I appreciate that Murphy is being clear about this. at the same time...like, he's a senator? why is he demanding we do something? isn't he in a better position to do something? 1

Musk’s Wealth 2012: $2 billion 2025: $493.8 billion Bezos’ Wealth 2012: $18.4 billion 2025: $240.9 billion Zuckerberg’s Wealth 2012: $17.5 billion 2025: $226.9 billion Federal Minimum Wage 2012: $7.25 2025: $7.25 It’s not the start of an oligarchy. — We’re in the thick of it.

It’s so cool that California’s problems are all fixed so that my governor has time to interview extremely openly racist fascists for his podcast.

New in PN: DOJ nopes out of Ticketmaster antitrust suit "Thanks to the Trump administration’s corruption, a mafia-like monopoly survives, and Americans will continue to pay exorbitant fees to see live music. *Trump take ticket* … along with everything else."

I haven’t been following this debate but another example of Trump’s war against anyone who refuses to toe the line. From Paul Krugman’s excellent (currently free) substack

It's all three, but there's also something else: weak, atrophied brains. Typos are one thing but elite messages go beyond that, they show an inability to communicate beyond mere urges and feelings, and the reason they can't communicate beyond those is because they can't think through those.

Just to show how stupid this was, a project on Harriet Beecher Stowe's religious writing got flagged as DEI.

Remember, kids, your expertise is so worthless that AI companies will not properly compensate you for it while at the same time it is so valuable they can aggregate it under your name and integrate it into their services as a feature. Without your consent, naturally.

you can have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or a dinner that features Donald Trump but you cannot have both

Another open-book test of spine and moral backbone that will be failed en masse by the people who are supposed to be watchdogs of democracy. You turn down invites from Nazis, kids. It’s the easiest call to make. Imagine if Trump walked into a room empty aside from ten Fox News clowns.

There will dead Iranians, dead Israelis and dead Americans by the end of the day. What do you expect each of these rational men - Trump, Netanyahu, Khamenei - with enraged publics and radicalised regimes will then do? It’s an inherently escalatory dynamic. bsky.app/profile/70sb...

For military analysis of Straits of Hormuz,@ProfTalmadge : "US attempts to reopen the waterway likely would escalate rapidly into sustained, large-scale air & naval operations during which Iran could impose significant economic & military costs on the US" www.belfercenter.org/publication/...

"i'm praying in a special way for the south asian workers in gulf countries right now. they built those countries brick by brick & get treated like dirt. they're among the ones most affected because those countries don't care about them. please don't forget about them"[email protected]

#ResistanceRoots #WomensHistoryMonth Today in history, 1907: Congress passes the Expatriation Act, which stripped American-born women of their citizenship if they married a non-citizen. A woman had to adopt her husband’s nationality, effectively making her a stateless alien in her own country. /1

There is a very very obvious answer to this question.

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

NARA preserves the essential evidence that documents our rights, federal officials' actions, and the American experience. The Archivist promulgates regulations so that agencies may follow records laws, and has other ministerial duties related to the Electoral College and Constitutional Amendments.🧵

Hey UK Y’all REALLY don’t want to elect the manifestly incompetent violent racists. No matter how bad things are it can and will get way worse way faster then your worst fears. Signed an American

I think Netanyahu’s war was about the expansion of the Israeli project of colonialism and also his own desire to deflect from corruption charges but sure I guess it could have been a long game to screw over his supporters in the US Democratic Party who have helped with that project for decades

The Trump administration is warehousing pregnant child rape victims in a Texas facility, away from adequate medical care, in a state with one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the US, so that these child rape victims won’t be able to get abortions. www.throughline.news/p/the-trump-

just to reiterate, Red Ogre accepted my ms, wanted to make copious edits without telling me, when I caught them cancelled the book. they also blocked me and took down poems I had on their site. (maybe after I criticized them here; not sure of timing.)

Twitch is requiring new Affiliates, before their first payment, to give government photo ID and a separate photo to Persona, the same Persona that has connections to government mass surveillance programs. When I asked Twitch support for another option, they said there isn't one. #twitch #persona 1/4

Bari Weiss: hey Kyle, come here Reporter: my name isn't- Bari: shut up, I need you to write a story on the worst genocide in the world Reporter: the Palestinian genocide Bari: hahah no Reporter: the trans genocide Bari: eww no Reporter: so... uh which genocide? Bari: ohh... you know the one

This is the 3rd Trump supporter that's tried to kill him.

