So let me get this straight. DHS shot down a party balloon with a laser outside El Paso less than a month ago🎈 Now DOD shot down a DHS CBP drone outside El Paso? 🔫 I mean if that was a DOD birthday party, that's quite the escalation 🎂

Statement today by Dario Amodei, CEO of @anthropic.com, re: DOD, mass domestic surveillance, and fully autonomous weapons. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

A must-read synthesis around this technological moment. #AI #ML

I'm not sure "move fast and break things" to engineer small nuclear reactors to power AI data centers is a winning strategy, #nukebros.

Here's how you ensure voters of an entire state never elect a member of your party for any local, state, or federal office ever again. Never again✅ for👏 a👏 generation👏 👍

The Pentagon is threatening to use the Defense Production Act against Anthropic. It's a terrible policy, but legally it depends on whether they're seeking to avoid Anthropic's terms of service or have Anthropic retrain Claude. My latest for @lawfaremedia.org. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what...

"reserving “understanding” for humans elides the fact that nobody agrees on what it or “intelligence” or “meaning” actually mean. If yr arguing for human uniqueness, you need to show that the trillions of neuron-connections in the brain aren’t also doing next-token prediction, or something like it."

Remember, when news outlets first reported that Kash Patel was spending $75,000 of taxpayer money to fly an FBI Gulfstream jet to Milan so he could watch Olympic hockey, the official spokesasshole for the FBI had this to say:

Money laundering by 102 "politically exposed persons" - so Deutsch Bank management enforced silence on their employees

Impressive AI-powered #Epstein Files Research Database — search 1.4M DOJ documents, AI research assistant, free & open source epstein-data.com

re: the two-year DHS expiration date 📅

What does this foreshadow? > ...all contracts are now limited to two years. Ms. Noem has said that “after two years, there won’t be a DHS,” the contractor said, relaying what a senior ICE official told vendors.

"proletarianizing knowledge workers" 🎯

The philosopher kings of the neoreactionary right seem a bit nihili-stuck.

Buckle up, buttercup. One company here in Washington state that's sitting right at the (data) center of the technofascist Venn diagram and raking in big bucks by helping ICE and screwing our state. @troublemakers.bsky.social @50501washington.bsky.social @350seattle.bsky.social

A helpful deconstruction of the term "conspiracy theory" by @barrettbrownlol.bsky.social in a time when discerning the truth has become distressingly "unviable"

If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''

I wonder how many US citizens remain ignorant of this not too distant and directly relevant American history.

So many disaffected academics and tech billionaires in the Brockman circle revealed as eager participants...

“We still treated [enemy combatants in Fallujah ] as humans,” Saari said. “To be treated worse here, at home, than people who had attacked our unit in a war zone, it’s been hard to understand.”

These are excellent ideas in preparation for the mid-term elections: community and caring for your neighbors at polling locations will beat the bullies 🫂✅🇺🇲

“After years of illegal and unconstitutional federal efforts to restrict free expression, I will sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship & bring back free speech to America. Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents.”

We need more mid- to long-term efforts like this to chart the repairs needed to our democratic institutions 🏗️🏛️

Epstein political fallout in Norway 🇳🇴

Global sentiment about the current US federal regime seems pretty consistent 🔁🔁🔁

I was asked to check this, the journal uses a Rail Fence Cipher, so you read each line up and down, left to right. The deciphered text in the article below is accurate, and names names. The file itself can be found here: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

One of the causative factors prompting early efforts to dismantle the independence of Inspectors General last May is coming to light ☀️

The list...just keeps getting longer... 🫩

Would be a shame if Palantir got kicked out of the UK.

Every word of this.

Dodge this DOGE father 🎯

The Alex Pretti Memorial on Nicollet Avenue where Pretti was shot and killed just under 2 weeks ago by federal agents. Minneapolis February 6, 2026

Prime Minister of Poland 🇵🇱

@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him

I read thousands of pages of Epstein files this weekend trying to understand what he wanted out of his meeting with 4chan's Christopher Poole. Here's everything we know about Epstein's plans to dismantle the internet and, eventually, democracy. www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...

Not all unions are created of, by, and for the people.

I have had to hear something about DHS every day since January 20th, 2025 so I guess that means...

Vibe Coding 201: Now That You Have Learned The Hard Way...

Former federal 18F engineer gives background on Palantir's "repression as a service" tool deploying DHS/ICE/CBP

The government’s arrests of journalists @donlemonofficial.bsky.social and @bygeorgiafort.bsky.social are attacks on freedom of the press. Two federal courts flatly rejected prosecuting Lemon, but instead of accepting that humiliating defeat, the government has now doubled down. Read our statement:

Tom Homan said it was his goal to enable federal gov't to doxx people: “We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous. We’re going to put their face on TV.” www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

"Federal troop deployments to U.S. cities cost a total of $496 million in 2025, CBO estimates. Continuing current deployments will cost $93 million a month; 1,000 Guard personnel deployed to a city will cost at least $18 million a month."

"Symbolic Compliance"

A tribute to Alex Pretti by Seattle graffiti artist topsy outside a local hospital.

Extremely helpful background on ICE and CBP - systemically worse than expected.

Mistake? Or intentional misrepresentation of reality by a federal administration which has adopted propaganda strategies for psychological manipulation and "controlling the narrative"? We must now presume the latter: we are being lied to, intentionally.

Do not platform the administration's lies. "Those who actively lie are directly complicit in the deaths that just happen[ed] and in any deaths to come. But those in media who choose to treat propaganda as the story, to begin from lies rather than from events, are also complicit."