Where this stuff does matter in 🇺🇸 politics is that the commanding heights of elite media are controlled by people from those colleges, & they look down on the Bidens & Walzes of the world just like they looked down on those of us who did go to one of those schools but were the poor small-town kids.

The WSJ chief economics guy who follows 46 accounts on here learns more on X. 🤔

This story has everything: Grift. Immigration industrial complex. DeSantis. Toilets. Florida gave $92 million to a single porta-potty company involved with "Alligator Alcatraz"; the company is named "Doodie Calls": www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/02/17/9...

I asked the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department in a public records request for its automatic license plate reader data and search audits, but they’re refusing to release them. It may take a lawsuit for them to cough it up.

ICYMI: Organizers in New Orleans talk about pushing back against ICE. Check it out here!

US kills 11 people in three strikes on alleged drug-trafficking vessels https://aje.news/bqq041

We are in the month of Ramadan, we are fasting and there is no food in our home, only some herbs for my sick mother. No medicine, no food. Please, help us. 💔🙏 chuffed.org/project/azez

Here's a technology that I, part of "the left" am excited about because it solves theee problems at once, caps old leaky oil wells, monitors them, and turns them into gravity batteries for storing green energy: renewellenergy.com

It sure seems like when we have our basic needs met, and don't have to hustle to survive, humans will almost always choose to create art. And there is a lot of evidence that when a society decides to honor and promote art and artists, everyone who lives there is measurably happier.

I will take any opportunity to post this again

At some point, federal judges are going to have to go beyond issuing strongly worded orders condemning ICE's lawlessness, and start fining recalcitrant Trump administration officials and/or putting them in jail

I’m sure these decisions - to first refuse to even give a cursory review to an extremely promising new vaccine then backtracking and deciding to fully review it after public backlash to the first refusal - are being made solely based on scientific evidence and concern for American health and safety

People respond to action. People respond to authenticity. This country is desperate for an actual plan for what the future will look like.

The President is lying to the public: 1) For the past century, the federal government has been responsible for the Potomac Interceptor – not Maryland. The sewage pipe is on federal land. youtu.be/OKyIKHW8ONI

Oversight Democrats are not backing down. If Les Wexner claims he doesn’t remember, then he needs to turn over his financial records and let the money tell the story. Survivors deserve justice. It’s time for the cover-up to end.

I have seen a lot going around about Amazon removing affiliate links to adult and/or queer material and it is DEFINITELY happening, but most of the posts I've seen describing who it is happening to are overly sweeping and/or incorrect, which is not helping. Judging by my backlist, it's... chaotic.

A judge has ruled that the Trump administration cannot deport Mohsen Mahdawi, a pro-Palestinian student activist who was detained during his US citizenship hearing. After his release, our friends at @revealnews.org caught up with Mahdawi to learn more about how he convinced a judge to free him.

An unmitigated good thing, but SHAMEFUL how Northwestern University capitulated, never fought for DEI, and even wrote its own private contract with Trump denoucning DEI and LGBTQ rights. Shame, shame!!!

In undergrad we had to take 2 semesters of Western Civilization, where we read major works in the area. The bros hated it bc they had to read entire books. And bc in class the left-leaning students were better at critical reading and discussion, so they argued circles around the bros.

ICE are bashing people’s skulls open and then changing them to hospital beds and terrorizing the medical staff.

Garbage in, garbage out. This is will be an ongoing and violent disaster.

The European Commission's surprise decision to dispatch Commissioner for the Mediterranean Šuica to the Board of Peace meet in Washington has sparked outrage. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...

There's no silver bullet that gets us out of mess that ruling capitalist class spent the last 50+ years creating. We need the civil disobedience protests, we need the lawyers fighting in the courts, and yes, we even need the giant normie rallies and the people running for office.

Folkston D Ray ICE Processing Center, GA (FIPCDGA) has climbed to an estimated 1,346 people. Like California City, the facility’s growth has been steep, rising from near zero to over a thousand in roughly six months. Read more on my substack: austinkocher.substack.com/p/behind-the...

Democratic members of Congress sent a letter to Kristi Noem interrogating Homeland Security's compliance with disability civil rights law—namely, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act— including with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I want to spotlight this amazing reporting and interviewing for the UCLA student paper that got the university’s CFO fired

Leila Shahid, former Palestinian diplomat, has died The former Palestinian diplomat served as her country's representative in France from 1993 to 2006, and then at the European Union, in Brussels, from 2006 to 2015. www.lemonde.fr/en/middle-ea...

“I now know that the care of strangers is a powerful testament to pain. I have to believe that the care of our global community could, at least partially, restore fragments of childhoods stolen by war and atrocity.” Rümeysa Öztürk www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Kansas House is now debating the governor's veto of legislation that would unleash bathroom bounties on trans people, and force unknown costs on local governments. The Senate has already overrode the veto. #ksleg

“fully autonomous weapons” www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Here's who has resigned, is being investigated or has faced some other repercussion for TrumpEpstein child sex trafficking involvement. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Meta is trying to use Ireland as its trojan horse within the EU, from the sounds of it. (For more on Meta's dubious lobbying tactics in Brussels, see link in the post below)

New Piece: Court Watch commissioned @rachelweiner.bsky.social , until quite recently a journalist at the Washington Post, to write about reporting on the fastest court district in America and what is lost when there are no assigned reporters left to cover it. www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...

Shame on NYU Langone for ending gender-affirming care & kicking trans New Yorkers to the curb. It's a violation of their promise to treat all people equally, kindly, and respectfully — and a violation of NYC's human rights law as well. Bending the knee is bad; denying people care is even worse.

"A British historian has uncovered a Europe-wide programme in the 1930s and 1940s in which restorers repaired and cleaned historic church and civil records, making them legible so that the Nazis could detect anyone with Jewish ancestry." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Windy desert sunset

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and I can't afford steak. But at least now I know that they are defunding diversity programs at companies and schools that I have never heard of.

this is cool this is cool this is really, really cool

I first traveled to Colombia in January 2001 just as the aerial spraying campaign began under Plan Colombia. My first and best Colombian friend was Nancy Sanchez. Yesterday Nancy died in a Bogota hospital. She was my guide on many trips to Colombia. She was a fearless advocate for women & civilians.

My consistent observation of the Trump administration is that these people just fundamentally don’t want to do a real job and would prefer to just podcast all day every day.

h/t @nancychadwick.bsky.social YET ANOTHER REVERSAL: ICE retracted its claim of buying the Chester, NY site. That’s the 2nd walk-back in 48 hours (after Lebanon, TN). ICE can’t be trusted. Moving forward, we’ll only mark sites 🔴 on the map once a deed is officially recorded with the state.

"Tobin, who celebrated two Masses with the women detained inside, said that despite their detention, they showed strength. 'It was sad and yet there was a serenity among them, because they’re women of great courage,' he said." religionnews.com/2026/02/18/c...

My dream is for all the people who were doing tireless work at the CFPB to end up in Congress. One step closer!

JUST IN: Federal prosecutors in Chicago move to dismiss another case tied to Operation Midway Blitz. Assuming its’s granted, Jacqueline Guataquira would become the 17th of 32 known defendants cleared. None of the 32 has been convicted. Docket entry and original charging doc below:

"due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering" <- a lot of linguistic gymnastics to say that "hallucinations" are a feature, not a bug

"Most importantly, there is no AI without massive financial and ideological backing. It is therefore pointless to discuss its techniques or capabilities without asking who controls it, who benefits from it, who builds and deploys it, and what it is doing in the world"

i shouldn’t give this piece any more attention than it has already garnered but i feel like it is worth pointing out some flaws in the argument/unquestioned assumptions thread 1/