Interviewer: "When you look at today's numbers, what do they tell us about the effectiveness of Donald Trump's tariffs." Me, very serious economist: "Hahahahahahahahahahaha.... hahahahahahahaha.... hahahahahahahahahaha... oh, wow." Sometimes all you can do is laugh at the absurdity of it all.

A child dying of cancer spent her final days fighting to free her wrongfully detained father from ICE custody.   This comes just weeks after a mother from Maryland was denied the right to be at her son’s side as he died from cancer.   Not one dime for this cruelty. www.cbsnews.com/amp/chicago/...

Unbelievable that we still talk about withholding HIV funding as a form of political maneuvering rather than an act of social murder, as if the 80’s + 90’s never happened and we didn’t lose an entire generation to this already.

"In other words, there hasn’t been an organic shift in public opinion on trans people but rather a massive astroturfing campaign against us." www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

In some truly satisfying news an ethical hacker calling herself Martha Root had some fun with some Nazis youtu.be/lJsS8lqCpwU?...

Palantir: too bad to be untrue. bsky.app/profile/samf...

On one side, you have trans people asking to be left alone and maintain our access to health care. On the other, a bunch of people who believe we shouldn't exist. But Cass believes both sides are the same. This whole interview is atrocious. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I was repeatedly told that trans people were "medicalizing gender nonconforming behavior." Meanwhile, the UK has basically said you need to involve a doctor if a child's clothing, name, or haircut doesn't align with their gender.

She claims the "tide is going out" on the affirmative model. No, Helen. The tide is being forced out by a legislative and legal dam built by Christian nationalists and billionaires. This is a campaign of eradication pushed by an entire political party and it's oligarch backers.

Looks like a fascinating read about public defending in US "Eight years in, this work has eliminated almost 9,000 years of potential incarceration" by @galvinalmanza.bsky.social

Olympian Olena Smaha supports her fellow Ukrainian Vladyslav Heraskevych—who was banned by the IOC for wearing a helmet commemorating athletes killed by Russia in war—by wearing a message on her glove during her competition that read “Remembrance is not a violation.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/w...

Anyone who had genuine concerns about youth gender medicine would staunchly and wholeheartedly support social transition. Let kids explore their identities to see what works for them! The fact that this movement opposes even pronouns and haircuts shows that it's just bigotry all the way down.

Don’t be fooled by Kushner’s Gaza fantasy. The plan is to confine Palestinians to hyper-surveilled prison camps and exploit them as cheap labor for luxury developments they’ll never live in, all built atop mass graves. My latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/worl...

More authoritarianism and intimidation. This is not about 2020. That’s the smokescreen. This is about the midterms and 2028. There will be a lot more of this in the coming months.

DUCKWORTH: If it's true that we are not at war with Venezuela, will you advise the president to rescind his invocation of the wartime Alien Enemies Act? RUBIO: That was a mechanism to remove people from our country that present great danger D: It's a wartime act. Are we currently at war? R: No

"I kept telling them "the girl was born here". They didn't care, they picked up the child, just put a jumper on her and told me to get into the car with her.” www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...

Pro tip for any Hill journos, the Speaker can approve 24hr protection for Members who are under heightened threat. Omar used to have this, but Mike Johnson took it away. You should ask him about that

This is why I have real fucking problem with blithe criticisms of "polarization" or "congressional dysfunction." We have a Republican member blaming his colleague for being attacked. The problem isn't polarization or dysfunction. It's the Republican Party.

they're using passive journalist voice for an IED hurled at an aboriginal elder speaking to a large crowd, these headlines would have had very different things to talk about if the thing had successfully gone-off somehow doesn't count as terrorism though?

Buried lede: a cabinet secretary claims to have been taking direction from someone who has never held a Senate-confirmed position

I'm calling bullshit on the media narrative that Trump is "pivoting" and "deescalating" on his ICE raids. The threshold is this: As long as the military occupations and the treatment of US cities as enemy territory continue, there's no pivot. ICE out. 1/ (New piece) newrepublic.com/article/2057...

This video is one of the most important things to watch to understand our society and the legal system we have created. Two 5-year-olds are confined in a concentration camp because they lack cash assets to pay bond. Just take a look at their drawing. www.threads.com/@maddowshow/...

Warnock: "You can't ask me to be an accomplice to the killing of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. It's to make a butchery of my conscience."