My views on AI are also nuanced, in that I understand it to be a pox on humanity in at least seven different ways.

Zelenskyy: 'I try not to think about Putin's poison'

Why not in the United States???? #Epstein #EpsteinFiles ICE Protests

#OtD 15 Feb 1920 Polish humanitarian, social worker, nurse, and resistance fighter, Irena Sendler, was born in Warsaw. During WWII, she headed the children's section of Żegota, the Polish Council to Aid Jews. stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1252...

Jeffries on VA's new proposed map: "When they go low, we strike back. That's the D approach and Rs are feeling it now ... Trump is the one who instructed 5 different R states to gerrymander. He wanted to rig the midterms and didn't think Democrats were going to forcefully respond. He got that wrong"

France correctly approaching the exposure of an international pedophile ring as a prosecutorial problem; not taking the American route of doing damage control for the elite.

This is so deeply fucked. I wish these people would just admit they hate the idea of democracy and get it over with. This kayfabe bullshit is just silly at this point.

Most people probably focus on the damage ICE has caused in Minnesota But their violent, fascist tactics affect people all over the country Here they are-terrorizing 4th and 5th graders at a bus stop in New Jersey May Trump and Stephen Miller rot in hell www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/f...

Between this and the story about the ice agents who ate at a Mexican restaurant and then arrested some of its workers when they were done, it's a reminder that these people reject even the most basic social agreements of hospitality and of helping others. They're sociopaths.

Over in Hell, the billionaires are fighting with each other over who hung out with Epstein more. 🍿

Bad Bunny is the America that's arriving. Donald Trump is the America that's headed to its grave. www.ft.com/content/e68d...

A colossal floating gas factory moored in shallow waters off the Republic of the Congo’s coast began supplying Europe last week, bringing towards the mainstream a technology that was once sidelined by cost.  www.ft.com/content/b314...

Rubio next to Fico in Slovakia, talking about Europe: “We don't want you to be dependent on us. We are not asking you to be a vassal of the United States. We want to be your partner.” US tariffed its partners while demanding larger % of GDP to go into defense to buy more military aid from US

Columbian Model & Exhibit Works made architectural models for the Lakeshore East high-rise development, the Jeanne Gang-designed St. Regis at 363 E. Wacker Drive and the Obama Presidential Center in Jackson Park.

Don't miss our wonderful new @EmpirePodUK series on THE BRONZE APOCALYPSE @anitaanand.bsky.social & I dive into the most dramatic imperial collapse in history.

It is depressing to think about the reversal in the trajectory of the USA. In 1943, the central theme of the most popular movie was taking a moral stand against the inhumanity and bigotry of fascists. Today, Trump has flipped the script. Those who oppose fascism are now hunted by the US government.

"It makes sense that we support the project of an enlarged European Union." Oana Țoiu Minister of Foreign Affairs for Romania on the importance of EU membership. Watch the event➡️ bit.ly/4qtpMvL

Wasatch County’s Republican Party chair is facing felony child abuse charges for allegedly “waterboarding” a 16-year-old relative. www.kpcw.org/wasatch-coun...

Other countries can do it, why can’t we? www.france24.com/en/live-news...

Reading Marco Rubio’s speech about how “western civilization” is about embracing God, rejecting the foolish ideal of cosmopolitanism, and celebrating the genius of bands like The Beatles who were founded by the guy who wrote that song about a world with no countries or the concept of heaven & hell.

A major use of crypto: human trafficking. The use of cryptocurrency in sales of human beings for prostitution and scam compounds nearly doubled in 2025, according to a conservative estimate. Many of the deals are happening in plain sight. www.wired.com/story/crypto...

It really is amazing how much of political punditry, *especially* elite outfits in NYC and Washington, still embrace this bizarre idea that rural spaces represent the "Real America" while metropolitan areas, where most (presumably real) Americans actually live, should be held in contempt.

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

Enraging that this took a court order: "Catholic nuns and clergy had visited the facility for years, offering prayer services and holy communion to detainees during visitor hours. Trump Administration immigration authorities rolled back that access in September..." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

A benefit of free buses I hadn’t heard enough about until this piece from @galvinalmanza.bsky.social

This is precisely what polling places were like for part of the 19th century. People often traveled long distances by horse to vote. It was a big deal when folks got together this way.

There was only one way I was ever going to end this week's blog series on this Valentine's Day, with a tribute to @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social's phenomenal book Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy! blackwhiteandread.com/february-14-...

"I wouldn’t trust them to not hurt themselves with scissors," writes columnist @rexhuppke.bsky.social. bit.ly/4qFVE0q

Anyone know what "take down" means? "Bannon courted Epstein in efforts to 'take down' Pope Francis"

Voter identification requirements are working their way through Congress with the SAVE Act, which was passed by the House this week.

What PM Støre says would be obvious to anyone, but not to Trump.

"We do not seem to have the slightest understanding of the seriousness of our plight." —James E Lovelock, The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning (2009)

"A 37-year-old man originally from Zimbabwe compared the deportation to a smuggling operation and said he and the other migrants were “dropped like U.P.S. packages” in Cameroon. ...none of the deportees had any history of violent crime."

Listen to Gabriel Fauré's Sonata in A major for violin and piano No. 1 Op. 13. I listen to a beautiful performance of this work this morning, sitting in a garage. It's a miraculous, transformative work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOvC...

The 30+ Allies that the US has are more than any country, ever, in all the world's history. Republicans are giving them up because they want our country to be more like Russia: a dictatorship where they control all the wealth and power. The GOP is impoverishing the US financially and morally.

By denying the threat that greenhouse gases pose to human health, Donald Trump has made the requirement to regulate them disappear. The consequences will be catastrophic for future generations of Americans. www.economist.com/united-state...

Because so many Republicans who have abused children are listed in them. The same crowd that used to call itself the "moral majority." Hint: Child rape is not moral!

A mission to Canada’s Queen Elizabeth Islands reveals degradation of a sea ice haven.

As soon as Putin reminds Trump that the US should attack Greenland Trump will put it back on his agenda. Fortunately, with Trump's #Dementia, he will probably forget it soon after.

Ofelia Torres, the teenage Chicago Public Schools student whose fight against cancer while her father was detained by ICE came to represent the federal government's overreach during Operation Midway Blitz, has died. Brave young woman. I will never forget her. RIP.

Netanyahu, the man who knew nothing. An excellent snapshot of the shitstorm Netanyahu wrought by trying to absolve himself of October 7 and releasing false information and tampered documents—and completely lost control of the narrative. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

New post by John Hale and Terri Hale: Behind closed doors, secretively and quietly, Iowa Senate Republicans once again killed a bill that would improve, and possibly save, the lives of nursing home residents. #ialegis #seniors #nursinghomes #Iowa www.bleedingheartland.com/2026/02/14/i...

REMINDER: The minority party has very little leverage. Their main job is to make the *political case* for why you should vote them into power next election. So when people say, “Why aren’t they doing anything” that signifies an overestimation of what they can actually do. #GOTV!!!

😱 #fbi #scammer #warning

Inside Putin's horrific torture gulags where inmates are gassed in 'elephant masks', used as 'human furniture' and forced to endure 'Putin's phone' www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

So if 🧊 is around….

An astonishing account of recklessness and maladministration at the highest levels. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/u...