NASA just completely overhauled its lunar program, functionally admitting what I reported a while back: that China is in position to beat the United States back to the Moon, and declare an end to a century of American technical and scientific supremacy. www.wired.com/story/china-...

Block laid off 4k employees, attributing it to AI gains. But we’ve seen this a lot the past few years in tech. Execs layoffs many, say it’s AI, stocks go up, no one is left to actually maintain/improve the product. AI isn’t doing what they say. It’s enshittifation and they hope you won’t notice.

Everyone Loses When Paying Fines Becomes a Business Strategy - Sheri Byrne-Haber's Blog www.sheribyrnehaber.com/everyone-los... #a11y

Everything the Ellison family could own if Paramount buys Warner Bros: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central Cartoon Network And more... This is a rotten deal that the Trump regime has rubber stamped. State AGs must step in and block it.

*The Philippines deserve more attention because they're the planet's most natural-disastrous country. If you wanna know what your own country looks and acts like in real-deal climate-crisis, they're already there

Former US embassy worker in Burkina Faso jailed for life over abuse of minors

The whole right wing movement is animated by 1 conspiracy theory: that white people are all secretly in agreement with them, and are being suppressed by a woke conspiracy Miller and ICE occupations, Carr/Ellison and right wing media, DOGE and USAID, it's all looking for the off switch for the woke

Maryland leaders demand Trump refund $1,744 per household

There's nothing "uncertain" about it. Larry Ellison is building an autocrat-friendly propaganda machine and whatever shaky journalism originated from this place will soon be dead.

We will not be sanctioning Russia for dropping bombs on schools and hospitals. We will be sanctioning Minnesota for allowing its wine moms to blow whistles at ICE officers. by JD Vance

Hello again! It's Day 1465 of Ukraine's fight against a genocidal maniac of a country. Despite near constant talks, no one dares to say what I guess most of #TeamTim is thinking - we're no nearer peace than we were 4 years ago. Here's the daily thread for Friday:

C'mon. www.thecity.nyc/2026/02/26/n...

The National Science Foundation is systematically being converted to the National AI and Quantum Research Foundation. “I see it as the administration exerting political control over what has traditionally been NSF’s ability to fund the best science.”

You heard @daralind.bsky.social right; the government is saying that they may end up pausing work permits for asylum seekers for 173 years. That is not a typo. Read her piece! /to be fair, that is also the far end of an estimate that is very unlikely to result in that length of time. But still!

DAY AHEAD: The enormous banner of Trump outside Justice Dept HQ is already causing risk and trouble for Admin youtube.com/shorts/o1hwx...

a constant in American politics is that voters prefer candidates who do things, even if they might be the wrong things, over those who do nothing

The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English. He spent a year in jail for this.

Clinton: It then got at the end quite unusual because I started being asked about UFOs and a series of questions about Pizzagate. One of the most vile bogus conspiracy theories that was propagated on the internet.

Republican Nancy Mace calls for Donald Trump's execution

Using 'emergency powers' to control voting marks Trump’s most authoritarian move yet open.substack.com/pub/unpresid...

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Wow. The government just apparently crippled the tool that people are using to track contracts like these DHS ones. I'm told this is the tool Schiff's office is using to track the ICE contracts for military-style weaponry I reported on in the piece/thread below. www.404media.co/the-governme...

I want to know what happened between the first offer Warner turned down and now, cuz this feels like someone made them an offer they couldn’t refuse.

We are living through a period where we have mass government layoffs literally causing countless deaths while at the same time DHS has so much money that Noem will have a different luxury jet for every day of the week

🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump is plotting to steal the 2026 election and his buddy David Ellison and Bari Weiss just won control of CNN. I started Democracy Docket to be fiercely independent and pro-democracy. No corporate investors. It will never back down. Support it by subscribing now. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian boy and stood around as he bled to death, video shows

North Korea could 'get along' with US, says Kim Jong Un

Day 1464 of Russia's 3-day special operation to take Kyiv. It's no longer looking so special (did it ever?), but Russia still has the ability to cause pain, death and destruction and has started Thursday trying to do just that with a missile attack on Ukraine. Here's THE daily thread!

British far-right activist Tommy Robinson was hosted at the US state department on Wednesday, as the Trump administration seeks to cultivate closer ties with conservative and far-right groups across Europe www.ft.com/content/032d...

DHS really tries to kill and injure people thru exposure a lot, like daily it seems

Definitely no one should trust experts when it comes to science, far better to trust cocaine-addled nepo babies.

Here, Меdiazona and BBC Russian Service have compiled a massive database of around 200,000 confirmed and documented Russian military servicemembers killed in Ukraine, as well as mercenaries and recruited prisoners.

Democracy is dying in America. ICE is a murderous secret police force. We’re about to bomb Iran for Israel. Your kids are shot at in school daily, and pedophiles run our government. There’s no healthcare, and your food is poisonous. We need real leaders - not career politicians.

‘They let us down’: Mom of Md. man killed in Reagan National midair crash reacts to failed Rotor Act

Quakertown, PA police chief Scott McElree, out of uniform and looking for a kid to lay hands on, put a teenage girl in a chokehold for exercising her right to free speech and speaking out against ICE. You can contact the PD at (215) 536-5002. ACAfuckingB

Lucinda is a disability advocate and community leader. She’s been a fierce voice for disabled rights. She was living independently with the support of home nurses until she ended up in hospital. They discharged her to a nursing home against her will. This is exactly what she advocated against!

School’s out for Summers Fuckin pedo enabler scum

november 2026 dems have flipped the senate by winning gop-held seats in me, nc, oh, and tx but fetterman switches parties (and vance breaks ties)

We've had bad people that made good presidents. We've had good people that made bad presidents. Now we have the worst person that's made the worst president.

Matt King issues an important challenge: "Without interoperable AT, equitable access is out of reach... To make it happen, we need more of us to help out. More back and front-end engineers, AT users, AT devs, consultants, researchers, and very importantly, leaders." www.deque.com/axe-con/sess...

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff. For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2069...

📣 LOCAL OPPOSITION is the key to stopping these concentration camps.

Dr. Casey Means, Trump's nominee for surgeon general, won't unambiguously say that mothers should have their kids vaccinates against measles: "I do believe that each mother needs to have a conversation with their pediatrician about any medication they're putting in their children's bodies."

"Accessibility is not a feature. It is system design.". Loved this quote (and the whole talk) from @annaecook.com www.deque.com/axe-con/sess...

“Ableism holds back talented disabled people. It also limits employers, because they miss out on talented disabled people.” - @habengirma.bsky.social www.deque.com/axe-con/sess... #axecon

People are props to Donald Trump, he either wants to f*ck you or pick your pockets. The sooner one learns that the better. It never, ever ends well.

Trump gets off on violent descriptions of women being murdered, it’s kind of his thing. He savors the gory details, lustfully. You’re in a sick place, America.

That was exhausting for all of us.

From ‘Noel’s Notes: For America’ all this talk about Trump and skating sports reminds me of my friend he groomed when she took figure skating lessons at his Central Park Ice rink. She was twelve. Link: open.substack.com/pub/noelcasl...