinese taiwan us relations over a seafood tower

2 cars today no license plates, not even temp tags on the new mini cooper smh

Very poignant that it coincides with "Dictator's Face is the Emblem of the Nation's Most Powerful Law Enforcement Agency" phase of the dictatorship.

A tale of two immigrants: Both face possible torture or death if returned to their homelands, but court allows only one to stay www.universalhub.com/2026/tale-tw... #Boston #immigrants

Wow the exact same amount he was suing the IRS for. He just took it. Not only impeachable but [Redacted] as well.

*hamish mckenzie, tears in his eyes* the journalists…they yearn for the backing of live markets

Why does someone who overstayed their visa need to be held in shackles? Does any child belong in a prison camp? Does anybody deserve to be underfed, or brutalized, or denied medical care? presswatchers.org/2026/02/the-...

Going after the Pope on Ash Wednesday is so unhinged

life motto

of COURSE there's a technology the left is excited about

so i gave notice monday and then my company laid off 100 people yesterday, and today are telling my coworkers they have to reapply for their jobs mediocre white men nepo baby failsons ruin everything part one million

3 more attacks yesterday. 11 dead. Feb is on track to be the 3rd-deadliest month of illegal US boat strikes. We must never normalize this, warns WOLA’s latest podcast with drug policy director John Walsh. Extrajud. executions per 7 days: Sep: 4.0 Oct: 10.4 Nov: 4.9 Dec: 9.0 Jan: 0.7 Feb (1-16): 7.9

Americans bewildered as release of Epstein Files leads to resignations and criminal investigations in democracies around the world.

The most baffling thing to me about his rise it that it all started with him repeatedly implying (or outright claiming) that his family fled Cuba under Castro, when actual public records show that they very clearly left under Batista, making him pretty fundamentally a fraud from day 1.

my company that makes billions of dollars in revenue is laying off tons of folks across multiple states today. i hope doing this on fat tuesday & the lunar new year ruins them

How is it possible that Kristi Noem still has this job. Imagine if you’re a family member or a shipmate of this guardsman. www.nbcnews.com/politics/imm...

HEADS UP! The bora cold front working over the Divide now. Heavy snow in the Mountains/higher Foothills. Might see a few raindrops in Boulder as this passes. Winds will ramp up rapidly with gusts of 35-50MPH common the rest of the day behind this front alongside critical fire danger #COWX #colorado

Surely, the press will scrutinize Trump for breaking a long standing U.S. policy the same way they did AOC saying um a few times!

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹) RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

its insane that drafting as an occupation used to just involve countless huge rooms of dads in shirts and ties, scattered all over the country, leaning over tables with their asses perked up all day as their 9-5 job

Been a hot minute since we had a Colorado coloring book. 60+ mph winds + high fire danger east, mountain snow squalls tomorrow morning. Gonna be a busy one. #COwx

FIFA invested $5 million in turf farming in advance of this year's World Cup — sod farmers are now sitting pretty. (Spoiler: NFL is upgrading next!) Donavyn Coffey digs into the fascinating mechanics of grass farming: ambrook.com/offrange/stu...

i bought a bag of parm crisps and they shorted me and pnly gave 10 crisps. bastards

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.

"Do any of the gym selfie finance bros think to swipe right to ask about that? Of course not. They’re all looking for a twenty-four-year-old with a super-low square footage and the same smooth beige walls. I’ve got texture, baby."

Will it be national news? Will it cause performative outrage? Will he be censured? Nope. Forgotten by tomorrow.

From Hamdan Ballal, co-director of last year’s Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land.” This is happening now.

"Americans are to a greater and lesser extent all psychologically traumatized from watching more than a million Americans die from COVID, and explain that general sense of malaise through economic sentiment" has always struck me as a parsimonious explanation.

gonna need the world to step up this all star game

john tesh needed to get the snl guys up there for this to truly be 💯

nooooooooooo stop using hallelujah in events

this is the best

Remember when she visited the queen, who then immediately died

More reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now. techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...

The acting director of ICE told Congress, under oath, that local law enforcement in Colorado leaked raid plans, allowing gang members to escape. After 9NEWS questioned ICE's claim and its timeline, ICE deleted the claim from its social media platforms.

Mochi Mochi Panda is a panda-like creature that is squishy like mochi (rice cake), but is neither a panda nor a rice cake.

“We didn’t go in thinking we were going to find so many instances of really forcible family separation... Women would come in just sobbing, saying they weren’t even asked if they had kids.” “We were all crying on the plane...thinking about our children” –mother separated from her 5-year-old child

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

American Century of Humiliation is manifesting in ways I did not predict.

in my mid 40s just kicking it with pbs and scotch on a saturday night i commend pbs12 for the awesome music block as i've seen buckethead, desert child, loah & rhiannon giddens, ACL with wynonna, and later aimee mann live from the artists den

i never expected to watch buckethead on pbs

The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should. www.state.gov/releases/off...

Again, the answer is “10-25 people in Washington, <all> of whom are Republicans, or it’s not going to happen.” And yet, these 10-25 people get free passes every day & still can leave their houses & go to work with scarcely a question about when they’re going to start fulfilling their oaths 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️

weirdly attracted to hairy chest canadian speed skater

I think we need to mobilize the whole country in support of military families and vets. (Repeating) To that end:

Roses are red Stem held between teeth I ordered us takeout but it's

🆕 I had the honor of working at WHO during the COVID-19 & mpox PHEICs. In my comment for Lancet ID, I explain why global coordination is critical & offer an inside view of what the US is walking away from. Pathogens have no borders. In public health time is vital www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

had a very respectful chat about theology tonight