I was part of a round table on how NYT is covering the Epstein files, with new tech and old-school reporting. Our work is far from over:

It's time. Shake off that deep disappointment that The Cutting Edge got eliminated and vote in ROUND 2 of the Reel Olympics www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/11/a...

In other words, long enough that habeas petitions can be filed on their behalf in Minnesota before they're whisked off to an immigration detention facility somewhere in the Fifth Circuit (where, under that court's current law, they wouldn't be eligible for a bond hearing).

Magic Mike XXL (2015)

The future is here, and it's insane www.wsj.com/us-news/faa-...

I was not aware that jawboning the stock market was in the AG's portfolio.

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

What's better than the Winter Olympics? MOVIES about the Winter (and Summer) Olympics! Vote for which film deserves gold in the @bostonglobe.com Reel Olympics www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/11/a...

Big @bostonglobe.com / MassINC Polling survey out this morning. "They came to Massachusetts to cure disease. Now they’re packing up their labs." We surveyed NIH funded scientists in Massachusetts about federal funding cuts & policies. Here's what they told us. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/02/09/m...

I missed this: Gallup: "40% of [US] women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity." (Was 10% in 2014.) The pronatalism will continue until moral improves. ht @katemanne.bsky.social

💯 So much energy in our state goes to shutting down proposed fixes for serious problems vs working to find better solutions. I don’t support the exact language, but will vote Yes bc the proposal I do support (& filed) went no where, like tax relief, transfer fee & more. Past time to do something.

YouTube video of Bad Bunny's full half-time show has 21 million (and counting) views right now

Yall—

BREAKING: The Epstein survivors are releasing this ad on this Super Bowl Sunday to send the message that they will not “move on” from the largest sex trafficking scandal in the world. #standwithsurvivors

Puerto Rico has been part of the USA longer than Alaska and Hawaii and became part of the USA before these four states existed as U.S. states. Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Bezos: "Each and every day our readers give us a roadmap to success. The data tells us what is valuable and where to focus." The most-read story on the WaPo website was written by a team Bezos' leadership just sent to the unemployment line.

Donald Trump didn’t embarrass his black GOP allies — this is what they signed up for. A racist post from a president who rose from a racist conspiracy theory and has a history of racist rhetoric 📺: On @cnn.com this AM with @abbyphillip00.bsky.social

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

UPDATE: The Park Service returned the brochures to the home, hours after this report. Park Service officials told Mississippi Today that the reason they removed the brochures was because they were “outdated” mississippitoday.org/2026/02/05/v...

Peggy Noonan on Jeff Bezos & Washington Post: "Losing the one major newspaper left in the great nation’s capital—and during the Trump administration no less...is more than a Jeffersonian nightmare, it is a kind of sin. The kind history doesn’t easily forgive." www.wsj.com/opinion/a-la...

New bio just dropped: "corporate verbiage that bounces off the face and leaves a rage headache behind" www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026...

On Trump's orders, the National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"

This is Jerry Lawson. He invented the video game cartridge for the Fairchild Channel F system. Because of his invention, many consoles had cartridges and CD formats and would become the norm. The Atari 2600, NES, Genesis, and many consoles wouldn't exist without him. Happy Black History Month.

A non-journalist friend asked me — is losing 300 people from a newsroom a lot? I pointed out there are about 200 journalists at the Philadelphia Inquirer and about 100 at the Baltimore Banner. Imagine losing both those publications in a day.

Brad Karp to step down as Paul Weiss chair after Epstein revelations ft.trib.al/H1vYT7B

“From ‘quiet piggy' to ‘she never smiles': Donald Trump's history of attacking women who ask about Epstein.” people.com/trump-attack...

If you want to read the transcript of the February 3 hearing where Julie Le had her "this job sucks" meltdown, now you can: drive.google.com/file/d/1FnY2...

“The cuts ... are a sign that Jeff Bezos, who became one of the world’s richest people by selling things on the internet, has not yet figured out how to build and maintain a profitable publication on the internet.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

A staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."

Even the libertarians are like, “bruh”

NEW: A government attorney who was detailed to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota is no longer on that detail after telling a judge “this job sucks” and asking to be held in contempt so she could get 24 hours of sleep: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Another round of dark headlines this am. @wsj.com @financialtimes.com @nytimes.com

Rich from management that so aggressively forced people back into the office. :/

Fascinating

This is the "Portland Chicken" case. Here's the rulilng: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The ProPublica story on the Pretti killers says DHS has bodycam footage from the incident but they refuse to release it www.propublica.org/article/alex...

holy shit

Melinda Gates says her ex-husband Bill Gates needs to answer questions about his association with Jeffrey Epstein.

Right at the top, Judge Reyes lays out her official findings, after reviewing the evidence. She says it is "substantially likely" that Secretary Noem's decision to end Haitian TPS was "preordained" and based on Secretary Noem's general "hostility to nonwhite immigrants."

“.. Weiss insists she does not want to cut ties with Attia over his links to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, and sees it as giving in to the mob.” @calderone.bsky.social #$PSKY www.thewrap.com/creative-con...

Quite literally a more innocent time

Today in #BlackHistoryMonth & my nerdlove of all things post officey. Shout out to inventor Philip B. Downing who invented the first mailbox in 1891 📬 Like all great inventors (and ordinary decent people), he saw a need and he filled it 💌 theblackwallsttimes.com/2022/02/18/b...

Haiti accepted Jewish refugees during WWII before the US would.

For those objecting to comparisons between Germany then & the U.S. now: “About 500 seniors live at Sinai Residences in Boca Raton, Florida, including many Holocaust survivors. Recently, some of them asked if they could hide the building’s Haitian staff in their apartments.”

I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.

Maybe with the next storm, #Boston can concentrate just a tad more on crosswalks in what is allegedly America's most walkable city www.universalhub.com/2026/maybe-n... #snow

In an interview with MPR News, Liam's mother gave an update on her son and her own safety. She said Liam asks again and again, “Mommy, why don’t you pick us up?” Or “Mommy, we don’t want to be here anymore. This place is ugly.”

Bondi directed federal agents to arrest four journalists. Georgia Fort, Don Lemon, Jamael Lundy, and Trahern Crews. All Black. All doing their jobs.

The Minnesota Star Tribune, @mprnews.org @minnesotareformer.com , @spokesmanrecorder.bsky.social, @sahanjournal.bsky.social, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association today released the following statement:

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door: