I’m almost certainly convinced the story is made up.

Eye-popping margins in the Pennsylvania special elections today: —Democrats won HD94 by 63 points. (Harris won it by 30 in 2024.) —Democrats won HD42 by 35 points. (Harris won it by 17 in 2024.) [The 2024 numbers are via the essential @the-downballot.com].

Democrats refused to fund DHS because federal agents were shooting U.S. citizens. No accountability? No check.

Kash Patel in 2023: “I’m just saying Chris Wray doesn’t need a government funded G5 jet to go to vacations. Maybe we ground that plane. $15,000 every time it takes off. Just a thought.”

That's a wrap on another Olympics! Women athletes owned these Games: Alysa Liu, Breezy Johnson, Hilary Knight to name a few! And there's one woman, from 100 years ago, who is the real reason women are here. She was written out of history and buried in an unmarked grave. This is a 🧵 about her!

Trainspotting with NPI: See 2 Line trains at the new Mercer Island and Judkins Park Stations during simulated service On Saturday, March 28th, Sound Transit will open the Crosslake Connection, completing the 2 Line across Lake Washington after more than a decade and a half of design, development,…

Thank you to Greenland for providing emergency medical care to a US sailor on board the submarine, since we did not have adequate resources in the area to treat him. I’m sorry that our president felt the need to cover up our shortcomings with a deranged ghost hospital ship post.

People are being disappeared from Massachusetts jails

Even now, too many people simply refuse to admit what is happening. Whitewashing continues from the media and key institutions among civil society. We are in deep trouble. Time to say it together, out loud.

New: A comedian set up a fake ICE tip line as a joke. Then 100 calls flooded in: neighbors ratting on neighbors, a teacher reporting a kindergartener. Fans say the viral TikToks revealed deportation's "banality of evil." Conservatives say he should be in prison wapo.st/4kM4qbF

For months I've banged the drum that "not sure" has become the safe harbor answer for "Republicans who know Trump's probably wrong, but don't want to admit it." Today's Economist/YouGov Poll: Is Donald Trump racist? 41% of Republicans have No Opinion. d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

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Breaking News: The FDA reversed its decision on Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine and agreed to review it for possible approval, Moderna said.

Epstein's Eugenics Project: How the Billionaire Promoted His Racist Ideas Through Intellectual Circles With @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

To understand the catastrophic turn in U.S. health policy, follow the money paulkrugman.substack.com/p/how-the-ka...

Well now, would you look at that? A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of SEVERE disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)

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Guys. Guys! What if the gender divide in the experience of imposter syndrome in the academy (with women overwhelming feeling not smart enough/good enough) is just an artifact of invisible systems… like this one…?

A BMW i3 EV with a Seahawks themed "ICE OUT OF SEATTLE" sign is peak Seattle.

Incredibly powerful opinion chronicling the awfulness in Whipple and the ways it interfered with the right to counsel. One key part of the ruling (that ICE will likely appeal ASAP); Judge Brasel bars ICE from transferring anyone out of Minnesota within 72 hours of arrest.

Parker's piece is terrific and it reminded me of a great movie from 1987 called "No Way Out", where they gave the most realistic "enhance" speech by a computer nerd ever depicted in a movie or TV show, basically admitting that you have to steer "the algorithm" the way you want it to go. 1/

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

This is great bc this was the first time in years that I saw an opposition statement to the bonds that wasn’t just “it’s my money, bah humbug”. Two MAGA losers from the last board election wrote lengthy statements on each of the three Northshore measures. Thing is, we want the neighborhood educated.

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Here's what DHS doesn't want you to know: Working for ICE is one of the safest jobs in America — and last year was the second-safest year for the agency on record. And the doxxing? It hasn't actually happened even once. The masks are justified by a lie. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ice-s-mask...

If you want to understand how far-reaching the corporate rot in media is, read this gutting piece about the fall of Oregon Public Broadcasting. (And follow @ryanjhaas.bsky.social and @leahsottile.bsky.social’s new publication @thewesternedge.bsky.social which will be amazing bc they’re amazing)

'The Epstein files reveal a patriarchy in action. This is a world where the men are rich and powerful, and the women are not. The emails showcase the private behaviour of a male ruling class, as they network, joke and trade information.'

What has it really been like to experience the ICE terror campaign in Minneapolis? Do not miss these perspectives from postal workers, nurses, chefs, and journalists who grew up there—a tour de force of vivid reporting from our CIR colleagues on @revealnews.org revealnews.org/podcast/minn...

Wait till he finds out who's representing us in the White House.

AI will never replace the institutional knowledge and memories of an absolute legend who was *listening to the police scanner the night of the Watergate break-in.* www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/b...

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Homeland Security is monitoring anti-ICE Reddit posts, an intelligence bulletin leaked to me reveals: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/homeland-s...

If you have not seen this, it’s a must. Aliya testifies about what is really happening in Whipple. It’s a clear example of how the racist rhetoric on full display from Trump‘s now deleted social media post today about the Obamas -is playing out in real time!. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI.

"These tactics have their own long lineage. They were adapted from the work of immigrant-rights groups in the Obama & first Trump presidencies, which borrowed strategies from 'cop-watch' activism from the 90s & 2000s, whose own roots go back to the Black Panthers & the American Indian Movement"

Brain swelling sounds bad.

Roald Dahl's letter after his daughter died from measles: fs.blog/roald-dahl-l...

NEW: since last year, a pair of "highly trained" feds have been involved in an array of incidents attacking crowds with chemical weapons. We used public records and open source analysis to identify Edgar Vazquez and Michael Sveum, alongside some other members of their tactical team. Read more:

This is brilliant. I'm so grateful for this testimony. I've transcribed it to use in letters I'm writing. Sharing the full transcription here (see alt text to copy/paste it):

Reminders: Law enforcement lies out of the gate as a rule about shootings in general. I don't say this to diminish anyone's reactions to what ICE is doing. Those reactions are appropriate, and we should be raging against this violence. We should also have a baseline understanding of state violence.

Find the answer by using the @kenwhite.bsky.social principle. Works with most things but it was literally made for this moment.

I guess I have to scream this: SCRIPPS NEWS HAS BEEN DOING HEROIC WORK COVERING CONDITIONS IN THE TRUMP CONCENTRATION CAMP SYSTEM And they're rewarded with little credit and few views. THIS IS ONLY GOING TO GET MORE CRUCIAL. Follow @scrippsnews.bsky.social and SHARE!!!

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent cattle I have met on walks. You will find the captions for the photos in the alt text.

NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya has recently said that he wants to transform the NIH into the “research arm of MAHA” and a “central driver of the MAHA agenda.” Lysenkoism 2.0 continues apace at NIH. sciencebasedmedicine.org/maha-podcast...

This Member of Congress finally got access to the Minneapolis detention center and her report is genuinely appalling. Please watch and share.

"someone" For fuck's sake

University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme. dailyillini.com/news-stories...

I testified Friday before Gov. Pritzker's commission studying abuses of ICE and CBP and tried to explain how the agencies went so far off track. It's actually way worse than I ever realized. Please read and share my testimony as Congress considers reform: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...

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.