Anderson Cooper’s exit from 60 Minutes is another sign that Bari Weiss is ruining CBS News in service to an authoritarian regime that wants no accountability journalism. What a disgrace.

Reminder- These nasty ass people aren't stepping down from positions because of associations with Epstein. They're quitting because they got outted in the files.

in 2023 when I was organizing parents against our archbishop’s transphobic new school guidelines, one dad asked how loud I thought it was prudent for us to be, given how punitive the Archbishop is. I was like “loud enough that all the trans/nb kids at your parish see it” and he was like “…. oh”

Perhaps he can take the Anderson Cooper beat at 60 Minutes.

Epstein files: A list of people facing consequences over the DOJ's release Prince Andrew & wife, Sarah Ferguson Larry Summers Kathy Ruemmler Brad Karp Howard Lutnick Steve Tisch Casey Wasserman Peter Mandelson Morgan McSweeney Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem Thomas Pritzker www.yahoo.com/news/article...

The traitors' banner will never prosper you whiny crybaby losers komonews.com/news/nation-...

⚠️ Eighteen people in Texas remain in jail after being accused of “providing material support for terrorism” for participating in an anti-ICE protest. The case is intended to set a precedent criminalizing protest. Jury selection begins for a trial involving nine of the defendants on February 17th.

It's like ICE is completely ignoring every lesson that moderately competent police forces are forced to learn, like "don't do high speed chases in densely populated areas with low risk targets"

My silver lining thought is that everyone I know who was wiped out before the holidays is now kind of still tired but getting a second wind re fighting the fascism and the bad stuff and anecdata-ly I have seen a lot of people doubling down

Pretty cool that national places are delving into how Minneapolis is different. But they have really got to dig a little deeper. People know about the music scene, but no other city in the country had a worker co-op community over generations like Minneapolis.

Thomas J. Pritzker, a billionaire heir to the Hyatt Hotels fortune, stepped down from his role as executive chairman of the Hyatt Hotels Corporation — becoming the latest person felled by an association with Jeffrey Epstein. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/u...

The Edmonton Neon Museum.

very good explanation of why not to feed images into an image generator, especially when memorializing children after a devastating tragedy. better not to use image generators at all.

From the @status.news on Anderson Cooper's decision not to renew his contract at CBS. "Weiss not only failed to persuade Cooper to grow his footprint at the network, but ultimately helped chase him away from it entirely."

Missouri officials directed county election administrators to make voters temporarily unable to vote if they were flagged as potential noncitizens by a federal tool. But in hundreds of cases, the tool's determinations were wrong. With @texastribune.org

If there is one thing people lost and didn't know it generally is the phenomenal special features that often only appear on physical media like DVDs.

When I met the women who played Scout all those years ago, I asked her about Robert Duvall. She said he made a point of staying away from her on set until this scene, where she first got a good look at him. "Hey, Boo." RIP Robert Duvall youtu.be/iRmIef02Ajk?...

That guy is definitely not winning one for the kipper.

watching ‘True Grit’ tonight in honor of the incomparable Robert Duvall 🤍🕊️🤍 I had the great fortune to work with & get to know him doing Robert Altman’s The Gingerbread Man ☮️

Let me add my own voice to the ever-growing chorus of people on and off the Internet showing their love and appreciation for the legend that is Robert Duvall. May he rest in peace, and my condolences to his family and friends.

HHS canceled $500M in novel mRNA research, narrowed criteria on who should get the mRNA COVID vaccine, refused to review a completed study of a mRNA flu vaccine. “We reject the claim that our approach to vaccines is anti-science or hostile to innovation.” 🧪 🎁 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/h...

"It really has to sting for Bari. The person she wanted for the Evening News anchor chair is choosing to leave CBS altogether because of her," one CBS News staffer told me tonight. "This is 'fuck you' to Bari."

ok then

you can really blow some minds with “actually there was an entire library and research institute for queer / trans history, science and medicine founded by a Jewish sexologist but the Nazis destroyed it in the hopes of exactly this outcome, ie future generations not believing trans people are real”

*would, not wouldn't. Even if they produced everything, that wouldn't prove that all reasonable investigative avenues has been exhausted, especially now that the public has seen the files. New tips are no doubt streaming in from people who saw something and need to say something.

We shouldn't assume that even a 100% production of the Epstein Files wouldn't ipso facto constitute a full or perfect investigation. As long as the statute of limitations hasn't elapsed, the authorities should be pursuing additional leads with the help of a newly educated public.

And if you’re wondering “Why is there a blob in the back?” Well, that’s where the first woman president was supposed to go. More than a century later, it remains unsculpted.

A two month old-detained in the ICE concentration camp at Dilley-was rushed to the hospital this weekend The boy’s extreme youth made him particularly vulnerable in a prison setting Worse, they knew he was sick-and couldn’t care for him-because the facility didn’t even have a doctor ABOLISH ICE

Lmao that’s their table they can do what they want idk sorry

The perfect cat toy doesn’t exist—

I was initially not the biggest fan of Spanberger but it turns out she has the heart of a world class hater and that is 100% the kind of energy we need right now

Distinctly remember reading reports at the time (ten years ago!) with some rather sinister implications. Other media said his ex was cooking meth in the tub & sinks. americanjournalnews.com/steve-bannon...

I love living in an American sanctuary city. I have friends from Bhutan , Burkina Faso, Vietnam, Bosnia, Iraq, Somalia, Algeria, Morocco, Uganda, Ukraine, Haiti , etc. Rochester is an American melting pot.

“Someone I looked up to, admired, idolized, was happy to speak to me person to person, even adult to adult, without a speck of either indulgence or condescension.” (Those are certainly the ones I remember most. My late father chief among them.)

In which I trot the globe; or, there and back again.

The first meeting of the Epstein investigatory subcommittee unanimously approved by the New Mexico House is tomorrow, the lead sponsor said today.

one more reform we're gonna need, administration officials can fly private but it has to be those stripped down, bare bones military transports where they strap in to basic seats along the side of the fuselage

😕 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

A hundred years on and we still don't get just what makes Tom Buchanan such a noxious and insidious character in American culture

I think they (media elites) relate more to Musk than the "yokels" they maybe interview every four years in a Midwestern diner. And that makes them very uncomfortable since they'd rather not interrogate any of their own internalized white nationalism.

i think you can judge how free - or not - our political media is by the fact that elon musk literally did a sieg heil (twice) at a rally and it’s still seen as uncouth and overly partisan (in legacy media) to describe his politics as straightforwardly white supremacist.

i think a bunch of this is downstream of classism. “only yokels are actual white supremacists”

Goodbye to a filmmaker who taught me so, so much. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/16/m...

Far be it from me to defend our long national tradition of TV cop procedurals, but these guys seem unaware how many regular folks have seen enough Law & Order episodes to know this "we have a(n administrative) warrant" stuff is bullshit

Also, keep in mind that the Epstein Files have a deliberately gimped search function. You can only search for one keyword at a time. There are no boolean operators like AND or OR to link terms together. So, we're only getting a fraction of what's in there.

After looking at thousands of Epstein documents, I haven't seen a smoking gun that proves that someone other than Epstein or Maxwell committed a crime. But there's a ton of suggestive stuff and no 302 for Leon Black or Elon Musk.

I really think @julianastratton.bsky.social is the real deal in the IL senate race

It'll be a while before I can revisit it, but Duvall's THE APOSTLE -- which he also wrote and directed -- is one of the best films ever made about acting. Not directly, but it's sort of the point.

gotta do investigations into DHS “waste, fraud and abuse” as pretext for killing the agency