embarrass the administration and they will do everything in their power to ruin your life, even if the embarrassment is the result of their own cruel overreach vicious sadistic bullies all the way down

If you won’t say this, you should not hold public office

My patients travel. Many are snowbirds. Many are elderly. Many are disabled. Telemedicine is critical for them, but we keep almost losing our ability to do this as the feds and commercial insurers refuse to give us permanent rules allowing it. Also...

Here's something i dont know much about--land line phones. The "old fashioned" kind had their own wall jacks and always worked, with or without power. And they did one thing--make and receive calls.

There is no such thing as “self-deporting”. That’s like saying German Jews after 33 decided that leaving their homes, families, and fortunes and running like hell we’re just “self-deporting”.

So much this‼️

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

Hey fountain pen peeps is there any truth to goulet pens being reactionary shitbirds?

The total lack of reflection at the post is amazing. It isn't a coincidence that Bezos has continued to run it into the ground and that his takeover of the editorial dept has worsened things. Maybe its woes aren't random--maybe ppl wont pay for a shitty product.

New fountain pen!

Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets

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

So, we get Lupita Nyong’o as Helen, the white supremacists get to get see the Melania movie. Seems like a fair trade to me. :)

If anyone *hasn't* watched Kane, incidentally, don't let its reputation as a Great Classic put you off. It's a genuinely great film just as a film, not as a part of the Canon. And as we're now in a second Gilded Age, it's the best insight you can get into Trump, Bezos, Musk and their ilk.

for over 3 weeks, I've spoken to ICE watchers and organizers across the country: first right after Renee Good's killing — then 2 weeks into my reporting, Alex Pretti was killed. ICE watchers are being detained and harassed — but they're also stopping ICE abductions and inspiring others to join them

Of all the things in the history of the world that definitely did not happen - this is the pinnacle.

NOT 👇 SURPRISED.......

Didn’t @donlemonofficial.bsky.social get arrest for this?

Target says they can’t keep ICE out of their stores because they’re open to the public. After we were *kicked out of Target yesterday*, this NYPD officer helpfully explained to me that Target can keep out: ⁃ shoplifters ⁃ protesters
 ⁃ ICE ⁃ anybody, actually #IceOutForGood #IceOutOfMN

every week there's a new problem caused by trump that i thought was definitively solved in the 1880's

It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies

Muslim university students were arrested and expelled for protesting genocide. Let's see if college Republicans get even a slap on the wrist for advocating extrajudicial killings.

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.

wHy WoN’t LiBeRaLs DaTe Me

Just think about the amazing Epstein scoops the new CBS Evening News contributors will have just by interviewing each other.

When you build warehouses and camps to imprison 10s of 1000s of ordinary folks you not only create fear, you create epidemics. This is a perfect storm--an admin that doesn't believe that measles vax are a good thing, and shoves people together under terrible conditions--this is how epidemics launch.

ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.

"Among the hires at CBS News announced by Weiss is a doctor who claims he reduced his biological age by 20 years with cold plunges; that cod liver oil treats autism; and that Alzheimer’s and dementia can be reversed with supplements he sells on his online store." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

In 1943, 23-year-old Mordechai Anielewicz became commander of the Jewish Combat Organization in Warsaw. He saw a truth many refused to face: the trains leaving the ghetto were not “resettlement” — they were taking neighbors and families to almost certain death. 1/10

Aaaand it’s still cold af

The idea that protests and public opinion are meaningless in the face of the Trumpist assault, that authoritarian regimes are impervious to public pressure, is still widespread. But it is wrong. And it perpetuates the regime's assertion of inevitability.

Audre Lorde, in a 1989 commencement address, said, "Remember this, despair is a tool of your enemies. That rumor, 'You can’t fight City Hall,' is circulated by City Hall. Facing the realities of our lives gives us the motivation for action, it gives us the power to change. You are not powerless."

This incident alone would have triggered hearings and probably a senior-level resignation in another administration.

Will @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy cover the fact that Petter Attia MD’s name comes up more than 1700 times in the latest Epstein files drop?

I hate how hard it is to search and get full text journal articles form hospital (and even uni) libraries. Link after link after link after link just to get to another abstract, paywall, etc

anyone have full text? pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39656948/

Normally our yard is full of deer. I have no idea where they go when the weather is like this

Ethnic cleansing

Still gotta go out

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

Arresting journalists is a huge red flag that we are in deep, deep trouble. I’m sure that he is black and gay had nothing to do with his arrest. (That was my sarcastic voice.) Keep those passports handy, friends.

"These arrests represent an unprecedented assault on the free press and the constitutional rights that protect journalists reporting on community demonstrations and actions by federal law enforcement," NABJ Chicago's statement reads. thetriibe.com/2026/01/jour...

This just in from Amnesty International: "U.S. authorities must immediately release journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort. Journalism is not a crime. Reporting on protests is not a crime. Arresting journalists for their reporting is a clear example of an authoritarian practice."

As you've no doubt noticed, it's a little chilly out there, and with extreme cold and snow come some important health hazards. 1) Snow shoveling: for a number of reasons, shoveling snow is a particularly hazardous activity...

I would bet my *life* that this is dissembling, misleading, face saving PR work. There is 0% chance that Trump's DOJ-CR division is gonna meaningfully investigate or charge Trump's DHS officers.

I get tired of saying it, but I’ll say it again: the nature of oppression in America is that they workshop it first on Black, Latino, Asian & Native people. But it is always, in the end, coming for everyone.