This is politically basic to me, but the minimum requirement of a political party, in its role as a public service, is to leverage common knowledge to make everyone better off. When the common knowledge is corrupted by a political party, so is the public purpose.

The Greenlight Conjecture If you have the urge to check your phone on your commute to work, hold the urge for the next red light. And you’ll get nothing but green lights from there on.

The U.S. went from an idealized land of the free and home of the brave to a dystopian land of the fee and home of the knave. Knave (archaic): a dishonest or unscrupulous man. (Oxford English Dictionary)

Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"

Like clockwork.

Oh. NO! www.reuters.com/world/middle...

The White House wants an extra $50 billion to fund Trump’s illegal war. That’s on top of the Pentagon’s $1T budget — which Trump is trying to boost to $1.5T. Remember that over half of defense spending flows to private corporations and the Pentagon has failed eight financial audits in a row.

“You cannot answer one illegality with another, because that is how the great catastrophes of humanity begin.” - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Remember when Congress authorized the use of force against Iran? Me neither. Any U.S. attack on Iran would violate U.S. and international law.

The fraud at the top reflects and concentrates the fraud throughout the system.

My favorite course in college was Public Administration. It was the classical paradigm- rational, professional, neutral. The task of political scientists, sociologists, and historians today is to determine where the flaw in our system is which produced this level of anti-public administration.

THESE ARE NOT AURORAS: Montana is a good place to see auroras, so on Feb 17th when Jane Horton of Helena MT saw towering lights in the night sky. "Are these auroras?" Not exactly. These are light pillars caused by city lights shining into freezing air. spaceweather.com/images2026/2...

But this land was made for you and Earthlings!? 🤷 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Historical reminder: The first Trump admin WITHDREW the U.S. from the multilateral Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, which regulated Iran's nuclear program. Those nuclear monitoring mechanisms then lapsed, and Iran proceeded to enrich beyond levels of peaceful purposes, motivated by self defense.

How are we gonna shape the new world? www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Whuuuut?!

Global economy must move past GDP to avoid planetary disaster, warns UN chief

In a democracy, we are supposed to feel like we have control over our lives because the people control the government. But in the U.S., people feel like our lives are out of control because the people don’t control the federal government.

What a time to be alive for sociologists and historians.

There's a part of the world where whatever was icy yesterday is icy today.

@A4B3 = 440 Hz

SpaceX and xAI Merge www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I can’t believe the greediest people on Earth would let us down.

Democrat Taylor Rehmet won a special election for the Texas state Senate on Saturday, flipping a reliably Republican district that President Donald Trump won by 17 points in 2024. n.pr/4kcbr5h

I'm so grateful for the top half of the Circle of Fifths.

From the altitude of 100 years from now, this era will be an epic profile of the differences in human character which emerged from our history.

The U.S. needs a national commission to repair the biggest flaw in our political system: bad faith by a major political party, one which normalizes fraud and lies as its core political strategy, rather than rational civil administration. The foundation of the problem is competing epistemologies.

Can we stop starting statements with “I mean,” unless you actually screwed up your previous sentence?

What I can't stop thinking about is the Trump agent seen on camera clapping, literally clapping with glee, seconds after his coworkers executed a US citizen in broad daylight for peacefully exercising his First Amendment rights It feels like we are having one Kent State a day and no one can stop it

As bad as things are, imagine how much worse they would be if the Supreme Court majority weren’t uncompromising originalists.

In a world of AI, people with brains are the vanguard of humanity.

BREAKING: Judge Tostrud -- a Trump appointee — has quickly granted a restraining order, barring the administration from "destroying or altering evidence" taken from today's shooting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Do the mistakes of AI, and its predecessor auto-complete, help fine tune our thinking? Or does it add a layer of unnecessary, inefficient, wasted labor to the tools? Artificial mistakes wreck the intellectual and emotional flow of our natural thoughts.

We're entering the information automation age.

New guitar; winter acclimation commenced. 🥶 —> 😎

Whoa!

I'm being subtle on the bus

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NEW: Mass resignations at the DoJ Civil Rights Division - including the Chief of the Criminal Section - over the administration’s refusal to investigate the murder of Renee Good. www.cbsnews.com/news/minneap...

TWO. Two chances this Supreme Court had to make the right call. One was the simply call January 6 what it was: An insurrection. Even the liberal justices couldn’t do that. The other was to not make sham and politically-motivated investigations an “official act.” And here we fucking are.

California is officially free of drought conditions for the first time in 25 years www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

Dave Mathews took time on his birthday today to speak out on ICE and the murder of Renee Nicole Good 🔥….HBD Dave! "Renee Nicole Good, murdered in the streets. He shot her three times in the head. Murdered in cold blood. These people are trying to tell us not to believe what we see. F*ck ICE"

The most enlightening and disappointing thing to come out of this ICE shooting is that the right legitimately does not give a fuck about human life if it harms their political narrative. Watching people malign a 37 year old mother for being murdered by her country is insane.

🚨BREAKING: On the 5th anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the Trump White House launched a new website that rewrites the events of that day—portraying the violent effort to overturn the 2020 election as a miscarriage of justice and casting those who stormed the Capitol as victims.

"...no legal claim to natural reserves exists." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...